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Sad to hear that, but I am sure you learned usefull stuff in this build, that will come in handy next time you want to go mad. Looking forward to the next models !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Sad to hear that, but I am sure you learned usefull stuff in this build, that will come in handy next time you want to go mad. Looking forward to the next models !

Yeah, it's a shame when a project doesn't quite go to plan, but at least I have learnt some useful stuff and can spend more time on other projects. Shame that my hobby blog is already devolving in to a blog of my failed attempts at making stuff. I'm thinking about quitting being so cheap and fork out some money for the Imperial Knight kit to Nurglify instead of trying to make one out of trash. It's coming up to Christmas so I'll think I'll treat myself.

That might indeed provide you a sound structure to work on. Just a thought about your demon titan, how about repurposing it as terrain ? Like a giant fallen corpse with open wounds where nurglings can play ?
Lying on its back/side you probably would not be bothered by it falling down...

Yesterday, I started work on painting up another squad of Plague Bearers that I bought with a GW gift voucher. I started off with a brown primer, then I basecoated the skin, using vallejo 'basic skin colour' and once that was dry I added a GW 'Druchii Violet' shade. I also added 'Reikland Fleshshade' to the base to make the texture of the basing materials stand out more. What's next is that I'll be drybrushing the minis with more vallejo 'basic skin colour' and then adding a layer of 'Reikland Fleshshade' over that, just to dull down the purple. My aim is to achieve an undead 'rotting look' to them.








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 KernelTerror wrote:
That might indeed provide you a sound structure to work on. Just a thought about your demon titan, how about repurposing it as terrain ? Like a giant fallen corpse with open wounds where nurglings can play ?
Lying on its back/side you probably would not be bothered by it falling down...

Good idea, but unfortunately the model is binned now. But I already have ideas for a better Nurgle Titan.

The DE Wyches are amazing! Your combination of bits is terrific. Be warned; I may steal that conversion And the purple plague bearers are great too. It's nice to see another Vallejo primer user. Good choice using brown. My first choice would have been white, but it would have been way too bright. What colours are you using for the blades?

 WargamingWarrior wrote:
Thanks for the comments.

The big demon titan started falling apart. I have spent long enough on it to realise it's not worth wasting any more time on it, so the project is now scrapped. I'm not a competent enough scratch-builder, so I'll think I'll just stick to assembling and converting actual model kits from now on.

I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully, you'll be able to figure something else out down the road. And I concur with Kernel. Turn that thing into a sick piece of terrain (pun intended ) Keep the awesomeness a comin'!

-LostCarcosa


reason for edit: I forgot to add something.

Nice color scheme on these plaguebearers, they'll stand out !

LostCarcosa25 wrote:The DE Wyches are amazing! Your combination of bits is terrific. Be warned; I may steal that conversion And the purple plague bearers are great too. It's nice to see another Vallejo primer user. Good choice using brown. My first choice would have been white, but it would have been way too bright. What colours are you using for the blades?

 WargamingWarrior wrote:
Thanks for the comments.

The big demon titan started falling apart. I have spent long enough on it to realise it's not worth wasting any more time on it, so the project is now scrapped. I'm not a competent enough scratch-builder, so I'll think I'll just stick to assembling and converting actual model kits from now on.

I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully, you'll be able to figure something else out down the road. And I concur with Kernel. Turn that thing into a sick piece of terrain (pun intended ) Keep the awesomeness a comin'!

-LostCarcosa


reason for edit: I forgot to add something.

Thanks! Converting the Wyches in to Chaos Cultists was fun and not too difficult to do. I'm hoping to add a cultist/renegade regiment on to my Chaos forces.
I'm going to be painting the Plague Bearer swords black, like on my other unit of Plague Bearers...

KernelTerror wrote:Nice color scheme on these plaguebearers, they'll stand out !

