Primed

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Here's a size comparison next to the Blood Thirster. As you can see he's HUGE lol. I plan on using him as an Apocalypse HQ in the future, but for now he'll fill the role of Daemon Prince

The Daemon Prince stands a little over 6 inches w/o wings and about 11 inches with them on. So much for hiding out of Line of Sight, lol.

Basecoats

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The skin I used GW Tallarn Flesh foundation, the red areas are Mechrite Red foundation, Catachan on the green spots, and Kommando Khaki on the bone and claw areas.

The gold areas started out with a few coats of burnished Gold. I put on a few thin coats to get it to cover evenly. Normally I'd undercoat it with a brown or similar color, but it's not too important since most of it will be covered up.

Washed

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The skin I washed with Ogryn Flesh. Once that started to dry I applied Baal red over the exposed red areas, letting a little run over onto the skin to make it blend a little.

The rest of the model I washed with good ol' Devlin mud. The "ooze" on the base was given a light coat of Dark Angels Green which bled onto the rock (bark area) which was based Codex Grey. Once that dried I did over the base and metal areas again with Devlin Mud.

Detailing

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I started out by dabbing boltgun metal on all the golden areas. Once that dried I applied a thin amount of Scorched Earth on all the metal areas to give it a more tarnished look.

Scorched Earth was also applied on the edges where the torn flesh areas meet. This gives the illusion of blood clotting.

The chaos piece on his back armor plate shows how the tarnished look is turning out. The brown really adds a nice muted tone to the metal making it look worn down.

Right now he looks far too healthy to be an engine of pestilence and decay. Since he is a Nurgle Daemon Prince, he will soon get a nasty skin overhaul. All the skin areas will get a light green and yellow tint using glazes. The claws I plan to have bright green tips to represent noxious touch.

The tabbard hanging down, originally, was going to be painted a whitish/yellow color with the death guard symbol. I later decided I'm going to paint it flash colors as well, but have it blend to the tip to look more like dead skin. The Nurgle symbol I will try to make it look like it's been stitched on.

Work continued on the Daemon Prince. The hardest part was going to be designing the legs. Originally I thought of making hooves or a snake like lower body, but that seems to be used too often with daemons. After reading through a post on From the Warp: Making Plasticard Plates that gave me the idea of making terminator legs instead.

After some sketches and browsing through some pics I thought I'd give it a shot. The most time consuming part was making the shape of the boots fit with the body. A few times it looked like he was wearing leg warmers. Yeah nothing says "intimidation" like leg warmers.

I decided to make the Daemon Prince's look more like termie legs. Originally I was thinking of Hooves, but almost all the tuorials I saw had the same style of legs so I wanted to be different.

After sculpting the boots (which remind me an awful lot like Mega Man's lol) I stretched a thin amount of GS over the thigh areas.

I followed the same process over the boot area. This will help bond the glue to the plasticard better.

The reason I made him so big is because he is a Heavy choices in the Chaos Daemon codex, unlike the Chaos Space Marine's counterpart being an HQ instead

While that cured I got to work on the shin armor plates. I had some 3x5 cards lying around and made a template. Let's see how it fits....

As you can see it's a little too big. It almost looks like he's wearing soccer shin guards, lol. Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix.

After cutting the stencil down a bit I traced the image onto a sheet of plasticard.

The upper leg plating was a bit easier. All that had to be done was cut a strip of plastic card and bind it to help with the bend.

I started the process by gluing the inner part and holding in shape for a few minutes.

After 15 minutes I glued the rest in place around the leg.

The shin plates were glued in the middle then folded back. After this comes my favorite part; playing with the hot glue again. The hot glue gun is great for making quick drying texture. Although it doesn't hold shape like clay does, it can be heated and re-sculpted easily so it's very effective for this sort of thing.

Recently my buddy over at WH40k by S2ua7 gave me some IG and Nid bits to play with. WooT! I was going to use them as accessories for my other Soul Grinder, but then I came up with this idea.

I need another Daemon Prince and at $35 each (pewter too) it's a little steep. This one started to come together over the course of a few hours.

The head is from the GUO kit, horns from KoS alt head, and other than the chest armor, most of the model is kit bashed from a Soul Grinder kit.

I have another matching claw which I'm thinking of using on the other arm (the melted gun was just a fun experiment lol). The legs are going to be filled out and armor plated. Once that's done I'm going to model a SM backpack and have the wings "tearing" out of the top vents.

Still a lot to work on, but I'm pleased with the results so far.