Sadly despite being a GW stockist, I am unable to source ForgeWorld products as a trade customer, but this one I felt was a must have if you're going to play Slaanesh in Age of Sigmar or 40K!
The model is a resin kit and comes in several pieces. The was assembled using drilling and pinning techniques for the arms and head to the torso. using Green stuff also to conceal the joints. There were some fiddly bits too; all the studs on leg and boob cover had to be glued into place one at a time. Also the finger nails on gloved hand had to be carefully drilled and pinned as well, using a 0.5mm drill and fine fuse wire.
At that point the main portion of the model was painted. I did some googling on youtube and found a good guide using airbrush techniques. Whilst I have an airbrush, I am no whizz with it, using it largely for bulk base colouring on units of troops. This would be a first time using it on a single model, but I thought it was worth a try to get an even skintone colour over the model without obvious brush strokes being evident.
I used the Vallejo range of airbrush paints and thinner and cleaner as required.
Once airbrushing was done, the rest of the detailing of the model was performed by normal brush techniques.
The base was built up using bark chip and gravel.
Once painted the feet of the model were drilled and pinned through the base piece.
The final completion was the dreadlocks... these came in straight resin pieces and needed to be bent to shape using hot water to soften and bend, then cold water to set the piece in position. These were then painted and drilled and pinned into the head protrusions on back of the models head.
And voila, all done!
Some pics for your perusal...
I have used her a few time in Age of Sigmar now, and she is reasonably effective... one of her major buffs is allowing a demon unit to attack and pile in twice in the combat phase... very useful for 30 strong units of demonettes! Her weakness is no resistance to mortal wounds and each time she has been killed its been with spells doing that kind of damage - Foot of Gork etc...
I have used her once in 40K where she was incredibly effective, shrugging off massed machine gun fire from a Land Raider , defeating Bjorn the Fell Handed in a single charge and destroyed a thunder wolf unit that charged her in revenge only to suffer from her Quicksilver speed and terrible sword in one blow! I would imagine she would go down to Lascannon fire relatively quickly though...
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