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Time to begin another army, this time I though I woudl do a project thread here on Dakka for motivation, criticisim, and inspiration.

Nurgle is the theme, and the idea is Typhus' flagship and motley warband he collects in his pilgrimages in worship of Father Nurgle.

Renegade guardsmen, cultitis, and zombies of the slain support the few Deathguard who follow Typhus on his journeys. Eventually Daemons may be called forth as well.

I have collected much of the force and am now in the assembley process, nearly 100 mini's together with about 20 more deathguard, 15 zombies, and 20 more renegades to go. very little greenstuff work has been done at this point. I'm not great at sculpting, but I am going to experment with it on this army.

Below are some shots of the project in its current state. Painting will begin shortly, much of this will be done with my trusty Badger airbrush.

Enjoy the photos, C&C welcomed! More will be forthcoming as I hit milestones.

The quad gun.


The wall...






The Renenegades...


The Zombies...




The army group shots!



As I get time, there will be more to come!

Promising project! I like the mood of this army.

What's that you've done with the Aegis defense line!

Thanks, I'm pretty excited about it.

With the ADL I hit it with a dremmel grinding bit until I could manipulate the slightly molten plastic. In some places it just chipped it, but in others it bubbled irregularly.

I will post some less blurry shots soon.

That's a pretty sweet army that you have. I really like what you did with the ADL, nice and Chaotic.

Thanks!

I really got into the ADL and had a great time making it.

I dig that you are into infinity, great game that I wish more people in my area played.

I'm going to work on getting some higher quality pictures up here soon.

Very nice ADL, it's inspirational. I am running a very similar idea, but mine are more of a scouting force. I figure someone has to bring the plague before the Terminus Est enters the system I like the endurance that Nurgle brings, coupled with speed. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you do.

Looking forward to seeing this army progress.

A new arrival today, I'm really excited about playing these guys. I got one partially built before I ran out of superglue.



Hopefully tomorrow I can get the second one built and a few more renegades.

"Be it through death or faith, all before me will serve the Plaguefather. Which, matters not."

Well I have pretty much everything built, so I'm providing the before images of the army prior to beginning the next few steps.

I will probably do a test paint for the scheme, then basing the lot of them..... all 120+ (more if you count the cultists I didnt photo).

Assembly line painting with the badger airbrush should make relatively quick work of the first coats & wash.

Here are the photos, I hope tey turned out better than the first few did...

So last night and this morning I built these and 10 plague marines. One tube of super glue and a pot of coffee were sacrificed to Nurgle in this process.


I've gotten a lot of positive feedback about the quad gun and ADL so here are some more photos.



The wall of the dead.




Chaos Space Marine Detachment Hq's. the bike lord's arms are magnetized for options.



The Hq's will often roll with the Renegade Ogryns, who will be count as Chas Spawn.


Typhus' Plague Zombies group one.


Zombies group two.


Plague Marine Special Weapons. These are almost all magnetized.


Plague Marine Champions, all magnetized.


The Plague Rank and File one.


And two.


Havoc one.


Havocs two.


Obliterators.


Heldrake 1. I inverted the wings by choice. To me it is much more menacing in appearance this way.


Heldrake 2.


Hellblade.


Blight Drones, not compete. I'm intimidated by the flashing clean up and the delicate cabling. I think this has to be one of the coolest models in the GW lineup.


The Guard detachment HQs.


Renegade Psykers. do they look sanctioned to you?


What do you think: Marbo? Or should I keep looking for a better mini?


Platoon commanders, and Standard bearer. I'm very tempted to convert one commander to look like a zombie Ash, from evil dead, and then use him for Marbo. Also I think I will make an objective or zombie model a disembodied hand and a book with a face.


Sergeants, all magnetized. Anyone got some power axe bits they wanna send me?


The sacrifices to Nurgle, err guardsmen rank and file.


The special weapon troopers.


Heavy Weapon Teams.


Vendetta.
@ my LGS, need to go get it.

I believe I'm going to use some RT rhinos and a LR for this force. I'm beginning to do some green stuff work and add bits, let me know what you think so far or please offer some suggestions. they must be properly Nurglified.



