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Here's the recipe for the cultists - not quite 30 steps, but enough that I had to write it down not to forget it.

1) Prime white
2) Wash whole model (except flesh and hood) in Nuln Oil
3) Wash green parts Waaargh flesh ( thinned)
4) Wash brown parts Agrax
5) Wash brown parts thinned Steel Legion
6) Wash hood with 50/50 thinned Army Painter Strong Tone
7) Wash black parts 50/50 thinned Vallejo Air Black
8) Drybrush green parts Elysian Green
9) Give the whole model an EXTREMELY light drybrush of pure white (edge highlighting)
10) Wash black parts Nuln Oil
11) Wash brown parts Agrax

12) Wash metal 50/50 thinned chainmail
13) Wash metal Agrax
14) Wash metal Nuln Oil

15) Paint flesh Pallid Wych Flesh
16) Wash with 40/40/20 mix of Sepia/Ogryn Flesh/Biel Tan green
17) Paint recesses of skin with Ogryn Flesh wash
18) Drybrush skin extremely light pure white
19) Wash Green parts with a 50/50 mix of Ogryn Flesh/Agrax Earthshade.

20) Using a sponge, dabble on small patches of Agrax and Nuln oil on clothes, etc. to make them look dirty.

21) Glowing eyes painted with Billious Green (Ancient paint pot), highlighted to almost pure white.

Rust: Model Mates Rust Effect (amazing product - made from real rust).

Blood: Tamiya Clear Red, with a small amount of black.

That's about it.

Sir, that is a badass recipe. Thank you!

Just gotta say, this is one of the best Project Logs I have seen in quite a while. Your Death Guard are especially awesome!? You sir are one bad ass converter and painter. Thank you for sharing your work and your cultists painting recipe! I will be watching this space.

I'm almost finished with the modelling of Abominus, my terminator champion for the Nurgle Kill Team warband, so I thought I'd snap a few shots of him. He's a big, mean hunk of rot, filth and evil.
 
He's armed with a heavy flamer and a lightning claw, and as you can see from the pics, I've magnetized the gun arm, and am in the process of building him an underslung combiplasma as well.
 

*swoon*

That plasma cannon + bayonet, so good And another in a great line of biggerized termis made using oblits, extremely tasty - oblits are possibly the model that benefitted the most from finecasting? Because easier to chop up and make into other stuff

- Salvage

Those Nurgle marines are simply great, very good builds and painting. And the terminator champion is just as great and both his raged weapons are amazing Could we get a better picture of his CC arm??
Oh and where do the dangling chains with hooks come from?

Cool model (and cool name). You're really leading the way with these truescale terminators and this kill team game in general.

What kit did you use for the resin parts of Abominus?

Abominus looks pretty awesome. Not sure about the name though- not because it isn't cool, but because of a certain other character called Abominus that looks like this...

Thanks a lot guys.

thechildoftheemperor wrote:
What kit did you use for the resin parts of Abominus?

It's just a finecast obliterator, cut to bits.

I've finished the painting on my evil Nurgle Champion, Abominus. He seems a bit darker than the others, mostly because the trims are more dominant on him, but I like the result - he seems very dark and looming, and I particularly like his pet vulture.








I've also almost finished greenstuffing the spawn - can't decide if it needs more arms or not;

ooof, bare demon butt. where's the NSFW tag Guita?
awesome work as usual.

What I like most about Abominus is his cc weapon. Not that a power fist wouldn't be enough, but he gets that kick-ass Dark Elder blade which just looks lovely.

The Spawn is also really cool. I love how on any other Chaos Spawn, one arm would've been enough: Either the Ork klaw or the mouth tentacles from the Tyranid thingy, but you just jused both on the same side.

 Anung Un Rama wrote:
What I like most about Abominus is his cc weapon. Not that a power fist wouldn't be enough, but he gets that kick-ass Dark Elder blade which just looks lovely.

The Spawn is also really cool. I love how on any other Chaos Spawn, one arm would've been enough: Either the Ork klaw or the mouth tentacles from the Tyranid thingy, but you just jused both on the same side.

