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I'm home sick today. Between laying on the couch feeling sorry for myself and being actively involved in the illness process I got this done:







I'm experimenting with a couple different new techniques and while I'm not completely happy with them yet I'm really liking where this is going and for the most part it is right on track. More coming, and thanks for following along.

Dang! this guy is sick on two levels.
Lol
Looking good man! Keep it up and get well soon!

And another update... *drumroll*...

-used to have an image of my Pig Iron Productions invoice here to show that I had made the purchase of the items necessary to move to the next steps in the project but it removed with "Image does not make sense out of context".-

Yay! I figured today would be as good as any day to do it, so the heads are on the way. I ordered these and these. I'm going to be doing 2 full squads so it'll be easier to mix up the heads and show some variety.

But heads alone do not make a new squad. Here's what those new heads are going to be going on:



Everything is 100% recycled from my bitz bin or straight from the Shelf of Shame. I'm taking things I already have and turning them into my main army. I have some work to do on modeling but the coolest thing (to me) is that I'm using models I already had laying around and I'm putting them to use. And the coolest thing is there were all someone else's failed projects at one point as they are all from eBay auctions I won over the last year. From oblivion to Death Guard Plague Marines. What old discarded CSM model could want more?

And here's another sneak shot at that Champion I started:



Mutated arm counts as Power Claw, and he'll have a Combi-Bolter w/ Melta or Flamer, haven't decided which yet. Probably Melta.

I'm also thinking about buying some shoulder pads from GW but haven't talked myself into that idea yet.

i would say nice stuff but i dont think nice is appropriate for nurgle!

I love you work and all, but I wont say what the tubing directions imply IMO.

The purplish tone of the guts is just plain ill. That demon prince is going to draw a lot of fire!

Perfect for papa nurgle!

More updates!

Remember this guy?



This is what he turned into:







Admittedly not my best paint job ever, but considering where this model started from I'd say he has a much brighter future ahead of him. From junk box to Aspiring Champion. And if you stand back 3 feet it looks absolutely amazing!

I was going to convert a combi-weapon for him but after spending 30 minutes trying to figure out how I wanted to make that happen I got sick of it and gave up. However, I did give him a very cool RT era Bolter, so I'm not too broke up about not adding the Melta combi. He's flocked, dated, and ready for battle. 19 more to go as soon as the heads get here.

The Daemon Prince is done I think. I'm not completely commited to that idea so I haven't based / flocked it yet, but honestly I'm getting sick of looking at this model because I feel like my painting skills are not doing it justice and the more I work on it the less I am liking it so at the very least I'm going to put some distance between myself and it for a while. This is where it is at right now, and may be where it is at for good, haven't decided yet:








Closeup of the blade:





And the only time anyone will ever see the back side of this Daemon Prince (because he sure isn't ever going to run away)



That's it for now. I have a Death Guard Havoc Squad in the making, and I'm thinking about some Raptors based on an idea stolen directly from agroszkiewicz. Asking for permission if I can show his pic that inspired me to completely rip off the idea and use it for my own purposes. Will post it if he says it is ok. Otherwise I'll post a pic of my stuff once it comes in.

Yes, I know... I can't really see Death Guard swooping down from a wartorn sky either... but it'll look so cool to model them.

I'm throwin down the "lets see who can build the most evil looking gak" glove to yah sir!

Love that DP model....didn't see where you got it from in the thread.

Accepting that challenge. Here's the (edited) photo I mentioned earlier (thanks to agroszkiewicz for letting me post it and for being cool about me blatantly stealing his idea):

Edit- to be absolutely clear, agroszkiewicz built these and the original thread they appeared in is here.


Tyranid Gargoyle wings. Simple and brilliant. Easy score on eBay either "buy it now" or a handful of auctions. I have a buddy that plays 'Nids, going to check w/ him first to see if I can barter. But one way or another these will see their way to my table soon.

The Daemon Prince model was originally released by Ultraforge Miniatures but it doesn't look like they are active on their website right now seeing how nothing I can find online about them mentions 2010, just 2009 (including their own website).

There are quite a few places you can find it online and it has appeared in some painting blogs on other sites. I never saw it before seeing a thread here on Dakka but when I looked it up I knew I had to have it and that it was going to be a thematic piece for the next wave of Plague Marines in my army.

Its flattering that my work inspired you.

