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Groan! I hate training courses like that, I bet you’re all sat 6ft apart too for even more fun. Still always good to be the one who shows interest in their job.

The nurgle chaps are looking appropriately disgusting. Does that last guy have a bell in his tummy cavity?

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback .

Training class is done. Thank the good Lord. Been doing one on one training, which while not fabulous has been much better than the Skype-lite class. My trainer took today off, which left me in a terrible spot, so my boss let me do a half day. Still aren’t seeing patients, except special issue cases, so the parts of my job (pre-registering and scheduling) have been caught up through MAY, and I’m not checking people in . Still having a job in this time is lucky.

Not getting much paint time in, but still got a few things done.

Wurmspat is done. Bases aren’t perfect, but they will blend in with the rest of the army well enough.

Finished these two off, really liking how they are coming along. The one with the flat back of the arm gets a shield which is drying separately.

Obligatory back side shot, got to love the love handles .


Thanks for looking.

that bell is hanging from his chain mail skirt, not other things, that would be Slaanesh . Unless you were talking about the one in his belly. Then I would just guess it’s hanging from the inside of his throat.

All good stuff Theo. Got the sickly skin tone looking just right.

Maybe he converted from Slaanesh...wanted to make use of his old toys for his new patron.

Eww. Just, eww. I've never been a Nurgle guy, but I reckon "eww" is high praise.

That green on the armour contrasts really lovely with their sickly flesh. Great job!

Love this army -- especially the way you evoke a pussy, bloated, Nurglish mess but with a vivid clarity and a sharpness of effect, rather than just a messy blob of paint. Well done.

They are all delightfully gross. I was thinking of the guy with the bell in his stomach.

The one guy's got a friend in his stomach! that's better than a bell

The Wurmspat look really good. Viterbi's right about that green. It seems the perfect shade.

These are looking amazing, inspiring stuff.

Thanks guys . The green is indeed just right for the skin tone. Always had trouble picking colors, but this just came together on its own. After watching a video by Miniac about creating your own custom paint scheme (yesterday, not before starting this project), it reinforced what I wanted to try and achieve without smacking me in the face. While I find his videos obnoxious, I always get some sort of take away from them.

Finished this guy off last night, just didn’t get pics up.

Two axes, no waiting .

Also you can see the shield on the leader guy in the picture as well.

In other news I keep getting a voice telling me to start another project . I am very tempted to start on frostgrave, but that is completely different from my collections and I have no opponent that I know of to play against. The second edition is coming out in July (my birthday ), but I’m not sure I want to go that route.

The other whisper is for test of Honour second edition, which is out already and I have tons of plastic to play with, still no opponent, but it wouldn’t be a new project just a revamped one. I’m kind of leaning that direction, but I think I need to continue forward with big Papa Nurgle more before going down that road.

Frostgrave is, in my opinion, the best game released in the past decade. You don't even have to use the official models-- I've been painting up old Citadel, RAFM, and Reaper models for FG, and they fit in just fine. You can even make a samurai-themed warband, allowing you to kill two birds with one stone, as it were.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Frostgrave is, in my opinion, the best game released in the past decade. You don't even have to use the official models-- I've been painting up old Citadel, RAFM, and Reaper models for FG, and they fit in just fine. You can even make a samurai-themed warband, allowing you to kill two birds with one stone, as it were.

Oh I think you just sold me on it . It’s also looking sooooooo much less expensive out of the gate.

Also, quick paint up of another member of the army. Getting all the initial skin color done really has helped churn these out quick.


Also have another repaint in the works to flesh out the army, not sure how it’ll fit as it’s not GW, but fits the big fleshy theme.

Go big and fleshy or go home sounds good to me.

Ooh, I like that shield, going to have to pillage some (more) AoS stuff it seems....

Yeah, you're definitely powering through these guys now

Sure the new flesh will be fine - Gluttony & friends weren't GW either....

Not sure if this is the biggest Nurgling, or the smallest GUO. CMONs Black Plague big boss monster, he’s on a 40mm base, his long arm might make him a better fit for Gutrot Spume, but for now he’s just here.


And his backside in all it’s pussy glory.

I painted the “bone” spots green and will just think it’s his armor from when he was a warrior which has just been wrapped and bent out as he grew spontaneously with a Nurgle Gift. His claw tips are part of his gauntlet.

On another front I’ve spoken to my wife about getting an Ender 3. Will be looking into it more today. Will be a boon for terrain.

Also printed out Frostgrave PDF and I’m now considering what type of Wizard to go with.

Like it, he fits in just fine with the other rotting flesh-piles

I'll be v jealous if you get a 3d printer

I'm thinking about tiny guo as well, with my oldhammer one. Go for it, they can be twins.

That guy fits right in. And looks cool, too. The fly shield is awesome. Good luck with the 3D printer.

 Malika2 wrote:
Hmm, the model looks so much more interesting with that servo skull and missile pod!

I agree

Nurgle stuff is looking fantastically gross!

Good work on the whole rotten lot, Theo'.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. Really enjoying this project.

So next project ideas are bubbling. FROSTGRAVE is running first place in this arena. I want to do something unique with it, not just humans in parkas running around. The big chill is over, but there’s still ice and snow around. I read that with second edition the first expansion coming out will be The Red King. Basically before the freeze a horde of demons lead by the Red King was breaking into the frostgrave dimension from their reality. Warbands will be facing more demons and be teaming up to stop the incursions. So I was thinking that all sorts of races would be trying to stop the incursion so there’s might be other race warbands (not sure if that’s thing or not in frostgrave).

