40KHW1: Daemons of Khorne by Lawnor
Works in Progress - Behemoth of Decay (Daemon Prince?)
I’ve had this model sat around awaiting some love for a while. He’s not GW, but is compatabile. The “decay” suggests he would fit best in Nurgle, but as I don’t own any Nurgle, I’m gonna paint him up for Khorne, and say he’s survived a fight with Nurgle and got a little infected. Currently no comparable GW stat lines include shields, so my plan will be to magnetise the shield so I can remove it if I end up playing with someone who expects WYSIWYG. I might look in to doing something like that with the wings too, but I suspect that’ll lead to dissapointment and instability. My version came with a round base, not the square one shown below. I’ve a few other projects to get done before I start on this guy.
Link to manufacturers website: http://titan-forge.com/daemonic-kingdom/191-behemoth-of-decay-s
I’ve never worked with a Titan Forge mini before and I was under the impression they were a luxury line. However I’ve had to do a fair bit of cleanup and green stuff gap filling a repairs. His right arm had a huge gap under it and I almost requested a replacement part, but I decided to try and fix it. We will see how it looks once it’s primed. I’m chosing to assume I got a bad sculpt and they are usually better.
I’ve glued a magnet in to the shield and shield hand. I’ve put a thin layer of green stuff over the magnet in the gauntlet to try and hide it, and distressted the green stuf a little to match the gauntlet.
I painted the metal at the weekend. The blade was given a different base colour to the rest. I then rusted everything to hell following the Asset Drop guide that came with this model. I them airbrush gloss varnished it all, masked off most of it and used the airbrush to paint black armour over the top of the rust. Removing the masking agents reveals fragments of paint still yet to peel off from the rust. This all got varnish again and now I need to decide if I;m brave enough to mask off all the metal and spray the flesh.More work done. Flesh is finished, but the metal got damaged during the masking and needs repairs. I’m currently thinking I’ll leave that until closer to the end, although I have primed over the re-exposed resin. The wings will get more work done later, but that’ll be layers of washes and glazes so it can wait. I’ve picked out all the broken infected flesh with green, and I have applied a base coat on all the tentacles/maggots. I’ve also finished work on the base I think.
I finished him off over the weekend. Here he is in full rotation, and with the magnetised shield removed. I think thats the last of my Khorne-y daemons all done now.
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