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This army is using the new IG codex and is already quite underway, I will soon be posting pics of my "Mutants" (Infantry Squads) and "Zombies" (Conscripts), which are in the painting stage. There is some very unique fluff with this army as well (will be posted soon!).

This is a counts-as Straken list geared towards close combat assaults. As such, I have 2 squads of 5 Big Mutants (Ogryns) in my 2000 pt. list (3 squads in apoc!).

Here are 2 Big Mutant Ogryns ready for paint!









The guns are Ork Shootas (counts-as Ripper Guns), the close-combat weapons are from the new Ork Killa Kans, "Drooble" has a modified Chaos Spawn-head, and "Blugpug" has a head from the OOP metal Rackham line and a Servitor backpack.

I am in the process of converting 3 new plastic Orc River Trolls into more Big Mutants (Ogryns). Here's a WIP of the first one on the assembly line.




The axe is from the new Minotaur sprue, and the shoulder pad comes from Ork Killa Kans... The Shoota/Ripper Gun is going to be extended slightly on the hand area, with a piece of sprue. Should I leave on the gigantic shoulder pad, or nah?

A warning to anyone who tries to do this with the Trolls: It is NOT easy to shave off all the aquatic scales these guys are covered with!

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Awesome to know that Ork weapons fit proportionally fine on an Ogryn. Thinking that the same would probably hold for true scale conversions.


Oh, and I totally thought that Ogryn pic said "Buttplug" at first. :/ My shawty is on my mind apparently.

Thanks! Hahaha, I realized how close his name sounded to buttplug only AFTER I had already named him and made these pics. Only made the name that much better.

This looks great .
I can't wait for the next update!

ChankTheLank wrote:Thanks! Hahaha, I realized how close his name sounded to buttplug only AFTER I had already named him and made these pics. Only made the name that much better.

Oh I didn't think it was a bad thing, its very appropriate for a mutant ogryn. What kind of tools you us for your scuplts? Oh, and is that nurgle icon a reverse releif GS mold?

The Nurgle symbols were made just by pushing holes into the greenstuff with a very small round ball end of a sculpting tool, pushing the sides of the holes upward and then rounding out the outer edges a bit with the same small rounded edge tool. I've never had much luck with GS molds, because they always seem to lose a lot of the detail, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

The tools I'm using are the galeforce sculpting tools kit (I mostly use the semi circle edge and the butter knife looking edge, but also the needle point) + a few sculpting tools I bought at a craft store which all have various sizes of ball shaped ends.

I have many more models in this army that are already primed but I don't really want to show them off yet until they have some more paint on them

There will be more updates very soon, I almost have my Mutant Boss Posse (Platoon Command Squad) ready to show off.

Fantastic! Look forward to seeing more!

You know youve made a great conversion to Nurgle when someone compliments you by saying, 'those are disgusting!' Great work, you have excellent sculpting ability, cant wait to see these painted!

ChankTheLank wrote:
The tools I'm using are the galeforce sculpting tools kit (I mostly use the semi circle edge and the butter knife looking edge, but also the needle point) + a few sculpting tools I bought at a craft store which all have various sizes of ball shaped ends.

./thumbsup

Great company with nice quality tools for less than GW. I've been considering getting a set of the Royal UK clay tools, but thats on down the road when my GS skills are up to snuff a bit more.

Freakin nice work on those ogryns..

You did some amazing work with shaving that Trolls scales.

Here's a sneak peak at some of my latest progress and additions to the army, most of these are still quite WIP.



Plague Cult (Counts-as "Penal Legionnaires")

This is the start of my first 10-man plague cult unit. My 2000 pt. list will probably include 2 of these squads and mainly for their assault-oriented rules, as this army is geared towards more close combat than guard is known for, but also because these models are so fun to put together. The cultist on the left was made from Grave Guard legs, with the pelvic region covered with greenstuffed scale mail (this is necessary, as they were originally skeletal legs, lacking any groin region). The torso is Cadian but with the boob plates scraped off, and the arms and head are from the Flagellant sprue. The head original had crazy clownish hair, but I wanted mostly bald heads, so I needed to cut off the hair and remake the ears. I came across a problem with giving Lasguns to Flagellant arms, as I wanted them to carry their weapons in 1 hand, so that they can be holding sacrificial knives and butcher blades (as if assaulting)... The Lasguns were just way to big and awkward for them to fire with only one hand. The solution was to have him carrying the gun by the top bar. I'll probably throw in a few that hold lasguns with 2 hands as well though. The other middle cultist is the sergeant for now, and had no problem holding a Laspistol. His butcher blade hand comes from the new Clanrat sprue. Both him, and the 3rd cultist are made from Flagellant legs and zombie torsos.




