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>.> can't believe you got that many daemons for that cheap.... (jelous)

Very nice find Skalk, but to echo Henners, I would like to know what you think of the new Plaugebearers aswell. Personaly, I don't like them. I think I just hate everything with posture that bad ^^

Why would a disease-ridden plaguebearer have proper posture?

@ Henners91- I don't have anything against the new plastics other than a couple of them look stupid to me. I had an opportunity on the metal ones that just couldn't be passed up. What I may eventually have (for my Death Guard, not our Daemon list) is a conglomeration of all the Plaguebearer releases, RT to plastic. Keeps with the "old meets new" theme of my Death Guard.

@ bigfish- oh man tell me about it. The staggering amazing 'I can't understand why' thing about it is I am the only person that bid. Not complaining though. Massive haul, affordable price, 'one stop shopping' for all my Lesser Daemon of Nurgle needs! Expect to see them painted and displayed here very soon, I have help now.

@ Limbo- I don't really know what I think of them other than there are a few that look pretty stupid. I'll have to see some in person.

@ dstein- I get your question ( ) but I think what Limbo meant was more about the pose of the model. Some of the models, as noted above, look pretty stupid to me. I'm guessing I'm not the only one.



Well, nothing specific to report other than I'm looking forward to the Chaos Codex so I can get back to work on things, and wicked looking forward to ktbb22 getting her Daemon army built up. If she can wrap her head around the random weirdness game mechanics of Daemons in 40K then she'll be a lifelong player. We're already building a vanilla CSM army just for the fun of modeling. I'm excited about the Daemons getting here, will check the PO this coming Saturday.

Thanks for staying interested, I'll be back soon with some real stuff to share!

Yeah, i too am not entirely sure what to think of the new plague bearer models. They look like peanuts with bow legs. I WANT to like them, but its been really really tough.

Lookin good n Nurgly skalk. Cant wait for your next group photo.

dsteingass wrote:Why would a disease-ridden plaguebearer have proper posture?

They wouldn't, but it doesn't make it less annoying to me. It's like saying "Oh that food is supposed to taste like that", I still don't find it tasty.

Also they look kinda dumb in general I think

hmmm..But they are plastic yes? So perhaps there is some conversion potential?

Ok, so with the new codex coming out I figured I should start paying more attention to this and the Cultist thread.


Loving it all, Skalk.....

I think the new plastic nurglings are actually cute!

I am not a fan of the new plastics. They look like they are short on detail. Too smooth for my taste and the plague bearers look like mister peanut having a bad day. That said i will likely get two packs of them just to have a second squad of 20 for my army.

Skalk has an old meets new theme and as it has a bit of everything in it, he would be remiss to not include them in his collection.

Skalk~ to you have any non GW models in your army. I have been lookin at the avatars of war hearld of nurgle lookin thing. What do you think of their product.?

I haven't seen the nurglings. I really need to read my chaos codex better. I can't wait for the new one.....

Like squigs, they add comic relief
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1630089a

AWWWWWWW!!!!!


What little darlings!!!!!

@ sennacherib- I agree they do look pretty goofy. However, even a broken clock is right once a day (unless you are on European or Military time, then it's only once ) and no doubt there are some awesome bitz that come with them that could be used for conversions elsewhere. I'll be picking some up at some point, maybe in a year or so when some kid sells his Chaos army to move on to the next great thing. Regarding the 'non-GW' modeling in my army, my Daemon Price is from Ultraforge:



I also have a Chaos Spawn from RAFM Cthulhu range:




I've checked out the Herald of Pestilence before:



...and don't like it at all. Looks like a buffed-out Nurgling and doesn't immediately draw my eye and say "wow that's cool".

@ Limbo- Right there with you.

@ dstein- That's the coolest thing about them for sure. The conversion possibiulities are going to be incredible and you can bet I'll be cranking some of those out once the bitz sellers on eBay get their hands on some. In away the Plaguebearers are in line w/ the fluff for Papa Nurgle as all of the Daemons are generally good natured and jovial, they really want to have fun and be your friend, but their 'love' will infect you with horrific diseases and kill you.

@ Max- Thanks! I'll have updates on both as soon as the Codex comes out. I'm likely to skip the next LoER terrain contest because it eats up a lot of time and I have other projects waiting to be completed.



My RT Plaguebearers arrived yesterday and I took pics but could not post them last night. Game / hobby time has been pretty limited lately.

I also rec'd 7 sets of Lightning Claws. I wonder what I'll wind up doing with those. Hmm. HMMM.

In other news, my magnetization project is coming along slowly, as is my re-basing project. All of my Death Guard models are being converted to the ashen wasteland base style I started a while back. Matches my table better.

So, awesome updates coming, just need that new codex!!!


Stupid amended post

Ok, a few things here. It's been quite a while since I actually took pics for an update. First up is the Plague Marine I swapped w/ Galon when he was here for a game. I really like the coloring and the excellent GS work. If I had my Plague Marines to do over again, they would likely be more like this, meaning a mottled and drab color instead of the neon bright poison that mine have, and with a lot more bloated icky bitz. That's not taking anything away from my army, I know it's awesome and unique, plus I'm keeping a theme I started a very long time ago.





I'm also happy to say that my RT Plague Bearers showed up a few days ago.



I've never actually seen any in person, and have to say that I'm not completely in love with them. They look like Goblins.





But it is what it is. They will find a happy home in my Death Guard.

And here's the most awesome thing I'll post on this thread for quite a while- 34 metal Plaguebearers!



