Your wolf head actually looks pretty okay if you compare it to the ancient wolf sculptures(google!)
However if you don't, then yeah, a crocodile. Those spikes are gonna be quite deadly don't you think?

it still looks really cool maybe some fur on the snout would sort it out

The nurglie head is going to have a fly face with a hanging proboscis.
Thats the closest i am going to get to vomit since this isnt for me. Now if mangusthered was to want vomit, it would be negotiable.

Wow. Once again your GS skill is stunning. And the spikes look really cool.

Thanks Skalk.
Is that your Greater Clean One pictured as your avatar.?

The Wolf face still needs some work that I am going to lavish on it tonight. Then later I am going to work on the Fly head for the other god/face.

@ Kencotter. The spikes are actually going to be pretty nasy. If you were to step on this it would do some serious damage. I spoke with magnusthered whom i am doing this for, and he said to just make the whole thing bushy with spikes. However, I can see them being a bit to hazardous if you were to bump it or move to quick around it. The majority f them are going to be pretty short so I doubt that they will really be an issue.

Thanks again all for the comments and suggestions. I am going to be finishing this up pronto and then moving forward with more nurgle stuff so stay tuned.... as long as you dont mind the slow pace of updates.

I am finally in the home stretch with this tower i have been working on. Having three jobs has slowed me down a bit, but all in all the project is coming along. I figure it will be done next sat at the latest.

So i spent ages working to finish paneling all four sides of the tower. The final work, blending the platicard panels with greenstuff was probably the hardest part. One night, with the addition of a mysterious substance (aka Beer) i discovered a way of doing the blending that was way easier and faster than what i had been working with. For the future, if you need to blend GS into a crack, you can just wet your thumb and drag it really hard across the surface of the GS. It produces a smooth, seemless finish much more readily than if you try to use sculpting tools.

I was having a hard time figuring out how to fill in a large gap at the top of each panel so I used plumbers putty for that. It hardened in 5 minutes and if you wet it slightly when you are smoothing it, the finish is epic. Faster and cheaper to use than green stuff, and for using as filler, i think it works better.

Once I was done with the panels, I finished sculpting three of the four remaining chaos gods. The tower is non-denominational. I think that all the gods turned out well, but the nurgle head turned out the best IMHO. I still have to begin the Slaneesh face. I have balked at this because i have never really been good at sculpting human (much less female) features but I had never done a wolf before so i'm just going to charge it.

The spikes are really sharp. If you look carefully there is blood (human, mine ) on the tower. I filed them down but they are still really sharp. Not sure about the chain. I might be pulling that off, not sure if its really worth keeping.

The last two pics are my next project, though not a commision.

I'm not sure about the chains. Are you going to leave them as just a couple chains, or are you going to add more than that one strand that is pictured.

Seems like the model does not really require more stuff.

I was going to likely add a bunch more than just the single one i have pictured. They would stretch across the open Idol from side to side. I am likely going to be adding some banners too. I was thinking about only putting chains on the nurgle and zneech sides of the tower, and banners on the khorn slanneesh sides of the tower.

Not sure though as this is for magnusthered. Waiting for him to comment and let me know what he thinks of the chains. They will make painting a bit more difficult (not that the 104 nails i installed in the sides dont already do that, but hey).

My opinion is that the chains are awesome and there should be more, symbolic of binding Daemonic will to the temple. I don't mean random knots all over the place, but similar to the symmetry you already have going on.

Really liking the different heads on the statues. Pretty impressive sculpting if I may say so.

@ Skalk- Thanks for the feedback. I think that the chains do add something, Though I may only do them on two sides. And I agree. not all knotted up, but carefully placed. Hows the Nurgle coming on your end. Mud season is almost over right?

@Flashman - thanks for the props. Can I ask you. Though you may or may not collect nurgle, I am thinking of sculpting and casting a nurgle soul grinder torso for sale. Would you encourage this behavior or no.

So... the sould grinder torso is getting some love. Pics of it later.

Sennacherib.

Where are these alleged soul-grinder pics. Hmm.m.

I have a question outside o the conversion you are doing. Is magnusthered one of the guys you game with up in Chico? I for one say that you should add more chains. Chains look good. As for the soulgrinder, i cant say that you would be able to sell many of them without a finished product to show off so people will know what it looks like!

I will try to post some shots of the soul grinder work that I have been doing. Maybe tomorrow.

AND YES, magnusthered is a buddy from the north state. I also agree with the assessment on the chains. Likely i will add them to only two opposing sides.

ooo nice fortress of redemption conversions.

Thanks Cormadepanda

I will have the final product (ie the tower) posted here in a week or so. I have really been delaying because the stupid slanneesh face is a pain in the rear. never been good at sculpting male faces and the female slaneesh face is turning out to be a nightmare.

Some really great stuff here, senna. Making me want to convert to Nurgle!

Love it, keep up the great work. Are you still working on the scultping?

I am still sculpting but i have been distracted by my new job which takes me away from any civilization for the next three months. Hmmm.

Yeah, but you have a wicked cool job.

My jobs not bad. I live in a town of 80. we drive 4x4 around the woods at night feeding whole populations of mosquitos with our blood while listening to owl calls on a ghetto blaster.

If we ever find an owl we get to feed it a pair of mice that rattle around in a little metal bucket.

Not a bad job at all skalk.

SO i just thought it was high time to try and do an update of progress that i have had on my chaos army. I have been working to get it up to speed with the new dex which almost mandates that you play to the codex strengths. I have a ton of vehicle Heavy support but am lacking in the infantry HS catagory so i have begun to build up some filler so i can get my army back on its feet. The first of these projects is a trio of additional nurgle oblits to augment the single oblit that i put together early last year. They have been about three weeks in the making. I have been GS like wild to try and get them ready to assemble and this is about as far as i have gotten. I used SonsofOrars method of enlarging the shoutler pauldrons with plasitcard. The legs are from assault on black reach terminators and the torso's are left overs from my bitz box that i widened and extended slightly. I also added GS to the soles of their feet so that they stand a bit taller. One will be sporting the mutated limb which represents a power claw.

Truly inspirational work!

Just found your blog. Lovely work with the green stuff and proper filthy looking paint-work. Good stuff.

Thanks guys.
Right now I am struggling with my inspiration. I have about a half way finished rhino and a half way finished landraider to work on but I lack the willpower. I also have about three soulgrinders that need work and a few other projects.

However, right now I am still stuck in the far north east corner of California in a town of 80. In about 40 days my job here will be done and I will be able to access the rest of my stuff, but for now I am marooned.

So, my time being trapped up here in the frozen wastes of northern california is growing to a close. I have less than two weeks left and i will be back in civilization. Trolling my own thread i noticed that i have posted two laundry lists of stuff that i have been meaning to finish and i figured it would be interesting to see how much i actually got done from those lists in the past year. My guess is not much.

Here we go. List of stuff that i had on my radar to finish since last year around this time, AND whether it is finished or not.

1. 2 Vindicators- DONE
2. 2 Defiler -One is completed, one is half way.
3. 5 Terminators - Not Completed
4. Demon Prince with wings - Not completed, just based and base coated
5. 2 Sorcerer's with the mark of nurgle- not completed
6. Greater Demon (complete sculpt) - not even started.
7. Fortress of redemtion - DONE. This took about 45 hours to finish
8. 10 plague zombies - Three assembled. No where near done.
9. 6 nurgle bikes and a bike lord - Three assembled and Gs. Maybe half done.
10. 4 oblits - Assembled and GS.
11. DG rhino - Maybe 25% done.

I also have to assemble
another defiler - Not even close
Plague Hulk. - The torso is almost sculpted and i am moving towards beginning to cast it so that i will be able to have 3-4 of these beasts.

Drum roll please. So what did i accomplish. Hmmmm....not looking so good. 4.5/11 Somewhere around 41%.
Well at least i dont have that much i plan on doing. When i return to civilization, i will be able to post some photos but for now you have to trust me that i have finished what i said i have.

Hey, 40+ % is far from bad !!! We're still here, waiting for updates !!

As for culture... I thought California was a warm state ?!?

Yeah. it is warm most of the time, but the area i live in is very isolated. I live in the middle of strawberry field that stretch for 4+ miles in all directions of my barracks. They douse the fields with methyl bromide which is illegal to use for agriculture because it depletes the atmosphere of Ozone. they are using a loophole in the law (critical use exemption) to bipass the rules we have here against its use. The town is 80 people with only one small store and i am not allowed to drink beer in the barracks. I only get to see 5 people who are my boss and barracks mates. So i might as well be living in alaska or antartica for all the amenities that i get to use. We have no internet, i have to walk over and swipe it from the fire fighters that i share the compound with. But i am out of here in 11 days and back to civ. where i will immediatly begin to update my blog and sell off my space marines army (smurfs).

Thanks for checking in Yggdrazil- what do you think the market is for a cast plague robot that looks a lot like a Nurgle soul grinder demon torso that i sculpted. it coincidentally fits on top a defiler or a soulgrider replacing the turret/torsothough it is in no means ment ot infrige on or to be used to accesorise any GW parts.

Saw this thread bumped in my unread subs. Cool to see that you're heading back to the land of the living soon. Beer and Internet access are definitely perks of civilization.

Looking forward to your triumphant return to central heating and modeling space.

Hey Skalk. Glad to see you stopped by.
I am back in the realm of the not so living. Got back to civilization last night at 12:30. And after taking the morning and afternoon to take stock of my situation i figured it would be a good time to update the blog with some pics.

so while i was living in Mt. Hebron (aka the Far North) I had some spare time between getting stung by hornets and looking at bears to work on some of the many projects that i had on the drawing board. Even though my completion rate is only about 40% i feel pretty good about what i accomplished.
Sorry that the pics are not better but i cant find my tripod, moving and being gone from home for four months will do that to you. I realize that there are some mold lines i need to clean up and i need to to a little bit of corrosion detail work but for the most part these three oblits are done and ready to base and paint. They will be acting as a bodyguard for typhus when he deepstrikes into the back field to raise cane with my foes.

Now that i am back, i will be trying to update a bit more often. Next up a soul grinder of nurgle bit that i am thinking about casting for sale. What do you all think. a worthwhile pursuit.?
as always, thanks for stopping by and any Q&C is appreciated.

So, as promised this update concerns the soul grinder bit that i am thinking of casting. Would it be worthwhile to case and sell such an item. Is there a market. This is my initial effort. I am trying to make it so that you can position the arms and choose the head that you want to have with the model at the time of sale. That way people wont have to have three identical soul griders in their army. Like i said, this is an initial effort and i have learnt a lot from its production. The cable that lies on the spine is too strait and the three cables on the right pectoral look out of place. I like the head and how its coming along. ITs going to be finished off with a leering grin missing lots of teeth and a partial skull showing through in a few places. I am pretty happy with the size of the torso with respect to the rest of the model. I am also not a terrible fan of the lower body. I think i am going to make the next mock-up with a armored plate bolted across the gut, maybe with some intestines haning out from a gap at the base.

Anyways. questions and comments are welcome. Thanks for stopping by, and if you have any suggestions concerning the viability of a cast for sale version of the nurgle soul grinder pictured below, please let me know.

Wow, can't believe I only just found this! subbed.

Nice to see a new watcher here Largblastmarker. I checked out your blog. Ultramarines huh. I have a ton of those too but they dont get much play right now.

So. I am trying to keep up the pace and finish updating everyone with all that i have been working on. One of the 40% projects that i finished was a set of fallen. Almost all of my minis are converted loyalist figures. They come to me as gifts, as by product in starter sets and from tourni winnings. These ravenwing bikers i couldnt see getting rid of. They are way cheaper than the bikes that GW sells individually AND they have the nifty front wind screens. I think that they sat on my half finished table of gloom for longer than most of my projects. However. THey are finally doe. I really am starting to like the cloaks on my Mortis Apostate. Initially i was put off by the cloak that the sarge was wearing but once i am done with this army, he will fit right in. I am also starting to sculpt a two-piece clam-shell chest piece on many of my Mortis in power armor. The fella with the bolt pistol pointing has a magnetized arm so i can swap it out for a melta or a flamer.

Questions and comments are appreciated.
p.s. Sorry the pics are so dark. gosh darn clouds outside and stuff.

Ok. Better lighting equals better pics to update my blog with.

I have been working on a terminator sorcerer of nurgle/terminator lord of nurgle for those times that a 2+ save would be nice. The Model i used for this conversion is a black reach set loyalist. I changed out the chest plate and then built up his shoulder pads with plague vents etc. The model will eventually be magnetized so that i can swap the shoulders out with other arms, however it is currently being orange tacked together. Currently the lord has lightining claw/powerfist and the sorcerer is equipped with a force scythe and pointing finger of doom. I may actually magnetize the head too so i can swap it out between the models but for now i havent made that jump yet. I still have to GS the sorcerers shoulders with plague vents and i am thinking about filling in the back of the termi armor and making some plague censors on it. In the mean time i am going to be working to get some paint on this stuff so i can use it in an upcoming game, as well as building up a biker lord with black mace.

More to come. Questions and comments are appreciated as always.

That is frightening and creepy.

Thanks Skalk. Its funny, the knee pads that i used are identical to some that i found surfing Kraut Scientist's thread. He used the same bits and in the same fashion as i did. Hmmmm. I figure that i am going to have to work on getting all the mold lines off o there some time, and much of today i am going to spend drilling and readying it for Nurgle.

Do you think i should buff his tummy out with a paunch ala the plague marines, and or add cloven hoof's to his feet?

So i am still working on updating some of the projects that i got to work on this summer while i was out chasing owls. Last year around this time i purchased a land raider to accessorize my army with. This will be my second land raider so far to be touched by the hand of nurgle. Currently my heavy support slots are getting way overburdened but being as the forces of nurgle depend on a onslaught of troops on foot, this should not be found to be surprising. When i received this land raider it was painted green. The guy i bought if from on ebay did not tell me that the base coat primer had gone on lumpy. So i stripped what i could and have been engaged in adding boils and pustules. It is about 3/4 finished. I still need to modify the exhausts into plague vents and finish adding GS to the right side. I like how the camo rolls turned out that are attached to the top of the Raider. Unlike C:SM chapters which have a huge support system, the Mortise Apostate are a smaller warband with less support infrastructure. They sometimes use Camo netting to conceal their troops and vehicles while they are on a protracted campaign.

As Always, quesitons and comments are welcome.

That's shaping up nicely. Nice salvage job.

Thanks Moltar

I just set out all my minis (well, my chaos minis and all the ones that were worthy of counting at this time so no WIP models that are unassembled etc) and took a group shot. The results were about what you would expect for a Nurgle army, and exactly what you would expect for the Mortise Apostate. I have 4000pts of CSM and about a 1000pts of Demons. when i finish assembling it all i will eventually have closer to 5000pts of marines etc. I still have to put together 2 defilers and about four more squads of PM. Until such time as i finish this, i currently have...

