This month’s masterclass focuses on the
menacing Daemon Prince of Chaos
designed by Juan Diaz. This article
explains how our ’Eavy Metal team
painted one for the Studio Black Legion
Chaos army and also takes us step by
step through an Iron Warrior Daemon
Prince conversion.
BLACK LEGION
DAEMON PRINCE
Painted by Kirsten Mickelburgh
PREPARATION
Before painting any multi-part model it’s
a good idea to check that all of the
parts will be accessible to paint once
it’s assembled. In the case of the
Daemon Prince, the shoulder guards
and hands were left off so that the hard
to reach parts could be painted before
they were glued to the rest of the
model. Once the rest of the Daemon
Prince had been assembled, an
undercoat was applied using Chaos
Black spray. When spraying the model,
you need to make sure that you cover
the model thoroughly, but be careful
not to obscure the details by
overloading the model with paint.
DAEMON ARMOUR
The model
was painted to
represent an
Exalted
Champion of
the Black
Legion who
has been
elevated by
the powers of
Chaos to
become a
fearsome
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MASTERCLASS
Daemon Prince. As such, his armour DAEMONIC FLESH
was painted in the colours of the Black The Daemon Prince was once a mighty
Legion, black with gold trim on the Chaos Space Marine Champion, and
shoulder guards and greaves. All of the his flesh and armour have melded
raised areas of the black armour were together. This meant that the skin tones
highlighted with a 50/50 mix of Chaos chosen for the model would need to
Black and Codex Grey, then Codex blend back into the colour of his
Grey was used on its own, before a armour. Starting with the Daemon’s
final highlight of Fortress Grey was neck, an 80/20 mix of Chaos Black and
applied over the very top ridges of Red Gore was painted where the
the contours in the Daemon’s armour and flesh join, to create the
armour. Once these highlights effect that they had merged. This was
had been applied, thinned-down applied down either side of the spine
Black Ink was washed over the and across the shoulders towards the
armour to tone down the elbows where it fades to black again.
brightness of the highlights, blend
them with the armour’s main
colour and merge the joins
between all the different colours.
The metallic trims around the
Daemon’s shoulder guards and
greaves were painted with Tin Bitz and
then highlighted by
using a 50/50 mix of
Tin Bitz and Shining
Gold. A thinned-
down coat of This effect was achieved by painting
Chestnut Ink was away from the armour and adding more
washed over this to Red Gore to the mix as the brush strokes
blend the highlights moved further from the armour until the
together. ratio was 20/80 Chaos Black/Red Gore
Once this on the tops of the muscles and cheeks of
had dried, a the model. Once the basic blended
little Shining colours had been applied, the raised
Gold was ridges of flesh were highlighted with Red
used to Gore, then Blood Red before a final fine
highlight the line of Blazing Orange was added.
metal before
a 50/50 mix
of Shining
Gold and
Mithril Silver
was applied
to the very
edges of the
trims. As a
final touch, a
tiny amount
of Mithril To bring the brightness of the orange
Silver was highlights down and smooth the blending
painted onto
lines, a watered-down glaze of Red Ink
the furthest was used. Starting from a point halfway
edges of the
between where the red and black
detailing merge, the ink was painted towards, and
where the over, the red areas of the model. It was
light would important not to go onto the black as the
catch it. blended effect would be lost.
HORNS AND CLAWS and arms and the blade’s length and,
The Daemon Prince’s horns merged the eye on his once this had dried,
with the red flesh of his head and were shoulder guard Yellow Ink was used to
blended from red to black at the base and breastplate. give the runes the
of the horns using the same method as These areas appearance of glowing
was used to blend the join of flesh and were painted heat. Orange Ink was
armour. Using a combination of with a 50/50 then dabbed in the
gradually brighter colours created the mix of Dark corners to give the
effect of the horn lightening from its Angels Green impression that the
thickest part to the tip. Firstly a 50/50 and Chaos centre of the blade was
mix of Scorched Brown and Chaos Black. This was the hottest (as metal
Black was painted in lines from the first highlighted glows brighter the hotter
black part of the horn to its tip. The with Dark it is) and finally, a tiny
paint on the horns was applied in lines Angels Green, dot of Blood Red was
down the length of the horn, as this is then a mix of painted into the very
how real horns colour as they grow Goblin Green edge of each rune.
from an animal’s head (for reference and some Dark Once the runes were
material, we sourced pictures of Angels Green, painted, any areas
Highland Cattle). Next, Scorched and lastly a final where the colours had
Brown on its own was painted to the highlight of spilled over onto the
horn’s tip, though the lines were started Goblin Green blade were tidied up
further away from the base of the horn, on its own. with Chaos Black. The
so that some of the first coat was still sword blade itself was
The Space Marine helmet was given
visible there. The process was painted by blending the
an extra highlight of Goblin Green
repeated using a 50/50 mix of Chaos Black outwards
equally mixed with
Scorched with Hawk Turquoise
Bleached Bone. All
Brown and towards the weapon’s
these areas were
Bestial edges. The edges of the
then given a
Brown, sword were then
thinned-down glaze
starting the highlighted with a 50/50
of Green Ink to
lines even mix of Skull White was
blend all the
further from added and Hawk
highlights together.
the base so Turquoise before a final
that the The bony ridges along the top edge of highlight of Skull White
previous the Daemon’s backpack vanes and left along the very tip and
coat of forearm were painted with a 50/50 mix barbs of the blade.
paint was of Scorched
still visible. Brown and BASING
Bestial Bestial Brown. Watered-down PVA glue was spread
Brown was These were evenly over the model’s base before
used next, then highlighted being sprinkled with sand. Some stone
followed by with Bestial chips were also glued to the base. This
Snakebite Brown followed was drybrushed with Codex Grey then
Leather then by Snakebite Bleached Bone, though some of the
Bubonic Brown, Leather then larger stones had Skull White brushed
each time Bubonic Brown. over them. Some small areas of Static
starting closer Finally, some Grass were glued to the base with PVA
to the horn’s Bleached Bone glue, clustered at the base of the rocks,
tip. Following was applied since this is where mosses and lichens
this, a coat of followed by generally prefer to grow.
Bleached Bone, Skull White.
followed by
The skulls decorating the
Skull White
Daemon Prince’s armour
was applied to
were painted with a 50/50
the very end of
mix of Codex Grey and
the horn.
Fortress Grey then
highlighted with Fortress
DETAILING THE ARMOUR Grey. Final highlights were
The metallic pipes on the Daemon added by painting Skull
Prince’s belly were painted with Tin Bitz White along the raised
then given a wash of equally mixed edges of the skulls.
Black and Brown Ink. Chainmail was
lightly drybrushed across the pipes, just
enough to highlight them yet still give
DAEMON WEAPON
The Daemon Prince’s weapon glows
the impression of corrupted, rusty
with inner fires, and this effect was
metal. There were a few areas on the
achieved relatively simply. A watered-
model that used the same green: the
down layer of Skull White was brushed
captured Space Marine helmet, the
into the depressions of the runes along
piping on the Daemon Prince’s head

