youwashock wrote:
You do go to town on those walker conversions. A great part of the hobby. Definitely keep that scheme for the DG. It's killer.

Yeah, they’ve been so much fun that I’ve been eyeing up some more! That green in the eyes does looks cool, so maybe I will keep the scheme.

For now though I’ve carried on with Killzone Volkus. Yesterday I spent a few half hour slots throwing metallics on to the terrain. Breaking it up in to small chunks worked pretty well and wasn’t too painful. It probably helped by having 4 different metals to do, so it wasn’t too monotonous.

The metals were Boltgun metal, dark gunmetal, brassy brass and ghennas gold. The ghennas gold turned out better than it has previously but I wanted a bit more copper pipe look so I added some orange speed paint. That did the job and made the pipes look like brand new copper. I also tried the orange on the Boltgun metal which looks like an old copper pipe.

Today I carried on sneaking bits of progress here and there, mostly concentrating on finding the bits of metal work that I’d missed, painting the various cables with contrast and slapping lots of Ratling Grime all over the metals.

Why did nobody tell me how good Ratling Grime was before! It gives a fantastic greasy grimy look and the terrain is now looking rather grim dark. I wanted to put a bit of Nihilakh Oxide on the coppers and there’s a few other details to pick out but the terrain is getting closer to completion. With it being magnetised to ease transportation I fear it might take a battering so will have to give it a matte varnish

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Also, those pics look basically the same! I promise there’s lots that is different, I’ll change to the big pics now

That's a lot of terrain, good that you have found a way to paint it without loosing it. Results are looking great so far!

Nice terrain gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Poxwalkers are looking real good. Will be interesting to see the Death Guard army shape up!

Painting terrain can be hideous, but it's great you found a technique. Hats off for sitting through all that metal!

muette wrote:That's a lot of terrain, good that you have found a way to paint it without loosing it. Results are looking great so far!

Yeah, tell me about it it was quite a slog yesterday hitting all of the rivets with rust but I managed it!

Captain Brown wrote:Nice terrain gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Captain!

Ezki wrote:Poxwalkers are looking real good. Will be interesting to see the Death Guard army shape up!
Painting terrain can be hideous, but it's great you found a technique. Hats off for sitting through all that metal!

Thanks Ezki, the Poxwalkers have been great fun so far, hopefully the painting is just as fun. The terrain has actually been ok, nowhere near as bad as I feared, would’ve been nice if it didn’t stink so much after the oil wash. Thankfully that’s eased off now.

F-Me that was a lot of rivets! And it didn’t even do them all! I hit most of the rivets yesterday with a bit of Vallejo Game Effects Rust and then some Rust. Whilst it was a massive slog that finished at 1am, I was expecting worse. Lucky for me a new set of brushes arrived just in time. Some Squirrel hair brushes with a fine tip and a fat body that made sure I could hold most of one sides worth of paint. Here’s where I got to

With a few close ups to show details





You’ll also notice that I added the Nihilakh Oxide on the coppery and brassy bits to help with the weathered look. I’m sure that I’ve missed bits, but I’m close to calling the set done. I want to throw some dark charring on the tops of the walls, which I’m thinking of doing through the airbrush.

Well, I actually managed to do more painting before I posted the words and pics above. Just the airbrushing I mentioned above and then picking out the skulls and the notice board in one of the strongholds.

Annoyingly it looks like I missed spraying the ratling grime (with a bit of speed paint gravelord grey as I was running low) from this side of the big stronghold. Oh well, I’ll have to live with it I guess. I’m now pretty much done and just need to give it some matte varnish before I add some blood for the blood god.

Elsewhere my New Year New Army project made some minor progress as I got all of the basing done.

I could do with a few more minis to get to 2000 pts, and I’m eyeing up a Great Unclean One and some Plague Bearers from Legends lists. Though rumour has it they will be part of the next codex. I’m thinking the Kill Team will be my next project now that I have all of the minis based and ready to go

Thanks for looking

Man, every time I pop in here I forget how sweet of thread this is!

Brilliant updates as per usual Gobert. Great terrain! That's a lot of nasty nurgley types there! Good luck getting them painted

MegaDave wrote:Man, every time I pop in here I forget how sweet of thread this is!

Thanks Dave I appreciate it, good to see you back!

Olthannon wrote:Brilliant updates as per usual Gobert. Great terrain! That's a lot of nasty nurgley types there! Good luck getting them painted

Thanks Olthannon, glad you like the posts, I’m worried they’re a bit samey. I’m really quite excited to get the Nurgle gang painted as you’ll see from today’s progress!

As noted above I’m worried my posts get a bit samey, tonight’s update on the Volkus terrain really would fit that to perfection as all I did on it was the varnish. Annoyingly the Army Painter Matt anti-shine varnish, is actually quite shiny . It’s old so that could be the cause, but it’s a tad annoying. Thankfully it’s more of a satin finish than a full on gloss so it doesn’t look terrible. I took the structures apart and sprayed everything separately to make sure I got full coverage, but that also means that some bits are quite snug fitting now. I’ll give it a scrape with my knife when the varnish has cured fully.

It seems I was in the mood for spraying stuff and decided to smash through the whole Death Guard army.

I’ve decided to stick with the scheme from Blackstone Fortress for the Plague Marines so they all got a prime of Colour Forge Matt Black. I might change things up a bit and sponge the highlights on the black armour instead of the edge highlight and I might also change the rust to match the Volkus terrain style. Both because they’re quicker and I think sponging would suit the Death Guard more than crisp(ish) edges. The Gellerpox Infected and Poxwalkers got a Halfords grey prime and a zenithal of Halfords white primer. The minis that were already primed got another coat to help seal the texture on the bases better. It might’ve been better to drop some watered pcs on the bases first, but hopefully this will work well enough too. Finally ignore the 2 minis that are still green, they’ll be going on eBay soon as they’re duplicates.

Thanks for looking

I slapped a few bits of Blood for the Blood God around some of the Volkus terrain including some badly spelled graffiti. With that I’m calling Volkus complete and since it breaks down in to 30 pieces plus 6 Brutal & Cunning crates (for the ratlings to stand on so they can see out of the stockade and bunker! ) gets me to 60 pieces finished for the year.
Here’s the pics starting with Stronghold A and it’s dodgy spelling





And somebody didn’t quite make it all the way up to the platform

The Blooded made it to Stronghold B but their tagging was a bit messy








There’s a bunch of scatter terrain barricades




The blooded will enjoy hiding behind these

The set also includes some Mechanicus Ruins




They turned out pretty cool so I took some individual pics as well






And the bigger 2

















And last but not least for this update are the Ratlings’ crates

I love that they were too short for the terrain set that they were sold with!

The Bunkers and Stockades are pretty much done too but I found a few skulls that I missed so I’ll try to finish them in the next few days.

As for the rest of the terrain set I’ll be taking it to my regular ish Kill Team gathering on Wednesday, after which I’ll splatter some blood about where operatives die for some added flavour. I also want to take some action shots, but the question is what minis should I use? Blooded, Void Panthers, Blackstone Fortress gang, 2nd edition Orks, Blood Angels, Space Wolves, Necrons, Crimson Fists or a mixture of them?

Thanks for looking and sorry for the high res pics

Great paint work on those ruins. It must have taken a lot of time for that much scenery.

Man, the patience it took to pick out all those copper/bronze/brass pipes and fittings and then weather them! What exquisite pieces to game with!

Rock on!

Terrain looks great. Would love to play on it.

Excellent! They will look great on the tabletop.

Tommygun1918 wrote:Great paint work on those ruins. It must have taken a lot of time for that much scenery.

Thanks Tommygun1918, it took a while, but doing it gradually over lots of short bursts and a couple of longish sessions I managed to do it within a month or so.

Meer_Cat wrote:
Man, the patience it took to pick out all those copper/bronze/brass pipes and fittings and then weather them! What exquisite pieces to game with!
Rock on!

Yeah the pipes took a while, but I’m really pleased how they turned out.

blockade23 wrote:Terrain looks great. Would love to play on it.

Thanks blockade, it was great to get a game in last night on it.

muette wrote:Excellent! They will look great on the tabletop.

Thanks muette, hopefully this batch of pics will give a feel for how it looks on the table

I took a few pics on Tuesday night of the whole set

I also got the Blooded out and some Void Panthers for a few action shots

The sniper found his hiding spot

The Void Panthers got stuck in

The Butcher and co wait impatiently for action


And a Space Marine Hero was eager to get involved

The file set enjoyed a good bit of stalking

And a final one for most of the details


I then packed it all away in my carry case by matching-ish the sprue layouts. I took pics to help me remember the rough order and orientations



With the foam insert for my kill team and then my 3 printed token storage above that it’s a nice snug fit. I should probably put a thin piece of foam underneath as it was rattling about a bit on the back of my bike.

Last night also saw the first game on the terrain.

We ran out of time but looking at the likely outcome of the final TP figured that the Blooded drew with Tempestus Aquilons. If the Aquilons killed another Blooded they would’ve won, but the operatives that they needed to kill were some of the tougher operatives so it was quite tight. Packing away didn’t quite match the pics above, but I think it all survived the journey

I’ve also finished Stockades and Bunkers from the Brutal & Cunning expansion, but I’ll save those pics for another time.

Thanks for looking!

That's how you do it! Looks great! Awesome staged pics, and congrats on breaking it in, already!

Great work Gobert!

youwashock wrote:That's how you do it! Looks great! Awesome staged pics, and congrats on breaking it in, already!

Thanks man! The staged pics were good fun to put together and the game was great as well

Not Online!!! wrote:Great work Gobert!

Thanks Not Online!!!

I should really be getting back to the Space Hulk Terminators, but I really want to get the Plague Marine Kill Team done as I reckon they’ll be quicker to play with than the Blooded. So I got stuck in and put together a test of an adjusted colour scheme. The theme will be basically the same as the Blackstone Fortress Ppague Marines, but it’s much quicker than the tedious edge highlights









The black armour got a sponged and stippled purple highlight then a stippled and drybrush grey highlight. I gave the trim a brassy layer before washing with Ratling Grime and spotting on some Verdigris. The steel was Boltgun metal, ratling grime, vallejo dry rust and then spots of rust. Both metals got a quick dry brush over the top to bring some shine back as it was looking a bit too dull. The fleshy pipes and tentacles started with ultramarine blue, mixed up to purple, then through to pink and I think they’re looking pretty cool though I’m worried they contrast a bit too much with the rest being so muted. The had Zandri dust and ratling grime, and then highlighted back up to bone. I’ll then picked out the spots with yellow and ringed them with red soreness and a dash of purple. I then did a bit of green glow, picking out a couple of holes on his face mask and a bit on the symbol on his shoulder. Now the question is do I add a bit more green to be closer to the Blackstone Fortress Plague Marines



Let me know what you think on the green glow, or the Blue/Purple/Pink fleshy bits. I’ll be starting the Space Marine Heroes Plague Marines soon.

Thanks for looking

I nearly forgot to post pics of the Killzone Volkus expansion from Kill Team: Brutal & Cunning.

The kit has a duplicate of the same set so I flipped the inside and outside of the stockade parts to help magnetising and to make them look a bit different. I also carved off the Aquila from the bunker and added some freehand Blooded icons and a bloody hand print

I took a load more pics and put them in my Killzone Volkus album if anyone cares to look. I feel the lighter base colour helped these and think they look better than the main Volkus set in terms of paint job at least.

I also made a start on the Plague Marine Kill Team yesterday. I pushed the highlights on the armour a bit more, perhaps too much on the purple, but nothing a bit of a wash can’t fix. I forgot to take pics so might update this later

Thanks for looking

Happy enough with the test Plague Marine I decided to make a start with the Kill Team. I did push the highlights a bit more but they ended up looking purple with a dusty grey highlight, so I knocked it back with some Ratling Grime. That gave a good compromise that I was happy with. I then got stuck in with the painting the trim in brass… so much brass!

I also made a start on the steel/iron elements getting two done, but that much metallic paint in 1 day is a slog. Maybe I’ll get that done in the next few days

Thanks for looking

Man, you are absolutely tearing it up, lately. That extra bit of terrain is pretty sweet, but the new PM are going to be fantastic. The technique really works for those models.

The terrain is amazing.

gobert,

Fantastic terrain. I had to exalt multiple posts.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:Man, you are absolutely tearing it up, lately. That extra bit of terrain is pretty sweet, but the new PM are going to be fantastic. The technique really works for those models.

Thanks youwashock, I’ve been really enjoying my hobby time of late. Lots of variety in models and techniques coupled with tackling the boring bits in short windows for the main part has worked well for me.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:The terrain is amazing.

Thanks Gwyn, it was surprisingly effective for mostly simple techniques

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Fantastic terrain. I had to exalt multiple posts.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Captain, it was a super fun project. I’m actually looking forward to my Sector Imperialis terrain arriving and I plan on tackling it in a similar fashion.

I’ve been plodding along with the Plague Marines, getting all of the Steel bits base coated the other day

I then made a start on the fleshy bits and Nurglings. The base colour is blue making them look like Plague Smurfs,

They didn’t stay full Smurfs for long as I added purple to the blue for their first highlight

A couple got a further highlight of straight purple but I’ve not got a pic of that for now. Hopefully I’ll get them all purple and move on to the pinks tonight.

Thanks for looking

That terrain looks great! It's always a major undertaking but well worth it when you see it in-game populated with your squads of minis. Nice job.

Love your battle scene photos, they look top notch.

Death Guard are looking brilliant, the purple wiggly bits are a nice contrast. The glowing green eyes though oooft, spot on!

Gulgog TufToof wrote:That terrain looks great! It's always a major undertaking but well worth it when you see it in-game populated with your squads of minis. Nice job.

Thanks Gulgog, it was an undertaking that the game play made worthwhile

Olthannon wrote:Love your battle scene photos, they look top notch.
Death Guard are looking brilliant, the purple wiggly bits are a nice contrast. The glowing green eyes though oooft, spot on!

Thanks Olthannon, glad you like the pics they give me a good sense of completion. As for the Plague Marines I think the glow is what really sells the look

Last night I carried on with the Plague Marines fleshy bits, first finishing the purple



Then adding pink to the mix

It was taking a while and I was beginning to doubt myself so I decided to finish up one of the nurglings’ skin

It didn’t quite go pale enough so I added some white to the mix

And he’s looking a bit better. I’m still not sold and he’s looking a bit rough, so I think I’ll give glazing a go, just not sure what colour to do the glaze, possibly the mid tone? What do you guys think?

Thanks for looking

I love those Nurglings, I think the pinky purple is looking brilliant. A glaze will finish off nicely. I really liked the old tentacle pink and that really reminds me of it.

 Olthannon wrote:
I love those Nurglings, I think the pinky purple is looking brilliant. A glaze will finish off nicely. I really liked the old tentacle pink and that really reminds me of it.

Thanks mate, the as is state is growing on me as I’ve done more of them. Might do the back of one of them with Druchii violet and see how that goes.

Doing each layer on each of the Plague Marines before moving on to the next wasn’t working for me. So I figured I’d do them one at a time and get the completion buzz early. So far I’ve got 5 of them done with a couple more to go

The last two are partially highlighted as well so should get that done soon. Have been shooting ideas on what other colours to do on the Nurglings. Yellow has been suggested for their innards to up the diseased feel, which could be good as it’ll match in either the Plague Marines’ boils. Another idea was a coat of gloss to give them a slimey feel. Will give those a try unless you guys have better suggestions?

Having sold the other half of the kill team started set to a guy at work I got the itch to do something with my Space Marine Heroes set. I’d been tempted to do different chapters for each Marine, but resolved to do some minor conversion and go with Deathwatch instead. I got a bunch of Deathwatch Pauldrons with some Intercessors I got with the Deathwatch Watchmaster that I painted for Blackstone Fortress, plus I had a decent variety of sculpted chapters’ shoulder pads.

Left to Right we have a: Black Consul, Ultramarine, Space Wolf, Raven Guard, Dark Angel, Blood Angel, Imperial Fist. For the Dark Angel, Space Wolf and Blood Angel I had a few spare heads that fitted their chapters well. The Spsce Wolf even got a firstborn chest piece and special Bolter, though the former is hidden by the Bolter. Annoyingly I realised afterwards that I had a bunch of Intercessor bits that I could’ve used for more variety on him and to expose that chest. The Fist got a different respirator wearing head and he needs his chapter icon glueing on. Just Captain Justian to go. I’m thinking that he’ll be a Void Panther, perhaps the only one to cross the Rubicon?

Thanks for looking

Finally! The pink highlighting is done on the Nurglings! Of course I now see loads of pipes and stuff that I’ve missed .

