April 4, 2013

Miniature Spotlight: Bloodletters of Khorne

A while ago I started painting a group of Bloodletters of Khorne. That ended in a fiasco when I used a new and untested matt varnish that killed them instantly. An old lesson learned again, always test your varnish first. I moved on, found a new perfect matt varnish and painted a lot of other stuff since then.
Now my campaign is in serious need of more demons and so I decided to once again paint some Bloodletters. This time I painted them with my airbrush and I really like the result:


All Blootletters are on 25mm Chaos Bases from Micro Art Studio. I removed the chains and metal stuff from the bases and used Vallejo pigments to paint them. The paints I used for the demon skin were Gory Red (GC) as base, Dragon Red (Warpaints) as first highlight and Orange Red (MC) as second highlight. I used Goblin Green (GC), Livery Green (GC) and Dead White (GC) for the swords. I'm especially happy with the look of the power weapons since this is the first time I painted something like this. :)

2 comments:

CK aka Kronos said...

Thank you, Nathan! I'm happy you like them. :)
They will be in our next Battle Report. I was done painting these models last Saturday and we had a game session on Sunday. I just couldn't resist using them and I also got a cool new Hellgate from Dwarven Forge which fits the demon theme so very well. I'm just about done with the image post-processing and I think the Battle Report will be online this Sunday. :)

CK aka Kronos said...

The collection is always growing, yes. ;)
Dwarven Forge makes the terrain I use in my D&D campaign. It's absolutely awesome:
Dwarven Forge

Yes, I use a variety of miniatures, basically everything that's fits the purpose.
Most of them are from Reaper Miniatures:
Duke Gerard, Crusaders Warlord
Kristianna, Crusaders Warlord
Gargram, Dwarf Sergeant
Almaran the Gold

One is from Privateer Press:
Wolves of Oboros

And one is from Cipher Studios:
Gilles de Rais

I think I read somewhere that, even though there are similarities, 40k has a complete different back-story and is not related to the Fantasy universe. But I couldn't say that for sure, I'm no expert on Warhammer or 40k. I never played either one (aside from the PC games). I just like the gothic style and many of the miniatures found their way into my D&D games. :)