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Hey everyone, I've just started up painting and modelling again after a few years without doing any so I thought I'd document the recovery of my skills and the fresh excitement of starting a new army.

I've chosen to do a Daemons of Nurlge army as ive always had a soft spot for them and haven't done a choas army before. I was inspired to 'go nurgle' by the last model I painted before I stopped for a few years; the mounted Nurgle champion that I did some minor conversions on to turn into a 40K Sorcorer of Nurgle:


Please excuse the messy base, I never got round to finishing it.

With inspiration and few interesting ideas in mind I set about designing an army list with aesthetics in mind rather than lethality. If it happened to work well on the tabletop that would be a bonus. Here is the list I came up with:

Epidemius 110

Herald of Nurgle 75
Noxious touch
Cloud of flies
Unholy might

Herald of Nurgle 120
Aura of decay
Breath of Chaos
Chaos icon

2 Beasts of Nurgle 80
Noxious touch

2 Beasts of Nurgle 80
Noxious touch

10 Plaguebearers 190
Choas icon
Noxious touch
Instrument of chaos

10 Plaguebearers 190
Choas icon
Noxious touch
Instrument of chaos

10 Plaguebearers 190
Choas icon
Noxious touch
Instrument of chaos

5 Nurglings 65

Soulgrinder 160
Phlegm

Daemon Prince 240
Daemonic Flight
Iron hide
Instrument of chaos
Unholy might
Mark of Nurgle
Cloud of flies
Noxious touch

Total: 1500

I happened to have a plaguebearer in my bits box so I sprayed him and started trying to establish a paint scheme. I wanted to use a light pallette as aposed to the usual dark greens normally associated with nurgle. I also wanted a spot colour to draw the viewers eyes around the model. Another requirement for the paint job was that it had to be relativly simple, I was trying to ease myself back into it after all. After playing around with a few different colour pallettes and techniques I finally came up with a paint scheme. Below is the finished test piece:

I will write a painting guide for you guys in another post.
I was pretty happy with the results, so I was ready to get this army underway. I filched some more plaguebearers off a friend and am in the process of painting them at the moment.

Not bad! I would like paint like that. Will you put texture on the base of the Plaguebearer?

@ Axel: this was just a test model to try out the paint job, it will get a basing eventually.


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Now have five fully painted Plaguebearers and couple that im in the process of converting slightly to show the noxious touch upgrade. Here are the completed daemons:

Each plaguebearer unit has the noxious touch upgrade and I wanted a simple but effective way to show this visually. I thought about painting the blade in a different way but in the end I vouched for a bit of greenstuff work. I got a very small ball of it and rolled one end with my fingure to make a tear drop. I then affixed this to the point of the blade in question. This simulates a blob of some foul infectious liquid oozing from the blade. The results are below:

This is one of the figures I got from my mate, hence the dodgy paint job. With this complete I'll respray him and start afresh.

I also wrote a bit of background as to how my daemonic army got into realspace. I might have forgotten some law in the past few years so feel free to correct me and comment.

The abnormally swollen, corpulent fly buzzed haphazardly around the kitchen; bouncing off different surfaces before settling on a table. WHAM! The heavy set man lifted up his hand and grimaced in disgust at the horrible green smudge on his palm. He scrubbed his hand down his trousers and picked up the tray of soup. Moving through the house with care so as to not spill and of the hot, nourishing liquid, he went upstairs and gently pushed open the door to his wife's bedroom. The tray, soup and all, hit the floor and smashed. Where the man's ill wife had been there was a carpet of the bulbous flies, they swarmed all over her buzzing furiously. The woman's arm rose up from the horribly soiled bed sheets and reached, imploringly, towards her husband; a moan of agony seeping from her. With this movement the flies took flight, the great cloud filling the room. The state of his wife made him immediately vomit. The woman's skin was ravaged to the point where she was almost unrecognisable as human. Every inch of her skin was covered in boils, pustules, and gaping wounds. The patterns they formed, obscene and abominable runes, made his eyes bleed and brought on an immediate fever. More of the malformed flies crawled out of the wounds, as well as every other orifice. The husband fell to his hands and knees as pain wracked his body, he collapsed further onto the floor and voided himself uncontrollably as his skin started to bubble and peel off. The sickly light of the warp started to shine through the seeping sores on the women as more and more flies emerged. The wounds increased in size and pustules burst, spraying all manner of foul liquids into the room and the warp light grew brighter. The woman started to rise out of the bed and her flesh began to contort and stretch. The torso formed a vile archway of skin, bone, flesh, and organs. Oh, how she screamed. A figure began to emerge from this deeply aberrant portal, a creature not of this world, a creature branded with the mark of Nurgle. As its foot splashed down in the pool of fetid liquid where the man had collapsed a single statement issued from its phlegm coated throat: "We come to spread the blessing of Grandfather Nurgle"

Awesome Fluff and paintjobs on your first test minis! Looking forward to more.