Before moving on to washes I threw some yellow on for the pustules and bases. One of my WhatsApp groups suggested yellow innards and I thought that’d be cool, so they all got yellow tongues and mouths.

It contrasts the pink really well I think. Next I’ll do the barnacles, horns and teeth on bone. Need to think what colour to do their tabards. Purple is an option, as is just a dirty white, maybe like the original death guard colours? Or maybe I lean in to the Dusk Raiders and go with a dark red/crimson?

Thanks for looking

The test Nurgling is adorable. The DG are looking very good. I am looking forward to the Deathwatch Marines.

I would go with the dirty white to create come contrast. Purple will blend with the black metallic that makes up a lot of the armour.

My two cents,

CB

youwashock wrote:The test Nurgling is adorable. The DG are looking very good. I am looking forward to the Deathwatch Marines.

He is a cutie isn’t he! Glowing green eyes might change your mind though! I might need to do something else next as another black project might be a bit much… but I was testing potential black recipes earlier, so you never know.

Captain Brown wrote:I would go with the dirty white to create come contrast. Purple will blend with the black metallic that makes up a lot of the armour.
My two cents,
CB

Yeah, I think you’re right Cap, dirty white would give plenty of contrast. I did think Crimson would be cool, but once the green is on it might be a few too many colours. White it is!

Mrs gobert is away in London, so I had a free evening to paint once clubs were done and kids were in bed. Nothing much to report, just another coat of yellow and then some Zandri dust on the bone, horns and barnacles

It was quite slog in the end as those barnacles were everywhere and most of the other areas needed 2-3 coats for full coverage. The test mini even joined the party as he needed another coat of yellow on his base.

I spotted quite a few bits that should be pink or Boltgun metal or copper, so I need to do those next as I think I’m pretty much at the wash stage now. If you look at spots like the grenadiers ones you can see some of the tougher touch ups that I need to do. If I stick with stippling I’ll need to be careful now the surrounding areas are painted. I guess these guys will need a varnish once they’re done to stop more paint rubbing off

Than I for looking

They look like they are coming along nicely and those bases are suitable sickly looking.
Army painter's Ghillie Dew might look good as a wash over those bases.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
They look like they are coming along nicely and those bases are suitable sickly looking.
Army painter's Ghillie Dew might look good as a wash over those bases.

Thanks Tommygun1918, I think they’re progressing nicely too, and the grimdark has just entered the building. I don’t have Ghillie Dew, but I’m thinking of sulphur wastes, so it might be a good purchase for the greenish patches.

I’ve been making busy in these guys but forgot to take step by step pics. Basically all of the none black section got a Ratling Grime was. The copper/brass areas got some Nihalakh Oxide. The pits and breaks in the armour as well as the Boltgun Metal areas got a wash of Vallejo Game Effects Dry Rust, including some streaks with adry brush. That was followed by watered down Vallejo Game Effects Rust. I then picked out some of the piping and flys that I missed before doing another highlight on some of the pinker Nurglings and cables, including the test Marine. I then dry brushed some Brassy Brass to give a bit more shine those areas. The bone and horns then got a first highlight of Zandri Dust mixed with some Ratling Grime. Getting us to here:

I’ll finish up the bone next and then probably the pustules, wood and leathers. The green glow will be the finishing touches on any liquids, lenses and smoke/flames.

Through the week I spent a bit of time sorting out some of my pile and figured that I would build the last couple of Necrons I have.

Illuminor Szeras and a Psychomancer, both were bought because of their magic effects. The life essence being removed and the digi-skull were just too cool to resist! I have to say that they were both really quite fiddly to assemble but super fun at the same time… kinda tempts my to but some Canoptek Wraiths and Spiders to paint with them

Thanks for looking

Getting there, man. Can't wait to see the end result!

Looking good so far!

Progress looks good gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Only now noticed that you managed to finish your Volkus terrain. Fantastic job mate! If you had took the time to add a bit of superdetailing, those terrain pieces could easily go for a diorama all on their own. Superbly done!

I've been trying to cook up a black / dark purple scheme for my Death Guard and I can't quite get it right. Your scheme looks great!

youwashock wrote:Getting there, man. Can't wait to see the end result!

Thanks mate, there’s still a good bit to do and I’ve just taken a detour…

muette wrote:Looking good so far!

Thanks muette

Captain Brown wrote:Progress looks good gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Slow and steady wins the race

tauist wrote:Only now noticed that you managed to finish your Volkus terrain. Fantastic job mate! If you had took the time to add a bit of superdetailing, those terrain pieces could easily go for a diorama all on their own. Superbly done!

Thanks tauist, it was a great set to paint up and the scheme I loosely followed was fun and turned out great!

Tek wrote:I've been trying to cook up a black / dark purple scheme for my Death Guard and I can't quite get it right. Your scheme looks great!

Thanks Tek, and welcome to my plog. Feel free to steal the recipe, I think I put the steps down earlier, but it was just an Army painter Purple stippled on followed by a mid grey stipple/dry brush. I also did a bit of Ratling Grime on the lower half of panels to darken them down a bit.

So I’m away for work tonight and rather than bringing the full Kill Team I brought a one man Kill Team! Inspired by my Kill Team group chat, I decided to paint up an Eversor that I planned to be part of my Blackstone Fortress collection. We’re thinking of home brewing some rules for him to play as a lone operative, wreaking havoc on some unsuspecting Kill Team. I’ve decided to stick close to the box art in terms of colours, but going more green than blue with his black bodysuit. In one evening I’ve managed to paint the suit, his ‘armour’/back pack and his skulls (though I missed one on his thigh armour. Pretty pleased with him so far, what do you guys think? (Apologies for the poor pic, his gun and half pipe makes him a pita to picture!)

Always glad to see an assassin. Looking good, so far!

Nice gobert.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:Always glad to see an assassin. Looking good, so far!

Thanks, I’m beginning to think I might switch to painting models individually. The rate of progress is so good

Captain Brown wrote:Nice gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Cap, he’s a fun little model

I got a bit of painting in this week and switched back to the Plague Marines. I started on their bases and thought I’d try a how they looked with some Speed Paints over the sand. I ended up liking the result on the test mini so rolled it out on the others. The whole base got a coat of yellow speed paint, then I did spots of orange speed paint and mixed up a very thin incubi darkness and a Vallejo turquoise. I did all 3 colours whilst they were still wet to encourage them to bleed in to one another. I’m not sure they exactly match Olthannon’s bases and certainly they don’t match the Sulphur Thermal Springs they were inspired from, but I think they look cool. After that the bases got a Chaos black rim and the horns got a few more highlights ending on ushabti bone. The bandages started off like the bones, but went to pallid wych flesh instead.


I need to to think how to paint all of the maggots, probably a flesh/red wash, maybe some pink? Once that’s done I think it’s the Plaguecasters chin, boils and the green goo and glows.

I’m already thinking ahead to the next members of the army I’m wondering whether I change the colours on the tentacles/nurglings for each different squad. I quite fancy blue through green to yellow but wonder if that will be too close to the green glow which will be ubiquitous. If anyone has suggestions for Nurgling colour combos, please suggest. I also think I need to source some extra nurglings for every Marine… anyone know some good sources/stls?

Thanks for looking

Oh, those look quite infectious. They have an aesthetic that grows on you much like trench foot does.
Uncle festus would proud.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Oh, those look quite infectious. They have an aesthetic that grows on you much like trench foot does.
Uncle festus would proud.

Thanks Tommy, they’re really getting quite nasty now. The wash on the maggots blends in with the base a little too much, but is quite nasty looking… I even painted the 2 that are hiding in the Plaguecasters boot

I didn’t get as much done last night as I hoped, mainly tidying up the maggots, and puss filled spots. I used a yellow-brown to neaten them both up. The puss got a wash of old citadel red wash and the maggots got a mix of red and flesh wash with a drop of pink. The latter ended up quite close to the orange I used on the rust, but looks quite maggoty. After that I made a start on the various green bits, like eye lenses and goop

Even with just the first emerald green layer I’m liking how the gang already look more complete! I had a complete brain fart when I sat down to do these bits and forgot what I had left to do. Thankfully my last post reminded me, but I still need to do the plaguecasters face! As another reminder, there’s another bit I need to paint; the couple of tactical rocks on some bases.

Thanks for looking


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seems I’m spamming and double posting today. Just a quick one to show that the whole gang now got their green bits done

I even did a little bit of Death Guard Green on one of the tabards’ nurgle symbols. Will need to do that for all the others like the champions shoulder pad

Thanks for looking… I might even triple post later if I decide to paint later

Great job on the Plague marines. They are just awesome.

I love the purple as your splash color here, really contrasts well, but is the same hue as the metal armor.

Not Online!!! wrote:Great job on the Plague marines. They are just awesome.

Thanks man, they’re really cool minis that do a good bit of the heavy lifting on their own!

blockade23 wrote:I love the purple as your splash color here, really contrasts well, but is the same hue as the metal armor.

Thanks mate, the purple hue is very much a first highlight on the black armour. It was stippled on in a bit of a volumetric style before a grey to make it read a bit more black.

I got a little bit more done, getting the first highlight on the goop and lenses.

I really need to find an alternative for this green, its coverage is crap and it dries almost instantly, but it’s a great colour when you get it right. Mrs gobert is away this week, so I’ll probably get a bit of painting in and maybe get them finished.

Thanks for looking

The end is nigh! At least for painting these Plague Marines. I would’ve probably finished them by now but I decided to paint some tokens that I printed the other day



The gloop and lenses and eyes are pretty much done having had there bile Yellow highlights done this morning. Whilst I had some of that on the palette I added a load of thinner and flow improver to make a wash for all of the ribbed bits inside the fleshy cables plus the Champions Plasma Pistol.



I think the green really pulls the whole thing together and most of them are done apart from touching up some bits where the paint rubbed off and their pustules.



I reckon this guy (Morslug is his name) might be my favourite. The dripping goo and the glee of his Nurgling works really well. He’s also probably the most complete with only minor touch ups needed



I thought the standard marine (Gurg the Foul) would be my favourite, as his helmet is cool, but he’s missing the goop. He needs quite a lot of touch ups and his nurgle symbol on his loin cloth highlighting. The Grenadier (Kholerus) is cool too, his helmet seems to have worked out well.



Champion Gangrus’ Plasma looks pretty effective for what is just a wash over a base colour. I’ll probably add a white ink to the bottom edge to push the glow even more. He also needs quite a few touch ups, that primer I used was quite shiny and paint hasn’t stuck to it very well at all. Icon bearer Clotticus isn’t much to write home about, his nurglings are a bit dull, but I like how he’s standing on one of them. I’ll have to get a pic of the deformation under his boot before I glue him down.



These two have the most left to do with their smoke/flames only having a mid tone base layer so far. I’ll hopefully do that next painting session.

Thanks for looking!

Looking great, ooze and osl are very well done!

I love that scheme. The colour combo and basing look really good. Purple Nurglings round it off.

muette wrote:Looking great, ooze and osl are very well done!

Thanks mate, the ooze has been great fun and I’m really happy how it’s turned out.

Ragsta wrote:
I love that scheme. The colour combo and basing look really good. Purple Nurglings round it off.

Thanks Ragsta, I’m dead chuffed how the basing works with the rest of the scheme, and of course the purple nurgles

Well, I’m calling them done… aside from a coat of matte varnish in an attempt to stop paint rubbing off them as soon as I look at them! I’ve not taken a group shot or any scenes yet, so you’ll have to make do with desktop shots for now.

First up is the Test Marine and Gurg the Foul



Next are Kholerus and Morslug



Clotticus and Scabboth



And lastly here’s Pustus the vile and Gangrus



I also took a few pics of the flames I finished. Scabboths flaming flails were pretty tricky to paint and seemingly harder to photograph with one of them out of focus



And here’s Pustus’ flames




Overall, I’m pleased how they’ve turned out and they were relatively rapidly painted for me… oh, bugger, I missed some maggots on Pustus’ backpack . Anyways, you’ll be seeing plenty more of Plague Marines this year I reckon. Next up will be my Eversor Assassin as I’m away with work tomorrow night, so I’ll do a little hotel room painting if I get the chance. I think I might then go back to the Space Hulk Terminators for a bit, though I’ll probably leave the streaking grime until my next day off work.

Thanks for looking!

As promised, here are some better pics of the Plague Marines

They had their coat of varnish, and I was a little worried about frosting as the humidity was 70%, but I sprayed outside and brought them inside straight away, with zero frosting. So I guess that’s an ok humidity to varnish with colour forge matte varnish.

Now for the individual Marines, starting with the Plague Marine Champion; Gangrus

I think I should’ve painted the circles on his gauntlet green like all of the others’?

I tried a minor bit of OSL on his maw, not super happy but it conveys the effect a bit


His cape certainly looks raggedy, but I wonder if a cross hatch would’ve looked better? I also see that I missed the glow on the ribbed bits of his fleshy cables

It looks like I missed the teeth on his shoulder pad too and the Nurgling has lost some paint in his maggots and horn. I love how I only spot these things when I post on dakka!

There’s a higher shot to show his shoulder pad a bit more. I’m looking forward to playing this guy, with all his regeneration of wounds and nasty Poison/Toxic combo. I hope they give out some nice surprises to the Nemesis Claw and avenge the Bloodeds defeats

Next up is Clotticus the icon bearer

I was just thinking that I hadn’t missed anything on him, and spotted the fly on his pistol holster

I quite like the amount of pink on him, helps him stand out nicely

Another gauntlet that might look better with green circles

I love the cheekiness of the Nurgling poking through the icon, especially as the bit he poked out is in the floor!

Looks like missed a pic of his right hand side, so no Nurgling side cheeks for you today today today. Clotticus is another auto-take as he allows The Contagion strat ploy to be free that makes health enemy operatives act like they’re injured when close to my guys

The Malignant Plaguecaster Pustus the Vile is next on the stand

I’m quite pleased how his flies turned out, the front one is particularly nasty looking imho. I do wonder whether I should’ve gone for another colour for all of the wings, but not enough to change them.

His shoulder pad is a bit bland, I kinda think I should’ve freehanded something on it?


The maggots on this guys are grim, the ones on his staff’s shaft are particularly nasty for some reason

Quite pleased with the glow on the flames too

I think yellow for his belly wound was a good choice, looks like a nasty infection. And true to form, it looks like I forgot to finish his face . In game he has some cool attacks, but he also has a really good healing ability with a decent chance of regenerating 7 wounds! That’s as many as most of my Blooded have in total!

Here’s Scabboth, the fighter with his flail, that has probably the funnest Nurgling hanging off the end of a chain that’s lost its spiked ball. He’s having so much fun spreading his filth!

Just look how happy the little guy is!


I love the sense of speed he has

The goop dripping from his backpack is nice

Scabboth is probably going to see a bit of Kill Team action. As a fighter he needs to get in close and would do some serious damage to hordes… except most of the gaming group are elites. I’ll probably still take him though

The Bloodeds Brimstone Grenadier has given me a soft spot for Grenadiers, so I’ve got high hopes for Kholerus

I like his Nurgling, another happy little fellow, but I think his helmet is my least favourite of the whole set

I love how nasty the spots on his leg look, ready to burst and spread Nurgles filth

More lovely goop drips


I somehow remembered to paint that pipe on the side of his helmet, it was bugging me every step of the way, but I got it in the end!

So whilst I have that soft spot for grenadiers, I’m not as convinced Kholerus is an auto include. His blight Grenades are decent, but it’s no diabolyk grenade.

Penultimate Space Marine Hero is Gurg the Foul (probably the best name of the bunch)

Love his classic helmet and the glow turned out pretty neat




In game Gurg is pretty decent, I think it’ll be a toss up between bringing him, Kholerus or Morslug. Gurg has a greater range, but Morslug should dish out some solid damage. The Blight Grenades seem pretty handy too. Either way I’ll be using the Poisonous Rounds.

Before the last Space Marine Heroes minis, here’s my Test Plague Marine Warrior

I love his two sword pose, really menacing I feel


He doesn’t have much pink on him, hence why I took this pic


I do love the belly maw, it a great aesthetic. This lad won’t see any Kill Team action, but I’m hoping to get at least a game of big 40k at some point this year so with some luck he’ll get to kill something

Finally we come to my favourite; Morslug



I love how the little guy is peeking round, reaching up to fondle the goop

He really does have his eyes on the prize


Such cool mini, but as I noted his limited range means he might not see the table too often. Could be quite handy against the Nemesis Claw or other teams which like to get up close and personal.

