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A Skalk just in time for holloween . Man nice conversion as usual. Keep them coming.

GreyDeathOne wrote:A Skalk just in time for holloween . Man nice conversion as usual. Keep them coming.

Should that be a saying now? "I just made a Skalk" "Man, what an awesome Skalk". Have to admit, something epicily disgusting comes to mind when you say it out loud.
I can't really tell where you did a rushed job, vindicator looks great

@ bigfish- When I first started the conversion I meant to make couplers for the hoses to connect into the tanks, but somewhere I forgot and by the time I realized it was missing I would have undone a lot of work I'd already done so I let it go. Besides, if anyone is looking at the back of my Vindicator chances are it won't be on the board much longer anyway.

@ Joe- You know I always appreciate the compliment. I enjoy that look a lot and it has become a signature theme throughout my force. I know it will continue and appear on every model I can put it on.

@ tipios- Thank you. I'm kind of psyched that I have a specific "goodness".

@ GD1- Trick or treat! Ha.

@ Limbo- Yeah, say my name quickly a few times. It sounds weird. And I "feel" like I rushed, so therefore I did somewhere... but seeing how you are one of the 3 people that notice my shortcuts and didn't see one... maybe it's not there.



No photos for this update, just stopping by to offer a heads up about the terrain thread I started up a couple days ago. It's not for the Death Guard per se, but they will fight and kill and bring the love of Nurgle to all there. I've got some solid inspiration and I'm getting some really good looking work done. Stop by there if you get a chance. I'll be back this way soon with more Nurgle awesomeness, but my focus right now is to hammer out some awesome looking terrain and get the guys back over here for a game soon.

Whoa. How many points have you got now Skalk. I havent popped into your blog for a while but you have been making stop and go progress like i have except that you have made a lot more progress than i.

When you was the vehicles with gryphon sepia, is that what gives them the slightly purple shadows and the tone to the fleshy bitz?

@ sennacherib- I am not sure how many point now, I tallied it up a while ago but forgot what it was. Maybe 6K? Not sure. My "progress" has been more "stop" than" go" lately, I was gone for months. I am feeling more inclined to work on the mechanized aspect of my Death Guard. Right now I have like 100 Marines and 70 of them would be on foot. I need to mobilize them a bit more. I'm not going to turn my entire army into a "fast attack" force, but it would be nice to have the option of not being shot to pieces when I'm trying to reach an objective. Regarding paint- yes, exactly that. I Vomit Brown over flat white for the flesh and then wash it with Gryphon Sepia. Sometimes I used a diluted Gore Red after the Gryphon Sepia has completely dried and then "wash" it over the same way I used the Gryphon Sepia. It adds a light red / raw look to everything and the recesses of the "pores" wind up with a deep red look. Thanks for stopping by! There's always more Death Guard coming, I have too much invested in it to stop. I won't be buying anything new for it, I have enough miniatures "on deck" to count as a new army. Well wait... I do want another Land Raider. Maybe I'll get one next year. But yeah, I'm done with buying anything else. If I did nothing but paint Death Guard until it was truly and completely done (meaning every model I have that is currently slotted to be part of that army) I'd be painting for many months. Lesson learned for sure, don't build faster than you can paint. Ha.



Another "no photo" update, and a slight reversal. I really enjoy doing projects for this army, but every now and then just get sick of it because of the lack of discernible "progress". I'm going to whittle away on things again for a while, the cold weather is returning and I'll start painting at work during lunches again. But I'm also going to help keep myself from hitting a slump again by putting my spare Predators (2) and Rhinos (4) on the list because vehicles (other than my Land Raider) seem to go together quickly and provide that sense of accomplishment much sooner than another squad of Plague Marines. So those might be seeing some GS and paint before long. Besides, having more mech in my army offers more flexibility in my list choices, and eventually I expect to have the entire thing on the table for an APOC game. Yes, I have been talking about that for over a year now. I expect that it really will happen someday.

I'll post some pics before long. Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote: I Vomit Brown over flat white for the flesh

Well, that's certainly the most nurglish method of painting I've come across so far

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote: don't build faster than you can paint.

There's another way of doing things

It gives the term "spray paint" a new meaning.

*hummmmming in tuuunnneee*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEATHGUARD BLOG!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEATHGUARD BLOG!

HAPPY BIRRRRRR-THDAY DEATHGUARD BLOOO-0000G!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEATHGUARD BLOG!


