Blue Bloodletters with converted horns and armour.

Blue Bloodletters with converted horns and armour.

                                  Blue Bloodletters with converted horns and armour.

                              

This unit of 24 Bloodletters was the second unit that I worked on and was experimented on alot. I decided to see what a Bloodletter would look like not painted in red, so I used cool blues and purples. I was happy with the result and decided to make a second unit of Bloodletters. I look back on my painting skills of this time and I can see so many mistakes and things I would do differently, but I wouldn't change them, it's nice to see progression.

I also wanted to make my Bloodletters of this unit look completely different, besides individualising them with armour (that I had done in my first red unit) I saw the horns as the spot to convert.

                                      Blue Bloodletters with converted horns and armour.
                                All the converted Bloodletters in this unit use Bestigor horns.

                                    
  The leg armour for this one is made from plastic tube, the arms from greenstuff and a mould from the Tomb Kings Skeleton Warriors and the belt from a skull mould.

  This is the unit's Champion, he wields a sword from the Bloodcrushers kit. The Shoulder armour from the Marauders kit. His body and leg armour was a real experiment.

I used a mould from the trumpet of the Tomb Gaurd and removed the green stuff when it was still soft and added to Bloodletters legs, I'd like to think it's a molten metal, constantly moving and screaming with the souls of dead enemies.

Another couple of Converted Bloodletters using moulds and Shoulder Armour from some 40k kit.

                                              Converted Bloodletter with Bestigor horns.

I also wanted to change the position of the arms of the Bloodletters so I experimented with some alternative poses.

 And finally when the unit was finished I had to make the Banner, and of course I wanted it to look different and seeing how I used Bestigor horns I choose to use their Banner.

                                                 Converted  Bloodletter Standard Bearer.