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hi guys, i found all of my old chaos models out and decided that i wanted to have a go with them and i thought i would make a nurgle army but i dont have any nurgle models.
i have made a few last night from knorne beserkers by giving them bloated bellies and melting the bunny ears so it looked like a bubbling mess ( just like nurgle should be) so so far i have seven plague marines but i am wanting more, how would you guys convert them from normal chaos marines/khorne beserkers.
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i played with world eaters, won 32 games lost 4.
building ork army, freeboota, stack'eds
I actually had a bunch of Plague Marine heads made up to help make quick plague marines. It wasn't too expensive and now I can pretty much take any ebay marine, do a headswap, add a GS cable and have an instant plague marine! then again, I'm making a whole army, not just an odd squad
Potbellies are a good way of making Plague Marines too - for best results you should make a long strip of GS, coil it up on the Marine's stomach and then surround it in a thin layer of GS, that way you can tear it and have the "guts" poke out. It's time'consuming, but gives good results
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...Actually I'd suggest going easy on the Green stuff, you don't want your Plague Marines to look like "blobs", you want them to convey a bloated and diseased feel.
Some ideas that are worth trying for simple conversions would be to get your hands on some WH fantasy zombie heads, quick swaps and they look very effective for PM's.
Also, if you have one, use your pin vice to drill holes of various sizes into the armour, giving it a pitted/ rotted look ( make sure you score the holes at the edges with a model knife so they don't appear to " clean").
As for the use of GS, a little goes a long way, small areas sculpted to show "rot" and pustules look best IMO, and of course you can't go wrong with distended bellies on Plague Marines.
The exposed Guts idea that Charax suggested is a nice one as well.
EDIT: Here's a quick example of one of my converted Plague Marines built from a standard CSM mini and utilizing a bit of GS and a head snatched from the zombie kit.
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What I do is I take a pea sized amount of greenstuff and smooth it against the leg/torso ect.. of the chaos marin, making sure I leave a little bump in the middle. Then I get my sculpting tool and I make little dimpled and pot marks to make it look fleshy.
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dakkadakka brad wrote:thanks,I will cut a few of them off and see how it looks,
The main reason I say cut them off is for fluffy reasons. It's incredibly rare for a person to have more than one chaos god dedication. Nurgle's Rot would simply kill a khorne berzerker, not turn him into a plague marine.
It just looks incongruent in my opinion.
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Yeah, these just look like berzerkers with greenstuff piled on. Try working some details into the sculpted areas because right now it just looks like you plopped greenstuff everywhere and called it a day.
ok thanks guys I will chop the corns off and add Abit more detail to them and add some pics on after.
i am just making a nurgle lord now and next week (my birthday) I am hoping to get a multipart plastic kit demon prince so I will build him up with wings and nurgle him up a bit.
could anybody teach me/ do a tutorial on some tips on green stuff because this is my first almost fully green stuff conversion.
thanks
Brad
i played with world eaters, won 32 games lost 4.
building ork army, freeboota, stack'eds
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It's a bit lengthy, since it's been going since 07, but all the better for showing progression, tips of perfecting sculpting and even painting.
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thanks guys for the link to that guys awsome thread and the amazing straw idea, thanks, I have done abit more on the lord and have started on a nurgle greater daemon
Brad
Automatically Appended Next Post: also, how would you guys make up a daemon prince without buying any chaos daemon stuff?
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i played with world eaters, won 32 games lost 4.
building ork army, freeboota, stack'eds
I actually had a bunch of Plague Marine heads made up to help make quick plague marines. It wasn't too expensive and now I can pretty much take any ebay marine, do a headswap, add a GS cable and have an instant plague marine! then again, I'm making a whole army, not just an odd squad
Potbellies are a good way of making Plague Marines too - for best results you should make a long strip of GS, coil it up on the Marine's stomach and then surround it in a thin layer of GS, that way you can tear it and have the "guts" poke out. It's time'consuming, but gives good results
Where oh where did you get those plague marine heads I'm looking to take my 40 plague marines to 60 so am looking for bulk stuff as I'm not so much a fan of the cheap gs way
What I have:
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hi guys, it was my birthday last thursday and i got alot of money and an amazing daemon prince model, it is the multipart one with wings and it has crash landed into a sanguinary guard model. it is painted into night lord colours but it is painted too well to strip and repaint.
with some of the money i got i have bought a box of finecast plague marines and i am getting this http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer/Warhammer_Monsters/NURGLE-DAEMON-PRINCE-AND-HERALD.html from warhammer world on wednesday at the doubles tournament. sorry about not posting pictures but my camera has stopped working so will post pics asap.
thanks for the advice metaloxide. when i bought the finecast plague marines i bought biel-tan green and i think agrax earthshade so i am doing purely washes over a white primer.
Brad
i played with world eaters, won 32 games lost 4.
building ork army, freeboota, stack'eds
hi guys, with the new nurgling and plague bearers being released on the 4th I am going to start a nurgle daemon army which should be fun to go with my plague army, will upload pics when i can. I have spent too much time at the local GW
i played with world eaters, won 32 games lost 4.
building ork army, freeboota, stack'eds
2012/08/04 21:18:45
Subject: Re:plague marines / nurgle daemons conversion blog
hi guys I have bought a box of nurglings and plague bearers and the new models are awesome, i am making an epidemius out of a nurgling base and a plague bearer
i played with world eaters, won 32 games lost 4.
building ork army, freeboota, stack'eds
Personally you don't have make them look uber fat and bloated to make them look like some bad ass death guards. Think about what parts you want to use to make your effect on the model.
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...Actually I'd suggest going easy on the Green stuff, you don't want your Plague Marines to look like "blobs", you want them to convey a bloated and diseased feel.
The rest of the green stuff looks good. 
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