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It's models like these that make me know that Nurgle is the next army I'm building. Beautiful in a way that only a rotting body in power armor can be

Excellent work without doubt! Always enjoy seeing other interpretations of Nurgle. This is very well done. Subscribed.

Very nice!

Tronzor wrote:I would suggest something like a rotting greenish/yellow colour on the three orbs in his right arm. They look like insense holders so I would add some metallic tones to it as well. For the cloak I would either go with the same red scheme that you did on the first, or I would go with a deep brown to black tone on it. He has the look of death which makes me lean towards the latter suggestion.

I think I will go with a dirty brown with some mustard colour on the highlights, not yellow though. Black would do the grim reaper look, but I'm not keen on it as a colour. I find the FW figures pretty hard going, they seem very detailed with lots of little shapes and tears and blisters making them very complex. I think the grimm reaper will be the easiest of the bunch though.

Thanks for the other posts of encouragement too!


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Well here is the preacher after a bit more work on the hood and skirt.

Here's the man finished!





And photographs from all four sides also here.


Also this week I dug out some necrons I've had for a few years. I find the nurgle figures quite intensive so a bit of broad brush work to get these table worthy is just the job.



and closer up...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/299145-Necrons%2C%20Warhammer%2040%2C000.html


Thanks for following!

That model is so perfect and the paint job completes the model, it would be truly horrible to run into that thing on your local Hive World that is crumbling to the essence of Chaos. Very well done.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
That model is so perfect and the paint job completes the model, it would be truly horrible to run into that thing on your local Hive World that is crumbling to the essence of Chaos. Very well done.

Thanks! It's okay, he can't run fast or his guts will fall out so you'd be able to get away no problem.

Little update, I'm being more productive and the next Nurgle figure is on it's way.

But I've also got a few other things going and one is an original RT landraider. It's it a bad way... lost a lot of parts, several coats of paint. Needs major restoration! It's too big to submerge in any kind of stripper. Any suggestions? Should I just spray on some Mr Muscle and see how it goes?

Also, Tyranids to follow.

Hey Howard! That looks excellent. The highlights are really clean and well placed. The Washes on the hood and skirt are excellent and I'm a big fan of the 'rot' on his stomach. Nice execution.

Regarding the Land Raider, I've had some experience stripping vehicles. I'm not sure what kind of a cleaner you have access to but here in Canada I use SimpleGreen (I don't think you can get this in the UK but there are similar alternatives). A gallon of this is only about 20CAD (about 12GBP) and you can cut the solution with water to stretch it out, you just have to soak it a little longer really. But this way you can fill an ice cream pail with the stuff and just go to town.

What I would suggest is try to delicately take the model apart at the natural seams, if you can get your hands on an assembly guide for that model, that would really help. There's two reasons you'll really want to try and get it apart. First, you can reinforce it with plasticard if it's in bad shape as you said. Also, you can rinse it more thoroughly afterwards. There's nothing worse than spending 2-4 days waiting to clean a model, spend a ton of time cleaning and polishing it, only to find that you didn't get all of the solvent off and your primer coat gets gakked.


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Howard A Treesong wrote:

Tronzor wrote:I would suggest something like a rotting greenish/yellow colour on the three orbs in his right arm. They look like insense holders so I would add some metallic tones to it as well. For the cloak I would either go with the same red scheme that you did on the first, or I would go with a deep brown to black tone on it. He has the look of death which makes me lean towards the latter suggestion.

I think I will go with a dirty brown with some mustard colour on the highlights, not yellow though. Black would do the grim reaper look, but I'm not keen on it as a colour. I find the FW figures pretty hard going, they seem very detailed with lots of little shapes and tears and blisters making them very complex.

And yeah, that's more what I meant in terms of colour, just offering a general range. A nice mix of yellow and brown can give you a nice rotted, disgusting look!

I have a *great* idea for the Land Raider! Sell it to me! I'll take that paint-encrusted wreck and show it the love of Father Nurgle. The tool of the Imperium turned back against them!

