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.

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.

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.

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.

Three is a magic number

So, I already have 2 Daemon Princes of Nurgle. One from Ultraforge and one from Games Workshop. They work great and I love fielding them with the Forgeworld Great Unclean One and Plaguehulk. It really makes the army stand out.

I can only field 3 Monstrous Creatures under the current Army Selection system we use in Emperor's Pride. So there is absolutely no reason to buy a third Daemon Price of Nurgle, right?

Wrong. I read somewhere that Ultraforge has been sold! I panicked and bought this sucker on CoolMiniOrNot:

Fra Minis

My wife, henceforth known as ToughCookie™, is in the shop, being upgraded with some new hardware, so I will have some time to assemble and paint this sucker while she is being recalibrated and adjusted. Not that I wouldn’t have time otherwise, but this should take my mind off my wife when I am not visiting her at the hospital.

You may have noticed that he has wings. I will magnetize those so I can use him with or without, as suits my fickle and inconstant whims.

And the geek shall inherit…

Well, having a bit of cash float my way is nice. So nice, in fact, I had to celebrate. I went and bought: 4 Fiends of Slaanesh, a Keeper of Secrets, a box of Screamers of Tzeench, a Monolith and a box of Horrors. Oh, and a Chaos  Daemons Spearhead. Pfft!

The Monolith is all done. No pictures, it is at the Fortress Monastery. I am not 100% satisfied with it. I tried some OSL painting on it and it turned out ok but not completely. I will attempt some quick fixes with the airbrush and then give it a matt varnish, to see if that brings it more together. Apart from that, I am almost ready to declare my Necron army finished! The Lord got a small conversion: I put him on a Terminator base and gave him 2 wound counters in the form of scarabs. They are magnetized for easy removal.

Fra Minis

The Fiends complete the Elite part of my Slaanesh army, the Keeper completes the HQ part. All that army needs now is for the new plastics to come out, some assembly and a whole lotta’ lovin’. I assembled the Fiends and Keeper already and they are ready to be airbrushed on Wednesday. No Pics of the Slaaneshi models. I am looking forward to doing a full post on my Slaaneshi Daemons and, after that, on my Nurgle army which has been finished for quite a bit.

The Screamers are assembled, also and I have started painting them.

Fra Minis

I am closing in of 6000 points of Daemons. Yay! Some day I should make a list.

The Immaterium spills over

Apparently, GW leaked pictures of the new Daemon wave. Here they are, with my comments.

Pics courtsey of Warseer.com. Go there for larger pictures.


Seekers of Slaanesh (Plastic). Finally. I like the Steeds but the riders seem rather un-dynamic. I will most likely be getting a whole bunch of these.


The Changeling (Metal). This is actually a very nice model. This more or less complete the character lineup for Chaos Daemons. The only ones missing are the Named Greater Daemons and the Blue Scribes.


Bloodcrusher (Plastic). Really great! The current metal model is cool, good looking but a little frail in some parts. Also, it is expensive and difficult to modify. All in all, plastic 'crushers is really, really neat. This is the star in the wave, in my opinion.


Fateweaver (Metal). Looks like a nice model but I still dont get why they released this. The standard Lord of Change comes with an extra head and it is a very easy conversion, in my opinion.


Horrors (Plastic). Oh, boy. On the surface, plastic Horrors is a fantastic idea but this is not a good sculpt. I am hurrying out to buy the Diaz models, while supplies last. It is odd that all the great Diaz metals are getting replaced by inferior plastics.


Daemon Prince (Plastic). Not a very good model, in my opinion. I'll reserve judgement until I see the sprues. I bet this is nice for conversions but I am unimpressed as it stands.

I command the darker Powers

Well, I knew it all along but for some, it might have come as a surprise that I am able to bend GW to my will. After pissing and moaning about Seekers of Slaanesh costing $15-16 a piece on eBay for only a few weeks, GW has finally caved and sent out an email regarding second wave of Daemons.

From Warseer:

In August, the immortal legions of the Ruinous Powers - the Chaos Daemons - will pour forth once more from the Realm of Chaos to drown the Warhammer world and the galaxy of the 41st Millennium beneath a tide of blood and destruction. Even now, mystics are assailed by nightmarish visions of horror and death, the fractured minds of madmen echo with sibilant whispers, and the doomed clutch symbols of their weak gods closer to them. A host of incredible new Citadel miniatures for both Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Daemons armies and Warhammer Daemons of Chaos armies will soon be released upon mortal battlefields. All will be revealed in July here on the Games Workshop website and in August's issue of White Dwarf magazine, so keep an eye out for more information.

For some reason, GW did not contact me directly and I have not recieved the quoted email. No doubt an oversight!
Anyway, if the rumours are true, and there is some reason to believe that they are, the following should arrive in August:
Metal Characters – I expect to see some Tzeench goodness here. The Blue Scribes and the Changeling are the only “normal”-sized characters without a model. I doubt they’ll do models for the named Greater Daemons, especially since they are so easy to convert, it’s almost no fun.
Plastic Horrors - Sadly, rumours persist that this will be a new model and not the amazing Hedström ones that we have now. This is kind of obvious, really. If they do Horrors in plastic, they should be more poseable, and multi-part than the Hedström-metals. Still, this is a good time to grab the “real” horrors, before it is too late (Like with the Daemonettes that went from awesome metals to “meh” plastics).
Plastic Seekers – This is the lazily decadent jewel in the whores belly. One of the best options in the codex and the only way to use them was with “counts-as” or by paying therough the nose at eBay. I will get at least a few boxes of these. Again, I hope these are different from the resin ones seen earlier but it isn’t a deal-breaker.

Plastic Daemon Prince – I sure hope they made a new model. The one that was features a few years back is fugly. As heck!
Exhibit a, b and c:

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EDIT 180510-15:14

Seems this is the list:


Seekers - Awesome!
Bloodcrusher - Cool but why?
The Changling - Nice
Fateweaver - Cool but why?
Daemon Prince - Cool. Potentially, anyway.
Pink Horrors - Cool but also scary. What if they suck?