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AWESOME! Nurgle is proud! Thanks for the great work station shots too. Always a pleasure to see people's working set up.

Hey - sorry I've not been on here for a while, been paging back through the updates. Don't even know what to say other than well done on keeping going, its one of the best armies I've seen in ages!

My vote is for you to finish the Possessed, only because the conversion on Number 1 has echoes of some of the modelling work of a certain Mr. John Blanche back in the day.

FYI a really easy and chaotic "corrupted" ground effect happens if you drip superglue onto wet Elmers. It crinkles up and makes some truly random patterns.

Also Very nice looking stuff indeed.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
@ Anung Un Rama- Yeah, I can't say I'm looking forward to fielding them, but maybe I'll get lucky and roll something good for Daemonkin.

I would love to looking forward to fielding my possessed, I love the models and fluff (The first Heretic anyone?). Would be cool if you could narrow the randomness down alittle, like Possessed with a mark can only get 1 of 3 random powers.

@ DarkStarSabre- Rescues work really well for Death Guard because the things that the prev owner messed up are just "value added features" for me. If I were going for a cleaner look I would not get away with some of the things I do w/ Plague Marines.

@ migsula- Thank you for the compliment. It's always my pleasure to show shots of my workstation becasue it's a easy Dakka update w/o actually having to do any work.

@ grantosjones- Welcome back! The Possessed are getting most of my attention right now as I have a 2K game this weekend and I am going to try a completely new list. I won't give it away here because he reads my blog (Hi Feldenglas ) but be assured I'm pulling quite a switch from anything I've played before. If it works out, awesome. If not, I'll still have a lot of fun and I think the list is completely in line with Nurgle fluff. Plague Marines have 7 Havoc Squads with Missile Launchers, right?

@ Galorn- I've never heard that before, I am going to try it and see what happens. Thanks for the tip!

@ Limbo- I would prefer it if I actually got to pick the power seeing how they are 26 pts apiece before they get anything else. My Plague Marines only cost 23 pts and they would clean house on those Possessed. I'm not expecting them to do very well but I want to at least say I fielded them. Everything in my army has played at least one game. Well... almost everything. (another foreshadow of the list to come...)



Just a text update today. It's been way too nice outside to lock myself in my game room for modeling and by the time it is dark outside I'm so blown out that all I'm really interested in is sleeping. I have a game coming up this weekend (2K pts vs. Space Wolves) and at very least I know I'm going to be seeing a Land Raider, Drop Pod, and Terminators. If anyone has some advice on killing Space Wolves I'm all ears.

When i do get back to modeling I'm going to focus on finishing my Possessed, plus I have some new detail on the Land Raider that I'm just about ready to share. Thanks for all the support and I'll be back soon.

sounds good. You reminded me to update the Deathguard in my gallery

I actually rather love the fusion of old and new here... I think Nurgle armies are one of the few that could actually pull it off, at least in my mind; seeing the old models brings to mind the past, seeing models from the past absolutely diseased up to gak makes me think of their stagnation... Truly a Death Guard army is old and whithering if it's models are old

Where are these possessed?

= shameless bump

But seriously, Skalk, where's some tasty new stuff?

I get caught in Warp Storms sometimes. Updates coming soon.

Skalk my east coast brother I miss you!! Warp storm sounds about right . Nah I did the same and took a break from this hobby and when Space Marine the video game came out and playing it it charged me up and back on the saddle. Hope to see more of your work soon.

Waiting!!

Alas, a true warrior of chaos would use the warp storm to his advantage and get even more stuff done......but I guess the gods of chaos are never truly on your side. Looking forward to those updates!

@ GreyDeathOne- Hails to the West! I was able to avoid the Space Marine game, but I saw my buddy Feldenglas play it. It looked so awesome I swore that I won't be getting it. As if I do not have enough time sucks in my life.

@ tipios- Here you go!

@ Limbo- The warp storm took me off course and was an anomaly in the realspace time continuum. Not only did I not get anything done while I was gone, I think I actually un-painted some miniatures.



No time for a narrative tonight, will be back tomorrow. For now, just pics of what is coming next:









It has begun.

A looted wagon w/ Boomgun ?

@ Yggs- Nope.



I know the Waagh on the Dozer Blade is misleading. It's merely a recycled bit from another model.

Remember this? It's only been 8 months.



I turned it into this and then left it to sit:



...and now it's on the bench being turned back into a mighty Vindacator for my Death Guard. I'm going to magnetize the hatch so that I can create and attach different weapon options based on the kind of battle I am taking it to.

After I posted the first pics I pulled out the GS and gave the Vindicator the same treatment as my other Rhino-based vehicles to match the ongoing theme of my army, and before I went to bed I was able to get the flat white basecoat on it. Trust me, the next pics I post will clear things up.

As far as individual Death Guard troops go, I've been lacking the attention and motivation to finish anything. At most I've worked on the trim of the armor on my Possessed. I haven't had the chance to play them yet either. The Death Guard has been on the shelf for quite some time. I've gotten in a few skirmish games based on Necromunda rules / themes, and I've taken the Cult out for a few scraps.