Look what the postman was nice enough to bring me!

In case you are unsure (left to right) thats a nurgle champion with a fly head and a beast of nurgle. I've loved the fly guy for a long time now but have never had an army to use him in. He will be playing the part of a Herald of Nurgle in this army, rather appropriately the one with the cloud of flies gift. I have a few ideas of how to model this so it should be interesting. I need to do some experiments!

Right, big update this time.
Don't you just love Ebay?

9 new Plaguebearers, ready for a respray and a fresh lick of paint. I'm also hatching a plan to convert some instruments of chaos for them. I've also started work on my first herald, the fly headed guy.
I decided it would ratehr apt to make this herald the one with the cloud of flies upgrade and I was determined to show this on the model. The description says that they are completely shrouded in flies but i didn't want to cover up this model as its so damn awesome. I contemplated painting the flies all over his body, but decided that would look wierd. Another idea was converting some kind of cloak to look like he was being followed by a swarm of flies. I eventually came up with the idea to do it in a spiral. This way they would be all around the figure but wouldn't obsure the model. This is how i did it:

First I got some wire and coiled it into a spiral, comparing it to the model to make sure I got it the way that I wanted.

I actually squashed it down a little after this picture.

I then coated it in pumice-stone mortar. When this dries it looks very grainy and I thought that, with a bit of dry brushing, this would look like a coiling swarm of flies.


I left this to dry overnight and then spray painted it ready for its paint job. I will paint the model and the swarm seperatly and then glue the swarm to the base.


Meanwhile i started painting the fly guy. At this point I've painted his cloak. I started off with an orkhide shade base. I then carefully painted Badab Black wash into the creases. I then proceeded to mix increasing amounts of goblin green to orkhide shade and higlighted the whole thing. Once I got up to 1:1 orkhide shade:goblin green I started adding Bleached Bone. I worked it all the way up to pure Bleached Bone. Once this was done i washed the whole thing in Thraka green to tone it down and draw the highlights together.


I've also finally chosen a model for my second herald. I'm going to convert the Astropath model shown below. I will go for a holy man of nurgle look with only a few subtle conversions in juxtaposition to the horrific and quite clearly nurgle fly guy herald.

They look very x-masy

Received the Astropath model in the post today, and I've started converting him. I'll upload some photos in a mo.


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As I mentioned before I'm going for a sort of 'holy man of Nurgle' look to this guy. He wasn't going to be obviously a daemon, I was aiming for more of the priestly look.
I started by preparing the model, filing off all the mold lines etc. I also filed off the Imperial Aquila on his belt and eye of his staff.

In the army list this is the herald that has the chaos icon so i set about deciding how to show this on the model. These are the pieces i scrounged up from my bitz box for the icon:

Thats a severed head from the zombie sprue and the nurgle icon from chaos marine sprue. I started off altering the head first of all. I sculpted a few burst pustules on the severed head that formed the symbol of Nurgle.

I then cut the back off and mounted it on the plate that held the eye before. I also sculpted the mark in place of the aquila on his belt. The staff has a couple of purity seals on it, instead of filing them off I added two additional wax seals in green stuff so that they too formed the symbol of Nurgle. A priest of nurgle must have their own form of purity seal after all. This is how the model stands at the moment.


I'm undecided whether or not I should add the Nurgle icon or leave it with just the head. I wonder if that will make it look too tall and unbalanced. Any opinions?

pretty cool stuff I like the hereld of Nurgle on the deamon stead that is probubly my favorite model from the warriors of choas range.

I cannot wait to see that beast of nurgle painted (they're so cool!) keep up the great work!

Heres the partially finished icon of chaos on the second herald. I'm debating whether or not to leave it as it is or undo it back to when it was just the head. What do you reckon dakka community?

I would drop the icon bit and leave it at the head personally.

Finished the fly guy herald with the coil of flies. I'm pretty pleased with the way its turned although I might reposition the cloud of flies.
Here is the painted miniture without the cloud.

And here it is with the cloud of flies. I sprayed it black and drybrushed it codex grey -> fortress grey -> skull white.