HQ.
Typhus
2 lords
3 sorcerers
2 winged demon prince
2 Greater Unclean ones

Troops
3 x 7 Plague marine squads
5 Nurgling bases
20 Plaguebearers

Elite
Dreadnaught
10 Nurgle Terminators

Fast Attack
3 Nurgle Bikes

Heavy Support
2 Landraiders
4 Nurgle Oblits
2 Defilers
Chaos Predator
2 Vindicator

Banehammer

THis seems like the right roster for a warband that broke away from the Deathguard. 9 heavy support and only one fast attack slot. Seems about right.

scrape the Imperial eagles on the tracks man! I love the landraider.

Oh yeah, a dude at my flgs did this, and I heard you liked apocalypse

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/540523.page

@Largeblastmaster ~Thanks for stopping by. I plan on covering up the imperial eagles with mud and grime.

Now, as for apocalypse. The north state gameing group out of Redding throws some really fun apoc games. They do things a little different so its not such a freeforall. Makes the game a bit less of a cluster. I am interested in the new apoc game rules. Have you tried them.?
oh... and that Nurgle lord of skulls you found. Awesome. Looks so much better than that crappy khorn one GW made.

Nice stuff Sennacherib.

I think you should resculpt the feet on that terminator into hooves. I mean, It is a sorcerer lord of nurgle. He would be blessed with mutations and such. AND for display poses you may want him to be a bit taller than everyone else so that people (judges) will be able to tell who your HQ is. I know of someone who didnt score well in a tourni , because the judges said his leader didnt stand out at all.
Looking good though. Waiting for another update.

Paunch for sure, but I have to think about the cloven hooves.

@Skalk Bloodaxe ~ thanks for the feedback skalk. I was thinkin long and hard about the hooves too. I will try to make a mock up but its gonna be tough. As for the paunch, having looked at the mini i feel like some sort of belly is essential. Its got lots of nurgle character but i am not so sure its going to have enough...

@Orknidious ~ thanks for stopping in Nidious. When are we going to be getting a game in. Also, your vote for hooves is noted.

And to the rest of yall..
I have been trying to finish up on stuff that has been lagging, namely my whole army. it would seem that i like to modify and sculpt stuff way more than i do the painting part of the hobby. Looking back at what i have painted that i would consider to be finished, its a painfully small bit of stuff. SO... without further ado i have decided that i should at least make an effort to get stuff base coated and through the first stage of painting so that i can at least feild it without feelining like i have stuff unworthy on the table. THis of course means that i will be working to get some of my demons and my more recent projects finished.

The first of these that i am going to try and finish is this lord. I took some hints from Kraut Scientist and Biohazard, though they play Khorn, and went ahead and added some skulls to his banner. After all my Lord is not going to be wandering around skull trophyless in the grim dark of the future. This model is themed after the Death Guard Nargalax who features in the story Vox Dominus from the collection of stories titled "Treacheries of the Space Marines". Its simply the definitive description of death guard that i have found in any of the black library books. Story is awesome too.

So i wanted my lord to look like Nargalax, and this also required the addition of a tentacle or two sprouting from his upper arm. I added those, as well as some corrosion to the uppers and corners of the pauldrons. This is a variation of a technique i used on my earilier models with sand and glue. Let me know what you think.
Questions and Comments are appreciated as per the norm.

p.s. i finally found a good place to take pictures outside. Better lighting. Thanks for bearing with me.

Corrosion bubbles look good and puss-filled. Did you add that cross bar to the banner poles to attach it to the backpack or is that already sculpted on that banner bit?

@ Moltar ~ Thanks for checking in. The cross piece comes already attached to the banner (assuming you are referring to the one that is at the base of the banner where the two staffs cross and attach to the backpack). It took a little tiny bit of GS to even it out where it attaches to the backpack and to support the attachment point for greater durability.

I'm pretty happy with how the bubbles and pustules turned out. How they turn out on the completed mini is up for debate. Later i may do a tutorial for these as a detail, because they are super easy to do and i feel like small details add a lot to the finished model.

Small details definitely make the mini! And, yes, we are referring to the same bit on that backpack.

Todays update is not quite as all encompassing as some might hope. It takes me forever to paint so i just got most of the Lords body and back pack base coated. I still have a bunch of work to do on his head and shoulder pads. The black mace that he is wielding needs a lot of work. I was thinking about making it so that the head is blackened with faint whirls of yellow and green. alternatively i was considering making it aged brass. IT could go either way. I have to go and buy some corpse flesh for the banner and his head, but i figured i would post these shots now. Very much a WIP. The side shot showes the tentacles that are wrapping down from his shoulder to grasp at the haft of the mace.

Later today i may make some press molds so that i can add lots o skulls to the bases of the new terminator that i finished, prior to painting.

Questions and comments welcome as usual.

looking good!

Thanks LargeBlastMarker! Whats your opinion on the head of the black mace. Shall i leave it greenish, paint it more black, or go for a aged brass look?

Ok. well, for better or for worse, the Lord is pretty much done being base coated. Im gonna give him a layer of Valspar clear coat, and then start work on another project. when i am ready i can always come back and finish up the shading and the highlighting but for now i feel like he is at least table ready. I magnetized him so that i wont always have to run him with the weapons that he has, but for now he is going to be wielding THE black mace and a bolt pistol. I also made a plasma pistol and a lightning claw for him to use when he needs to have a bit more ap2 shooting and slightly less CC ability. He has a treasure trove of weapons available to him since he's slaughtered tons o opposition leaders.

I will have to go back in and lighten up and gruby up the banner a bit more, and when i feel the need i am going to have to paint on the Mortise Apostate logo. I went with brass for his mace, it still needs to have a little corrosion added , But for now, here he is.

Questions and Comments are appreciated as always.

very well executed model. One bit of critisism though, the greens look a bit on the flat side. good call with the brass btw.

Sennacherib was kind enough to help me out with a chaos fortress of redemption conversion. He asked me to post progress on here.

Here is the tower part unpainted.

@Largeblastmarker ~ Hey there. Yeah, its only really base coated. A few places have additional highlighting and washes applied but it is by no means finished. I usually paint all the greens with a wet brush, and then apply a tiny bit of thinned down camo green. Then highlight with corpse flesh. I have to go over the banner in particular. Not my fav.
As for the mace, glad you like the brass. It turned out nice IMHO. I still have to add little tiny flecks of turquise blue to simulate corrosion.

@ Magnusthered. Thanks for the update. It looks like it went together fairly well. I was test fitting it constantly while i was assembling it. Looks great so far. I cant wait to see it base coated and painted. Did you decide on undivided paint scheme or are you still debating that. That was a super fun game too. Been reading the Apoc rules. I like em, AND i can go with you to scotts game in SF if your still down next month.

I think I am going to paint it with Undivided scheme. I think I'm going with the mostly black and gray scheme with Bronze trim. I'm going to work on some more terrain after this. Might add to the terrain with some of wall of martyrs stuff. I'll post some more pictures when I make some progress.

Awesome news about the game. I'll verify everything with Scotteos and let you know.

The tower looks excellent. I had completely forgotten about it. Nice to see an update on it.

The Lord is perfect. You've nailed the 'Veteran of the Long War' ravages of time and Chaos corruption. The small details you've done have reminded me once again that one of these days I need to go back to my Plague Marines and make them look like they are Plague Marines. My initial justification was that there are always new recruits that would not have succumbed to the corruption so soon, but rethinking what I've done and post-completed inspection made me realize that I was just cranking them out to crank them out and I should have put a LOT more effort into them. Example:



Those are Plague Marines? ESPECIALLY Death Guard? A buddy of mine told me I should call them Poison Marines and consider them a Successor Chapter. Even still, they don't have the plague-ridden bloat and burst of Plague Marines.

Osrry to rant on your thread. Back on topic, you've done a great job as always and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next, regardless of the pace.

Thanks Skalk. Mangusthered is the proud recipient of the tower which is likely to be the one and only commission effor that i produce. Hes a great friend so all that effort was worth while. Being a bit OCD on my part means that i rarely feel 100% about something, but he's really happy with the outcome, which is what matters most.

Your marines match the rest of your army perfectly. I like em. However, if you not happy you might tryjust washing them with something to dirty them up some? A wash and sponge weathering would do wonders for them. You wouldnt have to do a complete redo, just a touch up. I know what you mean though about looking at what you have and thinking about how you would do things differently. I am thinking about doing a second small chapter that will count as Black Legion. Incorporated in their construction i am thinking of using all of the little tips and tricks that i have figured out since i started on this oddessy.

Have you tried just washing them with something to dirty them up some? A wash and sponge weathering would do wonders for them.

QFT. I completely agree. a wash will add depth, but maybe mix with some gloss varnish to make them look slick and gross?

So i have just started work at a new job not doing much of what i went to school for but its a pay check, and i havent had much time to work on stuff, however i AM working on finishing enough stuff that by the 20th i should have a functional and fully painted chaos army. I need to boost the number of troops that i am fielding and Plague bearers are the way to go. So i based a total of 13, and started painting. This is the first of those 20. He's pretty much table ready. I sponge weathered the sword and used copious wash and dry brush to make his body look properly rotten. I was looking for a bruised look. The right side arm and leg need work but for now he's table ready. I plan to have another six done soon. And, during this whole time, i am going to be working on my soul grinder of nurgle. I have to get that done. Little by little....

I'm pretty happy with how the slab of meat that is laying on this dudes base turned out.

Questions and comments appreciated as always.

that is the old geedubs plaguebearer? he looks absolutely rotten.

Thanks Largeblastmarker. It is the old plague bearer. I like the older models better than the new ones. I used to use these as lesser daemons in my CSM army prior to the newest edition. The new GW models look almost like planters peanuts of nurgle. Just not how i picture them to be.

hey i just stumbled across this and i have to say this was a very fun read.
glad your back to the world.
that tower came out quite well.
those old plague bearers are looking mighty nice.

i suck at skin tones so cant really say much on them but maybe some more purple if you want fresh bruises...i dunno just a thought.

any way hope to see more awesome stuff soon.

take care
bama

Thanks for stopping by alabama heretic. By tomorrow i should have my plagueridden ready to post. I too feel like a bit more bruising would look good so he is going to be a darker shade than some of the plague beareres that i have posted previously. I need to get 6 more completed so that i can field them in this upcoming event. I would also like to have a completed display board but god knows how long that would take for me to finish.

Anyways. Thanks for stopping by and by tomorrow i should have some pics of where things are moving forward.

looking forward to it...i do iron warriors so i have a soft spot for chaos...i did do word bearers for a while that was fun love them zealots

So... I am struggling with getting my army painted for this upcoming event. its 1250pts, two games with an emphasis on fun and beautifully painted models. Nothing will be allowed that does not meet the standard expected. I have played in these events in the past and the level of painting and craftsmanship in some of the armies is mindboggling. I have been working towards the goal of having at least 3 troops on the field, and the plague bearers are a welcome addition in that they are cheaper than my plague marines and they will provide some variety. I dont want to be the guy who shows up to the event with a bunch of spam. In fact i would really love to be playing a highlander army with no two identical units. Thats not going to happen either since there is no way i can finish converting and painting ten nurgle cultists in time for this event.

Anyways. I have been struggling with getting all of my plague bearers to look how i would like them to look. This is the plague ridden with lesser gift. I am working towards a really bruised mottled look but the model just does not cut it for me. After this game, i will likely strip the model and start from scratch with a repaint.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Also... I just broke down and bought the Avatars of War Herald of Pestilence to lead my bearers as a hearld of Nurgle.

looks ok to me then again i kinda suck at painting skin...you might wanna ask nerdfest09 hes awesome at skin effects

@alabamaheretic - Done. Thanks for the hint.

no problem man this is a community we share ideas and help our fellows to even greater hieghts it was the least i could do

while i should have been studying i base coated and got another of the plague bearers ready. That brings my total to ten. Not the most auspicious number but it will do for fielding a squad of bearers in the upcoming game. I am left eagerly awaiting the Avatar of war, Herald of Pesitlece that i ordered for my Herald of Nurgle. I never really liked the Mr. Peanut new plague bearers. I may buy some one day but for now i just want my army to match. Avatars of war's herald looks like it should blend in pretty well.

Not to excited about the paint job i did on this fellow, but I can always go back and buff him up later.

Questions and comments are welcome as always.

 sennacherib wrote:
while i should have been studying

but nice work anywhoo

oh yeah. I think the base needs a little more "plague" going for it. maybe some slime or something.

@ LargeBlastMarker - Thanks for stoppin in. And yes, Everyone needs a break from studying.
I do agree that some of the bases need some plaguing up. I have been working on a technique i learnt on CMoN that looks awesome. Later today i will post a shot of one of the bases that i have made. They look pretty good IMHO.

Here is a pic of one of the new 40mm base that i put together. I used a tutorial found on CMoN that you can find here....

http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1646-nurgle-slime

It turns out really well but i have found that using more superglue that suggested coupled with Elmers wood glue seems to produce the smaller wormy slimy ripples that i have here. The heads are pressmolds that i made from some GW corses. They didnt turn out as well as i would have liked but i am going to fix em up a bit before i paint it.

OMG that is awesome. gonna redo my plaguebearers bases now.

Wow. That base looks awesome. You're right that the heads could use a little touch up, but overall it looks really good.

Today i base coated three plague bearers. They are not finished but they have enough paint on them that i can field them in this up coming game i am slated to be in on the 19th. Right now i am just trying to make sure that my army is entirely painted with at least three colors on them, entirely painted from top to bottom and based. These minis could all use a lot of touch up but i am pretty happy with them as table top ready minis. They look a lot better in person because i was struggling with the lighting indoors in my apartment. I will get some better shots up when i have time to take pics of them outside. Mean time. THe droopy george model that has the sword upraised is my favorite of the three. I like the model and i like how the paint job turned out.

The PB with the pink thing growing out of his eye is a great model too, but i struggled with getting the paint scheme right. I still need to go back in and lighten some areas like his face, and darken up others.

The third model i did the most work on the base. I added the snail which might be a little bit to bright with the red shell. What do you all think? Snail with bright red shell too much or its ok. Thing with this army is that all the flat colors make it look washed out. The PB and the other daemons give me a bit of a chance to through out some color and brighten things up. Otherwise on a display board my army looks pretty bland next to a Khorn army or a Slannesh army.

Nice looking bearers! Droopy is prob my favorite, as well.

I'm really drawn to the swords, such an excellent job w/ the weathering / rust. I have a bunch of those models and I know how small those swords are. Impressive results to say the least.