November 14th 2010:



November 14th 2011:



Many thanks to all of my friends, Dakka and IRL alike. It's been a pretty awesome year. I'm glad to have returned to wargaming, glad to have decent friends again, and glad to have taken back something that I had let go of for so long.

Looking forward to many more.

- Skalk

Wow. 'Dat force got big. Nice work.

happy daka birthday Skalk

Thanks guys, appreciate you stopping by.

Next plan for the Death Guard is to wait. I'm going to (slowly) work on finishing the models I have started (specifically the Possessed, Chosen, and Defiler) but with the rumors of 6th Ed coming out in July '12 I do not want to crank out something that may be obsolete in the next edition. My opinion of 5th Ed is it is (at best) vanilla in general and completely underpowered / generic for CSM (unless you play Slannesh, which I don't and won't). I'm feeling confidant (hopefully anyway) that the upcoming edition will be a major improvement for CSM across the board.

This blog has slowed down but is far from finished. I have at least 5 outstanding projects that need to be completed, and my ultimate goal is to have at least 1 unit of everything in the CSM Codex, even if it is not specifically "fluffy" like Death Guard Raptors and Bikers.

So more is coming. And it will be as diseased and inspired as all things that have come before. Father Nurgle is not yet completely satisfied with my offerings.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!!! oh man I would love to play against that Army!!!

Your army reminds me of one of my friends' army which is impressive in terms and quantity and because he used every models he could lay his hand on and converted it, whatever the edition it was from, even from other games like Space Crusade.

You've achieved an amazing amount of work on this army this past year (especially considering the work done on your other projects).
We'll see what the next year will bring!

Wow what a fantastic looking army, your must be proud of what you have done.

One thing really annoys me however, the square base on your dread sticks out like a swore thumb! can you put it on a round? squares for fantasy!

that said, welldone!

One day Skalk, I'd love for there to be an apocalypse game with my Blighted Brigade and your Death Guard if only because of how well they'd mesh together. All nice and Nurgled.

Very nice progress!

It's been alot of fun following your blog. Nice models, nice people, allround a nice blog.

Great work on the Vindicator and truly impressive progress.

Great job skalk. Cant believe you did all that work in the last year. that is crazy. I think i have completed about a 10th of what you have in the last year or so. No i take it back. I have completed a fifth of what you have in the last five years. Grunt.

Good job on ya for forging ahead. I hope the shelf of shame is slowly depleted in the year to come.

Wow, thanks for the feedback!

@ GD1- If my wife gets her way, you and I have a date for 2016. She's from CA. We'd be 5 hours away, but that better than our current 50 hours (driving time) away. Yes, I looked it up on Google Maps.

@ Hyenajoe- I wish I could say that I haven't spent a ridiculous amount of money on this army, but I have. I tried to stay away from eBay, but I kept getting dragged back in. Ha. 2012 is full of opportunity.

@ Tortured-Robot- Thank you for the compliment. The work you do is amazing and impressive. You've given me pause to consider the next steps of my army because of inspiration from your most recent work. Regarding the square base and the flock- you said the same thing almost a year ago, and this time I agree. I haven't changed the square base on that Dread yet because I haven't been playing it (and the only reason the base is square is because I added it in 1997) but I will get to it when I start another HUGE project that is coming for my Death Guard. I stated this a while back in the same thread, and haven't started it yet, but my intent is to change every base in my army to the same ones I am currently using for everything else I play (because it matches my game table and terrain):


@ DarStarSabre- I've seen your work before and I really like it a lot. That APOC game is great idea! The only thing keeping us from it is 3,000 miles of ocean.

@ Llamahead- I really appreciate the compliment. The work you do really speaks out to me and I'm impressed with everything you do.

@ sennacherib- You put detail into your models that I won't even attempt. I won't measure quantity over quality. I paint fast and gritty with conversions that include chopped parts and blobs of GS. You sculpt GS and are meticulous with detail. I'm on the table faster, but I cede to your amazing artistry. The Shelf of Shame will not be seeing any of my Death Guard, that much is for certain.

@ Limbo- I appreciate you sticking with me thorugh the ups and



So what does the future hold for the Death Guard? Mentioned it above, but it bears saying again- nothing new until 6th Ed comes out. I'm going to finish the projects I have pending (Possessed, "Khornate" Chosen, Defiler, and a handful of random Marines to fill out a few short squads) but other than that I'm not going to commit more models to the Death Guard until I see the new rules and the new Codex.

