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Variety is the spice of life working on many different projects is one of the best ways to prevent burn out I find.

@ GD1- Yeah, it's a while. Sorry.

@ Llamahead- I agree, and that's why I have so many projects. When one grinds to a halt, another picks back up.



Ok, really quick because I'm going out tonight. Here's the last of the last I have slotted for the Death Guard currently. Left to Right:

Possessed

Chosen

40 Plague Marines (2 of which are Aspiring Champions) and a Havoc Lascannon team.

Once these are done I'll start in on the Defiler and then that's it for the Death Guard until 6th Ed comes out or I get another Land Raider.

Land Raider. Hmm...

Anyway, here's pics for tonight. Catch you guys soon!

Ok Skalk, without counting, how many miniatures do you think you have all-together? I think you have me beat, and I think I have over 500!

@ dsteingass- Without exaggeration, thousands. Thousands of thousands. Any of my IRL friends would verify this. If I were to take a photo of everything I have, everything total... I couldn't get it in one shot. It's an illness. Thankfully I have a wife that understands my -obsession- hobby, my kids are Honor students looking for scholarships for college, and my "retirement plan" is to work until I'm 83 and then die while riding my Harley.



Short update again tonight thanks to this new thing I've been doing lately. I've heard it referred to as a "social life". It involves me leaving the house for activities I share with other people outside my workplace. I don't know if I like it yet. It's cutting into my hobby time, that's for sure.

Anyway, wanted to share a little project that really isn't that "special", just sort of neat (to me, anyway). I'm dedicating these guys to my Black Legion Crusade Force. Of course they will get "table time" with my Death Guard, but when the Black Legion hits the tabletop again, these will be the Death Guard contingent that is assigned to them:





Also wanted to post some progress I'm making on my Possessed. All the trim is done, starting the shading, and the last miniature (aside from some bitz and base) is done:



Closeups. Models on each end are almost done, one in the middle needs a lot of work yet.



I really like the one in the middle here. Almost did the entire until like him but decided on diversity instead.



Just about finished. I like this one a lot.



That's it for this update. Will be back soon with more awesomeness. Will hopefully have the Possessed done in time to play this weekend. Or maybe I won't play them at all... maybe I won't even play Death Guard. Maybe I'll pull out a Black Crusade force. Or maybe pull a crazy switch and bring out the 'Nids.

You never know. (Hi guys... ha )

I am down with the sickness!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Short update again tonight thanks to this new thing I've been doing lately. I've heard it referred to as a "social life". It involves me leaving the house for activities I share with other people outside my workplace. I don't know if I like it yet. It's cutting into my hobby time, that's for sure.

^ QFT ^

My wife is always making plans behind my back to get me out of the house and into "social" situations! If was meant to be social, god would make beer cheaper than water....oh, wait....OK, so sometimes it is cheaper, but it still cuts into "me" time!

^ Ditto. Thank god for understanding women. Sometimes, they even contribute to the addiction love the contest of the green with the fleshy putrescence. Have you considered turning your talents to a plaguelord super heavy?

Oh yeah, mine is definitely an enabler. Of course it took me a marriage and about 16 bad relationships to get here.

Skalk! I've been patiently waiting to see those possessed again and they've come together quite nicely.

The "Social Life" is one main reason I've been so absent from my paint station. Granted, painting rules, but so does drinking a cold beer with good friends. Just don't get stuck out all the time with the "Wife's friends" that can get old rather quickly. Either way, you're still busting out minis faster than I could. Thanks for sharing and in all fairness, I've had great ideas for minis and conversions come from conversations at bars with people who have no clue what GW or 40k is. Inspiration's everywhere, not just in threads like this one

Nice work! Keep 'em coming

Thats some freaky Possessed, love them.

I'm really impressed the speed of which you turn out great looking models, I think I have a totall of 9 finished marines .

I like how the new bases really are a contrast to the colour of the model, this really makes them pop!

As awlays looking forward to seeing more!