I’m not quite done with pics though. I got some of my Killzone Volkus terrain out and took a few more pics










And that’s all I have. I’ll try to think on and take pics when they see their first game. If you guys have any thoughts on whether to stick with the pink flesh for the rest of the Army or to mix it up for each squad, please chip in with ideas

I did make some progress on the Eversor. All I managed was to paint the silver bits and I forgot to take pics.

I think my next main project will be to get the Space Hulk Terminators ready for their streaking grime.

Thanks for looking

I managed to make some progress on the Terminators, but the level of detail on them is nuts! I keep seeing bits that I missed, or painted the wrong colour! I’m still not convinced that I’ve gotten all of their blood drops. Confusingly the OG schem had quite a few drops and lenses painted different colours. I’m thinking I’ll leave gems and lenses as a simple base colour before I do the streaking grime, then highlight them afterwards for even more shine!

I want to put another highlight on the parchments and some stripes on the yellow cables and then I’m ready for streaming grime. I think the librarian and the storm bolter sergeant need their tassels/tabards highlighting too. I also need to wait for some make up sponges arrive as I ruined cotton buds last time where as sponges worked better with oils. I think I should probably also add writing to scrolls and parchment bender the grime.

Th and for looking

I feel like I just painted some Iron Warriors! The box art has painted many of the exposed cables on the Terminators in Hazard Stripes, so that’s how I spent most of my evening.

I think they look decent on the most part, and some even look pretty good. I also spent a good while looking for unpainted cables and things. I think I’ve now got all of the gems and cables, but spotted a few bits of gold that I missed; Sgt Lorenzo’s brooch that keeps his cape attached and someone else has a trinket hanging from an arm cable. After that I think I need to tidy up a bit on Calistarius’ white side of his cape and highlight the red side. Lorenzo needs the black side of his cape highlighting. Scipio needs the red side of his shoulder pad highlighting. Noctis needs his red eagle highlighting. Dead guys skull needs highlighting. Goriel needs his Genestealer bits airbrushing. Then I’m ready to get the streaking grime out! I also need to have a think about Calistarius’ shoulder pad as he’s the only one without sculpted heraldry. The rules book shows that he has some, but it might be a bit beyond my skills. I’ll probably give it a try and if it doesn’t work out im sure I have some Blood Angels transfers that I can use. I should also add some scripture to the parchments too…

Thanks for looking

The nurgly boys turned out fabulously. Quality stuff. Those Terminators will definitely reflect all the time and care you're putting into them.

I really love your Nurgle scheme! The pastel pink and neon green really pop agains the black armor. But if you're thinking about trying different colors for the fleshy bits, I say go for it. I'd suggest other pastel colors like light blue or orange maybe?

The nurgle marines look great but loving what you are doing with the Space Hulk terminators. They have some great detail and you are doing them justice! Can’t wait to see how they end up!

I thought we were going to see Void Panthers Terminators for Space Hulk!! :O Your work so far looks good - I bet you will love the finished results post streaking. Your list of things to check up on made me smile - triple checking is a necessity eh!

Jumpscare Blood Angels lol

Absolutely loving the DG. Your scheme is great, the lilac nurglings and mutations, the green slime. It ties the whole scheme together. I don't envy you painting all that trim and all those details! What a lot of work has gone into this force.

youwashock wrote:The nurgly boys turned out fabulously. Quality stuff. Those Terminators will definitely reflect all the time and care you're putting into them.

Thanks mate, I’m dead chuffed with the Plague Marines and can’t wait to get them on the table after Easter.

mcmattila wrote:I really love your Nurgle scheme! The pastel pink and neon green really pop agains the black armor. But if you're thinking about trying different colors for the fleshy bits, I say go for it. I'd suggest other pastel colors like light blue or orange maybe?

Thanks mcmatilla, I hadn’t thought about pastel colours, but I think that you might be right! I’ll give it a go on the next squad! Thanks!

JordySteve wrote:The nurgle marines look great but loving what you are doing with the Space Hulk terminators. They have some great detail and you are doing them justice! Can’t wait to see how they end up!

Thanks JordySteve, the Space Hulk Terminators are jam packed with details I can barely differentiate some of it. I’m looking forward to getting some grime on them to give them a lovely grim dark look.

Ragsta wrote:
I thought we were going to see Void Panthers Terminators for Space Hulk!! :O Your work so far looks good - I bet you will love the finished results post streaking. Your list of things to check up on made me smile - triple checking is a necessity eh!

Funny you should say that, I have thought about matching the load out on some Void Panther Terminators. Maybe that could be my next Panthers Project? Honestly, list making is one of the most useful things about dakka sometimes!

Tek wrote:Jumpscare Blood Angels lol

Absolutely loving the DG. Your scheme is great, the lilac nurglings and mutations, the green slime. It ties the whole scheme together. I don't envy you painting all that trim and all those details! What a lot of work has gone into this force.

Horus? Is that you? . Thanks Tek, the trim on both plague marines and Terminators.

Got the Mother in law staying this week, so not had much opportunity to paint, but I’ve ticked a few bits off the Terminator to do list:

Nothing special on these two cloaks, Lorenzo got a teal and turquoise highlight on his black cape and Calistarius some Red highlights. I also added a skull transfer to Calistarius’ shoulder pad in prep for some free hand where I’ll be trying to paint a face in gold with an iron halo also involved.

Separately I also highlighted Scipio’s shoulder pad and Noctis’ red eagle, but haven’t taken pics. Not sure when I’ll get the airbrush out to do Goriel’s Genestealer, but I’ll hopefully get the dead guys skull highlighted and Calistarius’ shoulder pad painted. Then I’ll add some scripture to all of the parchment.

Thanks for looking

You've done a really good job on those Space Hulk Terminators.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
You've done a really good job on those Space Hulk Terminators.

Thanks, they’re pretty full on with all of the details, but they’re still fun to paint.

MIL departed today, so a spot of F1 Quali this evening was a good opportunity to do a few more bits on the Terminators. My previous to do list has been heavily eroded and I even painted the ribs on their joints.

i should’ve got a picture of Calistarius’ shoulder pad free hand. It’s far from perfect and hard to photograph, but I think it’s just about possible to tell what it is. The scriptures seem to have turned out ok. I was worried that my usual pen would rub off post streaking grime removal, so used paint. That is harder to get thin, but it looks decent enough. The symbols on Calistarius’ big sheets turned out ok too. I think I pretty much only have the Genestealer left to do before I throw some grime about. Maybe I’ll do it out the window to save clearing my desk!?

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First up here’s Calistarius’ shoulder pad… don’t laugh at the child’s drawing!

I don’t think it terrible, but it’s not winning any prizes. In hindsight the transfer wasn’t much help and it folded, hence the line on one of the cheeks.

This afternoon I got the airbrush out and after masking off the terminator with blue tack I painted up the Genestealer

And that pic was proof of what they looked like before getting grimy

Here they are after their bath

And the grimdark comes out nicely post make up sponge removal. It’s like liquid grimdark in a bottle.

Pleased with how they’re coming along, will add some highlights to the gems and lenses. I’ll probably do some on the gold and silvers too, but that’ll probably be next weekend.

Thanks for looking

It’s been a couple of weeks, but I’ve been busy hobbying. First up I played my first game of 40K in what must be nearly 30years. I brought the Void Panthers to play my mates Armoured Imperial Guard. Here’s the set up

Having played Kill Team I was a bit surprised how effective getting first turn was. Here’s the Assault squad and Missile Launcher Devs getting whittled down

And at the end of the Guards first turn the Land Raider had been deleted and the Lascannons/Multimelta Devastators got neutered. I didn’t take any other photos after that, maybe a bit of a sore loser. I did make a hit of a comeback when the Terminators, bikes and land speeder arrived. Though it was short lived as I really struggled to open up chimeras let alone Dorns. When I did get some guardsmen in the open they didn’t last long but I got tabled in the end.

Around the same time the new local game store’s (Cryptic Cabin in Bristol) 50k WhatsApp community set up a New Player League. I picked my list before the Guard game so I don’t have much faith in the Demi-Company plus Terminator Captain. They’ll at least look good whilst dying at the hands of the Eldar army that I’m playing in round 1 next Friday.

In trying to learn my lesson I’ve made a start on some reinforcements.

The 2+ anti vehicles on the Gravcannon should come in handy, so I made a start on that squad. Similarly the Assault Marines lacked a bit of punch so I figured that I’d upgrade to Vanguard Vets. I might print some risers to allow the Assault Marines to proxy as Assault Intercessor who are considerably cheaper points wise. Since the Chaplain was my MVP in the imperial guard game, I though he could join the Assault Marines or Vanguard Vets and for 1k games a Jump Captain should be better value than Terminator Captain. In the background you can also see the statue from Blood and Zeal got built.

Then last Friday the Plague Marine Kill Team got a run out at the LGS.

Playing end to end I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get forward fast enough, but a dash for the champion helped, as did having 3APL

The near side saw some heated fighting, the Heavy Gunner died on the cloud of flies token having earlier in the turn killed 2 of the 3 kriegers on the platform. Sadly the medic resuscitated the watch master. They then managed to take him out. The Melta gunner on the ground nearly finished the Champion who then nearly finished the gunnner!

We had to finish after TP3 but the game was really decided with me grabbing all 3 objectives and the central positions to secure my Tac Op and the Crit Op. MVP for me was probably the Plaguecaster. He brought the Iconbearer back from near death, whittling down guardsmen and finishing them off thanks to poisonings. Overall I think it was a good learning experience, me with my new team and my opponent who was playing his first game against someone that knows the rules (ish)

As a final update I decided that since quite a few other members of the League had crammed armour and Monsters in to 1000 points that the Panthers needed some light armour. I figured a Razorback with twin linked lascannons would be a good transport for a squad of Gravcannon or Multimelta Devastators. Only problem was the only razorback bits I have were heavy bolters, so I found a file and printed one up.


Obviously since I wanted it finished within 3 weeks ready for round 2 of the league I figured that I’d paint the interior! :Facepalm: at least it was much simpler than the Land Raider and I got it done in one go


Getting a pic from the top was tough as I kept getting shadows, so this is as good as I could manage


As per my criteria, finishing the inside of a tank counts as a finished mini. I’ve got to say that I’m happy how it turned out and particularly given it was already glued together, so I had to paint it through the rear door and top hatch

I then primed the outside in all 3 configurations


Twin linked Lascannons




Rhino

Looking at the razorback stats, I’m a bit annoyed at myself for selling the Hunter Killer Missiles that I had accumulated across eBay buys. Oh well, it funded the plastic addiction somewhat!

Sunday was a quiet day and sunny outside so I also made some progress on the other reinforcements. The Captain and Devastators got their good blocked in again after the Nuln oil bath. I didn’t take pics while they were outside but hopefully they are noticeably brighter than the Veterans in the next pic.

Looking at the Devs, I think they are slightly brighter, but it’s quite noticeable how much more orange the bottle of Retributor armour is compared to the colour forge spray that’s supposed to be colour matched. Anyway, the Razorback got its main colours blocked in tonight and is looking pretty good. I’ll get the small bits of green blocked in next and give it a Nuln Oil bath. The print quality on the lascannons was a bit weak, but from above with the ironed ton surfaces it looks pretty decent already. Bases aside, I think they’re all pretty much Battle Ready standard, but I’ll try to get them all ready for round 2.

Thanks for looking, and well done to those that read all of that, it went on for a while! Have an internet cookie as a reward

Yay. Cookies.

Quite an update, gobert. Everything is looking good. Can't wait to see that statue painted up. Here's hoping the new boys can bring it home in the next game.

 youwashock wrote:
Yay. Cookies.

Quite an update, gobert. Everything is looking good. Can't wait to see that statue painted up. Here's hoping the new boys can bring it home in the next game.

Thanks man, the league has got me pretty motivated to paint more Panthers, but the New Death Guard Codex has me itching to paint their Nurgly Brethren, so much so I’ve splashed on the codex, index cards and combat partrol. I even spent my birthday vouchers on a Great Unclean One whose body is assembled, I just need to decide on what weapons, head and nurglings to use, or maybe I magnetise him ?

Tonight though was the Plague Marine Kill Teams second outing. This time it was up against legionaries. I didn’t take many pics and it ended up being a really quick game that somehow avoided any melee.



I think this was the start of TP2 and the Malignant Plaguecaster was about to earn his keep with saving the Icon Bearer, then in TP3 he saved himself regaining a maximum 7 wounds each time! It really reinforced my opponents view on how tough the Plague Marines are. I didn’t get any other good pics, and this one ain’t great. At least you can still see how fancy my new Purple and Gold Dice are! . They didn’t fail me and I took a convincing victory by again nabbing early objectives and using the same minis for my Tac Op. it seems that victory must’ve angered the other Chaos gods as I fell off my bike on the way tot the train station after the game. I thought I’d gotten away with a bruised elbow but turns out I had a big cut on my knee. So I’ve been in A&E pretty much since the waiting for stitches. On the bright side, I don’t have to pay and I’ve managed to get through a good number of dakka plogs next I’ll do a bit of research on the job I want to apply for next month.

Thanks for looking and remember to not upset the dark powers

There's something to be said about black legion Plague marines, that colour really fits them-.

The leg is healing nicely with only some mild discomfort when going down stairs. Should be healed up well enough to walk up to the FLGS for my 40K game on Friday. Still with an eye on the following round of the league I’m making good progress on the reinforcements. All of the purple and gold has been blocked in following the Nuln oil bath. The Vanguard Vets and Razorback got their Liberator Gold highlights. To help with that I stuck the helmets and shoulder pads on

They’re starting to look pretty decent now, it’s a shame that the Vets can’t take Lightning Claws any more and the captain can’t take a hammer & shield, but they should be good to use anyway.

Comparing the new purple (Phoenician Purple) I’ve been using and the purple panels on my land raider there was quite a difference. So when I re-blocked out those panels I went back to the old pot of Liche Purple which unfortunately is running out rapidly. I’ve been searching for a good few years for a decent replacement, and I’m hoping the pot of Vallejo Hexed Lichen that should be delivered this week will be the one. The last one I tried from the dakka conversion chart, Alien Purple from Army Painter was a terrible match and an even worse paint, so let’s see how Hexed Lichen fairs. [Edit: not bashing the conversion chart, just that paint was awful! The chart has treated me well on the most part and is far and away the best one that I’ve found to date)

Thanks for looking

Good progress gobert.

Great interior on the Razorback. Nice workaround to make it work for your army with the conversion.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Good progress gobert.
Great interior on the Razorback. Nice workaround to make it work for your army with the conversion.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Cap, that interior turned out pretty well to say it was done through the hatch and back door. I’ve been making good progress with the outside too

I’ve made some solid progress on the reinforcements for the Panthers. Well, mainly the Captain and the Razorback. Starting with the Captain, I didn’t want to be accused of modelling for advantage so I cut him off his base and added 50% of his height to his base to better match the height of the Primaris version

Here’s the before, and now, the after

Much more imposing and he seems to have a better pose now. It might be a bit ridiculous having him tower over every other mini in the Army though . You’ll also notice his gold has gotten a bit shinier, that’s because they’ve all had the final highlights on their metallics

I’ve since done all of the purple edge highlights on the Razorback and tidied them up somewhat as well. Sadly I forgot to take a pic, so you’ll just have to trust me

That’s not all I’ve been up to. The Great Unclean One that I bought with Birthday vouchers has been built, and because I like the look of Rottigus, and the standard GUO looks to be the best option for WH40k (though the bells resurrecting Plaguebearers sounds useful) I figured that I’d magnetise the options. I’ve done all of the heads and half of the arms. Here’s the OG with a Land Raider for scale


That was my Birthday present, and my Christmas Present also arrived. Well, it was part funded by a voucher. It took a while to arrive but ended up being a month earlier than the 180 days that the Made to Order suggests. Can you guess what it is?

Not from the outside, but this one tells you;

Yep, Sector Imperialis Sanctum

And the Imperial Sector set

Rounded out with the Basilicanum… yeah, I went a bit crazy! I was a bit excited to get going, and since my first 40K League game was cancelled I got stuck in to building it, getting the first floor done in good time

Then getting stuck in with the second

And I couldn’t resist the Buttresses and the Statuary

I’ve gotta say that I’m really pleased with my purchases. It’s a lot of plastic, the delivery note said 4.8Kg, but I’m not sure it’s really that heavy, but each of the boxes is jam packed with Sprues to the point that it almost feels like good value! So far I’m loving how the Sanctum looks and can’t wait to paint it. I’m thinking similar to my Killzone Volkus but maybe with cream coloured stonework, or maybe I do different coloured stone for each building? With one eye on all of this terrain I snagged a bit of a steal at the local fair today.