@ LargeBlastMarker ~ Glad to provide some inspiration. That tutorial on CMoN is pretty easy to follow and you cant miss with the results. I am happy with my bases. How to paint them is another question.

@ Moltar ~ Thanks. I worked on the other dark green one. He looks better now but he still needs work. They all do but they are table ready for sure.

@ Skalk. ~ I use Liquitex paint and a bit of foam to do that. Its a super easy technique that produces great results. Just practice it for a few minutes before your first live model. The biggest thing is to make sure that you have the right amount of paint on the foam. Once you figure that out its cake. Also, thicker paint is better IMHO.

So... I am under the gun now. I have about 8 figures or models left to paint and to in some cases modify for nurgle and then paint. AHHHHHH> I hate having to rush, 12 days to get that done. I was thinking that i would have time to get a battleboard ready but all plans for that are out the window. What do i have left to do.

I have to paint a plague marine champion, paint 3 oblits, paint a Chaos lord (waiting for magnets and primer, ugghghghg), finish one Plague bearer and finish modifying and painting a turret for a predator. As my GF is going to be home soon and i am supposed to be cooking tai food i will present with no further adu... My oblits and champion ready, based and on to the painting stage.

Comments and questions are appreciated as usual.

Sennacherib, This is the model I told you about on the phone. I think it would make a great conversion start for a Daemon Prince of Nurgle. Let me know what you think.




Link to Ebay Auction

http://www.ebay.com/itm/McFarlane-Toys-1997-POACHER-elephant-figure-Total-Chaos-Spawn-/230958082685?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item35c62caa7d


This auctions picture might even be better. The price is.



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Poacher-Fish-Tank-Special-Figure-Mcfarlane-Spawn-Total-Chaos-/251352453970?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item3a85c61352

I agree Magnusthered.

Thats a great model for a DP conversion. I can totally see it with a gas mask and a bunch of boils and maggots crusted all over it. Nice find dude.

Here is a pick mid progress on the fortress. Just got done putting a nuln oil wash on it. Now I have to go back and highlight. After the fortress is completely painted I will be driving nails through the walls to give it what I like to call the "Event Horizon" look. I think it will look very chaos.

I'm taking suggestions on what color to paint the statues. Stone? Obsidian? Maybe the colors of each god? The last seems like it could get gaudy to me.

Thanks for posting an update Magnusthered. I would do the statues in a stone or marble look rather than obsidian. You wont be able to see them very well unless there are some lighter colors to make em stand out. Do em the same way that you did the violated statue that you have.

Thanks for the post Magnusthered, glad to see that its coming along.

Later today i should have some pics of my herald getting assembled and at least one oblit. table ready.

I coudn't resist this - that an elephant gun? Ha.

The statues should be different on each side but not in the gaudy colors of each god. Marble, obsidian, red granite, yellow quartz... something like that. I know you have the skill for that.

Haha that's The Poacher from Todd McFarlane's spawn-side one offs. I had that solely for the purpose of it being an angry elephant. No clue what happened to him, but still have a couple of those tusks/bones.

Magnus, I think they should be a stone and they should all be carved of the same stone for uniformity. Sorry Skalk,

 Moltar wrote:
Magnus, I think they should be a stone and they should all be carved of the same stone for uniformity. Sorry Skalk,

First Gitz, now you... Dakka has turned on me.

Hi all.

Thanks Moltar and Skalk for dropping by and lending votes for the paintjob on the modified Fortress i converted for Magnusthered. I am solidly in the stone camp as are the majority of voters...(uh yeah, cause 2 is a majority of three. )

Just a quick update. I am in frantic work mode trying to make as much headway as i can on all things nurgle. Well, not alll things nurgle, just what i have to be able to finish in order to field my 1250pt army the 19th of this month. I worked today on a predator adding some camo tarps to the turret, worked some on one of my Oblits, and finished base coating and adding most of the layers i want to THIS plague bearer. ITs the 14th one i have finished (a very auspicious number in the eyes of father Nurgle), and completes the number needed for this set of hottly anticipated games. I have to work on the blade and do some work on the base, but for the most part the fig will look good on the field. I am pretty happy with the look of this one compared to the last one of these that i painted. Something about the color scheme and the way that his open wounds look just hits the spot.

Comments and questions appreciated as usual.

Sennacherib.

quite disgusting that one...looking good man.

hey do you mind me pming you about some nurgly ideas...gonna start up my first adventure into gsing and all of that and i read through your blog a few times to get it right but i think i need some advice and just unsure on how to proceed

@ alabamaheretic ~ THanks man. I feel like this is one of my better new PB. Pretty happy with it.

As for PMing your ideas, I totally dont mind you PMing me with questions. I would love to help. Pm me any time.

needs a little more of a slimy look on the blood. maybe a gloss varnish? But he looks superb!

@ LargeBlastMarker ~ Thanks for stoppin in dude. I have never tried adding that to any of the wounds on my PB. However, there's no better time to start than now. would you add it after the Protective clear coat? so as to maintain the most reflective surface?

i dunno folks also talk abotu suing future floor wax on them to make more shine not sure how to do that though but im sure some one could point you in the right direction.

@ Alabamaheretic ~ Hmm. I was thinking about trying just painting on some ardcoat to make it glossy. Never heard of the furniture polish option. I have heard of people using shoe polish like a dip for their models, It worked super well too but this is a totally separate issue.

This is what i did much of last night and for several hours this morning. I have been struggling with getting these oblits painted up. Meatface is the first oblit that i converted using the blackreach termis as a base. I think that the color on his flesh could be toned down some, and i am still working on the paint for his weapons. I dont think that i will paint the plasma cell glow onto his arm weapons but i may add it later.

Right now i am stumped on painting the base. I have worked on painting one of these on a prior base, and i went for a green murky water look. It didnt turn out so well. I have been working on toning it down so it isnt as bright as it is. SO how do you all think i should do the pustulant slime on this base. I am working toward a slimy water look since my bases are all supposed to represent mud from a really churned up battleground from a field that has suffered from a severe seige (i love siege boards).

Questions and comments appreciated.

The left arm really defines the entire model. GS is great as always, the array of weapons is perfect, and overall the build is excellent. Paint looks a bit wonky though. I know you are really pressed for time so if you had to go w/ it right now it would pass the 'tabletop' test, but you know it's not the same finished product you normally offer.

Regarding furniture polish (like Minwax, etc) for glossy finish, I've seen a lot of people use it (usually new modelers) with horrifically ruined models to show for it. The only person I've seen that really did it right is Rabid Ferret. Here's sample of his finished product. It's a lower gloss finish but notice the recesses and finish on the skin:



You may want to consider a gloss spray from your local craft store, though I would certainly recommend a sacrificial model to test on.

I hope you trample the weak and hurdle the dead on the 19th.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Paunch for sure, but I have to think about the cloven hooves.

@ Skalk ~ I took your advice and have sculpted on paunch. The clamshell Belly plate features on a bunch of my new sculpts, most recently the bikes and the champion that i am painting. I appreciate you pushing for this. Also... I agree. The paint on my oblit is a little too bright and a bit wonky for my taste.

Here is the terminator lord. I selected a different head for him than i had recently proposed. I like this one better. I added the paunch on the belley and sculpted slight lifts onto his feet. I have been using Assaulto on black reach termis and the soles of their feet are a bit thin for what i am doing. So i thickened those up and glued him to one of the base that i put together for this guy. I am going to magnetize him, but since i am out of magnets and pressed for time i am just going to glue his arms on over a slight layer of paint so that they can be pried off easily to be replaced with magnets later. All i have to do to finish him is to drill some little holes in his knee plates so that they are properly nurgly, glue and paint and he is done.

Once again you provide inspiration. I've always used those pauldrons as pauldrons, I've never considered them for cops. Now it makes complete sense and I have a Daemon Prince that I need to take a closer look at now.

I really like that conversion. A lot.

@ Skalk ~ Thanks Skalk. I would not have had the willpower to sculpt the addition of the paunch onto the belly unless you had said something. I really think it helps the model considerably on the whole.

Lately i have been in a frantic race to get everything i need done for this upcoming game. I had to paint
7 Plague bearers - DONE
Herald of Nurgle - I was going to sculpt this but i cheesed out and bought the Avatars of War Herald of Pestilence. Assembled but not painted.
Predator Turret - mostly painted.
3 Obliterator - 1 painted the other two primed.
Lord in Assault armor - Finished GS, primed but not painted.
Champion with Powerax - Poweraxe modelled and magnetized, primed but not painted.

So... with only 9 days to go before i have to be ready i have only got 5 models to paint. Thats a relief since i paint super slow.
Yesterday i spent GS the lord, and when i went to go prime him the last of my primer ran out (its special army painter primer so i cant buy more), with him 95% completed. Arrrgfh. Its ok though, i think i can make things work with just the paints that i have.

I also worked on the predator. I got the turret ready to go, GS added and a roll of camo tarp on the side. The tarp, which i made out of rolled gauze soaked in PVA glue expanded durning painting and got weird so last night i ripped it off and had to finish dremmeling and painting it this morning. Now i only have to find the hatch.

I also asssembled my Herald of Nurgle. The Avatars of war model looks great IMHO (I know you hate it skalk ) but it came with some huge gaps in the cast that needed serious GS work to fill. Groan. So i pinned and GS the model together and now its ready to prime and paint. I plan to have it finished by this evening and hopefully posted up here on the blog so stay tuned. BTW, the sculpt has a little nurgling crawling out of a really unusual place. Cant wait to get there when it comes to painting.

 sennacherib wrote:
I also asssembled my Herald of Nurgle. The Avatars of war model looks great IMHO (I know you hate it skalk

I woudn't say I 'hate' it per se, it would be an awesome Nurgling (giggling little chubby-wubb). You can 'fluff him up' to... wait, isn't there something in the latest Daemon Codex about a Nurgling that drank some concoction Papa Nurgle made and the Nurgling got huge from it? Maybe you have a Special Character there instead?

In any case, it's your model, it's your army, and I have no doubts that once you are done w/ him it'll look as amazing as all your other work. Speaking of work, the Predator looks excellent. You have the best Nurgle GS skills I've seen to date, and I've seen a lot of projects.

@ Skalk Bloodax ~ I know i over use the word hate, but i play chaos, thats my excuse. I really appreciate the kind words with respect to the GS that i have been doing. I just received some advice from someone that i consider a master, and it looks like i have to order some milliput. Apparently a mix of GS and milliput is much easier to work with and has wonderful characteristics when it has hardened. Lookin forward to trying this stuff out.

The fluff that i have for this model is that GW got it wrong. GUO are just larger evolutions of PB who have achieved the ultimate favor of their gods. As a PB rises through the ranks of his father nurgles affection, they grow in size. Thus, a herald is going to be much larger than the regular PB and a GUO is a whole nother level larger than that.

I finished painting this guy so he is at least table ready. As i have said previously i prefer the earlier models that GW produced for plague bearers since they dont look quite so much like MR Peanut with some boils added in here and there. The Herald of pesitilence took some GS to get to stick together and i would also advise having a dremmel because there was a lot of thick metal flash. I removed most of it but there is one annoying line that i am going to have to remove later and that is going to be a pain in the butt. Speaking of pains. I also was unaware that the model came with a nurgling crawling out of the nether regions. a pleasant or unpleasant surprise depending on your point of view. Painting was pretty simple. I had half a mind to go even darker green but for a table ready model i feel pretty good about it.

THe last shot is a group shot of all 14 PB with herald. The models on the top of the hill are all the newly painted ones and the ones in the foreground are all those that i had painted previously. Hope yall enjoy.
Questions and comments welcomed.

looks quite smashing...you know thats a pretty cool model if i ever pick up daemons i think i might have to get him...though i do like the mr peanut look a bit...

the verdigris on the icon is very well executed...looks like one big happy family

You just sold me completely with the paint you put on that model. Wow.

I also agree with you about the ascension of a PB to Herold and Herold to GUO. Chaos is all about promotion to the top, and I can't see why he'd treat his real children any differently than the humans he adopts.
And again, great model. I'm completely impressed. I know by now I should just simply expect such artistry from you, but I am still awed every time you share something. That's not sycophantic fanboy spew, it's genuine.

Nice paint job! That models looks great for a Nurgle herald! Can't wait to see your stuff next weekend.

This blog is good motivation for me to work on my chaos stuff.

@ alabamaheretic ~ as far as personal preference goes, there is no right or wrong. I am going to buy two sets of regular PB from GW. The mr. peanut models will stand out and be easy to determine which model is from what unit. Plus, they will complete my collection of nurgle esque stuff. Thanks for the props on the Verdegris. I followed that tutorial i sent you.

@ Skalk. Your too kind dude. If you could see the model in person you would think differently. However, I do feel like its a great stand in for a herald with the older GW PB models. I really appreciate the props though.

@ Magnus ~ Thanks. I cant wait to show you. Is it ok if i post a full battle report from both of my games here on Dakka. I would love to photograph everyone elses army and post it here along with a report of how things go. Glad to hear that you are appreciating chaos more. You converted me and its a shame that your such a loyalist now. JK. See you friday.

Just a quick update here. So, i have been painting all weekend (poor GF) and i managed to at least base coat every model except the hatch on the predator. If i can have them all more or less table ready by this evenning it will take a lot of pressure off of me so that i can go in and begin to hit all the little details that i left undone in the rush to get them all table ready. stuff like bases and the extra layers of highlighting here and there. Once thats all done the whole kit and caboodle will look a lot better, but at least now i can field everything and not have unpainted minis on a table that does not allow them. I had to make some sacrafices though. I think i am going to take a different lord to the game. My goal was to paint the Terminator lord but i am going to swap him out for the CSM lord with Black Mace. That way i can save myself some painting time. Most recently i have been working to get the rest of my oblits and a Plague marine champion ready. So .. without further adieu, the progress. I will try to update later.

I am working out how to paint the base that Meatface is on. any suggestions. I'm thinking about making it a pile of blood and guts. They all are clearly WIP but beyond that,
Questions and comments are appreciated.

looking good man really digging the oblits. that champ is looking mighty nice too.

do you use a different size drill bit on some of the pock marks?

looking forward to tonights update...any chance of a group shot to see them together?

@ alabamaheretic ~ Thanks for the props man.
I do use different sized drill bits. The ones that came with the GW pin vise are a bit large for what i want, so i use the smallest dremel cutter bit that they make. You can also use the tip of a box cutter and if you twist it againt the plastic it will cut out a tiny little cone, but i use that a lot for stuff like bullet holes.

