Cadaver's Death Guard

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**TheThing**

dude, how did you manage to make the vats????? they looks realyl cool

**Lord_Mortis**

Very nice work. I did something similar with the corpse cart bits on my Baneblade a few months ago.

**myka banned**

I can't wait to see that dread!!!

**Hughzle**

coming alon g nicely

**Kronus VI**

Amazing... PLEASE post a group shot
(Sell Baneblade ?????? What the

)

**daemonix**

That Defiler is some of the most amazing work I've ever seen... Kudos

**Starfarer**

TheThing wrote:dude, how did you manage to make the vats????? they looks realyl cool

I used pieces from this kit.

Kronus VI wrote:Amazing... PLEASE post a group shot
(Sell Baneblade ?????? What the )

Yep, I just had a member over at warseer buy the baneblade. It should be seen on the gaming tables somewhere in Australia in a few weeks.

I also sold some other stuff too, the raptors and my rhinos among other things. Just needed to do a little cutting back on everything I had. It was getting a bit out of control. Like pressing 10,000 points out of control. So I decided to get rid of the stuff I never use. If I ever decide I miss the baneblade too much, I'll just build another one.

I'll try and get a group shot up once I get a few more units painted. I need to start working on all my FW plaguemarines, I have 40 that really need to get tabletop ready.

**TheThing**

cheers bro

**Boss Salvage**

ACE 'reaper Cad, possibly the best converted chaos 'blade I've seen (though Rictus (I think) has a pretty fierce IW one on Warseer). Glad to hear it's going to a good home.

- Salvage

**Spawn**

Amazing death guard army! Good sculpting and painting!
The plaguereaper is amazing,and the defiler was also very cool! GOOD JOB!!!

**RazorMind**

great stuff, and thank you for those rhinos btw, now I just need to paint them up :-)

**Kronus VI**

Are those Forge World coversions worth the money?

Again excellent work.

**Shrike78**

Your extreme talent and attention to detail is excruciatingly apparent with every model.

Keep up the good work, or I will be forced to hunt you down

**Starfarer**

Kronus VI wrote:Are those Forge World conversions worth the money? Again excellent work.

Yes, they are definitely worth it, IMO, anyway. I suppose it depends how much you or anyone wants to spend for quality models. I find them to be worth the price, but you're looking at around $45 for one set(including FW shipping costs and all that jazz) and that's before getting the Chaos Space Marine kit for the legs arms, backpacks, etc. I love them though and haven't thought twice about buying them. I have 4 sets of ten that I'm currently building and painting and liked them so much I decided to completely redo my DG army based around the models with a new paint scheme.

Shrike78 wrote:Your extreme talent and attention to detail is excruciatingly apparent with every model.

Keep up the good work, or I will be forced to hunt you down

You should be seeing alot more soon. As I stated in response to the previous post I'm redoing the whole army in a new paint scheme with a set 2,000 point list. I currently have 19 FW plaguemarines painted and 9 more to go for the list and then 4 Oblits, a LR, Greater Daemon, some lesser daemons, some new termies and a little update on the paint scheme for my Deamon Prince.

After that the plans are for a LaTD themed Daemon army. It will be completely nurgle in appearance but I will use some Bloodletters, Bloodcrushers and Pink Horrors for mutants, big mutants and combat drug enhanced cultists. I'll probably be making some new Daemon prince models to represent uber mutants as well. I'm going to try a test conversion with the new AoBR warboss but will probably refine the design once the DP plastic kit is released next spring. But all this is dependent on how quickly I can get my Death Guard finished up.

**Kronus VI**

Excellent, more pictures! yay

**Beowulf**

this is a great log, i dont think there is anything i dont like, the defiler as everybody else has said is awsome, i am not a modeller above stealing other peoples idea's and am sure at some point i will give it a go, the obliterators are nice too and the heads work well.