A lady was selling them for 50p a pot after her and her husband had closed their Art shop a couple of years ago. I was only thinking of one or two, but she had such a lovely story and a wide variety of colours I figured I could get a few more and get up to a fiver.

I think that’s everything up to date. Hopefully I’ll get those Panthers Reinforcements done next weekend, then it’ll be back to Space Hulk and Eversor(though he might become a travelling only project, we’ll see). Once they’re done I’m thinking I might go all in on the Death Guard Army

Thanks for looking

Great Unclean Update. Man, that's a piece of terrain there, isn't it? Can't wait to see your minis swarming it. Excited to see Chubs painted up, too. Great model, and your Nurgle stuff has been turning out so well, he's bound to be awesome. Panthers blinging, as always. If Injad to worry about things like ever-changing equipment options and being accused of "modeling for advantage", I'd lose my mind. Guys like you and Nev who continue to soldier on have my respect. Sorry to hear about the injury. Here's to a continued speedy recovery.

ohh, now that promises progress.

Man, that's a lot of work ahead! Panthers look awesome as usual.

Those are going to be great looking buildings Gobert and yes the statues really put it to the next level.

Latest Panthers looking very nice. I like the jet pack Chaplain, lovely model!

Your friend paints some very nice IG Armour, gobert. Hopefully you enjoyed your game despite the tabling!

Mega structure!

CB

youwashock wrote:Great Unclean Update. Man, that's a piece of terrain there, isn't it? Can't wait to see your minis swarming it. Excited to see Chubs painted up, too. Great model, and your Nurgle stuff has been turning out so well, he's bound to be awesome. Panthers blinging, as always. If Injad to worry about things like ever-changing equipment options and being accused of "modeling for advantage", I'd lose my mind. Guys like you and Nev who continue to soldier on have my respect. Sorry to hear about the injury. Here's to a continued speedy recovery.

Yeah, I’m really looking forward to painting up the terrain, it’s a fantastic set. Worrying about load outs is a very recent thing for me, but thankfully the gaming group is super chill, at least the guys I’ve been paired with so far! Injury is healing well, just an annoying scab now.

Not Online!!! wrote:ohh, now that promises progress.

Thought you’d like the nurgle additions!

muette wrote:Man, that's a lot of work ahead! Panthers look awesome as usual.

Yeah, the pile keeps gaining potential! But I’ve smashed through these Panthers pretty rapidly I feel

Tommygun1918 wrote:Those are going to be great looking buildings Gobert and yes the statues really put it to the next level.

I hope so, they’re super cool with loads of details, if they look half as decent as my Volkus stuff then I’ll be dead happy!

Ragsta wrote:
Latest Panthers looking very nice. I like the jet pack Chaplain, lovely model!
Your friend paints some very nice IG Armour, gobert. Hopefully you enjoyed your game despite the tabling!

Cheers mate, the Jump Chaplain and Smash Captain look great with their packs don’t they?! And yeah, he does paint well and surprisingly fast, give him a follow over on insta @coleface40k

Captain Brown wrote:Mega structure!
CB

Yeah, and that’s 1 of 3 boxes! Might slow down on the rest

Last week was pretty busy, but I managed to fit some hobby time in and last night I also finished a couple of Panthers. First up is the Razorback with Twin linked Lascannons

I’ve also painted up the Twin Linked Heavy Bolters too

And a Rhino top hatche

Here’s a few more angles with the Lascannons



I was wanting to remove the book and sword, but I quite like how it’s turned out now

I thought that I’d sold all of my Hunter Killer Missiles, but I found one and thought I’d magnetise it

My Land Raider also has a magnet to take one but I think I’ll have to print one for that if I field them both.

The other finished bit was my Chaplains Jump Pack


I love his original back pack so much that I magnetised this jump pack just for use in games. I’m not convinced that I got the amounting angle quite right as his wings are fully in shadow from the front. Still he looks cool and will be leading my Vanguard Vets on Wednesday.

Speaking of the Vanguard Veterans, they’re pretty much done as well. One of them is missing his final Black & Purple highlight of Uniform Grey and they all need their green and parchments highlighting

I should just about get them completely finished ahead of the game as it’s probably less than an hours work remaining on them.

I should probably try some free hand on the blank space on the two right most Marines shoulder pads, would be a very small Panthers symbol. That’ll wait until after the game on Wednesday.

The Gravcannons and Smash Captain are a bit further behind as they all need their black and purple final highlights.

I might not get these all fully finished, but I’ll glue them all together ready to be used as they’re definitely more than Battle Ready.

Speaking of games, I had my first League game on Wednesday. It was against an Aspect Warrior heavy Eldar force. Sadly we spent way too long setting up and didn’t make it past Turn 2, but Lucky for me i managed to sneak past an Avatar to flood the centre objective and the lead

Here’s the deployment, and whilst I did better than my first 10th edition game I left a couple of squads more vulnerable than I thought

At the start of Turn 2 my Jump Marines had seen off the Guardians but the Avatar loomed large near the bulk of my army

He wiped out the Melta Devastators but my Tactical squad could sneak behind him to smash up the swooping hawks that dropped in via Deep Strike.

A good fun game, but both being new I’m sure we got a few things wrong and boy were we slow. Next League game is on Wednesday, this time vs Dark Angels. The Assault Marines will be staying home, as will the HB Tactical Squad and the Missile Launcher Devs. With the points total growing to 1250 I plan to add in the Grav Devastators, the Vanguard Vets, the Razorback, my Land Raider, a squad of Terminators, the Chaplain and Librarian. So much extra stuff that I had to check my list again! It’s crazy that last I played 40K, back in 2nd Edition, this would probably have been closer to 2000 points!

With the New Player Leage at the FLGS going great guns, the organiser is now planning a Crusade. It starts in July and will see 1000 points Armies to start with… having been reading rh new death guard codex, I’m sorely tempted to try to get my Death Guard Battle Ready. I already have a Squad and a Malignant Plaguecaster fully painted thanks to the Kill Team. I reckon I could do it if I batch paint them, getting only the armour highlighted, then the trim and metal base coated, fleshy bits can start blue, bones/horns in Zandri dust and goop in Green. I think I’d only need 20 Marines and 2 Blight Haulers. My main issue would be Poxwalkers, but I already have 10 painted, 16 if you count the Blackstone Fortress ones. That sounds a lot, but I’d need 30 at least for the detachment I want to start with. I might see if the airbrush can help with them.

Anyway, enough rambling, thanks for looking!

Loving those LC Vets. Great looking squad. The Rhinoback is both versatile and well-painted. More good game shots. Your Panthers are highly photogenic.

very nice!

youwashock wrote:Loving those LC Vets. Great looking squad. The Rhinoback is both versatile and well-painted. More good game shots. Your Panthers are highly photogenic.

Thanks the Vets are probably my favourite Panthers to date, especially the Sergeant with claws donate by our very own Ragsta!

Not Online!!! wrote:very nice!

Thanks!

Well, this week has been a busy one! I didn’t quite manage to finish everything for my Around 2 game. In fact I pretty much just glued everything together after my previous post. The game was really fun, I felt I had the basic mechanics, it was just a question of not remembering much. Printing some smaller cards helped with that. Despite playing with more points, we got further in to the game, calling it at the end of T3. I didn’t get pics before we packed up but here’s a T1 and T2 pic.

Here we are at the start of T1, we were playing Scorched Earth so I decided to camp on my near objectives so I could burn them in T2. The land Raider had a Tac Squad in it and the Razorback had the Librarian and Gravcannon Devastators. The latter were a great inclusion taking out the Primaris tank with some great shooting, helped by the 2+ anti-vehicle.

Turn 2 was where I won it, burning objectives and deep striking Terminators on my opponents home objective to really steal it. Had we carried on it would’ve been quite tight as the Intercessor squad and hellblasters decimated tac marines, plus the Deathwing Knights smashed the Razorback. I used CP re rolls to keep the plasmacannon alive to ensure another scorched objective. Was great fun and both of us seemed as interested in having fun as making meta decisions.

This weekend I did manage to finish all of the reinforcements and I even remembered to take decent pictures… though I forgot to get better Razorback pics. Let’s start with the Chaplain who now rocks a jump pack








Not my best work, but the jump pack looks pretty good and he’ll have fun jumping around with the Vanguard Vets.

I’ll post more pics later, thanks for looking

Next batch of pics is the Devastators with Gravcannons. These guys performed exactly how I had hoped in my last game. Need to decide whether to stick with them or mix in a couple of Multimeltas for the next round against Necrons.





I also made a good start on my next project; getting my Death Guard to a playable level. First I tidied up the black primer coat as I always miss a few bits. I then highlighted the armour with a stippled layer of Phoenician Purple

Next was a similar highlight of Unifrom Grey

That was last night and today I primed a second Blight Hauler which quickly got highlighted to the same level. I then made a start on the trim… so much trim!


I nearly gave up after 3, but glad I pushed on to complete the squad. It wasn’t too bad so I hope to get the rest done in the next couple of days.

On a related note, are you guys aware of minicompare.com? It’s really handy if you’re thinking of proxy-ing models. For instance, I need some Chaos Spawn for the Crusade in case any of my characters come to Nurgles attention in the wrong way. Turns out the Gellerpox infected big’uns are a very similar height. I just need to give them a 50mm base extender

Thanks for looking

With today being a bank holiday I managed to squeeze in a bit of painting and got all of the brass trim done on the Death Guard (well, apart from the bits i missed of course!

The 7 Plague Marines and the Noxious Blightbringer also got their steel bits painted. As with the Kill Team, it’s far from my neatest work, but I reckon I’ll hide most of my sins when I darken the armour with Ratling Grime. The eagle eyed will also notice that Typhus has taken a backseat as the Crusade won’t include Epic Heroes up front. So I swapped in my Lord of Virulence instead. Hoping to sneak in a little painting tomorrow before we go on holiday on Wednesday. Would be good to get the Metals basecoated before then.

Back to the completed pics, here’s the Captain with a Jump Pack armed with a Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield, aka Smash Captain


I really should fix that foot’s bare plastic



I forgot to write angthing on the shield for those pics, but remembered to take a pic after fixing that

I thought it’d be fun to say ’above’ in Latin as an homage to death from above
Thanks for looking

That is some amazing progress Gobert!

Not Online!!! wrote:
That is some amazing progress Gobert!

I must’ve picked that up from you! I just hope I’ve not triggered carpal tunnel issues with all that trim and steel work!

No progress but some more finished pics. This time the Vanguard Veterans

I think these guys might be my favourite looking Panthers to date, especially the pose of the Sgt and the Superhero landing chap



I even had a bit of fun with their scrolls. 50 internet cookies for anyone who gets it



Here’s a clue, there’s a strong Bristol linkage with this one, and despite being in Latin the first word is the same (one word per pic, even though pic 2 is on 2 plates)

This one is more of an internet meme

I Latin again, and technically missing a word for the full meme

Thanks for looking!

Wow, I am away for a week and there are loads more Marines painted up.

Cheers,

CB

Loving the marines - as far as painting the terrain goes - go for something complimentary to either the marines or the nurgles (But why nurgle?!) - So green and silver to go opposite purple & brass/gold then - you could do a molted black to green approach which would be awesome with silver details. Just my two cents but if you put the plastic pieces on bases then your basing could be matched up and that would also sell the connection (and make your marines pop against the terrain itself). Then again, I'm a HUGE fan of basing terrain pieces (both for drama and for the ease of which you can say 'yes in terrain' or no not at all.

Looking just amazing! You've been prolific!

Captain Brown wrote:Wow, I am away for a week and there are loads more Marines painted up.
Cheers,
CB

Ha! Yeah, I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately with the League spurring me on to paint more minis.

blockade23 wrote:Loving the marines - as far as painting the terrain goes - go for something complimentary to either the marines or the nurgles (But why nurgle?!) - So green and silver to go opposite purple & brass/gold then - you could do a molted black to green approach which would be awesome with silver details. Just my two cents but if you put the plastic pieces on bases then your basing could be matched up and that would also sell the connection (and make your marines pop against the terrain itself). Then again, I'm a HUGE fan of basing terrain pieces (both for drama and for the ease of which you can say 'yes in terrain' or no not at all.

Thanks blockade, I was thinking either pale grey or cream for the terrain, but green could be an interesting choice too. I’ve seen some cool green buildings online but not sure I’ve got suitable greens in my stocks, will have to see if I can mix something. As for bases I’m definitely leaning towards having them. I’ve found a few suitable stls that should work with a few mods

SarpedonofSotha wrote:Looking just amazing! You've been prolific!

Thanks Sarpedon, it’s amazing how a deadline can motivate. And welcome to my plog!

Well we had a great few days at Disneyland Paris, the kids were beaming the whole time and me and Mrs gobert are totally done in now! But I still managed to squeeze in a bit of hobby time last night whilst watching the F1. I didn’t do much but got the bone and horn bits done on about half of the minis

Tonight I also got the Noxious Blightbringer, Biologus Putrifier, Tallyman and one of the Deathshroud’s bones/horns/teeth/cloth/paper/skin basecoated. Should finish that job tomorrow and move on to the fleshy protrusions before doing the goop and bases. At that point I’ll call them Battle Ready for the Crusade that starts in July. I think my list will then need another 10 Poxwalkers on top of the 10 I did at the start of the year. At which point I can be satisfied to play with them before I start to do the detailed steps. Once that’s done I can add more units when I think am need them.

Thanks for looking

 gobert wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
That is some amazing progress Gobert!

I must’ve picked that up from you! I just hope I’ve not triggered carpal tunnel issues with all that trim and steel work!

No progress but some more finished pics. This time the Vanguard Veterans

Oh no... my insanity is spreading

Great job man!

Not Online!!! wrote:

Oh no... my insanity is spreading
Great job man!

Thanks for spreading the insanity

Last weekend wasn’t massively productive but I managed to get a game in on Saturday night at home. Volkus plus a few other pieces worked pretty well, so when I finally have the Sector Imperialis stuff built and painted I shall have quite a dense boards worth of terrain. Here’s a few pics;






The game was only 1k, and was my first running full changeable secondaries. They weren’t too much to get my head around and I actually scored quite well on them. I ended up losing the game, but we were neck and neck until the final turn. It’d have been much closer had I not been greedy and moved my terminators off an objective to kill a Leman Russ. The more I play opponents who are stacking loads of buffs, the more I realise the Firstborn really are hindered, particularly the Tactical Marines. Which brings me on to the kings of buffs…

The other night I started doing the Ratling Grime on the Plague Marines, getting them all darker and grimed up. Rubbing it back with a small make up sponge wedge really seems like a similar effect to oil washes but without the stench

I then made a start on the fleshy bits and have seemingly abandoned the plan to just do one base coat colour, and have since done 3 highlights in the Special Weapons and the Blight Haulers.


The eagle eyed amongst you might even spot that they are slightly different. I abandoned the blue-purple-pink for all marines and tweaking mcmatilllas idea of a different colour per squad, I’ll be doing each specialist differently.
Regular Marines - blue-purple-pink
Bubonic Weapons - purple-red-orange
Plague Weapons - Red-Orange-yellow
Heavy weapons - Orange-Yellow-Green
Special Weapons - Yellow- Green-Blue
Vehicles - Green-Blue-Purple
Hopefully that will also help me figure out what bonuses they each get!

The bases actually got an airbrush layer of yellow that gave their feet a nice dusty effect that hopefully the darling grime hasn’t ruined or vice versa. That was because I actually had my second “commission” which was a dead simple base coating of some Eldar Grav Tanks.

It wasn’t anything complicated, but was good airbrush practice. It was for a guy in the Warhammer league and the payment will be a game against them when they’re finished. I just need to stay away from that Fire Prisms scary gun!

Thanks for looking

Never a shortage of stuff to look at, gobert. Cool game pics. The DG are shaping up nicely. The Eldar were a surprise. I thought at first you were diving into a new army, not a commission. Keep it up!

 youwashock wrote:
Never a shortage of stuff to look at, gobert. Cool game pics. The DG are shaping up nicely. The Eldar were a surprise. I thought at first you were diving into a new army, not a commission. Keep it up!

I’ve gotta be honest, painting those hulls the thought did cross my mind to do an Armoured Eldar Warhost… but I’ve still got Death Guard to spend money on… and several other in progress/not yet started armies!

