Friday 13 August 2010

Daemon Prince


I have finished my plastic Daemon Prince model. The kit is great and goes together easily despite having a large variety of interchangable bits. I assembled and painted it so it could lead my Illuminati Chaos Space Marines as well as a 40K daemon army.

The purple areas were base painted in Citadel Liche Purple and highlighted with a Liche Purple-Elf Flesh mix. They were edged in Cote d'Arms Shocking Pink. The metal was base-coated in Citadel Tin Bitz and highlighted with layers of dilute Shining Gold. Edging was done with a Citadel Shining Gold/Gold mix. The model was washed with a Liche Purple/Leviathan Purple mix.

The base was base-coated in Citadel Scorched Earth and highlighted in Revell Terracota/Ferrari Red mix. The liquid flow (it's blood, I tell you)was made by dripping a variety of purple, yellow and red paints into Citadel green wash. It was coated in a generous cover of Citadel gloss varnish to give a wet look.

I used the painting guide in the current White Dwarf but simplified it. My experience is that a mundane painter, such as myself, ends up with a bloody mess if they try to paint with the detail of a professional commercial artist, so I simplify. I did got to town on the face, using a Revell Ferrari Red/Citadel red wash mix.


9 comments:

  1. Nice. I have sprayed a bit of purple on my old DP. I must get it out and have a look one day.

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  2. Most impressive. I am pretty excited to get one of these myself. It's going to go with my bloodletter swarm, but have not decided on paint.

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  3. cool, nice job. definately going to add a couple of these to my daemon army when I get it started. That and maybe the forge world nurgle prince as well...

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  4. I haven't heard anything but good comments on the Daemon Prince kit. Everyone seems to love sticking it together.

    Very nice paint job btw, good work. I especially like the wings, they are nicely shaded and highlighted. It makes them actually look like wings, something I've never managed to achieve.

    You should show them off on our forum, we're always looking for keen gamers, modelers, painters and WFB bloggers. If you;re interested:- Warhammer forum. We're mainly WFB but we do have a 40k section.

    Keep up the good work,
    Sigmar
    my WFB blog

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  5. Great job -- I really like the purple colour scheme and the menacing aspect of this guys face and posture.

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  6. Dear Zzzz
    I am for purple all the way. Chaos marines are a bit 'camp' so the paint job should be over the top as well.
    J

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  7. Dear Fett and David
    I so recommend this kit. Goes together well and very versatile.
    J

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  8. Dear Sigmar
    thank you for the kind comments. I will look out the Forum.
    J.

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  9. Dear Jabber
    He does exude menace.
    J

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