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It's been two and a half years since I last posted on Dakka. New job, new internet restrictions, no Dakka access. Honestly, I kind of forgot the site was a thing. I've missed so much! When I first made my account, I was doing random commissions and neglecting my own hobby passions in order to gain what extra income I could. Nowadays, things have settled after getting burnt out, overloaded, and subsequently shutting down any commission service, I've been able to focus my attention on my own projects. Painting is finally relaxing again and I can move away from the GW painting style I was stuck in for so long.

So I will be posting my new WIP attempts at grimdark/realistic/dirty painting and my adventures into the wonderful world that isn't edge highlighting! I've worked in emergency services my entire career so I don't exactly get to take advantage of quarantine time (gotta go to work, regardless), but it's amazing what working on your own stuff does for hobby motivation.

The first picture is two of my completed Plague Marine test models. The color scheme is (un-originally) based around Marines that succumbed to Nurgle in the depths of an Ocean World, and I attempted to reflect that in the coloring, the excessive rust, and the greenish-gray flesh colors. The other idea was almost like the old school Scooby Doo villain in a diving suits who had the creepy yellow light coming from the helmet underwater. I added this idea to make the rest of the model seem as though it were in a darker area, perhaps even still implacably marching underwater, and I like how they turned out. However, the bottom one was painted with acrylics only, darkening it with multiple layers of washes, but even after Dullcote, it is still a bit shiny. It was based with just some subtle colors and washes. The top one was painted and then given a layer of AK Interactive Streaking Grime (for Panzer Grey) and cleaned up with mineral spirits before applying gloss to the black claws and horns and based with contaminated snow. So far, I'm a fan of the Streaking Grime method, though I got some different versions to try out.





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Next up, a FLGS competition piece I made. Not the scheme of my Traitor Guard, but more of a one-off attachment to my main force, my Nurgle Renegade Baneblade. First attempt using chipping medium on a large scale (disclaimer: it was decanted hair spray as I didn't have any medium lol). Relatively happy with how it turned out, but it didn't win anything in the public vote.






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Most recently, one of my favorite projects became the subject of my efforts. I was gifted a Renegade box set, but I found I couldn't leave them as normal Knights. So I made this one into a wholly Nurgle Knight, and the other (not pictured, yet) into a once Imperial, now corrupted, Knight. This was before the Chaos Knights stuff, so now I suppose they are Knight Despoilers, since I'm against magnetization lol. This one is allied with my Death Guard, while the other will likely be its own beast (at this point, I'm planning tarnished marble as the color for it).

Got some time on my little vacation to finish up the Knight itself and now working on the base. Also got started converting and painting Drycha for my grimdark Sylvaneth!

My god it's glorious - I absolutely love all the rust and corrosion and weathering on the nurgle stuff. Drycha looks great too - at first I thought she was a daemon prince conversion, certainly fits the part. Can't wait to see the rest of the sylvaneth!

Hey thanks! I finally managed to finish the Nurgle Knight. Super excited since I’ve done a couple Knights but never one of my own!

Decided to enter the Grimdark Compendium’s Into The Dark painting competition. My other chaos knight will be my entry, though this one is modeled and to be painted as a loyalist somewhat recently fallen to Nurgle than a straight up daemon knight like my last one. I also managed to nearly finish (other than basing) a color test run for my kitbashed Blightlords and my Deathshroud. I’m liking the blue and rust color scheme with the yellow lights, so I think I’m gonna stick with it!

Looks great ! Keep posting

and may that is a lot of armies in your sig

These are some really nice and corroded looking guys. Well done with that!

 Stevefamine wrote:
Looks great ! Keep posting

and may that is a lot of armies in your sig

I totally forgot about my signature!! I need to update that lol I can only use Dakka on mobile so I can’t see my signature. Thank you for the heads up haha

Been working like crazy, but I’m back! I’ve been super excited to work on my entry for The Grimdark Compendium’s #intothedark painting contest, and decided to enter my second Chaos Knight. This thing has been built for over a year...maybe two...and I finally got around to painting it!

So it started with grey...




I thought it would be cool to have the cockpit carved open and leave the contents a mystery, and with Nurgle being so fond of wood (from a Gnarlmaw, maybe?) I figured it would be a nice touch to add the planks covering the cockpit. This Knight and my last Knight aren’t the weapon load outs I would’ve wanted, but they were from the Renegade box set, so weapon options were limited.