Speaking of Death Guard spending, I won a Plague Marine Champion on eBay this morning. Sassy Nurgling incoming! Elsewhere I’m tempted by a couple of Biologus Putrifiers for those sweet Lethal Hits 5+. But obviously I want to convert them, so I’m eyeing up some Chosen of Mortarion as I’d quite like a third plaguecaster and may as well have another Blightbringer too. And while I’m buying retail perhaps a Playue Surgeon and Foul Blightspawn to have all of the characters… except I don’t have a Mortarion, so maybe I should get one of those… sh!t that escalated quickly! Maybe when I finish this batch I’ll treat myself?

Back to actual hobby stuff, I’ve not been massively productive this week. Though I seem to have completely abandoned my base layers then do the Poxwalkers and will probably finish them before moving on. The special weapons have had all of their flesh bits done, as have the Blighhaulers and the Heavy Plague Weapons.

The baby blue on the special weapons worked out ok, though the yellow is a bit pale for a shade colour. The purple on the haulers looks pretty decent too. I got confused between Heavy Weapons and Heavy Plague Weapons from my previous post. So the HPWs are pale green and the HW will be yellow, the Blight Launcher though didn’t really have any fleshy bits so his tongue will do that job. I needed to add a fair bit of white to most of the colours to make it work, but it’s turning out reasonably well so far. With any luck I’ll get the fleshy bits finished tomorrow, but that Lord of Virulence’s skirt will be tricky!

Thanks for looking!

It’s been a while dakka. I’ve started about 3 posts and for various reasons not gotten round to finishing them. Hopefully 4th times a charm! I’ve made steady progress with the Death Guard, going well beyond the bare minimum battle ready steps. I may as well finish them now… all of the fleshy bits have been done and I’m not convinced by the multicoloured version of the scheme. I might switch back to match the kill team, but will get them done first. Here’s a few older pics to show each of them done, first up the special weapons in yellow-green-blue

These actually look pretty decent, but the yellow wasn’t a great first colour
Next is the blighthaulers green-blue-purple

This one looked great at the green-blue mix stage, but the purple looks odd and lost my highlighting mojo
Next is the heavy weapons red-orange-yellow

The colour is kinda cool, but it doesn’t work well on the minis. Perhaps because it’s similar to the copper?
Heavy Plague Weapons orange yellow green

Works reasonably well, would’ve been better had I started with fire dragon bright instead of trollslayer orange. Again, it looks cool, but doesn’t work with the minis unfortunately.
And here’s the regular loadout guys and the nurglings in blue-purple-pink

These look much better and the colours seem to work for me.

I haven’t stopped there as I managed to get all of the rust and corrosion done.

I think that the orange rust might’ve been a bit too thick on some of the minis, certainly the plasma dude has some very large bright orange rusty bits.

I have also made a start on their green glows,

I should probably sort out a few other bits like skulls and stuff first before I do the brighter bits.

I think the crusade starts in a couple of weeks, so I should be able to get these guys done. Doing 10 poxwalkers to finish my list might be a stretch but my Blackstone Fortress Poxwalkers and one of the Ppague Marines will help get to 1000 pts and give me full wysiwyg painted army.

Thanks for looking

That's a lot of work, man. I think your original scheme works best, but that may just be familiarity. Keep up the good work. Onward to 1,000 points!

Plenty of progress here! And results are paying out, I like the contrast of the green accents on the black armour.

youwashock wrote:That's a lot of work, man. I think your original scheme works best, but that may just be familiarity. Keep up the good work. Onward to 1,000 points!

Yeah, it’s tough to tell, I’ll leave them as they are for a while and see if I want to make the change. The Cruaade starts in a little over a week… not sure I’ll get 10 Poxwalkers painted after this lot… we’ll see. Maybe a 1 weekend challenge will do the trick?

muette wrote:Plenty of progress here! And results are paying out, I like the contrast of the green accents on the black armour.

Cheers muette, the black and green do give a good contrast. I wasn’t too sure about the goop on the modified blight hauler, but I think it looks pretty good

Kept up some steady progress. Got the first highlight on the green and then switched to bone, with the first layer done on all of them except the Terminators.


They’re starting to really come together now, though painting the biologus putrifier I realised I still have lots of bottles to paint. I think they’ll have to be a slower time project, maybe a fresh bottle for each battle or mini his unit kills? Maybe the colour could match the enemy army!?

Speaking of games, I had my latest league game on Sunday against Ad Mech. I lost, but had good fun nonetheless. I didn’t get many photos but here’s one from the end of Chaplain Germanus’ heroic last stand, he whittled down a full squad of robot thingies after he lost his accompanying squad of Vanguard Vets.


And continuing my recent trend, I wrote most of that a week ago, so here’s the very nearly finished Plague Marines.

I’d forgotten how fun these bases are to paint, yellow speed paint all over (got a few bonus tones thanks to another 100% dry dark yellow) then slap on some thick spots of orange speed paint (watch it diffuse) and finish off with a few spots of heavily thinned turquoise mixed with incubi darkness.

Will do a couple more bits on them tonight before I switch focus to some Poxwalkers to finish off the crusade opening list.

Thanks for looking!

Awesome as ever Gobert. The black on the Death Guard looks excellent. Really like your little pinky purple nurglings.

That's some serious batch painting! My limit seems to be about three models... Your army's shaping up nicely, and that color scheme is a hit!

Just had a good old wander through the last five or so pages back to the 2024 wrap up. You've built up a seriously impressive catalogue here mate!

Everything is looking good - the Void Panthers are resplendent, especially the (now jump) Chaplain and the Librarian.

The new DG are likewise great - personally I'm a big fan of the tweaked colour schemes for individual units. The main colours are a large enough part of the models to maintain cohesion while the themed extras bring a bit of life to the army when you see them all together. Their bases are particularly well done (and gruesome, they remind me nearly exactly of when the kids all had school sores at the same time...)

But my favourite work has to be the terrain. So often those big pieces get a quick wash and a drybrush and that's always serviceable but it's always heartwarming to see a board that has had time and love put into it. Plus it makes your action shots and general photos of the gang look 10x better.

Thanks for sharing!

Olthannon wrote:Awesome as ever Gobert. The black on the Death Guard looks excellent. Really like your little pinky purple nurglings.

Thanks matey, those pink nurglings really do finish off the minis, I need MOAR NURGLINGS!

mcmattila wrote:That's some serious batch painting! My limit seems to be about three models... Your army's shaping up nicely, and that color scheme is a hit!

Cheer mcmatilla, it was quite a batch, but Death Guard work can be sloppy and still look pretty good imho. There’s going to be another batch shortly as well so I can get up to 1500pts, ideally by the 26th.

tzurk wrote:Just had a good old wander through the last five or so pages back to the 2024 wrap up. You've built up a seriously impressive catalogue here mate!

Everything is looking good - the Void Panthers are resplendent, especially the (now jump) Chaplain and the Librarian.

The new DG are likewise great - personally I'm a big fan of the tweaked colour schemes for individual units. The main colours are a large enough part of the models to maintain cohesion while the themed extras bring a bit of life to the army when you see them all together. Their bases are particularly well done (and gruesome, they remind me nearly exactly of when the kids all had school sores at the same time...)

But my favourite work has to be the terrain. So often those big pieces get a quick wash and a drybrush and that's always serviceable but it's always heartwarming to see a board that has had time and love put into it. Plus it makes your action shots and general photos of the gang look 10x better.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for taking the time to catch up! It’s been quite a fruitful year so far with plenty more in the pipeline. I reckon you’re right on the terrain making the pics better. Theres a couple of other terrain projects in the background; I’ve finished building the Sector Imperialis sets that I bought on made to order and I’m aiming to get a Killzone Bheta-Decima set printed and painted for September. It might be a Summer in the garden project when the kids finish school.

Since my last post I’ve gotten the Black Death Crusade army ready for battle. They’re still quite rough around the edges and need a few more things to be properly finished, but good enough for the early rounds. Here they all are alongside the Poxwalkers and Kill Team I did a while ago

All that’s missing from the list is another 10 poxwalkers that I also made a good start on

I’m loving how different these are looking, even the ones with duplicate bodies appear sufficiently different with their new heads and arms.

I’ve taken some decent pics of each unit separately and will upload them over the rest of the week if and when I get time

Thanks for looking

The Black Death Crusade army looks really really good. That scheme combined with the name is just genius.
A magnificent force to behold.

 Ezki wrote:
The Black Death Crusade army looks really really good. That scheme combined with the name is just genius.
A magnificent force to behold.

Thanks Ezki, though I was thinking that the name was a bit naff but there really is a joy in a painted Army.

Before I get to finished pics of the individual units, I actually finished the Poxwalkers already! Super quick paint job with mostly speed paints and technical paints, but they look good enough altogether.


And here they are with the first batch who need their bases changing to match the new style, but they’re close enough for deployment

That’s 1000 points of Death Guard completed. I’ve now set myself the challenge of gettting another 500 points ready by the 26th. It should be doable as it’ll just be 3 bases (so my BSF guys can join in) 3 Plague Marines (to max out the squads to 10), a Plagueburst Crawler and Typhus (who sadly can’t join the Crusade just yet). Will get started on that lot next

Thanks for looking

Nice, just simply nice, how's your crusade games going btw?

Not Online!!! wrote:
Nice, just simply nice, how's your crusade games going btw?

Thanks man, still can’t believe I’ve gotten an army painted up so quickly! Crusade hasn’t started yet, I think my first game is likely to be on the 19th. I’ve got Ad Mech as my first opponent so I look forward to dealing out a few viruses.

Here’s the first unit, let’s start with the Myphitic Blighthaulers; Belchmaw and Sludgehowler.

Belchmaw is the one with green slime oozing down its front and Sludgehowler the other one (thanks to ChatGPT for all the names)




These Blighthaulers are pretty cool little vehicles. Even though I bought these fully built I think the conversions to make them unique have worked pretty well. The goo on Belchmaw is just sprue goo I let run, but it seems to have been effective. The Deathshroud shoulder pad over the eye turned out great. I’ve got another one recently that had lost most of its spikes so I leant in to that. I’d like to work a Nurgling in to it, but not sure any of the ones that I’ve got work hanging on.

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Some more pics while I wait for the train. This time a squad of Plague Marines

Frustratingly I miscalculated when I built these. I had aimed to have 2 squads of 7 Marines but frustratingly I did one too many Special Weapons so need to sub in a BSF Plague Marine to one of the squads. I’ve magnetised his base options so that shouldn’t be too much of a of a problem


I think their cloaks have turned out well, nothing special but some cross hatched highlights seem to have worked for me. Colours were Zandri dust washed with Ratling Grime, Zandri dust highlight, then rakarth flesh finished off with pallid wych flesh

No conversions in this batch, I think the Plasma chap is from the Dark Imperium box but nothing special besides that. I think the orange rust layer was a bit too heavy on some of these, it looks better when it’s more subtle, but not bad enough to warrant a repaint

Thanks for looking

Loving the Blighthaulers! The conversion with the oozing is spot on.

 muette wrote:
Loving the Blighthaulers! The conversion with the oozing is spot on.

Thanks dude, the ooze is pretty effective, I’ll need to incorporate that in other conversions I think

Next is the Noxious Blightbringer, probably the coolest character thanks to his big bell, but sadly seems a bit lacklustre in game. Who knows maybe the extra 1” movement will make a big difference to these slow pokes!!

He also has a great Nurgling so he has that going for himself. I fancy getting some more just for the cool Bells. I’d probably stick them on different bodies for a bit of variety though.




Thanks for looking

Carrying on the pics, here’s the Biologist Putrifier. Such a cool mini and a really useful model in game, giving critical on a 5+ which with the Lethal Hits that most Plague Marine weapons have. Chucking a Plaguecaster in adds Sustained Hits should make them pretty handy

Now this guy probably has the most work to be completely finished as I’ve not even begun to do anything with his flasks and vials.



Since he’s so useful in game I think I’ll be maxing out how many I can take and plan to get a couple more to convert regular plague marines to Lethal Hits boosters

Thanks for looking

very nice!

Not Online!!! wrote:
very nice!

Yeah, he’s a nasty boi alright

Here’s another set of pics, this time of the Tallyman Scribbus Wretch

His runes turned out pretty cool with a nice glow to them. After taking the pics I realised he had no writing on his papers, so that is now fixed but the ink in his plague bearer skull doesn’t match at the moment.



His Nurgling is pretty cute, but I didn’t get a pic that better shows him off. Maybe I’ll remember if I do any more finishing touches to him. As for the mini, he’s pretty cool, I especially like his vox box holder on his backpack, the copper turned out well.

Penultimate pics of this group are the Deathshroud led by Verrux the Weeping

I see now that if forgot to highlight Verruxs belly teeth and I think their clouds could do with some darker shades of green towards their tips. I also skipped out on their flies so will need to come back to that, perhaps when I max out the squad with another 3.



I think Verrux’s Nurgling came from the Great Unclean One box and he’s such a cool one he needed to be on someone important. It looks like I missed his teeth so his lovely grin will get even lovelier soon!

Thanks for looking

Looking really good, gobert! Very cool to see some closer shots and all that hard work. Great job getting the force where you wanted it, points-wise.

 youwashock wrote:
Looking really good, gobert! Very cool to see some closer shots and all that hard work. Great job getting the force where you wanted it, points-wise.

Thanks mate, they stack up pretty well so far, even if I need to make some improvements.

Let’s finish up this batch with the Warlord for the crusade (subbed in as I can’t use Typhus ); Carrion-Lord Dregnul who is a Lord of Virulence.

With his base painted I think his red-orange-yellow bits work pretty well with the scheme, so much so that I’m torn what to do on repainting or not. Either way, I missed a few of the green goopy bits so they’ll need doing at some point. I think it’s hard to find all of the bits when a batch contains so much variety.



So that’s phase 1 complete. Phase 2 is already on my desk, but not yet started. There’s a few more Plague Marines Typhus and a Plagueburst Crawler that should round me out to 1500

Thanks for looking !

Awesome stuff Gobert. The flesh on the vehicle is really nice and icky. The army shot is fantastic and good luck when your crusade starts! Hope you smash those pesky followers of the Omnissiah

Your Death Guard are looking suitably disgusting. Papa Nurgle would be proud.

Olthannon wrote:Awesome stuff Gobert. The flesh on the vehicle is really nice and icky. The army shot is fantastic and good luck when your crusade starts! Hope you smash those pesky followers of the Omnissiah

Thanks mate, I think the multi coloured fleshy bits might be growing on me, particularly on the ones with green in them like the Blighthaulers. Maybe it’ll stay!?

ShadowsAndDust wrote:Your Death Guard are looking suitably disgusting. Papa Nurgle would be proud.

Thanks ShadowsAndDust I do aim to please Papa

In all my excitement with the Death Guard I forgot to post the finished pics of my void Panthers’ Rhino/Razorback, so here’s a few bonus pics. First in the stock configuration with heavy bolters;

I really should’ve added something else in the purple band, maybe on the next vehicle.



I also painted some roof hatches so it can run as a rhino if i want

But it will mainly run as a Razorback with twin linked Lascannons

I’ve got another Rhino and a Predator to do, but the Panthers will be taking a backseat whilst I’ve got the Plague Marines bug… speaking of which I’ve made a good start on the Plagueburst Crawler

My first league game is delayed now until Sunday so hopefully I can get it in a decent state for then

Thanks for looking

Rhino/razorback is beautiful work mate, classic and clean. The new transports can't stand up to the design of the firstborn ones IMO!

Agree that the cloaks on the plague marines turned out great - looking like suitably worn linen for your walking petri dishes.

I love the use of green on the Death Guard - whether for plasma, rune, pus or guts - they just work really nicely together.

Glad to hear they'll see the table soon - that's the good stuff!

Thanks for sharing,

 tzurk wrote:
Rhino/razorback is beautiful work mate, classic and clean. The new transports can't stand up to the design of the firstborn ones IMO!

Agree that the cloaks on the plague marines turned out great - looking like suitably worn linen for your walking petri dishes.

I love the use of green on the Death Guard - whether for plasma, rune, pus or guts - they just work really nicely together.

Glad to hear they'll see the table soon - that's the good stuff!

Thanks for sharing,

Thanks mate, the Rhino/Razorback turned out great for a quick paint job and it looks even cleaner next to the death guard.

Made a bit more progress on the Crawler, getting all of the brass trim basecoated

Sooo much trim! I started on some Plague Marines too, but couldn’t face anymore. I’ll focus on the Crawler and see if I can get it done for a game on Sunday.

Thanks for looking

Gutrain the Plagueburst Crawler for my Crusade army came together really quickly tonight and I’m calling him done.

Despite all the details it ended up being a pretty simple paint scheme, just plenty of rusty bits and a few pustules once all the trim had been finished. If I get another I might need to add a colour block stripe of some kind. That decision will probably be swayed by how well it performs in game though.








