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'd tone down the tentacles somewhat - but the maw is amazing, very very impressed with that indeed mate

Perhaps just the odd smaller tentacle/growth thing growing from it here and there would be better than a big clump of them in one corner.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:It's Saturday, no one is home but me, I have a Bolt Thrower / Obituary / Cannibal Corpse mix blasting on my stereo, and lots of beer in the fridge. I could be be doing a lot worse things right now.

I'd much rather paint at your place, sounds like a fantastic recipe for getting things done indeed.

I love the landraider. Jaws of death are great, I've seen it before, but the size and layout you have used is much better(what are you using as teeth?). The skin over the lascannon is lovely, I'm gona try that on my nurgle dread when I start it. I don't mind the tentacles myself, maybe they should be coming out os a hatch? Keep going

@ grantosjones- You're welcome to hang out anytime, but I imagine the commute might be prohibitive

@ tipios- Thank you. I've seen this done before as well and because of that had to up the ante to not be a sad copy of someone elses work. I'm using bits I got from an auction. They are all from the GW Chaos Spawn kit. The incisor teeth are (left) part of a claw and (right) a huge mutated horn. I want to replace the right at some point but do not have the bit I need so for now consider this as a temporary filling before I replace the entire tooth at some other date, if I ever actually do that.

No more tentacles. Behold the spiky goodness that replaces it:





The large spike is a filed-down paint brush handle. The spikes work out well with tying it in with my Rhino (old pic of before it was painted):



I have a feeling my other Rhino is going to be revisited very soon. Like... today.

Oh yes, spikes of certain impalement. Looks great, I'll have to order up some of those chaos spawn parts.

Ok. Guess I'm making up for lost time today, eh?

Here's what I got done on the Rhino. Here's a "before":



And here's the "after":





I'll be painting it up the same as my other Rhino.

I was gonna suggest the same thing as Tipios, perhaps tentacles coming out of a hatch would be cool, cause I kinda dig the whole tentacle mess you had. But the spikes look a whole lot better. Maw looks great too.

Simply beautiful. Great work with the green stuff, Skalk!

I like the spikes much better than the tentacles. That maw is truly inspiring. If I ever get back into chaos I might have to borrow that idea.

Skaven tails make great tentacle for Nurgle vehicles. They're a little more subtle then the ones from the chaos spawn and they're segmented, which given them a maggoty look.

Oh, and thanks for the plug

Father Nurgle would be so proud of such disgusting work. True Nurgle / Deathguard excellence. Very, very well done.
I can totally understand your frustrations with the gasmasks idea. Have you thought of maybe using "WW2 Gasmasked type heads" and adding some nurglesk type craziness ? Keeping majority of the head in standard condition but adding a little to it.

Creepily gross. Much more nurgley.

Lookin' good bro. Keep it up.

Great work with the GS.

@ Limbo- Thank you. And I have a feeling that Dreadnought might be coming up in the ranks faster than I thought. I've been busy today.

@ Machinator- I stand in the shadow of a Master, so I will humbly say "thank you" and accept the compliment. I'll keep the Skaven tail idea in mind, I can see the application for sure. Less OTT and has an icky segmented look about it. Eww. I think I need to see if I have any in my bits box now.

@ Lord of Death Mountain- Wow, thank you! I really appreciate the praise. And I have been thinking about looking for 1:35th WWI and WWII gas masks, preferable German but if I can find anything that works I'll be extremely happy.

@ wolfshadow- Thank you. If you liked the work before, you're going to love the rest of this update.


Apparently Father Nurgle was waiting for the holidays to be done with and for me to get over my fit about those PIP heads, because my inspiration and motivation is back as hardcore as it ever was. Mind you this isn't all I've done today, but this is what I've got done on top of everything else. The Rhino is done. Like really done this time. It was playable as it was before and it has some neat GS work on the front, but it was pretty vanilla compared to everything else I have in my army. I think I have taken care of that now:






And a closeup of some detail work. The mouth is GW but the blending and texture is all mine:



But wait, there more!

I have finished the conversion process on the Land Raider. All it needs now is an *extensive* paint job and some really awesome tracks. Right now I have it primed, base ink green, and some light brown flesh wash to show where the fleshy parts will be.









I've also made a removable Havoc Launcher and Twin Link Bolter for the hull so I have those options available if I want to upgrade the vehicle.