Next, I decided to torture myself and elected to make it a once noble Imperial Knight that succumbed fairly recently to the temptation of Nurgle’s compassion, and what says regal or imperial better than marble?



This was a fun experiment and the first time I’ve painted marble with an airbrush. I used a technique I found on YouTube that involves cheap spider-web decor from Halloween and using it as a mask for the marble pattern. So I base coated black, sprayed some grey and brown patches, and the spread the webbing on each armor piece and airbrushed Vallejo Ghost Grey over it. Upon a rather easy removal, I was surprised at how well it worked for being the first attempt.


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After that, I decided that it was time to keep experimenting! Pulling out my new (and by new, I mean, I’ve had it forever and never used it) bottle of Vallejo Liquid Mask. I spread it around the armor plates because, let’s face it, no one in their right mind is excited to paint the metal parts of a Knight by hand, be you filthy Imperial or fellow heretic.



It went on well, though it began to dry much quicker than I anticipated (one brush was harmed in the process of this step)...sad face. Continuing on, I airbrushed Iron Warriors and viola! The metal was based out. With an hobby knife and tweezers, I set to peeling the Liquid Mask away. It wasn’t terrible, but some the parts that were too thinly coated or narrow nooks and crannies proved difficult. To my relief, I quickly discovered that my rubber-tipped clay shapers that I use for the occasional green stuff worked wonders!!!



It was finally time for my favorite step these days. The weathering! Cue browns and oranges, a stupid amount of AK Interactive Streaking Grime, and like sixteen q-tips being sacrificed.






I still have a few elements to add, including deciding how to base this thing, but I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.


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Last update for the day. I recently received an incredible gift a Knight Acheron from a friend who is moving away. It was strangely posed and off balance, not to mention painted as aligned to his Minotaurs, but a few hours of snapping and gluing and trying to pose the damn thing paid off! Decided to go for a scenic-ish base with this one as well and, honestly, probably all of my large models, because I hate myself...



I also got my scheme down for my Nurgle Daemons! This is my test Plaguebearer but I liked it so much that I did five more and have the other four and a Poxbringer on the table, ready for painting next.

Updates!!

Responses or not, I’m having fun documenting my progress. Recently, my FLGS announced they’re having an “air show”, in a similar vein to the “car show” they did last year that I painted my Nurgle Baneblade for. So, I decided to use it as an excuse to go all out on a model I’ve had for years and hadn’t touched: my only Traitor Valkyrie.

I was stumped, however, because I absolutely DESPISE the clear flying stands. I think they look horrible and take away from the aesthetic, no matter how brilliantly painted the flyer itself is. This started me thinking of how to keep the elevation similar, but incorporate the base as a “stand” instead of just ignoring the giant clear plastic stand most flyers are mounted on. Digging through my bits box(es), I made an interesting discovery. I still had the sprues from my Baneblade kit, i.e. I had all the bits for a big-ass volcano cannon! Grabbing an urban looking piece of terrain of unknown origin, I began to rig up battlefield remains into a sort of display base. I used materials I hadn’t used before, including battlefield wire and carving the metal plates out of thick styrene. I then realized I didn’t have enough Green Stuff to make the mound of earth around the cannon, so I expanded upon my use of baking soda mixed with basing materials and superglue, and started dropping super glue onto a mound made of soda and rocks! It took a lot of glue (like three tubes just for the mound), but I was fairly happy with how it came out.



Happy with this, I began wondering how to differentiate this Valkyrie from a dirty loyalist one. Obviously, the one Aquila had to go. I had already planned on having chaos stars on the final paint job and rust because my traitors are in service to Nurgle. This machine is not, however, a daemon engine, and I felt would almost have to have some patchwork repairs to make it at least somewhat operable, hence the random armor plates bolted to the hull. Somewhere along the line in storage, the canopy had come off the cockpit, and I decided that some high speeds and winds wouldn’t bother the disgustingly resilient followers of the Plaguefather, so I left it off. I switched the Imperial pilot heads with some renegade gas mask heads from Victoria Miniatures and was pleased with the transition to chaos.






A few days later, it was time to try and start painting this thing. I forgot (again) to put down my Typhus Corrosion before my first base coat, so I slapped it on after the initial pass with browns and oranges for a rust layer. Up next was a layer of Vallejo Chipping Medium and after that, I laid down the black that is the primary armor color for my traitors. Over that, I decided to test myself and used only the airbrush with no stencils or anything to paint the chaos stars on each wing. Cue half an hour of spraying water and chipping with a small dry brush...






