Friday, February 13, 2009

Long Live the Prince!

My Daemon Prince is one of my favorite models that I never get a chance to play. He was one of the first models I got and painted for my chaos army. With all the neat characters and models and covnersions I have done, sadly he get set aside for other HQ units in many games. He spends a lot of time sitting on my shelf while Kharn gets to ride around in my rhino with alll his berserker friends.



So I decided I need to use my Daemon Prince more and get him in some games. One thing that kept me from using him is the fact that he is all metal and I have not had a chance to varnish him with some matte varnish. The paint tends to chip during games or in transporting the metal models if you are not careful and varnish will help keep that paint lasting longer. With the bad winter weather here in Rochester, I had not had time to take him outside and spray him with some varnish. Well finally I had a nice weekend with the chance to varnish my Daemon Prince. I headed down tot he game store to do some priming and painting and I brought him along. I laid out my models on a table and my primer and clear coat etc. That was my mistake.




While I was chatting with fellow gamers and comparing models and swapping tales I grabbed my Daemon prince and what I thought was the varnish. I went outside to prime and shook up my varnish and started to apply the first coat to the model. Out of the nozzel spewed a fine mist of white primer. I stopped as quickly as I could, but not before the whole front of my Daemon Prince was covered in a nice white haze of primer.

I had to bring in my poor Daemon prince back in and face the gasps and groans of my fellow players, who all have probably done this at one point. So I went home that night and restarted touching up the Daemon Prince so here he is, repainted, and this time varished with actual clear coat.