Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you all well. I’m quite excited to get this post out today because I’m starting a new warband – this time dedicated to Slaanesh! First things first, I rolled up a Champion as per the RoC books. I actually ended up with a pretty tame roll – a Level 5 wizard with +2 Will and invisibility… My Nurgle & Tzeentch Champions were both quite distinctive & so required converting to look right, but this Slaaneshi Champ has no visible mutations, attributes or gifts, and is about as vanilla as it could possibly be! A lot depended on the base model choice, but luckily the Hedonites range from GW is pretty damn fine so I requested a ‘Shardspeaker’ for my last Birthday. I did some slight conversion work to give her a fancy sword, grabbed some fresh purple & pink paints (because Slaanesh), and got stuck in… Happy to present Keshala Glimmer-Tongue, Sorceress of Slaanesh, the blissful arch-subverter & superlative blade:
I need to tidy that left hand up now I see it in extreme close-up, but I’m pretty pleased. I’ve never painted anything for the Prince of Pleasure before, but you can’t go wrong with a classic pink/purple/gold theme I reckon – I’m particularly pleased with the metallic pink armour! I used spots of green, red and yellow to add interest, and went with bluey-grey smoke from the staff (kinda hinting at the ‘invisibility’ attribute I rolled for her).
Next, I rolled up Keshala’s starting warband – 4 harpies, 4 Beastmen and 15 humans, so a pretty solid base to work from. There was one model I particularly wanted to get painted, the Warhammer+ Chaos Sorcerer ‘Mibyllorr Darkfang’ & her attendant familiars:
I like that she’s a bit scrappy, is low-key mutated, and has a very different vibe compared to Keshala, and I painted her slightly darker to lean into that less polished look. She’s such a great character, and I’m definitely counting her as the first of Keshala’s 15 human followers – I can just imagine her being a jealous rival to Keshala, constantly scheming to usurp her leadership of the warband. They even pose well together!
The Familiars also deserve a mention – they are just so cool & great fun to paint, with the mini-knight being the pick of the bunch.
Anyway, that’s all for this week. My studies are starting to ramp up again & I have a number of weeks away for various reasons in the coming months, but I’ll try and keep up with the painting as best I can & keep this blog ticking over.
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Fantastic start to your new warband, and the colours you’ve chosen are perfect for the Prince of pleasure, as is the pale skin tone you’ve used as well. The sculpts remind me a lot of the 80’s sculpts as do the familiars.
Hope the studies go well, and you can find a little time for relaxation.
Cheers mate, if it ain’t broke right? 😊
Very nice! :-) I think I like the familiars as much as the main characters!
Cheers dude, that lil’ imp is just the coolest – I’d happily paint a whole army of ‘em! 😂
Clearly the second sorcerer is the Starscream to Keshala’s Megatron!
They all look great. I’ll admit to a certain nostalgia around those familiars but the pink armour works really well.
Cheers mate, I am really chuffed with the armour – who would’ve thought metallic pink would work so well!
That’s a huge warband to start. Apparently Keshala’s got something the masses want/need. I am already imagining the Mibyllor and Keshala are probably ‘an item’. Jealous/passionate/hateful thing going 110%.
Yeah, I rolled high for the human part of the warband for sure! I have a plan though 😊
I reckon you’re right – there’s is deffo some weird energy going on between those two…
Fantastic Alex
Cheers mate, fun to play with some different colours & whatnot 😊
I should branch out into some different colours some time.
Top job on all of them. I hadn’t really paid much attention to the Shardspeaker but you’ve made me give it a second look; it’s subtle Chaos in comparison to some of the wild-looking mutants but a really nice model all the same.
Cheers dude, it is a really nice range & worth a look! It is subtle, but there is a definite sinister vibe… That fat bloke & attendants in the palanquin is deffo on my wish list!