games workshop has made many models over the years but few have captured the attention of wargamers
as much as this model i have heard rumors and whispers of it but i never thought i would own one
i now have in my possession a juan diaz demonette and what a model it is
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle recently i was searching ebay as i often do and
i have a list of models to keep my eyes out for and sometimes they pop up and sometimes i get even
luckier and they pop up at a price i'm willing to pay and recently that happened with this model
this is a juan diaz demonette often shortened to dsets booby demonets or the good demonets this
model was sculpted way back in 2002 and it was the demonette model all the way up until it was
replaced by the current plastic kit which many proclaimed to have been a bad move demonets are
lesser demons of slaanesh they're the most numerous of his minions and they serve him
as handmaidens and warriors they appear both beautiful and repulsive to anyone who sees them
their bewitching opal eyes and enchanting aura hides their androgynous features and frightening
claws the viewer always sees whatever they would consider the epitome of beauty right
before they're torn apart by a frightening demon that's the gist of demonets according to the lore
but they could not always have been considered beautiful back in 1999 these were demonets
yep second edition was an interesting time would these have been considered grim dark grim derp or
just not good the juan diaz dimonettes did not have much competition but boy did they make an
impression when they hit the tabletop in 2002 but they didn't last that long the plastic models we
know today replaced them after only six years in 2008. these demonets were pretty popular i
even saw some old hammer articles and forum posts proclaiming these as the best models
games workshop has ever made i don't know about that but there is certainly something appealing
about them the sculptor juan diaz worked for games workshop for 16 years from 2000 to 2016 and he is
responsible for some absolute banger models if you have fond memories of an older model produced by
game's workshop there's a good chance it was one of his he is probably best known for his demonets
although looking through his portfolio they look a little slapped together compared to some
of his masterpieces in fact i didn't even know it but i already own a coveted juan diaz model
a million years ago i picked up this game's rockshox 25th anniversary space marine
i got it for an absolute bargain because it looks like it's been dropped in a toilet
but who cares about the box the contents are pristine i didn't know it was sculpted by juan
diaz until i did some research for this video but back to the subject of this video i would
argue they didn't really fit into the lore all that well they're a little bit too generically
sexy and they don't look particularly dangerous and is it right to have models this overtly
sexy it was pretty outside the norm for games workshop back then i don't really know i think
i'll get into that more after the painting i need to let my thoughts percolate a little but it is a
cool model and i'm excited to throw some paint on there now it's time to gather my supplies
i have pretty much no idea how i'm going to paint this thing so it's time to procrastinate
i'm going to work on the base first it's time to break out the crayola model magic soft squishy
modeling material this stuff is one of my favorite basing supplies of all time i broke myself off a
piece it's basically foam clay i put on some lines of super glue on my base and created a channel the
secret is running through perhaps this is a well worn path i pressed down more and more foam to get
exactly the right look i wanted this stuff does not hold detail well but it works perfectly for
simple ground next it was time for some sand i prepared a blob of wood glue my preferred sand
holder downer and then i spread this onto the base with an old paint brush now i always wash
glue off my brushes and water which works great but make sure you change out your water before
you switch to your good paint brushes because you don't want to be putting your good paint brushes
into gluey water with my glue applied i sprinkled on a little bit of small pebbles
then a splash here and there of some large grain sand and then a final dousing of fine grain sand
always always always add a little something to the base to make it not flat as a pancake with some
sand on there i think a little bit of elevation a little bit of height always adds so much more
interesting stuff to look at but now the base is done i guess i gotta actually paint this thing
i prepared my favorite primer black style rez through my airbrush and then i sprayed
it onto the mini this is the last time i'll see it in all of its shiny pewter glory then i put a
5050 mixture of airbrushed thinner and white ink and gave the model a xenothal prime man xenothal
prime models look great they look so good i always worry my paint job is going to ruin it
i prepared my wet palette with the colors i figured i would use a blue and a pink
not my usual palette but we're trying things out i glaze this pink all over the model i think this
is a very intimidating shade of pink then i took some blue and decided exactly where this was going
to go on the hair and the feet of these models i thought this would add a nice fun variety i worked