Thanks! I like assymmetry in miniatures alot, and I think the composition is much stronger, with large amount of assymmetry - it's a CHAOS spawn, not an eldar.

Wow, the paintjob. Wow, the conversion. Wow, that spawn. Wow.

I like big spawn and i can not lie

I'd also like to share a little piece of fluff I've written; the other players and I in the campaign, write small pieces of background stories, to narrate the games, and give challenges for grudge matches, etc. The teams have just fought plague zombies in the depths of a hive city:

Ichabod stood before his masters chambers in the dark, damp cave, located in the darkest depths of the Hive. The cultist leader was struggling not to tremble. Even though the blessed ones, the undying walking avatars of the great fathers might, had done an admirable job of distracting the filthy xenos and the misguided followers of the carrion emperor, they had not proved enough of a threat to keep them from getting hold of the comm interceptors. His master would surely not be pleased.

He took a deep breath, Oh, to be so blessed by the great Father – to be such a magnificent champon of Nurgle, as his master was. Ichabod knew that he would never rise to any such position, although he was surely the most blessed of his cultists. His teeth was falling out, he had no hair left, and wonderful boils and buboes was forming around his body. He was especially proud of a large gangrenous wound on his face, where the great fathers little white children was constantly gnawing away at his flesh.

He knew he had to deliver the news to his master. Though he was proud of the last two victories, one against the misguided followers of the so called machine god – as laughable as worshipping a chronometer – and the vile greenskins, who had had the obtusity to causing his master a wound to the chest. Fortunately the great father had protected his master, and they had won the confrontation, as the cowardly greenskins retreated, but just barely.

He entered the chamber and looked around, quietly admiring the transformation it had undergone in just the few weeks since they had made it their base; moss, fungal growths and beautiful little algae-like creatures covered the walls and floor, and the metal bulkheads and pipes were rapidly corroding. But the scent… Even through his rebreather mask, which he was unfortunately forced to wear, since he was not quite ready for such a plethora of blessings from the father, he was savouring the smell of a thousand plagues, poxes and the exquisite taste of rot emanating from the throne played with his taste buds.

A rusty voice, grating and bubbling with mucuos roared quietly through the chamber;
”What news have you for me, maggot?”
Abominus sat on this throne, in splendid bone white and emerald terminator plate, larger than any space marine Ichabod had ever seen. As Abominus spoke, he slowly rose, breaking loose from the throne, unbelievably already bonded to it with small spore growths and barnacles. Blood, slime and oily grime covered his white plate, and he creaked and cracked as his joints came loose from the throne. The carrion bird, that for unknown reasons constantly followed his master, sat on his left shoulder, picking away at the eyeball of one of his masters trophies. Eerie green light shone in his masters eyes, and they grew brighter as he stood up in full height, almost a full 3 metros tall. He looked down on his servant, tilting his head a little to the side, as a child intrigued by a new plaything.

Ichabod sunk, and spoke:
”Great lord, though the blessid ones have tried, but failed. Many of the intruders have managed to grab the comm interceptors, and the scans show that they are about to leave the depths. My deepest apologies for this failure, my lord – I take full responsibility, and leave my fate in your hands, should you choose to send me to the great fathers gardens.”

A grating sound emanated through the room – a horrible, creaking sound, like bones breaking combined with the sound a man makes when he vomits. The sound grew in volume, and suddenly Ichabod realized that the sound was his master laughing.

”Little maggot”, Abominus spoke; ”First of all – I don’t need your permission to take your fate in my hands. You are but a speck of dust, an atom on a planet compared to me. I end you whenever I want to. However, I see the great father’s taken a liking to you, and you do amuse me so, with your bowing and scraping. ”

”Secondly, little maggot… The comm interceptors were never the true objective of this little ruse – the objective was to get the intruders down here to the depths. I’ve ordered my Plague Marines to rig the escape shafts with explosives, which I’ve just voxed them to detonate. There is only one way out now, through the tunnels. It is time they meet the Tunnel Dweller, most blessid of Nergals creatures. ”

The sound of explosions rang throughout the structure, causing Ichabod to flinch, but he held tall and proud. He cried behind his rebreather mask – not only would he live to serve his master another day, he had not failed – the great father would be proud, and perhaps even bless him with a gift. As he made a gesture to leave, Abominus grating voice spoke once more:

”And little maggot – do try to goad the Dark Eldar intruders into falling into a confrontation with us. The witch-queen and I have a score to settle.”

