Speedpainting an Emperor's Child

Back in late summer/September 2025 I got really lucky when I won a copy of the Army Painter Speedpaint Mega Set 2.0

Since then, I've been playing around with the painta that came inside this set, priming some outstanding Minis of the month in white while others that had been primed in black were resprayed with white (in a zenithal style (at least, I think that's how it's done)). All of these came out to varying results.

However, with the Emperor's Children's Tormentor (which I'd originally planned to paint traditionally), I discovered a different that I really wanted to try out, doing so over the Christmas holiday).

So, my plan was;

  • Starting with a primer of Chaos Black (which was done way back in October to avoid the cold), I applied a drybrush of Corax White a la the Slapchop method (at least I think it was)
  • Then I applied Familiar Pink on every panel I deemed to be that colour in its entirety (regardless of how much Corax White was on it. That's effectively the rule for all of these colours).
  • Next up came the gold trim, for which I used Hoplite Gold ...
  • ... Followed by Enchanted Steel for all of the metal, be it gun, blade or chain.
  • I then applied Thunderchild Blue to anything else of significance (tassels and rubies/stones) before finally repainting all remaining area with Grim Black.

With that, my Emperor's Children Tormentor was finished, using only five speed paints.


Now, I must admit, while I've used these speedpaints on a few minis so far, this has to be, by far the best looking one. Something I think is purely down to the change in preparation.

So, how could I improve this? I think, the only way to do so would be to utilise an additional drybrush at the beginning. I recently found a video which recommended drybrushing a heavy layer of grey before adding a lighter layer of white and I do think this would work for me. To do this might make the blending work better as what I did here did seem to have quite a substantial difference in tone.

With some of the recent minis of the month, hopefully this slight adjustment will make the finished article look a little better.

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