That was a fun little project, and super quick. But I’m also working on some more plague marines. To get to 1500 points I have a few add ons to the existing squads, but for a 500pt tournament tomorrow I needed to fill out a squad with another Blight Launcher, so a BSF Plague Marine got a new base

But since he’s a temporary member to the Black Death it’s a part time base

Magnets are great fun! So I’ll probably also do some for the others and maybe the BSF Poxwalkers.

With those 2 extras I only need to do 4 more plague marines, Typhus and maybe the icon bearer or plague caster to hit 1500pts by next weekend. I’m also thinking that the with slowness of the marines I should probably get a rhino involved fairly soon. I’ve got some FW death guard bits on the way but in the mean time I might press the Void Panthers Rhino in to action if they keep getting shot up before they can do anything.

Thanks for looking

Amazing turnaround on the crawler, gobert. The patina effect is lovely as is the green glow/leakage in the join between the armour plates on the front.

More rhinos is never bad news. Keep up the good work mate

That Plague Burst Crawler looks amazing. Probably the best one of the whole army so far.

tzurk wrote:Amazing turnaround on the crawler, gobert. The patina effect is lovely as is the green glow/leakage in the join between the armour plates on the front.

More rhinos is never bad news. Keep up the good work mate

Thanks mate, the stippling worked pretty well on this guy, as did the green glow on his vision slit (painted it the same as the marines lenses.

ShadowsAndDust wrote:That Plague Burst Crawler looks amazing. Probably the best one of the whole army so far.

Thanks mate, hopefully they keep improving as I figure out what I’m doing!

Earlier today The Black Death Crusade undertook its first mission in The Cebriones Crusade (hosted by Cryptic Cabin, Bristol). They descended on Forge World WY-4TT a newly populated planet (Population Density 1) with a growing society (Fecundity 1) of hardy Mechanicum thralls (Vulnerability 1) making for a tough planet to begin concocting a Grand Plague. Never the less they intended to spread Papa Nurgles joy by making the Ad Mech force Unwitting Vectors (chance to increase Plagues Survival Rate with each surviving unit) and exhuming a Viral Harvest (chance to increase Plagues Adaptability when No Mans Land objectives are exhumed).

Carrion-Lord Dregnul deployed in Deep Strike with the Verrux the Weepings Deathshroud Terminators. He sent Gangrus’ Rotborn and Tharxus’ Filthreaver Plague Marines scouting forwards with an eye on the No Man’s Land objectives. The Ad Mech sent forward their Dunerider, Breachers, Servitors and Destroyers. The latter 3 opened fire, taking a couple of wound off Sludgehammer the Myphitic Blighthauler and slaying a Poxwalker who hadn’t hidden very well but the Rotborn shrugged off the fire sent their way. Gutrain and Sludgehowler whittled down the Breachers whilst Pustus (Malignant Plaguecaster) and Feculus (Tallyman) led Gangrus’ Rotborn Plague Marines forward to successfully exhume their first objective uncontested

In turn 2 the Dunerider surged forwards and deposited the Skitarii Vanguard and their Marshall. Their combined firepower put pay to many of the Plague Marines, but they held their ground. Belchmaw was wiped off the board by the Destroyers. The Ruststalkers then surged forward and charged Thraxus’ Filthreavers, both sides whittling each other down.

Dregnul and the Deathshroud teleported in to the Mechanicum rear flank and proceeded to delete Battleclade Servitors. Then with the Eye of the Swarm Stratagem he instructed Thraxus to blast the Ruststalkers at point blank range with all their ranges weaponry, this proved highly effective and they finished them off in the fight phase
Sludgehowler pressed forward to get a clean shot at the Skitarii Rangers taking many of them down. Gutrain and Pustus’ Focussed Plaguewind made mincemeat of the Skitarii Vanguard. But in turn 3 they took their Revenge, with the Dunecrawler tank shocking the remaining members of Gangrus’ Plague Marines and Feculus to death. Pustus tried retaliating but in the panic he missed the massive tank with his staff .

In turn 4 the Ad Mech threw nearly everything they had at Sludgehowler

Shooting had very little impact so they charged in from everywhere to get him off the Objective

And that eventually put pay to him.

The rest of Turn 4 made little difference and then we were out of time. At that point I was ahead by 1 VP so we quickly walked through Turn 5 and figured that we’d have drawn that

So The Black Death Crusade set off with a victory. They also successfully exhumed a Vector Target for the Viral Harvest Agenda, that got 1XP for Pustus. Quite a few Ad Mech were left alive, some of which were below half strength which was needed for my Unwitting Vectors Agenda. As the victor I got an extra Marked for Greatness as a victor Bonus, so I Marked Pustus and Sludgehowler given how effective they’d been.

Rolling for my Path of Contagion I improved the Survival Rate by 1 thanks to Unwitting Vectors. That bagged me another 3XP which I put on Pustus. Viral Harvest turned out to be a bust and made no difference. On step 3 I rolled a 4+ for Cultivation adding 1 to the Survival Rate. Step 4 Counteragents was a fail that meant the Vulnerability stayed at 1. Step 5 is Death Toll, and even with my new Survival Rate of 3 I rolled higher and killed off the small population of WY-4TT and causing my Plague to fail at the first opportunity. Following that failure The Black Death moved on to another planet, they’re yet to figure out its name but with a Population Density of 3 I should keep concocting for a few more games at least.

Now with 7 XP Pustus gained the rank of Blooded and since he covets Daemonhood he sought Papa Nurgles blessing. Papa gifted him the Boon of being Grossly Swollen (+2 wounds). Nobody else qualified for any gifts, so on to Out of Action checks. Most passed them, but Belchmaw and Thraxus’ Filthreavers failed theirs. Thraxus suffered Crippling Damage (-1” and unable to Advance) with Belchmaw getting Fatigued (-1OC and no Charge bonus).

Overall a really interesting experience. The mission had really low VP which kept things in the balance but the XP boost from Agendas instead of Secondaries gives quite a fluffy flavour to the game. So far, really enjoyable and I’m looking forward to the next game.

Given how poorly Thraxus performed I’m thinking of interring him in a dreadnought and letting him take out his failings in a more extreme way. I bought a really rough one recently that I think came from Dark Vengeance. It took a fair bit to get two really thick paint jobs off and even more work to get the pieces apart

I couldn’t quite get the Multi Melta apart so I need to figure out how I can close the massive gap.

Further down the line of the campaign I’m hoping to raise a character to Daemon Prince status so I built this guy up a while ago

He’s mostly stock, but has a bit of chainmail added to a shoulder pad and a small tentacle from his stomach, oh and a Nurgling to keep him company!

Bit of a long post this one, hope you all enjoyed it, because there’ll hopefully be more

Thanks for looking

I looked back over my eBay purchase history and found pics of the Helbrute in its ‘as received’ condition.


Whilst you can just about see the thick paint job, you can’t really see the one underneath it, nor all of the gaps in the model. The push fit pegs were in an awful state so I had to trim them off. Even then, it still wouldn’t go together particularly well and I had to scrape joints, file polycement welds and cut other bits. Disappointingly some of his chains it seems are missing as are a couple of blades from the power fist. Eventually though managed to get the Helbrute back together and in slightly better shape than he was before… then I nurgled him up a bit with a few boils and pock marks in his armour similar to the effect on the Plagueburst Crawler. It’s not that easy to see right now, but hopefully the rust effect will highlight it for me

I then hung out of the loft skylight and gave his face a quick little prime as I figured it would be nigh-impossible to paint with his sarcophagus in place. A couple of thin layers of Zandri dust in the area and a wash of Athonian Camoshade for his necrotic head was followed by a yellow speed paint on the gums around his little orifice.

Looking at his point he’s about the same as the extra Plague Marines that I’m also painting up so he might even jump them in the queue if I can get him based and the rest of him primed tomorrow.

As for his backstory, I’m thinking that Dregnul got fed up with Thraxus positioning his squad so poorly that he ordered him to be devoured/entombed within the Helbrute. That way his poor positioning matters less and he doesn’t get other Plague Marines killed! ?

Also I forgot pics, but Typhus and the other Plague Marines got their skin, cloth and bones basecoated as well.

Thanks for looking

So it seems the Helbrute really has jumped to the front of the queue! Over lunch I finished up his face and the inner mouth. Masking it off I primed the outer mouth and the bulk of his body

Luckily the mask worked well so I glued on the outer mouth and finished off the priming

I think he’s already looking pretty sick, and I’m looking forward to painting more of him. The big question though is how to paint his limbs. I had been thinking to go full pink, but that might be a bit much. Maybe some athonian camoshade like skin to match his head. The other option would be to use the same as the fleshy parts of the Myphitic Blighthaulers. Whatever one I pick, the pipework will be pink. What do you guys think?

Great start on the Hellbrute!

 muette wrote:
Great start on the Hellbrute!

Thanks muette, i was pleasantly surprised that his face came out looking pretty good hopefully the rest of him does too!

Did a bit more painting tonight, throwing some Ratling grime on Typhus and some Plague Marines, then doing the armour, trim and flesh of the Helbrute. I decided to go with a regular flesh tone to match his face, but decent coverage without brush strokes is going to take a few coats I reckon;

The boils I added to him seem to have worked quite well and the use of sprue goo to seat the half beads seems to have blended them in quite well. Similarly the holes drilled in to his armour plates don’t look too dissimilar to the ones from the Plagueburst Crawler. With any luck he’ll blend in nicely with the rest of the army.

Thanks for looking

PS pretty sure it’s not just me that thinking he looks quite like the latest Ghazkhull Thrakka model!
PPS I should be collecting the Death Guard Rhino panels tomorrow!

Well, I managed to pic up the Rhino bits from work and have made a good start on it. Which given my insanity means painting the interior and also involves a good bit of kitbashing

I’m particularly pleased how the maw and Nurgling turned out.

This side got a nice comfy back rest and I used sprue goo to try and create a drip from the ceiling

I’m not sure whether these are legit forgeworld or copies. They’re a bit on the small side and the sprue gates didn’t match some of the ones I’ve seen online, but they still look great so I’m happy either way!

Yesterday I took the Death Guard to a league game against Ragnars Space Wolves. Typhus and the Helbrute made an appearance to get me to 1500 points as did the Void Panthers Rhino

Typhus and the Poxwalkers proved highly effective on the central objective, taking down the Thunderwolf Cavalry

The plague marines didn’t do as well against the Invictor Warsuit, but the rhino managed to block the deep striking Ragnar Blackman and the unit of Head Takers he was with

The Plagueburst Crawler and one of the Blighthaulers got rid of the Valiant with a bit of help from a squad of plague marines making it afflicted in turn 2. Sadly the crawler bit the dust when the Wulfen made their 9” charge from deep strike

The other Blighthauler faced off with a Vindicator but both of them survived quite comfortably

So they both changed tack and switched targets. Typhus’ Poxwalkers bodyguard kept him safe all game, though I think I as doing their Feel No Pain rolls wrong, rolling them per attack not per damage. Will remember that for next time

Since I’m slow at writing these, another 2 days has passed and I made more progress on the latest bunch of reinforcements

All of the pink bits have been finished as have the bone elements. Next I’ll finish the fabric bits and then get my rust and verdigris on before the greens and finally the bases are done.

Thanks for looking

Hell Brute's looking good so far.

Look at all those manky buggers in all their glory!

That rhino looks great, love the Nurgling. Looking forward to seeing how that shapes up!

Typhus sure is a cool looking character. Nice work glowing up the Hellbrute. Great momentum, keep it up!

ShadowsAndDust wrote:Hell Brute's looking good so far.

Thanks Shadows, hopefully you like the finished product

Olthannon wrote:Look at all those manky buggers in all their glory!

That rhino looks great, love the Nurgling. Looking forward to seeing how that shapes up!

Thanks man, they really are quite manky. You’ll be pleased to see that the rhino Nurgling is also done

youwashock wrote:Typhus sure is a cool looking character. Nice work glowing up the Hellbrute. Great momentum, keep it up!

He’s really cool and really quite good in game, especially when surrounded by 20 Poxwalkers! The Hellbrute has been a great transformation

I’ve finished up the reinforcements for the Black Death Crusade army having stayed up way too late the other night! The Plague Marines should help me optimise my squads with more Heavy Plague Weapons and Plague Spewers/Blight Launchers or bulk out to full squads of 10.

I’ve not yet made good use of the Heavy Plague Weapons, I think they’ll need to ride in a Rhino to an objective then be cracked open and charge. Good job I’m working on a Rhino!



Overall, nothing special, but a solid unit that should bolster the army nicely.

The icon bearer will probably just join a squad of Plague Marines as an icon of despair carrier, much like the chap from Kill Team does. Not sure that he’ll get much table time, but I have the model for completeness I suppose

This next pic is probably his best angle. Honestly he’s a bit sloppy in places but he’s a Plague Marines so it’s just characterful right?



And a pic of the nurgling to finish off. This one is from the flail wielding Kill Team Operative. He seems to be having fun hanging on to the icon!


Having a second Plaguecaster should make my second squad of Plague Marines a bit punchier with his [Sustained Hits] rule.

I quite like the bit of drool on the corner of his mouth, it ties his green cloud to him nicely I feel.





Overall he turned out pretty well, maybe his guts could’ve had different colours, but he’s good enough for the table.
Next up is the Hellbrute. Another that turned out pretty well, particularly his face hole

So far he’s not proved that great in game, but he scared my last opponent who sent quite a lot of firepower after him.
Lastly here’s Typhus, standing on one of my dead Necrons

So far he’s proved pretty handy in the Poxwalkers squad in holding central objectives thanks to the scout 5” and basically getting 20 extra wounds that can do some decent fighting


His cloud of flies is really cool, but it’s do hard trying to spot what is a cloud and what is a fly!



All in a cool mini who took the paint scheme pretty well. I do wonder whether I should’ve done his helmet white like in the studio colours as he looks a bit dark. Maybe if I end up with another at some point I might go that way.

As usual here’s a pic of the whole gang to wrap up the post

They all have magnetised bases as I’ve invested in a couple of WarMag boxes and sheets. Gotta admit I’m quite impressed with them so far. Looking forward to getting them on the table now they’re fully painted.

I’ll make another post shortly with the Rhino internals

Thanks for looking

I like the green, naturally

Question, will you give them some.... cultists?

Not Online!!! wrote:
I like the green, naturally

Question, will you give them some.... cultists?

Thanks, it’s a good green, that vomit yellow from Vallejo is . I do have a few cultists from one of the job lots that I got to acquire the army. Sadly they’re not an option for Death Guard anymore so I’d have to use Legends rules or proxy them as Poxwalkers. I have thought about converting them by adding spikes and swapping heads/arms/legs etc I’m tempted to get a box of AoS Zombies and a Poxwalkers box and mash them altogether

As promised here’s some pics of the Rhino internals that i finished off last night.

I like how the nurglign is having a good time pulling out the rhino innard, hopefully it’s nothing too important

The roof ended up a bit blotchy, but that’s just Death Guard character and grime.

Recipe wise the Nurgling was base coated blue then highlighted up through purple to pink and finished with a pink white mix. The blacks were just black Templar over the bleached bone I used to base coat the whole interior. The walls were just washed with Agrax Earthshade. The greens were the usual emerald green, striking scorpion green and vomit yellow.

I’ve also now closed it up, though I have left the back hatch openable. I sunk a magnet in to the end of the door and the top of the opening. There’s also a hook on the door so I can open it easier to look at the Nurgling! Here’s the view

And a slightly different one so you can see the Nurgling better

Then from the outside I have glued on the side panel and boy do I hate the way they go on leaving horrible seams, even for death guard minis! Still, it’s better than the forgeworld bits which needed a lot of filler and the front piece was a bit uneven.

Hopefully a bit of sanding and filling will sort that out.

Thanks for looking

This is a fantastic page of progress, gobert.

Love the in-depth battle report. Thanks for taking the time to take the photos and write it up! Crusade/RP heavy is the best way to play IMO.

Great save on the dreadnought, and stoked for him to have a "big guy" buddy in the DP.

Interiors looking great as usual - that nurgling is delightful.

Keep it up mate!

 tzurk wrote:
This is a fantastic page of progress, gobert.
Love the in-depth battle report. Thanks for taking the time to take the photos and write it up! Crusade/RP heavy is the best way to play IMO.
Great save on the dreadnought, and stoked for him to have a "big guy" buddy in the DP.
Interiors looking great as usual - that nurgling is delightful.
Keep it up mate!

Thanks tzurk, it’s a good feeling to be on a roll and I 100% agree that Crusade is the way to play! So much so that my Necrons are also getting in on the action. They’ve got a couple of minis to be painted and it would be good to get another 12 Warriors to round out the squads to a full 20 each.

