My take on Coven

Although I still dislike coven, they are really really fun to paint.
Most of this is WIP, but you should be able to get the direction:

Why do you dislike Coven?

Because I chose DE primarily for army style and playstyle. I want vicious sleek agile evil space elves with a fetish for blades and poison. Not slow durable brutish Frankensteins monsters.
Thats what Nurgle armies are for...

So: Fluff. Got it.

well I got in for the brutish nightmarish Circus of flesh. It simply is one of the most horrifying armies one can imagine facing. Fear made manifest. And who doesnt like a good Horror flick?

But I have learned to play both ways and now love them both.

Once i was but a Tau General. Now my empire of models spans the multiverse.

Finished Raider:

Klaivex Charondyr wrote:

https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/19/00/82/94/imag0125.jpg

I really like what you did with the Raider. The vials look great in place of the spikes, and the placement of the two coven crests make its front look like the face of a monster.

Coven Scalpel Squadron completed:

Very Cool painting style. I'd love to know how you do your rust effect and flesh for your sails.

Rust was pretty simple (I love simple). It was basically only larger spots of Vallejo Orange Brown and then smaller spots of Flat Brown into the brigther spots.
At the end I used Runefang Steel (GW) at the edges and very slight spots of bronze into the rusty parts.

The flesh-sail was pretty simple as well. Just multiple layers of fleshtones and red ink, at the end I used a sponge with lighter fleshtones to create the "pattern", inked it again and went over it with the sponge again.

Cool stuff. YOu might want to use Blood for the Blood god paint, its really good for blood. Covens do need a lot of blood )