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Been working on the palanquin lord to try and get projects finished instead of starting too many at once!





Base is heading towards finished, figured it would be a lot easier to do them seperately, not sure if there's enough going on up top on the palanquin itself, but I didn't want to make it too busy. Used a scenery floortile that's been trimmed down to fit in with the theme of rotten imperium the rest of my nurgle stuff seems to have. Feeling a little disheartened having seen the votes on some of my earlier nurgle stuff, I know it wasn't all fantastic but yeesh, still must resist the temptation to go back and start it all again otherwise none of the new stuff will ever get done. Still at least some of the newer stuff seems to have been more well received so I'll just take it as a sign of improvement.

Oh pish.
Don't fret about the gallery votes- They're so erratic sometimes they're meaningless. All that matters is that if YOU like the result!

I, for one, rather like your nurgle stuff, and those Nurglings look awesome! The bright red tongues and guts really set off the sickly green skin.
Im really looking forward to seeing that lord get paint!

Yeah, I like your stuff. Don't worry about votes.

Really what it comes down to for me is... First, is your stuff cool? Second, is your stuff unique? This adds to the cool. Third, is it painted well and/or modeled well?

With the last one, it always feels like you could paint and model better, because with art there's no "perfect" unless that's defined by you. Everyone's opinions will be different, but I think your stuff is great.

Thanks fellas I was just having one of those days I guess, I will eventually go back over the older stuff as even I'm not that happy with it but I don't want to stop progressing with getting new things painted for that and it's not like I hate any of it.

Palanquin is a bit further along, had to 'trim' some of the nurglings a little to make it stable but it's good to be sticking with something and getting it done even if it is slow progress with all the other stuff I've got to take up time at the minute.



Sculpted another pad onto the champion so I could more easily add transfers, and to make him a little bit more armoured so he's not quite as 'fantasy'.

So that's one project down, on to the next one! Really torn on what I actually want to get done next there's a decent amount of things to pick from to say the least, wish I knew how the teams were looking for my next game so I could at least do things that will be in my list. Will just start on the daemonettes again till I'm feeling inspired.

That looks pretty nice. The head however just looks like a single blob of colour with white highlights. Are there any closeups that show the head's details?

It's a fair point, I have tended towards going over the top on the osl with my plague marines lenses up to this point as it tends to lean towards 'gasmask horror', though I'm having a bit of a crisis of confidence on the nurgle stuff as it is anyway. Will try and get a few more shots in with the next update as the single shot does miss a fair few details too.

So it's been a little while again, turns out I'm having to move before August even hits so I guess things will slow down again while I have to pack/unpack/find a house etc etc, but if a job calls you don't say no in the current climate. After a little prompting I think I'll be starting work on the plague tower again, it's been such a slow burner but I still love the model and it would be good to get it finished finally.

Been working on the lowest gun, the delightful 'pus cannon', decided to cover the secondary hatch with a 'pus container' and added a few more details. On a side note the vallejo water effects liquid bottle suffers from far too much shrinkage, I expected a little but I've had to add more three times now, wish I'd just done it with greenstuff now as I'm planning to paint it anyway, just thought that was a good lazy option!



Also as requested a few more shots of the palanquin lord:

For that metal plate, how did you get that effect? I'm assuming stippling? But did you stipple the brown (and which brown did you use?) or did you paint the brown and then stipple the gunmetal? Any weathering powder on that?

I'm pretty sure it was a case of, undercoat, quick rough covering of leadbelcher incase I missed anything with the stippling, then with a sponge only FW Aged rust, FW Orange rust, varnish (spray), leadbelcher. The FW pigments were mixed with vallejo matte medium again as I find it better to use the powders this way when doing stippled rust.

Not really got much else done spent the weekend driving round looking at houses and dumping things on ebay.

Well not got much painting and modelling in on account of all the moving stuff, warhammer is almost the last thing left to be packed so I've still got something to do! Got quite a few games in though so the motivation sure is coming on in spades. Was really annoyed I missed the vortex grenade template again with the apoc relaunch so I've made a couple of my own instead of paying out the backside on ebay.

Well I'm finally moved and settled in, fortunately the only casualties were one meltagun and one daemonette arm, both of which just needed a little glue. The normal camera and photo setup are still yet to be assembled though so the update will have to be phone camera photos.

Continuing the painting on the daemonette horde while I rewatch heroes on lovefilm, stopped halfway through series 2, purple applied to all the hair and claws, now going over with a highlight / drybrush depending on the part with warlock purple.



Also got myself a little treat after the move, my first heldrake, always like to have one stock version of a kit but I'm completely torn on what legions colours to use, definitely won't be deathguard as the next two are going to be built from a heldrake kit combined with a zombie dragon kit.



Oh and the other little treat is a tzeentch chariot kit, I could not recommend it enough, broken up for parts it's actually good value and I'm left with loads of spares. Those two screamers should nicely bump my current ones to a unit of 9, and just started building a second disc herald from the other spare parts to play a screamer council list.

So I clearly got lazy, the attempts to sculpt the second herald were going slowly and I've got a rather large amount to get through before the next apoc game (and in general). Therefore I went for the easy option and grabbed a warriors of chaos sorcerer, there's still a bit of greenstuffing and basing to go but he's nearly there now.



Second lot of screamers bases are drying now, pva is so so slow! On the plus side sitting them next to the old screamers they don't seem too out of place.