As for a group shot, i have em all laid out and am lookin at my army to see where i am at and what still needs doing. Its looking pretty good so far. I might be able to post a group shot tomorrow sometime after i finish work.

looking forward to it

Alright alabamaheretic, here it is, 1250pts all painted to at least tabletop quality. There is a lot that i could still and will still do to fix these guys up, but they are what they are. My army list.....

Nurgle Lord with black mace, 4++

7 x PM, Champion with Ax, 2 Meltaguns
7 x PM, Champion with Fist, 2 Plasmaguns

Predator with AC/HB
Vindicator
3 x Nurgle Oblits

Herald of Nurgle, Lesser blessing, Fecundity

14 x Plaguebearer, Plagueridden, Lesser Blessing.

Army pic looks great !!

I wouldn't like to face them

very nice man...i really dig your marines everything looks so good together...keep up the good work and good luck at the tourny that you are gonna compete in i hope you do well

@ Ygdrasil ~ Long time no see. Thanks. I am going to post a better army shot later, when all the models are done with all the base coating and the like. But for now, thats how they look and thats how they will appear in the game this saturday.

@ alabamaheretic ~ Thanks for the props. I have a few new projects that i am going to work on but for now i am going to take a break and just get the rest of my stuff ready for this Sat.

I will try and take some pics in and during my games this saturday and post a link to my battlereports up here on dakka. Next up, finishing my soulgrinder that i am working on gettin done.

wow, those look fierce! the fleshiness of your nurgle stuff realy pops out in a group.

@ largeblastmarker ~ thanks man. without the plague beareres the army is a little bland. They add a lot of color. Thats also why most of my guys have bits from bloodangels.

Yeah, I'm a nerd. Here's my army list that i am submitting to the tourni organizer.
edit. the list was hard to read so i reposted it in the next post.

Sweet. good luck!... also what tourney?

Its not really a tournament. More of a organized set of games with a games club. I will post a battle report but some of the material that we are going to be using is "theirs" and i dont want to step on any toes by sharing too much etc. So... with that said i will be posting links to my battle report here on Dakka covering this whole mess.

This is looking like it will be rally fun to spectate about.

looking forward to seeing what your reports man...i have a feeling you will do well

Army list looks great ! Much more than a pen & paper one

Thanks Yggdrasil. I used to print up some pretty elaborate ones for my ultramarines when i used to play loyalists. I feel that during any kind of formal match (campaign or tournament game) you should invest whatever energy you can to present your best.

We are encouraged to share our warbands history so i have been working on mine.

Pestis eram vivus-moriens tua mors ero
“Living I was your plague, Dying I will be your death”
M31 The Death Guard are trapped within the warp, ravaged by the Destroyer Plague. Mortorion sells his and his legions souls to Nurgle. Most of the legion arrives at Terra and participates in the final battle. Morbus, Captain of the 13th grand company, last to enter the warp, remains trapped within the empyrean. Ravaged by the destroyer plague, the Destroying Angel (capital ship Unknown class) and the associated elements of the remaining fleet drift till the Great Awakening late in M41. Despite the full blessing of Nurgle, the numbers of the 13th grand company rapidly dwindle.

982999.M41 The Great Awakening. A ripple of psychic energy tears through the imperium, creating innumerable warp rifts that spill all manner of daemon from the Warp. Amongst those to re-emerge, Morbus and the 13th company, are reborn as the Mortise Apostate. Trapped in the warp since M31, their fleet, equipped for the invasion of terra, emerges from a rift near the Tempestuous Segmentum above the planet Triadies. Though the PDF and local elements of the Imperial navy put up a spirited defense, no imperial citizen survives the incursion unharmed. The planet is later declared Exterminatus after elements of a Bloodangels strike force bear witness to the horrors perpetrated on the planets previous denizens.

Leadership : Morbus Captain of the Mortise Apostate, former captain of the 13th grand company , Deathguard Legion.

Disposition and Tactical Strength: Total numbers unknown, however evidence suggests that between 189 and 343 corrupted astartes remain. Given the best estimates based on extrapolation from available records, correlated with the size of their support fleet and their previous disposition as a grand company, the Mortise Apostate must be considered to be amongst the most well equipped heretic fighting forces encountered to date.

Location: Unknown

Destination: Unknown

Moving forward with my project to finish as many new nurgle pieces as possible, I painted two more plague bearers for my Mortise Apostate. They will be in my upcoming series of games. I painted them so that i would not have to use my icon bearer or my musician since all models must be strictly WYSIWYG.

The first of these is one of the best i think that i have painted. HE started off a darker brown and i brought him up in shades from graveyard earth, dwarf flesh to bleached bone. Really happy with him. The second one turned out pretty well too but i need to hit it with a glaze to mellow where the wash settled.

If anyone is interested, the gaming group i play with is called G3 and they have both a Santa Cruz chapter and a Redding chapter. They put on the even featured on episode 61 of the independant character. found here...

http://theindependentcharacters.com/blog/?p=2083

I just liked those Plaguebearer models... I like the purple hue of the scabs & bubons !!

Thanks Yggdrasil.

@ Galorn ~ the first of the battle reports are up. You neednt speculate any longer.

Well all. The dice are done rolling and when the smoke cleared, chaos lost the day but not on my tables. My first match up against eldar went well with me claiming 5 VP to my foes 1. The battle rep can be found here.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/558827.page#6168171

The second game which was a team game with myself and a daemons player against eldar and dark eldar ended in a draw but had it gone one more round we would have easily won with 2 Vp to 0.

Fun was had by all and i have to throw a huge shout out too Scott from G3 SC for putting on a great game.

very nice plague bearers buddy. grats on the wins too. i bet every thing went wonderfully

Hey Sench! sorry i'm so damn late to the party I got pretty caught up in a little bit of life! I hate it when that happens and gets in the way of my Nerd time!

firstly! bravo! well done and awesome, I went back through from page 1 and I think you've got some seriously good greenstuff skills, everything is done really smoothly and not too ott for Nurgle either, your painting is actually pretty good as well, I don't know why you thought you needed advice! I can give you some hints that perhaps I would try but that's not saying anyhting about your work as I think it's already good!

with skin, if you want a bit of a focal point or point of difference find a section you can use to do do something a little different with, like perhaps translucent skin with veins showing through, or a wound that's heavily bruised around it's edges but not running bloody gore as the character has no discernable flowing blood, even blending the boils and pimples from a light white tip into a yellow, then a red angry sore before blending into the greens on the main skin?

another thing to do is use Google and at your discretion look at movie makeup for zombies and dead bodies from t.v shows, and study the actual colours used not how it looks as a whole, you'll see how things change from bloating, being submersed in water, shot, stabbed, burnt ect. and hopefully you'll be inspired enough to have a crack at it on your models!

that's all i can think of now, but I'm happy to answer any specific questions you have at any time dude!

@ alabamaheretic ~ thanks man. The win i had was really hard fought as was the draw. Basically, Plague marines dont go down to easily against enemy fire. Plus i was on a city fight table for the first game which enabled me to have cover in most every instance.

@ nerdfest09 ~ Thanks. I will check out some google images. I searched before but never thought to look for zombie images. Good idea. as for the blending, I get rushed a lot and that is most def something that i often overlook. Thanks again.

 sennacherib wrote:
@ alabamaheretic ~ thanks man. The win i had was really hard fought as was the draw. Basically, Plague marines dont go down to easily against enemy fire. Plus i was on a city fight table for the first game which enabled me to have cover in most every instance.

Having faced some more than once, Plague Marines don't go down easily. Period.
Charging them is also a nightmare, especially if your opponent gets lucky !

Once, with Belial & 2 Terminators, I charged a squad of 6 : plasma gunners finished off Belial's last wound (despite his 3++ save), then the poison weapons killed one Terminator... The last one killed one Marine, before going down in the following Assault phase... Those guyz are nasty !!

congrats of the win dude! way to stick it to the eldar.

@ Yggdrasil ~ Dude. You changed your profile pic. That has been your pic for so long. I have to say that the plague marines did really well in melee. I have had the army for about four years but i have played it only about a dozen times..... facepalm. They do excell in melee given a non-assault based unit that they are facing.

@ largeblastmarker ~ Yeah, it felt good to put it to the eldar. However i have to say that my eldar foe was a really good sport and someone that i would love to play again. He mostly lost because he assaulted my PM in the middle of the board backed up by the black mace. Cost him his leader and a whole mess of warp spiders. However....my prize was an eldar leader. Makes me want to start an all prize eldar army.

sennacherib wrote:@ Yggdrasil ~ Dude. You changed your profile pic. That has been your pic for so long.

Lol yeah, that avatar pic was from a model that I had painted for a Marine Swap... But I've never got my part of the deal...

And I've used the new one on my FB profile ever since GD France 2012, so I thought it'd be better if I coalesced all profiles !!

I have to say that the plague marines did really well in melee. I have had the army for about four years but i have played it only about a dozen times..... facepalm. They do excell in melee given a non-assault based unit that they are facing.

Well, they can also fare pretty well against melee-oriented units... Which it a good testament to their awesomeness !! And don't get me started on those dual meltas / plasmas uh

[edit : spelling ]

@ Yggdrasil ~ to bad about the marine swap going south. From the looks of it you invested a ton of work into that models paint scheme. Finalist in the golden daemon contest. I have to say, that is an awesome achievement. I just checked out the pics on your page.


Just a quick update so yall can see what i have been up too. I have been working on my Soulgrinder. The harvester cannon and both arms are a big hold up for me right now so i just figured that i would work at getting them on the path to completion. Not sure if i am going to do only one barrel or three for the harvester cannon. The whole thing is going to be installed into his arm so three will fill the stump nicely. I am also thinking that if i was to use only one, i could have a large wrap around ammo case on his forearm.
Thoughts

Also. Any and all with experience casting? Should i cast the gun barrel as a separate piece?

Thanks. Questions and comments are appreciated.

Here is a quick mockup of the three barrel cannon model. What thinks yall.

I think the three barrels look ace, but are too far from each other... I think if they just touched, it'd look better...

(Nice GS-fu, btw )

Thanks Yggdrasil. I will play around with that. Since they are bulky enough by themselves, i dont think that i will be needing a big ammo clip or any of that noise. I was going to have a huge cannon mounted on the other arm to simulate the Phlem upgrade, but i'm not sure i will go that route after all.

Ebay is way too addictive.
I just picked up a set of 30 cultists and 12 chaos space marines.
One of my buddies has been running cultists with the mark of Khorn on them. Initially i thought that marking cultists was a bad idea, however the extra attack on the charge does seem worthwhile. 80 attacks on the charge from a unit that costs about 110 pts is nothing to shake a stick at. I also now have a blob of 30 with autoguns and 3 stubbers. Way i see it, if i park them behind an aegis, they will make a great anchor for an objective with a lord thrown in to help keep them from running. Magnusthered once shot down and killed a demon prince of nurgle using one of these units. Admittedly he got lucky with his die rolls, but still. I lost a 240pt model to a unit way cheaper.

The chaos space marine legs are going to be used on one of two projects. I have a goal of 42 plague marines. Right now i have about half that assembled and painted. I also have been looking for something that will give me a little bit more hitting power in melee. I was thinking about building up some raptors with the mark of Khorn. They make a highly maneuverable strike force with lots of attacks. 40 str 5 attacks on the charge. cant beat that with a stick.

Todays goal is to continue work on the soul grinder of nurgle. I will post some WIP shots later.

Flamers are more amazing in cultist mobs due to the brutal overwatch they provide. Also if they have ccw's that's 110 attacks on the charge. that's 55 hits on meq, and about 19 wounds, and 6-7 dead. though i think mark of nurgle is better still.

Raptors are, unfortunately, a bit fragile from my experience. but the models are soooo cool. 20 hits on meq 13 wounds 3-4 dead. but melta's are fantastic on them.

Also, I can't wait to see how the soulgrinder turns out.

@ Largeblastmarker ~ I'm gonna be working on it later today so i will be sure to get some pics posted for ya. Either that or i am going to continue to work on a GUO that i started last night. Both are on my too be completed Kanbanpad.

So, making good on my previous post, here are some WIP shots of my GUO. I am not so sure what i am going to name him but i am thinking Carrion
I need to wash it again with a darker green and then go over it with some lighter shades. So far i am pretty happy with how he is turning out. I plan on having it done in the next couple of days.

Turns out that all the mad work i did for the last gaming event that i participated in, I am going to have to replicate. There is going to be a chapter two coming up in a couple of weeks. This will mandate my finishing a few more projects so that i can field my soulgrinder and perhaps this GUO.

anyways.

Questions and comments are appreciated.

So just a quick WIP post. Carrion is coming along nicely. The game i am slated to be in next month requires a 1750 list so i am thinking about running him in place of Grolub the Herald of Nurgle. Carrion packs way more punch and in an objectives game he could be a great unit for tearing up the enemy close range.

I painted him with successive Glazes and layers of dry brush followed by a wash of devlan mud in some areas and a wash of baael red in others. He needs a couple hours more of painting but i think he will be done soon.

The soul grinder is being put on the first slot though to finish since that will make for a fair AA unit and a great back like support unit, especially if it has the Phlem upgrade so it can lob AP 3 shells at the enemy all day.

Questions and comments appreciated as always.

Did you use a Daemon Prince arm on him ? He looks great !!

@ Yggdrasil ~ I did. Thats the arm from the city fight, daemon prince of nurgle. It was a pretty easy swap to get that Greenstuffed onto him. I like how he turned out. The right sword arm was cut and bent out so that its in a more dynamic pose, but i didnt do that. Some fellow in texas that i bought it off of did that work. Mighty nice job too if you ask me.

I have to submit a picture to the games organizer for my next upcoming game. 1750 being organized by magnusthered. He wants photos and the name of my warlord so i doctored up this pic of Morbus. Leader of the Mortise Apostate and undying follower and soul brother to Lord Grandfather Nurgle.

Sweet pic! Lord Morbus looks ready to bash some skulls in. Carrion looks to be coming along nicely as well.

You've been busy. The Defiler is disgusting in the most Nurgly way possible. I like it.

@Moltar ~ thanks man. I like how Carrion is coming along. However with this new 1750 that i have to sculpt and paint for, I am not going to be working on him for a while. The pic of Morbus was one that i submitted to the tourni organizer. He wanted pics of our lords so i figured it would be a good time to bust out a little enhanced reality.

@ Skalk ~ Thanks skalk. That defiler/soulgrinder is the one that i want to eventually cast and sell. Just the top half, marketed as a cyborg zombie or some such.

So i am in high gear again in an effort to get 1750 ready to play by the 19th. I think i dont have that much to do. My list is as follow....