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 IRON WARRIORS Last, but not least, the plastic dragon
wings were glued into place on the
DAEMON PRINCE model’s back, with Green Stuff
covering the joins. These wings fit very
well into the recesses left when the
backpack isn’t attached and gives the
model a very imposing look!

DAEMON ARMOUR
Painted and converted by Tammy Haye

As with the previous Daemon Prince,

this model was first given an undercoat
of Chaos Black spray. Once the
undercoat had dried, the armour was
drybrushed with Tin Bitz then Boltgun
Metal. Next, the armour was given a
glaze of watered-down 50/50 mix of
Brown and Black Inks. This was then
highlighted with Boltgun Metal, blended
up from the darkness of the recesses
of the armour around the edge trims.
Final highlights of Mithril Silver were
applied on the highest areas of the
armour, making sure that, over the
some of the more ‘organic’ areas of the
metal, the brushstrokes were painted
ASSEMBLY sawn in half and removed. These were
along the line
AND CONVERSION then glued to the flat of each side of
of the grain.
The Iron Warrior’s Daemon Prince was the axe blade and
This technique
assembled as normal, but it was Green Stuff
was used on all
converted to make him stand out from sculpted around
the silver metal
the Black Legion Daemon Prince. The them to give the
areas, such as
gun barrel on the left arm was impression that
the axe blade,
extended using Green Stuff to make it the axe was raw,
visor, Necron
more prominent and emphasise the bloody and alive
head and Iron
mechanised nature of the Iron itself. To finish off
Warriors’ icon.
Warriors. Then the sword blade and hilt the axe, the base
The edge trims
were clipped from the top and bottom of the haft was
of the armour
of the Daemon Prince’s hand and a given a Green
were left at this
hole drilled through to allow the Stuff end piece.
point until after
insertion of an aluminium rod to serve the Daemon
The left shoulder
as the haft of an axe. A blade from the Prince’s flesh
guard had the
Bloodthirster’s axe was clipped off and had been
skulls and spikes
the detailing on both sides of the totally painted.
clipped off,
blades filed flat. This was glued to the
leaving only the
aluminium rod and the spear point from
the skeleton warriors plastic regiment
edge trims. The DAEMONIC FLESH
centre of the The techniques
was glued to the top. The back blade
shoulder guard used on the fleshy
was also from the Bloodthirster’s axe,
was filed flat and areas of the
clipped and filed to fit on the back of
an Iron Warriors’ Daemon Prince
the haft.
symbol was were applied to all
Since this sculpted on using the areas of the
Daemon Prince Green Stuff. model where its
was going to flesh had morphed
To really emphasise that this Daemon
have wings with its armour
Prince was once an Iron Warrior, it was
instead of the and burst through,
given a visor sculpted from Green
jump pack such as the wing
Stuff. Once this had dried, it was filed
vanes, the skull muscles, axe-
into its final, angular shape and holes
on the end of flesh, hands,
were drilled through in one side with a
one of these head, knee guard
pin vice to mirror the helmets of the
vanes was and arms.
Iron Warriors themselves.