@ dsteingass- What sickness? I don't see any rivets. And yes your woman is an enabler. The absolute best kind.

@ RSJake- I don't mind so much getting out and about. It's just "feast or famine". NOTHING for WEEKS and then sha-blam, 9 days of non-stop social calendar activity. Tonight all I've done is model on the couch while my wife was sitting next to me knitting. We both did our own thing together as we sort of watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's been a really good night.

@ inmygravenimage- Plaguelord Super Heavy? Yes. Yes I have. And I keep talking myself out of it every time. If someone ever happens to buy me one (hint to all my IRL friends) I'd consider it, but as it stands right now I have so much else on the list (finish the Chosen, finish the Havoc Lascannon team, finish the "fill-ins" for Havoc Squard and their Aspiring Champions, finish the Defiler...and that's just on the plate for THIS project, I'm still working on a Cult and a Terrain project) plus I really really really really really (hint to all my IRL firends) want another Land Raider and if I got my hands on one that would stop every other project I have dead in its tracks so I could concentrate on -ruining_ converting it. The future is unknown, anything could happen. I'm just the conduit for Father Nurgle.

@ Moltar- Hails, Brother! Good to see you here again. Yeah, I know, like I said above I don't mind the social thing really, there's just no balance. All or nothing. So this weekend I'm painting / modeling / Dakka, tomorrow I'm painting / modeling / Dakka in between family stuff, Friday I'm working (missed out on the 4 day weekend but the OT pay is pretty wicked), Saturday the guys are coming over for another epic evening of "drink beer roll dice". Sunday I'm recovering from Saturday and with any luck it'll be another paint / model / Dakka day. Glad you like where the Possessed are going, and I hope you enjoy the rest of this update.

@ The Epic Chaosdude!!!- Thank you for checking this out and leaving a comment. Check back now and then, the Death Guard are still growing and more awesomeness is coming.

@ Tortured-Robot- Only 9 finished Marines? That's... almost your entire [http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/403804.page]Chaos Marine Renegades[/url] blog (which is awesome and amazing, btw). And thanks for the compliment on the models and the new bases I am really happy that I changed direction and will (over time) work on converting the rest of the army over to the same look.



Ok! Thanks everyone for stopping by and checking this out again. There's still some life left in the Death Guard.

Now that my social schedule is satisfied for a while, back to the table for me! I was torn on what to do though. Not so much a lack of motivation, quite the opposite. I wanted to do EVEYTHING. I feel like I didn't give my terrain facelift enough of a chance before I got sick of it, and the Cult is in need of some dedicated transports / armor. I need more Plague Marines like I need an Inquisitor poking around my sock drawer.

So Plague Marines it is! But not just any Plague Marines... POSSESSED Plague Marines!



Yes, four and a half months later they are FINALLY done!

Here's a reminder of what they looked like in early July:



Quite a difference when you see them in such a raw state. I have to admit being a bit impressed myself.

Anyway... here's a few closeup shots. I ran out of ideas on a few of them, but they are still finished.



The model on the left mocked me, I couldn't find anything cool to do w/ the face so I just muddled it up a bit and "good enough". The model in the middle was a great idea that could have been better had I thought to model more scales on the GS and have the effect translate better once it was painted. More proof that I rarely plan out what I'm going to do, I just go w/ the random idea and later (usually when I'm painting it) I say "ooohhhh yeahhh... ... ...well, next time". Last model I really like a lot and is one of my favorites in my Possessed squad.



Model on the left is a prefect example of running out of ideas, but is also an example of "beauty in simplicity". I could have put more detail into it, but this is one of those models where basics are fine and the conversion is what really sells the model for me. I really like this one a lot. By contrast, I absolutely hate the model to the right and wish I had dome something completely different. Seemed like a good idea at the time, hate it now, oh well. It'll be the first model off the table when they take wounds.



