The pinpoint grew into a thin, jagged line of orange light. A vertical wound, a crack in reality, that hung in the air. It contorted and widened as if a knife were being twisted within it. Orange light poured out and illuminated the twisted branches of the forest for a minute. Shapes moved within the fires: crested hunched backs, elongated and horned heads, birdlike legs, black swords.
The amber light blazed brighter for a moment then flickered out, leaving the forest in its more usual twilight gloom.
The daemon known as Mournblade and his followers had come to the Realm of Death...
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These models were built very slowly over the course of about 6 months(!) from leftovers and spares in my bits box. A friend gave me a huge bag of assorted bits as part of a hobby clearout so he could focus on his current projects. In this bag (among other things) was a near complete Khorne Skull Cannon. I assembled this group from the Bloodletters and Herald in that kit, plus some skulls from the Citadel Skulls box (including two Bloodletter skulls that I used instead of the normal Bloodletter faces) and a few small odds and ends from my bits box.
They were painted during the pre-Christmas holiday. I thought they would last the whole break (knowing I don't get much hobby time over Christmas anymore) but I finished them in a few days. Unfortunately I did not get any further hobby time before the New Year, so these were the last models I completed in 2018!
This was a fun project as test models go, but I think it is a dead-end for me. I can't imagine myself painting many more Khorne Daemons in the near future. The background for them doesn't fire my imagination enough: I struggled to write even the small snippet above. I'd like to get a couple of the new Flesh Hounds and to build a Khornate Spawn, but I'm not sure when I'll get round to it now.
Mournblade - Herald of Khorne
Shadowreaper
Nightbane
Grimstrider
The Skull Harvest
And for a little added "Wrath & Rapture" flavour I've added an unnamed
Daemonette:
