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Greetings, all! I've been out of the modelling/painting gig for a long time, thanks in part to X-Wing, but recently I've been drawn back to fantasy armies and decided I wanted to get my Daemon army finished for Kings of War, my fantasy game of choice. A big part of the appeal was that I knew I already had a load of models from the last time I worked on this army (in 2012) finished, so would save a lot of time on the core troops.

Then I looked at the models.

As much as I tried to resist, I could not help but pick out all the flaws in my older painting that I knew I could improve upon now (five years is a long time to develop my skills!), as well as quite a lot of mould lines I'd missed, and so I decided to repaint them. Again.

Here's the comparison - the new Bloodletter is on the left, the old one on the right:




I've only got as far as the skin on the new one, but the difference is quite staggering - as nice as the colour of the old skin was, it lacked crucial shading to give it definition, and so looks very flat. Fundamentally, though, the new skin (and a lot of the other areas) will be the same colour scheme as before, just (hopefully) much better executed.

I've already got working on the rest of the front rank of the Bloodletter unit:



I'm using the 'Forces of the Abyss' army list, and so there isn't a direct counterpart unit for the Bloodletter - however, KoW's freedom of basing (provided the overall footprint is right) means I can get away with a unit of 12, representing 20 Abyssal Guard: the frontage is the same (4x 25mm = 5x 20mm) but the depth is not (3x 25mm VS 4x 20mm), so I'll need to force a gap of about 2mm between each rank when it comes time to build a new movement tray for them - tricky, but doable.

While the skin on the 'test' Bloodletter is finished, on the other three here it's about halfway complete, as I wanted to finalise the new recipe before going too far along with all of them (to avoid having to go back and redo a ton of models if I made a mistake). I've preserved the basing scheme from my old models (as well as the symbol that was on the banner - it's covered with masking tape): I reasoned that I couldnt really improve much on what was essentially straight lines, and certainly didn't fancy painting them all over again. It'll be a nice way to save time on my overall painting, especially given how much work I've made for myself by preserving nothing else from the last attempt at this force!

Some other models are assembled, I'll show those off in the next update.

Til next time!