Chaos Lord with Mark of Nurgle, Black Mace, Sigil of Corruption, Bike 170pts

7 Plague Marines, Champion with Powerfist, 2xMeltaguns 213pts
7 Plague Marines, Champion with Poweraxe Meltabomb, 2xPlasmaguns 218pts
7 Plague Marines, Champion with Powerfist Plasma Pistol, 2xPlasmaguns 238pts

3 Obliterators with Mark of Nurgle 228pts

3 Terminators, Mark of Nurgle, Power Maul, Power Axe combimelta, Chainfist combimelta 135pts

3 Bikes, Meltagun 98pts

Herald of Nurgle, Greater Locus of Fecundity, Lesser Reward 80pts

14 Plague Bearers, Plague Ridden with Lesser Reward 141pts
3 Nurgling Bases 45pts

Soul Grinder with Mark of Nurgle, Phlem 180pts

Hey man, really nice work!

A whisper came through the warp that you were interested in advice on casting the top of your soul grinder.

As to the barrels, I would definitely recommend taking them off the arm for casting. It will save you silicon, and they will become bubble traps otherwise. Generally seems to be a good rule of thumb to limit the long, thin bits that are on larger blocks. As a plus, if they do tend to collect bubbles, you will only have to repour the small bits instead of the whole arm.

Let me know if you have other questions; I have all sorts of folksy wisdom about casting, and I totally owe Sersi for helping me out in the beginning. Pay it forward etc

Thanks Wehrkind.
I appreciate all the help you can give. I am a bit nervous about all this casting stuff. Could go well, could go poorly. ITs the kind of thing that you just have to launch into but a little advice from someone who knows goes a really long way.

RSJake and Galorn may be resources for method / equipment as well since they both cast and (especially Galorn) seem to have honed their craft to professional levels.

A bit of advice / caution / concern is to make sure the Cyborg Zombie is clearly without any similarity to or inspiration from any model that to another model of similar size that may be in production by another retailer. I imagine getting a C&D notice might ruin your day.

Thanks for the thoughts on this subject Skalk. Yes. My work will be quite unique. I am working on this first to make production of my own nurgle soul grinders easier, and secondarily as a means of producing possible income. The conversion bit is proving to be a headache. I am not happy with the belly nor am i really happy with how the anti-aircraft gun has turned out to date. This may only be the first of several iterations of this model that i produce.

Last night i ordered some fine texture milliput so that i can hopefully up my sculpting ability. Also on order are some new custom jump packs, magnets and more army painter primer so i can get a quick start on painting up all the figs that i need to finish so i can compete in the next game.

I have too...
Sculpt and paint a Nurgle Lord on Bike
Paint 3 Nurgle Bikers
Paint 1 Plague Marine
Paint 2 Terminator with the mark of Nurgle
Paint 3 Nurgling Bases
Finish sculpting and painting the Nurgle soul grinder.

To date this is how the soul grinder looks.

Gun looks better like IMHO...

Anyway, I couldn't criticize your GS skills... It's much better than I'll ever achieve !!

Thanks Yggdrasil
I took your advice. I am going to have to shave down the bottom part of his arm in order to get the gun bitz closer together, but for now that is as close together as i can make them. I appreciate the feedback on this. Being under the gun to have it completed and painted by the 19th is a bit of pressure for me. I think i can do it though.

Been doing some work. Finished up these 3 Nurgling bases, to at least a table top standard. I dont like how shiney they look so i will probably go over them with a light layer of dry brush so that they dont look the way they do.
I have also spent some time working on two terminators. They are approaching at least base coated. They need all sorts of work to bring them up to a tabletop level but i would say that they are close to half way done. When i get them a bit closer i will post some shots of them. But for now... I have these pics of these nurglings.

Ha! Nurglings crack me up every time, The fluff about them is hilarious. Great job on them.

Thanks Skalk.
I have only used them a couple of times. Once they took down a unit of oblits. That was with the old Epidemius rules. THis game i plan on just using them to hide out and be a constant thorn in the Eldar's side. Space marines without a powerfist can have issues dislodging them too.

Soon to come, Terminators.

So I have been working on painting up my termicide squad.
Squad Pestilence is equipped with Streangth 5, 6 and 8 models so melee vrs a vehicle should be a breeze. Twin combi meltas ensure (hopefully) a nasty ap 1 hit to a vehicle the moment they deploy on the battlefield. The sargent with powerfist is pretty much finished, but the other two need to be clea rcoated and to have their bases touched up some.

questions and comments appreciated as always.

Love those old Nurgling models... Creepier than the new ones ! (but a bit less funny, I have to admit)

I really like the older models too. The only use that i can see for the new ones is to use them as palenquin. They are perfect for palenquin construction. I have never found nurglings to be terribly effective models, however they can be fun for stuff like tying up enemy thunderfire cannon and the like. Still on my plate for the next few days.

Paint 1 Plaguemarine.
Finish sculpting the soul-grinder and paint it.
Sculpt and paint Nurgle lord on bike
Paint three nurgle bikes.

Well, I've tried to use them as a base for a Palanquin... And I'm still failing...

I've said it before and saying it again- your conversions are incredibly well done and you have completely captured the spirit of Papa Nurgle,

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/515224.page

This conversion is one of the best i have seen. I have seen it on another blog too. In fact, this persons nurgle is a more asthetically pleasing version than the GS heavy versions that i often see. Just personal preference.

@ Skalk. Thanks for the props dude. , I have about five more dudes to paint, two of which i need to sculpt and or finish sculpting. I think getting ready for the next game is gonna be a pinch.

Awesome Termies! Great conversion work and painting looks solid!

@ Moltar ~ Thanks. I have been waiting (procrastinating) on painting those for a couple o years now.

So.
One of my buddies here in the forums has been asking me how i sculpt the plaguemarines. In the interest of demonstration, i am going to be posting a pretty much complete how to for the Nurgle Lord on Bike that i have to have done in two weeks or so. Started in on it today.

Basically i begin by GS the model. Use small amounts of GS. I started off with about a BB sized piece of blue and a BB sized piece of yellow putty. ALSO, Its best to work on multiple different models at the same time so you can get alot done without rushing. This took me about a half an hour. The usual advice is applicable. Use clean sculpting tools that you keep wetting. Also, a warmer work space is pretty nice. Putty is easier to work with when its a bit warm. I work under a bright light that had a fair amount of ambient heat. Only cause it gets cold here though.

When you are smoothing out the putty i usually smooth it towards an edge so that any extra gets pushed to the lip of the edge. This coupled with careful application of pressure makes it easy to smooth it to where you cant see the edge where the putty meats the plastic.

So... Tomorrow i am gonna be posting some updated pics of my soul grinder that i have been working on. I have almost finished one arm and have the other arm about twenty percent finished. Gotta finish the head too, but not to spoil anything.... there will be a really really large cleaver modeled.

Once i finish this and a few other projects, i am going to get rolling on Skalk Bloodax new terrain construction competition. Got a few ideas but i cant start gluing or modelling till the fifteenth of this month. Perfect since i have a huge amount of modelling due on the sixteenth and till then i am going to be struggling to keep up with my work load. Tomorrow, or rather in seven minutes plus, I promise a soul grinder update. Till then.

link to the terrain contest. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1320/403974.page

So as promised i am providing you a look at what may be one of the longer sculpts that i have engaged in. I'm not really happy with a few aspects of this project but its providing me with a lot of insight into how to do the next one.
I had intended to sculpt this for later recast but i am not happy with the way that the belly looks and the overall appearance of the skin. Either way i think it will look good on the table. The harvester gun coming along. Its really the first time that i have used brass in a conversion. The white on the left arm is a mix of 50/50 milliput and greenstuff. It is very easy to smooth with water yet it hardens up very hard. I "like" the mix, but it does change the properties to some degree. I can definitely see using this in the future for some very specific aspects of a larger sculpting project, but i like my GS for most things.

Without further adieu, the project.

That looks awesome. The gun arm in particular . I like the look of his elongated nipple head.

Jokes aside, this is coming along great. I love the tentacle legs.

Thanks Moltar. I am gonna make the head topped with a long curved horn. Tubes and hoses going into the mouth. Goggles etc. So far its coming along but i have to have it done this weekend.

Been working on my soul grinder of nurgle. The upcoming game i am playing in is going to be a pair of games, 750 and 1750. Since I have no aegis defence line and no real plans to add one (though i suppose i may be forced to by the prevalence of fliers), I must have my soulgrinder completed so i have some form of anti air for this game. Besides that, i have been working on this project on and off for about seven months and i need to get it off my work station

I have been sculpting in the greenstuff/milliputt blend and i have to say, it has good and bad qualities. Greenstuff is much harder to smooth and blend, however GS is also very sticky and firm which can be really beneficial for certain applications. Today i started on the hand and i think GS would have been a better choice. However, since this piece is a WIP and a bit of an experiment, the fact that i am struggling with the medium and not super happy with the results is Ok. I would have been horrified with my results if i was set on this being the be all end all of soul grinders, but since its my first and i plan on doing more, the time i am investing here feels well spent.

Not long ago i watched a documentary about how things tha tyou have seen can leave a subconcious imression on you. Specifically the documentary related to the fact that Disney had apparently copied the Lion King from a japanese cartoon. Disney denies this, but seeing the two characters side by side you cannot help but notice striking similarities. A psychologist explained that the Disney artists likely had seen clips or stills from the japanese cartoon in their youth and the impressions had carried over in their subconciouse and unknowingly influenced their work on the lion king. Looking at my soul grinder and the ultraforge greater demon, i cant help but feel that the same thing has happened to me. Although i reversed the arm that is wielding the cleaver, the weapon and the position it is being held in are nearly identical. Especially the shape of the cleavers blade. I was planning on casting this model for later re-sale if it turned out to my likeing, however this is not going to be happening. Clearly. I need to work on my human proportions as well as th overall feel of the model. However as all WIP go, its a process of discovery.

Questions and comments appreciated.

Well, I do love the cleaver !

And the overall feeling is fine !!

Keep it up

Looking very good man. I'll totally be stealing some of these ideas when I get back to building NUrgle stuff...

@ Yggdrasil ~ Appreciate the positive feed back. I really like the cleaver too but if i did decide to cast it I think IP violation letters might be coming my way from ultraforge. I feel like the overall feel is good too. NEXT time i do one of these i feel like i will be a lot better prepared to sculpt it.

@ Galorn ~ Nice to see you stopping by again. If you wanna loot any ideas i would be super stoked and if i can help in any way, just shoot me a PM.

Been working frantically now to get ahead on this. I have finished base coating one biker. He still needs to be dry brushed but for now i feel like i am making some progress. Working on the thumb now for the soul grinder and later today i am gonna try to finish the head. I might abort the horn and just go for a head that rises to a peak. we shall see.

More WIP shots of the rather frantically being sculpted soulgrinder of nurgle.

I feel good about the nails on the hand and the horn and the mask is a late addition.

Yup, nails are great, and the hood looks fine too ! Good job on the... "stitches" ?

Agree that's looking awesome. Those nails are just great!

THanks Moltar, Yggdrasil. Hopefully today i can start betting some paint on it.

Been working with the soul grinder. I have decieded that there is no way that i can finish three nurgle bikes (painting) and sculpt and paint a nurgle lord on bike plus the last plague marine and just finish the soul grinder. This mandated a change of my list in a pretty big way, but i have to finish this model because it is such a big part of both of the lists that i am running this saturday.
The game has a 750pt game and a 1750 pt game and the soul grinder is in both lists. Today despite the fact that i would really like to have had time to sculpt and finish those models like the bikes, i had to get this done.
I painted the soulgrinder so far by starting with it base coated white, i then washed it with a glaze of burnt umber liquitex paint. I then washed it again with a glaze of bubonic brown. Over this i wet blended dwarf flesh, and dry brushed bleached bone on top of the whole mess. Finally i washed it all with Ogryn Flesh. The cleaver is washed with just burnt umber and then glazed with a thin layer of boltgun metal.

I still have to pick out the details like the skin of the hood, the harvester in brass, and all of the cables, but its coming along.

That is a clever cleaver.

Looking great all around!

As far as fliers go, punish them for joining the GW arms race by spamming them with Flakk missiles.

Thanks Skalk.

The fliers didn't even make a showing at our game. I faced a nasty space marine list with black templars fielding a grip of terminators and a bunch of drop pods. I did discover that loyalist terminator that are armed with powerswords are the best to challenge with your own term's. Especially when there is only a chaos champion left. I tied up a fairly large unit of loyalists this way. I also found that nurslings are pretty darn good against elder.

So .... I havent updated for a while. I am busy with my new job as a career councilor for youth. It takes up a ton of my time, but it has its rewards as well.
But, in my spare time i have been working on getting a nurgle biker squad up to snuff with a nurgle biker lord. The lord needs a lot of work, but the bikers are coming along. The biker with the ax has a magnet in the right shourlder. That way i can swap him between champion and a meltagun depending on the needs of the rest of the army. The lord has twin magnets in his shoulders that way i can send him out with the burning brand and the black mace.

THis is among some of my other projects which include a Khorn chosen squad and a Khorn assault squad. That way i have another legion that i can feild as black legion. Chosen as troops are an awesome assault objective squad. With mark of khorn they get five attacks on the charge which is pretty bomb and the fact that you can load up on plasma or other special weapons makes it even more attractive.

I have also begun working on skalk bloodax's junk pile contest. Tonight i cut the base which is 60mm out of some old plasticard. I have also begun walking around picking up bits of stuff that i can use to build up my junk pile. My secret debries pile manufacturing area here in my home town is the side of the railroad tracks. People always seem to take TV and other house hold items there to smash. With this in mind i went down there and collected a bag of potential stuff for the challenge. Next step is building up the base.

I need to find a junk pile area like that. My usual place to get random junk is in parking lots, gutters next to sidewalks, and sides of roads.

Nice work on the Nurgle bikers. That will be a hard squad to kill off.

Been workin on my entry for Skalkbloodax's terrain modelling contest. I work on it in my car on my breaks from the new job i have that is eating up my personal life.
SO far it includes a
cut off pipe fitting with still attached rubber hose found by the railroad tracks
Broken up bitz of plastic from what looks like it may have been the back of a computer monitor, found at the railroad tracks
pieces of a plastic colander that i also found a the tracks
some of an old coffee cup jacket that was floating around the parking lot where i work..

and this is where its at after a few days of work.

+5 points for action shot! You're one of 2 or 3 people that took advantage of that.

Looks promising, and I'm sure the finished piece will be excellent.

Im afraid its less of a junk heap than a rubble pile. Gonna get some paint on it soon.
Tonight

Just throw some random junk on it. Or enter as is. The important part is to enter. You can't win if you don't play.

my finished entry to the junk pile contest.
I would love to have worked on it a bit more but things this holiday are crazy. working 50 hours a week and having to plan to meet the new inlaws takes up way to much time.
Ssss all worth it though.