Changing tack yet again I’ve made a start on some Blightlord Terminators. My FLGS is running a slow grow of 500pts per month for 4 months, so I figured that these guys were the most points I have in a single unit. I then have the choice of either a Rhino and Biologus Putrifier or 20 Poxwalkers. I’m leaning towards the latter as they’ll probably be quicker. For now though, here’s the Blightlords

At this stage they look a bit grey but they should revert to black when the Ratling Grime gets in on the action. I’ll do the Metallics next I think as that usually brings out the models. Some of these guys have a lot of fleshy bits so I’m looking forward to seeing how that develops. I could probably do with a couple more to round off a squad, so might have to look out on eBay to see if I can get a good deal there

Thanks for looking

Can't wait to see your take on these guys - they're certainly gnarly, imposing sculpts waiting to be grotted up.

Funny how 20 models can be less time consuming than 2!

My son's kindergarten created a little nature display that's up on display with a bunch of others in a local art supplies store, and when we went in to visit I realised it was also a FLGS - I bought some Vallejo paints while I was in and got to talking to the owner about how they run casual Tuesday nights and they're in the middle of a Crusade campaign and the next one should start in a few months and and and and...maybe one day life will slow down enough to get back into the playing side of things. For now I'm happy living vicariously through your blog.

Thanks for sharing!

 gobert wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
I like the green, naturally

Question, will you give them some.... cultists?

Thanks, it’s a good green, that vomit yellow from Vallejo is . I do have a few cultists from one of the job lots that I got to acquire the army. Sadly they’re not an option for Death Guard anymore so I’d have to use Legends rules or proxy them as Poxwalkers. I have thought about converting them by adding spikes and swapping heads/arms/legs etc I’m tempted to get a box of AoS Zombies and a Poxwalkers box and mash them altogether

WAIIIIT? Seriously no cultists? No plague monks? even with the darktide ones beeing recived extremly well?!?

All that proves to me that walking away from 40k was a good decision.

Anyways amazing work!

Everything looks amazing. Love the battle report. I personally miss the whole 'hordes of chaos' style 40k. Every book is like "two million cultists and 5 khorne bezerkers that soak up artillery shells by themselves. They really should make a renegade guard style book, I know you can 'run them' as a mostly cultist style for regular chaos marines but....

You've been incredibly prolific since I last saw your blog ! It's impressive how whatever you end up painting you manage to bring the same level of awesomeness!

You have a way of making the contrasting colour of choice pop ! Inspiring really.
Keep up the amazing work and thank you for providing so many pictures!

Take care

tzurk wrote:Can't wait to see your take on these guys - they're certainly gnarly, imposing sculpts waiting to be grotted up.

Funny how 20 models can be less time consuming than 2!

My son's kindergarten created a little nature display that's up on display with a bunch of others in a local art supplies store, and when we went in to visit I realised it was also a FLGS - I bought some Vallejo paints while I was in and got to talking to the owner about how they run casual Tuesday nights and they're in the middle of a Crusade campaign and the next one should start in a few months and and and and...maybe one day life will slow down enough to get back into the playing side of things. For now I'm happy living vicariously through your blog.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks mate, I’m feeling that I’m on a bit of a roll right now, so happy to keep going. Poxwalkers are just super easy to paint, with Contrast/Speed paints doing much of the work! Glad that you’ve found a FLGS, I’d say get stuck in with the Crusade, there’s never a perfect time!

Not Online!!! wrote:
WAIIIIT? Seriously no cultists? No plague monks? even with the darktide ones beeing recived extremly well?!?
All that proves to me that walking away from 40k was a good decision.
Anyways amazing work!

Yep, no cultists, and all of the Daemons are just part of a single detachment, just to reinforce that idea further!

blockade23 wrote:Everything looks amazing. Love the battle report. I personally miss the whole 'hordes of chaos' style 40k. Every book is like "two million cultists and 5 khorne bezerkers that soak up artillery shells by themselves. They really should make a renegade guard style book, I know you can 'run them' as a mostly cultist style for regular chaos marines but....

Well, I’m working on maximising my Poxwalkers list, which could mean 120+ of them. 6 x 20 plus 10 extras arriving from reserves each turn! I’m hoping Renegade Guard come about again at some point as I’ve got a few of them already.

SarpedonofSotha wrote:You've been incredibly prolific since I last saw your blog ! It's impressive how whatever you end up painting you manage to bring the same level of awesomeness!

You have a way of making the contrasting colour of choice pop ! Inspiring really.
Keep up the amazing work and thank you for providing so many pictures!

Take care

Thanks Sarpedon, I’m on a roll at the moment and finding fun colour schemes is a big part of that. It’s always good to hear that others like them too.

Not had much hobby time with family and travelling for work, but I’ve managed to get some copper on the Blighlords

I also got a few more Necrons to round off some squads since they’re joining the crusade

But since most of the army is more modern than these guys I swapped their weapons for the new style

The Gauss Reapers were trickier than the Flayers but the poses worked surprisingly well. They’ve got a game at the weekend so I might get a pair of them done to complete a squad. We’ll see how motivated I am

Thanks for looking

Typhus is rocking your colors. Great job! The rest of this batch of Nurgle's crew also look very good.

Yep, no cultists, and all of the Daemons are just part of a single detachment, just to reinforce that idea further!

oh man. This made me just grab my old IA 13.

Anyways, amazing work on the crons! And especially on the termites!

youwashock wrote:Typhus is rocking your colors. Great job! The rest of this batch of Nurgle's crew also look very good.

Thanks man, I kind of wish that I’d have gone for a white helmet on Typhus, kind of like the official paint scheme, but mainly because I feel his head is hidden at the moment. But he’s pretty cool and even got a compliment at the FLGS on Wednesday night

Not Online!!! wrote:
oh man. This made me just grab my old IA 13.

Anyways, amazing work on the crons! And especially on the termites!

Glad I induced a bit of nostalgia!

Made a bit of progress on the Necrons Warriors, here’s two Gauss Flayer wielding chaps

One of the Flayers had the green bit replaced with an Immortals Reaper barrel which worked surprisingly well. The other had the whole front bit replaced as I did on the original batch.

Tonight I’ve stayed up way too late to throw some contrast paint at them

I think I might have an outside chance of the flayers being finished ahead of my game on Sunday.

Some more Necron reinforcements arrived in the post this week as I won a cheap lot on eBay; less than £25 for 15 warriors, 2 plasmacytes, a Plasmancer, Royal Warden, 3 Skorpekh Destroyers and 2 Ophydian Destroyers. They were listed as spares/repairs but are mostly complete, just missing a chest for a warrior, an arm for an Ophydian and a Gauss Reaper for the Warden, all of which I think I should be able to source from my bits collection. With repairing my eBay haul and painting the warriors I’ve gotten a bit excited for the new Kill Team box too, hopefully I can secure one on Saturday. The Warriors resting in the alcoves look a bit cool I think!

Thanks for looking

I'm liking the Necron upgrades, although I do also like the old neon clear tubing too.

A bit out of sync but on Wednesday the Black Death Crusade infected a new world but met a stern Imperial Guard Combined Arms Detachment rolling with 2 Dorns in a 1000 pt list! With their latest plague needing a boost to the Fecundity and Survival Rate I chose the Sow the Seeds of Corruption (sit on 3 vacant objectives) and Unwitting Vectors (surviving enemy spread the Virus), perfect for if you lose a game!

I went first and pretty much immediately made mistakes! Being scared of the Dorns I figured the Chimeras and the Sentinal wouldn’t pose much threat to Sludgehowler the Myphitic Blighthauler. How wrong was I! Those sustained hits on the Heavy Bolter and then a Hunter Killer Missile that actually hit and hit hard finished him off.

That was pretty much the only action of Turn 1 and I had lost one of my main anti tank units

Turn 2 didn’t go much better with Belchmaw, the other Blighthauler, being caught in the open and taken out by another HK and HB fire from the Chimera. The Deathshroud did arrrive and took out a tech priest to stop him fixing any tanks. That left them in the open though and despite flamers on overwatch, they didn’t manage to finish off a squad of kasrkin that hopped out of a chimera.

That squad then softened them up sufficiently for the Dorns to finish them off the next turn. In hindsight though I’d dropped them in too far away from anything to do much damage. In the top left of the board my Plague Marines broke cover in a bid to get rid of one of the Dorns. A few Bolter rounds got it afflicted and everything else piled in. The Putrifiers grenades and some extra Lethal Hits managed to soften it up considerably. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to pop it open so they charged in. That got it down to 3 wounds but the Hail Mary had failed by this point.


Not sure this next pic is end of turn 4 as I’m pretty sure the plague marines died in turn 4. The Dorn fell back and let the kasrkin that jumped out of a chimera wipe them out. The other Dorn then made short work of the Deathshroud. The plague burst crawler in all of this had done next to nothing other than hitting the Dorn Commander with some spores in turn 1!

With most of my units gone, turn 5 was a bit silly, charging the Plagueburst Crawler through the ruins at a chimera in a hope of popping it, but failing. Gutrain was then finished off as the chimera fell back to let the dorn and other chimera shoot. So at the end of the game, all I had left on the board was Feculus my Tallyman who was hiding on my home objective failing to farm any CP!

Despite the near tabling it was a fun game. With the two agendas I picked, I managed to cultivate the plague quite nicely although the hosts got closer to being wiped out. Hopefully I can get some good progress against Custodes in the next round!

Spent a bit of time tonight at the painting desk finishing up the batch of Necron Warriors. There wasn’t much left to finish them, mainly a bit of dry brushing on their bases to get them frosty looking, a bit of black on their orbs and base rims, then a few spots of Valhallan Blizzard before calling them done.

I skipped the gloss varnish on their orbs as I felt the Abaddon Black was shiny enough and you can’t really see it on most models


And one from above because who doesn’t love snow!?



With all these Necrons and the eBay lot that I’ve now primed I’m looking forward to getting Tomb World next weeken. All the lovely extra Necrons and terrain should be good additions to what was once a finished army!

Thanks for looking

There's never enough undead robot zombies gobert! Especially such well painted ones.

Tommygun1918 wrote:I'm liking the Necron upgrades, although I do also like the old neon clear tubing too.

Hey Tommy, didn’t spot your post. Glad you like the upgrades, I quite like the old neon tubes too, but these ones were quite messy and beyond any saving, so they’ve been donated to my sprue goo pot and will help build future Necrons!

Not Online!!! wrote:There's never enough undead robot zombies gobert! Especially such well painted ones.

Exactly my thoughts! Primed up the next batch with Tomb World ready for collection next weekend!

Switched back to my Desth Guard projects. The Blighlords got all of their metals base coated as well as their fleshy bits, bones, cloth etc.

Now they’re basecoated, there’s really quite a lot of fabric/bone/fleshy bits on these guys. There’s a few spots I missed, but the. It’ll be wash time before I get on to highlights and weathering

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Tommygun1918 wrote:I'm liking the Necron upgrades, although I do also like the old neon clear tubing too.

Hey Tommy, didn’t spot your post. Glad you like the upgrades, I quite like the old neon tubes too, but these ones were quite messy and beyond any saving, so they’ve been donated to my sprue goo pot and will help build future Necrons!

Not Online!!! wrote:There's never enough undead robot zombies gobert! Especially such well painted ones.

Exactly my thoughts! Primed up the next batch with Tomb World ready for collection next weekend!

Switched back to my Desth Guard projects. The Blighlords got all of their metals base coated as well as their fleshy bits, bones, cloth etc.

Now they’re basecoated, there’s really quite a lot of fabric/bone/fleshy bits on these guys

Really digging the necrons! They look like cold, frosty warriors of death, who march forward no matter what.

 Ezki wrote:
Really digging the necrons! They look like cold, frosty warriors of death, who march forward no matter what.

Yeah, slow and steady wins the race for these guys!

Catching up a bit with Battle Reports. This time it’s the turn of my Dynasty of Khopret Necrons army who faced off against the cunning Leagues of Votann who obviously had an eye on the Overlords stash of relics. Fresh from being awakened by the Black Death Crusade wiping out the population of Hive World WY-4TT and finding thieving stunties on their doorstep there was only one plan, annihilation! Most of the army had a tough time overcoming my poor deployment, but the Skorpekhs decided to race forwards and destroyed a unit of Herthkyn that had advanced with the Votann Sagitaur.

Turn 2 was all about positioning. The Skorpekhs were destroyed by the concentrated fires of half of the squat army. The Lord, Mhozatek the Severing Maw survived and wanted to exact some revenge, moving closer to another Hearthguard squad, making sure to avoid Overwatch. On the opposite side Overlord Gho’berakh the Sterile Flame and his Lychguard made ready to charge some regular squats and a Sagitar.

Both made their charges and exacted some damage on their prey

Mhozek though was unable to finish the Hearthkyn and succumbed to all those below the waist hits from the squats. Meanwhile the Deathmarks continued to hold the home objective and guard over the blob of warriors advancing towards the central objective

Turn 3 saw the small blob break cover lead by my second Overlord, Tzun'ekh of the Hollow Vector, who stole the central objective taking the Sagitar in their sights. Unleashing his Tachyon Arrow to soften it up before the Gauss Flayers of his warriors popped it open

Gho’berakh chased down another gang of stunties and had some fun with them

Turn 4 was relatively uneventful with the main action being most of the remaining squats shooting at the Lychguard and then my warrior blob moving up to shoot at more squats. I forgot photos of the end but it ended with the Necrons shooing away the stunties.

A few learning points came afterwards and after my second game. Firstly the Overlords Resurrection Orb is once per battle and I overused it. Then the awakening agendas aren’t on top of the normal agendas, so I need to do some admin to fix my XP. Overall though a really fun game of chasing squats around the board.

Thanks for looking

Awesome updates Gobert, love the battle reports! 2 Dorns in a 1k list is brutal but gives me a good idea

Great work on the painting too!

Your plague marines look amazing. I like the alternate color scheme, it's very striking.

Olthannon wrote:Awesome updates Gobert, love the battle reports! 2 Dorns in a 1k list is brutal but gives me a good idea
Great work on the painting too!

Yeah, tell me about it! they’d be nasty combined with your pony’s being a torpedo ahead of them!

Flapjack wrote:Your plague marines look amazing. I like the alternate color scheme, it's very striking.

Thanks Flapjack, I really appreciate it. They’ve been super fun and relatively quick to paint up and still look good on the tabletop!

I have a couple more games to write up, all defeats, so the motivation is less . That’s not massively slowed my painting though as I’ve been working through a block of 20 Poxwalkers. Here’s a pic from a while ago showing the different skin tones





They really do take Comtrast paints well! I’ve now got about 80 of them built and converted with tentative plans to get to at least 120 so I can field a full compliment under their detachment. Not because I think it’ll be effective, but it should be fun (as long as I print some movement trays for them!



I’ve now got them to a similar position to the Blightlords with all of their metalwork rusted up. I then batch Verdigris upped the copper on both units before getting some yellow on their bases before calling it a night



For the FLGS’ slow grow I need them done bothbefore the end of the month. Normally I think that would be doable but next weekend I’m heading to Warhammer World with some of the Kill Team group from work. Sadly we can’t play there as we didn’t check the events and there’s one running all weekend . Regardless, I’m really looking forward to going and will try not to spend a load of money in the shop!

Speaking of spending money I picked up Tomb World. The terrain looks really cool and I’ve quickly built it and over lunch on Friday I got it primed

Really looking forward to painting this up, theirs loads of cool details all over it

Thanks for looking!

Great work on Poxwalkers do you plan do all 120 with contrasts?

How you gonna paint terrain?

Lots of progress and lots of work ahead, keep it up!

kabaakaba wrote:Great work on Poxwalkers do you plan do all 120 with contrasts?
How you gonna paint terrain?

Hi kabaakaba, yeah, they’ll mostly be contrast apart from the metallics, green glow eyes and any boils they have. I’ve already got 26 painted and these guys are going fast so far. My Tomb World terrain will be the same scheme as my Necrons on the previous page, so a dark ghostly turquoise with gauss blaster green glows, bits of black and some grey walls.

muette wrote:Lots of progress and lots of work ahead, keep it up!

Thanks mate, I’ll try to keep it going for sure!

Since it was an F1 weekend I sat down again tonight and cracked on with the Blightlords. I wasn’t massively feeling them but thought they were close to being finished. Then when I sat down tonight I remembered that their cloth and bones hadn’tbeen done yet. So instead of painting nurglings I figured I should do that first. Whilst it’s not my favourite part of the scheme to paint I think it’s really helped them grow on me, particularly the 3 members of the Tainted Cohort.