Dude, your sh*t is awesome!? And I like your fluff. Can't wait to see that spawn painted up! Seriously, bravo.

I'm chiming in a bit late, but Abominus is fierce and fine! Conversion looks great and the paint job glows with murky menace. Well done!

And thanks for posting the narrative. I love this sort of thing.

Looking forward to more.

Write more stories, those are awesome!

i realy enjoy this little blog, siimply amazeballs work in here

Those infantry are stunning Guita... very well done.

Thanks!

I've decided to add a couple of Plaguebearers to my Kill Team, to replace one of the units of cultists - mostly because cultists are very cheap and good in this format, and because I wanted to turn down the power level a bit.

However, after having a long hard look at the standard plastic plaguebearers, I decided that they were too goofy, small and non-threatening for my little Kill Team, so I went to my local GW, looked at the shelves, and let my imagination fly. I ended up bringing home a box of crypt horrors, which I've spent most of last night cutting up and throwing green stuff onto. They're still WIP, I need to think about what to do with the swords, perhaps some intestines hanging from their bellies, and maybe a single eye - I am, however, very partial to the idea of blind daemons.

Anyway, here the two guys are:








I also wanted to show you guys the NPC monster for the next mission in our Kill Team campaign - the Tunnel Dweller.

So you're finally painting that massive beast! Good to see, it's a fantastic creation.

For the Plaguebearers you definitely need to make them more Nurgle-y. Adding distended bellies/hanging intestines, pustules, and pockmarked skin would be good. You should give them an eye/eyes, as although blind daemons are cool, it's something that fits Slaanesh or Tzeentch more than Nurgle.

GORK DAMNIT Guita! I'm getting an inferiority complex just looking at your models.

Really did the Plaguebeares so far, can you please take a picture next to the Cultists and Marines?

But that creature... it's utterly horrifiying...ly awesome!

I love how this is really a completly different beast from most Chaos Spawns or other GW models and yet I can clearly see where the parts come from. That claw is from the Hellpit Abomination, isn't it? Those arms with the stitches certainly are.

No I don't think the plague bearers need intestines and squishy squidgy bits. I think they look awesome as blind hunters as they are. Maybe bigger ears like a bat? To represent seeing with sonar? Or something

Maybe, instead of the traditional 'distended bloated corpse' look, you could research and take cues from wasting diseases instead? Things like high fevers or non-tumourous cancers that sap away the strength and dessicate the body, instead of filling it with puss and bilous fluids.

Going with the 'fever' idea, you could even see about putting on some sort of 'heat sensor' flaps like Wildmutt or Stage-2 Graboids have, or viper-pits.

Gotta agree, non-bloated Plaguebearers would look awesome.

Here's a few ideas:

1: Use a drill and pock-mark their skin with craters, ranging in depth from mere dimples to full-on holes, as though some foul parasites were burrowing into their flesh.

2: Give them a scabrous, dry-skinned, leprous look., maybe aided with texture paint or crackle paint. A bit like this (NSFW/L: Disease pics)


3: Draw some inspiration from horror extraordinaire and former dental technician Junji Ito (NSFW/L/S: there is no going back once you go down the rabbit hole...)

To be honest, that's what I wish more Chaos stuff was like.

I was one of the people that loved the Cubes of Tzeentch, and have Chaosification ideas that literally squick out the chaos players at my local store.

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Abominus looks pretty awesome. Not sure about the name though- not because it isn't cool, but because of a certain other character called Abominus that looks like this...

wait what wrong with this guy?

The eye searing colours, the ridiculous proportions, the everything!