But if you're going to keep it, a pic of it would be helpful. And knowing what you are going to do with it makes a difference as well. If it is going to be restored to original Codex standard (as in Ultramarines paint on it) then you're in for a major project even with a slightly damaged vehicle. If it is going to be for Chaos, not so much to worry about, a reasonable cleanup will suffice. And if it is for the most ruinous of the Ruinous Powers... well, consider the gunk on it now as "feature enhancements".

I 2nd the call for Simple Green. It's a good product for not a lot of $$$ and works decently well. Plus you can clean your house with it as well.

You can't get this Simple Green in the UK I hear so much about. Considering the praise it gets I imagine it is the Ambrosia of hobbyists.

The Landraider needs a new hatch on top, some bolters and lascannons for the sides. I can make a hatch, but the lascannons are a bit awkward. They originals were pretty naff anyway. If someone has a couple, say off a IG sentinel, I could swap for many other bits.


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Okay, I've put a little oven cleaner on and striped the black off revealing an undercoat of yellow! I've also broken it up, which took a ridiculous amount of force, the kit wanted to crack before the glue gave way.

Anyway, here's a pic, not for the faint of heart...

Well by the look of the yellow it looks like oil based paint.so stick with oven cleaner.

It's acylic but I applied some Nitromors in a careful manner and a lot of it is shifted. Nitromors used to eat plastic but the formula has changed and now it's not as powerful and did no damage that I could see. Now pieces are soaking in isopropanol.

Well a good product to use is an oven cleaner that contains the active chemical lye, i use an oven cleaner to strip oil based paints from my minis, it eats through acrylic no problem,

i know lye is dangeous to skin, i had a couple of sores it stung like hell though thats easily remedied with some heavy duty kitchen gloves, and a well ventilated area

@ Howard. I will take a look around. I know there is a product in the UK which is very similar to simple green. That's actually not in too bad of shape. It will need some TLC but you'll get it there. I will post up later today if I find it. Oven cleaner is just so bloody toxic, the only thing worse is brake fluid...

Ok so here's some information from another user based in the Scotland on another forum.

Brother Wolf wrote: Here's a start;
http://www.seton.net.au/warehouse-pr...s-a34051w.html

They don't appear to have changed the name, (it is known by other names in some countries). What you're looking for is the Concentrate. It's the strength you need. After that, it's as simple as pour some in a container, drop the minis in, wait a short while, rinse & scrub. Personally, I leave them in for 24hrs and I use a toothbrush or sonic scrubber to get into all the nooks the crannies.

And some more details:

Wedlock49 wrote: Simple Green and Dettol are both household cleaners, simple green is just a different brand, I've used it on plastics and metals, the metals came out great don't know about the plastics yet... I sorta left them in the tub for a month and forgot about them... this thread reminded me... I'l sort them out today and attest the damage.

One word of warning, when scrubbing the paint off, use a stiff bristled tooth brush and use warm soapy water, if you don't the paint and dettol mixture turn into a glue and becomes next to impossible to take off, I learnt that the hard way took me a few hours to clean the model after that.

And one last piece of advice for UK users: In the UK, you can use normal Flash cleaning liquid (Simple Green is the equivalent in the US I think). Soak your figures in neat Flash for a day or so, take them out and scrub them with a stiff brush under running water. You might need to use a brass brush (can get from a cobblers, used for brushing suede) and/or a knife/pin to scrape out the recesses. This works for metal and plastic, and varnished figures - and your figures end up smelling Pine Fresh =).

Tronzor wrote:@ Howard. I will take a look around. I know there is a product in the UK which is very similar to simple green. That's actually not in too bad of shape. It will need some TLC but you'll get it there. I will post up later today if I find it. Oven cleaner is just so bloody toxic, the only thing worse is brake fluid...

It's getting there now. One side is mostly clean, but I'll have to work it over to pick all the bits out the corners. The alcohol is doing it's work well.


edited - thanks for the update, so Simple Green is just dettol eh? The stuff you put down the bog. I'll keep this in mind, the alcohol is doing great, though it might not be available to everyone.

I don't actually know if it's dettol or something else entirely. I have a jug at home. I can take a photo of the label and post it up if you like.

Well it's mostly clean now, several treatments and scrubs with a stiff brush, I've picked and scraped to shift as much as I can, but there's little bits of paint lodged in gaps and cracks I can't get out. Any other last bits of advice, or will I be able to get away with painting over?

