Rageaholic's Daemonic Horde, An army diary

I decided as a break from painting rats I would start a DoC army.

My first models are the start of my Bloodletter unit.



They are about 90-95% done, there are a couple of "tattoos" that I have missed and a few bits I'm stuck with. I thought I would see if you guys could give me any feedback.

The eyes...glowing red is my go-to eye colour, so I'm really stuck here. Black? Gold? Ideas very welcome.

The bases. I'm not that happy how they've turned out. A wash of devlan mud to darkrn them up a bit? Any other ideas?

The lumpy bits, not sure what to call them, the little bumps they have on their heads and backs. Should I do them a different colour? If so what?

I would go with white for the eyes... its the only colour that i think would make them pop

as for their bumps... i started the same thing with my bloodletters, red base coat with orange/yellow bumps... the problem is that you litterally have no idea how frustrating they get when your painting your third horde... and you just want to sand paper them off...

in retrospect i would use a few layers of a very watered down wash to highly the bumps, either red, or black, i dont think a brown would work with your colour scheme

For the eyes, you could do a really light green (think Necrons).

For the base, you could wash and then do a couple of drybrushes of consecutively lighter colors. So, if you wash w/ Devlan, you could then highlight w/ graveyard earth followed up by a highlight of commando khaki. Or just do khaki and then bleached bone. When I do my bases I use Vallejo Sepia Ink (it's pretty dark brown) then drybrush w/ Desert Yellow followed by Bleached Bone (or whatever the current comparative colors are).

As for the bumps ... I haven't done any of the new plastics so I can't help you there.

I agree on the green for the eyes. It goes quite nice with red models. A brown wash with a light drybrush like Legion described would work really well also.

Very nice 'letters btw.

an alternative to the light green necronesque eyes would be ice blue, it hace nice constrast from the red and is not too far away from complimentary on the colour wheel, however the dark/black eyes would give a nice evil brooding look to teh figures

Black eyes always look creey and evil. I also really like bright yellow to contrast with the red.

And the bumps aren't THAT obnoxious to paint. They are pretty annoying after the first 10-20 models though.

I finished them off. I decided to go gold for the eyes after I did some test models, the bases (that you can barely see from this angle) are washed with Agrax Earth and drybrushed steel legion drab to perk them up a bit.
I decided to leave the bumps. I think doing something with them might be nice, but I'm going to have 50 of these to paint, so I'm leaving them for now.

Looks great, really like the Khorne mark on the banner. Freehand is a mother biatch.

Have 150 bletters, trust me, you would wish you owned a spray gun....

Lovely little 'Letters! Wish I could go back and redo mine!
Nicely done! Cool Icon as well.
Cheers!

Luckily I do. The base coat was airbrushed, the potential for airbrushing most of the models was a major factor in choosing daemons.

Any chance of some close up pics?

I'll see about getting some done tomorrow. Along with a better pic of the horrors I just finished.

That's a really good looking unit of horrors!

For better lighting: I think it'd be better to put your light source behind your shoulder/head when taking pics. In that way you avoid darker spots!

Greetz, Bjorn.

+1 for liking those Horrors!

In addition to what GoW said about light already, try to get at least two sources of light (one of which is 'behind' you, as it were).