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Next up some demonic resurrection, I've got hold of a unit of old school metal plaguebearers which are pretty fun, painted to tabletop standard with old school square bases, painted green with teal eaves as grass,



so i'm re-basing them for my Death Guard force, and while i'm keeping a lot of the paint there are a bunch of chips that need repair, and i'm re-doing the claws and horns which were just done in the body colour, and touching up the eyese/teeth and other detailed sections, plus the weapons that just looked poor

I re-primed the chipped section and it actually gave a really neat vitiligo effect so rather than trying to colour match what had been done before i'm just highlighting the sections up in grey/white and leaving it at that.

I think the first one has come up quite well

Very cool base!

thanks, it's amazing what a bunch of greenstuff maggots can achieve

Ooh! I love seeing retro models incorproated into modern armies. And agree on the basing. It's a nice (if disgusting) touch.

Another smiling plaguebearer joins the ranks, these are the 2nd set of metals from 1994

Great stuff, love the Typhus paint job

Thanks mate, I thought long and hard about the blue wings on the flies, and eventually decided i'd go with them to fit in with what I'd done before, for my own Vectorum

he's certainly a mini you need to paint in sections as if you add the flys you loose access to too much of the mini



another smiling rotter finished, and I've got some more bases on order so I can get on with the rest

Nice touch-ups on the old plaguebearers, and liking the purple flesh on that drone.

standard bearer, it's meant to have a crosspiece attached at the level of the metal ring below the skulls but that's daft as it blocks the sword, so I filled the hole and left if off (I've seen people attach it right at the top as an alternative)


antlers on this plaguebearer guarding a crop of fly agaric toadstools

(as an aside this is a different camera and it seems to have a much more 'yellow' colour balance than the one I've been using previously

Looks good dude, the yellow makes them more nurgly

I've put in some more work and finished off the remainder of the unit


and the group shot

They're all so happy! What a delight. And well done

Thanks, Grandfather Nurgle is a jolly old chap and likes his servants to enjoy their work

Finally managed to get some more painting time in



A lovely Deathshroud Terminator I've had since they were released.

Getting behind the cloak is near impossible so this was painted in 2 parts the finally assembled and touched up (not something I normally do, but it made sense here). I chose to omit the smoke/flys from the vents on top as I think they look better without them.

His other two companions are on the painting bench now, wonder how long it will take me to get them done

Lovely work in here mate. Love the pink cloth on the termie, such a nice contrast!

Agree that the vitiligo effect is just aces on those plaguebearers. You've done an awesome job of returning them to life!

Thanks for the kind words

Second Deathshroud Terminator finished

the final Deathshroud Terminator is done (the scythe on this one broke several times just above the hand, I don'r remember any issues when I built it a couple of years ago now, so that might be a weak point so take care if you're doing one



and here's the unit



and so is my remainining chaos cultist from the blackstone fortress box

Continuing to love the pink on the termis. The boils on the top guy look suitably disgusting too!

Nice job on the cultist. Good to see the palette working on different models!

You have some great conversions! Love the blight drones from the first couple pages and the little touches you did to individualize/personalize the rest of the dark imperium figs. Great work!

thanks folks

After a bit of a lay off i'm back in the swing of things working on the Space Marine Heroes series 3 deathguard which I was fortunate enough to get hold of one set, but with prices as they are I won't be getting any more to convert as I originally planned

(although i'm missing the plague caster that came with the paint set in Japan)





I've used the bases they came with and tried to blend them into my army basing by using the same colours, they're pretty busy so I wasn't able to include any giant maggots, but I think they work well enough, especially with the Nurglings all of them have got

Nice work Orlando, those heroes are some of my favourites from the DG line.

The basing blends well into your current scheme, and the nurglings are a great colour instead of the usual garish pink.

I got distracted and finished the new Lord of Virulence instead of working on he remaining 4 plague marines

pleased with the fleshy drapes around his waist

Not a lot of trim on this one compared to all the other deathguard (hence the minimal green), wonder if the sculptor changed?

Nice work throughout the thread, Orlando.

Just so you're aware, the images in the post before Typhus on the previous page aren't working - looks like Facebook playing silly beggars again.

Cheers,

I've replaced the images so hopefully that's fixed, appreciate the heads up

3rd of the Space Marine Heroes Deathguard,

I fear mr nurgling might blow him up soon

He looks great and I like the Plague Marine on the base as well!

Super job!

Nice work OrlandotheTechnicoloured

Cheers,

CB

what's a war if you can't help your nurgling chums have fun

thanks folks