Some pics of those Raptor packs in a pose are up in my blog now (link in signature). The packs are super easy to make...just clip the little bulgey things off the side of CSM packs, clip down the 'nid wings, then use slow cure cement. GS the joins smooth with spit and fingers if needed.

If you can get your hands on a couple of full Gargoyle sprues you can literally clip one wing for each side to fit, then stack the wings like pringles and cut them 2 at a time with the clips. After your first pack you can literally make then in about 5 minutes. If you wanted to get crazy and take a drill/file set to the wings it wouldn't be hard to tatter them more and make it look a bit more "nurgle". There is one really nice Mortarion conversion that has sweeping feather wings and uses Dark Angel bitz, so I have faith you can make 'nid bitz look awesome.

I really like the cables running from your junkbox hero's mouth! Recycling the bitz box and shelf of shame into a usable army is great fun and beats the HELL out of buying new kits.

Oh, and a choice piece of Nurgle artwork so's I'm not ruthlessly threadjacking you. FML for trying to post it without resizing from the 5.9 mb dl.

Looking absolutely amazing Skalk.
The tubes on that one guy though...Okay im gonna say it. They look like they are going up his ass. >< Lol sorry I had to say it. Looking amazing
I love the ooze on the blade of the big guy there and the paintjob is coming along amazing!

Wow, the daemon prince looks even better now he's painted. Love the rest as well. Good work.

I do hope what I said before didn't turn you off from this project, sorry if it came off quite rude.

Why be sorry? Chaos Marines probably enjoy having tubes of pukey evil disease shoved into their rectums.

agroszkiewicz wrote:Why be sorry? Chaos Marines probably enjoy having tubes of pukey evil disease shoved into their rectums.

Cause the way I said it might have sounded rude. After I read it thought it was.

Edited to add: Then again that might be due to my retail working ass is tired.

Black Friday sucks bro. I usually spend it hiding from soccer mom's frothing at the mouth for this year's "Tickle Me Elmo".

Granfather Nurgle love your warband! LOL. Awesome job, love the old nurgle marines and pred too

Ok, short update because I've been spending way too much time with people and not enough time at my workbench. Ha.

I'm very impatiently awaiting my PIP heads to arrive, so I figured I'd spend the time waiting on something productive. This is the start of my Death Guard Havoc Squad. Since they cannot be Plague Marines I'm not going to give their helms the same spike, but they are still Death Guard so the color scheme will be the same, and the Aspiring Champion will have the Mark of Nurgle and therefore share that mark with the squad, they just won't be Plague Marines.

After thinking about what I wanted to do with this I decided to completely disregard versatility and be very good at one thing, which is killing troops. 4 Heavy Bolters. Heavy 3 ST 5. The motivation for this is admittedly becasue I'm sick of being swarmed by my friend's 'Nid army. I can kill them, I just can't shoot fast enough. I figure a barrage of withering fire might lean down that 'Guant squad a bit before the close on me next time.

While the weapons are the same type, the models representing them are very diverse. One is from the current set with a minor addition (the chain sling around his neck), one is from the 2nd ed. releases, on the rest are RT era with converted 2nd ed Imperial vehicle Heavy Bolters.

The Aspiring Champion is also an old RT model, and was also designed to carry a Heavy Weapon but I decided to add him in as the Aspiring Champion and give him a Bolter.

Here's the squad. Bear in mind, WIP.

Squad overview:


Check the chain on the left model, and the conversion of the right HB


Check the conversion of the left HB


And the Aspiring Champion:


More coming later, thanks for looking.

agroszkiewicz wrote:Black Friday sucks bro. I usually spend it hiding from soccer mom's frothing at the mouth for this year's "Tickle Me Elmo".

No where for me to hide and keep my job at the same time at my store><
Thankfully I had a decent product that people weren't fighting over(also helps its at a smaller town)


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So no more work with the butt breather?

They are looking good.
I tried taking one of the current heavy bolters and converting it for a CSM to hold, but gave up on it since I didn't feel like dealing with trying ot position the hands correctly.

Another quick update. Spent some time working on the Havocs tonight, they are looking a lot more like they belong in my army now:







Wow. That's an awful lot of firepower right there. I'm really looking forward to seeing how all of this turns out. I'll be finishing up this Havoc squad over the next day or so, and by next week some bits I scored from eBay should show up and I'll start working on my 2nd squad... with autocannons.

