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I'm adding swarms of maggots as nurglings to my chaos FB army. I'm just wondering; how the heck do i paint maggots? I'd appreciate any help.
I've added a few somewhat blurry pictures of them to give you an idea of what I'm doing.

Start from white and use washes/glazes to build a translucent effect.
A bit of gloss varnish/water effects should make them look suitably gross.
They look good so far.

I just did a "Maggot Launcher" for my Nurgle Rhino, and I used Top Ramen noodles with a few washes over them.

those are sculptet great, however, so what about desert yellow as a base, with various washes, or skull white, with various washes?

Uh... i think kommando khaki or bleached bone would work for the base, then a light wash of something brown in the creases would work pretty well.

Depends if you're going for "pussy, rotting" nurgle or "vibrant, diseased" nurgle. For the former I'd say you want to start with a white and slap a thin brown wash on there, but for the latter I'd go with a cream base and a green or blue wash with some bright orange, red or pink accents

The techniques are using GW paints.
Use dheneb stone as the foundation over a black spray then wash with delvan mud to make them look dirty.
To make them look diseased do a foundation dheneb stone like before then go over with rotting felsh and wash with thraka green.
To make them look fleshy start with a foundation of dheneb stone (again) and then wash with ogryn flesh.

The main key here is dheneb stone.

I'd base with khaki or even bleached bone, wash with ogryn flesh or sepia - then highlight with pure white. Easy peasy...

Thanks, guys.
I think I'll try all of the techniques as I like to have different colored "daemons".

I would say it also depends on what other colors you are using - if you are going dark with everything else, go very white. If everything else is whiter, do something darker to contrast.

A lot of good suggestions there, though. I would add that you could do them all as batch painting so you can take time and do multiple thin washes of purple, blue, and green.

- Blackbone

Blackbone wrote:I would say it also depends on what other colors you are using - if you are going dark with everything else, go very white. If everything else is whiter, do something darker to contrast.

A lot of good suggestions there, though. I would add that you could do them all as batch painting so you can take time and do multiple thin washes of purple, blue, and green.

- Blackbone

Good idea. I didn't thought about that.