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Hey all!

Long time lurker here, but now ive finally got something worth showing. Ive been painting since January 2011. I have been keeping up with the Warhammer 40k universe for several years though and my brother used to paint and play when i was a kid.
But now my friend encouraged me to start playing 40k, and my choice of army was Blood Angels. So since last year i have been modeling and painting the little red bastards. But i really needed to do something else then painting power armor, because i felt that my skills needed to evolve, so i looked around for a single miniature that i could really sink some time and patience in.
So my choice was the new Nurgle Chaos Lord from GW because of the extremely awesome Nurglesque feel that he has. Also, i wanted to try out large areas of skin, as i thought that my blending skills would come to the test here, also doing all the gore would be great fun.

So, enough rambling here are the WIP pics of the Nurgle Chaos Lord

Here is some of the greenstuff work i did to him before priming him. The model itselv had next to nothing clean up on it, but did require some gap filling as shown. But i really really like the way the do them, much better than metal or finecast




And here we have him assembled, greenstuffed and ready for priming


And back from priming, i choose a white primer because i find it easier to work on a white base rather than black. You can always dull down colors if they are to bright, but i ind it hard to brighten things up with a black primer


And heres the shoulder after priming to show of my gap filling abilities. I think it went well


So basecoating. I went with a watered down purple mixed with a dark skin tone. The first layer went on kinda like a wash and really helped to define all the nooks and crannies on his skin, wich would make it easy to pick out the raised areas in the next steps.


Slowly layering purple/skin mix and adding more dark skin for every pass



For the final stage of painting his skin, i added in some yellow to the mix for the most raised bits and especially the boils on his belly and back


Some detail shots of his loincloth and chainmail



And here´s some of the higlighting on the leather, tried to do some old dried skin feel on it. And the metal was just a brush over/heavy drybrush of Boltgun Metal followed by a badab black wash


And here i got carried away with painting and forgetting to take pictures. Most of the gore is done and the wood on his axe was done with a dark brown, and a mix of brown and grey was used to make the woodgrains and the spikes coming out of the hilt. Then finally it was given a wash of Badab Black to tone it all down. I think it went well and looks the part of old dark used wood


So, thats it for now. More to come tomorrow hopefully, and please C and C on this little project of mine, as it is far from the space marine i am used to painting

Cheers!

love the skin tones! keep it up!

Lookin good that, nice blending, keep it up !

Looking good so far. Keep it up.

Hey all!

Back with a small update on the Nurgle Lord

First off, i kinda forgot about taking pictures when i was doing the green armor. But it was fairly straight forward. Dark green, black wash, dark green, and final higlights.
Then the horns was done with snakebite leather


The horns went on with dehneb stone


which was followed by bleach bone towards the edges. Then they received a wash of devlin mud


I decided to try and mimick the effect of layers cracking and falling of as it is with antlers on deers and such. I also started on the rust on the axe, which was done with a layer of devlin mud, a sephia wash


and then finally some stipling of browns and orange. I also tried some verdigri effect on his armband


So, no much to do than finish his base and get a photobooth up and going and snapping some proper pictures of him. And as always please C&C as it will help me become a better painter

Cheers!

I like how the fly on this guy's armour pops. I didn't even notice that on some of the other Chaos Lord models I've seen.

Really good work! I especially love the armor. I may try and achieve a similar result on portions of my vehicles for my Salamanders. I like the way the armor colors contrast with the fleshy colors.

As promised, better pictures are en route. But i really appreciate your comments, they give mé hope in my abilities to dó something else than power armour but be sure to check in, as I have a bunch of BA marines coming up

Cheers guys!

Pew.. well guys sorry about the long wait for some propperpics, but school kicked in hard. So withouth further ado...









hope you like, cheers!

He looks really good. I love the strong contrast between the skin and armour. Nice work!

thanks man! means alot

Thats really amazing dude!

I think the rust would look a bit better with blue bits on it, to imitate oxidizing copper i believe? Other then that, dude, you have skill.

TH3FALL3N wrote:Thats really amazing dude!

Norn King wrote:I think the rust would look a bit better with blue bits on it, to imitate oxidizing copper i believe? Other then that, dude, you have skill.

That really means a lot guys, as I consider myself very new and basic in the painting department.
About the oxidisation, I was afraid it would make the axe look too busy, and studying the box art (which I followed extensively) I was afraid i would mess it up. But i will go around the guy and see what i can do

Cheers