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Hello,

Going through at present and making my own Beast of Nurgle.

The theme for my Nurgle army is that it is in a swamp and has subsumed some blood angles in part.

This is a creature from the swamp, will be made and sculpted and then hot glue will be put over it for the body and probably coloured in inks to make an amorphous gloppy body.

Finished one tentacle...

Wrexasaur wrote:I think he sees you dude...

I would check out some of the colored glue sticks out there. Your inks will end up flaking off the model at some point I would think. Dipping the model through several wash layers while you add the glue will help keep any colors you had in mind prominent on the model, as well as obscuring the green-stuff beneath.

Painting your base with a watered down metallic-blue (mythril silver, your choice of blue) then following with several thin coats of varnish and a few coats of asurmen blue wash. Devlan mud could make the water a bit murkier but this is entirely up to you.

I believe a thin coat of hot glue could protect the eye from any painting until you are ready to remove the safety lid so to speak.

Hi,

I will be painting the figure in full, putting hot glue over the top and then matt spraying it to provide a base for inks to stick to on the hot glue.

The water and goo will be gloss painted when complete.

Water will be made to look the same as my other Nurgle guys:

Faux Pas wrote:Reminds me of the thing in the Garbage Compactor.

LOL - that was one of my inspirations that I was thinking about - good pick up!

freaky angel wrote:

Wrexasaur wrote:...

What are you talking about? Can't you just live with the fact that you CAN just primer and paint over greenstuff?

To the OP: looks gggrrriiiiiiibbbbblyyyyy

LOL - is gribly good?




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Continued sculpting my beast/swampthing of Nurgle today and used some leftover for another scratch built nurgling - this one is scratching his head and bum...



My 12 YO son also decided to try sculpting a nurgling (I call this one a boogerling!):



They're both quite small (less than a centimetre across...)

Here is my partially painted Beast of Nurgle...


Here you can see that he didn't manage to digest at least one part of this last meal!



I think he looks a little like Kang...



And here you can see the nurgling base my 12 YO son created...

Fluff for my army.

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"Perimeter clear".

Brother Captain Sergius stamped muck from the boot of his blue power armour and cursed. His body could easily filter out the toxins and fungal spores in the air of the swamp, but they could do little for the smell.

"Do we have any sign of where the Blood Angel spearhead landed?” he inquired of the comms tech next to him.

“No Captain” he replied, “it is as expected from the briefing – we lost track of their drop pods and transponders at approximately 20000 metres. We can only stay in communication with our own ship by relaying through our Thuderhawk above.”

“Hmm…”

He was, if being truthful to himself, concerned. He had known Chaplain Erigious of the Blood Angels for more than the lifespan of a mortal man, and was confident that he could carry out a regular scouting mission. They had been outfitted with equipment in the drop pods to create a secure landing ground and to set up a powerful communications system.

That had been twenty-six hours ago.

“Damn this place!” he remarked under his breath. It was now his duty to find the lost Blood Angels and to recover the artifact from the temple.

“Captain?”

“Nothing” he said, subvocalising a prayer to the Emperor to calm himself. “Orders. Squads Belhevian and Marius – perimeter security alpha-gamma-twelve. Heavy weapons - support beta-gamma-twelve. Get the Land Speeder up in the air where they can still see our positions through this damnable mist. Arky’s terminators will ride with me in the Land Raider. Let us pray to the machine spirit that we can ride through this swamp!”.

Sergius listened into his Ultramarine lieutenants and sergeants sound off their readiness to carry out their orders. “Be ready to move on heading one-one-two on my mark.”

Sergius’ headset beeped. “Go ahead Brother Marius” he intoned.

“Captain, we have contact sighted in the mist, moving openly but slowly – heading two-five-four. It looks like it may be the ‘Angels sir!”

“Move forward cautiously – Squad Belhevian, cover squad Marius – gamma-gamma-two. Speeder, flanking support, but make sure you stay within visual range of us.”

“Aye captain” was the response. He stood looking at the auger-screen linked to the images that were being sent down from the Land Speeder.