I do have one question, when people use guitar wire for the ribbed hoses, what guage wire do people use? i am keen to try it on a few conversions myself

Keep up the great work

**TheThing**

Beowulf, different gauges work well for different things, on vehicles maybe even bass strings work well depending on what they are for

**Balmung**

ive seen ur models before on bolter and chainsword i think, and you are one skilled sculptor, lovin ur work

**ALIi B**

amazing! need pictures of the whole army so far though.

**HaLLuCiNaTiOn**

Nicely done. Also, your Defiler can double as a Soul Grinder.

**Starfarer**

ALIi B wrote:amazing! need pictures of the whole army so far though.

I'll have some shots of the new stuff I've been working on up soon. I'm reworking my army around the FW plaguemarines. So the older stuff I'm probably either going to redo or sell, especially the metal plague marines. I haven't decided If I want to sell of everything from the old scheme or not, but if I do you'll get an army shot for it.

**RGJ798**

Simply amazing - squashes any chance of me starting a death gaurd army, I can't sculpt and whats the point of nurgle if your not gonna sculpt.

**Starfarer**

RGJ798 wrote:Simply amazing - squashes any chance of me starting a death gaurd army, I can't sculpt and whats the point of nurgle if your not gonna sculpt.

That doesn't have to be the case. My newer incarnation of DG has very little sculpting throughout the army. All FW plaguemarines with battle damage cut from the plastic CSM bits rather than sculpted onto it. I think the Oblits are some of the only models with any sculpting and that's more to fix bad sockets and gaps in the metal molds. I wanted to go the opposite route from my first DG which had lots of greenstuff and go a more basic, closer to heresy look.

Right now I'm taking a bit of a break from the hobby. Hopefully I can find time to get around to doing some painting but real life matters have kept me from being too active lately. Anyway, I'll be sure to post any progress I do in the future. Thanks for all the comments everyone has given! I'll try not to go too long without getting a little something done here and there!

**GorillaTactics**

Hey Cadaver! What's up buddy? lookin busy. - did you ever show the Defiler on TAU ONLINE? or have you been holding out on everybody.

quick one more-> What are the "vents" made from on termies? (plastic or foam) and did you buy different gauges/sizes or did you form the end to be different sizes?

I myself am a nurgle freak and my attempt at the "vents" or plague hives as i called them was not executed as well as yours.

Thanks - see ya round!

**Starfarer**

Here are some pics of my redone Death Guard in a new scheme for the FW models. I also have redone Terminators and a few new Oblits as well.

This army is supposed to be Post Heresy but not extremely long afterwards, so the army itself keeps more in line with Mortarion's tactics, unit choices and squad sizes. Some liberties were taken for gameplay and model preference so the Oblits may be a stretch for some people and the terminators will be a 5 man squad, not 7 but this is so they can ride in a Land Raider.

Plague Marines:

WIP PMs and Champ:

New Termies:

New Oblits:

**Mephistoles1**

Awesome painting all around. And I love the conversions on the oblits.

Meph

**grey_death**

Did you knick up the legs and arms a bit? The FW kits are awesome but the level of detail far exceeds that of the plastic bits you need to make a full marine. I can't quite tell from these photos if they're knicked and damaged in much the same manner as the kit is.

Great progress so far.

**Starfarer**

grey_death wrote:Did you knick up the legs and arms a bit? The FW kits are awesome but the level of detail far exceeds that of the plastic bits you need to make a full marine. I can't quite tell from these photos if they're knicked and damaged in much the same manner as the kit is.

Great progress so far.

Yeah I basically drilled shallow holes with various sized drill bits and then carved it up on the edges with a hobby knife for damage to the plastic bits. I did this on the terminators as well, but not as extensively.

**WaaaaghLord**

Damn you and your modelling expertise....

HAHA. good work, mate. keep it up

**Bargarz**

I've crawled through a bunch of the pics here... outstanding effort sir!
I particularly like the vehicle weathering and the new paint scheme for the death guard troopers.
I also like the purply-pink pustules. They offset the green nicely.

The defiler conversion is damn nice too but enough comment on that

For those of us who came late to the thread, it's a pity that so many of the pics are now offline.
Do you have any step by step instructions on how you got the weathering or did the troopers? They certainly look good bang for buck.