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Yes the jolly face... he does look rather happy!!

(from the pics POV) I would cut the eyebrow from the left eye, and as you say, remodel it a bit more angry looking, should be simple enough.

For the squinty right eye I'd be a bit more drastic, yea?- I would drill straight through the eye ball leaving a hole, yea?, using a modeling knife I'd cut into the sides of the hole making "wound marks" , yea? - maybe even continue the wound to the cheek, yea? .........Then I'd fill it with greenstuff maggots. Awwww!

As for your greenstuff skills, the only thing I have learned is sculpting fur is easy- and Fur Covers All!!

P.s sorry for this post, for some reason I have watched "talking dog" on youtuve again..... it cheers me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

Yes. I would join the frat that has those two buggers in it. I think he's coming along nicely. I do like Tortured-Robot's idea of drilling the smaller eye out and leaving the seeping hole. I would also suggest maybe stretching some green stuff from his head along the base of the horns. I think that may make more of a gradual transition. Those are my two cents. Either way he's looking awesome, Skalk.

Looking great! Very Nurgly! Don't forget pustules and boils and such! I'm sure you won't but it must be said!

The stiches look fine! If later, you still are not happy with them, take very small rolls of GS and stretch them across the parts of the stiches that are drawn together, and shape them like they are sewn into the flesh. I don't have any pictures to show what I mean, but maybe if you need them I will draw something to illustrate it.

Keep it up, it's coming together nicely!

P.S. I think I remember that auction a year ago or so! I wasn't in the market for one at the time, so I waited a year to start looking...And paid around 3 times the price just for the bits...but then again, I can assemble it how I want to, so it's all good! (it was still cheaper than buying it in the box!)

Keeping on going well. I'm liking the more jolly look it suits Nurgle. I'm imagining it acting like a Beast of Nrgle frolicing along joyfully. Glee is sometimes far more sinister than gloomy calm......

@ inmygravemimage- I love beer, but I doubt I'd want to try Nurgle's House Porter

@ Tortured-Robot / Moltar (hey man welcome back!) / RSJake- All good advice and I followed a lot of it. See new pics.

@ Llamahead- Man I'm just striking out on this one. I had to go w/ the "angrier" look. But maybe he's the "happy" kind of angry. I agree that the fluff describes Nurgle as a more jovial kind of Chaos God (nurglings are downright funny in some of the stories I've read) But between the Dark Mechanicus and Chaos Sorcerer binding and bonding it to a weapons platform, I imagine it may have lost its sense of humor.



Ok, here it is- GS is finished. Next time you see him he'll be primed and ready for paint:



I added a new right eye and carves the plastic out a bit and added an "eyebrow" for effect, I think he looks a lot less happy now. I covered over the left eye but left enough of the socket to show there was one there once, it's just scabbed over now. I changed the shape of the mouth a bit, then gave it a new rim / lip and addled ridiculously-sized teeth. I cut down the nose a lot so it isn't such a bulbous clowny nose. I draped some extra skin over the horns to smooth out the transition a bit, I added huge pustules for that "icky pus squirty ewww" look. That's it. Done. If it's not on there now it's not going on unless someone recommends something awesome and I get a lot of pressure from everyone else to do it.

Here's the "detail" pics:







That's likely it for a while. Tomorrow night I'm working late shift (I'll be on Dakka but likely won't get any work done tomorrow) then Friday I have to go to my wife's stupid dummyhead holiday party, and then Saturday night we have to go to MY company's stupid dummyhead holiday party AND our friends are having a bonfire that night that I'm not sure I even want to go to.

Feh.

Anyway, update on that chassis / weapon platform- it's coming along but is much less exciting than the Daemon part of things. I'm keeping the chassis clean and uncorrupted. I want a specific delineation between where monster stops and machine begins. Plus I already tried to GS it and it looked horrible so i used more trying to fix it and it got worse and worse so I ripped it all off and now I'm going w/ a clean chassis and no I'm not changing my mind because I am terrible w/ sculpting and I'm not looking to "practice" on this model.

Pics will be coming soon. It is likely not going to be the "day-glo" green the rest of my army has, it will be darker and grittier and nastier. The Daemon will have the dayglo, but the machine will not. Probably not. Maybe not. We'll see.

And with luck I might have a surprise later. I'm really hoping so. It would be really really awesome. Keep you fingers crossed.