Last minute change for the model on the left. Realized I was sick of seeing that same slack-jawed "surprised" Zombie face all throughout my armies so i ripped his head off and a few replacement heads later I put a Chaos Warrior helm and it was perfect. Not sure why I kept the Khorne color scheme, but for whatever reason it looks cool and I'm happy with how it came out. Model to the right has more detail in the face than the photo shows. I really like the "wet sticky ewww" look I got on the tentacle. Pure happenstance, just psyched that it worked out as well as it did.

I'm pretty psyched. I finally finished those things. One more squad project off the Shelf of Shame and onto the tabletop! I have a game this coming weekend, debating if I sould go w/ them or not. They need to be in a game at some point soon though. They have stupid rules but whatever... they are Possessed Plague Marines!

So what next? I don't know. That Havoc Lascannon team would come in pretty handy. Everyone I play against has something in their army that needs some Lascannon love, be it a Russ variant to a Battle Wagon. I don't have a lot of heavy support really, but that's going to change before much longer because Kalt is playing more often nowadays and I'm really looking forward to handing him his IG back to him as a superheated chunk of wrecked metal someday.

But then there is the Defiler. I've had it almost a year and it doesn't even have GS on it yet. I really need to get that taken care of because from what I have heard they are brutal on the battlefield. I've never played one but I've read the stats and it looks ok, nothing too special until it is in close combat. But yeah, that's a possibility as well.

I have an eBay rescue Predator that is completely worthless w/o some Nurgle GS love, so that's an option and one that I would hammer out pretty quickly because vehicles just seem to be my thing in this project. Think I'll save that for a day I need to put up a Death Guard update post and keep pushing forward with what I have for now.

Maybe I'll work on filling out the ranks w/ more Plague Marines. I really have no genuine direction, just doing what I do until I figure it out.

Thanks for looking, C&C welcome, and I'll be back with more awesome Nurgly goodness soon!

Possessed turned out great! I love how they went from a-ball-of-greenstuff-with-limbs to freaks of nurgle. Do the lascannon team next, cause I love havocs!
Your black legion plague marines, maybe you should change their leg trim to silver/steel, like in the codex. Sure the pads are a give away as to where they belong, but I would like to see abit more to set them apart from your normal plague marines.

These look great!

@ Limbo- Glad you like how the Possessed came out. They were fun to build and (mostly) fun to paint. I always get into a slump after the adrenaline of a good idea. I'm pretty happy w/ myself that I actually finished them. Speaking of happy, you'll likely enjoy the rest of this update.

@ Ogryn- Thanks, I appreciate the compliment! It's always decent to get feedback.



Short update tonight because today was spent doing a lot of prep instead of hammering out paint. But I have a couple pretty cool things to share.

First is I've decided to at least prep the next Predator for the Death Guard. Mind you, I'm NOT making this a "project" just yet, I'm merely prepping this for the next steps. I might burn right through it this weekend or I might let it sit for a few months, hard telling right now. I had to take some stuff outside to paint so I took this with it to make the trip worth it.

I picked this very old RT era Predator up on eBay a while back. It is a complete mess:







It took me over an hour to ever so carefully cut the glue away from around the turret and separate it from the hull, but it was worth it. The side-sponson Lascannons are glued in as well. I'm thinking about finding some magnets to create some armament versatility. With any luck 6th Ed will allow for upgrades to different weapon types for the turret other than twin-linked Lascannons. But anyway, this is how it looks now:



There's a lot lot lot of work needed on that thing. I'm looking forward to it.

But before that happens I have another project that has a more immediate application for my Heavy Support options:



Death Guard Havoc Lascannon Team!!!

You may notice that this squad is different than the original squad I was going to have fill this slot. Two of the Marines are new, and all but 1 of the Lascannons are new.



