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@inmygravenimage - They are, aren't they? The wierdest thing is the painting style is relatively 'clean'. Not too many inks or washes involved, no glossing of things....apparantly clean produces grimy.

@Gits - And that will be a standard. I just have to go back and start taking photos of everything again using the same layout.

@wyomingfox - I know that feeling. There's a real temptation with some to go OTT on the details and to deviate from the colour palette but I know that will turn out garish. No outlandish purples and blues for me sir, no thank you.

Started work on the third Terminator so the unit will be technically legal - first legal unit painted in the army, yay! Planning on using the freehand effect they used on that 'nurglish' Defiler in How To Paint Citadel Tanks on the shoulder (as it's a metal combi-flamer arm).

I really am happy I grabbed most of the old painting books. The newer stuff and also that in WD and from the looks of it in the iPhone downloads is just awful. No description of techniques, no commentary, no blend ratios, no different angles...nothing.

I'll say this. I probably couldn't have done these Death Guard justice if I had started after the switchover.

Brief update time before I dash off to buy another pair of trousers.

Not much. Just some finished compilation photos of the 'tester' models for the Death Guard and Apostles of Contagion as well as a WIP compilation shot of the first actual plague marine for the Death Guard. Yes, I'm still working on the Terminators, this was just an interesting aside and I rather like how he's turning out.

Expect a longer post later on detailing my plans for the future as well as other projects I've wandered back to - including some Flesh Tearers and the Extinction Angels after a long, long hiatus.





And just for all you that loved the blending on the metals on the Terminators and Typhus...I think you'll like this WIP so far!

Really like the models. So for the greenish metal jumpacks: Are you base painting them a metalic, then applying washes to green them up, followed by a metalic highlight?

Nice look on the Apostle of Contagion, though I think I prefer the green color scheme. What is the reason for the whitish power armour?

The Apostle of Contagion scheme is a different colour. As I have both the models for Typhus and Necrosius I'll do the models half and half so that I have a small force of AoC and DG that I can use as I want. Fluffwise there's a rivalry, so I'd never field the two together.

Edit: By the two I mean Typhus and Necrosius. The plan is still to have parts of each warband mixed in.

The backpacks are boltgun metal, several black washes to darken it down, then glazes of turquoise, vermin brown and greens with a chainmail edge highlight at the end.

I promised a more lengthy update and here we go.

Now that the new Codex is out I'm looking at the Nurgle army and realising that I need to add a few things and change a few things and unfortunately due to the way things are panning out in terms of funding and also in terms of what Forge World actually produces my original idea of the 'all' FW army may have to be put on pause. I love the aesthetics but have to appreciate that the sheer monetary cost is quickly escalating beyond my reach. As such I am having to look at other options including plastics, existing metals etc. that I may have and even Finecast.

So to start, let's look at what I have currently.

Death Guard

Typhus (Metal)
Chaos Sorcerer (Forge World)

4 Chaos Terminators - 2 Combi-Flamers, 1 Heavy Flamer (counts-as Combi-Flamer), 2 Power Axes, Power Fist, Chainfist (Forge World, Plastic)
Chaos Dreadnought - Twin Lascannons (Forge World)

10 Plague Marines - Champion with Power Fist, 2 Meltaguns (Forge World, Plastic)
Rhino - Extra Armour (Forge World, Plastic)
10 Plague Marines - Champion with Power Fist, 2 Plasma Guns (Forge World, Plastic)

Land Raider

The Apostles of Contagion

Necrosius (Forge World)
Chaos Lord - Terminator Armour, Combi-Melta, Lightning Claw (Forge World, Plastic)

5 Chaos Terminators - Reaper Autocannon, Power Axe, 4 Power Fists (Forge World, Plastic)

10 Plague Marines - Champion with Power Fist, 2 Meltaguns (Forge World, Plastic)
Rhino - Extra Armour (Forge World, Plastic)
10 Plague Marines - Champion with Power Fist, 2 Plasma Guns (Forge World, Plastic)

Vindicator (Forge World, Plastic)

Not a bad spread. Plenty of room for expansion for both factions and I plan on mixing and matching the units as not only a way to tell them apart but also to influence a particular theme for the force depending on who the leader is.

Now let's look at what new units I'm looking at adding into the army.

Daemon Prince (Death Guard, Finecast) - I don't like the Forge World one. At all. The distinct lack of power armour is somewhat offputting and to be honest it doesn't match the aesthetic of the rest of the army so I will have to pass. I'm also not a fan of the 'plastic' Daemon Prince either. Again, it wouldn't match the aesthetic. Instead I'm most likely to look at getting GW's own Finecast Nurgle Daemon Prince. I feel this would match the aesthetic of the army better and from what I've seen the more recent Finecast miniatures seem to be a lot cleaner and a lot more defect-free than the first few batches.