Mutant Boss (Counts-as standard Infantry Squad "Sergeant")

This Mutant Boss, will lead one of my 4 or 5 squads of Nurgle Mutant "Infantry Squads" (nicknamed Nurglers) which are mostly made with a mix of Catachan and Beastmen bodies w/ ghoul heads, with many mutations, warts, pus-bubbles, bloat-bellies, usually armed with a Marauder axe and a sawed off (catachan) Lasgun. There are certainly some exceptions though, like the Gorkamorka human-sized ork bodies, old Chaos Warrior torsos, and some random mutant heads. All of my Infantry Squad "Sergeants" are being converted from Imperial Servitors, with arms/weapons replaced. This guy has a Berzerker chainaxe, a boltpistol (as I think them to be far more chaos than Las), some extra boltpistol shells, and a strange Dwarf Miner bit that is supposed to be a meltabomb. I also removed one of the toes on his bionic leg, making it look less bulky and obvious.

Mutant Miasman (Counts-as Platoon Command Squad "Medic")

The Miasman concept came from the idea that Nurgle Traitor guard should include as many "Medics" as possible, to apply the "Feel No Pain" rule for extra Nurgliness. The problem is that Nurgle troops would have no use or interest in healers. Instead, they have troops carrying tanks of noxious virus gas, that dopes up and further diseases the Nurgle troops to the point where pain is no longer a tangible concept. These gasses are sprayed on the Miasman's brethen while under attack, however there is also a setting to switch to a puke-like liquid stream that launches a good a distance, and can fatally infect or decay any target (this counts-as his Lasgun fire). The backpack is a combination of the Dwarf Miner drill powerpack + Cadian flamer tanks. The nozzle itself is guitar-wire with a Vampire Counts Skeletons horn end. His body was constructed like several of my Infantry Mutants which have Cadian legs (with skirt removed) and Marauder torsos. The shoulder pad was cut away from a Cadian arm, and the head is a Chaos SM respirator head.



Puke Troops (Counts-as "Veterans" in Carapace Armour)

These guys are still very WIP, but they show what the "Veterans" in my list so far will look like. These particular veterans are part of the entourage for Chaos SM Lord Infinitus (Counts-as "Iron Hand Straken"). In other words, these are "Company Command Squad" Veterans. 1 of them will become another Miasman ("Medic"), 1 will be a Regimental Standard Bearer, and then these 2 Plasma Gunners. There is still a lot of Green Stuff work left to do for these Plasma Gunners. As you can see, they are wearing Space Marine Scout Armour (counts-as Carapace Armour) because I was dieing to make the first Chaos Space Marine Scouts (which I have never seen before). For my actual Veteran Squad, these guys will be wearing some helmets which include the Boba Fett looking helmet from the Berzerker kit (with Khornate plate horns removed)

That's all for now. 2 of the Big Mutant Plague Ogryns are in painting stages, and so are 3 standard infantry Mutants. Painted model pics will be here soon!


P.S. Would most people play against this army (in a friendly setting) if it included 2 Rhinos instead of 2 Chimeras? My Rhinos are already built, and I don't wish to buy Chimeras right now...

Glorious work!

very nice and clean conversions!!

Thanks! The army will also include a big block of poor shooting & sucky fighting Zombies (Count-as Conscripts). They are being made from a combination of Fantasy Zombie, Flagellant, Skeleton, and Grave Guard bitz. Armed with Dwarf Thunderer shotguns (count-as lasguns), as I think zombies look way better with shotguns than lasguns.



This guy was made pretty much entirely from fantasy zombie bitz, dwarf gun, and green stuff... but there will be much more variation in later zombies. He's rotting flesh yellow cuz I've begun to basecoat him.

