Slaanesh Greater Daemon - Project for a friend.

For my fellow Chaos new comer Soundslave, I was tasked with nailing together this bad lady for his birthday. No small task this, but damn what a learning curve.

 As usual with Forge World resin, first you check components, remove flash and wash away any residue with warm soapy water.  Also remembering to rebend stuff back into shape with hot hot water!

I was trying to escape this, knew I couldn't.  Slaanesh don't make them sturdy.  Beginning from the bottom (NO JOKES!), I worked at pinning the legs together using rubber coated paper clip.

Thankfully it required next to no GS work to smooth out.  So far, so good.

The most potentially problematic part, the sword arm.  I found if I removed the rubber sleeve from the paper clip, I could use the bare metal to have a thinner pinning rod to mount the sword to the fist!  Only took me an hour to figure that one out.

 Lower arms went on first, as to avoid the chance that I wouldnt be able to reach it later on.  Bottom up, remember?

All arms attached, pinned and green stuffed to fill any voids within the joints.  It is perfectly fine to dab in the superglue on the GS as you mount the arms as the superglue makes the stuff harden damn quick.  Dirty but effective!

After a couple of attempts to set in those blasted spikes on her leg, I noticed that the flash on the spikes was nearly identical in width and size to my pin vice's drill bit.  So, I drilled some holes...

And mounted every single damn spike except for those on her left breast, which was just silly.

Using crude GS and superglue, I mounted her to the base, using a paint mug to support her as she dried overnight.

Using the trick with the paper clips, I used boiling water to bend the hair before drilling and mounting every single one from the inside out. Took time, but it was worth the effort.

It was at this point I noticed the horn there on the left was lacking some interior bulk.  A bit late, I decided to fill it with more GS and smooth it as it dried.  Pain in the ass, but worked a treat!

Used some old Base Resin decorations to weight the base and add some flavour.  The trick is to make it so the sand reaches level to the resin plate and not make it "look" like the damn thing is sticking out of the ground!

A few layers of sand with superglue to add varying height and badaboom!

Overall, Zarakiel?  This Daemon Princess was a painful joy to make.  Almost felt bad for handing her over, but I'm sure we will meet again on the table.
*Checking rules in Forge World's Imperial Armour 13...

Oh gods I hope not!!! O_O

Now I need one!

So no Chaos Codex for 2016? No holding back then!

So as I have discovered via sources online (Spikey bits, Bols, the usual), the rumour stating that Chaos won't be making an appearance this end of 2017 has been largely confirmed.  Too much in the way it seems, a pushed schedule for the eager Age of Sigmar, tidy up of both Adeptus Mechanicus/Skitarii, Astra Milatarum, Tyranids etc.  Poor poor badies.

Ahh well.  I can bitch about how unfair it all is (#firstworldproblems) or I can sally forth and get stuck in.  Into what you may ask?  Well as ever I start from the wrong end.

Crimson Slaughter.

Yupp.  The attempted "Ultramarines" of the Chaos faction, the Crimson Slaughter came from nowhere to take an unfair amount of attention from the legions with their confusing background and motivations AND colour scheme.  But god help me I like them.  Their aesthetic draws me back to my days playing Space Crusade.  The almost flesh like contours of their armour, the true corruption of the Space Marine, the rage of the unjustly done to.

Attempting to stick to the gorgeous feel of the Dark Vengeance set (Which I got two sets of dammit!), I grabbed some Raptors for the bits.  Those helmets and those shoulder pads are just perfect!!!

As you can see, something about those legs just didn't pay off.  Though dynamic, without further carving up the figure, I was going to have to rethink how I would go about this. Getting my hands on more parts, I decided to rip them appart at the torso and focus on two 10 man Squads, one shooty and the other combatty.  (Technical terms, I'm sure...)

 Obviously the Dark Vengeance Chosen were filtered in in various forms, the best ones being reserved for Aspiring Champion Roles.

I've also received these beauties, Gal Vorbak, to be used as my first Possessed squad.  They've got a bad rap have Possessed, but I hope to do them justice.  I still have some Age of Sigmar Storm Cast I was also intending to brutalise into Possessed, but they will have to wait.

Currently practicing Green Stuff with Vasaline.  Don't laugh, this stuff is amazing!  Forget using water!