I'm enjoying
painting my Kairic Acolytes and I look forward to diving into the
Lord Of Change but I do feel the need for something more familiar.
New models have a lot to recommend them: they're novel and
interesting by default, its enormous fun to experiment with colour
schemes and techniques, and there's the promise at the end of it of
adding a new dynamic to your army.
Problem is
that all that discovery and experimentation is a bit time-consuming.
You're constantly finding little details you didn't notice before and
sometimes the colour scheme doesn't work out and you have to go back
to the drawing board. Fun, definitely, but after a while I know I get
an urge to paint something simpler and more familiar.
Hence, me
picking up some Chaos Warriors. Not only are they among my favourite
kits of all time they're also very user-friendly in terms of
painting. Plus, I definitely want at least one unit of them in the
Tzeentch army so its also a functional purchase. I'll be building
them basically straight out of the box aside from slapping a resin
Tzeentchian banner on the standard bearer and, if I can find it, a
head from the Chaos Marine upgrade sprue on the champion for extra
flavour.
Beyond that
the initial plan is to give them Thousand Sons Blue armour and
Screamer Pink cloaks with pretty standard colours elsewhere. Quick
and simple, I get to finish a key unit for the army whilst I chip
away at the Acolytes and test out a few more techniques army-unifying
before I head onto the daunting task of the Lord Of Change.
Simple plan,
doomed to failure.
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