Uber Daemons Part III - Scabieathrax the Bloated

Ol' Scabby is the final Uber Daemon I painted. An'ggrath was so massive and Zarakynel required such a high level of precision, I figured because Scabby was a smaller model, and because he was Nurgle that this guy would be cake. He was not. I spent at least double the time on him, than I did either of the other daemons. It was the sheer number of different things he had going on his body that was so tedious. He is just a big blob of resin. Heavy as hell. One could bludgeon someone to death with him if one were so inclined.

Zarakynel is my favorite, maybe because I use her all the time in my standard tourney army (though I think she's a little annouyed with me for relegating to the role of a generic greater daemon). However, Scabby is the best painted of the Uber Daemons (I think, anyway). He'll get to come out and play when someone hosts a 2000 point tourney, since the way I run my Deathguard doesn't do well in smaller games.

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Uber Daemons Part II - An'ggrath the Unbound

An'ggrath was the second Uber Daemon I painted. He was going to first be used in the 2007 'Ardboyz Qualifier Round at Imperial Outpost. He would just be a regular Bloodthirster (this was under the C:CSM 3.5, not the current 4.0). Since there was no painting score, I decided to just put a basecoat on him the night before. I just kept painting, and 6 hours or so later I finished him. He was the easiest of the Uber Daemons to paint,

He performed pretty well at the tourney, and I took 3rd place, which allowed me to proceed to the next round of the 'Ardboyz. Since then, I've only brought him out for Apocalypse games using the fullblown An'ggrath Rules (888 points!). His most memorable performace was when he walked up to Anthony's Baneblade and scored 13 penetrating hits on it, cleaving it in two. Next turn he got assaulted by 4 Wraithlords and some Warlocks. Both sides traded blows for the rest of the game.



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Uber Daemons Part I - Zarakynel, Bringer of Torments

Over the last couple of years, I purchased the 3 Forge World Greater Daemons, though I like to call them Uber Daemons.

Zarakynel was my first FW piece, and I was a little intimidated to work on her. I started putting her together and almost had a nervous breakdown trying to put the spikes on. Fortunately, Dan Stoltz, who we call the Dark Mechanicus around Imperial Outpost Games, stepped up and spiked her for me. I should have realized that this was an indication of her cursedness; she truly is a bringer of torment.

In the summer of 2006, I ran a 40k escalation league at IOG to coincide with the Medusa Campaign. I decided to get my Emperor's Children painted, including Zarakynel. My brother (14 at the time) was visiting from New Mexico. He walked in with a 64 0z. soda and... dropped it on her head. I had been flying through the Emperor's Children, but once this happened, I lost all interest in working on them and her. She got shelved.

Finally, she came back out in preparation for the 2007 Vegas Grand Tournament. She was a blast to paint... after I put her back together. Actually, I left the dreadlocks separate until they and she were painted, then I pinned them on.

A couple of months ago, I was driving up to Phoenix. Zarakynel was with in the car with me. I used to transport her by placing her in a plastic bag, which hung from the hook in my back seat. Sounds ghetto but worked surprisingly well, considering all of her appendages, spikes, etc. She survived the trip to Vegas this way, and a number of other trips to Phoenix. But now, I had several suitcases and other bags in the backseat, and some bag got dislodged and bumped into Zarakynel. Her hand broke in several pieces and her sword was severely bent. She's fixed now, and rides in style in a cushioned tupperware container.

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