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Subject: Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog Stormphoenix













London

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I'm hankering after starting a new army with the main intention of improving my painting rather than any particular gaming competitiveness. I've been playing my Alpha Legion army for a few years now and I'm pretty sick of painting blue and green. The lure of Chaos is still strong though, so I'm going to collect a Daemon force. After all, I can use them as allies. They also provide probably the most variety of any army for painting purposes, so should be a good way to improve my skills.



I decided to delve into colour theory a bit in order to plan out the colour schemes for the army. I decided to give each god its own pallette, covering the entire spectrum but in such a way that each god has at least one colour that overlaps with another god, giving the army some harmony.



Tzeentch Palette



I decided my Tzeentchian contingent would be dream orientated, so I wanted them brightly coloured. The problem with doing this is that they'll steal the show away from the rest of the army - I think keeping the colour scheme fairly unified should solve this. I went with a harmonic palette, and for the flames that seem to be on most Tzeentch models I chose the base colour's complimentary colour.







So we have a blue-purple as the base colour, straying into magenta which will be used for the Horrors and also blending, and a blue/cyan for the same but on different squads to differentiate them. The complimentary colour is an orange/yellow, and will be used mainly for flames.







Slaanesh Palette



Slaanesh is another God which requires a complimentary colour in addition to their harmonies, so I gave them the exact opposite palette to Tzeentch :







This ends up with orange/yellow as the base tone, ranging from pure orange down to green/yellow for the harmonics. This is complimented by a deep blue which is going to be claws, horns, that sort of thing. This makes a colour scheme as follows :







This doesn't really look right for Slaanesh, so I decided to make each colour a little closer to white :







This worked well



Nurgle Palette



Nurgle's palette sits exactly between Slaanesh and Tzeentch's. It doesn't need a complimentary colour really, I think Nurgle should be more uniform.







This gives this rather fetching colour scheme.







It's a little bright and 80s though. So lets do the opposite of Slaanesh and tone it down a bit:







Much better! We'll use the Deep green as the base shade, highlight it up to the yellow/green and do some nice bluish intestines. Should look pretty sweet.



So last but certainly not least, we have Khorne...



Khorne Palette







This again is between Tzeentch and Slaanesh, on the other side of the spectrum, because we obviously want some red in there!







I don't think this needs much tweaking. Still a bit 80s bright though. Lets do the same as we did with Nurgle:







Excellent. The brown can be used a bronze, and the purple is going to be an interesting counterpoint to the pure red you see on most Khorne models.



I'm going to start on Tzeentch first. I'm likely to start on a squad of Horrors, see how the purple works out. I figure I'll do two squads of them - one purple with blue fire, and one purple with red fire, to differentiate between them. The other Tzeentchian models I reckon will go with the blue base. Let me know your thoughts! Hello all,I'm hankering after starting a new army with the main intention of improving my painting rather than any particular gaming competitiveness. I've been playing my Alpha Legion army for a few years now and I'm pretty sick of painting blue and green. The lure of Chaos is still strong though, so I'm going to collect a Daemon force. After all, I can use them as allies. They also provide probably the most variety of any army for painting purposes, so should be a good way to improve my skills.I decided to delve into colour theory a bit in order to plan out the colour schemes for the army. I decided to give each god its own pallette, covering the entire spectrum but in such a way that each god has at least one colour that overlaps with another god, giving the army some harmony.I decided my Tzeentchian contingent would be dream orientated, so I wanted them brightly coloured. The problem with doing this is that they'll steal the show away from the rest of the army - I think keeping the colour scheme fairly unified should solve this. I went with a harmonic palette, and for the flames that seem to be on most Tzeentch models I chose the base colour's complimentary colour.So we have a blue-purple as the base colour, straying into magenta which will be used for the Horrors and also blending, and a blue/cyan for the same but on different squads to differentiate them. The complimentary colour is an orange/yellow, and will be used mainly for flames.Slaanesh is another God which requires a complimentary colour in addition to their harmonies, so I gave them the exact opposite palette to Tzeentch :This ends up with orange/yellow as the base tone, ranging from pure orange down to green/yellow for the harmonics. This is complimented by a deep blue which is going to be claws, horns, that sort of thing. This makes a colour scheme as follows :This doesn't really look right for Slaanesh, so I decided to make each colour a little closer to white :This worked wellNurgle's palette sits exactly between Slaanesh and Tzeentch's. It doesn't need a complimentary colour really, I think Nurgle should be more uniform.This gives this rather fetching colour scheme.It's a little bright and 80s though. So lets do the opposite of Slaanesh and tone it down a bit:Much better! We'll use the Deep green as the base shade, highlight it up to the yellow/green and do some nice bluish intestines. Should look pretty sweet.So last but certainly not least, we have Khorne...This again is between Tzeentch and Slaanesh, on the other side of the spectrum, because we obviously want some red in there!I don't think this needs much tweaking. Still a bit 80s bright though. Lets do the same as we did with Nurgle:Excellent. The brown can be used a bronze, and the purple is going to be an interesting counterpoint to the pure red you see on most Khorne models.I'm going to start on Tzeentch first. I'm likely to start on a squad of Horrors, see how the purple works out. I figure I'll do two squads of them - one purple with blue fire, and one purple with red fire, to differentiate between them. The other Tzeentchian models I reckon will go with the blue base. Let me know your thoughts! Subject: Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog TheAngrySquig