That's it for this one. Thanks for looking, way more coming. I might surprise you all w/ some new Plague Marines sooner than later, I've been keeping busy between drying glue and drying GS. Because we all know I need way more Plague Marines.



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And an update from my post earlier about a surprise if I was lucky. I was.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/180766341961?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Oh yeah!!! Another Land Raider on the way!! Whoooooooooo!

Time to contact Blood and Skull Industries again. I'm going to use Krusher Pattern 0 Tank Treads this time. Oh sweet joy! Another Land Raider on the table!

I'd better hurry up w/ the Defiler. Ha.

Defiler looking great! very disgusting,

And congrats on the Land Raider! And those tracks are pretty sweet!

To be honest your gs skills seem fairly good, i wouldnt beat yourself up too much. I really like where the defiler is going! Rust is always a good look for the machine parts!

I didn't know these ebay stores, thanks for the links!

Are you going to add some stitches to the defiler?

@ RSJake- Thank you on both counts. I'm really excited about the Land Raider. Just added another 220pts to my overall force, and the firepower it brings it disgusting. I'm going to go with the basic setup, but this time I'm going to magnetize the side sponsons in case 6th Ed gives Chaos some options. Sometimes I think CSM are more Codex Astartes than the Ultramarines! Talk about 33 flavors of vanilla. Oh, I forgot... I can add a Havoc Launcher! Whooo... whatever. I can't have a Havoc Launcer AND a twin-linked Bolter... pick one. I can't have anything except Lascannon side-sponsons (because we all know Chaos would NEVER use something DIFFERENT). Gah. I'm so ready for 5th Edition to take its place in history next to Windows Vista and Jamaican bobsledding.

@ Tortured-Robot- Agreed. I'm getting over it.

@ Hyenajoe- Yeah, Machinator does awesome work! He's a Dakka member as well, check out his threads.



Updates! I did some painting done last night because I knew the next few days are going to be lame. Here's what I got done:

PRIMED!





Detail really came out on this! Shows the GS I did wasn't nearly as horrible as I thought. Scars look good, ox marks etc coming out nicely, good job overall! You'd never guess this started out as the upper torso of a WFB Giant.

GREEN INK!





The ink really brings out the recesses and detail. Face still has a bit of goofyness left in it, but it's not as happy as it was before. I'm seeing some things I don't like here, but moving on.

DEVLIN MUD!





More shadows, more detail, starting to really like this a lot.

GRIFFON SEPIA and TENTACLE PINK (guts)!



Oh yeah. Yes I like this. A lot.

GUN METAL!



Keep in mind all of this is just initial work, but I'm really glad to be on painting now. So so much more horrid horribleness is on the way!

Next update in a couple days at the earliest. I hate the holidays.

Thanks for looking!

Nice! that is really horrendous! Way to go!

That is just badass...really!

Nice job, can't wait to see it finished.

@ RSJake- Thank you! I am honored to know my work is horrendous!

@ dsteingass- Yes, it really is.

@ Ogryn- I'm really excited about seeing this finished. It's a massive model. On of these times I'm going to use some other miniatures next to is for scale reference.



This is ridiculous. I should have been in bed a couple hours ago. But no, I'm obsessed. I want to skip work tomorrow so I can get more stuff done on this. This weekend is going to suck because I have no modeling time.

Enough whining... UPDATE!



This is just a mock-up for an idea of how it is gong to look, monster and machine are still 2 separate pieces. That will change before too much longer, though.



Closeup of the converted weapons system. Twin-linked RAC, Battlecannon, and twin-linked Heavy Flamer.



Closeup of the Daemon. I think it is working out really well.

Thanks for looking, I have to go to bed. I don't want to, I'd rather drink coffee and keep going until I fall asleep in front of my painting table w/ a paintbrush in one hand and a model in the other (it's happened). But I'm off to be "responsible" because I'm going to be at work all day and out all night tomorrow for my wife's stupid dumb holiday party.

I hate the holidays.

Hate.

Nice dirty paintjob!
Perhaps some more purple and brown on the intestines?

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote: Thanks for looking, I have to go to bed. I don't want to, I'd rather drink coffee and keep going until I fall asleep in front of my painting table w/ a paintbrush in one hand and a model in the other (it's happened). But I'm off to be "responsible" because I'm going to be at work all day and out all night tomorrow for my wife's stupid dumb holiday party.

I hate the holidays.

Hate.