Cost - £22.50

Chaos Terminators (Death Guard & Apostles of Contagion, Forge World & Plastic) - I need to get one more box of Terminators and one more upgrade kit to finish both existing Terminator squads off and bring them up to 7 each. I like the sacred number and it allows me to add some options as well as make one currently modelled weapon 'legal' WYSIWYG instead of a counts as.

For the Death Guard the plan is to add 3 more Terminators - with combi-flamers and power mauls to help get some hits as currently the entire unit, including Typhus is I1 and as such vulnerable to monstrous creatures and dreadnoughts. It also opens up options for me to field this unit on its own as something other than a bodyguard unit.

For the Apostles of Contagion the plan is to add 2 more Terminators - with combi-bolters and chainfists but also to make one a sort of Icon Bearer. This keeps the whole semi-Imperial theme with the unit, adds more options and also keeps the whole sacred number thing.

Cost - £28 for the plastic Terminators, £18 for the Forge World upgrade kit.


Chaos Dreadnought (Apostles of Contagion, Forge World) - I want to get the 'second' Nurgle dreadnought from Forge World with the twin Heavy Bolters. Just because.

Cost - £43

Cultists (Generic, Plastic) - I don't like the Dark Vengeance cultists too much. I also find that the cost of getting them is still somewhat steep, ranging from £10-£15 per squad of 10. Considering I want 2 units of 20 that is somewhat...eh. I also plan on making the cultists fit thematically and to be frank the detail on the plastics is a bit disappointing.

Forge World's plastic/resin hybrids are nice but again, don't quite match my aesthetic and the cost is prohibitively steep (looking at close to £40 per unit of 10!). So instead I have decided to go for something much more subtle, aesthetically pleasing, relatively detailed and also oddly enough Nurgle appropriate - Skaven Stormvermin! By using Storm Vermin and adding in the odd 'masked' head from the Doomwheel kit and the Plague Catapult kit it adds variety and they can easily be counts-as Plague Zombies with their halberds as well. Plus, rats and plague go together rather well.

Cost - £61.50 for both units!

Heldrake (Apostles of Contagion, Plastic) - I hate the new Heldrake. It's price is prohibitively steep, it doesn't match the aesthetics at all and I personally feel it would look silly and out of place. Thankfully GuitaRasmus has a solution that looks amazing and turns out cheaper. A converted Daemon-Fly based off the Arachnarok spider. Much more Nurgle appropriate and much cheaper too!

Cost - £36 for the Arachnarok Spider, £6 for the Drain/Pipe bits.

Raptors and Warp Talons (Death Guard, Forge World & Plastic) - To be fair I like some aspects of the new Raptors. in particular the weapons. I could also easily do something with the horns and spikes growing out. I also like the corrupted jump packs. The main issue for me is the head, torso and shoulder pads which have far, far too much ornamentation on them. Thankfully the Torsos are seperate from the legs and jump packs which opens up the options of the Forge World converstion kits.

The idea is again, sacred numbers. 7 Raptors, 7 Warp Talons. The Raptors will be standard fare using the Forge World conversion kit.

The Warp Talons will be a bit more special and will involve a bits order for some Chaos Spawn 'insect leg' bits. I want to do them having mutated to be somewhat like flies, with compound eyes, smooth helmets (so cutting away the helmet spike) and insect limbs for the lightning claws. The jump packs will remain however.

Cost - £61.50 for 3 Raptor boxes, £44 for 2 Forge World conversion kits. (To be fair though I will have spares leftover!)

Chaos Spawn (Generic, Plastic & Metal) - There is currently no plan to buy any more Chaos Spawn. I have 3 already and will paint them in such a way they can be used by all my Chaos armies. Thankfully 1 of them looks distinctly Nurgle with insect bits and the others look suitably organic and twisted on their own.

Cost - £0!

Defiler (Apostles of Contagion, Plastic) - The Defiler I have is going to be done up and put in. The Plague Hulk FW kit costs nearly as much as 2 Defilers on their own so to be frank, I don't feel I need to save up for it. Liquid Greenstuff armour plate stippling and a suitable paint scheme will have to suffice.

Cost - £0!

Obliterators (Death Guard, Metal) - This is the part where I need opinions. I can do one of two things for my Obliterators.

I can either convert up some old metal Terminators to be Obliterators...

Or I can use the 3 'current' Obliterators I have. To be honest I always liked the models, just felt the colour schemes they've been shown in don't do them justice. I feel that doing them in my Extinction Angel scheme won't help either as their fairly broad shoulders and trims would make purple and white look garish. However, in the same muted green tones as the Terminators, with the flesh painted up in a similar manner as that on the Champion's shield or the Tech-Terminators 'tabard' - bruised, sallow and raw I think the current models might work a bit better for this.

