These photos don't necessarily represent just a single army, as I can field either straight DE, or CoS or Slaanesh Daemons, depending on my mood. Usually however, it will be Cult of Slaanesh based on the 6th Edition Storm of Chaos variant army list that was published by GW back in the day.
OK, we'll start off with my High/Supreme sorceress, Lonicera - My Warhammer alter-ego. Her rules were developed jointly by myself and a number of other d.net members over ten years ago, and are still available on druchii.net and in the d.net Monthly Magazine.
Not much to say about this one really. Converted from the old Morathi figure, I just made a more Slaaneshi staff motif in the form of the rune of Slaanesh. Sadly the crescent is missing after being in storage for several years but that's an easy fix. She also has the old (red) colour scheme. I may get around to doing her in purple one day and maybe adding a spell book to her other hand. The staff represents the Staff of Kython, which is mentioned in her rules.
OK, here are the Brides of Lonicera - her first unit of Devotees - Witch Elves of Slaanesh. I still love these metal witches even though they're maybe not quite as dynamically posed as the new plastic ones. Fairly basic painting here - the skin is just elf flesh with a subtle highlight layer of elf flesh mixed with white, and then a very dilute ink was (either flesh wash or chesnut ink - I can't remember to be honest)
Again using the old colour scheme and very minimal conversions. These are also over ten years old now. The beastmaster is a bit out of place in this unit, but that's because I normally field Lonicera herself in her spot. Not even sure if you can still do that these days but I'm a 6th/7th edition girl so who cares
The banner is from the Mounted Lord of Slaanesh (you know, the one on the Boobworm)And now we move on to Elora, Lonicera's apprentice/friend/lover etc. Rules-wise she's a level 2 Hero choice sorceress. Apologies for the crappy photo of this one
No conversion as such on her - I'll probably get rid of the sword at some point and convert the staff, but this model was really a painting exercise - the intention being to paint her dress in a way that appeared transparent. I basically used successive flesh-tone layers over the black basecoat. I think I was only partially succesful though. Even so, this is a really lovely sculpt that looks great on the table.
OK, moving on to the core units now; First up are the RXB Babes;
A bit of lipstick and nail polish and you have an all girl Druchii mass-murder squad dressed to impress the Dark Prince (and Princess). Elves are sufficiently androgynous to be able to get away with this sort of thing. Again minimal conversions here. I didn't add shields because I didn't want to hide the armour and I think they look pretty good anyway. The painting is quite straightforward, with a liche purple basecoat on the cloth parts, with a warlock purple highlight. I think the armour looks great with a mix of boltgun metal and shining gold, with the occasional burnished gold highlights. The lippy and nail polish are warlock purple to match.
And here are my spearelves - 18 in this unit (all my units are in multiples of 6 to be in keeping with the slaaneshi fluff). More girly-looking Druchii to bring you amusement and pointy death. Slightly different colour scheme to the RXB Babes (I may match them up one day) Same armour techniques but no warlock purple on the cloth this time, so basically liche purple over a black undercoat. The shield artwork was printed out on sticky paper and placed on the shields - I'm surprised it's stayed there after more than a decade to be honest. The lipstick and nail polish were done as on the RXB Babes. The pennant/banner streamer is just a piece of paper painted purple and glued onto the spear.
OK, here are the new (2016) unit of 18 spearelves. Very much WiP at the moment. These are made up almost entirely from 6th edition High Elf components (mostly spearmen but a few archer bits in there too) with Druchii spears. I'm missing a few blades at the moment, but I'm sure I have a few in the bits box. Once painted in the army colours, I think they'll match the others pretty well. Once completed, I'll make up the two units by mixing and matching these with the older spearelves, so that they look a bit more unified. Note the one with the banner is sporting a Dark Eldar warrior head. I'm still not really confident about painting banner designs, so I'll leave that until I am...
And here's the newly converted RXB girls;
These already look pretty good, despite being nowhere near finished, mainly because I used up all my remaining Druchii heads. Apart from that, these are again mostly He bodies, with a few DE ones. There are 18 of these (as opposed to just 12 in my original RXB Babes unit) because I wanted to use up all the spare crossbows in the bits box (I still have one or two left so I'll probably convert a couple of shades with those at some point) I'm impressed at how easily you can mix & match the 6th edition elf parts and still get great looking results.
And then the last actually elven (as opposed to daemon) unit for the army are the Concubines of Elora - Yep, Lonicera has her own band of frothing lesbian psychos, and now, so does Elora.
Once again, nothing too complicated here - just basic 6th edition metal witch elves with a few odd conversions here and there. The banner artwork is stuck on in the same way as the shields on the old spearelves. I think these are more nicely painted than the first unit of witches - these were done a year or so later so I think my technique had improved a bit (I actually did some proper edge highlighting on these)
Colour scheme is basic liche purple (the highlight is liche purple with a tiny bit of white added) and shining gold. Note the beastmaster with the whip - I did originally have enough metal witches to complete this unit (12 in all, same as Lonicera's witches) but I cut up a few to make Dechala (more of whom later). I think she can pass as a Devoted of Slaanesh pretty well anyway - the whip alone will see to that
OK, one more elf character (and to date the only male in my army), Senix Belakyth although technically he's not really part of this army - I made him originally to be part of a Cult of Slaanesh Mordheim warband. I'm not really happy with the skin painting on this one, but it looks better on the table than in a closeup photo.
The model is from Wargames Foundry's Elven Revenants range (I think they're OOP now, sadly as they are beautiful sculpts) and as such is noticeably over-scale compared to GW miniatures, so I guess this is a really imposing Druchii indeed - almost a head taller than the other DE in my army. Fluffwise he's a dungeon master/torturer. The only addition to the basic model is the scourging whip, which is made from some twisted wire. Yeah I know it looks crap - I may revisit this model one day and do a better job. Incidentally, "Belakyth" means "Path of Pain" (assuming I'm understanding Shadowspite's Druchii Language Guide properly), and "Senix" is an anagram of "Insex" - the name of an infamous (and now largely defunct) adult website. I particularly like the high-gloss PVC-look boot. This was painted using Humbrol gloss black enamel (which will totally destroy your brush so use a cheap (or old) brush that you don;t mind throwing away afterwards. I used this same method for the boots on my first Keeper of Secrets.
OK, that's all for a moment. I'll be adding some of the daemonic units to this thread later. I hope you like my army anyway. I know it's not the most awesomely painted out there, but I still think it's a nice effort and worth sharing with you guys.
Enjoy...
Seriously, though, I like it.