Heretic! Bless the sleeping time as well as the modelling time provided by holidays and think about those who are lacking of both!

Patience, patience. It's all coming. The paintjob on this is going to take many hours to do correctly.

I'm hoping to have it done no later than next Friday because 1> my new Land Raider will be here, and 2> I have a monster of a party weekend planned (and unlike other social activities I've had to endure, this I'm wicked looking forward to and am going to enjoy a lot). I'll have some modeling time here and there over the next week, like tonight after i get back from the party, etc.

There's a lot of changes coming. When this is done I expect it is going to be similar (in paint job) as my Daemon Prince:



It will not have the glossy stuff on it, but it will be similar in coloring and blending.

haha, yes, fantastic stuff, its going to be one fantastic model!

I really like the effect you get with the green, is it really all just inks?

The guns look cool, it maybe just my odd mind but is anyone else getting a "flasher" vibe from this? thinks its the arms and the groinal location of his guns

looks great!! dont sleep!

You'll sleep when you're dead Bloodaxe!!!

This has to be my favorite CSM blog ever! The mix of old and new models along with cool conversions and great paintjobs makes a great read!

@ Tortured-Robot - I'm looking forward to the guys seeing this on the table. Of course it will likely get blown apart before I get to use it for anything (my Daemon Prince draw and enormous amount of attention when it shows up, and it took 3 games before it drew any blood at all). If I could Deep Strike this thing, I would. I might hold it in Reserve, but yeah, coming in on the last turn isn't going to give me much idea on how well it works.

@ dsteingass- I appreciate and respect the philosophy, but it seem like I'm hastening that final moment by not sleeping at least a little here and there while I'm still alive. Besides, I get grumpy and shaky after 36+ hrs. That would affect my paintjob for sure, and I don't need to remind you of this:



@ Commander Cain- Wow, thank you! I really enjoy bringing the past back up to present (be sure to check out Tortured-Robot's Chaos Marine Renegades for some great RT conversions if you haven't already). This has been my most favored project I've ever worked on, and over a year later it is still as relevant and active as it was when I first started it.

That was a dark day indeed.

It's looking good. A lot like the Forgeworld Plague Hulk whih might be an option for rules at some point.

"@ GreyDeathOne- I'm thinking 6,500ish but not sure, I'd have to do a recount. Suffice to say it's more than I can play all at once (unless APOC finally comes along) "

Holy 6,500ish!!! Damn I envy you!! BTW that defi turned out great man love the progress on that model you did a great job on him !!

Sorry, I guess "horrendous" was a bad choice, but I got tired of saying that it was disgusting, which it is, and in a very good way. I'm sure you knew what I meant, and that I meant it as a compliment. I just wanted to explain it.

Anyway, it is really looking great! I had assumed when you were working on the torso, that the daemon's big mouth was going to be the cannon! But you are also putting the actual cannon on it! Cool!

The painting is really looking slimey and rotten and gross, very Nurgly!

@ dsteingass- At least it was mostly balsa, and the plasticard was salvaged for the next attempt. No rivets, though. I'll get back on that project after a while but obviously I'm distracted elsewhere for a while.

@ Llamahead- Funny you should say that, I had no knowledge of Plague Hulks until yesterday when i was doing a Google Search for Plague Marine Defiler to -steal- find other ideas on how people have done similar projects. The FW model looks AWESOME but on my honor I'd never seen one of them. My primary motivation for this project was due to a Nurgle Soul Grinder Conversion I saw by Bigdobbo. I wanted mine to be different but am now realizing that I have (inadvertently) created a Soul Grinder w/ guns. Whatever. It looks awesome and will command a lot of respect.

@ GreyDeathOne- I have no idea what I'm doing with all of this or what I want to do. It's out of control. By the time it is done I'll be fielding an entire Legion. And thank you for the compliment, I like that miniature a lot!

@ RSJake- I took that as the highest compliment! Horrific, disgusting, horrid, wretched, sickening, etc... all words of praise and admiration when it comes to a properly done Death Guard. I apologize if I came off as taking offense, I most certinally did not and if I actually HAD, I'd have PM'ed you because I think calling people out on threads is bad form and speaks of ill breeding.



So... I'm at work and I'm sick of working but I don't have anything new to share, so I'm going to try to derail my own thread (sort of, anyway) by taking a trip down Plague Marine Memory Lane. Here are some of my favored models from this project so far (in chronological order) for your viewing pleasure. It's sort of like when a "Part II" movie comes out and uses "flashback" scenes from the first movie.