in the pink some more by adding some shadows with some magenta all of my paints are super watery at
this stage this was a period of discovery i decided to make the tip of the tail blue yolo
why not then i mixed my magenta with some black paint and made a proper shadow i used my xenothol
peeking through to show me where this dark paint should go i did the same things with the blue
adding in blue paint mixed with black to shade these areas i have all of my base coats applied
and i think it's looking pretty good it's a little zincy with the bright pink and the bright blue but
i wanted to stay away from modern slash colors like pale purple and silver because this model
is so different from the current range but i think it's going to turn out really really nice at this
point though i don't really know what i'm doing so i'm going to work on the tail and once i finish
the tail that's going to tell me how to apply my highlights and shadows to the rest of the model
i went back in with my original pink paint and brightened these areas up then i had
a bit of a breakthrough i mixed up some white and pink and then i did many many small stripes
this added some really cool texture to the skin and it allowed the previous layers of paint to
show through it's like stippling but instead of tiny dots it's tiny lines i glazed more pink white
mixture and watery magenta onto the tail until i was really happy with the bubble gum pink skin
you won't see this on a space marine i used pure white sparingly as my lightest highlight letting
plenty of the previous brush strokes show through and because i'm doing such small fine detail work
i used my finger as a mixing palette now that i knew what i was doing because i had perfected it
on the tail i did this to the rest of the seeker and the many small stripes technique helped a
ton because this metal model is not very detailed and the metal casting makes for a gritty texture
the stippling hid all of that really well and let me really make it my own i did more exaggerated
stippling stripes on the blue hair tentacles they look like blue worms coming out of their
heads with the seeker done it was time to paint the demonet the seeker is mostly pink and magenta
so i wanted to paint her mostly pink and white and i didn't use my stippling stripes i just layered
her up normally with watery glazes i really pushed the white as much as i could there's not too much
making her look different from the seeker she even has the same blue hair and feet i kind of like
really little models like this because you can really get detailed with the painting and it still
doesn't take forever because it's just so small there's not much there to paint alright i have
both the demonet and the seeker finished and i'm really liking how it turned out
i used all the same colors on both of them and my logic there is that in terms of like
reality the demonet and the seeker are exactly the same thing they're just warp spawn and if
slash calls them in action tomorrow their roles might be reversed but i was a little nervous
that it would it would harm the silhouette you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between
what was the demonet and what was the seeker but i think it worked out really nicely by keeping
the seeker mostly magenta and the demon at mostly white but now it is time is really close to being
done now it's time for the face and unfortunately my demonet face has some pretty bad mold slippage
but i think i can make it work i think i can work with it and salvage it i will need to really hold
on to the model to paint the face so i moved it to a big old game's workshop paint handle
i don't like it as much as my wooden blocks but it'll help me keep my hands off the model while
i painstakingly paint the face i base coated the face with some pure pink and just a hint
of my xenothou was still showing so i used that as a map to where my paints should go
then i highlighted up to pure white where i could this model is unique in that it has no nose
if it was blue it'd probably look like a towel i glazed magenta here and there on the cheeks to try
to get a little bit of contrast back into the face then i used black to base coat the mouth because
of the mold slippage it was more of a smirky snarl instead of just a smile but it kind of works
i used some white paint and my sharpest paintbrush to put on some tiny tiny teeth then i kept working
with white and pink paint to get the parts of the face that ought to be highlighted highlighted
i painted the eyes black but black eyes usually don't look like black eyes they look like holes
so i finished off the eyes with a tiny dot of white the white is a reflection that makes them
look glossy well i did what i could the face looks alright there wasn't a lot to work with
but home stretch now it's on to her jewelry her knife and the base the model was almost done
i finally broke out some colors and put some gold in all her jewelry gold will add some nice warmth
i base coated the straps of her dress to also be gold using a base of earth brown so that you
won't see the pink and magenta showing through i used the same brown and white paint to paint the
loincloth i find that in my old age i never want to add new colors i like using what's already on
my palette maybe it's not old age maybe i'm just lazy and finally i painted the knife silver will