My gut instinct leans toward the second option but I'd not mind opinions.

Cost - £0

So there we go. Some long term plans for the Nurgle army.

I'll just leave this here....

Neat!

Great job!

Mmm... Crusty! Like plague pie - tasty death!

I like your attention to detail. For example, the woodgrain on the banner

DSS that is looking cool as! I quite like the gore breaking through the armour and as stated the attention to detail i.e the woodgrain is superb!

That banner is awesome! Your Death Guard are looking better and better. Glad to see you show reddit some love the other day too!

A minor update. Expect more pictures over the week as I photoshop balance them in my own time. Been busy at work with these guys and now have a nearly legal army though it is tiny. 5 DG Plague marines, 4 AoC Plague marines, Typhus' Terminators complete as well.

Photos hopefully will follow this weekend.

I'm alive. Since my last post I have been to two local club based tournaments/campaigns.

Won best painted in both with my Nurgle.

Photos soon.

Then punishment in the form of mass Lizardmen painting.

Derp. Well, I fell off, became inactive, became lazy and failed to keep you guys up to date.

Let's fix this shall we?

Firstly, a more current project that I'm trying to get done by the 4th of May...for the second leg of the York-Hull annual tournament...thing.

The rules for the tournament are simple - 1800 points, Allies permitted, No Fortifications, No Forge World, No Dataslates/Formations - however Tyranids CAN ally with themselves (the organisers added this as an amendment so that Tyranids didn't get hosed by being the only faction that could not ally and was almost entirely reliant on terrain or formations to strengthen themselves in that way).



The list is as follows...

Primary Detachment

Hive Tyrant - Wings, 2 x Twin Devourers, Electroshock Grubs
Hive Tyrant - Wings, 2 x Twin Devourers, Electroshock Grubs

Venomthrope
Venomthrope
Zoanthrope

3 Tyranid Warriors - 2 Deathspitters, Barbed Strangler
15 Termagants - Fleshborers
10 Termagants - Spinefists
10 Termagants - Spinefists

Crone
Crone

Carnifex - 2 x Twin Devourers
Carnifex - 2 x Twin Devourers

Allied Detachment

Hive Tyrant - Wings, Lashwhip and Bonesword, Scything Talons, Shreddershard Grubs

10 Termagants - Fleshborers

Zoanthrope

As you can see I have a bit to go to get them done - thankfully the most droll and painful process is out of the way - that would be the first wash, first bone layer and second wash. Now I just get to mass paint bone before mass painting carapaces and putting in finishing touches. The list so far is amusing and involves using things at exactly the right time to work. Of course, I have no clue what I will be up against since the last one was oddly a mixed bag. I do hope for the Ork player again - simply because the Crones will do so many bad things to Orks.

But I have not forgotten other things either!

Just a photo to let you know the current State of the Flesh Tearers I started as a DCM (and will get back to, honest!) - the force as it stands is loaded with jump infantry and needs a few vehicles - torn between getting a Razorback or a Drop Pod at the end of the month with a Mawloc (largely because I want the exclusive SM captains. I am a feelthy feelthy man.) Pictured is everything bar a single Rhino/Razorback which needs to be assembled...



The good news for the Flesh Tears is Blood For The Blood God. I love it. It's perfect for the sort of effect I wanted and when dabbed or stippled on even comes out looking sticky. So enjoy a few pictures of how a Sternguard and Vanguard Veteran make use of it - others will get it done once I sort transfers...

Man, that musta been one hell of a weekend
Glad to see you're back. Even if it is with a bunch of FMC abominations.

So, lazy and slow update.

First - charity tournament a few months back. Fared rather well with my 'nids, placing third. First tournament of the new edition and the guy organising it...made a bit of a mess of it.

So in the end we had things like the Necron Pylon/Tesseract Vault list wandering around as well as a Reaver Titan. As I was lazy and didn't get sufficient things painted up in time my own list was slightly sub par...but still did things.




There's another Charity Tournament of sorts coming up end of September...I have time booked off to paint for it so need to plow through it.

Flyrant - 2 x Twin Devourers
Flyrant - 2 x Twin Devourers

Zoanthrope
Zoanthrope
Malanthrope

11 Termagants
10 Termagants
10 Termagants
3 Warriors - 2 Devourers, 1 Barbed Strangler
4 Ripper Swarms - Deep Strike

Crone
4 Shrikes - 3 Lash Whip & Bonseword, 1 Twin Bonesword, toxin sacs, flesh hooks

Carnifex - 2 x Twin Devourers
Carnifex - 2 x Twin Devourers
Tyrannofex - Acid Spray, Electroshock Grubs

Planned list above.

Blurry photo of the list sans Malanthrope...



Malanthrope is on order - but if I don't get it in time there is a scratchbuild under way, inspired by an old Doom of Malantai conversion...