My apologies in advance for the somewhat bad-quality pictures – my camera is not that awesome. I’m sure you’ll notice the color bleed from the minis to the white background.

Tzeentch Demons

I painted the Tzeentch ones first. Partially because, as I said before, it’s the one I like best in the board game at the time being, but also (admittedly) because I imagined the Horrors would have to be somewhat easy to paint – mostly a drybrush job.

Lord of Change, Back

The Lord of Change on the other hand was tougher; I wanted his robe to be white-ish with blue hue, with the inner bit being darker than the arm pieces, and there were all the gold details. I added highlights by washing the lower edges of some trims with black, and it seemed to work out well – I continued that with the other models.

Finally, the Warp Stones (green-yellow stuff) took a bit of time and quite some iterations to get right. I wanted these as close to the game’s tokens as possible.

Slaanesh Demons

Next, I painted the Slaanesh demons. Arzo, my wife, pointed out that the Demonettes weren’t purple enough at first, so I washed their corsets or whatever-that-is with purple. I took some care to make the claws of the Keeper of Secrets a different purple than its (more pink) body, so they’re clearly distinguishable.

I’m not absolutely happy with the way the Demonettes‘ bodies turned out. The color is fine as it is, but the drybrushing strokes are too clearly visible, particularly to their left (as seen from the front).

Khorne Demons

Khorne came next. I googled a bit for the exact coloring of the Bloodletters; I didn’t remember the exact color of their horns. Turns out I couldn’t actually possibly remember it, as there’s all kinds of variations between red and black horns. Still, inspiration was a good thing, it made me color them slightly more orange to try and get some of that “hellfire” feeling.

While painting these, I had to resist the urge to stand up and shout something along the lines of…

Blood for the Blood God!

Nurgle Demons

Finally, my favourite Chaos God, Nurgle. Lots of details on these models, with all the worms and blains and all – another reason (apart from me wanting to save the best for last) why I took them last, after having warmed up. The skin of the Plaguebearers took quite some layers until I was happy with the sickly-rotting green-brown mix.

Note how the Lepers, the Plaguebearers and the Great Unclean One all share the green base color, but have different color nuances themselves – giving a coherent picture while maintaining distinguishability. At least that’s what I tried to do

Are you painting minis as well? Any comments or suggestions?

The cultists are already done:

Cultists of all Chaos Gods

I’ll upload the pictures to Board Game Geek as well of course. Here’s a few mug shots of each of the four groups:

Khorne Cultists

Bloodsworn, the cultists of Khorne, the Blood God. He mostly lusts for battle, thus cultists (who do all the corrupting and pillaging for the gods) aren’t as interesting to him. Since the game really plays differently with the different gods, this means that it also provides less cultists for him (and more demons to beat stuff up with).

Nurgle Cultists

Lepers, the cultists of Nurgle, the Lord of Pestilence. Interestingly, he does most of his victories through corruption, which in turn is the main purpose of the cultists in this game – and he has less of them than Tzeentch. Ah well, he has more and cheaper demons instead. Nurgle hits a soft spot for me, I always loved his fluff. My all time favourite Chaos God

Tzeentch Cultists

Acolytes, the cultists of Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways. He’s the god of magic and intrigue, a control type character. So I think the mage style robes work pretty well. The demons will be in a lighter blue. Tzeentch has most cultists, and he teleports them around the board in a pretty unpredictable way. Currently my favourite god to play in this game.

Slaanesh Cultists

Seductresses, the cultists of Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure. It is interesting how these are the only cultists that are supposedly female. Not sure why “Seductors” wasn’t chosen. I added another layer of light (purple mixed with white) drybrushing here after thinking they looked too similar to the Tzeentch ones (before trims), I think they’re much more obviously purple now and it really brings out the detail in their robes.

Teaspooned Tzeentch Cultist

Interestingly, what took me longest with these cultists are the little trims around their hoods and sleeves; they’re just so tiny that it’s a lot of work to get these right. To the left here, you see one of the Tzeentch ones in a teaspoon for size.

The demons and greater demons will be next, I’ll do those one god at a time. With the cultists, I thought it made most sense to paint all of them at the same time: The steps I took with each of the Chaos god’s deluded followers were very similar, even though I tried to make them convey different moods through more vivid (Slaanesh) or muted (Nurgle) color schemes. Since the demons look really different for each faction, that approach really doesn’t make sense for them.

