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New Intro: After some thought on where this army is going I decided it needed a new name. The Rotten Forge Which is now also the name of this blog. I hope you like what you see here, because it doesn't look like I'm stopping anytime soon. There is however, a lot of early stuff on the first few pages, so if you came here for the name and idea, start at page 16 from where I'll try to follow the concept a bit more.

Here's the early fluff:

There was a Forgeworld (named "something with P in it Prime) that got caught in a Warpstorm which was actually an invasion. The facilities came under siege by Death Guard and demon forces. Nurgle's pleagues usually come from the demons, but he stronghold in Imperial space. Even with the Imperial Guard that were stationed in the sector, the Forgeworld eventually got overrun and the survivers were welcomed into the fray. Now the planet produces Warmachines for Nurgle and is only known as

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So, here's something interesting for you.
As I have stated before, I'm not a big fan of the new Codex (Chaos) Space Marines since they took out most of the fun stuff and made Demons a standalone army. But to me Demons were always a part of a themed Chaos army and those generic losers just don't cut it. I said it before, I would prefer to play Chaos in Apocalypse only, so that Ican use real Demons with my Death Guard.

Which brings me to the other topic. Since I've first read the Lost and the Damned rules in Eye of Terror I wanted a "human" Nurgle army in one way or the other. But the ForgeWorld traitor guard list is rather dull. Besides CC Ogryns, there's not really anything interesting in it.
But hey, there's a Guard Codex on the way and I always liked the concept of Traitor Guard and since I currently can't stand to paint another Ork I decided this might be a nice distraction.

So right now, I have a few goals:
- "fix" my Death Guard Infantry units. Since Sacred Number is no longer important, I though I might just make a few 10 men squads instead of just 7.
- Build a small "Traitor Guard" force. This involves a few modeling projects I have in various stages of process.
- Get me some more demons. I still have a bunch of unpainted Nurglings lying around and I was thinking of getting some plastic Gouls to convert into Plaguebringers.
- Get more Forge World stuff

Here are the first pics:
The Forge World Demon Prince. I just painted the skin and glued him together, it will take some time to make him look more like my greater Demon of Nurgle from Forge World.


These are my work in progress cultists/conscripts for the Guard list. Kitbashing is fun.


And some more stuff for the guard. 2 Psykers, 2 Priests, a FW Traitor and a Berserker Ogryn.


And some more w.i.p. stuff. The guy on the far right is a radical Inquisitor I'm working on as well. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do with the 2 guys in the back yet. Maybe I'll convert the other Forge World mini to be a Heretek or something like that.


I still have tons of other stuff lying around, but I don't want to take pics of my bitz box all night
Let's just say that, when my old store closed I got a very good offer on 3 Obliterators and a handfull of Mordor Trolls.

The Forge World Demon Prince looks great! Cant wait to se him when he is as disgusting as your greater Demon of Nurgle from Forge World.....

Can't have enough Nurgle! Although, I'm stubborn and still keep my squads at 7.

Le Grognard wrote:Can't have enough Nurgle! Although, I'm stubborn and still keep my squads at 7.

Same here, although that is partially because I can make a 1000 point army that still has 3 troops

These models are looking great btw, and I am looking forward to more

I am soo looking forward to seeing the rest of the Nurgle models you paint up!

Handful of Mordor Trolls or Chaos Ogryns/ Huge mutants. A Nurgle worshipping rogue Inquisitor might be a fun apocalypse concept.

Looking forward to following this plog! I loved the GUO, and some of your new projects -- the cultists and other human elements in particular -- look very promising.

@Llamahead: the Rogue Inquisitor was originally supposed to be "just" rogue, hence the Chaos weapons, but you gave me a nice idea.
Maybe he he caught one of Nurgle's plagues, and working for them is the only way he can rid himself of it.

nice looking start.

good luck with it

Here's a small update. I worked a bit on my old Chaos Sorcerer. Until recently, he still had the old Psi-sword but I thought he needed a new one.
My idea was, that he actually took the blade from a Champion of Tzeentch he defeated and now wields it himself. He's sort of a book keeper for Nurgle, and whenever one of the plagues don't turn out the right way, he has the permission to destroy them with the magical flames of Nurgle's most hated enemy.

