HQ - Daemon Prince Lord Scirrhus As the Daemon Prince would be for a tournament army, it was important that any equipment or abilities were reflected on the model. In addition I wanted Scirrhus to be one of the centrepieces to my army so needed to ensure that its stature was appropriately large without being too over the top. I took the Warhammer 40,000 Daemon prince as the basis of the model as I liked the size and dynamics of the model. To this I added a pair of wings from the previous Chaos range, which were pinned just above the shoulder blade. To blend the wings into the model I used green stuff to build up a muscle structure and then blended the flesh back into the armour to give it the appearance of having mutated. To finish I added a few details such as the Mark of Nurgle as stigma in the flesh of the left shoulder and lesions in the skin. To bloat the face I used green stuff to extend the chin and throat as well as break off one of the horns giving the head a lopsided swollen appearance. The guts underneath the main chest armour were also extended and lowered to further enhance to stigma of Nurgle to which I added further rents and a large closed and stitched wound. To give the model even more stature I used a Plastic Dreadnought Base over which I added several large flat sections of real stone. Modelling clay was then used to blend the sections of stone together and create a soft surface into which I could embed several skeletal parts from a plastic Skeleton Boxed Set. All of these things helped add even more height to the model without making it look out of scale.
The final change was to remove the Chaos sword and replace it with an appropriate model of Manreaper, the filth encrusted Nurgle Scythe. For this I used version found on the Typhus model which was cut and pinned to right hand at the appropriate angle. This was then pinned in place on the model at the very end. When I came to paint Scirrhus I used a darker palette than I had been using on the rest of the army to create a more ancient look to the armour. For the base I used Catachan Green to which I added Bleached Bone for highlights. The armour was then given a wash of watered down green and brown ink and then rehighlighted with several mixes of Plague Brown (Vallejo) and Rotting Flesh. The flesh is a mix of Dwarf Flesh, Rotting Flesh and Palid Flesh highlight. Over this a wash of Red Ink mixed with Flesh Wash was applied neat to create the glistening sticky redness to the recesses of the flesh. |
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