“Captain, it is the target however there appears to ….. ARRGGG!” There was a flash of heat and light that rendered the auger-screen useless for a moment.

“Come in Marius! Belhevian, what has happened!” he shouted into his comm unit.

He heard panting as the comm circuit was enabled on the other end then. With a noted grimace in the voice, he heard Belhevian respond “hostile contact! It is the ‘Angels, however they carry the taint of mutation! Ah-ugghh! Looks like only two survivors from Squad Marius – they were hit by some sort of fireball. Arghh!”

“Belhevian! Belhevian! Land Speeder – status!”

“Hostile fire from… from…”

“Hostile fire from what damn it!”

“I don’t know sir, you should have visual now.” Sergius looked down at the auger-screen and could not believe what he was seeing. A massive multilegged monstrosity was ambling forwards. Three rheumy jaundiced eyes suddenly looked up into the auger-pickup and trained what looked like could be a weapon on the Land Speeder. There was a flash and then the screen was filled with static.

“Thunderhawk zero two one! Thunderhawk zero two one!” he called after setting the comm unit to long range scan. “Zulu, zulu, zulu. I repeat, zulu, zulu, zulu!”

“sh… s . ..at was tha…”.

He threw the unit down in disgust. “Tactical withdrawal, all units!”

Suddenly, he could hear pounding on the side of the Land Raider. Grey talons could be seen ripping into the door and massive ichorous fists pulled the adamantium door directly from the frame.

Sergius slammed the emergency disembark button and bellowed “Arky, terminators, to me!”

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“Sih, sih, sih”. The sound that escaped from Iya’Kual’s mouth could – almost – be counted as laughter.

“Frrrresh meeeat masssstewr!” said a creature mounted upon a palanquin carried by a swarming mass of maggoty daemons.

“Excellent” said Iya’Kual. “The blue goes with the red beautifully – Sih, sih, sih.” He plucked into his huge frame, found a small struggling creature and popped him into his cavernous maw with a sigh of pleasure.

“Our father will be most pleased with our progress here.”

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As you can see the idea is that it is a Nurgle daemon force, and many of the plague bearers will be modelled from marines.

You can see the nurgling base above with marine armour for the sort of idea.

Hi Suga

The slime on top is simply hot glue over a painted fig (doesn't have any effect on the mini - be careful with the nozzle on plastic however).

The base colour (deep green) is through graduated painting (brown to bleached bone) thick green ink (Windsor and Newton Vermillion).

He'll be please people like his nurglings!

OK - bit of an update...

Swamp Beast of Nurgle is now complete - I am happy with how it turned out and may end up making some more:





Started work again on a figure I am using as a Herald of Nurgle that I must have started work on in about 1994!



Ready to move onto the next stage with my Plague Bearer command unit:



And last but not least, these are the nurglings my 9 YO daughter made on a rainy day in Melbourne this week (as well as basing them!):

KingCracker wrote:That thing is AWESOME. Seriously nice job on it.

Thanks KK!

I'm thinking of doing something along the same lines, but would like to make each one individual. Next one might have a Blood Angel trying to crawl out of it...

gretar wrote:Very nice job , quick question :

What did you use for that wire things on the nurglings bases ??

Gretar

Hi Gretar

It is just nylon fly screen. Aluminium fly wire is also good, as it will hold its shape if bent.

Cheers

LOL - do you even have flies in Iceland?

Should be in a hardware store - you can buy it off a roll in every one here so you could buy just a little.

Cheers

LOL - Kroot!



Here is my son's Nurgling base painted up by him...



Cheers

Thanks LB

Hot glue gun is very useful - especially in building scenery - but has many other uses...

OK - did some more on my PB command unit:



Coming along...

Hi - completed my Nurgle Command group...



14 plague bearers now for the unit overall. This is for Epidemius to join to keep him safe!

Other units will be sculpted with space marines (two units of 7 - one Blood Angels, one Ultramarines).

Cheers


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And the finished parts of the army so far...

LOL

Thanks Wrexasaur!