It's been a day of Metal, beer, and modeling. I can't think of a better way to... hmm... no, that's not completely true, I can think of a "few" things, but notwithstanding this has been a pretty awesome day. More updates coming later. As always, thanks one and all for checking this out and sticking with me.

That looks.... really gross.

In a good-sort-of nausea inducing way. Papa Nurgle will be proud.

Have you looked @ Machinators tracks? There are 2 patterns that he has that would be pretty much perfect for that beast.



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh, and you might want to look @ 1/32nd scale stuff too. It might fit CSM better... not sure though.

Yes. I posted this earlier but so many replies today has already put it back a page. Cut / paste seems to be in order because it is pertinent to the ongoing project:


You'll notice a distinct absence of treads. I decided to take the advice I was given earlier in this thread (thanks to all who pointing me in that direction) and send a little business to Machinator, he is a casting & conversion GOD. Go check out his threads and marvel at the absolute awesomeness he has created. No, really. Go now. I'll wait until you come back.

*time passes*

Welcome back. Wasn't that stuff AMAZING? I bought a set of Oppressor Pattern 0 Tank Treads and as soon as they arrive I'll be fitting them and looking forward to grinding my enemies to paste with them. And it's also another part of making this Land Raider a guaranteed "one of a kind" vehicle. I'm still curious why the GW Chaos Land Raider has the Imperial Aquila on the treads... actually I think I know why, but is it very cynical and I'm not going to hijack my own thread.

*Steals the landraider for inspection.* LOVE IT!! I LOVE THE ASSAULT RAMP!
Looks amazing. Better then I thought it would.
*gives it back*

o_O

You grabbed Oppressors? AWSOME! That will really take your LR to the next level.

As to why the GW Chaos LR has an aquila? Sheer G*dd*mned laziness.

At the momment your stuff has me almost as excited as my own. :-)n Although the Chappy I did last night had me pretty up in arms....

The Machinators tracks you picked look awsome, can't wait to see them on.

I'm looking forward to them arriving. And I have a feeling the experience will be decidedly different than the PIP heads (unless by some bizarre twist I ordered Rhino tracks instead of Land Raider... ha)

Quick update, and is a portent of things to come in my army overall. Remember those PIP heads? I had a lot of Plague Guard models waiting for them to arrive. I've all but abandoned the "gas mask" idea, so I've gotten to work on bringing everything together and getting it on the table. Here's the next generation of my Death Guard:



7 squads of 1 Aspiring Champion and 6 Plague Marines. I spent a considerable amount of time making the new Aspiring Champions.



Yes I know this pic only has 6. I found the 7th after I took the pic and you know how great I am about retakes. You'll see him during the next stage. I also have new Special Weapons built and coming (these are separate from the squads so I can use them to fill in slots as I want)



I have a lot of work to be done. But it's coming along. I've done more in the last 2 days than I have in the last 2 weeks.

Thanks for looking, I'll be back.

o-O

Thats a whack of plague marines.

I tend to work in spurts as well, so I understand where you are coming from.

OMG That landraider is sooooo sick!! Hate to be in front of that beast!!! The GS work is amazing on that LR and can't wait till you paint it!!! Great job again Skalk keep your nugle ooze flowing!!

There is some deep core ideal to this hobby that transcends time and trend - that exemplifies the spirit of Warhammer 40000 - this project has that and I really thank you for sharing the work!

The oldskool Pred and the newskool LR are my favorites. Nurgle must be pleased.

Skalk, that land raider is tits! Praise Nurgle, Rejoice in his Bile! Looking forward to the rest of those plague marines getting some paint on them. Keep up the good work!

I guess I know how I am going to have my deathwatch game end now, the heroes have their last stand agaisnt a Land Raider with an open maw that slowly eats them all.

Awww shucks. Thanks one and all! No pressure to not screw up the paintjob or anything...

You can bet that once I get to painting the Land Raider it's going to be the only thing I'll be doing for a while. I'm going to wait for the treads to arrive before taking the next step, not so much because they need to be on (they will likely go on toward the end of the project, or at least until all the washes are finished because it's easier to hold) but because I want everything to be "complete". You all know how my last "big project" turned out.

