Stag Beetle

Stag Beetles have been flying along the windows of the houses up here on the North Downs.

One flew into my garage presumably confused by rabbit's light. Rabbit was tres unamused. He didn't like the look of this one bit.


It is Northern Europe's largest insect, scientific name Lucanus cervus

Standard Bearer

Finaly got around to finishing my pinko horrors with the completion of the standard bearer. I think I will paint something other than 40K next. I am suffering from Chaotic Overload.

Pinko Horrors

It's all a commie plot, I tell you.

Herald of Tzeentch

I had a spare Citadel sorcerer so I have used it as my Herald of Tzeentch. My Tzeenthch daemon bases try to show the ground beneath their feet washing away in glowing liquid rock. This is supposed to represent the mutability of magical change.

The base is a ruined temple theme from Magic Mushroom.

Daemons, they're everywhere, I tell you.

For our regular game, Shaun and I tried a daemon bash. In all the years that I have played 40K, I have never played daemons against daemons. It was interesting, and different from normal games in that everything has an invulnerale save and is fearless. The carnage is spectacular. We both failed to get our chosen demi-force on the table and had to settle for the smaller. The objectives were the daemon statue, the ruined fort and the temple, and we agreed that all units were scoring.

I played an all-Slaaneshi force while Shaun had a Khorne army. I landed closer to the objectives and controlled two on the drop. Shaun got the third.


I siezed the Temple and Fort, with a strategy of holding by pre-emptive attacks. My experience of Slaaneshi daemons is that they are not good defensively so should be used offensively.


The Seekers charged and topped a Herald of Khorne but then got creamed. I charged my daemonettes off the Fort into the massed ranks of Khornites and my daemon prince charged the juggers and bloodletter. This proved to be optimistic as a strategy, even foolish.


My centre was wiped out and Shaun captured the Fort. I still held the Temple. On turn six I dropped my last reinforcement right on top of the Statue. Shaun, went second, moved into close combat but failed to dislodge me.

So at the end, I held the Temple, Shaun the Fort, and the Statue was contested - a very satisfying draw.

Seekers of Slaanesh

I have been busy working on my novel and editing and have had little time for painting or gaming. But I did finsh my plastic Seekers. I try to go for a largely monochrome look for my daemons, the idea being that they are not entirely 'real'.


Have you noticed how Dinosaurian are the steeds? No feathers though, two-legged, therapod dinosaurs should have feathers.


The bases are resin models of a ruined temple that I bought seperately.

Bloodcrusher

My plastic Bloodcrushers arrived the other day and got put on the 'must do them soon' shelf. Meanwhil;e, I did have a metal bloodcrusher whose paitjob could so with a refresh, so Idecided to try out some colours. Results are as you see.

Plaguebearers - Old & New

I decided to upgrade my plaguebearers with some of the new models. I kept one of the old ones for comparison. I think I prefer the new but the antique has a certain rough charm - as the actress said to the bishop. The old model was drybrush painted while the new ones were wet layered.

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.

The Plague Hulk Painted

This is probably it. My largely finished Plague Hulk. As far as I know, there are no rules for this (anyone know) but I guess one can play it as a Soul Grinder.

I undercoated this by spraying with Vallejo olive green. I then filled in any gaps with a diluted mixture of khaki and dark green. I kept varying the mixture to give different colour blands. I then painted 'internal' detail in a burnt umbar (Citadel scorched brown) and metals in Citadel Tin Bitz. I worked the green up through multiple layers ending in lemon (Citadel Badmoon Yellow), the brown up with layers of dilute bright red (Revel Ferrari red) and the metals with Citadel Shining Gold. .
I then dumped rust pigments all over the model using a white spirit medium. After it dried I brushed off the excess then wiped upper surfaced with a damp cloth so that the pustules (etc) showed through.

I seled in the pigment with Vallejo acrylic satin varnish ( a nice 'soft' varnish that doesn't destroy the paint detail, as Citadel varnishes do) and then used Citadel Ard Coat to highlight a few key areas, such as the eye.

It took about five hours. so it was not exactly a fine art job, but I hope you like it.


"Daemon, you call that piddly little thing a daemon?" Benjamin Bunny.

Actually, something about the smell interested the rabbit, so he urinated on it, and my camera,

New Plastic Daemons on Advance Order

Plastic Daemons for advance order have gone up on the GW Site.