Daemon Prince of Tzeentch!

The Demon army is assembled!  Whew!  I'm really looking forward to painting these models.  There will be so much variety and new things to try.  First I have to knock out a little commission work though.  A couple of days ago I started on 2 Ork Weirdboyz.  When they are finished, I need to paint Lysander of the Imperial Fists and some tactical marines to go along with him.  THEN I will get to shift my main focus to my Demons.....soon, very soon!  I should have some fresh paint jobs to show off soon though....and hopefully I can squeeze in a how-to article for painting something.  In the mean time, here's my Daemon Prince of Tzeentch.

I'm not to sure about the mohawk.  It's not what I originally intended; but it's how it ended up.  I may leave it in homage to the dreaded "Red Era" of Games Workshop when I first got involved with their games.  I'm quite pleased with the rest of the model and how the sculpting/conversion work turned out.  I'm looking forward to lots of color fades on him and painting some magical fireball goodness!

A little wych fire on the head of his staff.   I may do a little more work on the staff; filling it in some so it will look like a heavily carved wooden staff.  I have a little time to decide.

I thought about picking up some feathered wings to bring him more in line with the Lord of Change but didn't want to spend any more money on the army at this point.  I DID want to play up the "change" aspect of Tzeentch so I sculpted a few feathers on each wing; both inside and out.  You can also get a pretty good look at the trailing "tail" of the fireball he is throwing.  I was trying to add some motion to the model.  Not sure I pulled that off, but I'm happy with how it looks.  Comments?

Daemon Assembly Nearing Completion.....

Like the title says, I'm almost done with the assembling stage of the Chaos Daemon army for 40K.  Yes, I'm slow at assembling models.  I want them to look good when I'm done so I'm careful about poses and getting the mold lines cleaned good.  I'm also not sure which I dislike more: assembling and cleaning models, or base coating them?  Both suck.  I'm down to the last 4 models for the 2K list I'm play testing.  After a game Monday night, I'm 0/1 at 2000 points, and 1/1 overall with the Daemons.  I'll play a few more games first, but I'm not sure how much I'll like Skulltaker and the Bloodcrushers.  They're just seem to be SO slow!  I probably just need to figure out how to use them.  Brand new army and all that.  Like I said; play testing.  As far as assembly goes, I need to fill gaps on Be'Lakor (Slaanesh Daemon Prince), fill gaps on the one metal Bloodcrusher I have built, and finish a couple conversions.  Skulltaker is the first.  He's mounted on a Juggernaught, but I'm going to swap his sword into his left hand so I can put reigns (made of chain) in his right hand.  I think that will look pretty good.  The last model will take the most work.  I'm making a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch out of the plastic DP kit.  I've got lots of ideas on this one, but not sure exactly what all will make the final cut and be a part of the model.  You'll just have to wait for pictures of the finished product....hopefully within the next couple of weeks.  Wait For It!

Here's a couple photos of my conversion for The Masque.  I have a serious dislike of the GW model.  I bought the Lelith Hesperax model the week it came out with this conversion in mind.  I finally got around to it!  Its a pretty simple conversion.  I gave her one Daemonette claw.  The other arm is stock other than being lengthened slightly.  The one foot has been sculpted over to make it look daemonic.  Lastly I gave her a couple of small horns....which didn't photograph well.  They look better in person, I swear!  Hope you like it!

You can also see she has a stacked laminate base like I wrote about back in September.  She's pinned and glued to the laminate base, and the laminate base has a magnet epoxied into the bottom.  The plastic base has a scrap of sheet metal glued to it; she's easily swappable to a square Warhammer Fantasy base when the time comes.  What do you think of her?