Kill Team - Goremongers

The original plan when I picked up the Blood and Zeal box was to keep the statue, the Sanctifiers and Blood and Zeal cards for myself, then sell the Goremongers. I don’t currently have a Khorne army, and I wasn’t planning on starting one. Don’t get me wrong, the new Khorne Berserkers do look pretty sweet, but I have so many armies in their infancy that I need to work on.

Alas the hobby cares not from where the paint flows, only that it does.

So now I guess I collect the forces of the Blood God. Great.

Blood Herald

First things first though I needed to get them assembled. As usual I opted for as many specialists as possible. I like to have as many options available to me as possible regardless of how good they are on the tabletop. The models themselves weren’t too bad to assemble, being regular on robot legs they were a bit spindly, and some care was needed to not snap anything. Case in point, the vial that the Bloodtaker is holding snapped off fairly early in the process and I grew tired of gluing it back on.

Impaler

Once everything was assembled, I then primed them all with Colour Forge Standard Grey. As a lot of them are functionally shirtless I figured that it would be quicker to basecoat all the skin with Army Painter Air Nomad Flesh through the airbrush. I could then tidy up the overspill with Two Thin Coats Dungeon Stone. This didn’t take too long as it was mostly just the clothing and leather straps that needed to be re-base coated. From there I gave them all a zenithal highlight of Liquitex Titanium White acrylic ink through the airbrush to set the lights and shadows.

Skullclaimer

Ordinarily I start with the skin but for reasons that will soon become apparent I instead started with the clothing. The trousers, and for the female cultists their tank tops, I painted with a coat of Blood Angels Red. I toyed with the idea of using the deeper and richer Flesh Tearers Red, but I had planned to use that colour for my Sanctifiers, so I wanted to differentiate them. Besides, the grey undercoat does a lot to desaturate the Blood Angels Red anyway, it’s only in the areas that got a healthy coat of white ink does it become this bright red. From there I picked any leather straps with Gore Grunta Fur and any wraps, such as on weapon handles or on the ankles of the legs, with Snakebite Leather. I then painted all the bionics and the weapons with Ratling Grime.

Stalker

Moving onto the metallics, the first step was to use Army Painter Tainted Gold on the masks, buckles and the blood tanks on their backs. I also dabbed some of it, with a sponge, onto the head of the Skullclaimer’s axe. The result is not great in my opinion. As a side bar I dabbed some Army Painter Basilisk Red onto one of the Aspirant’s chainglaives but that didn’t look great either so at that point I stopped messing with sponge on paints. To give the weapons and bionics that grimy metallic feel I drybrushed them with Necron Compound.

Inciter

Now was the time for the skin. For half of the team, I painted their skin with Army Painter Warrior Skin. I had hoped this would be a one-pot solution to the issues I’ve been having painting darker skin tones. It wasn’t quite the tone that I was looking for but it’s a good colour and one that I will certainly keep on hand for the future. The other half of the team, meanwhile, was a test for another new paint. I’ve heard good things about Targor Rageshade and I was keen to give it a go myself. As it’s one of Citadel’s new formulations of washes it didn’t tint the skin all that much unfortunately, which was particularly apparent on the near white areas of said skin. It didn’t look bad, however. In any case, I also used Targor Rageshade over anything I had painted with Tainted Gold. In this respect I really enjoyed its ability to not stain the surfaces. Swings and roundabouts, I guess.

Bloodtaker (sans blood vial)

The last few bits I needed to do were to paint the glass parts of the blood tanks with Two Thin Coats Death Reaper. I was tempted to make them look half full of blood, but at this point I could not be bothered unfortunately. I may go back and revise that at a later date. Lastly, one of them has his elongated tongue hanging out, so I painted that with a quick coat of Army Painter Familiar Pink.

Aspirant

Moving onto the bases, a few of the Goremongers are leaping off of bits of ruined building, which thanks to the primer and zenithal highlight were already mostly grey. To give them a mottled appearance I sponged on Two Thin Coats Carcharodon Grey. I then picked out any skulls with Army Painter Skeleton Bone and gave both the skulls and building parts a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone. I then coated the flat areas of the base with Two Thin Coats Dungeon Stone to give it a uniform appearance. Next I coated the flat areas with a thick layer of PVA glue and sprinkled on some Krautcover Ruins of Persistence Basecover. I had picked up a tub of this recently as an alternative to Geek Gaming Scenics Base Ready range, as much as I love the Geek Gaming Scenics stuff it is a pain you can only buy it directly from them. In any case, the Krautcover Basecover turned out looking alright, some of the rock chunks were a bit too big for the scale in my opinion. I sealed everything down with an extra helping of Geek Gaming Scenics Matt Sealant spray just to be sure. And finished things off by painting the rims of the bases black.

Aspirant

Of course, no Khornate miniature would be complete without from Blood for the Blood God technical paint. I sponged this onto the teeth of the chain weapons and onto the tip of the impaler. I then used a ratty old brush to flick to spatter it onto the models and lastly added pools of it to the bases.