Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A musk, soft as sin…

Yay! Good news from the front. I fought a battle against fellow Emperor’s Pride member Dan and won! Woot!

He played Angels Sanguine (Blood Angels Codex) with (from memory) 2 x 10 Assault Marines in Rhinos, 1 x 10 Death Company Marines with Sanguinary Priest, in Land Raider and uh… some upgrades? Maybe Special Characters? Anyhow, I played my Slaanesh Daemons like so: Keeper of Secrets, 2 x Herald in Chariot, 1 x 6 Fiends, 2 x 12 Daemonettes, 3 x 6 Seekers and a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. Add to that a lot of upgrades for testing purposes and that’s it. Well. My KoS mishapped and died before the game began. My Heralds popped his rhinos, Fiends thinned out the Death Company before getting killed and my cavalry killed everything the Daemonettes left standing. Oh, the Prince kept the Land Raider still while plucking its armaments off one by one.

Fun game and while we both said we had expected a different outcome, I can’t help but feel he kinda handed it to me. Maybe out of kindness or pity, either way, it was a fun and motivating game and it spurred me to go to the club today and get in about 8 hours painting =)

Without further ado, I give you…

Finished Fiends!

Colors look a little bland in this picture but in real life they look nice.

Also, I finished the Daemon Prince Aedon the Sibilant. Ok, almost, his shawl needs some highlights.

Finally, the Keeper of Secrets Clarionanoisex the Indulgent. His sword may need a highlight but he is basically done.

I am trying to write some fiction to accompany the army and it is hard to find a balance. Being Slaanesh, it needs to be over-the-top with the sensations, the depravity and the allure but it also needs to not be Sado-Twillight in Space. Hm. I am writing this one instead of typing. Here is a shot of a page. As you can see, my handwriting is not the nicest but it feels oddly fitting.

Last, I have some sketches for the Slaaneshi Soulgrinder and for runes to put on the Chariots and banners. I was going for mystic/sexual/evil/odd. I doubt I will be using very much of it, thought. It is a little much, perhaps.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

On the further exploration of indulgence

Quick update.

Progress has been made. Also, a setback of sorts. I worked a bit more on the soulgrinder:

Most of it is not that visible but she’s got some spiky bitz now =)

And I started a mystery project that is very related to Daemons of Slaanesh. Here is a hint: They cried for darker wine and wilder music.

It is the start of a new army.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Scented Gardens

Whew. 8 hours of hobbying done!

Did some work on my Slaaneshi Soulgrinder. Take a look, (S)he’s a beaut!

Ok, not a classic beauty. For one, her head is still missing. I am putting it off, since it is the hardest part =/. The body is inspired by a Daemon encounter in the Inquisition War trilogy by Ian Watson, with elements of Keeper of Secrets mixed in. The skirt is very work in progress the the moment.

I managed to finish a Herald of Slaanesh! His Chariot is about 75% done but here are a couple of pictures.

The head of the Herald is a bit from MaxMini, one arm is a Daemonette weapon-arm and the other is an old elf arm from Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The body is an old-ish Champion of Slaanesh from WFB.

The chariot is made from Tomb Kings chariots with various bits from Seekers, Daemonettes and Cold One Knights.

The last Chariot still needs most of its paint.

And a gratuitous overview-shot.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Must... have... power...


Aha! Turns out, I can't handle playing Warhammer Age of Reckoning. So I unsubscribed and got to hobbying again. Yay me. Painted 6 Seekers of Slaanesh, only 18 to go =D



Also converted two Tomb Kings Skeleton Chariots for my Slaanesh heralds and finally started converting a Soulgrinder into a... Soulgrinder of Slaanesh.

I also suffered a major setback in that I realized that the paint scheme for the Seekers is much, much better than the one on the previously painted Daemonettes, Daemon Prince and Keeper of Secrets. Thankfully it is also much easier to paint but it is annoying having to strip the paint off of so many finished models.

Anyhow, pictures to follow during the week.