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This looks like it's gonna be really nice, can't wait to see some test models angel of ecstasy wrote:



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2000 2000 Subject: Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog Squigsquasher













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I look forward to this...

buddha wrote:

I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition! I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition! Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit. Subject: Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog KhorneDawg







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Hoping to see some impressive looking Daemons, I may look here again when I start branching into other gods. Subject: Re:Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog Stormphoenix













London

London Regular Dakkanaut

GW ones?



Any other thoughts on improvements I could make before I try my 2nd test?





So I've done a test model for my first unit of horrors. It didn't go well to be honest. It *started* well, I did some nice highlights up from purple to or sort of dark purple-pink, and it looked fine except I thought it was way too dark and needed to be brighter. I then promptly proceeded to completely mess up the skin. The rest of the model turned out fine though, and it fits within the palette I gave myself. Anyone got any good tips for painting horror flesh but not having it as pink as theones?Any other thoughts on improvements I could make before I try my 2nd test? Subject: Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog Trondheim













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Hefnaheim Archmagos Veneratus Extremis

Have you looked into the paints sold by Army painter? I think they may have something along the lines you requier. Subject: Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog Stormphoenix













London

London Regular Dakkanaut

GW paint set so I'm not really looking to buy another line of paints atm I have a completepaint set so I'm not really looking to buy another line of paints Subject: Re:Whispers From The Warp - Stormphoenix's Daemon Army Blog Stormphoenix













London

London Regular Dakkanaut











Any tips, suggestions, feedback appreciated. Right here we go. I had a 2nd attempt at a Horror, and this one went far better. I highlighted it much more to a brighter pink, and it added way more definition which makes the model stand out, which I'm happy with., Now to paint a unit of them! I hope to speed up how quickly I paint them, this one did take a very long time.Any tips, suggestions, feedback appreciated. Forum Index » Dakka P&M Blogs Go to: Select a forum Introductions News & Rumors Tournament Discussions Dakka Discussions Dakka Swap Shop Local Gaming Article Discussion Painting & Modeling Painting & Modeling Showcase Dakka P&M Blogs Painting & Modeling Tutorials Maelstrom's Edge General Discussion 40K Army Lists 40K You Make Da Call 40K Proposed Rules 40K Battle Reports 40K Tactics 40K Background 40K General Discussion Warhammer 30K AoS General Discussion AoS Background AoS War Council Games Workshop Board Games & Specialist Games The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Warhammer Fantasy Battle Legacy Discussion Privateer Press Miniature Games (Warmachine & Hordes) Corvus Belli (Infinity) Fantasy Flight Miniature Games (Star Wars) Mantic Miniature Games (Kings of War, etc.) Historical Miniature Games: Pre-WW1 Historical Miniature Games: WW1 to Modern Misc. Sci-Fi Miniature Games Misc. Other Miniature Games Gangfight Games Board Games, Roleplaying Games & Card Games Video Games Game Design Dakka Polls Dakka Fiction Forum Games Geek Media Off-Topic Forum Nuts & Bolts