I've also been thinking about what got me going on this project in the first place (focusing on one single aspect of my CSM force) and remembering that the Death Guard were originally a part of my overall Black Legion Crusade force (which consisted of Black Legion, Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors, Death Guard, World Eaters, and Night Lords). I totaled up points again the other day and I have over 2X more points of Death Guard than I have for my than my entire "Crusade" force.

The Cultists force I've been working on more recently was originally intended to be an extension of my Death Guard but wound up taking on a life all its own. That really took the fire out of this project. But life is a circle, and I've been thinking more and more about really getting back into this. For one, it's more gratifying. Right now the Cult seems more like work than fun and the things I am creating for it (while distinctly different) are all "rank and file troops" because there's no Codex to work with except to play them as Imperial Guard or use the 4th Ed. Eye Of Terror lists which my current game group is cool enough to let me use. Admittedly the project was more of an artistic expression than specific application outside of APOC and that was great in the beginning, but now I'm feeling unfocused and lost. I think finishing up some of my projects for the Death Guard will be more gratifying as they have a direct and immediate application in the force I am playing and will afford me even more options. One idea I have been throwing around is to run an entirely Daemonic force, with a Daemon Prince leading as much Daemonically possessed stuff as it can. Having my Possessed and Defiler for that game would be pretty awesome.

But other distractions loom. I've been doing a lot of terrain lately, trying to bulk up my collection and improve the overall look of my table. And in the last game I played, I pulled out my very first attempt at CSM, all Mk VI armor:



Bottom line is I am still active in the hobby and interested in getting things done. I lack specific focus right now, and getting back to the Death Guard would be a good way to change that, if only for a while.

Thanks for reading, more will be coming.

is that a armorcast shadowsword that you have in that last picture. The one that has the brown paint scheme. Just curious.

I'm pretty sure I've commented on your stuff before, but in case I haven't, I have followed this thread for a long time. All very inspiring transformations on your vehicles! But I found one thing odd, and you may have commented on it before, but I don't think I saw it...

Why do your vehicles all have the spikes coming out of the same side on all of them? Is this to tie them together? Or something more sinister?

Anyway, keep up the great work!

Please don't spam the forum. Thanks! ~Manchu

Awsome work! And it only took an hour to read it all... Well you should be proud of your painting! Keep up the good work

@ sennacherib-, yes, that is exactly what that is. I bought it in 1999, promptly painted if Flat Olive Drab, and then equally as promptly packed it up as I was moving. Stayed packed until about a year ago. I was thinking about turning it into some horrifying Nurgly thing but I'm holding back from that. Not sure why, it just doesn't feel right. In this game it was nothing but scenery.

@ RSJake- You've commented a couple times, and I appreciate you stopping by. I've subbed to a couple of your threads, currently to RSJake's World Eaters and all of your work is stunning. But about the spiky bit thing... it all started when i was doing a Rhino conversion and wanted it to look like both the corruption of Nurgle and the Warp had touched it. I had a bunch of spiky things, tried it, liked it, did it again... and it became a "theme" that ties everything together. That's really all there is to it. I like how it looks.

@ BloodGenisis- Wow, you read the entire thread? I haven't done that in a long time, I think I'll go back and take another look. Thank you for checking this out, and thank you for the compliment. I'm getting back into this again, so stop back soon for more updates.




So I got home tonight, dug through some stuff sitting dangerously close to the Shelf of Shame, found an Aspiring Champion that really reached out to me, and painted it. Please take special note of the base. This is the first of many more. I'm going to re-base my entire army like this.



Again, not my best work, but nothing ever is anymore. Whatever. It's 100% awesome for tabletop quality and I'll be proud to have it lead any of my squads.

I have a few more Aspiring Champions to work on, and I also found a Havoc Lascannon team I converted a while back and completely forgot about. I worked on some "rank and file" Marines tonight as well. A productive night overall. It's been a while since I've really enjoyed painting. I think I might actually get into this again. Mind you I have a lot of stuff going on right now that is not hobby-related so I won't be doing as much as fast as I have in the past, but as soon as I'm done w/ a project at work I'm going to start painting during lunch again and that's a great opportunity to get the Possessed done. I'm trying to get into the Khorne Chosen but just can't. Rather than force it I'm just going to let it be for now, I have enough projects to keep me busy until I feel like doing them.

That's all for tonight. Thanks for checking this out, and more is coming soon.