I think that's everything.

The painting stage as me really excited, but I'm just not quite there yet.

Any advice on a quick and easy base appropriate for Nurgle? I was think sparse aquarium sand on Elmers and water. I would love to hear any suggestions though, I want to get it done rapidly, but it needs to look decent too.

Test pain model to be done tonight or, in the AM.

Thanks!

Hey hey hey! Now you wait just a minute! You can't just come in here & do the same thing I started doing over a year ago & never got around to finishing or providing any updates on AND already be doing a better job!
Seriously though, your army is great so far! Excellent mix of both oldskool & newskool with the RT area minis & FW minis. Love what you did with the zombies too.
In my defense on my project I've been dealing with a LOT of RL drama lately & making sure I have a roof over my head has taken precedence. I was gona (and still might) build a game table in the design of the interior of the Terminus Est. Are you planning on doing something likel that too or just the army? Not to downplay the army at all. That in of itself is very impressive. Can't wait to see these guys painted. As for the base idea, aquarium sand probably is your best bet. Or there's always good o'l fashion dirt from the back yard

Awesome start on your plog mate

Really dig the mix of old and new parts but the zombies are the ones I like the most!

R

Very impressive s far. Would you mind doing a hellblade/heldrake size comparison?

Look forward to seeing some paint on this excellent army of Nurgle

Technical difficulties with the airbrush led me to ordering a broken part.

So I did the majority of the basing today. Aquarium sand, and some hobby brand rocks mixed. Elmers and water. I didn't really want too much coverage, but on the zombie bases I had to cover up the disk the Mantic bodies come mounted on.





I chose a white primer to have the colors really pop out.

I Only primed the three as I thought I would get a few coats on them, but no the rocker broke off the needle casing after I had to clean out a needle jam. I probably broke it without even realizing it trying to free the needle.

Hopefully the part will arrive quickly, I'm anxious to paint up a few.

Edit: once I have a chance I will shoot the hellblade next to a heldrake. I think one of the original photos has them onflying stands next to each other, but the helblade is hard to make out because of it's narrow front-on profile.

Not much of an update, but all the models are based now with the exception of the flyers.

The Valkyrie/Vendetta is coming home from the LGS tonight too.

Love the work so far, and I'm still blown away how similar our ideas are. Even the models. I'll have to start posting my stuff. I'm also going to make an ADL like yours, I love it.

 Dez wrote:
Love the work so far, and I'm still blown away how similar our ideas are. Even the models. I'll have to start posting my stuff. I'm also going to make an ADL like yours, I love it.

Thanks, I must tell you the ADL was pretty easy and fun to make. My favorite part is the guardsman speared to it. I used a dremmel grinding head and let it get a coating of plastic on it by using it on some plastics. Then I used it on it's lowest speed against the wall and it actually made the plastic slightly molten and I was able to manipulate it like whipped potatoes. When I was happy with the irregular results I just let it cool.

Other than that it mostly bits from chaos vehicle sprues.

As for the army concept, originally before the dex came out I really wanted to do a Ksons chapter. I began collecting for it, and I aquired some really good ksons minis, but then the codex broke my heart with how poorly Kelly copy and pasted the Ksons into 6th.

Still wanting an original founding fallen chapter I started taking a look at doing Word Bearers. It was about then that I realized I did really want a themed army, it needed to have some competitive elements, but competitive wasn't the point of this army. Word bearers didn't end up gaining traction with me though.

I think it all came down to the zombies being back in 6th. I proxied them once and was sold. After that, the idea of not only running a fallen chapter but an iconic and pre-heresy heretic character really resonated with me.

Thus the Terminus Est idea became my theme. It has competitive elements guard allies, heldrakes, durable infantry, but for the most part it won't be a tournament level army. It will be a rock to some lists, but will likely have trouble with Mech lists especially AV13 spam and multiple AV14.

It's a theme army that carries the Nurgle theme across several different troop profiles, has a "lost and the damned" warband feel to it, an original fallen chapter, an iconic heretic character, and ZOMBIES!!! FREAKING ZOMBIES! Love it!