I've been talking with my friends a lot about the history and background that has been lost in 5th ed. They agree. After some discussion about the merit of background and flavor in the game we agreed that I'm going try building a pure Nurgle Death Guard list with the 4th ed Chaos Space Marine codex. Obviously we'll have to make sure play is still as fair and balanced as possible with the "new" list, but bottom line is that these guys are going to have to opportunity to show up again... as themselves.



The GU1 is from my FLGS back in the day, I didn't like the head on it but still ordered it as soon as I first saw the pre-release teasers from GW in 1997. The Plaguebearers are from the same shop and around the same time but I don't remember which I got first. Anyway, point being is they are old and aren't part of the "new" face lift on my army, they have been around as long as the army itself has been. It's fitting that they should have the opportunity to return.

As always, thanks for reading along. More is coming soon and there's no end in sight. I'm going to stick with this project until something diverts my attention, and at this point it would have to be pretty intense.

I love that older model for the GU1 compared to the one now, but I will agree, the head doesn't exactly fit it.

Skalk man you bring back the old school RT!! I love it!! I wish I had all my models from the 80's. I just have a handfull of them left that was in my box of shame and now soaking in a bath of Simple Green. I can't wait till you finish your guys.

I'm not sure I'll ever "finish", I have a tendency to keep projects going as I decide to add new things to them. With my friends looking more and more at starting a 40K campaign and possibly Apocalypse I want to have a well-painted force to be reckoned with.

Speaking of campaigns, right now I'm supposed to be working on a squad of Word Bearers. Uhm... yeah. Guess how well that is going?

But I got more work done on my Havocs today and I'll post pics once I get home (I can paint during my lunch breaks here at work).




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Here's tonight's update- Death Guard Havoc Squad! I had a *lot* of fun doing this unit. Because there are less models, I spent a bit more time with each one. Admittedly I could have done more, but I'm happy with what I did.



I really like the Mk VI Beakie Armor. As I was picking out detail it occurred to me that what it really needed was a connection to roots long past... a couple stripes down the front of the helmet later and all of a sudden it was 1990 all over again.



I made a couple mistakes on the skull and after a while decided to cut my losses. It looks awesome from a foot away and the conversion really works on this model. So it has that going for it.



2nd ed Heavy Bolter. Nothing special about it, just giving it a moment in the Dakka spotlight.



I really like the Aspiring Champion. Or whatever he is. Basically he's the mandatory 5th member of the squad. I put some extra time in on this one and I'm pretty happy with the result, the photo is lame compared to the actual model.



Individually each model is pretty cool, but here's the real reason I like them:



12d6 WS 4 ST 5. Dakka dakka, indeed.

That's it for now. I don't have anything else on deck except waiting. I have 40 those gas mask heads coming from PIP and 40 new Plague Marines in the making, so I'll be back soon with new updates as soon as those heads arrive. For now I'm going to build the bodies and get ready, but that's pretty standard stuff and since I'm not going to be going for any sick "over the top" GS conversions or anything (at least not that I know of yet) I'll get that work done behind the scenes.

As always, thanks for following along with me. I'll be back with a LOT more stuff soon, and there are more pics in the gallery if you are interested.



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I spent most of the night trying to figure out "what next" and just as I was getting ready to go to bed I glanced at my vehicle display shelf and saw TWO Dark Angel vehicles that I'll never ever use because (1) I hate Dark Angels (2) I hate Dark Angels, and (3) yeah you get the point. I picked up the army from a guy I knew back in the day and over the years have wound up trading bits of it off here and there. I still had the vehicles only because they never got traded, I never had any genuine interest in them. Until now. This is simply perfect. My Plague Marine list is allowed 2 Rhino transports. I have been looking for OOP Rhino's (to stick with the rest of my army theme). I have found what I was looking for and once again it was here the entire time, I just had to "see" it.

Lapdogs of the Imperium! Watch how a resourceful Traitor takes your tools and turns them back against you! Muuawwwhhahhhhahhahaaaaaaa!!!

Here's a "before" pic:



I am going to rage on these things. This is my project until the PIP gas mask heads come.

OOP whirlwind I'm assuming?
I absolutely love the skull head of that one Havoc you have there. Only thing missing is puss or slime spewing from his mouth IMO

zadelistol wrote:OOP whirlwind I'm assuming?
I absolutely love the skull head of that one Havoc you have there. Only thing missing is puss or slime spewing from his mouth IMO

Yes, OOP Whirlwind. I'm thinking of taking the old hardware and (after a good Orky this and' that) putting it on a Looted Wagon as a Rokkit Launcher. And I thought about converting the Skull model but decided to keep it as "stock" as possible for nostalgic reasons. Maybe if I dig out another one I'll make it a bit more diseased.