Skalk, your work is simply glorious. I've really found your work inspiring for ideas for my GKs, oddly, as I've been building CSM corpses, and your range of ideas and approaches has been highly informative. Also, I really understand your comment:

skalk bloodaxe wrote:
Again, not my best work, but nothing ever is anymore. Whatever. It's 100% awesome for tabletop quality and I'll be proud to have it lead any of my squads.

Firstly, it's certainly better than most "tabletop quality" I see out there, but more than that your broader point about the general desire to get a painted force on the table rings very true with me.

Good times, mr, and great blog.

Hey, thanks for those kind words!

I love the new base you have done and ties in great with your terrain, which also looks fantastic! I like the ash colour, and I may try to get a bit of that into my bases (even though I seem to harp on about bases they really aren’t my strong point ha-ha).

I'm really just getting back into the hobby myself, I'm slightly worried about you mentioning a new edition or chaos codex, I hope what i am doing will tie in with it .

Is there any more information about a new edition online I should know about?

Anyway less about my problems, Army and board look great, I hope to have something similar at some point in the future ha-ha.

@ inmygravenimage- Thank you for the compliment. I've seen your stuff before but went back again... wow you're going to be busy once you start painting that horde. Glad to know that I've been inspiration for you, even if it is for crushed and mangled CSM. In the end all things come to Father Nurgle... regarding my painting, I wish I would stop whining and just "be". I don't measure my skill against anyone else, I measure it against my expectations and I know I cut corners to hammer things out and have been called on it more than once (drilling barrels, skipping insignias, no detail on backpacks, etc). This particular took about an hour (it was already based and washed w/ green ink) and a lot of that was waiting for washes to dry and the glue on the base to set. During that time I worked on a handful of other models that were not my main focus but are part of the overall mass of Marines I'm trying to finish up. I used to spend days on a single model (when I was playing AD&D or painting for a FLGS contest). Now I'm more focused on doing a "decent" job and getting models on the table. I'll quit whining, promise.

@ Tortured-Robot- Yay! I like the new bases a lot better as well. I started them w/ my Necromunda models and then continued on w/ my Cultists. I've known for a long time that I was going to have to do the same w/ my Death Guard but really wasn't looking forward to the task. Now I know I really do have to make it happen and I also know the results will be completely worth it. Regarding 6th Ed- everything I've heard is just rumor mill, there's no specific info from GW that it is happening. Conjecture (following the timeline GW releases new editions) mixed with rumor (Chaos Codex being split up into general CSM and later another Codex for the "name brand" Legions... or maybe I have that backwards). In either case I'm feeling pretty sure that 5th Ed. is a chapter that is closing by July of 2012 (which it the "projected" release date of 6th). Here are some links I've found that go into a lot more detail:

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=15933

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2011/06/40k-rumors-6th-edition-first-murmors-it.html

http://www.mi40k.com/?p=4912

http://www.thehogsofwar.com/2011/06/warhammer-40k-6th-edition-rumors-here-they-come.html

Google search "40k 6th Edition" and you'll get pages of hits.

I like the base, it's simple yet efective and better then a plain base. It's very similar to my rank and file bases, except I add skulls here and there because they are khorne. I mean, you have to have skulls, right?

Your table top painting quality beats the pants off my character painting!

@ RSJake- Thanks for the feedback on the base. I really feel like I'm going on the right direction w/ this. And I appreciate the compliment.



Man I am beat tired. Got up at 6:30 and it's almost 3am now. Tonight was my wife's pre-pre-pre birthday party. Having a blowout tomorrow night w/ most of the people on my IRL friend's list. No wargaming though. This is all bonfire and beer.

That said, I decided to get some work done tonight. Here's another Aspiring Champion. I have a few left and then I am done w/ them for a good while, moving on to "rank and file" Marines.

Two pics because I like this one. It's completely basic (no conversions at all) and it is the exact model that came in the box, it's an eBay save. So here to the person that sold me this- your efforts helped create this:





Basic basic, but completely works for my force. I'm really starting to enjoy the Death Guard again. If I have time tomorrow I'm going to finish up a few standard Plague Marines and post them. Otherwise I'll be back Sunday complaining about my wicked hangover and how I wish I had drank water and taken aspirin before going to bed. And then I'll post some new Plague Marines. Ha.

Goodnight Dakka. See you soon.

2016?!?!? Ahhhh man that's a long time from now! Ok it's a date!! Fasteddie and I will be waiting! !