Nathan’s Tzeentch daemon army rank and file 4 - horrors and flamers (1400 points)

The finish line is in sight and I’m struggling. But I haven’t fallen yet. This month I’ve moved away from painting blue to painting pink, purple and red (and shades thereof). This month I did four flamers and six horrors:

These were fun to paint so hopefully I find the remaining horrors and flamers easy to finish - and they have to be done by the 21st of June as I then head away on holidays. But I’ve got the base coats on them so that is doable. Time will tell!

Nicolas' Chaos Army of Tzeentch - Rank and file Month #1

 Back in the game!

January was a packed month for me with the family... and I saw it coming! So in my head, I needed to start with an easy pick, and one that would let me get back a painting routine.

Here they are, my firt 1260 pts of flamers!

As you can imagine, they do not stack up too well in rank and file on 25mm, and actually this edition of the flamers was not meant to.

They were for me and opportunity to test my color combinations for the disks and the wyvern that will follow... Although I might have gone a bit to much "Toucan Sam Froot Loops" on them 😅.

And here are my 3 favorites zoomed in;

Nicolas Daemons of Tzeentch - May 2022 rank and file #4 (560 pts)

Burning Inside!

I just can't wait to get around this challenege. And here it is, the other half of the Flaming Fongoids.

I had to go around the limited amount of different models I have by playing with colors, some sort of a variation on a same scheme. I actually kept the same wet pallet over the 2 months to make sure I stayed in line.

That champion is one of my favorite from the Jess Goodwin chaos champions, I would have kept licking paint for 8 more hours on it but I drew the line at this point;

Another one I really enjoyed working on was that flamer on monster skull. Out of the modern skull box, this piece is actually hollow so I had to pin the flamer throught it into the base to get a good stability... All it misses is one or 2 spiders with webs to top it off!

And finally, a group shot! Sadly my display board was not built to hold a 10 x 40mm bases unit. For sure I will come up with a solution before the end of this project!

Nicolas Deamons of Tzeentch - April 2022 rank and file #3 (700 pts)

This. Guy. Is. On. Fire. 

Well I am quite impressed with my results this month. I know it is not much in the eyes of many, but this challenge has brought me further than I ever did in the passed decade in terms of painting and getting things done.

So I give to you, the Flaming Fongoids!

Or at least half of the unit... the other half is still cooking! I went all in with inks and than proceded to softening the transitions. That was very experimental, certainly not wise, but very entertaining. Preparing these model was quite alot more time consuming than expected... I went through the process of pining them into the air and giving volume to the bases out of clay. I love this sculpting process, but with a deadline in front of me, I was forced to admit this is not time efficient!

The hugly face in the center is an addition to my original list. That chaos champion on top of the mushroom disk is just that perfectly grotesque figure I needed to blend in.

At some point during the month I had to take a step back. I was so happy with my progress that I thought: "Well, let's run that ultrasonic cleaner and build other stuff".  What a fool! 

But what can I say, a lot of creativity came out of this chaos, such as the initial concept for my Weaving Watcher... 

... And an intent at giving that Fraser Gray conversion a try!

Lissanne's Chaos Demons- Cheerleaders of Chaos! (205 pts)

 

Another relatively easy month for me, before I start the big, complex pieces

Let's start with the last 2 Flamers of Elias' 6 Flamer band, for 100 pts.

Which I put in a rectangular movement base for forms sake.  And that is all of them, this unit is done!

  

And so, onward to some cheerleaders of Slaanesh,   And by Cheerleaders, I mean Demonettes. With the exception of Ignatz the boss, the rest of what I plan to paint seems to be rather Slaaneshy too.

I have a unit of 10 of Tony Ackland's original RoC Demonettes, sculpted by Jes Godwin and Mike Perry.  They began life with one breast to show they were hermaphroditic,  that's it.  Which is pretty pathetic if you think about it.  Don't create a depraved and perverse army if you are a PG company.   But since they did, I added the other breast and the parts GW couldn't on all my Demonettes to better illustrate them properly.  They are supposed to be super attractive, so since I am already altering them, I am making them more manga girls than bald bondage maidens.  Here is the catalogue pic for the purists.

I had mentioned I play D&D, actually I started out long, long ago painting my friends minis for that game (and still do).  'Here, you're an artist- you paint these!'  and lead was first thrust at me.   If you paint D&D minis, you start converting nearly as soon as you start painting, because everyone wants something to better match their character.  Fix the weapon, fix the hair, fix the clothes, etc  So I often find it hard NOT to convert.  I have noticed people feel strongly about this, one way or the other, but I am firmly in the cut-em-up and green stuff camp.

On their original catalogue page you can see they seem to have been given names, also pretty dull.  So I will give them all new ones as I go along.  Lewdfang -now Snaketongue, Fiendthrob -now Mohawk Mama, and Fleshthrob -now Sally Satan- (although her expression came out like 'Oh Lucy, what have you done now...)  As I only have 6 different sculpts in my stash, one being the unnamed 'Miss 13' who was added a little later, this will help with diversity, so each can have their own special sexy style.  And I am greatly enjoying painting them, although I wasn't sure at first I would.

And fluff...

Attracted to the spectacular 'attributes' of Ignatz, and since neither he nor the Flamers were the least bit interested in pursuing any fleeing villagers while they were busy creating havoc....these opportunistic demonettes have become sort of camp followers. They make sure no fun toys (or tasty tidbits) leave the vicinity of the ongoing atrocity, and are always lively cheerleaders urging the band ever onward to more mayhem!

Mohawk Mama is a strong leader, and always the first to think of a new game to play with the toys!  Just looking at her, you can see she up for anything.

Snaketongue is the plain girl of the group, and usually has to settle for the leftovers.  She is rather quiet with a black sense of humor.  Her sword is reserved for those who joke about her looks.

Sally Satan is a new recruit, a blessed ex-victim, and a bit unsure of what she should be doing.  But she is pretty enough she can always find a willing playmate!  The whims of Slaanesh are strange...

So-

2 Flamers 50pts each

3 Demonettes 35 pts each

205 pt total

Next month I hope to do 2 Dragon Ogres, another demonette or three, and more work on Ignatz.  My hope is to get better at painting tiny faces, and get to practice some techniques I learnt online to improve my figure painting!  We will see...

Relatively slow going too, because I am trying to do Karandras for the 20 year challenge- my last old Phoenix lord to be painted.  I'm a sucker for challenges, but no more till the OWAC ends.  I really want to paint lots of demons!

Lissanne's Chaos Demons- Flame On! Elias' Flamers (200pts)

  
Starting out with painting flamers for this month's 200 pts, so 4 are shown here, the other 2 I held back for a head start on next month.  I decided on plain green marble bases shot through with bluish power lines to keep the fungii bottoms clear of terrain, and that claw color pattern on the head will run through the army and keep it coherent.  I also wanted to make sure their fingers were visible, grasping balls of fire. They will get a rectangular movement base next month, too.

Elias' merry band of flamers was the first group to follow Ignatz, as they were drawn to  the burning remnants of a small hamlet, only to find the newly risen Demon Prince, and rejoiced to find a fellow pyromaniac, swearing allegiance on the spot.  Although they were mistaken about the pyromania, they have never realized or regretted their choice.

4 Flamers of Tzeentch  50pts each

For the record, I have no intention of stopping at 1000pts, but I also have no intention of rushing the miniatures and doing a substandard job.  So the first couple of months I'll be making a points buffer- onward painting I go!  Got plenty of demons, more than I can do in this challenge for sure!