I tried a few new weathering techniques. They did not work.
I also tried out the new corrosion paint from GW. Mixed results.

 sennacherib wrote:
Finally a break so i can post some of the work i have been doing. The Raider, Nurgles Maw is coming along. Finally ready to paint. Here are some pre paint pics of the finished teeth on the front hatch, demon eyes where the headlamps were and a shot of the side with lots of GS evident. enjoy. more to come as the painting progresses.

Love the Eyes for headlights! i would love to see a full army pic you have some great conversions here and I love the paint style! keep it up!

@World XEater
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the props. I will be posting a full army shot soon. Got a lot going on with my army right now. I decided to make a comprehensive list of stuff that i am going to attempt to pull off by the end of next year. I sold off my ultramarines on Ebay yesterday and today so i have no other modeling projects that are eating up my time. So far….this is what i have got on my plate to deal with…

I have 5 nurgle spawn to be converted.
2 Nurgle sorcerers and one nurgle lord to be painted and partially converted.
50 cultists to be painted and partially converted.
One defiler to assemble, convert and paint
One defiler to paint.
One soul-grinder to assemble, convert and paint.
about 14 new plague marines to paint
5 havoc with 4 auto cannon to paint and convert
20 plaguebearers to assemble and paint
21 nurgling bases to paint (good lord)
1 demon prince to paint
1 rhino to paint and convert
1 more landraider to paint and convert
Two hell brutes to be assembled, converted and painted

10 Assault marines to paint and convert
13 chosen to paint and convert

All i plan on buying is a single hell drake… and a partridge in a pear tree.
151 models or there a bouts.

Groan. Holds head in hands. This is my own personal modeling and painting challenge.

BUT if you read throughout this abysmal mess/personal challenge you will be amongst the first to hear that i am going to be starting a new chapter that i will ally with my Mortise Apostate. They are going to be a offshoot of the word bearers perhaps…. I was thinking of painting them silver and gold and absolutely drenching their armor in blood. Lots of scroll work and the like in evidence. Test models should be in the works soon. This is a project that i have been mulling over for a while. I wanted to start an allied army for a long time. Deathguard are a army that while fun to convert has very little pop on the table. I prefer the darker more drab colors for them and have long wanted to include units that would look a bit more bright in contrast. In the past these units have all been from my deamons list that i allie, however i think a new band of marines is what the doctor ordered.

looking forward to the new marines sounds very interesting...

i know your pain on having a billion models to do...just keep plugging away and it will get smaller it always does and resist the temptation of new stuff thats the hard part.

take care man
bama

Thanks Alabama.
Hows your nurgle shaping up. I know you were working at starting a batch and i saw that first promising plague marine you posted. Any recent progress.

My new word bearers are likely to be Broken Scythes, a spliter chapter. Silver and gold with lots of blood and lots o scrolls.

Actually got my self a rather expensive bday/xmas present to my self so i been workings on that (2k points worth of guard)

well i have most of squad one done of my nurgle force.

squad number two is in the soak (metal plague marines gw made) and the two rhinos are basically sitting until i get some good inspiration or until i get this hoard of guard under control.
I had a word bear spliter war band too mine were called the deliverers of the pure word...even wrote some fluff about them...alas i traded that army and started the iron warriors in there stead. so not all is lost.

I would like to ask the dakka public to mosey on over to skalkbloodax's terrain challenge to vote for demon prince in his junk pile modelling contest.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/563097.page#6343415

 sennacherib wrote:
I would like to ask the dakka public to mosey on over to skalkbloodax's terrain challenge to vote for demon prince in his junk pile modelling contest and vote for me because I am completely awesome!!!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/563097.page#6343415

Fixed that for you.

Happy New years DAkkaDakka.
New years resolution.
Buy no new Warhammer 40k that is not listed in the mess that i have posted below. Finish assembly and painting on those same 151 miniatures. This is a monumental resolution considering my history of painting very very slowly.

Hope everyones had a great New years.

"I have 5 nurgle spawn to be converted.
2 Nurgle sorcerers and one nurgle lord to be painted and partially converted.
50 cultists to be painted and partially converted.
One defiler to assemble, convert and paint
One defiler to paint.
One soul-grinder to assemble, convert and paint.
about 14 new plague marines to paint
5 havoc with 4 auto cannon to paint and convert
20 plaguebearers to assemble and paint
21 nurgling bases to paint (good lord)
1 demon prince to paint
1 rhino to paint and convert
1 more landraider to paint and convert
Two hell brutes to be assembled, converted and painted

10 Assault marines to paint and convert
13 chosen to paint and convert

All i plan on buying is a single hell drake… and a partridge in a pear tree.
151 models or there a bouts. ""

Been out of the loop. I have been working a lot in my new job as a social worker (despite being a trained evolutionary biologist i get paid better doing what i have no certification to do go figure) so i havent been spending as much time on the hobby as i would normally. Got into a bit of a funk with the hobby, but my funk has cleared, or rather settled.

Making some progress on my backlog of models. The last couple of days (three day weekend here in the states) I have been tearing into finishing up my nurgle spawn. First of the 150+ models that i needs to paint and convert. As i have been playing more games with chaos daemons as my primary attachment, i have found that i need something fairly beefy to cause problems for my foes armies. What ever it is has to be fast moving too. So, to that end i started work on my chaos spawn. They turned out pretty fairly so far. I have to base them and then add some paint but overall i am happy. The first of these, FIDO, turned out great. Really happy with the cyclops with dangling tongue and fangs look. I tried to give each of them a bit of a theme so that none really looks identical to the last. I am going to construct one more using left over space marine bits and a ton of GS, but that is a ways away on my work bench.

welcome back and as usual comments and questions are appreciated.

Nice work.
Gotta admit that i love Fido too!

THanks Nidious.
What color do you think i should make them. I am thinking that i may go with something like flesh for a couple and pale rotted yellowish and whitish for the rest.

Just a few pics of what i have been working on before i have to go to work.
A magnetized Bike Lord/sorcerer.

I am going to run him with the spawn.

Been working on doing some painting. That said, i have also been working on finishing some of my sculpting projects. This is what i have been working on most recently. My second Nurgle soul grinder. The soul grinder with its extreme durability and the ability to deepstrike or provide fire support mission depending make it an awesome choice for my current lists. I have been working to finish this one up. Nurgle soul grinders are constucted in a different fashion from other gods. The spirit of the daemon is first coerced into this realm and symbolically trapped in a sealed cask located in the middle of the grinder. The Majority of the soul grinder is built as a framework. Bodies and peices of skin and flesh are drapped over the soul grinder to act as a medium for the summoning of the daemon spirit. Once summoned the daemon sets about improving this framework and Grows the flesh to provide a suitable vessel. Unlike the trapped and bound spirits of other war gods, Nurgle soul grinders are free spirits welcomed into this plane to practice their love for all.

Wonderful stuff so far! I particularly like that first spawn (FIDO?). And the second Soul Grinder is off to a promising start!

Thanks Tinfoil
Fido was a particular favorite.
A quick poll of regular viewers. Should i add any horns to the soulgridner or leave it sans horn.

Great looking stuff, sennacherib! Glad to see you back at it.

Got sent home from work for a couple of hours due to a power outage and decided to make the most of it by updating what i can. I have been working on painting up some of the last of 20 metal plague bearers that i have. They will be part of an uber unit consisting of Epidemius, a herald with Fecundity, and 20 strong plague bearers. I deepstrike it in the midst of my foes objectives and hope to outlast the opposition. THE plague bearers are a little ways from being done. I still need to sponge weather their swords and pick out some of the little details. But they are coming along fine. I really like how the gutz turned out on the one bearer. I have a bottle of nurgles rot, but just cant bring myself to sully up my models with it. Likely i will continue to use it on bases where i have pools of slime and the like.

The soul grinder has been coming along. I went with a single horn growing out of his shoulder and attached both the gun and the scythe to the model. I am going to add some chains dangling around his waist and some heads here and there as trophy (maybe).

Comments are appreciated as usual.

sennacherib wrote:Nurgle soul grinders are constucted in a different fashion from other gods. The spirit of the daemon is first coerced into this realm and symbolically trapped in a sealed cask located in the middle of the grinder. The Majority of the soul grinder is built as a framework. Bodies and peices of skin and flesh are drapped over the soul grinder to act as a medium for the summoning of the daemon spirit. Once summoned the daemon sets about improving this framework and Grows the flesh to provide a suitable vessel. Unlike the trapped and bound spirits of other war gods, Nurgle soul grinders are free spirits welcomed into this plane to practice their love for all.

Never heard that one before. It's a nice piece of fluff, even if it doesn't quite fit with what I have in mind for my army.

The Soul Grinder is looking really good so far. Love the scythe arm. Looking forward to see what you do with the face.

The Biker Lord is nice, but it doesn't blow me away. Compared to the other bikers he just doesn't scream "important character" to me, which I think he should.

yeah. I agree with the biker lord. I am struggling with how to make him really stand out. he has a ton of extra bitz, but they just didnt make him pop compared with the other models that i have.

I am pretty happy with the soul grinder though.

Been working on my spawn. This spawn was the first to be painted for a number of reasons. My buddy Magnusthered assembled it. For some reason i sometimes feel like stuff that other people assemble looks more original or more different than stuff that i put together. He had about ten spawn in a box and sold me five for $50. A great deal. This one was the only one that was assembled all the way. I started off by washing the whole model with a layer of dwarf flesh and then a layer of burnt umber. Both were thinned way down. I then drybrushed this one with an unseasonably large number of layers trying to get the pustulant look. I am still not fully happy with the outcome but i am going to play with it a bit more. I am gonna try a bit of the new Gore paint on the buboes that he has scattered on his shoulders and arms. Pretty happy with how the base turned out. All of my bases have bits of Bloodangels scattered on them because blood angels are weenies. The color also helps when your whole army is washed out browns and greens. I was going to paint a bunch of wordbears up but the color similarity between the bits on the bases and my potential allies is a bit too close. So, in keeping with the fluff i am thinking i might go with Nightlords as they are the only legion reputed to be on good terms with mortorion.

As always comments are questions are appreciated.

Lookin good dude.
Hope you are gonna post some of the pics you have taken of the Cultists you have been working on. That zenthial painting looks great.

THanks nidious.
How about i post some pics when i have them half way painted.

what do you think. should i have added more to the skin on this latest work?

Well it's taken me a while to work through but there's some real highlights in here, always good to see someone taking care and time with nurgle stuff instead of random bits of greenstuff etc.

The landraiders are just gorgeous as is the shadowsword, I love a good tank, actually on that note I like the vindicators too, probably my favourite rhino variant kit and you've certainly done them justice.

I also love the chaos'd up fortress of redemption, any well done Imperial -> chaos terrain is all good inspiration. Need to get working on my nurgle soulgrinder again, after looking at yours, but very tempted to wait and get one of those GS tentacle makers before I do, mines a little lazier though sculpting over the original body

Will be watching for further developments

Thanks for the props Ignatius-Grulgor
I loved looking through your blog too. The GS blight drone is awesome. How did you gaff yourself through your nail though?

Tanks are my favorite and with a burgle army, they are pretty much your bread and butter. The Shadow sword was a gift from Magnusthered, actually the predator, the defiler and a couple of others come from him one way or another. I really enjoyed converting them. I am mid conversion on another land raider. Not quite as ornate but still a handful to finish.

Cant wait to see how you your soul grinder turns out.
Anyhow. I will be keeping a close eye on your blog, and thanks again for stopping by.

Cutting towards myself while doing the rotors like a true genius it seems mostly fine now I usually heal quickly (thankfully).

Hey. WE have all done it. I once glued my whole ball and instep of one foot to the floor. Had to rip the callus right off. Seeing your blight drone has made me think that i might try building one up myself. For now i am just going to work to finish some of the painting i have backlogged. THese five (four now) spawn are on the painting table. l also want to finish up ten cultists and twenty plague bearers. Ohhh where does the time go.

So i been working on finishing up the spawn. The one i been working on is almost done, i figure if i spend an hour or so on it, adding more flesh tones to the flesh, and then painting up the base, i should be able to consider it done. Only thing that has been holding me up has been the humidity and the rain. Our house gets so humid that paint does not readily dry unless i have it under a lamp, especially if i am trying out washes.

I also started on the cultists. I am working on speed painting them. This is my first effort using zenithal lighting. I have been painting the model with a black base and then hitting it with a light mist of white over the top. I try and coat the whole top of the model and then use a few short bursts from the side. I painted the model almost entirely with inks. Initially it turned out a bit too bright so i washed over the ink with some Badab Black and drybrushed on some highlights with Underhive ash. I feel like it turned out pretty well. I may need to tone it down a bit but the contrast of red to blue is nice if a bit revolutionary war looking. The cultists from Dark Vengence are meant to be renegade PDF forces. The blue jacket with brown boots and leggings just didnt stand out brightly enough so i added the red hood. The whole thing takes about thirty minutes i think to paint.

Any comments would be appreciated.

I hadn't stopped by for some time, great all around!

The Spawn looks ace, and the cultist is ace, hard to believe it was done in half an hour! (I know I could not do it in ten times that much!)

Zenithal paid off, though I agree, it may be a tad too shiny still.

Nice work on the cultist. I'm surprised to see you get so much out of the technique you describe.

If it were mine, I'd add some fleshier-looking tones to the skin. But you may have achieved the look you're going for -- kind of ashy and greenish and diseased.

Either way, looking good!

And I love the eyes on the back of the spawn.

Thanks Littletower and tinfoil!

You know, the Zenithal painting was really pretty easy. I just base coated everything with black paint and then used bursts of white paint from directly above and then from about 45 degrees to a side.

The rest of the model is just inked for the most part and then dry brushed.

@Littletower, your right. Too shiny. I am just afraid of spraying it with clear coat because it might snowflake in this extreme humidity we have here.

I agree tinfoil, the flesh tones are not the best. Its just bleached bone with a wash of ogryn skin. The inks are really where its at. The whole model is pretty well shaded before i ever dry brushed it. THis is the second model i have painted this way. I'm not going to start trying this with my space marines till i get a airbrush but for now, with these cultists i feel like the look is pretty good.

Are the colors too continental revolutionary looking to you.

So. to demonstrate how easy this technique is to work i have a whole collection of shots of two models that i painted in about 45 minutes each.
So, I roughly timed the process of painting these two models. Overall i think painting a model to completion takes about 45 minutes. The combined effect of Zenithal base coating with the pooling and gradation of ink, coupled with a light dry brush creates a model with nice contrasts that require way less work than just by using contemporary means. Below i describe roughly how i did them. Not that i feel that they are really amazing when compared with some of the work found in galleries here and abroad, but i do feel that for those of you who want to create a fairly fast, simple paint job that looks good for the time invested, then read on.

