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Subbed.....also Wow.... I am so 'borrowing' your Hell-Drone to use as a Helldrake in my Deathguard army
Im sure you dont mind.

Back to Kill Team! I've been taking a break from 40k, the hobby in general, and refurnishing my apartment, but I'm starting to get the itch again.

I'm starting a Kill Team campaign in my local gaming club, Emperors Pride, and being the mad modeller I am (or just an idiot, your call), I couldn't just finish my Inquisitor Warband. I had to start a new one. I decided on my old love, Nurgle Chaos Marines. I couldn't just use models from my (fully painted) Death Guard army either. No, I had to do another truescale project.

So anyway, I went to work, and have churned these out over the past few days. The Plague Marines are the only ones that are completely ready for paint, the other ones need a lot of greenstuffing and detailing, but I wanted to show them off. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a comparison pic, but the Plague Marines (based on GK terminator legs) really tower over a regular space marine, and completely dwarfs a cultist).

Plague Marines:








Terminator Champion with heavy flamer and lightning claw:




Cultist with heavy stubber (There will be 5 with autoguns and a heavy stubber, and 5 assaulty ones)




Raptor with flamer (actually a refurbished old project, found while roaming my bits box)




Spawn:



As always, please leave a comment - I love getting feedback and critique.



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Btw., a quick and crappy iPhone size comparison pic - the comparison marine is one of the new Sternguards. They are BIG.

Good! Death Guard were some of (if not THE) largest Astartes, so it's only fitting.

wow, is that all you did to make them so much taller? put them on terminator legs?

Daaaamn! Awesome looking kill team. Love the take on the spawns head and the look of the raptor. Great stuff

For that truescaled GK terminator, what thickness plasticard did you use for the halberd's blade?

Thanks a lot guys.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
wow, is that all you did to make them so much taller? put them on terminator legs?

A bit more work, but not too involved;

I use the GK terminator legs, (scraped off details, and filled out the scripture with green stuff), added about 2-3 mm of waist, and used Terminator shoulder pads, as well as arms. Otherwise they look way too small.

PatrickDiomedes wrote:
For that truescaled GK terminator, what thickness plasticard did you use for the halberd's blade?

Not quite sure, I think it was 2 mm, scraped down into the right thickness. I go by eye on these kind of things.

Oh my, those are lovely. Makes me want to give true scale Marines a try myself. The Marines look wonderful, but I'm really blown away seeing them next to a regular Marine. Awesome work!

That plastic Nurgle champion is just perfect for all kinds of conversions, isn't he?

@GuitaRasmus - thank you for the info. one last question if you dont mind. was there a reason that you chose the grey knight legs over other terminators?

What's this? Truescale Marines that actually look good? Incredible!

Hats off to you, Guita- I normally can't stand "truescale" Space Marines (they usually look too big and out of place, and usually just look like Marines mounted on Terminator legs), but you've done a fantastic job on them!

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
@GuitaRasmus - thank you for the info. one last question if you dont mind. was there a reason that you chose the grey knight legs over other terminators?

Sure thing. I think they're more dynamically posed, and I liked that they didn't have any knee caps - some of the terminators do. I actually think they're a little bit bigger too.

 Squigsquasher wrote:
What's this? Truescale Marines that actually look good? Incredible!

Hats off to you, Guita- I normally can't stand "truescale" Space Marines (they usually look too big and out of place, and usually just look like Marines mounted on Terminator legs), but you've done a fantastic job on them!

Thanks! Yep, it's a very fine line between "just right" and "Well, not quiiiite right", when it comes to Space Marine proportions. Having done a few (also the Grey Knights), I'm getting the hang of it, but they can be a challenge.

Amazing stuff on show here. Particularly the raptor and the spawn. I love the vibe.

I was struck by inspiration (or madness) and decided to actually get some paint on the Nurgle Kill Team, and I'm determined to actually finish these - which is usually the bane of my projects, the paint part. I'm terrible undisciplined when it comes to finishing the whole project, paintwise - but not this time!!

After trying out a bunch of greenish/brownish colour schemes, and not being completely happy with the result, I ended up using the colour scheme from my Death Guard army - it looks like they should in the fluff, and I think it's much easier dirtying up white, than trying to make dirty green not look like a blob of filth on the tabletop.

I used a heavily modified version of my army paint scheme, based on a bleached bone basecoat, zenith highlighted white, washed with thinned brown, and going completely apeshit with weathering, rust and grime. I like it so far.















I went for a very Blanchitsuish vibe, very grim dark - what do you think?

Wow, that's sick. Love the ooze,oozing out of the gun barrel.
Looking forward to seeing the heavy stubber painted up.

Wonderful. For someone who doesn't like painting his miniatures, you're sure good at it.

those look remarkable guita. that raptor with the flamer? is top notch. they all look very well painted man.

Those guys look great, I'm trying to figure out how to paint up my own Death Guard, going to have to try out this way.

Thanks a bunch.

Wow. Beautiful conversions, stunning paintjobs. Great stuff.

awesome work!

That Kill Team is just perfect

Great stuff Guit! I particularly like the Raptor, myself. Blanchitsu-worthy, to be sure!

Thanks guys.

I've been a very busy little bee this week, and finished off one of the cultist units - Actually, I had to strip them once, since my first colour scheme didn't fit in with the power armour boys, but I'm pretty satisfied with these. Pretty much all washes on a white primer:



I took an all nighter last night, and the second unit is almost done, only missing the eyes and some small details, so hopefully some pics of those later this weekend.

Amazing looking, really impressive that you just used washes.

Great stuff, I feel like stealing this colour scheme and way of painting - at least partially.

Hmm, got a tutorial?

Thanks! Reg. the tutorial, it's quite an involved process, so I don't feel like doing a tutorial (I think there are about 30 steps), but I can write it out, if someone wants to know?

I've finished the last cultists - Yay! Next stop, the fun stuff; finishing the champ and spawn, and getting paint on them.

Lovely. Just lovely.

Those guys look great I'm going to have to take inspiration (steal) some of your ideas, the bright green especially looks nice, really helps to draw the eye

I can write it out, if someone wants to know

That would be great - at least a general outline, since 30 steps is a lot!

If I were to guess, I would say you use thinned washes with at least three purposes - a black one to create shadows, a brown one for weathering and softer shadows, and then some washes to create colour.