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I figure I have started and stopped so many little blogs here and there that it was high time to make one of current projects and highlight some of the older stuff. This way, I will have all my stuff in one place (finally)

To start things off:

Nurgle TraitorGuard Vet squad and the "Dumpster" Chimera.











Dumpster:







Comments, critiques welcome. This is actually my first vehicle ever and first time doing weathering on that scale with powders, oils etc. Tried to make it match a local dumpster in coloration.

I am currently constructing 2 Infantry squads and a conscript squad for the month of May. Will throw some pics up later.

The traitors look good, but they seem a little clean for Nurgle. The skin looks like it should be paler, but I'm not sure how that would affect the other colors in the scheme. You and Frodo should colaborate on some projects.


Show us some more traitor goodness!

How about this one? I make an Oath to complete a Troop choice consisting of a Plt. Cmd, 2 inf squads and a 50 man conscript squad. That is 75 models.

Me... 75 models... one month. Care to make wagers?

Here is the prototype conscript data:

Where did you get the heads?

Many of the heads are from Pig Iron. I am also going to use elysian drop troppers heads and other random assorted things that I can find.

Looking sweet dude

Really good weathering on the Chimera Tut me on it.

Liking the Plague Monk/Pig Iron cross over and the other guard very good MOAR Please!

@ Scar: This is my first vehicle ever and first time using weathering powders and oil. I weathered it by using burnt umber oil paint thinned with solvent (low odor artsie-fartsie kind from an art store). I then added some orange rust FW weathering powder to the mix. I also then flicked the mix on the tank randomly and then dropped solvent on the spots to diffuse the concentration of rust in those spots. I then just used thinned burnt umber mixed with some black soot powder on the lower area near the treads on the sides. I was careful to matte coat the model before any use of solvent etc so it would not just eat the camo paint off the model. I used vallejo "Black Lava" painted with dark flesh for big chunky mud areas (not too happy about the way it came out). Some people think I have over weathered it and may be right, but it is Nurgle and there is an old green dumpster near our local game store that looks just like it and I used it for inspiration.

The beginnings of my conscripts:

Ohhh! Those are neato! Are you going to add little cybernetics and doodads to them? Seems like that would make them all more fiddly and take longer to paint, but would really add some flavor.

Can't wait to see some painted, or better yet, see all 50 painted in a group photo.

Nice start, keep going.

Good luck nice use of bitz for the conscripts. I was considering doing something similiar for Genestealer Cultists at some point.

Thanks everyone.

@nurglicious: I do plan to add bits of cybernetics and/or redundant mechanical parts on many of them.

@Llamahead: The skaven make a great conversion for genestealers too. I used them to make sure the conscipts (mutie slaves) stood out from normal TraitorGuardsmen.

Should I paint them with the cmao green colors like the Vet squad above?.... or use something closer to the blur-ish with Came highlights like my Ogryn?

pic for reference:

I would use the GW camo green but muck it up a little and add more browns to make them look like lowly little menials. maybe you could add some small areas of the bluish green look to unify the force, but I don't think that is necessary on conscripts, esp. mutie scum traitors.

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I would like to know how you painted the skin of your rightmost ogryn very much.

Very nice I love the flesh tones for skin......makes it feel so realistic and a nice change from green and gray......looking forward to seeing more on this blog

Thanks Sworth! I was going out on a limb with the more human fleshtones for nurgle. I was hoping they would turn out ok.

@poipo32 Sorry for the delay. The Ogryn skin is:

1. Bascoated with Vallejo Middlestone, then highlighted with Vallejo Deadflesh.

2. Washed with GW Badab Black that is watered down with future floor wax by about a fourth.

3. Touched up and streaked with the deadflesh again.

4. Random areas are kinda spotted with GW Baal Red wash and GW Leviathan purple washes.

5. Last step is to touch up the edges of the red and putple washes and add the tiniest bit of green wash.

Some of the flesh looks almost a rainbow of hues, but that is hoe bodies look as the fluids etc. settle in the corpse. (although it is settled in the lowest portions in RL due to gravity) I just made random areas look like settled, bruised, and rotting spots.

hope that was what you were asking for.

I definitely think the blueish green would suit the conscripts well, however I would have them a bit more weathered and dirty than the ogryns or standard troopers, after all they are the bottom of the heap! I can't wait to see them with some paint on them, I'm endless impressed as always!

I went with mostly camo green robes (because I have that in a spray can). I will have to dirty them up a little though and make them look lowlier than your avg. cultist

I haven't got a pic up of them because there isn't a ton of progress besides the base coat of Camo green.

I do have a pic of my WIP Ogryns for my next grouping of them. These will be added to my 3 above and I will eventually have a total of 20... just for kicks.




Throw some comments or criticisms on any portion of this blog. You guys need to help me improve all of my modelling and painting skills.

Hit with the double post ...

Great start! This is looking very promising. While I agree with an earlier poster about the infantry being too clean, they are also just awesome looking the way they are.

Ah, Nem, I've missed your blogs! Glad to see you posting on an army again!

I love all of those old school ogre-ogryn models, they really fit in well with this army! It makes me think about the old Lost and the Damned list and all of the units they threw into armies that represented it. Plus, there's something always rewarding about having a rather old model in your army, people look at it with a piqued interest and it's always fun to explain its background (heck, some of the models might be older than some people you've played!)

The other thing I'm loving about this army (it's a traitor army with mutants and heretics, so you're already +1) is the conscripts. They are cheap in terms of bits and points, and they'll look really good moving in droves, and dying in droves, and attacking the enemy...in droves.

Awesome stuff Nemissary, I definitely will be following this

@mephistopholes1: They are a little clean, but I figure not all Nurgle traitors wake up as shambling mounds of pus overnight. As much as I like Nurgle armies, they tend to all start to look exactly the same as green,brown and gray mounds of messiness. I decided to clean them up a little and then make various parts of the army have differing levels of decay etc.

Thanks Death by Monkeys!

@Accolade: I do have some very old minis. I will be incorporating what I can into my army. Some of the old school Ogres are actually lead/pewter and are very soft metals. I have to be careful with them.


Here is another side project that I am tinkering with as I make the conscripts. Tanks that I can have as Chimera or Hellhounds or Banewolves etc etc. Just a simple use of magnets and plasticard.





I have a ton of old tanks from Ebay, most of them are just partial kits or heavily damaged or covered in thick paints, but I will cobble them all together into something.

A little update. Here is the current status of the 50 Conscripts and the 25 Guardsmen for the month of May:







I still need to go in and touch them up, do some highlights and pick out details like eyes etc. I think they are coming along and I may just make my promise for completing them in one month.

As always, comments and criticisms welcome.

looking good! I think you should add some mud to the bottoms of the robes etc.

Those conscripts rock and the first squad you posted is also outstanding. Love the conversions, and I'm OK with with lighter color scheme - easier to see the details. Keep up the great work.

Thanks guys.

@Kestral: The lighter color scheme came from a long time of paiting way too many dark ones. But mainly, I want a traitor army with Nurglish tendencies that still loooks like it was actually painted and not just set up and paint thrown in it's general direction. It is so easy to get a nurglish army so covered in messiness that it looks like you didn't even bother trying to paint it. I'm hoping to have one that still looks ok and whatnot...

Oath Completed!!! 75 models in one month, including a musician just for kicks!











I weathered the bottoms of the robes and added my usual water effects/swamp details to many of the bases.

The 50 conscripts are the lower slaves and the 25 IG (2 ten man squads and a 5 man Pltn Cmd) are the overseer mutant slaves that are helping to lead the revolt.