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Brimstone Horrors

I finished painting a unit of brimstone horrors recently. I thought they were cute little imps and I’ve always had a soft spot for gribbles that combine the best aspects of ineffectuality and malevolence. (It isn’t a coincidence that the first unit I finished painting when I first started 40K were grots!)

I experimented with a few different looks before I settled on the one I liked best, which was not too heavy on the red, and a green wash for the eyes, mouth and open part on their backs. As is often the case with my cell phone pictures, the green shows up much better in person than in the photos.

I decided to paint the brimstones first because I knew the temptation would be too great to use a bunch of unpainted models in games if I started with the pink horrors what with their splitting rules.  This way, working backward with these guys first, then the blues, and finally the pinks I would be able to avoid this sorry state of affairs and not fall prey to the machinations of Slaanesh!

So these pictures are the obligatory post-battle For the Daemons Back Home photo opportunity. They spent most of the battle strategically hugging the back edge of my deployment zone in such a way that they could target either flank with their miserable psychic power, anticipating the possible arrival of a couple of outflanking Leeman Russ tanks.

The lumbering behemoths never arrived, I’m sure due to the deterrent effect of my stalwart imps. At least that is what they are telling themselves as they prepare for their next encounter.

My next painting projects, so far as Chaos goes, are a unit of blue horrors and finishing up the daemon prince I’ve been picking at off and on (mostly off) since 5th edition!

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11 responses to “Brimstone Horrors”

    • Thank you. I primed the pink horrors and was going to start with them, thinking, “I won’t use them until all three units are done,” but I knew how that would go and as Tzeentch teaches, the best way to avoid a trap is to know of its existence so I started with the brimstones. Also, of the three they are clearly the easiest to paint, at least for me.

      Good luck with your horrors. 🙂

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  7. Thank you. I ended up trying to make them look pretty much the same as they do in the pictures in The Wrath of Magnus book.

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