I’m close to being done! Still have my Renegade Knight to finish for the Into The Dark competition as well...I am wanting to go back and sharpen the chaos stars with an actual brush, and then get the pilots down, hopefully with a very sickly skin tone. I painted parts of the base to vaguely resemble Cadian wreckage, because how awesome would it be to be part of the breaking of Cadia???

That basing is AMAZING. I can't wait to see the finished product!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
That basing is AMAZING. I can't wait to see the finished product!

Hey, thanks! It’s a labor of love lol. Here is the finished Renegade Valkyrie!








I also managed to finish my Chaos Knight for the Into The Dark competition! Got some feedback and realized the OSL was wonky, so I went back and fixed that, and I am much more pleased with it now.

Okay, so it's been awhile since I updated this, but now that Dakka is unblocked on my work PC, things are going to be SO much easier to update.

Firstly, the Into the Dark competition was completed and, not to my surprise, I didn't win, but I had a blast trying out new things with my Chaos Knight. Here are the finished pictures that I submitted!









After that, my FLGS had an "Air Show" painting competition similar to a "Car Show" one they had last year. Last time it was any and all wheeled or tracked vehicles. This time, as you would expect, was anything and everything that flies! There were both Sci-Fi and Fantasy categories, so naturally, I had to enter both. I've posted progress on the Traitor Valkyrie I was doing for the Sci-Fi entry, but I had this Nethyrmaul the Undying Reaper Bones mini sitting in my basement for...like...seven years...or something embarrassingly stupid like that. So up on the plinth it went and I went all out with the base and the grimdark paint job. It's a zombie, after all. Bright colors are for the living! Also, completed picture of the Valkyrie because I couldn't remember if I posted it or not.

















It was my first time working with some UHU glue I ordered specifically for this project, as I wanted gore and flesh to be hanging off the ribs and the jaws. I mixed the glue with Blood for the Blood God technical paint and went nuts, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Surprise of the month: I won! Both categories, actually! It was public vote, and I don't know that many people around town (what can I say, I'm not a people person, despite my career). My wife and I didn't even get a chance to go in and vote due to work, so I was really flattered that I was the winner by public vote. First time I've ever won a trophy for...anything! I don't care if it's just plastic, it still counts








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Next up, I've been busy. Haven't updated, but since I've gone to night shifts, I'm at my desk pretty much everyday now. And I've come to a saddening conclusion. I love Forgeworld, but man, screw those prices. I like giant tainted robots of pestilence and destruction as much as the next Chaos player, but I could never afford most of the awesome models, much less any Titans (epic foreshadowing).

So, in my personal need to have some of the awesome FW units, I began planning some kitbashes and conversions. Firstly, the Leviathan Dreadnought. Awesome model, fun lore; love the insanity side of it. Get one of those to defect to Chaos, chain it up, and watch it go nuts on a bunch of loyalists whenever you need it. Couldn't stand not having one after that mental image...so I made one.

Used a gift certificate I had to my FLGS to snag an Easy-to-Build Redemptor Dreadnought with the sole purpose of making it the opposite of Easy-to-Build and sacrificed a Betrayal at Calth Contemptor I had lying around to sell the Leviathan chassis look. Managed to find some half-sphere pearl jewelry decorations in varying sizes at a couple local stores and subsequently obtained a near-lifetime supply of pustules and boils for future Nurgle conversions, so that's exciting!











And then the painting ensued! I've decided to label my Death Guard forces the Asphyxiate Fellowship. Their colors are blue with obviously heavy corrosion and mutation, to fall in line with their lore that I'm still working on. (MORBID SUBJECT WARNING) The theme behind the army and colors is drowning, as Nurgle is also the chaos god of despair, and I can imagine very few scenarios where despair is more prevalent than those terrible moments. Working in emergency services and being a father, pediatric drownings and pediatric calls in general are especially difficult to cope with, and it's weirdly therapeutic to have an army based off superhuman daemon-worshippers that have survived and embraced their fate, turning it into inhuman resiliency and strength. In a weird sort of way, with Grandfather Nurgle caring so much about his children, it's almost like he managed to save them from their fate - something I wish I could do more...(END MORBID SUBJECT WARNING).

Anyway, starting with the blues and chipping, I decided to stick with the same system and colors as my Nurgle Daemons and go the pale grey, purple, and black route.













Finally, threw on some Streaking Grime for the most fun part of any project these days.