Thank you

So, I have been doing some more work on my Plague Bearers. After using the purple wash on them, I dry brushed them with the Vallejo basic skin colour and added a wash of 'Reikland Fleshshade'. This was just to reduce how purple they looked, making their skin look more skin-like. Once I did that, I added 'Mephiston Red' to all the gory details, such as the guts. Then I added a discontinued GW paint, 'Mechrite Red' over the 'Mephiston Red' to make it a lot deeper red. Lastly I added patches of green wash over the skin to make it look more rancid and rotten, like it's decaying. These photos don't quite do the minis justice, but I'll upload them for now, and try to get some better photos later, so stay tuned.

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a merry Christmas and Happy New Year! . Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been burnt out of the hobby for a little bit but I'm back now with some exciting new updates.

Looking on the front page of my blog, I see a lot of broken picture links, spent a good half an hour just trying to sort out/ get rid of those broken pictures. That's the last time I link Facebook pictures to this blog.

Anyway... time to stop ranting and time to show off some miniatures. The Plague Bearer Squad is coming along nicely. I have the skin mostly finished now and have beep painting all of the details such as the boils yellow, teeth and horns white, swords black and eyes green. Now I just have to finish some detailing on the banner bearer and the Nurglings, then add grass to the base, then clear coat them. After all of that they should be all done!

[Keep in mind that the pictures came out a little dark, I'll take some better photos soon!]











Now it's time to announce the new project! One of the presents I got for Christmas was £25 worth of GW vouchers. Two days ago I thought that I would spend the Games Workshop vouchers that I got for Christmas and a bit of cash on starting a Horus Heresy Death Guard army, so I bought Betrayal at Calth. It was pretty pricey, even with the vouchers but it'll be fun assembling, painting and playing Warhammer 30k, I cannot wait!




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I have been magnetising the arms of the Contemptor Dreadnought, so I can swap out the weaponry. Plus if I want to use an auto-cannon dreadnought, for example, I wont have to buy a whole new dreadnought, I can just buy the weapon arms from ForgeWorld. What I did to magnetise this guy was using a dremel to drill holes in to the arm sockets and the ball joints in the arms, then I glued magnets in to the holes, making sure they are facing the right way so they don't repel. A great tip that someone told me on Facebook is that next time I magnetise something (e.g.) a Contemptor Dread', I can save magnets and effort by adding magnets in the arm sockets and adding something metal, such as screws in to the arms.

Been working some more on my Death Guard army. I've been working on the bases, trying to get them finished off. They are coming along nicely. I have a lot of them finished and have organised the ones I have left to do...



... all the finished bases are off-camera. Once I get the rest of these bases finished, I'll take a photo of all the finished bases together.

I've also been working on assembling the tactical squads. I've done some light conversion and kitbash work to them to make them more personalised and unique as well.





In this photo, the guy on the left is my own custom model representing Nathaniel Garro, a Deathguard character from the Horus Heresy book series. I made him through just kitbashing and some minor conversion work. I'm really pleased with the result and looking forward to painting him up.



Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more!

Finally finished painting the second Plague Bearer squad! I'm really pleased with how they came out. Feel free to let me know what you think of them.

Slimy ! Well done !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Slimy ! Well done !

Thank you!

Hey, it's been a while since I posted a significant update. Sorry about that, I have been dealing with burnout when it comes to wargaming and art block when it comes to drawing. But now I am back with a shiny new update to show off everything I have been working on!

So first things first... I have been finishing off the last of the bases for my pre-Heresy Death Guard army. Here's the Terminator bases sprayed brown and with a black ink wash over them. Also, before priming them, I decided to make them look more swamp-like and slightly corrupted by Nurgle by adding tendrils of hot glue over them to give them more of a gross, 'alive' look to them.



Then I drybrushed the bases with lighter browns, bone colour and white. I drybrushed the slime tendrils green, then added some Typhus Corrosion textured paint to darken the green down and give the slime more of a texture so it doesn't look like just globs of hot glue.