The 2nd Ed and the RT models just didn't make the cut. They were replaced by these two new eager recruits who are looking forward to taking the fight to the enemy... at really, really long range:



Notice the old RT plastic Lascannons. I added the ornate muzzle attachment to give it a more "Chaos" look, and also to elongate the weapon overall. I was able to get some work done on these a bit, really enjoying this project so far and looking forward to getting it done. That said, I'm seeing things now "close up" that I didn't see before. Expect a bit more converting on these two, things like power cables, power packs, etc. Not sure what I'll do, but something more is going to happen w/ these before I call them "done"

The original remaining members of the squad are happy to have been chosen for the task and are well on their way to being part of the overall Death Guard force:



Model on left side is carrying an old RT Chaos Lascannon. I couldn't bring myself to add a muzzle attachment because the model is cool enough exactly as it is. The model on the right is actually a 2nd Ed Chaos Autocannon model. I already have all the Autocannons I'm ever going to need so a couple snips here and there to remove the obvious Autocannon things and a new muzzle attachment and suddenly I have another Lascannon to add into the Death Guard.

Here's 2 more shots:





I posted those just to make the update look bigger.

That's it for now. I'm working tomorrow and I've been running on empty for a long time. It's time for some quality sack time. Thanks for reading, C&C welcome, and believe me when I say MORE IS COMING! A lot more.

Oh wow. That Predator...good job on the clean up - tell me, does that front plate actually have an aquila on it? I'd not mind a decent photo of that - if only because that's scary good plastic moulding if it does which makes me wonder why they didn't keep that sort of thing up for so long.

@ DarkStarSabre- Yes, the front armor plate has an aquila on it. I'm going to be pulling the plate off before I start converting the vehicle w/ GS. I'll take a good photo of it later on because I am at work now, and if I do not post or PM a pic to you by Sunday, remind me here because as cool as I am (which admittedly is pretty cool) I'm still forgetful and irresponsible sometimes.

Masterful job on that predator, really sweet to see something so messy stripped and ready to be rebuilt. And yeah, I really enjoyed this update =) Only issue I have is with the two new recruits for the lascannon team, the ornate muzzle on their guns are to low, it'd look alot better if they were like the las/autocannon one. I'll be looking forward to more updates

@ Limbo- Uh... see, there's a problem there. First, I lost my pin vice so drilling holes is a lot harder. And second, I'm not sure I can get those off. I'll see what I can do.

@ DarkStarSabre- Here ya go:





After working all day enabling the ignorant and rewarding the arrogant I decided that when I got home I was going to knock back a beer. A couple beers. A few beers. Ok, whatever, hammer a 6'er.

And that's exactly what I did.

So tonight's update is brought to you by various Vermont microbreweries and beer goggles (same principle applies to painting miniatures)

I was on a roll and started painting the annoying bits I hate to paint on any Plague Marines. I got a lot done actually. Almost every model in this picture could be finished tomorrow:



And this is all I have left. This is every Plague Marine I have left. The end of this batch, months and months in coming, could be done very soon.



And this just sort of happened:


Oops.

That's it for now. I want to stay up all night and just do this stuff by man I am wicked beat and need some sack time badly. Tomorrow night I have a game and then some other friends coming over later. I'm going to be busy tomorrow. I'll catch up here as I can.

Thanks for reading, thanks for posting, C&C always welcome and appreciated, even when it makes more work for me like changing Lascannon muzzles.

Front and centre bloke in top pic. Without a pack. LOVE him. Moar!


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The paintjob seems slightly different for him, and I think it really works. Be interested to know how/why it's thus, and see more of same.

Dood, this is the text from an ACTUAL ticket of ours:
The names have been changed to protect the highest-paid morons.

44th Floor PARK AVE PLAZA
Television no longer set to CNN .. needs it set back to CNN. It is running a soap opera. Mr Arrogance needs it changed back asap. States there was a ticket opened on this on Mar 9.

Very impressive collection. I know that the newer models look "cooler"... but I think that a lot of the older ones had more "character".
I have a bunch of the original shokk attakk gun packin' Big Meks... I have new ones as well.
Hmmm... I'm sensing a connection here, but can't put my finger on it...

Again, very nice.

