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Anyone have any tips for painting plaguebearers of nurgle? I'm not sure how to paint them, but i don't want them all to be the same color green.
What do you guys do for the skin? Wash? drybrush? layering?

Hopefully this will help. Good luck!

ok thanks I was just wondering if any painters on dakka had tips rather than just googling. but still, that video was helpful

i saw one was painted purple on here or how about a sickly white with brown ink then gloss varnish? I'm not a fan of nurgle/chaos but i think that would be pretty cool.

not a big fan of the purple, but gross brown would be cool

You could go with a medium green and devlin mud wash. I'm a fan of iyaden yellow and Gretchen green with a devlin mud but only you can decide. Just make sure when your done with the wash you go back with the base color and clean it up a tad and do your highlights.

You could do what I'm planning on doing with my Crypt Ghouls.

Prime with black.
Basecoat with a flesh tone (I'm planning on Rakarth Flesh, as it is a bit more pale than most flesh tones)
Apply a mixture of 25% water, 5% dish soap (I use the Dawn liquid soap that looks blue in the container) and 70% Nurgling Green.
That mixture will apply like a wash rather than a normal paint, giving a bit of texture to the flesh tones.

Go back and use a 75/25 mixture of Ungor Flesh and Evil Sunz Scarlet for the boils and the like, very carefully highlighting the area around the boils with a Evil Sunz Scarlet mixture the same as the Nurgling Green one.

This is how I painted mine:

Everywhere On The Model:
Undercoat: Chaos Black
Base: knarlok green

For The Flesh:
Drybrush: Bleached bone on the pustules and on the ripped skin around the sores
Wash: Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush: Iyaden Darksun on the pustules

For The Wounds:
Layer: Scab red
Wash: Leviathan Purple
Finish: 'Ard Coat

For The Teeth And Toe Nails:
Layer: Commando Khaki
Layer: Bleached bone as a highlight

For The Horn:
Layer: Commando Khaki blended into the green head
Layer: Scorpion Green at the top blended into the bone horn

For The Eye:
Layer: Scorpion Green

For The Protruding Spine:
Layer: Bleached Bone
Glaze: Watered down scorched brown
Layer: Bleached Bone to highlight the centre height of the spine

Sword And Earring:
Layer: Runelord Brass
Drybrush: Forgeworld Weathering Effects Rust Powder

For The Base:
Texture: Stirland Mud
Layer: Scorched brown on the rim

For The Maggots:
Layer: Daemonette hide
Wash: Leviathan Purple
Layer: Daemonette hide highlight

nice! that helps i'll probably do it that way