Also, if someone reading has a large lascannon spare, it would do me great.

This might help, maybe? I know it's not exactly what you are looking for but it's affordable and (I think) would work well with the kind of side sponsons the RT Land Raider has.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARHAMMER-40K-BITS-SPACE-MARINE-DREADNOUGHT-TWIN-LINKED-LASCANNON-/360407581717?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e9f74415

Maybe this instead:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LAND-RAIDER-2-x-LASCANNONS-SPONSONS-Chaos-Bits-40K-/250934430967?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6cdb8cf7

Thanks for the links, I'm undecided at the moment. I didn't really want to spend quite that much, I'll give it some thought though. It's as clean as I'll ever get it at the moment and there's other work that needs doing to fix it up.

Anyway, sorry for lack of updates, went away for a bit last week for birthday and time with the wife. The last nurgle dude creeps along, he'll be done this week... I have done another marine as a one off, just because. I'll put up a pic when there's good light to take a picture.

Also I did this in the last week, the world's least detailed model. Actually it took quite a bit of time. It's made from a ping pong ball, but I had to smooth it down to remove the heavy seam line that divides the two halves, and it wasn't just two minutes work with an emery board as I initially assumed.




I'l also arranging a few imperial figures to do, various inquisitor retinue sorts rather than soldiers. As per a request on the Marine Swap thread for an =I=munda figure, I have made my first dabbles with greenstuff to try some sculpting, after looking at a couple of tutorials. I decided to make a figure to see how it would go, and have spare parts to make another in future.




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Here he is!

That is amazing and I am so doing a conversion based specifically on that. Wow. The Marine is cool, but this knocked me back.

The Marine looks great Howard, nice clean lines. Good work.

The greenstuffing looks solid too, and it will look better with a basecoat for sure. Looking forward to more updates.

For some reason with the camera under natural light the highlights appear very stark, as white against the yellow, it's a bit more subtle than that on the actual figure...

Glad you like the GS henchman, he looks better with a bit of paint. He does inspire me to do more with the GS, maybe with the price of GW figures going up I'll just start sculpting my own...

Yeah I'm not sure what to suggest there. I need to use photoshop on my pictures a lot of the time, and I don't. I can link suggestions from others, but I can offer no advice, unfortunately.

The henchman is just well done and simple. Nurgle and green stuff go hand in hand for me, that's for sure. I have done a few modifications myself, created a few plague marines because I refuse to pay $55.00 for really bad old sculpts. This is the same reason I'm making my own Ogryns for IG.

The Inquisitor retinue person is finished.





All around views here so you can see the reverse to see the not so good job I did of the back...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/304982-%3Di%3D%2C%20Inquisition%2C%20Inquisitor.html

No joke but I could believe that was an actual figure in and of itself.

I've always wanted to convert up a retinue of my own some time, GW has such awesome art of various servitors/acolytes doing all this kind of stuff... 'n' cherubkin fleeting about and whatnot and yet we never get any actual minis of crazy demented civil servants/imperial fanatics all clad in glorious robes :(

I must've missed the update Howard, but that looks awesome. I love the face, great expression. Your conversion turned out very well!

Howard A Treesong wrote:Here's the IG Powerlifter finished, it'll be a day or two until I can take pics under natural light. The only modifications are a couple of different parts out the bits box for the driver and some lights which are the sort of thing found in model railway shops. I think these were Roco Minitanks, but they are common enough things to buy.

Originally painted in Bad Moon Yellow, an old pot of paint, one of the tall hexagonal ones with a white lid. I opened it up and it looked brand new. After this I heavily weathered, first with orange wash, then dark brown in the cracks, and a final thin black-brown wash all over.

was that on purpose? I mean, add some red, and its a near perfect match!

Howard A Treesong wrote:

CrazyMez wrote:Just a question? is that base legal?

Nah.

Kudos for the response. I laffed.

CrazyMez wrote:Looks Great.

Just a question? is that base legal? Ive never come across that type before?

No, the based isn't legal. My question to you is, Who the hell is going to deny such a cool looking model?