that tiny knife be able to kill a space marine you wouldn't think so but i guess chaos magic helps
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is getting pretty close and boom the model is done now it's time to finish off that base i gave it a
coat of null noil i want the base to look sad and desolate compared to the lively bright colors of
the demonet i'm doing an opposites thing i put some black primer on top of the wet null oil
to add some more variety to the lightness and darkness of the ground and once that was dry
i dry brushed a nice light gray over everything then i painted the rim of the base black but i was
not quite done yet i broke out some elmer's glue because i wanted to glue down some static grass
i globbed the glue on with an old paint brush and then i used a pair of tweezers to squish on
some piles of tan static grass to the model i tapped off the extra and my demon net was done
i am loving how this model turned out i think that using many strokes and a kind of stippling
effect on the seeker really set it apart nicely from the demonets even though they both use the
same three colors i agonized over the paint scheme second guessing myself constantly but in the end
i really liked the cotton candy pink and blue i landed on it's fun it almost doesn't feel like
a 40k model in fact speaking of this being a 40k model are models like this ok should they be in
the game well let me tell you a story recently i was at my used bookstore and i found these books
cool many are not annual 2008 and 2009. they're really cool they're filled with some of the best
painted minis i've ever seen i love cracking these open and having a look getting inspired
by the artists who can paint minis in a way that it almost doesn't feel like they're miniatures
anymore but looking at the pieces they decided to put on the cover yeah i definitely felt like a
dirty greasy nerd walking up to the counter with these and it's really not what these books are
they're just collections of awesome models these books were published a little over 10 years ago
and it was a different time in wargaming i can see the logic i bet it did help move a few more
books just like the boobage on these demonet models may have helped to sell more models
and i don't want to hear well actually if you just read the lore it makes a lot of sense why
they're naked the lore was written to justify the models it's actually pretty transparent why
some of these decisions were made just like the decisions made on what models
should be on the cover of these books but the wargaming scene has evolved in the last decade
this hobby is a lot more visible than it used to be people are really getting behind the idea
of building painting and assembling their own miniatures and really getting to make them theirs
you get to make your models however you want and then there's rules on how to make them fight
these models are obviously sculpted to be goggled and that's okay i think pinup models like this
are fine but they should not be the default option move them off to the side as supplemental material
for the people who want them i think the war gaming scene is matured i think we're done
with the days where this stuff was super niche and companies felt like they had to add boobies
to the books and models to get nerdy men to buy them war gaming is for everyone and i think the
model should reflect that well this model was super neat i spent a boatload of time looking
through juan diaz's portfolio and he made some of the best miniatures of all time for warhammer
i really get a kick out of these out of production miniatures and if you have some favorites that you
think i should check out please leave them in the comments below but now it's time for the real star
of the show this week's eob complete submissions we put out a challenge to our community to send
us before and after photos of their recently finished models to be immortalized in our videos
if you want to join in the fun you can submit a before and after photo of your painted mini
to our discord server which you can find in the description below or you can post it to instagram
with the hashtag eobcomplete without further ado let's look at and get inspired by what the folks
have finished this week an adventurer with a stick by bashu a powerful wizard by mr altire a little
sniper team by orange a nurgle demon by the happy heretic some space marine terminators by inferno
the dragon a sister's cannon s by fuzzball a death corps of krieg by lieutenant angel 445 a squad
of tanks by c zero k a little skeleton friend by airship slice a chaos demon prince by killer tofu
a team of heroes by alex ryder123 some space marine assault intercessors by pyrite a big ol
imperial knight by name a weird boy by hyperspace a sister of battle by hunter s a squad of space
marines by dead developer a bain-blade battle tank by gipsydanger1222 a primary assault marine by bro
tato some primary space marines by friend of grob a fire slayer by who knows some necron immortals
by tim ornix some chaos cultists by brook smick some custom adaptive sauraritas by trient
some blackstone cultists by htl babalicious and a necron army by meh congratulations to everyone for
a job well done it's no small fee to get paint on minis and you all should feel really proud
nothing gets the hobby juices flowing like fishing a project we all thank you
for sharing your work motivating us and the hobby community to paint our plastic thanks for sharing