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So I'm moving right along painting my Daemons army, and all the Khorne, Tzeench and Slaanesh models are done... it may have been subconcious, but apparently I've been avoiding my nurgle models.

So basically what I'm looking for is, what colors does Dakka use to paint their nurgle models? I don't really need a step by step, but a basecoat to highlight color guide would be great.

I just want to avoid them looking like orks with acne.

The last truescale nurgle marine I painted (see pic) used rotting flesh basecoat over an undercoat that was black, sprayed with white from the top to create shading from the start, which was then washed with thinned down gretchin green and then thinned down thraka green - I liked the effect as is was closer to the death guard pre-heresy colours than the darker greens I've seen.




I am after some advice on nurgle schemes as well - but I want to use any base colour other than green (pale or otherwise) - I'm currently toying with grey and orange or a pox angels scheme (dirty blood red).

Hope this helps

Cheers Laney

I've been using a slightly orkish green (I mix my own instead of using Citadel) which is basically a forest green with a little white to brighten it, with a little gold. I enjoy the more infected look of Nurgleites, with large white puss bubbles and lots of darker yellow / gold and dark greens so there's really a contrast between the changing parts of the skin instead of a uniform green color.

I'd post up some of my stuff for example, but i'm on a tablet at the moment and its hard to work with. You can check out the nurgle rhino in my gallery for the type of green i'm talking about.

I would use nothing but watered down green washes/ink over Rotting Flesh, and dip the bajeezus out of them.
Sure, it makes the models look dirty.
But isn't that what you want?