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I had a some of horribly painted and badly modded models(mostly Catachan and space marine).A bath in Simple Green and a repaint could not save them, too much damage was done due to the horrible body armor I made them in green stuff. So I was Thinking to get rid of them maybe just throw them to the trash. Then I decide to give these a second life! My skill with green stuff having improved since I butchered them why not give it a try. I decide to convert them into plague marine and nurgle renegade guard. Nurgle theme seem the obivious choice since its more easy to add some dirt and rag then try to clean them up

Unfortunately when i started this project I wasn't sure if the result would be acceptable so i did not take the time to take picture during the process. It's a shame i think it would have been interesting because im pretty proud of the result and I think its a good way to save old model. But I only got four space marine and i need at least seven of them and rencetly bougth a lot of badly painted ultramarine on ebay I intend to corrupt them doing so i want to make a complete tutorial on the conversion. So i may post a tutorail soon. But enought blabing here are my nurgle troop:

my ogryn:

my sniper team:

Bligth Marine:

Renegade guard:

The whole army:


New renegade skeleton:

They look great, very nurgle!

A great second life for otherwise unusable models.

I must admit I too wish you had taken some before and WIP photos, I would like to of seen how you made these.

Really loving these guys!

They are so unique and just really cool. I love the colors you have with the green and oranges.

Great work. Congratulations on salvaging an army so efficently. I'm really digging the Cultists.

Thanks all for your comment, I will continue to grow this army with only custom model base on butchered model bougth on ebay and as for now I will try to make WIP photos

A dreadnought
not a lot of conversion on this one

I'm diggin' the Dreadnought. How did you get the green to look like that on the base?

zaak wrote:
I'm diggin' the Dreadnought. How did you get the green to look like that on the base?

I used :green paint and mixed it with a lot of acrylique gloss medium

you can get acrylique medium from any art shop

Wow great salvage of those models, something a bit different and new!

Shame no before pics because the converts look brilliant. I'm useless with GS, the liquid stuff is a boon for me :p

Lots of nicely paint blood, rot and rust!

Really like your take on Nurgle inspired army. Nice work.

Aaargh these are sooo cool!!! I love the way the eyes pop out on the troopers haha. An interesting nurgle scheme, and that brown and green must be pretty easy to paint, while still looking awesome! Very cool. Can't wait to see a full army!

Excellent Nurgle crew! The color scheme is simple and yet totally effective and quite dynamic. The reds (at least in the photos here) are excellent!

Very nice, Especially the Dreadnaught base

You're one of the first I see doing blood right. Especially the blood on the Dreadnought. Very cool!

Mayk0l wrote:
You're one of the first I see doing blood right. Especially the blood on the Dreadnought. Very cool!

It's pretty easy to make just apply red paint with a sponge, then cover with gloss medium to give that wet look

This is a lesson to anyone who wants to play 40k but can't afford the frankly astronomical prices - get on eBay and resurrect some minger-marines!

Well done OP, credit crunch friendly gaming. Might have a go at this myself when I have some time

Long time since i updates this thread.

Here a bunch on Nurgle marine:



And i just bought a bunch of skeleton on ebay i will also turn them into traitor guard!

They look AWESOME!!! :O

They look GREAT! A really effective colour scheme and a very characterful army. Even if they were new models, the compliments would be the same, so the fact that they have been salvaged from second hand minitures is even better.

Make some tutorials when the next batch come in.

YAY! for 2nd edition Plaguemarines! I have a bunch of the monopose plastics I need to work on converting myself.