Aaaaaaaand...finished lightbox photos!










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Nextly (that's a word, don't question it), I managed to knock out a whole squad of Traitor Guardsmen and some Plaguebearers! Super simple schemes that go well with a coat of Streaking Grime.













Unexpectedly, I got an opportunity to play AoS the other day! It wasn't a regular match, but it was 1500 points of my Nighthaunt led by Nagash against my friend's epic Vorgorath and Skalok, a model that's 1200 points alone. The models in the picture are the only things that remained "alive" at the end (they're ghosts, I don't know what to call it). Nagash's magical abilities and a healthy barrage of spells were the only thing that managed to bring the damn thing down at the end, though the Mortal Wound bonus from the Spirit Hosts did a hefty amount of damage towards the beginning of the hunt.



Keeping on with the updates (I did say I got a lot done...), I did a couple local commissions: a Deathwatch version of the 30th Anniversary Marine, the Black Gobbo for Bloodbowl, a Deathwatch Redemptor Dreadnought of the Unnumbered Sons, and a Drukhari Haemonculus. The shoulder pauldron for the dreadnought was a best guess and creative license, as neither the client (my FLGS store owner) nor myself could really find any official interpretation of the symbol as described. The Haemonculus was a nice exercise in bruised and pallid skin tones and effects, and the Anniversary Marine was my first REAL attempt at freehand. The client (again, my FLGS store owner) wanted him to be from the Exorcists Chapter, but didn't have a sculpted shoulder pad and wasn't interested in using Shapeways or anything. So I said I'd be happy to attempt to freehand it, and I have to say I'm not completely disappointed with the way it came out. Took a lot of back and forth, and not a small amount of cursing as I had to redo the red with the airbrush once or twice, but still, I think it came out fairly decent for a first attempt!





















Speaking of Dreadnoughts and my need to have the FW variants, I decided to carve up some things and make a Deredeo counts-as, though I'm seriously tossing around the idea of butchering another Redemptor to make a more accurately scaled conversion...

And now...my magnum opus. (Cue light bulb from earlier epic foreshadowing)

FW Titans are expensive. Kitbashing and converting takes time. I've definitely got more time than money, so let the madness begin.

The idea started with a dinosaur toy my kids play with. Ten bucks, made of flexible plastic, and coincidentally the exact proportions I decided I'd need for a daemonic Warhound Titan.

Cue buying a second one and hiding it from the kids until I could carve its legs off...started building support, posing, basing, and hip joints. I am almost entirely making this up as I go along, but I want it to be proportionate, accurately sized to its FW counterpart, and creative and complicated enough that it's respectable to play in casual games at the shop.

I bought an oval picture frame that I gutted and filled with foam board underneath to serve as a display base, and used some art aisle supplies from Walmart as bases for the individual feet (turns out they are 80mm circles exact, so eat it, FW). After starting construction and getting to the point where the legs are connected to each other, I decided I wanted the bases to be connected somehow to add to the stability of the overall model, so I carved and sort of guessed my way into connecting them with a large rectangle base from the old fantasy models and then running a trim of styrene around the entire border, before connecting and solidifying everything with some green stuff and super glue/baking soda magic. Not picture, I've filled in the open spaces in the bases and the entirety of the display base with air dry Sculpey (an entire two pound brick, to be precise), so now I'm not super worried about the model tipping and the model base will slot nicely into the display base with flush surfaces. Once the bases are dry, I'm going to do my standard super glue/baking soda/basing material texturing and I even threw a piece of the old Quake Cannon Crater terrain and some Sector Mechanicus pieces in to add variety and wreckage. There will be an obligatory amount of skulls and likely some water effects, hopefully. It is VERY early in the build, so please don't judge too harshly. The goal is have this done by August 15th for a local Titan Walk and surprise all the loyalists who think they are the only ones to have anything bigger than Knights (so much so that the Walk is Imperium vs. Chaos/Xenos team-up). My friend, who is the organizer, has two Warhounds, a Reaver, and a Warlord just to himself. The shop owner has a Reaver, and one guy is even 3D printing a Warbringer, which is awesome as all hell. Then they and a bunch of people have entire Knight Households...The opposition is mostly Stompas and I think an Eldar Titan, but I'm hoping to back them up with a surprise Warhound, two Despoilers, and my Traitor Acheron, which will hopefully get painted.

