++ From the Abyss - A Word Bearers Log ++

[Marshal Rohr]

That Skull taker conversion is my favorite. The mixture of older style blood letters and new plastics gives it more gravitas. Ah! You're making my me want to do the daemon army again!!!

[Lord Marshal Ragnrok]

the one with the hooded, horned head, which i guess is the Daemon Prince, looks very cool.

[Noctus Cornix]

@Marshal: Whoops, my bad, mate. :P

 

@Lord Marshal: Thanks man but it's actually not a hood. It's a pure flat surface, like an unsculpted manikun.

[Lord Marshal Ragnrok]

o ok well i kinda looked that way from the angle i guess

[Noctus Cornix]

No worries man. It does look a little off from that angle

:)

[firestorm40k]

Now this is my kind of plog, how can I have missed this before?!?  Excellent conversions, great painting, and nicely thought out background.  Excellent work! :tu:

[Noctus Cornix]

Oh, what a pleasant surprise. Thank you kindly, Firestorm. Happy to have your support, my friend.

[ElDuderino]

So, I just went through this again and realised that this thread is what finally made me buy Dark Souls. Thanks for that! Your minis made me buy a video game, that's got to mean something:)

[Noctus Cornix]

That is probably one of the best comments I've ever been given. Thanks man, how do you like the game? :P

[Noctus Cornix]

Just a small update.

 

So today's pretty busy for me and I likely won't get a chance to work on my painting, but tomorrow and Monday I've set aside for almost exclusively painting. I've been playing around with ideas and ways to give a more interesting look to my daemons. The first of two ideas I have is a more insubstantial visage, like they are beings of blood given shape and form. Need to give the test model another coat or two of Blood for the Blood God before he's done, but I like how its coming. The second is to give them more of a charcoal skin tone to them, like creatures made of ash and smoke with eyes like burning coals.

 

Which do you guys think would look better?

[Forté]

Charcoal skin sounds good

[ElDuderino]

Best game I've played since Baldurs Gate 2. I even bought a ps3 for the sequel, couldn't wait a month for the pc release Edited May 10, 2014 by ElDuderino

[Noctus Cornix]

Soooo.... You're saying I inspired you to not only by a $30 dollar game, but also got you in turn to buy an entire game console for the new one? :P

[ElDuderino]

Yup. You owe me around $300

[Noctus Cornix]

Yup. You owe me around $300

 

Correction, I gifted you with around $300 worth of inspiration and hours of wondrous entertainment!

 

Also, since you bought a PS3, you should also pick up Demon's Souls, which is essentially the spiritual prequel to Dark Souls. Amazing game and it just fills me with so much inspiration and ideas. They all do.

[ElDuderino]

Hehe, got it already, it's next up after i finnish ds2. My gf likes to occupy the tv and i'm too scared to play at night, so progress is slow

[Noctus Cornix]

I'm a little confused as to how you're too scared to play at night, but I won't judge.

 

 

Back to the topic at hand, I had remembered there was an image from a while back that I really liked, and what sort of gave me the inspiration to the charcoal black scheme

 

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130326041516/warhammer40k/images/thumb/3/35/Bloodthirster_charging.jpg/250px-Bloodthirster_charging.jpg

 

I was trying to look around and see if I could find a good image of a 'blood' daemon, but nothing really seemed to show up, but what say you, gents? Should all the Khorne daemons be painted with the Charcoal? or should I maybe mix it up and have the new bloodletters be made of blood with the older ones and the Bloodthirster be made of the charcoal? Would that look too out of place?

Edited May 10, 2014 by noctus cornix

[Dragonkin Arenis]

I say give the older models the charcoal black scheme and the newer models the "traditional" red of Khorne. They'll need something to tie them into the force somehow, like a red armour plate, or red highlights on the black, maybe.

[Noctus Cornix]

I'll see what I can do. Results tomorrow.

[GrandMagnus]

I actually like the charcoal idea for khorne demons. 

[Captain Nameless]

 

It is a bottomless pit that we are guided towards, a glutenous maw of fire and darkness...

Admittedly, a glutenous maw sounds worse than a gluttonous one.

 

That aside, I look forward to seeing this colour scheme.

[Noctus Cornix]

Doh!  Can't believe I missed that error in my revision...

 

Appreciate it, Captain Nameless.

[Noctus Cornix]

Alright, so a quick update for you guys who were so kind as to offer your advice on the color scheme. I decided that I would actually go for different colors for the two breeds of daemons. For the newer daemons, I'm going to go for this ethereal mass of walking blood, while the older daemons will look more like a dark blackish charcoal, like the blood has clotted and scabbed. I wanted to have a bit of fluff to my daemons so I did some thinking about them. Looking at the model now, I realize that aside from the banner, the Hellblade is the only thing that seems tangible. And, with such emphasis and value placed upon these things in the fluff, I thought 'Why not make that the daemon?' So, to play on the whole living weapon concept, I'm essentially going with the idea that the Hellblade itself is what holds the daemon's essence, forged in the raging furnaces deep beneath the plain of skulls made only from the most bloodthirsty of warp essence made reality. From these blades, the blood of the crimson seas are drawn forth, twisted and manipulated into a shape to Khorne's liking, baring horns and fangs from the bestial skeletons that litter the Blood God's realm.

 

So he's all done aside from the base. I just noticed as I was taking pictures that he has moldlines on the legs... but I've already painted him and to be honest I just can't be assed...

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/20140512_222103_zps074aa500.jpg

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/20140512_222117_zpsb2d18676.jpg

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/20140512_222128_zps0c25d15e.jpg

 

Enjoy. Edited May 13, 2014 by noctus cornix

[Vazzy]

Hmmm, for some reason the missing  horn  gives him insane character. Nice job!

Edited May 13, 2014 by Vazzy

[Noctus Cornix]

Appreciate you support, brother! :D