Mounted Daemonettes

Warhammer: The Old World

It’s been a while between updates, I got a bit distracted from my painting by finally getting around to playing Cyberpunk 2077 and getting absolutely hooked on it. There’s a recommendation for you if you’re interested in the genre at all!

Back on topic, here’s the second batch of models for my Cult of Slaanesh army, mounted Daemonettes! I’ve got them all lined up above but they’ll be deployed in two units of 5. Maybe cyberpunk had an influence on me in my painting because these are very pink!

I actually painted them to match the Keeper of Secrets I painted a while back, and I think they ended up pretty close if a bit more saturated. At the time I had no army to put the Keeper in, so I imagined a snow scheme for its basing. I’ll probably rebase it at some stage in the future to match these.

On to how these were painted. Contrast paints did a lot of heavy lifting here, they’re extremely good for organic forms, and daemons are mostly that! I started with an all over coat of Magos Purple Contrast on both riders and steeds, with the steeds receiving a second coat to differentiate them a bit by making them darker. I then applied Volupus Pink Contrast over the scaly areas of the steeds as well as the claws and feet of the Daemonettes. Talons, horns, and hair were all given a coat of Black Templar Contrast, and the tongues of the steeds were picked out in Flesh Tearers Red Contrast. I then picked out the metallic areas with Scale 75 Black Metal.

I then did some highlights over the skin of the Daemonettes and the non-scaly parts of the steeds using Vallejo Game Color Squid Pink. This was applied in multiple light coats (semi opaque, so quite dilute) to create transitions that weren’t too harsh. The black areas were then quickly highlighted with Vallejo Game Stonewall Grey. I picked out the eyes of the Daemonettes in black and of the steeds in yellow and did a very light overall wash/filter of a purple oil paint (Daler Rowney Permanent Mauve) to tie the lot together and smooth out some of the rougher highlights. Overall then this was quite a quick process, and given the amount of effort I put in I’m quite happy with how they look.

Hopefully the next update is faster than this one, Cyberpunk 2077 is finished but who knows what other distractions lurk!

12 thoughts on “Mounted Daemonettes”

  2. Cyberpunk is on my to play list for sure. My plan is to pick it up on PS5 whenever I finally get one.

    Your latest miniatures look fantastic! I like the darker color scheme you used and jungle terrain. Its a nice contrast from the lighter and cooler purple colors that GW favors for Slaanesh currently.

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    1. Thanks Jeff! I’ve struggled in the past painting slaaneshi models, and I think part of that was trying to use the more pastel colours the GW studio recommends. At least back then they were quite chalky paints and I never liked the results.
      I played cyberpunk on the ps5 and I’m glad I did, looked great and ran really nicely.

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      1. I don’t know that I’ve used those paints but if you get a chalky paint (they’re almost always the lighter color ones like white and ivory), try using Lahmia Medium to thin them instead of water. It doesn’t completely solve the problem but it does help a lot.

        I feel vindication for waiting for Cyberpunk now so thank you for confirming! 🙂

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      3. It can be a real pain with Citadel paints. I’ve often thought of trying other brands just in those colors in the hopes that its better. Without this “trick” I probably would have switched brands already!

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      5. I think of Scale 75 as being high end paints (to use an Americanism, they’re the Cadillac of paints!). For that reason alone, I’ve been curious about trying them. If you do give them a shot, report back because I’d like to hear what you think!

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      6. I’ve used their metallics a fair bit and I really like them. Their colours I’m less fond of as they don’t cover the way I like/am used to. But haven’t tried any pale colours and I suspect what I don’t like about the main colour range will make the whites and such really good. Just need to put that theory to the test!

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