The other big selling point is that Nurgle is one of the most developed chaos factions for miniatures, especially in the FW range. The renegades, with their hooded masks fit right in too.\

It will lose some games, but it will look good doing it.

Dez, are these some of the reasons you were doing a similar army?

You pretty much hit the nail right on the head. It started out with the last codex release, and the thought of making toughness 6 bikers was super appealing. I had always loved the Death Guard/Nurgle aesthetic, and when Forge World came out with the conversion kits I was sold. I find myself feeling schizophrenic at times, I like to go with the rule of cool but also like to be competitive. This has lead me to using stuff others might not, but learning how to make it work. I just love the Death Guard resilience.

My Fantasy army is Dedicated to Tzeentch, and I also have a PreHeresy Thousand Sons army. I find Tzeentch to be the most intriguing of them all.

Tzeentch is my favorite too, and when I read the chaos dex I was pretty dissapointed in Kelly's work because of the Thousand Sons garbage.

I like the army concept I am working on now, but originally I wanted to do a very clean looking Thousand Sons army that used the Chaos dex.

HA! The joke was on me! Great job Phil! I still think the chaos dex is sub-par of other codex's with one OP unit, but hey it makes a fun theme list marginally better than the last Chaos Dex.

For a little while I thought I would maybe do a Tzeentch daemon army with an allied Ksons, but then I thought better about being burnt twice with a Daemon dex reportedly around the corner. I thought the Flamers looked too good to be true (for long anwyas). Now I'm glad I waited and went a different route.

A very nice start, I look forward to seeing some paint on them.

Pretty neat sh*te.
*applauds*

So much work going into this, and not paint in sight yet! What sort of paint scheme are you thinking of?

Young Logan

 Young_Logan wrote:
So much work going into this, and not paint in sight yet! What sort of paint scheme are you thinking of?

Young Logan

The part for my airbrush just arrived in the mail today. So, it will be a little while yet. I have plans this weekend, but I may get the test models done soon. A relative comes in the weekend after next, so I'm pretty tied up to do the bulk of the painting for a little bit.

My plan this weekend is an epic test of this army vs. a buddy of mine both Saturday and Sunday with some 1850 and a 2500 point game planned. He's a Dark Angels player.



I'm here to kick ass and build models, and I just ran out of superglue..... literally, unfortunately. Half built Vendetta just became tomorrow's project. :(

As for a paint scheme, I'm going to adapt the tutorial below from Lester Bursley. I like that so much of it is done with the airbrush.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/warhammer-40k/painting-40k-death-guard/

I have a 2k battle vs Dark Angels on Saturday too, haha!

Good enough to play with tomorrow anyways: the Vendetta.



Good luck in your game Dez.

I managed to get a few test models to the end of the airbrush stages. I used some DV cultists and some old plague marines that even the retro-gamer in me cannot fathom using.

The technique uses white primer, base coat of olive drab, highlights shot from above, a gloss coat, a wash, and then a sponge removal of said wash. The tutorial link I posted above has the details.

These are obviously not a finished product, but I do like how the effect is going to work for the PM.

These three are just based and highlighted.



These are finished through all of the airbrushing.





I can't wait to give it a go on the plague marines!

Assembly line!

Started on some of the plague marines tonight. The following photo' s take the miniatures pictured through the highlighting stages. I will try to glaze, wash and sponge them tomorrow.

I'm going to like the oblits in Legion colors too, I threw in a zombie just to see how it works out with this scheme.

With only 19 in the booth, I think I'm going to need a couple of weekends into this.

This is a reall cool army, the painting looks promising, can't wait to see it finisched

Tonight's tally, all 19 varnished, washed and sponged.

I am pleased with the results, even on the zombie.

What do you think?

The light is putting a bit more yellow on them than they really have.




Here are two shot with just fluorescent light.

Looking good, and it definitely works on the zombie as well.

Thanks for the comments, this thread is as much to motivate me as it is to show off what I'm doing an receive criticism. The positive remarks really make my day.

Well I spent several hours bringing up the 19 minis up to a much higher state of completion to see how it will look once it all comes together.

I am very satisfied with the results so far.





I'm especially please with the way the zombie turned out.