40KHW1: Daemons of Khorne by Lawnor
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About the Project
My Blog for the August 2019 Hobby Weekender. I got the Start Collecting Daemons of Khorne box, with the intention of making an AoS army.
Related Game: Warhammer 40,000
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Completed
Works in Progress - Painting Shots Part 3 - Bloodcrushers
Sunday 15/08/19: The black was done last weekend, but now the Iron is finished for all 6 Juggernaughts. Next up, the bronze.
Monday 16/08/19: The Bronze is now finished for all 6. This just leaves the skulls, eyes, one tuft of hair/cloth, and the bases I think.
Friday 23/08/19, 2 weeks after the start: I've finished the Juggernauts and painted all the bases, except for the crystals. Its a 3 day weekend so I expect to finish the Flesh Hounds too. I'll do all the crystals together. The eyes were painted the same as the swords, but in reverse order and without the soot.
I also did the base for the Blood Throne while doing the Bloodcrusher bases.
26/08/19 16:24: I've finished the hounds and did the Bloodcrusher bases at the same time. I have also unified riders with their mounts, although they are only held on by pins so they can easily be removed for storage and transport.
Here is a rotation of the unit leader.Works in Progress - Painting Shots Part 4 - Flesh Hounds and Karanak
24/08/19 10:45: The first highlight on the red flesh is down. I'm trying to not let the highlights overpower the dark tones. I want these guys to look quite different to the Bloodletters
12:20: The second red highlight is done and its time for lunch
14:30: The grey highlight is done
14:55: The teeth, claws, and ...thagomizers(?) are highlighted.
18:15: Thats the neck fans and the eyes done. I also undercoated the ground
20:35: I did the skulls and the bronze at the same time as they were both small areas that had a long wash drying time. I applied both washes at the same time. I've also base coated the base so I can leave the wash over it to dry overnight.
25/8/19 11:20: The wash on the ground has dried, and I've finished the iron and the fire. That's everything done except the bases I think.
26/8/19: 16:20: I lost yesterday afternoon to Space Hulk, but I've finished the Hounds and the Bloodchargers. Here is Karank, The Hound of Vengeance
Here are 5 Flesh Hounds
And here is a rotation of one of them. Their leader, I assume.Works in Progress - Painting Shots Part 5 - Skull Cannon / Blood Throne
26/8/19 15:00: Its time to start work on the last model. I've masked out the larger flesh areas to preserve the preshade so I can airbrush on the black. It'll be a lot harder to do smoothly by hand.
16:40 The black is now finished. It is 28 degrees in my painting studio (bedroom) and I think it may have messed with the way the wash has dried. Hopefully once the gold trim is down everything will look better.
22:16 I reclaimed all the flesh, tooth, and bone areas with white, and then I've painted all the bone. Next up is the flesh I think, but not for a few days.
31/8/19 13:45 In my mind theres 3 types of flesh here. The living blighted flesh of the machine, the intestinal flesh round the back, and the flesh harvested from their victims and sewn in to the chair. I have painted the chair and the machine for now. I'll do the intestines after I've painted the iron around them.
17:00: The iron is done. I also noticed more "intestines" that needed priming white
1/9/19 13:00: I've finished the brass and the intestines, and started picking out the iron rings around the edge. This should just leave the teeth, and a tidy up of the black. The guns and the throne have been realyl hard work. Every part of them is think strips next to thin strips. Brass over flesh over bone all in small spaces. So much care needed and such a largepotential for error.
1/9/19 17:00 I finished, assembled, based and varnished all the parts. Here they are, as assembled as they get. Each piece here is magnetised or has pins to slot on to the body.Below you will find a gallery of the thing assembled in both configurations, with images from all angles. I hope to take some in-action pics of the army when I get some free time later.
This is the last of the models from the Start Collecting box, and the last of my Khorne models. At some point in the future I plan on taking the 2 spare banners and turning them in to objective markers for a different game. Otherwise, that’s everything finished at last. I first put actual paint on these models on Friday 9th August, and finished the last on Sunday 1st September. That’s 4 weekends and a few evenings for 33 models (20 Bloodletters, 6 Bloodcrushers, 5 Flesh Hounds, Karanak, and the Skull Cannon)), or 8.5 days and a few 2 hour evenings. I definitely got more done on the hobby weekend. The atmosphere and the hobby group really helped generate momentum and encourage me to start earlier in the day and finish later at night.
EDIT: Apparently there is a little bit of gloss varnish still visible on the nose of the bike, reclecting light in the pics. I’ll have to take care of that and take more pics later
EDIT 2: I’ve applied matt varnish over the remaining gloss and replaced my pics below.
Works in Progress - Behemoth of Decay (Daemon Prince?)
I’ve had this model sat around awaiting some love for a while. He’s not GW, but is compatabile. The “decay” suggests he would fit best in Nurgle, but as I don’t own any Nurgle, I’m gonna paint him up for Khorne, and say he’s survived a fight with Nurgle and got a little infected. Currently no comparable GW stat lines include shields, so my plan will be to magnetise the shield so I can remove it if I end up playing with someone who expects WYSIWYG. I might look in to doing something like that with the wings too, but I suspect that’ll lead to dissapointment and instability. My version came with a round base, not the square one shown below. I’ve a few other projects to get done before I start on this guy.
Link to manufacturers website: http://titan-forge.com/daemonic-kingdom/191-behemoth-of-decay-s
I’ve never worked with a Titan Forge mini before and I was under the impression they were a luxury line. However I’ve had to do a fair bit of cleanup and green stuff gap filling a repairs. His right arm had a huge gap under it and I almost requested a replacement part, but I decided to try and fix it. We will see how it looks once it’s primed. I’m chosing to assume I got a bad sculpt and they are usually better.
I’ve glued a magnet in to the shield and shield hand. I’ve put a thin layer of green stuff over the magnet in the gauntlet to try and hide it, and distressted the green stuf a little to match the gauntlet.
I painted the metal at the weekend. The blade was given a different base colour to the rest. I then rusted everything to hell following the Asset Drop guide that came with this model. I them airbrush gloss varnished it all, masked off most of it and used the airbrush to paint black armour over the top of the rust. Removing the masking agents reveals fragments of paint still yet to peel off from the rust. This all got varnish again and now I need to decide if I;m brave enough to mask off all the metal and spray the flesh.More work done. Flesh is finished, but the metal got damaged during the masking and needs repairs. I’m currently thinking I’ll leave that until closer to the end, although I have primed over the re-exposed resin. The wings will get more work done later, but that’ll be layers of washes and glazes so it can wait. I’ve picked out all the broken infected flesh with green, and I have applied a base coat on all the tentacles/maggots. I’ve also finished work on the base I think.
I finished him off over the weekend. Here he is in full rotation, and with the magnetised shield removed. I think thats the last of my Khorne-y daemons all done now.