So I was thinking a gnome warband would be funny to build. Short tricky, techno boys having fun and running amok in the frozen city. Problem is there’s not enough variety of gnome sculpts out there.

Alternatively I could build a dwarf warband, plenty of dwarvy figures out there, just feels weird having dwarf wizards.

Orcs and goblins could also work.....having goblins be the wizards and the stealthy type soldiers while the orcs are the thugs, barbarians and...knights.

Then came some really off the wall ideas......gorillas.....with Zulus or pygmies . This would fit more I think with Ghost Archipelagoes than frostgrave, but as I’m not totally locked in it could still work. Plus jungle themes strike my fancy more than frozen tundras.

Who has played either game? What can you tell me about Ghost Archipelago?

I’m thinking about throwing money at a 3D printer, so if anyone has experience there, let me know. It’s probably going to be a Crealty Ender 3.

Oh and the hospital may be laying me off tomorrow , 2000 job cuts (furlough though, so I’ll keep my job and benefits for when things bounce back, estimated at most to be 13weeks and I’ll make more with unemployment while sitting at home ). So I may have some time to really get painting.

A dwarf-gnome alliance? Gorillas as yetis, pygmies as a gnome like race? Switch it around and have gorillas as the techno boys and gnomes as the hardy warriors...

Can't tell you anything about games or printers unfortunately.

Sorry to hear you're likely to be furloughed - are the US implementing a scheme whereby you'll get a percentage of your wage, or will it be unemployment?

Ghost Archipelago uses the same basic ruleset as Frostgrave. The differences include:
・Your warband is lead by a Heritor with an assortment of minor superpowers, assisted by a hedge-wizard.
・Standard crewmen (roughly equivalent to thugs in FG) are free to replace. Specialists require a return trip to the mainland if you want to replace them, which costs gold.
・Treasure placement and experience work differently, and in my opinion, better.

That said, you are in no way required to have everyone dressed in parkas or mounted on snow bases. Paint the models you like, choose the profiles you think are appropriate, and have fun. If you want to run a dwarf warband but don't like the idea of dwarf wizards, call him an engineer, and all his spells are alchemical gadgets with spell-like effects, and Bob's your uncle.

monkeytroll wrote:A dwarf-gnome alliance? Gorillas as yetis, pygmies as a gnome like race? Switch it around and have gorillas as the techno boys and gnomes as the hardy warriors...

Can't tell you anything about games or printers unfortunately.

Sorry to hear you're likely to be furloughed - are the US implementing a scheme whereby you'll get a percentage of your wage, or will it be unemployment?

I thought gnomes because one type of wizard can create constructs. Just seemed fun.

The US is using unemployment (plus $600 a week extra. Basically more than what I would make ). Plus unlike most other hospitals in my area we are guaranteed to keep our jobs afterwards and return with current pay levels, vacation, longevity and retirement. So it’s not as bad as it sounds. I don’t think I’ll be cut, but it might happen.

JoshInJapan wrote:Ghost Archipelago uses the same basic ruleset as Frostgrave. The differences include:
・Your warband is lead by a Heritor with an assortment of minor superpowers, assisted by a hedge-wizard.
・Standard crewmen (roughly equivalent to thugs in FG) are free to replace. Specialists require a return trip to the mainland if you want to replace them, which costs gold.
・Treasure placement and experience work differently, and in my opinion, better.

That said, you are in no way required to have everyone dressed in parkas or mounted on snow bases. Paint the models you like, choose the profiles you think are appropriate, and have fun. If you want to run a dwarf warband but don't like the idea of dwarf wizards, call him an engineer, and all his spells are alchemical gadgets with spell-like effects, and Bob's your uncle.

Thanks . I was just reading some of the reviews online. Going to watch some videos here shortly. I want immersion, so I want to paint up the bases. Also looking at 3D print files for jungles and Aztec ruins. There’s a couple of KS right now, but $60 for files sound off to me, even though they are beautiful and massive. I found a few that are online for $6-10 for some scatter and those might do.

I really did get the superpower vibe off of ghost archipelago, which is always a win.

If you're thinking gorillas, what about the ones from Batman/DC? Grodd, Shaman, and a couple of Gorilla warriors. They're about 70mm high, great chunky figs.

I looked at Grodd, but they are far too large for common troops. The Hellboy gorilla also looks like a bigger sized version of the Dust Tactics Blutkreuz gorillas and even has the same type nazi engineering on the arms. If I don’t use them for Frostgrave/ghost archipelago then they will be a nice start to a This is not a test or other post apocalypse warband.

Had a half hour this morning, so got a nurgling done .

Raising the banner high for Papa Nurgle.


Well I officially begin a 13 week furlough after work on Friday. I know it’s nothing new in this time as I’m sure plenty of you all are off work as well. My new position is great, and I a more assured the same spot and pay when this surge ends. Luckily with the US passing the Cares act I’ll actually make more on unemployment than when I was working . My hospital chain has furloughed 2000 employees this week, many of us in the business office, but they are taking care of us by paying for our benefits during this time and we are still accruing personal time/vacation days while on this furlough. Other hospitals in the area are just laying off employees who have to reapply for positions when things return more towards normal.

So what does this mean? Still looking at finances, but probably ordering that ender3. More time for Nurgley things. Major house repairs/ a few remodel jobs planned.

Stay safe, stay strong and stay 6’ away from me .

Seems like you are on the better end of a lot of the furloughing that is going on, just glad that your position is guaranteed and you have a degree of security. There are hard times ahead for a lot of people around the World.

You have really leapt headlong into your Nurgle army, and it is looking great. Hope you get some good family and hobby time in your time off, keep safe Sir.