Symphony of Vehement Agony

[BitsHammer]

Thanks for sharing your work and your inspiration on this - I'll likely be doing my enchantress this ETL, and I didn't have any good ideas how to do it.

 

I think I will use some blood, though maybe only on the strings - I want it to look like they were ripped out of him... I'll need to take a closer look at the back of the model to figure out if that would work.

The GW painting tip from the AOS book suggest painting the strings in Cadian fleshtone and then giving the lower part of the strings a glaze of Blood for the Blood God to make it look like the blood is running down the strings.

[BitsHammer]

Update time! First the harp which is nearing completion:

I decided to layer in some Druchii Violet into the brand to make it srand out more and give the muscle a bit of a burnt meat look. I'm torn between Soulstone Blue and Red as the Red is a good spot color that ties well to pink and purple while blue would fit into the cooler tones and fight less for attention.

 

Then we have the Enrapturess herself (best cloth I've painted in a while and I ultimately decided to drop the plans for pink highlights as the rich purple works great as a balance to the brighter pink up top as well as works great with the gold):

[WarriorFish]

Agreed, those colours are really working :tu:

[BitsHammer]

Just a bit of complaining before I get back to work painting and assembline models: Daemonettes are fiddly little pains in the neck. I knew they weren't going to be super easy to build but dang they don't like gluing together properly!

 

Now to get back to work...

[BitsHammer]

Hair and horns are done!

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Edited May 19, 2019 by Fulkes

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Looking good - the pink hair really goes well with the purple dress.

 

BTW, what colours did you use for the dress?  I might do something similar.

[BitsHammer]

Looking good - the pink hair really goes well with the purple dress.

 

BTW, what colours did you use for the dress? I might do something similar.

Xerus Purple is the main color (painted over Naggaroth Night that has been washed with Druchii Violet) and wet blended with Genestealer Purple to ease the transition. There was some wet blending with the Naggaroth Night as well but it's harder to spot sinve I rewashed over some of that to keep the shadows dark.

 

And thanks! I'm rather pleased with how it's coming along overall, and glad that it works as well as it does in my head.

[WarriorFish]

Have you tried assembling the old metals? :P Hair looks great, especially when the model has so much :)

[BitsHammer]

Have you tried assembling the old metals? :P Hair looks great, especially when the model has so much :)

I've failed to successfully build a Penitebt Engine more times than I wamtmto admit. Still doesn't change me holding two limb bits together and the glue not setting to bond them together.

 

And I am glad to hear people like the hair. It was a bit of a process but I like how it came out.

Edited May 19, 2019 by Fulkes

[BitsHammer]

And she's finally done! Next up my first ten Daemonettes.

 

Edited May 19, 2019 by Fulkes

[WarriorFish]

Gel superglue goes a long way (bonus: also part filler), and for PEs pinning is your friend though the glue was enough for me ;) All your work has paid off here, will be a focal point and rightly so! Looking forward to seeing the Daemonettes next :)

[Evil Eye]

That Enrapturess is freaky. I love it!

[BitsHammer]

That Enrapturess is freaky. I love it!

Freaky is like how I like my daemons, so it works for me!

 

Seriously, I know the internet is for porn (as proven by this song), but Slaanesh gets a weird stigma of ONLY being for porn and not other, more twisted sensations. I mean this is the god of weaponizing music to the point of melting skulls after all.

[BitsHammer]

Progress! Waiting for the all over violet wash to dry.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Looking good!  Is their skin going to stay that colour or do you plan on making them more like your enchantress?

[BitsHammer]

Looking good! Is their skin going to stay that colour or do you plan on making them more like your enchantress?

More like the Enrapturess. The wash is more to tie the pink and purple together and shade recesses while providing a base that'll slightly tint the layer colors.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks!  I look forward to seeing them progress.

[WarriorFish]

Good progress already, just as well as you'll need a lot of the bread and butter :P

[BitsHammer]

Good progress already, just as well as you'll need a lot of the bread and butter :P

Indeed. My general painting plan right now is to alternate in ten Daemonettes between other units or characters. Every 250 points done though I'll be shifting gears to try something else. After I finish the Fiends that come next I'll be painting a box of Free Peoples Greatswords because I have a yellow and blue scheme I want to try painting. Edited May 22, 2019 by Fulkes

[WarriorFish]

That's a good plan to work through your collection, keep us updated :tu:

[BitsHammer]

Well it's been the better part of a week and my attempts to push paint onto something else just leads to me wanting to work on that more than my current project. So I sat down and thought about it, and in the end I feel it's that I'm not feeling like I'm really doing something new or interesting with my painting. It's too routine and that's making it boring.

 

Add in how fiddly the models are and my passion for the project is drying pretty fast.

 

So I'm shelving it for now. As much as I like Slaanesh as a concept, I need some time away from the army while I learn some new things so I can come back with fresh eyes and something that pushes me further. Taking the pressure of time out of the equation helps a lot as I don't think I've got the time to crank out a horde army when I can't even reliably get time off for games for an escalation league. It's a shame, but I just can't stay motivated with this project with how I'm painting them right now.

[WarriorFish]

It's best to not force yourself, otherwise you'll just not get results so better to park it and return when your Slaanesh mojo does :)

[BitsHammer]

It's best to not force yourself, otherwise you'll just not get results so better to park it and return when your Slaanesh mojo does

That's the plan. I still want to do a Slaanesh army, but I want it to be as awesome on the table as it is in my head. And honestly the way I'm doing them now just isn't there.

 

I still want to do the army, I just feel like the way I'm going around it isn't producing the results I want so I need to step back, work on the techniques I want to use instead, and then use those to paint the army I want.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Sorry to hear you aren't happy with your army - as you said, there is no point forcing it when your efforts aren't getting you the results you wanted.  I hope that you are able to work out what wasn't working so that you can return to this army - I was enjoying seeing your results, and they gave me ideas what to do with my own slaneshi daemons.

Edited May 28, 2019 by Dr_Ruminahui

[BitsHammer]

Sorry to hear you aren't happy with your army - as you said, there is no point forcing it when your efforts aren't getting you the results you wanted. I hope that you are able to work out what wasn't working so that you can return to this army - I was enjoying seeing your results, and they gave me ideas what to do with my own slaneshi daemons.

I have some ideas, but some of them require getting a handle of NMM, others require me to get a handle on glazing and zenithal highlighting.

 

At least I'm making progress with the NMM:

 

Glazing the transitions a bit more needs work, but it looks a lot more like metal than my past attempts.

 

I also need more practice with skin, but that has to do with blends which I am pracgicing with NMM.