Although it came down to the wire...I managed to finish my February 12 Months of Hobby vow way close to the deadline. But done is done!

In hindsight, I wish I had taken more care on the highlights and left deeper shadows and done a brighter high tone as the final step.  After a few nights thought this isn't a big enough deal that I expect to go back and touch them up.  Rather, I'll carry forward the lessons learned for the small number of Khorne daemons I have left in the backlog.  I DO need to revisit the banner eventually.  I couldn't decide between doing something with a decal or attempting a free hand....so it ended up being nothing but a highlighted black flag. The sword blades also will likely get reworked when I get inspiration. 

This was my first time using a full set of AK interactive paints.  I've been really impressed with them so far but wish there was an easier way to determine color shades.  There are almost too many options.  And the names don't help with identifying which ones go together well.  I'm fortunate that there's a local store with a good selection to look through and compare.  I don't I'd feel confident enough trying them if I was going off online views only.

The bloodletters were very good practice to prepare for the blood thirster that is in queue. Given how long the squad of 10 took it doesn't seem likely that I can finish the thirster in a single month. So, need to decide if I will pledge it as part of the 12 months of hobby or work on it over a longer period of time.  Probably will go with the longer timeframe as I'd like to do it more as a centerpiece.  The blood thirster would be farther than primer stage if I could decide how I want to do the base.  Haven't been able to decide between trying more of a lava effect (which impacts lighting source), a bunch of skulls in general layout of the 8-fold sigil, or something that suggests the Khorne symbol.

Because I can't decide on that...next up for painting will be finishing the brimstone horrors I started long ago. So...next update will be more Tzeentch themed!

Smaller group shots of the rest of the bloodletters in the spoiler section. 

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Starting backlog (what I've found so far, pretty sure there is more I haven't gotten to yet):

Khorne

Bloodthirster

3 blood crushers

10 bloodletters (completed for February 12 Months of Hobby event)

Tzeentch

Lord of Change

Burning chariot of Tzeentch 

12 pink horrors

14 blue horrors

14 brimstone horrors (mostly painted but never based, vowed for March 12 Months of Hobby event))

3 screamers

3 flamers