@ inmygravenimage- I know exactly what you mean and actually wish I hadn't done that. It's a mixture of flat military green and some flat browns... that model looks more Nurgle than anything else in my force and the temptation to redo the entire army is as intense as it is sickening. I'm not going to repaint my army, but I am going to finish this model in the style I started him. Bad, bad idea on my part. But hey, glad you like it!!!

@ dsteingass- Hold on a minute... *walks to kitchen*...*comes back* ... you just made me go get another beer. I'm actually serious. I'm even taking a picture of it w/ this text up just to prove it. Look:



A couple of my co-workers read my threads on Dakka (because they are fascinated with the dorky nerd stuff I do) so I won't speak my mind freely here. Instead I'll use an acronym: IFHMJSFMAWRPABTMHTDWAFBIATTCBINTPAMKAWDOMSIASAWWFAFMYATIAGTQAMKMBOTWOTD. It's pretty complicated but I think you get what I'm saying.

Skipphag da Devoura- Kindred spirit from the very start! I really enjoy a lot of the new stuff (especially the plastics, they are so so so much easier to convert and express creativity) but nothing is ever going to be as cool to me as an RT Chaos Marine or an Oddboy being grappled by his Minderz. So much character, such perfect expression of the fluff... it's cool to meet someone else that digs on that stuff. Thanks for checking things out and posting!



So yay, a real update finally. And it's pretty cool, because tonight's offerring to Father Nurgle and his horde of gibbering Nurglings (that'd be all you guys... ha) is something I haven't done in a quite a while. Months, actually. February 9th 2011 if you really want to put a fine point on it.

For the first time in 10 months... *drumroll*....


....*still rolling*......



... *just go with it*.....



TA-DA!



An absolutely vanilla squad of Plague Marines with no special anything! Just plain ol' regular troops to fill out a few things like Havoc Squads or fill in an extra slot when I don't take a special weapon or an Aspiring Champion.

I really enjoyed painting these because I din't "have" to. It was slow and fun and got some work done here and there without feeling the stress or pressure that comes with a "project". This I did simply because I wanted to, and more is coming when I feel like it. Between work and other things in my life I'm really enjoying the "nothing special" moments I've been able to find here and there lately.

Here's some closeup shots. I haven't looked at the pics yet except to verify they aren't too blurry. I feel like I put some work and attention into these but like I've seen in someone sig... nothing makes a model look worse than being blown up to full-screen. Ha.






More is coming, sooner than later I expect. I'm thinking about my next projects and they are likely going to be less "fluffy", like a unit of Raptors and a bunch of Bikers. We'll see.

That's for this one. C&C (that stands for "Compliments and Congratulations" in case you were wondering) always welcome. Thanks for reading, I'll be back!

Disgusting goodness...

Jesus Skalk, how many points are you up to now?? Your army is looking great! I don't think I've ever seen a Death Guard army in such a vivid toxic green. Not the standard olive/military green no, but unique none-the-less. Love the RT minis too! Is there a Plague Tower or Titan per chance in your plans?

@ StringBassKnight- Thank you for the compliment! And nice sig...


@ SickSick6- A bit over 6,000 now w/o wargear upgrades and whatnot. Could likely strech it out to 6,500 if I really had to. And as for a Titan...maybe.. But don't hold me to it. However, I absolutely would build a Plaguereaper if someone (hello IRL friends! Are you reading this? Pay attention!) bought me a Shadowsword or Baneblade.

Tell me about it! Damn thing's still like $80 on bitzbarn for just the sprews! then you tack on the extra cost for modding it & you're still at over a hundred dollar model. Stupid expensive Banblade. Just 'cause it's the only thing the IG have that's worth a damn... Okay the Russ too

Buy one? Build one! If I can scratch build a baneblade, anyone can.

Also, re vanilla plagueys - love the red details, on the backpack especially.

Really enjoying the progress, looking forward to see what happens to the pred!

I am a bit disappointed the RT havoc didnt make the cut, I like those goofy old models haha.

What baneblade Bitz do you need?