First i used the zenithal painting technique to base coat the models. I painted them black from top to bottom and then sprayed them with white paint from directly above and then i fired bursts from about 45 degree angels all the way around the top of the models. this paints the whole top of the model white with upward facing areas shaded but not entirely painted white.

I then used red, blue brown and black inks. The jackets are just blue ink. Brown ink for the leather and black ink for the guns. The weird little hoods that they are wearing i painted with red ink. The ink allows the models base coat of white and black to show through. This coupled with the gradation and the way that the ink pools creates additional hightlights. I also used dwarf flesh (to pink for my taste but im gonna tone it down) and bolt gun to pick out the flesh and metal on the model. Doing two models it took about an hour to do the whole model.

Lastly i spent about 15 minutes to dry brush the blue jackets with underhive ash as well as the leather creating additional highlights. I chipped up and corroded the metal by applying irregular blots of chestnut ink and dabs of bolt gun here and there. The red got a wash of Badab black while boltgun got hit with Devlan mud. The flesh will later get some eldar flesh and reikland flesh shade.

These models are by no means finshed but they are mostly done. Questions and comments appreciated.

Been working on my demons lately. This model was always one that I would see and wonder about
I have to say that it is was cooler in person. For all those of you who viewed this and saw nothing, such are the problems trying to figure out how my iphone interfaces with Dakka.
Had to upload these from my computer. This is Carcass, took only a day or so to paint. I am pretty happy this turned out. The remains of the blood angel on the base are a little too bright for my taste, but overall they make the model pop as a whole. It was my first time working with that blue corrosion wash that GW has concoceted. Seems to work pretty well. I used to make my own following instructions on CMON but the GW was seems to work well enough that i dont have to wory about doing that any more.

I have been on a bit of a painting tear recently. I will be updating or trying to update on a more regular basis than i have been. Like i said, this is one of my latest works and i am pretty happy with Carcass.

Wow. Just been reading through this and have to say congratulations on some great work. The Nurgle daemon above is really well done, picking out all the detail and the base is great too.

Nice model ! The red Marine is a bit bright indeed, but the Daemon is terrific !

Thanks Capn Facebeard

I appreciate the props.
Like i said i have been on a bit of a painting spree. No telling where this thing is going to stop. i am finishing up work on Sepsis, another of my Greater Unclean Ones. Sepsis actually took much longer to paint than Carcass, my last daemon prince of Nurgle. I think it mainly had to do with how heavy this model is. The metal GUO weighs about a pound. It must have sucked for GW to move these things over seas. The shipping was likely horrendous. I like the model though. Its a bit outdated but all the maggots and weeping wounds here and there look great. The arm i swapped from the city fight nurgle daemond prince.
The little nurgling on the base was a fun conversion. I'm not sure where i got that head, but it reminds me of a baby or a fat city official who was transformed into a nurgling. sentenced to carry the skull of his wife forever on a chain.
The trail of slime turned out well that is spilling out in the GUO's wake. I did that with just wood glue covered in super glue whilst still wet. It wrinkles up like that and i think it creates a very nurgly effect. Next time i might slip a few BB or something else round in there to look like bubbles but i am happy with the overall effect for now.
Hope you enjoyed this update. more coming soon.

Its been forever since i did a hobby progress update so i figured that i would knock the dust off this thread.
I have been working feverishly to finish all of my backlog of mini's over that last couple of months. I set a goal a while ago to paint and assemble all the minis that i have laying around rather than buy new ones and have those sit in piles so i got a wind in my sails and started at it.

These are three of the projects that i have been working on.
The first of these is my Chaos lord turned spawn model. I started on this forever and a day ago, and finally finished green stuffing him last night. Every CSM army needs one of these for that inevitable time when your lord spawns himself after a successful challenge. Personally this rule seems dumb since winning a challenge for chaos seems like more of something that chaos would reward, but the gods are fickle.

The next shot is what i call the emergency bloodthirster. He was given to me in a sad state. The wings were the old metal nipple claw ones that the model comes with and he was just coated in paint and epoxy. Seriously. If you have a metal model, pin it. Don't just rely on five layers of epoxy and super glue to hold it together. I am in the process of stripping and refitting him. I call it the emergency bloodthirster since i will only likely pull him out to deal with neck beards and other cheese.

The final set of shots are of my hell drake taking form. I assembled it along the lines of many i have seen posted here and in other forums. The notion of a dragon flying around in 40k is just dumb. I never purchased this model for a long time because it was arguably the most broken model in 40k. That was prior to the release of the elder wave cheese. Given that the rules have been dumbed down a bit so they are less cheesy i picked this model up and began the long and not so motivated track to completion. I wanted it to look more like a hell talon so i extended the wings and did lots of nurgly grinding on the model. Most of my other burgle vehicles have extensive green stuffing but the gothic baroque detail makes that a serious pain to do. I decided to forgo it for the most part. '

More to come later. Thanks for checking in and i appreciate any suggestions you make.

Noah, this is a nice goal to have...I should follow suit and build/paint everything I own before buying anything else....unfortunately, GW likes to release stuff that is 'Limited Edition' and 'While Stocks Last.' Then you just end up paying twice as much for it on ebay later...I've been cleaning, building and spray painting backlog Tau models that have been sitting around for far too long, in preparation for our game(s?) this week.

I need to get my website/blog up and running so I can track everything...the hardest part for me is staying focused and motivated on one project for long enough to actually finish it.

Great to see you dave.
My Hobby goal is coming along. I have not been documenting very well but in the interest of just getting some more evidence up here on my thread i have been just taking a few pics with my iPhone. I have been making lots of hobby progress but very little of my work has made it up on here due to really poor lighting from living in a valley that faces away from the sun and is heavily covered with trees. I am going to try to set something up in my garage but for now i am going to just keep up some of these quirky posts.

The first pic is of a Dark Apostle that i have begun to convert out of one of my chosen marines. My Word Bearers are slowly growing and it just does not seem right that i have no dark apostle to preach the word of Lorgar. He is coming along nicely.

Next up is my Emergency Bloodthirster. I stripped the model and removed the weird Nipple Claw Wings. My buddy Magnusthered gave me some plastic daemon wings which i pinned to his back. I repositioned both of the arms so that they are posed a bit more dynamically and then twisted his head to the side. By sculpting the neck after girding off one cheek i feel i was able to give him the feel that he was leaning in to just bash some fool over whom he is towering.

The last model i have been working on is the mangler. A burgle marked Mutilator. I was opposed to using these initially but they work pretty well in certain roles. You can send them in ala Lone Wolf and against certain targets they perform quite well. I have this baby to thank for my last win. He took out about half a squad of grey hunters and then ripped their rhino to bitz handing me the game.

A while back i posted this list of minis n the hopes that i would knock them out before buying any new plastic crack. I have finished the following models marked in red are more or less completed hobby goals.

I have 5 nurgle spawn to be converted.
2 Nurgle sorcerers and one nurgle lord to be painted and partially converted.
50 cultists t o be painted and partially converted.
One defiler to assemble, convert and paint
One defiler to paint.
One soul-grinder to assemble, convert and paint.
about 14 new plague marines to paint
5 havoc with 4 auto cannon to paint and convert
20 plaguebearers to assemble and paint
21 nurgling bases to paint (good lord)
1 demon prince to paint
1 rhino to paint and convert
1 more landraider to paint and convert
Two hell brutes to be assembled, converted and painted

10 Assault marines to paint and convert
13 chosen to paint and convert

All i plan on buying is a single hell drake… and a partridge in a pear tree.
151 models or there a bouts.

Good to see you back and, as you say, on a hobby streak to boot.

Amazing work, as always.

Great stuff Noah!

Hi all.
Been lost in the warp lately. Lots of work and also side projects. I have been rebasing some Tzeench stuff as well as putting together some Khorne Daemons for a Daemonkin army. Which i might add is a fun army to play. However, this update is of a far larker matter. A good friend (magnus the red) had an extra titan laying around. It was one that he had purchased used. Its a Mars pattern loyalist titan which i am going to convert over to chaos. Its mssing a couple of pieces and is going to require a little work to Nurgle up, but I am looking forward to all the green stuffing it is going to take to make this truly one of Nurgles most blessed creations. I pulled the Nails out and am just starting to consider how i am going to do it up.
Legio Mortis.

The titans going to be a fun project for sure.

Thanks GiraffeX. It will definitely be on of the mos intense conversions that I have attempted. Am going to be doing a lot of re sculpting to add the necessary corrosion etc. It's also missing the Princepts. I have a bit that I can add that will look reasonable when it has enough GS etc. I'm also going to add some computers and other nonsense to the interior so it's not just a empty cabin.
Stay tuned for more modeling nonsense.

No work done today because I played 2 games with my burgle.

Just had one of those fatal moments where I wrote a big ol post and had a computer glitch delete it all. I have been working on a this model for quite some time. About a year at least. I have army ADD so I have been struggling to get this done. I finished work on it today. I did the dremeling and drilling to create pits in the hull of the vehicle. I also glued sand here and there around the tracks to simulate a load of extra corrosion. I wanted this model to stand out from my other rhino so I glued on the trophy racks a while back. I didn't honestly like them till just recently. Also added loads of extra boxes and crates. I wanted it to look like they have been in the field a while.

Hope you like it.

I have been working on doing some conversions to minis that I bought to use specifically as terrain. I picked up a set of 5 ww2 vehicles for 12 bucks that I was using as terrain in some of my games. I figured that since they are pretty nice models that I should just experiment on the. With some new tactics. I started off with a hairspray and salt chipping effect. Just hairspray does not seem to do it very well so I went to using the two together and it seems like it works pretty well. I base coated them a rust red color and then sprayed with Aqua net. Sprinkles with salt and then spraypainted primer grey. A little water and scrubbing later and they looked suitably rusted up. I then washed them with Declan mud and after that dried I went over them and sponge weathered them with some burnt sienna paint. In hit this one with some rust streakers and did the tracks with a mix of real dirt that I mixed with glue, and typhus corrosion.

Quick update. I have just started the heavy part of the conversion. By heavy i mean grinding on Resin. I know its super bad for your to grind on resin so i used a mask to prevent me from inhaling any little bits. I also sat in front of a running fan and had a running vacuum set up to suck up the bits that i was grinding off of the titan as i removed the loyalist symbols. Most came off pretty easily. I ground off anything that resembled a aquila or a flue de le. I just started working on the GS work to update them to a more Nurgly look.Removing the giant eagle from the left leg took the most work. I made three large balls of GS that i am going to cut in half and glue onto the legs as plague censures. Surprisingly working on a larger model is going much faster than working on smaller models has.


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Finished some free stuff work on the left shin guard. I used a mixture of green stuff and miliput which accounts for the differing appearance of the materials. I am going to do something similar for the right shin guard. Have any of you used any of these small smoke generators. I was thinking about putting one inside the cockpit so that it will "leaked greasy looking fumes.

So i ground off the resin aquila and started adding some green stuff mixed with miliput. I am not a huge fan of milliput by itself but the mix has somewhat better properties for what i am doing here. smoothing it with water is possible and it is a little more creamy and a bit less rubbery to work with. I am planning on coating almost every bit of the armor on this monster with dents and indentations. work is going a lot faster than it does on smaller models. this is the biggest model that i have worked on. I have been thinking about the banners and flags that its going to have on it. I was thinking about stringing together ropes of loyalist helmets and having them dangling between the legs along side a banner dedicated to grandfather burgle. Not sure yet about the base but i did find some 10" birch display bases on line that would make a nice base for it. I have some extra building parts. I was thinking about having him standing in the ruins of a building he has just smashed. something like that. Anywasy. I know that this is slow going but i hope your enjoying it. I plan on being done in a matter of about a month.

Questions and comments are appreciated.

Finished the heldrake. It was a bigger pain in the arse than expected to paint. For now it is good for tabletop play. I still have to fi ish the base. Currently on the workbench I still have the Titan, a landraider, converting up three mutilators and yesterday I made a set of ten plague zombies. Those will be fun too field and will allow me to bring the heretic list from Imperial armor 13. I want to be able to field artillery. Three wyverns would be good or a unit of leman Russ. Not sure which.

Been working on an update. I am trying to do an hour a day so that I can finish this Titan for a Apocalypse game next month. I have a ton to do. This is the head. I finished both of the leg grieves and started in the back plate as well. In the mean time I also have to order a birch display base.. Mostly thinking about a 10" round. I also am going to have to pick up some barbed wire. My vision is to have the Titan dragging barbed wire that is tied up around the ankles of the Titan.

Also recently finished are ten plague zombies. A local shop has an unlimited 1000 pt tournament. I am thinking of running the Titan with 20 plague zombies and a arch demagogue command squad for the HQ. This will necessitate my building the command squad. Either way. If any one has any idea what models I should use for my arch demagogue and command squad, post them up here.

Blottingly good; slow or not, keep going!

Barbed wire can be made by twisting coopper or garden wire too, if needed (and time permitting, of course).

Thank you little tower. I am trying not to get bogged down. With just about two weeks left I am going to be hard pressed to have it table ready for the next apoc game. I work on it one hour per night. I also worked on the rhino pictured above but rather than post pics of it 90% painted I decided to wait until I have the full go.

This is a shot of my second soul grinder of Nurgle. I got some base layers on it and have started to work on the dry bushing. Next up trim and wash, befor I tackle the torso. I am planning a bone white head with brass armor dripping corruption. Questions and comments welcome.

Loving the Nurgle Warhound. Considered me subbed.

EDC

Thank you evil cheese. I am putting in about an hour a night trying to get this thing ready for a apocalypse game this coming December. And also to field in a 1250 tournament the following week. The tournament is a no holds barred winner take all, Swiss elimination tourni. Last week I walked in with what Khorne models I had in my bag and just got liberally thrashed by skitari and blood angles. I was just lucky I didn't have to face the green tide.
So, I have been working to get this done and also to have a centerpiece for my Mortis Apostate army. With green stuff you can only do so much at a time so I do a little on each separate part. Tonight I more or less finished up the face plate and did a bit more work on the pathogen stacks that grow up from the backs of all the models in the army. Being trapped in the warp for 10,000 years with the destroyer plague eating at them has left the Mortis apostate truly blessed with nurgles graces.
I ordered some razor wire for basing it from Army Painter. It looks quite good for the price. I plan on having ropes of it tangled around the Titans feet and slew of posts and mangled bodies in his wake.

Thanks for the props everyone. Questions and comments are appreciated.
BTW. The reason I only post one photo at a time is that for somereason I cannot post more than one to Dakka from my iPad. If anyone has any suggestions to this dilemma I would love to hear. It.