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Firstly, a basecoat of Dark Flesh was DETAILING THE ARMOUR themselves were cleaned up with
used as an undertone for the flesh One of the most obvious means of Chaos Black. The scaled parts along
colours. This was then blended to the identifying a model as belonging to the the wing muscles were repainted black
areas where it morphs back into the Iron Warriors is the painting of yellow where the painting of the flesh here had
armour by applying the paint then and black chevrons on its armour or gone over them. To highlight the wings,
using a clean, damp brush to render weapons. In this case, the cables a fine line of Codex Grey and Chaos
the paint at the edges semi-transparent running over the Daemon Prince’s head Black was painted along the back edge
so that it will appear to blend with all and from his left arm were picked out in of the grooves in the wing membranes,
the colours underneath. these colours. They were painted Vomit as this is where they would catch the
Brown first, and then highlighted with light. To make this highlight subtler, a
The first highlight
Bleached Bone before being given a fine line of Codex Grey was applied in
was applied using
wash of Yellow Ink. The black stripes the very centre of this line before an
Dwarf Flesh, then
were then painted over the yellow pipes. extremely watered-down Black Ink was
a glaze of Red Ink
glazed all over
and Flesh Wash
the wing’s
mixed with a little
membranes. To
water was washed
make the horns
over all the fleshy
at the ends of
parts of the
the wings and
Daemon Prince.
the scales stand
This was also
out, they were
applied over some The skulls mounted on the model’s given a coat of
of the metallic armour were painted Snakebite Leather Gloss Varnish.
parts of the model, then highlighted with
to emphasise the Bubonic Brown. This was
raw, impending then given a further
HORNS
changes warping Where the Daemon Prince’s horns met
highlight of Bleached Bone,
through the its head, Bleached Bone mixed with a
before a final highlight of
Daemon Prince 50/50 mix of Red Ink and Flesh Wash
Skull White was applied.
and to suggest was applied. Then, moving further
that more flesh The same method used to paint the along the horn, Bleached Bone was
could burst yellow of the cables was applied to the painted and blended back towards the
through his armour Space Marine helmet, Daemon Prince’s head. This was done
at any time. with an extra highlight again, even further along the length of
of Bleached Bone to the horn, using Bleached Bone mixed
The flesh was now give the edges of the with a dot of Chaos Black. This process
re-highlighted with helmet more definition. was repeated, each time moving further
Dwarf Flesh down the horn and adding more Chaos
followed by The eyes of the
Black to the mix until the tip was
another highlight Daemon Prince as
completely
of Dwarf Flesh well as those on his
black. To finish
mixed equally with armour were picked
off the horns,
Bleached Bone. out in Snot Green then
some Gloss
highlighted with Bilious
Varnish was
A final highlight Green followed by a
applied to the
was applied over final highlight of 50/50
very tips.
the highest Bilious Green and
portions of the Bleached Bone. The
flesh with green eyes on the BASING
Bleached Bone. model’s armour were The Iron Warriors’ Daemon Prince was
also given thin lines of based in the same way as the Black
Legion one, using watered-down PVA
ARMOUR TRIMS Chaos Black for the
slit pupils. glue spread evenly over the model’s
The interiors of the shoulder guards were
base, which was then sprinkled with
left black and the metallic trims around
The gun barrel, chains and spine of the sand. This was drybrushed with Codex
the Daemon’s shoulder guards and
model were painted Dwarf Bronze then Grey then Bleached Bone. Some small
greaves were painted with Dwarf Bronze.
highlighted with areas of static grass were also glued to
These were then highlighted with Shining
Shining Gold. the base with PVA glue to break up the
Gold before applying a glaze of Flesh
Chestnut Ink was uniform colour of the base and make it
Wash to blend the highlights together.
washed over this suitable for use on both green and
Once this had
and a final urban battlefields.
dried, a
highlight of Mithril
highlight of
Silver was
equally mixed
painted on the
Shining Gold
highest areas.
and Mithril
Silver was
painted on the WINGS
very edges of Areas where the fleshy colours from the
the trims. Daemon Prince’s wing muscles had
spilled onto the wing membranes