Quick update tonight. The photo doesn't show all the work I've done but it is a small matter, the point of this update is to show what can happen in a few hours when I'm focused and motivated.



I'm not bothering to take a lot of pics because I'm going to convert a couple things on them (like weapons) and then I'm mixing up some GS. I'm going to unleash the corruption of Nurgle on both Rhinos but only to the extent that they look "touched", not "possessed". They are still just regular Rhinos.

Much more coming. Soon.

No update on my heads from PIP but it's only been a week. But still... no update on the heads.

Ok, off to work on this. I need to crank on this project because I know as soon as those heads get here anything else I'm doing is going to drop like a rock to the bottom of the list. I am *really* looking forward to the next phase of this project.

They look very....normal compared to how they did before, then again, they aren't all Dark Angel'ed up anymore.

I don't think even papa Nurgle has words for how proud he is of that daemon prince..

@ A Black Ram- Thank you, I appreciate the compliment. I saw in another thread that you are working on your own Chaos army. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

@ zadelistol- I think you'll find they are not quite as plain as they were earlier tonight Hopefully this will make up for the lack of pus vomit on the Havoc.


Yes, time for another update. The Dark Angel Chapter is without question officially short 1 Rhino and 1 Whirlwind now. Wail and despair O' ye servants of the Corpse Throne! That which was once yours now carries the Mark of Nurgle!



This was mad fun. Still getting reacquainted w/ GS but I'm pleased with how this turned out. I could go on about how much this sucked or what I did wrong or how many mistakes I made... but I'm not going to do that. Instead I'm going to be psyched that I remembered as much as I did and celebrate the awesome of the results.



This particular Rhino started as the most annoying and turned into the most fun. Again, it had been quite some time since I genuinely used GS as more than a gap filler (the Daemon Prince a week or so ago doesn't really count) so due to inexperience I made more than I had intended and lost my original idea about 1/2 way through working on this... but then by complete accident I stumbled upon a couple techniques (like the divots) and was stuck squarely in the back of the head by the 2x4 of inspiration. Running with the idea I grabbed my Chaos Spawn bitz box for the spiky bits and my Undead bitz box for the smiling face and hanging guts. Thought about doing both sides w/ spikes and all that but remembered that sometimes less is more. Restraint carried the day and I'm pretty happy with how this is turning out so far.



This one I am really proud of because I started out with an idea and from beginning to end I did not lose focus on it. What you see here is exactly what I meant to do. It was more difficult than I remembered and I know that if I practiced more I'd be able to offer this same idea done more professionally, but I'm actually really happy with this as it is and think it is going to look perfect once it is done. Here is the same bit, only now primed (yes I did a lousy priming job, I'm going to go back over it before I paint the rest of it)



All I did for this other than GS was cut up a Zombie Spear shaft and use it as the stakes that are either supporting or stretching the GS out. The stitches were done with my xacto knife. Simple and effective. Once it is painted it will have the emblem of Nurgle on the banner. I am thinking about making a side "banner" as well but haven't decided if I want to or not yet. My main goal (other than to make these look cool) is to get as much done with them as possible so that if need be I can zip to the finish with them because while they are cool and will serve a purpose in my army this started out as a distraction while I was waiting for the parts for my main project to arrive. As soon as those PIP heads show up this (and every other thing I am working on right now) is dropping to the absolute bottom of the projects list.

But maybe, just maybe... this is cool enough to push those gas mask Plague Marines back another few days to really make this a solid part of the army showpeices. I don't know yet. I'll find out over the next couple of days.

That's it for tonight. Thanks for checking this out. More is coming soon.

HOLY CRAP MAN!!
SKALK!
Those Rhino's well make up for the lack of puss in the havoc!
I love the heads and random tentacles sputting out of the one on the right!

If you where to ever mold this and sell resin kids*Drools* I would buy several!

zadelistol wrote:
If you where to ever mold this and sell resin kids*Drools* I would buy several!

Aye, make your own dude with a bit of practise it's not to hard to pull off. You just need a twisted mind to come up with an idea and then do it!
Also great work Skalk, they look very cool indeed.