Progress so far. I am really not sure I like the placement of the plague stacks on the front part of the carapace armor. I am thinking that I will have to either cut them off and start over or deal with it. Just looking at this model I have so much to do. I have a ton of gas work to do to suitably muck up all the flat plates of the carapace. I am not comfortable drilling and grinding everything the way I have the ret of my army. Mersin just freaks me out to drill, grind or scrape. I am going to fashio a large banner to hang between his legs and likely I will hang two fairly impressive banners from either of the guns in either side.


Questions and comments appreciated
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Looking good so far. In regards to the plague stacks I think you need some smaller ones round the larger ones like how mushrooms grow, they need to blend into the carapace as a living entity they kind just look stuck on at the moment.

Thank you. Now that. Have had a bit of time to look at it I am starting to come around. I agree fully. I am going to do a whole horde of smaller stacks. Nathan's for the advice GiraffeX

Been up to a bit more work. I wish I had textured the head and the leg grieves the same way that I have done the back. I just like the dimpled look. Reminds me a biit of as though the corruption is just slowly making pits in the armor. As I said I have been working on getting it done by December. If anyone knows any good maker of casualtiy models I would appreciate you posting them up here. No have looked into what's available and so far they all seem rather expensive or poorly made.

So, i finally figured out how to link all of my devices so i can hopefully download more than one photo at a time. I think part of my problem is the lack of a newer mac for my iPad to sink too.
Been working on a bunch of projects. This land raider conversion is my second and its almost done. Just wanted to post some shots of the conversions as they progressed. I bought this used off of ebay for 25$. It needed stripping and whomever painted in before me way overdid it with the base layer. Even LA Amazing couldn't strip whatever they used to prime this bugger. They applied it so thick that it wrinked in places. Given that this is to e a Nurgle conversion the extra texture will totally work. I swapped out the normal Heavy bolter armor cover for one i scavenged off of a defiler leg. Fits perfectly. I added Plague censors to the doors, they are on most of my vehicles somewhere. I also added plague stacks which spew pestilential fog as the vehicle advances, sowing disease and death in its wake. Today is a big modeling day. This land raider may get finished, i also have to finish up the titan conversion as well as my Khorne Daemonkin that i have been working on lately.

Any comments or questions are appreciated.

It really looks bad, which I guess is good! Great GS foo going on!

Edit: Or is it GS fu?

Great work so far

Thanks little tower, Januine!. I have been working super hard today trying to,push out as much as I can today befor work tomorrow.

I hope to have the Land raider done with GS today and have done tons of work on the Titan. It's got to be done in the next two weeks. Groan.

So, as i said i am planning on trying to finish up all sorts of stuff today.
Made progress on my Khorne Lord on Juggernaut. He has a Shield which gives him a 4++ save, and he is using Goredrinker. Str 10 instant death and a blizzard of attacks on the charge is hard to deal with for anyone. Joined to a unit of spawn he is pretty hard to ace before he hits the enemy line as well. I have been working on a technique for cloaks to have them more flowing in the wind. I did this one in two parts. The base bit i sculpt onto the mini to support the second flowing bit of cape. I added the skulls later because, as we know Khorne loves skulls and i would hate to disappoint the god himself.

Slow going but I have reached the point where I have only about nine major plates that need to be corroded by nurgles touch. This project can be super stressful since I don't want to put to much strain on any One joint while I am smoothing the green stuff. It has gotten really chilly here so I have to sit in front of the fire while I work to soften the putty as much as possible. Not sure this will be done in time for my next apoc battle but it should be close enough that playing it will still be possible.

Hope your enjoying he thread. Comments and questions are appreciated.

Looking good. Any thoughts on what you'll do Nurglfy the weapons?

The LR, and Lord are also looking cool. Excellent GS skills.

EDC

Stop making me want to buy a bloody Warhound!!!! Stop it now!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the positive feedback. After two weeks of GS work I am getting somewhat burned out on two part epoxy.

@EDC - thank you for he props. I have no idea if I will mess with the weapons at all. I always figured that when they start growing fleshy, the warp smiths would sit down and do what they could to treat them so that they would not loose their integrity. Weapons like this are a bit to precious to have blow up due to some chaotic infection.

@Januine - just buy one. Think how awesome it would look at the head of your force.

Noooooooooooooo. Well........maybe in the new year

Played a big game yesterday against 3000 pts of ultramarines. The Nurgle forces faced a Demi company, 15 terminators and a librarian conclave. The forces of Nurgle featured a highlander force of varied CSM. Highlights of the match inclueded a defiler one shot killing all three librarians. 385 pts killed on one shot including a terminator librarian who failed his 2+, tigurius who failed two 4++ in a row, and a regular libi who failed his 5+ cover save. Other highlights included a landraider with three obliterators and typhus charging 3 centurions, a command squad with a captain and terminator chaplain, and about 15 tac marines. My forces of chaos lost but they did some serious damage.

What did I learn from the match. I learned that daemon princes generally suck when facing units of 3 venerable dreads. Defilers rock, and heldrakes with hates auto cannon can be pretty good. My heldrake killed all three venerables, two rhinos and scored on several objectives by going into hover mode. What an awesome vehicle.

Perhaps this is old, but I really like the nurglized exhausts on your landraider. The Titan is coming along nicely, too.

Even after losing the 360 on it's weapon the heldrake is still a fearsome beasty and not to under estimated. Sounds like you had a blast.

Any pics?

EDC

No picks sadly EDC. It was also the last game I have played. It's been too long. On a side note with respect to the heldrake. It had the Auto cannon, not the bale flamer. It did a lot of work for me in this list.

Thanks for popping by war boss Waazag. The exhausts are like that on almost all of my Nurgle stuff. I figure that the toxic spew that was pouring out from the possessed engine would eventually start to grow into spoor towers (fruiting bodies if you are biologically inclined). Thanks for the props.

I spent much of yesterday evening getting going on the base for this bad boy. I was unable to find a beveled 10" birch base so I had to settle for this clock makers 10" round. It was much thicker than I had originally desired to use but I had to settle. I don't like the way that many bases turn out totally level so I spent last evening dremmmeling wildly to carve some trenches into the surface of the base. When I was dime I was liberally coated in a fine layer of sawdust.

Next step was to apply craters and texture to the surface using drywall paste. I am worried about its durability but today, after drying for 12 hours it seems like it is going to hold up. Next steps? I plan on using a mixture of brown latex paint and sand with lots off added bitz to build up the base. I have a ton of leftover marine parts that are going to be mixed into the morass that the Titan is going to be striding through. Last thing I plan on adding will be the Army Painter Razor wire I plan on festooning his feet with and some water effects for the craters so that the base has the necessary Morass feel.

So it's been a long time since I posted here. Lots going on in life. I spent two months driving across the country to the east coast and for the last six months I have been living in Florida working on something very Nurglie. Flesh eating flies. I'm a biologist you see. So down here I was unable to bring any 40k and no-one here even knows what 40k is so chances of getting a game on are slim to none. The few games I have had in the last year have ranged from fun to enraging. I played a handful of games with KDK that were super fun. Also played a couple games including a huge one against space wolves. I have to say that my dislike for space wolves only increased. Wolfen at the time were super broke and any-one who takes more than one squad is .... well.... not wanting for all members of their gaming group to have a good time.

I lost a lot of my affection for 40k towards the end of 7th ed. Formations suck. GW seemed to only hate chaos and seemed to be doing everything they could to unbalance the game. I still feel like games workshop only milked the traitor legions along and then to have the much awaited and anticipated update invalidated was infuriating. Especially after they released the crap upon crap of Black legion and codex crimson laughter. Basically between that, gw's lack of support for Chaos, lame power gamers and the state of 7th ed I was pretty much over the hobby. Stopped listening to podcasts, stopped checking out the news, basically turned off.

Now with 8th ed having dropped I have been lurking around again. I like the nnwer sleeker rules set though I have yet to play. I also like the return of melee. About time. Giving that at least 2 of the armies depend on it for their bread and butter, this seems like it should have happened a long time ago. I also like the fact that formations of brokenness are gone. I have heard that GW will be actively rebalancing the game as they go, though I have seen no active indications of this. We can only hope. The new death guard minis are very enticing and I can only hope that the codex when it drops actually includes units that have been DG staples for many years. Looking at the vindicator here. While it was nice to have a unique army and I will now be lost in a sea of recent converts, papa Nurgle welcomes all newcomers with open arms.

So,with great caution I am returning to the hobby. I bought my first minis in over a year and have been pouring over the rules and the index Chaos. I really hope that two things don't happen. 1- that all the GW marine miniatures get scaled up in size. 2 - that balance is indeed brought to the game. That is all.

Thank you for reading and in one week when my work here is done and I have returned home, I will be posting a new update hopefully with lots of new gifts from papa Nurgle.

I've been in a similar situation to yourself. left the hobby for a long time, didn't build or even paint which was my main love since my community had no real gaming groups at all. Now though after visiting back home I discovered a store that actively promotes tournaments and fun games and was a great distraction when i went to visit.

I picked up the new dark Imperium set and honestly I love the nurgle models which is odd since I've been a SM fan girl my whole hobby life.

I will say that the new models are amazing (the scaling is about the same for the Nurgle marines they just have a lot more on them to make them look beefier) and if you're anything like I am when it comes to building, I have a fair number of nifty conversions already done on my blog that I started up once more. Simple stuff to make the Pox-walkers look more unique (and then I kept finding more awesome ideas online after base-coating them all :( ) and I'm now slowly working my way through the plague marines.

Good luck~

Just spent an hour or so working to "tidy" up this rhino. First real work I have done in ages. I have had a lot of my ar,y painted up to be table top but not completed so I am working to get them all to the same level. It's mostly my tanks that are in partly painted states of disrepair. I had only partially painted the trophy racks. At least now I can start going in to work on shading them. The blood angel helm needs some serious work. I still need to add all the little details like soot around the smoke stacks, pick out the fleshy bits with some dwarf flesh and the model will need a comprehensive dirtying up with stirland mud and weathering powders. Overall I'm pretty happy though.

The second rhino I comprehensively dirtied up. I think it's done. For real. I finished something.

I played my first game of 8th ed. Really liked it. I feel like the terrain rules are a bit too simplified. Perhaps cover should be done the way that they did it in forth edition with levels and blocking LOS. I also feel like a -1 to to hit rolls on obscured targets would be great for giving some units a bump. Even the option to go to ground for a -1 to hit would be pretty awesome. Other than gripes about the terrain I feel that they nailed it. I even had fun playing against an eldar player.

@Marine_With_Heart ~ thanks for stopping in. I can appreciate the necessity of finding a good stor to game at. I have two now within about 30 min drive from me. Hope to be getting games in on a regular basis. I did pick up some pox walkers so. I will be sure to check out your conversions. Glad to hear that papa Nurgle has made his way into your heart, though your immune system may feel differently.

Been working on my plague hulk. I finished the green stuff a while ago. Then it sat in my stuff for the last year. Mostly because I had no one to play with

So I am working to just get the rest of my armynfis I shed and painted befor i go and buy a bunch of new stuff. With the release of mortarion this may prove to be really difficult. I don't really want to buy a whole bunch of new stuff. Especially with GW making models progressively larger and larger. It makes me wonder if they are going g to eventually do away with the smaller stature marines and go to an entire,ymlarger marine base. Either way. I finally am finishing this bad boy. Questions and comments appreciated.

Been finishing up my work on the soul grinders/plague hulks.

I like how some elements turned out. The veins and bruising in the base of the torso are realistic enough and the rust effect on the sword which I did using Mig pigments I especially like. The armored bits still need a bit of work but I'm pretty happy that it is at least table ready after three years or more. I do need to burnish up the bronze of the armor on its chest and head some. Not sure the best route to take there. The blue corrosion effect is I think a bit too bright and I really don't want to overly brighten th model.

This bugger will definitely fit well in my up and coming epidemious list that I am working on. Primarily I need as many shooting units that are Nurgle daemons as possible. That way I can hopefully target and destroy enough infantry units to be able to achieve some sort of early benefit from the tally mans tally.

Q&C are appreciated as always.

Good to see you around again!

Great to know your Nurgle-fu has not decayed while you've been away.

Nice (figure of speech, they look rotten, not nice) progress!

Thanks Littletower.
I made my way back via 8th ed. I gotta say that I am really enjoying it. Specially now that we have a codex that came out. I am looking forward to the death guard when those finally come out, but I'm hoping th rules still allow me to field some of my old units. Vindicators, etc.

Been enjoying getting back to this.

Last couple of days I have been spending making more weapon conversions for my deathguard dreads and defilers. I made these 3 twin heavy bolsters out of leftover bits from predator hb sponsons. The missile launcher will double as the havok launcher it was made out of and the twin lascannons are similarly made out of loyalist godhammers from the landraider kit. I'm trying to make the best use of the command points that allow you to double fire a dread at the nearest target, and also allow you to reroll to hit and to wound with a daemon engine. My current list has two defilers and two dreads in it plus some allied berserkers in a rhino to help thin down hordes. Q&c welcome.

Finally ready to apply some paint. I've had this model for five years and due to my lack of motivation, time etc it has just sat on my workbench. I wa ps not inspired at all to continue work in it especially given how crappy rules were for landraiders. Now the rules are pretty good and due to my desire to not get shot off the table, the toughness and firepower of these has motivated me to finish painting this. I magnetize the top so I can throw a havok launcher on there. Good to go.

Progress made. In the past I have always just base coated and primes in one step using Armco painter. Since I bought this pre primed it came with a black primer coat I could not strip no matter what I tried. Now, with the fur brown coat laid over the black primer, it actually provided some shading and deapth to the model. Busy now with blocking in the base colors prior to shading. For an hours work I have to say I'm pretty pleased. I'm building up the bone shades using Karnak Stone. I'm going to go over that with army painter skeleton bone. Blocking in the green and bolt gun will finish the model prior to its first wash.

Getting back into my deathguard, I feel like selling off my Daemonkin.

Q&C appreciated.

Been working on weathering up all my deathguard tanks. I figure slogging across the morass of mud and bodies mixed with prutrefaction is not going to to lend to having sparkly polished vehicles the same way that vamprism is not going to lend itself to sparkly vampires. I have been using a mix of laminan medium and secret weapon miniatures powders for most of the dust and dried on crud. The strait up wet mud is Striland mud from GW. I know that there are cheaper ways to do it but I bought the stirland mud to test it out and figure I should be using it. These two models are a landraider and a predator that I finished previously. Hope y'all are enjoying. Questions and comments appreciated.

Tanks are coming along great! Nurgle effects are definitely doing their job.