Lastly, I have been preparing for making some more Nurgle Chaos Spawn from snail shells. I got loads of shells from when I got some Escargot from the supermarket. So far I have cleaned up the shells and cut out some circles from some pizza packaging, just to see what sized bases I'd likely need to buy. I decided to buy plastic bases instead of trying to make my own, as the plastic bases look a lot neater and make the scratch build look a lot less 'cheap'.

Been a while indeed, welcome back !

Bases look nice, cool recipe. And happy to see more chaos snails !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Been a while indeed, welcome back !

Bases look nice, cool recipe. And happy to see more chaos snails !

Thank you for commenting.
I have just been working on scratch building a scythe for my Deathguard captain and working on making him and the tactical marines look as though they are in the process of being corrupted by Nurgle.

Here's an update for where I am now with my Death Guard force. All of the bases are done and now I am working on the Marines. I have been sculpting Nurgley corruption to make them look like they are in the process of being corrupted by Nurgle. I have also converted the Captain's power-maul in to a scythe to better represent the Death Guard theme.

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I have done one of these hobby updates. I haven't been working on my wargaming miniatures as much as I should be. But I'm feeling like getting back in to the hobby now, finishing painting the miniatures that I have got and hopefully playing some games of Warhammer 40k once the new edition drops.

Today I've been finishing off some Goblin Spider Riders. I didn't photograph them as I only did a very quick paint job on them to get them done and out of the way, nothing too spectacular.

I have been doing some more work on my Pre-Heresy Deathguard army. I've started priming some of the miniatures with a brown spray. I went with the brown spray just to give a bit of depth to the miniature when I airbrush it with more of a light grey/bone mix. Also the brown primer acts as a great base for rust effects, which is perfect for Death Guard.



I've also been working on assembling the Terminators. I did some conversion work to the squad leader, giving him the Power Maul that I had chopped off when converting the captain's weapon in to a scythe.



I started scratch-building a new leader for my Nurgle Daemons. An Epidemius that I'm scratch building using an old Monsters inc toy. All I've done at the moment is build a handle for his scythe out of some sticks. He's not looking like much at the moment, but once I get his chair made and start doing some sculpting work, then I reckon he'll look badass.







Stay tuned for more...

Hello cultists! I have a brand new shiny update!

I have been doing some more work on the scratch-built Epidemus of Nurgle. I started building his throne using lollipop sticks and started sculpting the lower portion of his body. I feel like he's already starting to really come together.





What I will be doing next is finishing off the sculpting then work on making the blade of his scythe out of plasticard. I have some ideas about how I will be basing him as well. I was watching a video by 'Nergling'...




...where he talks about using old templates as bases for his bigger miniatures. I have a spare small blast template that is the right size for the miniature, so I'm thinking that I'll give Nergling's basing technique a go. As for the pillar of little Nurgle Daemons carrying the throne, as seen in the official mini, I'm planning on buying a box of these plastic nurglings from GW and converting them up to form a pillar.

Here are some shots of the Deathguard I have been working on!

Looking good and decayed !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Looking good and decayed !

Thanks!


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Been working on my scratch-built Epidemus of Nurgle made out of a Monsters Inc toy, some Nurglings, lollypop sticks, milliput and other bits. Finally finished the sculpting and have started priming him. He is looking beastly, like a proper Nurgle leader.

Hey all! I'm currently at my desk, setting up to do some more painting. I just thought I'd do a bit of an update of how the Epidemus of Nurgle is coming along. Here's some pics of him so far...









I think that he's looking pretty good so far. I still have a lot of highlighting to do especially on the skin areas. Also I have cracked out the Deathguard to do some finishing touches on them, mainly adding a shade to the areas where the white primer is showing through, in all of the gaps and behind the powerpacks etc...

Here's some pics of how my Deathguard army is looking so far...

