Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I've had this thread subbed for a while but for some reason hadn't posted yet. Fixing that now.

WOW! Amazing work on those Terminators, and the conversion from Bloodletter to Plaguebearer is sick in the best way possible and if I wasn't already set with mine I'd so try that.

You army is well thought out, has a very solid color scheme that lends cohesion from unit to unit, and the variations you have make it very interesting.

The only observation I have to offer that is not completely positive is the skin tone on your corrupted Guardsman. I hate saying that because the rest of the model is 100% win and I know it is personal preference, but I have to agree with the others, the skin tone could use some lightening.

Very well done and I'll be back!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy!

My brother got me 3 FW Blight Drones for christmas. THREE!!!
I can't wait till I get back to my painting table.

Any tips on assembling them? I considering using city fight ruins for basesm so I won't to balance them just on the bloody GW flying base.

Holy crap! Good score bro!

Nice gift City ruins sound like a plan!

2 quick pics:

I dried to brighten up the skin on the guardsmen



and I now have a squad of 7 Plaguebearers based on Ghouls. I won't add any more. Not sure if I can to it with Marines, but at least my demons will come in the sacred number.

Skin definitely looks better, and those plaguebearers look great. nice work!

Loving the work! actually scary like papa N should be! keep up the good work mens!

Great stuff.

Nice Plaguebearers... I definitely need to build some of my own (though I like the most recent GW ones)

Great job!

Skin tone is !!!

Really enjoying this thread. Quite motivational, especially since I just became the proud owner of 40 Cultist heads. APOC awaits...

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNN!!!!

I put the first Blight Drone on the balcony for priming and the wind blew it off the table. Now one of the propellers snapped off right above the point where I pinned it. Fixing that will be a real pain.

Sorry to hear that, bro...

Sorry to hear that; hope you can fix it!

Suckfest, good luck with the repair

Hi everybody!

I could use your help painting the blight drones. I'm not too sure what colors to use, or, to be more precise, what exactly the armor is supposed to be.







Here's the thing: the "flesh" will be painted the same way I do all the skin and flesh in this army. Gretchin green, green wash, gretchin green and rotting flesh.
I also found a nice way to paint the rotors, which is dark flesh, then boltgun, brown/orange for the rust and then a layer of brown wash. Cables and stuff will be yellow. No, my problem is, I'm really not sure how I could paint the hull. I can't paint it in the same green as I do my tanks, because that lacks contrast to the bright green skind. Currently I'm trying a bony structure, but I'm not too sure about that yet. Any ideas?


Also, in case you're interested, the first finished Nurgle Ork, counts as Plaguebringer.

Nurgle Ork/plaguebearer looks good. As for the carapace of the blight drone, I'd consider the same colour scheme as the rotors, since I imagine the shell is made of very corroded and pitted metal, and because the rotors look brilliant .

wow the nurgle ork looks great. as for the blight drone i think green would be great, you coulde also add some rust to it

CommissarKhaine wrote:As for the carapace of the blight drone, I'd consider the same colour scheme as the rotors, since I imagine the shell is made of very corroded and pitted metal, and because the rotors look brilliant .

Thanks. I'm not too sure about it though. It makes a good contrast, but it feels lazy to paint the rotors and the hull in the same colors.

Great Work. I am a huge fan of the Forge World Death Guard Terminators. I am very new to using a forum and hope that my image is displayed o.k.

I have 5 of the Forge World and 5 converted ones. I have spent a lot of time cleaning / filing the models and the bases have a lot of detail. I look forward to seeing more photos of your army. Keep up the awesome work.

I like the idea of a fully rusted drone as well, the rust you have done so far is far from lazy!

That Ork Plaguebringer is wicked!

Anung Un Rama wrote:

CommissarKhaine wrote:As for the carapace of the blight drone, I'd consider the same colour scheme as the rotors, since I imagine the shell is made of very corroded and pitted metal, and because the rotors look brilliant .

Thanks. I'm not too sure about it though. It makes a good contrast, but it feels lazy to paint the rotors and the hull in the same colors.

A very corroded bronze then? Though I'll agree with BLACKHAND that making it all rusty would be far from lazy...

Maybe lazy was the wrong word. I'm just not sure about the armor and the rotors having the same color. I guess I'll give it a shot.

Unrelated crazy idea: is it just me, or is the new Skaven Monster a perfect start for a Nurgle themend Soulgrinder.

Isn't the armour supposed to be green, like the rest of your army?

That was the original plan, but now I'm so sure anymore. The armor doesn't really look like it should have the colors and it's not a very good contrast to the bright skin.

I think having the rotor blades and the hull the same rust color is fine. I tried to find a pic of a rusted industrial fan w/ the same coloring but *fail*, hope this Ork Looted Wagon serves the same purpose.

Finished the first Blight Drone. Let me you know what you think.













The base is not quite finished yet, but I usally wait a bit to do them all in one run.
I already have some plans for the other two drones. I thought I could build one with the rotors turned forward, that is what it would do to go really fast, isn't it? And for the other one, I want to have it based on the stream of toxic sludge coming out its butt, like the one in the Imperial Armor book.
Also, I'm probably going to change the weapons. The small guns are supposed to be Reaper Autocannons, but if I want to see how real Autocannons would look down there.

As for the future of this army, I finally found the other 17 unpainted foot soldiers. If I can get them painted I'm one step closer to really fielding a Traitor Guard army and not just talk about it all the time. I'm still thinking about my next warmachine though. Either I'll try the walking Plague Tower or maybe a Plague Hulk, based on the new Skaven monster.

Wow, the Blight Drone is really nicely painted!!!

Rust, slime, everything!!

I can't wait to see how you'll use the Skaven Hellpit for your Plague Hulk!

Looks great Rama! The colour scheme worked out perfect.

I like the idea of the rotors being twisted forward it would definitely impart a feeling of speed.

Are those puny guns really supposed to be autocannons? if you wanted a couple of the smaller autocannons from the sentinel kit i have a couple lying around...probably just as easy to build them from plastic rod though.

I had no idea those things were so huge. Wow.

It looks great!