So, to the base:











Getting the basic shape and everything down with support rods, foil and some green stuff, I'm filling in a bulk of the larger parts with Sculpey before I go back over it with more green stuff for texturing and adding things like pipes, wires, cables, skin, diseased sections, etc. Still cheaper than FW.

For the chassis, I took inspiration from Biohazard's Gorehound build (honestly, that thread is the entire reason I thought of scratch-building a Warhound, so thank you!) and took an extra Land Raider I had abandoned in the basement, busted off all the old Dark Angels iconography young-me had glued onto it, and started cutting. Removing the tracks, I started mounting styrene sheets to the open areas and learned you can bend it with heat! So, I got a couple of panels down and mounted the tanks from my Lord of Skulls onto the back of the chassis. I removed the front section where the ramp was and built a skeletal outline of the machinery. I wanted this to be obviously and entirely daemonic, like the princeps turned to chaos, agreed to a deal with a powerful daemon, and got the crap end of the deal as his titan was completely integrated with daemonic power and corruption. So for the "neck" and head area, I wanted it to be the opposite of a cockpit. This thing needs to be sentient, but not in a machine-spirit kind of way. I cut up an old Land Speeder and rearranged some parts before mounting it to the chassis and attaching a ping pong ball, which, after some green stuff goodness, will be an iconic singular Nurgle eye, glaring balefully at those unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of its putrescence.





The ultimate goal is to scratch-build a Vulcan Mega Bolter and an Inferno Cannon as the weaponry, and the big challenge is going to be heating and forming the styrene armor panels, before going back in with green stuff to make some of that fancy chaos armor trim. I'm obtaining a set of the blank Warhound leg plates from a friend that used the really detailed ones for his Custodes-allied Titans, so it'll at least have the obvious leg plates of a Warhound (though they will be suitably corrupted). I intend to, as far as concepts and basics of construction goes, keeping it as accurate to a FW Warhound as possibly, but like Biohazard said, I get the satisfaction that no one else will have a Chaos Warhound exactly like mine!

So, that's where I'm at, and I think everything is up to date! As long as Dakka remains accessible, I should be able to regularly update this, and my hope is to get some feedback as far as the acceptability of my Warhound build at this point in time. I don't do tournaments or anything, just casual play, but I like to be as fair as possible. Do I need to re-scale anything? Add something? This is a creative endeavor of obsessive-hobbying proportions and any and all constructive criticism is welcome

Someday...I will build more. I will create one of each Titan to serve the Plaguefather, but that is in the far future. Not 40,000 years, but future. I think the Warhound is arguably the most difficult to scratch-build and kitbash just due to the nature of the legs and how they are constructed, being the only non-humanoid shaped Titan...tomorrow will hopefully find some more progress on this beast!

Oooh, I'm excited to see how your titan builds!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Oooh, I'm excited to see how your titan builds!

Hey, thanks! It's slow going, but it's going lol



Updated picture: the base fits! Nice and flush, and now I can start adding actual basing material to it.

Update time!

More work on the legs of the Plaguehound:



Finished building the Vulcan Mega-bolter and even laid down a rust layer and varnish so I can start painting it as a test run for how the rest of it will look with paint...





Also finished construction of the inferno cannon, though I still have to sculpt the armor panel trim and add divots, texture, and Nurgle-y bits. The FW inferno cannon has three barrels, so I decided, in keeping with the FW model as inspiration, that three barrels could be arranged in a manner a little more pleasing to the Plaguefather lol




Current state of the body, which is still extremely skeletal. The plan is to sculpt the trim on the main body armor panel, and then have some torches pinning a "titan banner" in place draped over the front of the armor panel and part of the neck, which will be daemonic flesh and the massive ball at the end will be a giant daemonic eye. Grand plans, so we will see how it goes.

Update time!

Finished the test-paint on the Vulcan Mega Bolter. I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Going from one of my wife's makeup boxes to a full-fledged titan weapon is something I'd say I'm pretty proud of!






Unrelated, I finally finished my first unit for AoS! A 20-body unit of Chainrasps, but I definitely found my grimdark scheme. Winter Streaking Grime was basically a happy accident. I didn't photograph all 20 because picture size and there's no point in photographing duplicate sculpts...

Because life happens, I'm bouncing around between projects with no real direction, trying new things, testing out new ideas, etc.

Tried to figure out how I wanted to do my grimdark Sylvaneth, and settled on this little theme.