Hey everyone! Been doing lots more work on my Heresy-era Death Guard! I have the Tactical Marines, the Dreadnought and the Captains painted up. All I have left to finish up now is the Terminator squad and that'll be all of them done and painted. I'll post some pics of my army later on today, so stay tuned for that.

So, how should I expand my 30k Death Guard force? I'm thinking that Mortarion and Typhus are a 'must buy' at some point; can't have a Death Guard army without those two. I'm also thinking about adding some 'armour' to my force, buy a tank with a big gun to really beef up the firepower. Anyone got any recommendations of which tank to go for?

Very nice 30k squad, well done.

No idea in terms of gameplay, but I kind of like the plagueburst crawler's aesthetics !

And to be even less helpful, I was reading the 1d4 chan daemon engine page this morning, and thought that a Nurgle Plague tower could be a cool project ^^.

 KernelTerror wrote:
Very nice 30k squad, well done.

No idea in terms of gameplay, but I kind of like the plagueburst crawler's aesthetics !

And to be even less helpful, I was reading the 1d4 chan daemon engine page this morning, and thought that a Nurgle Plague tower could be a cool project ^^.

Thanks!

Yeah, I like the look of the Plagueburst Crawler as well. I am very tempted to pick one of those badboys up.

Actually, I have been considering building a Plague Tower recently, as I have a big box of lollypop sticks that I need to use for something. I will have to stock up on the milliput though!


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Here's a WIP shot of my Death Guard captain. I just have a few more coats of washes to add to him, and then he should be just about done!




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I've got some pics of my Death Guard army so far. Personally, I am really pleased with how they are looking. I decided to go for a slightly-corrupted, highly-weathered look, as though they are beginning to get taken over by Nurgle.



Here's a pic of my power-armoured captain. I decided to convert his melee weapon in to a scythe because I felt that it was more appropiate for the Death Guard.



Here's my Terminator-armoured captain. Didn't do anything special in terms of conversions with him. Just gave him a weathered, Death Guard paint-job.





Here's a Death Guard tactical squad with my own custom Nathaniel Garro leading the squad. He was made out of an assortment of spare bitz.



Here's some pics of my Dreadnought. I found this model the most fun to paint. I really went to town with the weathering, adding lots of chipping and rust streaks on the armour. Also the arms are magnetised so I can take them off/swap them out.











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Hey everyone! I went to the wargaming club yesterday. Played my 2nd game of 40k 8th ed, it was my Death Guard vs Necrons. I lost pretty badly, but learnt loads about the new rules and how to better improve my army composition, I really enjoyed using the pox-walkers.



With their Disgustingly Resilient rule and their rule that allows them to gain a model for every enemy model killed by them in combat, they are a great tar pit unit. Something interesting about using them against Necrons though, is that Necrons get there reanimation protocols roll, so if a pox walker fells a necron, gains an extra pox walker and the necron reanimates in the necron players turn, does that mean that you've essentially created a pox-walker farm? I found that the pox walkers aren't so good against single models though, like an HQ because, while they can still act like a tar pit, it doesn't make use of their ability to gain models, which is one of their core strengths in my opinion.

The Plague Marines are a tough unit. Great for holding objectives although I found their shooting output to be relatively week, they didn't really kill much. Although I think that could just be me not utilising them effectively. They are primarily a mid-ranged unit, whereas I was using them at long range because I wanted to keep them on the objective.

Finished working on this quick conversion I made. I had some spare Goblins and a toy insect that was missing some wings. So with some plastic, some hot-glue, a bottlecap and a square piece of wood, I made a Goblin Warboss and his assistant riding a giant bee. The wings could be a little better, but I think that it's alright for a quick conversion using essentially scrap parts.







ALSO...

Finished painting up the Death Guard Terminators. Really pleased with how these guys came out. Let me know what you think of them.

Finished painting up my Scratch Built Epidemus of Nurgle. I'm really pleased with how he came out. He was made from a Monsters Inc figure, greenstuff, some nurglings and an assortment of bits.