Oh, I forgot the name. He's called Jakobus van Kreutzfeld.

Looking good. I like the sword!

Anung Un Rama wrote:
Oh, I forgot the name. He's called Jakobus van Kreutzfeld.

I like your use of the Imperial model for your sorcerer. I also like your off-handed use of a disease for his name. (CJ, or Creutzfeld-Jacobs disease; bovine spongioform encephally, Mad Cow disease)

Thanks, though I'm not always that subtle. My Demon Prince is just called Lord Anthrax

Damn man, that's just funny

Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it

hehehehe funny AND a fab modeller and painter

Liking this army man did a plague marine army in last ed when Plaguebearers were Plaguebearers not ommmm daemons conjured up from a Oujia Board.

That is sorely lacking now that the lists have been split like the use of Skaven/Guard parts on your Traitors I used Skaven parts extensively in my Plague Marine army the plague monk heads were amazing for my possessed also the arms tails and hooded heads fitted on CSM's with shoulder pads fitted over them.

I also had a Terminator squad converted from plastics (Plastic Space Marine Terminators had just come out)and Skaven Clanrat heads and my Dread I called Mr Green Stuff (Bad Conversion long story)

To the point however the myriad of choices are really good when it comes to Plague Marines only thing is its a shame with what they've done to the list just plain silly!

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm still painting the Forge World Demon Prince.

Though I have a nice idea how to build an evil Techpriest. I'll post some pics soon.

I really like the sword on your sorceror. Can't wait to see more!

Felt like I should update this is on a more regular basis then I do with my Ork blog.
The on the left is my 2nd priest for the traitor guard army. I figured since Eviscerators are just better power fists anyway, I could give him one right from the start.
On the right you see another model I want to use as (ex-)priest. It's amazing how a story just pops into your head while your modeling. So, she was a Sister Repentia, but when she got infected with Nurgle's plagues her fellow battlesister turned on her and she lost faith in the Emporer. Or something like that....I dunno

The guy in the middle is one of two enginseers I want in this army. The other one will be the Forge World Titan Techpriest with some minor changes. This guy is obviously based on a Ringwraith, but not from GW, but from a smaller company who did a LotR collectible game with a larger scale. Now he's an Adept of the machine god. Or is he......

edit: the FW Demon Prince is coming along nicely.

Nice work. I like the added detail you put into the models.

So, I'm (almost) done with the Demon. Maybe I'll take some more pictures tomorrow in dayligth, these pics don't look quite as good as the model.
Below you can also see the first 3 cultists and a penal legionaire and below that the 2 Engine Seers. The concept with the Necron guy was kinda, that he was supposed to infiltrate the army (like the Necron in Xenology did) but then the whole army turned away from the Imperium and started worshipping Nurgle and he just got pulled along. Since everybondy thinks he's just a cogboy, nobody noticed the lack of plague and sickness on him... yet
The other one is just the Forge World Titan priest with a minor conversion. I'm thinking about not giving him his regular servo arms, because franky, they're a pain in the ass to assemble.

Next up would probably the snail guy who came with the Demon Prince and after that...well, let's just say this army is in desperate need of a Superheavy

looking great nice detail and great paint on the new fw nurgle daemon prince

So, finally an update. I've been quite busy in the last 2 months so I didn't get around to do as much painting as I wanted to, but at least I finally got around to build a Plaguereaper.

wohaa! I love your work!!! keep it up!

I recently had another large game with the Spikey Marines and decided I need another Terminator squad. Those guys will be the attached squad for Typhus.
I also made a testmodel for Plaguebearers based on Ghouls.

Nice stuff man!

Some nice work here man , truly sickening nurgle as it should be. Had a look at your great unclean one as well, Freakin beautiful.
Nurgle would have to be the only chaos force I've ever considered doing mainly due to typhus being a sh*t hot model...and the pus of course. Will be watching for more!

Hmm, not a big Nurgle fan, but these are awesome!

Thank you. I'm currently working on the Terminators and another Priest. The Ts are, as usual from FW, overly detailed and it will take some time to do them justice.