Speaking of that, I've thought about it and have officially scrapped the gas mask idea. I have enough else going on and as you'll see in a moment, I don't think I'll have an available slot for a new project for a while. I've been busy.

Before I post the pics I have to say once again that my proudest achievement in this army is the recycling of unwanted and abused miniatures. Almost everything you are about to see is an eBay score. All of these models were once on someones Shelf of Shame, remnants of a great idea gone wrong. And let me tell you a lot of these should have been doused in gas and set aflame... but yet here they are, ranking up to spread the blessing of Father Nurgle across the galaxy.

Here's the Special Weapons. Again, not a squad, just painting them up first because they will have the most immediate impact on my current army list because they can join any unit (and for a complete cheese list I can designate them as Chosen and have 4 Special Weapons in a squad).



Keeping with my rule of "1 squad, 1 Champion", here's 7 new Aspiring Champions. Yes, all 7 are in this picture. I put a lot of work into these and feel that I was pretty creative with a couple of them. Some are pretty stock but they are all very awesome.



Sometimes things grow slowly. Sometimes they explode overnight. This is the next generation of my Death Guard, an army unto itself. These models range from RT to most recent release and everything in between.



And just because I wanted to, here's everyone all at once:



63 models in all in this pic, plus another 7 on the side that are almost finished and another 14 on the side that I didn't paint up myself but are going to be part of this once I finish the "tie in" finishing touches. Plus the Land Raider is on deck and ready to go. And thanks to SOME people I have *another* Dreadnought on the way. Of course I'm going to need at least 1 more Land Raider and 2 more Rhinos. And I still don't have a Lascannon or Missile Launcher Havoc squad. I haven't finished The Lost (my adopted Khornate Death Guard Chosen), I have Project X... this is it. I have got to stop this. Once this is done that's it. I'm done. No more.

Ok, MAYBE I'll do ONE Super Heavy, but that's IT.

Seriously, I have months of work ahead of me. Even if I finish 1 squad a week I'm looking at 2 months of solid work. This next step will make everything I've done up to this point look like practice. But I am undaunted. I'm proud to have come this far and look forward to putting this entire army on the tabletop. Once of these days I'll figure up the points so far.

Thanks for following along, thanks for the compliments, and keep checking back, a lot of things are going to be happening all at once.

Man, they're about to fall off that shelf!
I am completely blown away by how big of a task your death guard project is, not to mention your other projects on the side, considering you're still "getting back into the hobby" in a sense. Skalk, my man, you're an inspiration. Good luck on all your works. I'm going to try and convince my wife to let me get some painting in, so that I can finish my ONE plague marine.

400th post!!!


I'm a bit blown away by all myself. Way back a long time ago... over 2 whole months in fact... this is what my *entire* army looked like:



... and of that, I had recently painted 12 models before posting the pic.

I'm starting to wonder if this isn't just slightly obsessive. Slightly.

You say that like its a bad thing?

Thats a lot of green mouldy marines!! I also spot one of the old one-pose bolt pistol 'n' combat knife guys in there, excuse me while I regress to my childhood....ahhhh....
Ok, back now.

So have you completely abandoned the gas-mask heads idea? If so I may be interested in 'em...

wolfshadow- So long as my wife doesn't file papers on me it's ok. Ha.

grantosjones- For the Plague Marines, yes. I'll still hammer out some Traitor Guard. A friend of mine used to play Necromunda and I have been nudging him in that direction. That will kickstart my motivation for sure. I have an idea for those heads that involves WFB plastic Zombies and W40k Cadians... but it'll be a while. My plate is a bit full at the moment but I'm never w/o ideas for future projects.

Love the paint job on the demon prince the entire project is just so cool !!

It looks like "the green tide" does not actually refer to orks at all.

@ Davvvid16- Thank you! By far that Daemon Prince is the most favored model I've done so far. I have a feeling it's going to meet its match when the Land Raider is done though.

@ btemple0- all that and ST 5, what could be better?

Tonight's update is short but it is awesome because in just a few days I was able to go from this:



to this:







I'm back on track!

Remember, this is not a squad, it's just all the special weapons I had in the batch of Plague Marines I'm painting and since they had the most immediate application I painted them first. Granted, these models are not going to win any contests but they fit my army perfectly. I'm quite happy with them, and I am looking forward to employing the diverse firepower they offer my force.

I'll be back. Soon. Thanks for looking!