Branchwych:


Dryad:


This was after finding a tutorial for making cloth and cloth products out of PVA and tissues...it worked like a charm, I feel like. They dry nearly as hard as plastic! So, I translated that over to my Death Guard. I love the Poxwalker models, but it bugs me that they all have smiles. I get the fluff reasons, but they are essentially zombies. I wanted mine to have a bit more anonymity and a less human emotion (or more, if you think about it) about them.

That mega bolter is very nice, I would struggle to get rust that convincing with real steel!
and those vails are pretty sweet too, would look creepy with a hint of glowing eyes.

 maxwin wrote:
That mega bolter is very nice, I would struggle to get rust that convincing with real steel!
and those vails are pretty sweet too, would look creepy with a hint of glowing eyes.

Thanks! That's what I'm going for with the dark Sylvaneth, as they are supposed to be from Aqshy and thus will have glowing red eye (sockets).

Very promising! I almost don't mind that the Plague Titan is on hold. Almost...

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Very promising! I almost don't mind that the Plague Titan is on hold. Almost...

Haha it won't be on hold for long, I promise! I had to bail on a local Titan Walk that I wanted to get it done for because of childcare issues, so I put it on hold. I've also been moving my painting area from the downstairs to an extra bedroom, so everything is kind of scattered right now, but it'll be back on track soon. Managed to get some poxwalkers done so I will be posting those here shortly!


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Okay, so as promised, poxwalkers! I dislike the "smiling" aesthetic of the poxwalkers. I get it, but I'm just not a fan. So I wanted to find a way to make them creepier. Faceless enemies tend to be creepy anyways, especially when they laugh or make zombie noises, so I elected to use a similar method as I did the veils on the Sylvaneth and give them shrouds over their faces, hopefully emulating the white sheet laid over corpses. I took a bit from the Nighthaunt models and tried to make it noticeable where the eye sockets were, to give it a like vibe. I switched around some heads and weapon pieces so they weren't a blob of copycat models, too.

Not exactly a WIP, but an exciting update nonetheless...bad decisions can still feel good even after you realize they were bad decisions

Okay, so life happens, and it's been awhile since any updates, but I haven't been completely idle! Did a few commissions, which I won't post here because this is for my personal projects, but I also got some work done in Nurgle's realm. My last post foreshadowed an expensive decision that has turned out to be quite fun!



I added the dagger in the intestines for WYSIWYG purposes, running this as a GUO. The join between the styrene and the model will obviously be obscured with weathering and proper "guts" effects.

I also managed to nail down a method for painting my smaller Death Guard units without an airbrush, so now I can tackle them at work! Here are my (only) Blight Hauler and my (also only) Bloat Drone, though the Bloat Drone doesn't have the final "Nurgly" effects added in the photo because I have goldfish memory.




I finished the leader of my Traitor Guard, cutting apart a Prefectus Commissar and sculpting my first beard from greenstuff thanks to a crazy lad on Instagram who is outfitting the most awesome Space Wolf army ever with epic beards and hairstyles (@Valbjorn on Instagram). I present Renegade Commander Daravor:




As well as some long distance f**k-you.





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In the midst of all that, my FLGS did a charity raffle for Breast Cancer Awareness and ended up raising a few thousand dollars! A friend bought this model specifically for it and I had the joy of painting it, even though it is a loyalist.




Also forgot that I finished a HWT for my Traitor Guard as a test for the bigger models before I tackled the tank.



The current projects are the GUO, which is only about an hour's worth of work away from being done, and this poor thing. I rescued it in a trade and decided it deserved a more fitting place among the Death Guard/Nurgle Daemons.



The claws were glued on backwards, it was covered in dust, none of the legs were glued in place, and the poor thing just flopped over everywhere. An hour or so plastic surgery went a long way and the cannibalization of a 3D printed mini I purchased off of Etsy resulted in a grotesque monster that I'm excited to paint up and give some sickly skin and rusty metal. A barrel of foul daemonic ichor is chained to its back and is piped into the Rot Cannon, while the rest of the thing just yells blindly at....everything, I suppose. I fixed and positioned the legs, gave it a base with some material that will eventually be painted as metal torn from Imperial emplacements, and now it sits, waiting patiently for some disgusting attention. This will be the first of three Plague Hulks (because Nurgle and three, I'm dumb, I know).



Should have a finished picture of the GUO here in the next day or two. I know I haven't made much progress on the Nurgle Warhound, but hobby time is scarce these days (three children will do that to you ) and the scale of that thing is such that I can't work on it at work like I can normal models.

I did it! I finished my first Great Unclean One!