Here's a couple shots detailing the 10 different types included in the horde:





I'm thinking that I'm not going to repaint them. I'm going to leave that to ktbb22. I'm trying to get her more involved on Dakka and gaming in general, I think if she started a P&M blog about her Daemon army she'd have an easier time getting into all of this. I'm going to help her with it of course, and to that end I've got her a step ahead in the right direction:





They look absolutely miserable. I hope the get repainted soon. really soon. Hint hint. Soon. Sooooooooooooooon.



That's it for this one. Still waiting on the Codex before I really get back into this. Thanks for looking!

I can totally understand the repainting action with the plague bearer models but when i saw them i was pretty stoked on the paint job.
What do you use to strip paint. have you every tried LA Totally Awesome. Its only 1$ at the dollar store and i have to swear that its the best thing that i have tried. works Totally Awesome.

@ sennacherib- I agree, the paint wasn't that bad at all and if they were going to be 'mine' I'd likely have hit them w/ a green / brown wash to bring them in line w/ the rest of my Death Guard. The reason they got stripped and what I used to strip them is explained at the link below



Ok. Rather than continue to post ktbb22's Daemon project here, I've created a separate thread for it. Please check it out if you have an interest.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/470352.page#4660111

Only news I have for my Plague Marines is that I started soaking my RT Plaguebearers and I'll clean them up soon. They are my next project and will be part of my 'allies'.

More coming soon!

Not much of an update, but here are my RT Plaguebearers striped and ready for primer:



I'm looking forward to painting these becasue it's going to be a quick and really easy job. Base white, wash w/ my ink mix, swords, and fiddly bitz. Will have them posted as soon as they are done.

This thread is not dead but updates will be slow until I get the new Codex and find time to really focus and paint.

Love your work. I was curious about that Daemon prince your making. Just how big is he? I am just starting a Nurgle style chaos army, And i love the soul grinder, but hate the body on it. Would that daemon prince you are working on be large enough to take the place of the body on the soul grinder?

@ Arrathon- Thanks for the compliment, always nice to hear other people like where this project is going. The Daemon Price is completed, the above pic was a reference to show I'm not using just GW models in my army. Here's a completed pic, and one that provides scale:

On 60mm base, has been moved to a 40mm since then:



Leading a mighty force of Death Guard:



It's the best Daemon Prince model I've ever seen for the Death Guard and I'm really happy that I picked it up.

O yes, he is looking sexy!! And..he will fit perfectly onto a Soul grinder!.. Now i must stop myself from buying models until The new codex comes out lol. Oh and if i may get your opinion, I just put up a w.i.p shot of a test paint scheme for my Nurgle theme stuff. I'd love to hear your thoughts! Just look for The Stubborn brush Thread here in the blog section.

Responded on your thread but the short of it is your scheme is excellent and I'm subbed for updates.

Small update today, happy to share this as I'm finding some time to get some things done. Started on my RT Plaguebearers this morning. They are sporting the exactr same color scheme as my Plague Marines.

Primed flat white:



Inked green and washed w/ Griphon Sepia:



A few closeups:







I was a bit skeptical when I first got these, but just like Nurgle's Rot will spread across an entire plant, these Plaguebearers have grown on me. They represent the goofy and funny aspect of GW that has been gone for far too long. It reminds me of a time when Nurgle was jovial and playful. He just wanted to be your friend. It never occurred to him that things like pestilence / disease / death were not endearing factors to those he wanted to play with.

I'm having a lot of fun w/ these and you can expect to see more progress soon.

Green 'n' gruesome

These guys are great at just that - showing the jovial side of nurgly stuff, with their smirks an grims. The yelling dude with the nurgling is great.

Thanks monkeytroll! I'm going to keep going on these and give them a decent paint job. I'm going to paint all 10 of them but will try to keep them in squads of 7 (which means it would be awesome if I could find 4 more of them...)

You could try pm'ing Mabrothrax or over on the papanurgle forums maybe? I too love the comedy gold of your plague daddy-kind.

Thanks graven! I found a possible hookup from a local buddy of mine so all I did was check his thread out and sub becasue it is awesome.



Not sure if anyone is interested or not, but I found this (3rd Ed metal Plaguebearers) and it might be a good deal when it sells. Worth looking at anyway.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Warhammer-40k-Deamons-of-Chaos-20-Nurgle-Plaugebearers-Metal-Painted-/140848552702?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20cb3a5afe

More awesomeness from me soon. I'm 'batchin' it tonight, no one home! Whoo! I'm really looking forward to knocking back a couple beers and really focusing on painting. I'll likely be adding more to my Plaguebearers, but I also have some terrain I'm really into (the stuff from Dave) AND I have a couple other things, and then other other things, and of course there's there's the OTHER other other projects... never a dull moment when i have time to model / paint / etc awesomeness.

I'll be back with something to share as soon as I can.

Mmm...Too many ongoing projects? That's an odd situation! I hope it'll never happen to me...errr...wait...

The plaguebearers are an interesting deal, too bad the seller is only shipping whithin the U.S.
I can't for the next CSM codex to see how your army will be impacted

Great to see the Daemons but whatever happened to the Raptors?

Skalk,

Just finally caught up with your plog. Brilliant stuff as always mate. The Plauge-Bearers are an awesome blast from the past. Reminds me of the days as a kid looking through the old 'Citadel Journal', wishlisting my pocket money away.

As Llamahead has pointed out, any pics of the Raptors? And also (I may have missed it) where did you get those jump packs from?

Take care as always (no more injuries!)

Bash