The chap at the back is really cool too as his armour at the back is strapped together because his mutated flesh is seeping out. It was looking a bit meh, until I dry brushed the straps and made the whole arrangement pop. Mutations and nurglings will be next to paint, then it’ll be drips (of which there are plenty in both units!) and glowing bits before bases to finish. Starting to think there is an outside chance that I’ll get them painted in time for the slow grow (not that 500pts a month feels particularly slow!

Thanks for looking

The Blighlords are getting their pink on! Minor progress last night with the first highlight on the Nurglings tentacles and pipes.

They always look good at this stage I think, then the first pink layer looks worse until I add white to the mix. Hopefully I’ll get one of those steps done tomorrow.
Thanks for looking

PS I really should get a round to checking others’ plogs, apologies if I’ve not gotten round to yours

Like your purple nurglings.they give nice contrast to mainly darker terminators

 kabaakaba wrote:
Like your purple nurglings.they give nice contrast to mainly darker terminators

Thanks kabaakab, if you like the contrast that the purple brings I’m sure you’ll love the pink!

It’s been a crazy few weeks, so there’s not been much painting progress. There has however been a good bit of gaming with the Death Guard losing a 40K game against Tyranids (awful dice and a couple of silly positioning mistakes) but winning 4 games of Kill Team. 2 of the Kill Team games were in Nottingham as my Kill Team group paid a trip to Warhammer World to bid farewell to a couple of guys who are moving away to new jobs. It was my first trip there and was really impressed by the set up. Sadly we didn’t check the events calendar so it clashed with the 40K Grand Narrative, so we didn’t get to play there, but there were some cool cosplayers. In fact the Deathwatch Marine nearly took me out with his backpack . Amazingly I also didn’t return home with any miniatures! I had hoped for some MkV Marines for my Panthers, but they are now sold out (hoping that means they’re the next release for Heresy).

Tonight though I cracked on with the Blightlords. Their tentacles/flesh cables/nurglings are now fully highlighted and I made a start on their boils.

The pink turned out pretty well, but I had an intrusive thought when painting the boils on this lad…

The resemblance to Mr Blobby is uncanny! For those that remember I’m; Apologies for bringing back the thought. For those that don’t know him, YouTube will have the evidence, but remember, you’ve been warned!

Thanks for Blobby!

Grand Prix weekend usually means double painting sessions, so here’s another update. Everyone got their boils painted up starting with a dark yellow then a red wash before picking out the height of their pustules with yellow again. Nasty! Here’s the Poxwalkers;

I then Made a start on the greens but could only manage the emerald green base coat in a few of the Terminators before calling it a night.

Getting the green on these, really feels like the home stretch and brings the look together.

Thanks for looking

Well this week was a bit of a hobby bust. Didn’t manage any mid week painting and my Wednesday evening Crusade game was called off 30mins before it was due to start (actually worked out quite well as my wife didn’t make it home from the Chiropractor until 15mins after the start time!). This weekend though I got a fair bit of priming done, with all of my remaining Necrons now primed and ready for painting. Plus tonight I got my plague bus and 2nd plagueburst crawler primed, which I primed the tracks and a few bits in lead belcher with the hulls being done in black. Hopefully that will speed their painting up a bit.

Tonight though I sat down and got most of the greens done on the Blightlords and all of it done on the Poxwalkers. I also did the washes on their bases.

I still need to to back and so the brighter green on the Blightlords’ flames and I think the pink could do with a brighter final highlight but then I think that I’ll be done. The Poxwalkers are essentially done now and will be complete once both have their rims painted black.

I’m quite a bit behind on the slow grow, so hopefully I’ll finish these guys up this week. I’m then debating what to do next. I had planned the Plagueburst Crawler, Lord of Contagion and Rhino, but I’m close to getting one of my Characters upgraded to Daemon Prince or potentially turned to Chaos Spawn. As such I’m thinking I swap the PBC for the Prince and the LoC for the Gellerpox Infected as some of the larger chaps make good Chaos Spawn proxies. What do you lot think I should do?

Thanks for looking !

It’s been a while dakka! Work, life and hobby have been nuts with things getting more crazy as I’ve just accepted a new job that will see me moving to Germany at the start of December. Wife, Kids and Guinea Pigs will likely follow in Feb/Mar so in between adjusting to new life I’ll probably get a bit of hobby time too. For now I’ve resolved to finish my WIP projects and prepped a bunch of things to keep me busy on lonely December evenings. That means I’m aiming to finish my Blackstone Fortress, Space Hulk and Necrons before end of Feb. All of my remaining Necrons are primed and nearly ready to make the trip with me in December when I reckon I should manage to get them done as the scheme is pretty straightforward. My Blackstone Fortress stuff is mostly primed (just an Ork waiting on the priming stick I think) but will be quite a bit more effort to do as everything is much more varied so that will be January and February. But what about Space Hulk and the Death Guard you still haven’t finished! Well, the Space Hulk Terminators are sat on my desk waiting to be finished as the Blightlord Terminators and Poxwalkers are done! So enough with the wall of text, here’s the Poxwalkers


I’ve got to say I think these turned out pretty well for a speed paint. I’m also really chuffed how the kit bashing looks, whilst they all clearly share similar bits, they’re also all unique with most of the cut and shut jobs being fairly seamless.

The Blighlords also got finished off, here’s the multi part versions




Compared to the Deathshroud these guys are are bit on the bland side so I’m glad that I added the Nurgling on the flail chap. The Tainted Cohort on the other hand are chock full of detail:





These lads were chock full of detail and each seemingly had a theme; tentacles, teeth and horns. Mr tentacles has a distinct Krang/Mr Blabby vibe to him but I like him nonetheless.

I also took some picks of them together; all the Terminators



And the Poxwalkers screening them


Altogether a pretty decent looking bunch. I’ve still got plenty of Death Guard to paint so they’ll return when I’m fully set up in Germany. I’ve packed most of them up ready for the journey, one box of painted bits and another of unpainted. This will be the only painted army that comes with us in case my German goes from nothing to being able to sustain a game of 40K. All of my other painted things will go in to storage whilst we’re away so I’m currently scouring eBay for storage solutions. if anyone has hot tips for long term storage for minis let me know!

Thanks for looking!

Oh, they awful and they should be so. good work. Pink flesh and bright blue drab add nice contrast.

These turned out awesome.

Nurgle must be proud of these sons! Good luck too with your move to Germany!!

Poxwalkers and Blightlords looking dandy! Nice work.

Congratulations on your new job and I wish you good luck on your move to Germany. That's a big step!

They look really good, gobert. Good luck on your new adventure.

Great looking group, I think I like the green flames the best.
The armor is really good as well.

kabaakaba wrote:Oh, they awful and they should be so. good work. Pink flesh and bright blue drab add nice contrast.

Thanks kabaakaba, I do love the pinks contrast with their otherwise dull appearance, it adds a good bit of flavour to them I feel.

Not Online!!! wrote:These turned out awesome.

Thanks mate

muette wrote:Nurgle must be proud of these sons! Good luck too with your move to Germany!!

Thanks muette, I hope papa is proud of his boys . The move is going ok so far, I have accommodation sorted for December and we have remote viewings for a permanent place, hopefully that’ll be squared away soon.

Ezki wrote:Poxwalkers and Blightlords looking dandy! Nice work.
Congratulations on your new job and I wish you good luck on your move to Germany. That's a big step!

Thanks Ezki, the Poxwalkers appreciate the love . Thanks, the job is a continuation of what I’ve been doing for a while, but at a higher level. Hopefully it all works out.

youwashock wrote:They look really good, gobert. Good luck on your new adventure.

Thanks youwashock, we’re all looking forward to the adventure (even the kids have some bits they’re excited about!)

Tommygun1918 wrote:Great looking group, I think I like the green flames the best.
The armor is really good as well.

Thanks Tommy, glad you like the flames, it looks surprisingly good for such a simple recipe (base emerald green, wash striking scorpion green, wash bile green)

It’s been a while Dakka, with oodles of life admin I’ve not really managed too much hobby progress. I’m also struggling with about a million blood drops, gems and lenses. My old eyes have been struggling of late, so I’ve been needing to use my magnifying glasses and they’re not easy to use for prolonged periods. I think though, bar the ones that I’ve missed (there’s always a few!), that they’re done

They’re pretty hard to see in this pic , but I think the eye lenses in particular have turned out really well, as have some of the blue lenses. Here’s some close pics

The sergeants have loads of gems, and the purple ones on Lorenzo were a slog but most look good. Also it looks like I was wrong and the Red gems need a final orange highlight on the bottom and a point of white ones the opposite top

On this pair their eye lenses are really popping and their blue targeting lenses have a nice shine to them. God those targeters are really fiddly to paint like this! I think quite a few of them will need a wash to tidy things up

The heavy weapons guys are fun minis. The green gems on the Heavy Flamer are some of my favourites, shame his blue blood drops are a bit meh. The blue vial on the Assault Cannon is one of my first attempts at painting a such a thing. Not a bad effort, but I’m happy for a first attempt

The final trio pic I took for completion but also their eye lenses. I’m liking the brightness against the darkness that the streaking grime creates.

Once I finish the gems that I missed I’m thinking of doing a few highlights on the metallics and the cabling before calling them done… they’ll have only taken a year to paint I’ll get to them next weekend with any luck. In the meantime I’m away this week with work so my Eversor Assassin for Blackstone Fortress is coming with me. Hopefully I’ll get more done on him.

Yep, the lenses are really well done.

Mmm... Do you know that one of you pals is dead?
They look great. Lenses, gems and cameras made perfect.

Man those ternies were nice sculpts ! You did an outstanding job there once more ! Love everything about them !


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Man those ternies were nice sculpts ! You did an outstanding job there once more ! Love everything about them !

Great work.

All the best on your move.

Cheers,

CB

Not Online!!! wrote:Yep, the lenses are really well done.

Thanks matey!

kabaakaba wrote:Mmm... Do you know that one of you pals is dead?
They look great. Lenses, gems and cameras made perfect.

He’s the whole reason they’re on the space hulk, damned officers getting themselves killed so the rest of us have to go rescue them!

SarpedonofSotha wrote:Man those ternies were nice sculpts ! You did an outstanding job there once more ! Love everything about them !

Thanks Sarpedon, they’re really awesome minis but did they need to have so many gems :’(

Captain Brown wrote:Great work.
All the best on your move.
Cheers,
CB

Cheers Cap, that move is creeping up on me fast!

Well my trip the other week was a bust for painting, managed to do absolutely nothing on the assassin. Then, when I got home I did nothing on the Terminators either. I do however build a bunch of Plague Marines out of the bodies you get with the Poxwalkers and a Biologus Putrifier. I wanted to max out the Special Weapons options for 2 squads, so went with extra plasma and Melta guns that I had spare from the Plague Marine box, plus a couple of Raptor versions that looked awesome in Tek’s Death Guard army.

As you can see one of them got a promotion to Biologus Putrifier. Another eBay win made me up to the max 3 Putrifiers. 2 of them are converted using Plague Marine bodies. Here’s the whole gang as I’m not sure I’ve shown them before

From the Putrifier bodies I made an icon of despair plague marine and a Plasma gunner

So from wanting some more poxies, I’ve also grown my Plague Marine options, and am now able to max out the special weapons choices for 2 full squads.

In life news, I start my new job on Monday, so me and a bunch of Necrons will be flying to Germany on Sunday. Wife and kids won’t be following until February half term, so I’ll try to get these guys done and get back to posting more regularly.

Thanks for looking

nice gang. though they need little masters all around. Death guards without nurgling not a Death guard.
Good luck with new job

 kabaakaba wrote:
nice gang. though they need little masters all around. Death guards without nurgling not a Death guard.
Good luck with new job

Thanks, the nurglings are always fun but sadly I don’t have enough and there’s not always space to add them.

Well, I’ve survived the first week at the new job and so far so good. But you lot don’t want to hear about work. So here’s my temporary painting setup

My Necrons have made pretty decent progress so far with the ghostly green base colours laid down.

Hopefully they’ll make some good progress over the rest of the weekend too

Thanks for looking!

Lol. Nice set up, nearly as chaotic as mine
Also cool to see the old bluemetal lads.

Space Hulk Terminators are looking great, dude! They're going to look so fragging cool fighting your Stealers in that tile terrain you've been working on!

That wee paint station isn't so bad, get yourself some coasters for those drinks tho- my poor OCD!! :O

Glad the new job is going okay, mate.

Not Online!!! wrote:Lol. Nice set up, nearly as chaotic as mine
Also cool to see the old bluemetal lads.

No one has more chaos than you, maybe not even GW! it’s quite fun painting the Necrons again, it’s such a simple scheme the rate of progress is very satisfying!

Ragsta wrote:
Space Hulk Terminators are looking great, dude! They're going to look so fragging cool fighting your Stealers in that tile terrain you've been working on!

That wee paint station isn't so bad, get yourself some coasters for those drinks tho- my poor OCD!! :O

Glad the new job is going okay, mate.

Thanks matey, I promise that I’ll finally finish the terminators over Christmas, I think it’s been a year since I started them so I probably should. As for coasters, the apartment is distinctly lacking in them, so the cups will be naked on the table . Also, one of them is most definitely not a drink!

Made some steady progress since my last post. Last night I painted all 25 of the Necron Warriors’ guns with Black Templar

Tonight I did the Plasmacytes and Plasmacyte warriors from the Canoptek Circle, plus 3 lightly modified Skorpekh Destroyer

I really need to get some some glue for the broken Ophydian Destroyer, but I’m really pleased how his mates replacement arm and tail spike are looking now they’re painted

These tomb crawler things look pretty cool, you can tell the family lineage with the Canoptek reanimator. These guys just have short legs to stay inside

The geo and psycho mancers are some of the coolest minis in the Necron range I think. I’m looking forwards to painting the digital skull and digital bits around the rocks.

But reckon Mr Szeras is truly the coolest Necron mini onthe market right now.

Thanks for looking

The Space Hulkinators look stupendous. Great work on great minis.

 gobert wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:Lol. Nice set up, nearly as chaotic as mine
Also cool to see the old bluemetal lads.

No one has more chaos than you, maybe not even GW! it’s quite fun painting the Necrons again, it’s such a simple scheme the rate of progress is very satisfying!

Hahaha Many thanks. Great work and amazing progress!

youwashock wrote:The Space Hulkinators look stupendous. Great work on great minis.

Thanks youwashock, I’m certainly taking my sweet time over them

Not Online!!! wrote:

 gobert wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:Lol. Nice set up, nearly as chaotic as mine
Also cool to see the old bluemetal lads.

No one has more chaos than you, maybe not even GW! it’s quite fun painting the Necrons again, it’s such a simple scheme the rate of progress is very satisfying!

Hahaha Many thanks. Great work and amazing progress!

Thanks mate, it’s amazing what you can do without life getting in the way of hobby, though work has been some long days.
A bit more progress was made on the Necrons. I wasn’t in the mood for doing their glows as it needed a good bit of brain power. So instead I basecoated the dirt on their bases so I could stick with the big brush

For these two crypteks I really should’ve painted the bases first as it was nearly impossible to not get the VMC Chocolate Brown on their little legs and wormy bits (the Ophydians were similar). Tha Geomancers base is particularly fiddly, but think I got all of the little nooks and crannies!

This bunch were much more straight forwards particularly the blade legged Skorpekhs

The Ophydians were trickier but not too bad.

I’ll probably do the bases for the warriors next and might carry on with the bases so I can do all of the big brush work in one go. Not sure how far I’ll go with Szeras’ base given the dying bloke and dead terminator on it. The former will be painted similar to Taddeus the Purifier and the terminator will obviously be a void panther

Thanks for looking

Looks good, what a primer you used on them?

 kabaakaba wrote:
Looks good, what a primer you used on them?

The primer was Colour Forge’s Steeelforge Silver, it’s basically the same as Boltgun metal or whatever GW call it nowadays.

I figured that I’d carry on with the bases that are now done apart from the Valhallan Blizzard and black rims. The former will have to wait until the new year though so that I can get a tool to apply it. The bases aren’t anything special, I picked out the large bits of debris with Uniform Grey before using the same paint for an all over dry brush. Followed by an Ash Grey and then White dry brush.

Here’s a pic of the broken Ophydian’s base for a closer look

I think it looks quite frosty and the dry brush pics out the edges of the ruins pretty well. As usual whilst doing necron bases I start to spot all of the little scarabs that I missed! I’ll catch them before i start on the glows, hopefully get that started tomorrow