I'm hoping that doing a "big" project that is relatively simple and quick to finish will help get me back on track.

More pics tonight when I get home.



I hate automatically amended posts.

Skalk your like the dog rescuer of abused models. Man don't know how you take the time to disassemble them and make them look great again.
Good stuff man keep it up.

@ DG1- I appreciate the compliment, as always. Truth about the whole thing isn't too hard to find. I take randomly broken and abused models and put them back together as purposely broken and abused. I can get away with it (verily, excel at it) with Chaos. I would have much less success were I attempting to recycle some of these horrors into an Astartes chapter. It's never been a secret that one of my attractions to Chaos is that it fits my painting and modeling style. Plus it's a really cool army to play with (with complaints of the nerfed vanilla "one size fits all" of 5th Ed aside) and I've always had a more genuine connection with the "bad guys" in any game system I was playing. But yeah, back to the original point... thanks for the support.



Here's some pics of where the Vindicator has been in the last couple days. I have more work on it right now but I can't upload new pics until tomorrow because I don't have access to my PC. These pics I uploaded yesterday but didn't have time to tap out any text for them.

Putting this model back together was a bit of a pain... literally. I sliced open the pad of my index finger on my left hand when I did something stupid that I'm not going to write here and save for all time to come. I'll simply say that it was a modeling injury that could have been avoided. Look closely and you may see a blood spot or 2 in the pics.

Anyway, here's where the Vindicator was 24 hrs ago:










GS is an amazing substance and I don't know what I would do w/o it. I think at this point it's clear that it is not a Looted Wagon. And really, what Ork would want this nasty thing?

I skipped pics w/white primer because I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. I'm not doing a "step-by-step" w/ this one like I did my last Rhino. Here it is after the first green ink, flesh base, and some metalics.









Since these pics were taken I've done 2 washes w/ Griphon Sepia. It's looking like it belongs in my army.

More updates coming as I get more work done and can post pics. Thanks for looking, and I'll be back.

Thats disgusting! Well done.

Maybe I should switch to nurgle too, I find that iron warriors aint as forgiving when modeling, and since I'm working on some plague marines I've found the joy of doing slime and pus xP Anyway, model looks gross as usuall, I especially like the boil on the dozer blade. Keep at it!

AMAZING !!! i do pre heresy deathguard but this has made me realise how cool the nurgle version is

YEAH! That's looking more like it! All Nurgle-fied. Lovin' it.

Your army is awesomeness itself. subscribed

Holy- that is awesome, very Nurgly and pleasing. Its been forever since I've been here. Its so cool to see projects like this! Awesome. [

Wow, amazing, nice salvage there, really looking great.

@ wolfshadow- Hey Brother! Decent seeing you online again. Appreciate the compliment and I'll be catching up on your work soon!

@ Limbo- I'm not saying it's "easy", but yeah, there's specific incentives. Such as when mistakes look like conversions, uneven paint looks like shading, etc. Glad you like the boil, it was fun to make.

@ dakkagrot187- Complete the transformation and abandon the false Emperor! The warm loving embrace of Father Nurgle awaits!

@ Moltar- Yup. When I ruin a vehicle, it's ruined.

@ bigfish- Thanks for checking this out and thanks for subscribing! More coming soon(ish).

@ ChaosBeast73- Welcome back! I really like expanding this army and I always appreciate feedback from people that are enjoying where I'm going w/ all of this.

@ moonshine- Thank you. Turning Imperial vehicles into tools of the Chaos Gods is likely what I enjoy the most when working on this army.



Wow, thank you one and all! I'm digging the Vindacator project a lot, and it's coming along pretty decent so far.

I didn't get a lot done on it today, was distracted by a my rid of other things. But I got a bit of detail and some washes done. I'm liking the results so far:









I don't expect this is going to take anywhere near as long as the Land Raider (which *still* isn't 100% yet) because there's less "fiddly bitz" on this and I'm cranking through it. Things will slow down a bit when I get to the next phase of detail, and I'm working on other projects at the same time. I'll get a little done here and there though, and I'll have a finished product before long.

Thanks for looking and thanks for the C&C. Always appreciate knowing people are into what I am doing. I'll be back!

Inspirational pus! I love the giant zit on the dozer blade!

inmygravenimage- It was a good idea at first, not sure if I still like it. But it is what it is, I won't be taking it off.



I think I'm finished. Unless someone points out an egregious flaw, the Vindacator is done.









I decided the rear was good "as is", mostly because I realized some modeling flaws that I didn't want to deal with.

I didn't slack on the copula, though. Check out the flexibility:

Combi-weapon w/ "counts as" potential:


Havoc Missile Launcher:


Nothing:


I probably rushed towards the end. I always do.

More coming later, but I have absolutely no idea what. Thanks for looking.

LOOKING GOOD! i think it is glue on the back of it that is dry but it actually looks quite fitting within the context tat it is all nurgly. nice job

That sick leather is brilliant Skalk! Good job

nice work skalk. I can't see all pics ATM because phone does not load them all, but the ones i can see are pure skalk goodness!


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nice work skalk. I can't see all pics ATM because phone does not load them all, but the ones i can see are pure skalk goodness!