The Cyberdemons and the Spider Queens didn’t make it, but rushing them (or the marines) would be a pity, I’ll rather paint them well with ample time after the weekend.

Without further ado, here’s the whole bunch of the marines. I took Space Marine Scout miniatures from Warhammer 40k for them, as they just have waay more detail than the ones that came with the game itself.

Doom Marines

All the details did take their toll, time-wise, I spent close to 20 hours on them. But considering they’re the good guys and the only minis the marine players will ever control, they better look good.

I made individual pictures of the three strike teams (red, green, blue), have a look at them here:

Red Marines

Blue Marines

Green Marines

Note how they’re quite a bit cleaner (looks-wise) than the other minis – I didn’t drybrush a bit here. That and the strong color palette emphasizes a bit that they’re the good guys, I hope.

Time to relax now

Still, here they are, in all their glory. They’re one of the strongest monsters of the Doom boardgame, and I tried to make them look the part. Six Hellknights.

6 Hellknights

Now the next thing definitely has to be the marines, as the Cyberdemons don’t appear until the second mission of the game, and the Spider Queens only show up in the expansion levels – and that’s the only three things left to paint for the game.

Hellknight

Hellknights Progress

The others aren’t exactly as far, as you can see in the picture to the left. Right behind them, the line of paints, are the colors they’ll get from this stage onward – the bodies got a deep red base (after the black coat) and some washes already, next will be two layers of skin drybrushing, a layer of skin wash, and then the dark red drybrush for the head. The colors to the left of those mentioned I’ll use for detail work (eyes, mouth and teeth, base).

Hellknight Back

On the Hellknight’s back, you see why so many layers make sense, too. In some spots, the leather-y color from the first skin drybrush still shows through, while in others the more pink second skin drybrush is more prevalent. The crotch area is darker than the surroundings (it’s where the mud wash was applied), and the red base still shines through in less deep skin trenches.

I hope to finish the others later today.

Archvile

All 6 Archviles

No prototype this time as well, I painted the whole group of 6 at once. The arms ended up with 7 layers of paint, to bring out the glowiness a bit, I hope it kinda worked.

I hope to have everything painted by January 2nd, as that’s when I plan to take the whole bunch along to a LAN party we’re having. It doesn’t look all too bad right now, there’s only Hellknights, Cyberdemons, Spider Queens and the marines to go now.

I do think however that the next thing I’ll tackle will be the marines, to make sure they’re ready.

Six Mancubi

I decided against reworking all the bases (as was suggested in the prototype picture’s BoardGameGeek thread), and for going with my current scheme of only having either dark red dragging marks or bright red blood splatters. It doesn’t look too bad for the whole group of minis, and ties them together nicely.

They do look nice though. I actually painted those while painting the other Mancubi (that still aren’t finished), as those required me to wait for washes to dry fairly regularly – and the maggots tempted me, too, admittedly.

Maggots

The Mancubi will be completed either tonight or tomorrow, stay tuned for another post soon

Mancubus (Front)

By the way, I deactivated the Lightbox plugin – it broke the “Back” button, which nothing on a web page should do, ever.

Mancubus (Right Side)

Mancubus (Back)

Anyway, the skin here has first a dark brown base, then four (!) layers of drybrushing, another layer for the face, then a wash, and another layer for the face. I think it was worth it, though.

The weapons and backpack have a Boltgun Metal base, then two layers of black wash (to create the illusion of more details, as the model doesn’t have that many there), then a Boltgun Metal drybrush and finally some copper highlights. I didn’t want to paint the tubes in another (more screaming) color, as I like my Mancubi gritty.

The weapon’s muzzles finally were painted in a blueish grey and then drybrushed with white, plus a little highlight.

Oh, another note, all my images are available in a higher resolution on the Geek, too. If you feel like giving me a thumbs up there, you make me happy

(I will slow down with painting today and tomorrow, as I have this examn on Friday – wish me luck )

Detail Shot

Which is great really, as it allows (and asks) for more detail in the finished miniature. Nevertheless, I still kept the painting time rather short, forfeiting some of those possibilities – for example, I skipped painting their headsets, they’re barely visible anymore now and look kinda like the zombies’ ears.

Anyway, here are the zombie commandos, guarding a room against the evil marines that want to spoil all plans of taking over and destroying the earth as we know it.

Silly marines.

Zombie Commandos