Cliched and immature... but when I converted this Plague Lord in 1997 he was flipping off a very specific Eldar Phoenix Lord and that sentiment remains still today. The body is from the plastic Terminators that came w/ the 2nd Ed Space Hulk game, the head is from a metal WFB Ghoul, and the arms are 40K 2nd Ed Chaos Terminator.



One of my very first Champions. He was converted from a 40K 2nd Ed Sergeant (from the W40K box w/ plastic Space Marines and Goff Orks). I used a WFB Skeleton breastplate to bulk and bloat him out a bit. The Marines behind him are also from the 2nd Ed Space Marine plastics. I was short on $$$ at the time but long on miniatures I'd never use for anything else, so they formed the original Death Guard. Father Nurgle claims all in the end.



Rogue Trader Chaos Terminator as my Chaos Sorcerer. I do not always use a sorcerer model but when I do this is who steps up. Part of my original Death Guard, has seen as many battles as any of my other miniatures. I like this miniature a lot and I have multiple copies of it, the other two are part of my World Eaters and Dark Lords.



The center model was painted in Nov 2010 but the other two are part of the original lot I picked up back in 1995 (I think, 1996 at the latest) and have long been part of my Death Guard. I wish I had a few dozen of these. Yes, the pose would repeat over and over but they are just so cool... and of course I'd convert a few just because.



Another 1996 / 1997 project, this is the very first vehicle I dedicated to Father Nurgle. The paint job I've done on the rest of my vehicles is very similar, but I hadn't discovered the "spiky right fender" idea yet. The paint on this model looks very dark, but it's actually dust. It's been cleaned off since then.



First major conversion of my current Death Guard efforts. My friend Feldenglas stated that Plague Marines were disgusting and had re-breather tubs up their butts. Soooo... hahah.



The mighty Daemon Prince! He displaced a Daemon Prince I had in my Death Guard originally. This looks way, way better. I should take a pic of the other one becasue if nothing else it is a cool model for what it was... this is just way more awesome better.



First completed Havoc Squad (Heavy Bolters) dedicated to the Death Guard. I was hoping this much firepower would help me mow down Feldenglas' 'Nids. I played this squad a couple times and found them to be painfully ineffective against Orks. Haven't been back on the table since but that could change if I get the chance to play a really big game. I really like the conversions in this and I enjoyed bringing the past up to current.



The original Rhinos I converted from Dark Angel to Death Guard. It was the first time I used spiky bitz and it became a standard later on (I did go back and put them on the Rhino missing them in this pic)



Rogue Trader Chaos Marine converted to Havoc Autocannon. The conversion was simple enough, but the transformation was amazing. You can see the original model here for reference.



The Birka Dreadnought, completed when I was at Birka 2011 in NH. Ha. Painting even while on vacation!



I don't need to explain this one.



Havoc Missile Launchers. Every model is RT and completely awesome. I used the old Plasma Cannons and Conversion Beamers because I was sick of Chaos not having weapons in 5th Ed that they used to have, so I'm including them now with "counts as" rules until they come back (if they ever do... man I hate 5th Ed.)



Took me months to complete, but I'm very happy with the final results. Still have yet to test their mettle in battle, but I'm thinking that might happen soon.



Most recent model I've finished and I am really happy w/ it. May go back and redo the mask, am less happy w/ it right now than I was before, but overall it's a great model.

Hope you enjoyed this trp down Plague Marine Memory Lane. I'll likely do this again around the same time next year.


*edited becasue GD1 and RSJake commented while I was writing this beastly post*

Skalk, no it didn't sound like you took offence, just re-reading my words, they didn't quite sound like the expression I was going for.

Loved the trip down memory lane!

I'd like to do that, but going back over my threads, there really aren't a whole lot of finished products to show...so maybe next year!

I love your early conversion, especially your termie lord and the 2nd ed sergeant

Indeed it reminds me of my early days in 40k and the armies my friends and I had back in those days (using every model we could to fit our army )

I LOVE that Dreadnought.

Nah - for me , it's the land raider every time. A fist full of win. Or rather, a faceful.

The defiler is coming along very nicely and the mouth of the Land Raider looks incredible.

keep up the excellent work

So much great stuff in here mate, that I'm not gona list it all, but a very nice effort.. I just wanna see a group photo now!