This is really cool! I'll keep an eye out for more

Like! looks thoroughly diseased

Looking good! You have great gs skills.

Here is a standard Infantry Squad mutant AKA a Nurgler or Nurgloid (I'd like to come up with a better name... maybe Blighters?).

This is my first finished painted model, and he's basically my test scheme model (still needs a matte varnish spray). The bitz used are Catachan body (with the cargo pockets removed), Crypt Ghoul head, Genestealer claw, and sawed-off Catachan Lasgun. His Plague-Censer balls were originally Tau gernades with the ring removed, and holes drilled into it. The disease bumps on him are sand, and it was hard to come up with the right colors for it... I had the same problem deciding the color for his pus-bubble on his shoulder (I may revisit it). I am very unhappy with the painting of the sand on his base, as the extremely fine beach sand I used is hard to drybrush with noticable layers. Any ideas on how I could improve the ash-waste ground look?






Fluff-wise, even though he appears to be a former Catachan, he was actually a former regular-sized human who has become bloated and buffed from mutation, many battles, swelling and pus.

My infantry platoons are formed of similar mutant conversions, but with a lot of mutation variation.

A little rubble scattered on your bases would break up the texture. I use granite chippings and tiny bits of cork 'rubble' - both of which are marketed to the train scenics lot and should be available any place that sells that kinda stuff.

A tip for your pus bubble that you were unsure of: I do mine red, then bleached bone leaving a ring of red at the base so it looks sore and then full of pus. A tiny dot of white in it then lifts it. The ring of red provides contrast to the rest of your scheme and separates the pus from the body so it doesn't get lost and look like a lump.

I think that he is 'too green'. I'd prefer a more pale/white fleshtone. But the painting is good none the less. Keep us updated

I had the same problem with fine sand so I went to a different beach with rougher sand and mixed them - looks much better now

Man those are sweet can't wait to see a big chunk of the army or a group shot. Good work on the mutants . LOVE THE OGRYN/BIG MUTANTS

I'm not sure why exactly, but some people aren't into the green skin tone, so I am considering making them mutants in alternating skin tones... The first pic is an fairly acurate pic of the actual skintone, where the rest of them make him look glowing a little like slimer.

BigBadWolf, do you have a picture you could show me as an example of your pusbubbles? Your traitor guard look amazing. I love what you did with the plastic servitors, as I've been wanting to do the same thing for a while... I just needed to find the right parts. You nailed it.

I personally love the Puke Troopers.....and your trick of photoshopping in the names is really really good.

Excellent work. I love "Guard gone wrong" armies, the possibilities are limited only by resources and imagination. Very well done. I'll be checking back on this thread for sure.

I like the scheme, never seen a similar traitor guard scheme it's a keeper in my book.

Glad you like my stuff Chank. Heres a couple of pics of the paint test for the zombies I'm working on. Should be able to see what I mean from them.




Hope that helps

More Puke Troopers in progress!

These are still lacking a bit more greenstuff, but are close to complete. They are part of my general's entourage (Company Command Squad).



The Miasman is a counts-as Veteran Medic w/ Carapace Armour & Laspistol. In an earlier post I explained how a Miasman and his equipment function as a Nurgle-themed "medic" proxy. He uses the gasmask from the baneblade commander, a SM scout body with the back section of the torso chopped off. The backpack is from the Multi-melta Heavy Weapons Servitor. The spray nozzle was made with the scope-holding scout sniper hand, part of a dark elf coldone knight's lance, and the rim of a skaven clanrat musician bell. The SM scout's boltpistol is replaced with Laspistol.

The Standard Bearer is a count-as Veteran Regimental Standard Bearer w/ Carapace Armour & Laspistol. I think the head is from a Chaos SM Terminator (shaved off 2 of the 3 horns for the single-horn nurgle effect), the flag is from the new Orc Boarboys, and the tip is from some Choas Kit (maybe Chaos Warrior Knights?). The gripping hand was taken from a SM bolter holding hand, squeezed to fit around the flagstaff.

Here's some more close-ups:

Looking sweet dude. I've never noticed that backpack anywhere before - might have to steal it for a renegade priest at some point.. Spray the unbelievers with that nurgly goo!