Daemons Speedpaint(ish) 2000pts and over

[Latro_]

EDIT: The first few posts in this log are old from 2008, I have revived the log for 2011! so scroll down for new updates!

Ok so I thought i'd do a little log of this army I am doing. I have stolen some ideas from other WS members as to speed painting up a daemons force. Luckily these guys were genius's and the speed paint methods i'v picked up shoudlent make the army look too rushed.


Here is the initial army list I am going for:

The Blue Scribes 81
Energy Syphon, Scrolls of Sorcery

Herald of Tzeentch – Spellbinder the unseen 165
Level 2, Spell Breaker, Master of Sorcery

Herald of Nurgle – Poxius the thrice shamed 240
Noxious Vapours, Palanquin, Level 1

Herald of Nurgle – Rot Bringer 240
Battle Standard, Staff of Nurgle, Palanquin

16 Plague Bearers 247
Full Cmd, Standard of Sleeping Decay

16 Plague Bearers 247
Full Cmd, Standard of Sleeping Decay

22 Horrors 264

5 Flamers of Tzeentch 175

5 Flamers of Tzeentch 175

5 Flesh Hounds 175



I have already speed painted one unit of the plauge bearers using the method a WS member (Skulliz) invented:







Not great pics (i'm working on that). Whole unit took about 2 hours to do! herald (using him as a pala herald) took about 30 minutes. So whole unit plus character in under 3 hrs! not bad.

More to come soon.

[Jericho]

Looks great, what exactly is this miracle formula? I'm guessing it involves mostly the new Washes Mine sure does!

[Latro_]

Thank you all

Well here is the magic recipe:

1. Basecoat of Chaos Black spray

2. Paint them all with Gretchin Green Foundation Paint (I used a tankbrush and painted all models in a row)

3. Drybrush of Rotten Flesh

4. Paint small details like worms and Nurglings with Tanned flesh

5. Highlight the Tanned Flesh areas with Dwarf Flesh

6. Paint, teeth and claws with Bleached Bone

7. Paint metal with Bolt Gun Metal

8. Paint any woden areas with Khemri Brown Foundation Paint

9. Devil Mud wash the entire model

10. Once the previous wash is dry, give the model a second wash but of Gryphonne Sepia this time

11. Base the model

12. Done

All credit goes to Skulliz. I swapped the brown for Calth and you might not be able to get ye hands on tanned flesh since its OOP but a similar paint'll do. You can play about with it too, like the herald's spots was simply a case of dotting a bit of bad moon on. I might do a stage by stage on one of the PB's when i do the next unit if anyone is interested.

[Jericho]

Tallarn Flesh could work too I suppose, I'm realizing how nice a color it is since I started using it more.

[Latro_]

Yea tallarn is pretty nice, did you use that on that maruader you did? Really looks quite differnt from standard WoC stuff, in a good way!

[Necromancer2]

Definatley interested in a step by step... These look really good IMO. I'm getting ready to make some plague guys as well.

[Jericho]

I didn't use Tallarn Flesh on any of my Chaos stuff yet, but I'm tempted to try for basecoating the leather since it's so much faster than custom mixing colors. Doesn't matter much anyway what you basecoat with if you're doing as many washes as I am to make the leather dark and purplish

[Chris_Tzeentch]

Really nice work. I just started my Nurgle Daemon legion again, and having great fun with it. I am using the Heresy Blights as Plaguebearers, as I am really not a fan of the new style Plaguebearers. Keep an eye out for a log soon.

I particularly like your Kev Adams sculpted Plaguebearers. They are awesome.

How are you finding the army, in terms of gaming?

[Asp]

I like them. But how do you avoid giving the wholy model a matt, milky look with the GW washes?

[Elazar The Glorified]

Wow these guys look absolutely awesome, the painting is immense. I really like the bases as well. Top stuff!

[Ereinion]

These look really cool, also seen your death guard stuff and love the methods used.
Im looking at browns for my army, but this methods will be applied for that colour scheme.

[Ereinion]

Did we ever get a stage my stage of the paint scheme?

Be interested to see if there is one.

[Latro_]

checkout this thread
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152269

he's who i stole the idea from!

[Latro_]

Ok project necromancy!

getting back into the daemons, been making horrors and mixing them up with classic ones.

[mrtn]

And here I was thinking "oh, some n00b has bumped a dead painting log".

Nice army.

[Cragum]

great to see this log going again! really looking forward to seeing these beastys back in the paint firing line...

[VenomBlood]

Amazing horrors! Are you going to make them blue/pink combo?

[Latro_]

Cheers guys, feels great getting the fantasy bug back

Was actually thinking of painting the old blue horrors in the unit blue but think i'll keep everything pink.

Was wary the old old models would look out of place in the unit with the new ones but spaced out it kinda works.


here is is updated 2k list i am now working too:

Herald of Nurgle 175
Palanquin, Slime Trail

Herald of Tzeentch 140
Lvl2, Master of Sorcery

Herald of Khorne 115
Armour of khorne

29 Bloodletters 372
Standard, Champ

29 Horrors 348

26 Plague Bearers 361
Champ, Sleeping Decay Standard

5 Flamers 175

5 Flamers 175

2 Blood Crushers 140

[Ereinion]

Cool to see this thread back up, look forward to watching the progress.
I have now just started a very similar project with my daemons in a hope to have the army raedy for a tournament. the next rew weeks with determine mine.

Cant wait to see some more painted.

[Latro_]

Stock pile of boxes that have been sitting for a year all now empty.



Last of the metals together. So have all the plauges, horrors, 10 flamers and 2 crushers glued.

And now the omg i just spent over £50 on one unit at GW pic:


With the metal plague bearers and some of the metal horrors i dread to think how much this army has cost.

Here is the speedy paint idea i had for the horror skin, pretty blurry photo but its quite late and i'v been watching ufc an drinkin beer woo.