Oh and instead of a thrilling image of yet more daemonettes being slowly painted, here's a 'thrilling image' of the portaglyph marker before painting.



Contain your excitement

Hahaha! Hilarious.

Do you fully assemble before you paint? As in, is that sorcerer glued already?

@ Tangent - It varies to be honest, with models where I feel assembly will be a hindrance to painting I tend to assemble them with superglue or greenstuff so they're easy to pull apart. Or I pin them (photos of screamers should show that), for the herald he's just very lightly glued on so I could get the pose of the other pieces exactly as I wanted them before painting (that book would be a pain with the herald in the way).

Got the portaglyph quickly painted up, it's a bit rough but it looks good from a tabletop distance, not messing about with a template!



Screamers are coming along, held to the bases by pins so I can do them without messing the bases up, horns etc are just basecoated, haven't decided on an eye colour yet as the previous ones had no eyes!

Ah, ok. Yeah, I almost always try to paint before I assemble completely, but I haven't always done that. I used to assemble before painting but the airbrush sometimes doesn't work so great when I do that and since I've had the airbrush I want to use it on everything. At the same time, I'm not super skilled with the airbrush and I don't have any really small nozzles so doing more than blending basecoats is beyond me at the moment.

At the same time, I'm still trying to figure out pinning. I got a little hand drill with tiny bits so I can drill into the models' feet (or whatever) but it seems to take a lot longer than it does in some videos that I watch, and my drill bits seem REALLY flimsy when I'm turning the drill - they bend a lot and I broke one in half the first time I tried using it. And I still wasn't able to drill very deep.

@ Tangent - I did get a couple of flimsy drill bits that came packed in with some brass rod I got and they snapped just like yours, I've since swapped to Dremel branded bits specifically for drilling metal and I've yet to have one fail on me (fingers crossed).

Got the two screamers done today, they were a nice break from the daemonettes which I should probably get back to for a while, I'm sure I'll have to find another distraction at some point though.

I'll have to look up some Dremel bits, then.

Screamers are looking awesome!

@ Tangent - thanks I am rather chuffed with how they look as a unit on the table, gave the screamer council list a shot last night and trounced tau at 1500.

Not got much else done today just a few daemonettes and writing a 5k list for the next apoc game, leaning towards including the slaanesh formation, assaulting from deepstrike and rending on a 4+ yes please. Also very tempted to convert an arkos the faithless for apoc games, having him as the warlord and attaching him to a legionnaire warband is potentially horrific with his finest hour.

Awesome Nurgle stuff you have going on. Jealous. I gotta get painting now . . . .

@ Le Grog - Thanks and welcome to the thread sorry it's taken forever to reply!

Had some awful things going on not long after a rather good apoc game (Last memory of yuranthos is hilarious on a non-scattering psyker in apoc), combined with a course to sparkle up the CV I'm doing, which has meant I've done very little lately. Trying to drag myself back onto the horse now to provide a distraction if nothing else so updates should be coming back again, just a quick camera phone shot of the new daemon princes in progress for now.



Managed to snag severina and sevora from the inquisitor line, they're a little smaller than I expected so I'm torn between putting the twins on a single base, or just beefing them up with scenery. They're pinned to temporary bases as usual for now, I'm just torn with what heads to give them now, the ones that came with them aren't my favourites to put it mildly but I've no idea where to get pretty heads in the right scale unless I make them from scratch.

Nice! Vargheist wings?

 Tangent wrote:
Nice! Vargheist wings?

Actually possessed backpack wings with a bit of trimming and greenstuff, been applying warlock purple to the daemonette horde, getting there slowly but not that thrilling for an update

Will have to get some photo's of my chaos aegis defense line, took long enough to file off all those eagles.

Edit: Completely forgot to mention, paint scheme on the screamers for the armies on parade UK this year looks a bit familiar... Wonder where he got that idea from

Just to make it clear that image is NOT MY WORK! but those screamers do look ruddy familiar wonder if he's been on the blog!

Hmmm... wonder where he got those buildings and those pipes? I need some pipes.

those pipes look like 3/4 in pvc or even 1/2 inch local home remodling store should tell you when you go look man.

Ahhh the twins are looking lovely! Personally, Id put them on their own bases. Two on the same base would overcrowd the model, I'd think. Alternatively, you could build more of a diorama with a larger base size, putting them both on there.
No clue on where to get new heads from. I've never been a sculptor, myself, so I can only wish you the best of luck if you go that route.

Heh. And those screamers -do- look awfully familiar...
Gorgeous display, though.

By the thickness of the joints id assume its the copper variety of pipes from your local hardware store

Pretty cool. i like the sneaky screamer in the cave.

@Tangent - Buildings are just stock GW ones with additions by the looks of it

@Ramos - I think I'm going to pop em one to a base and build it up with scenery, if I can get away with one of the tiny Sophie's from Reaper I'd imagine I could do the same with these! Think I've found a potential source for at least one head http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=40mm-kalee-%252d-unarmoured-head-%28resin%29~hf4009b%252dh1&category=miniatures~40mm-%26-54mm-scale seems potentially good.

Sooo posting someone else's thing seems to have drawn more comments than usual so I'll be licking my wounds

As promised the chaos aegis line in progress shots:





Those little imperial aquilas took some getting rid of with a square nosed file, also turns out the little rectangles that come with every chaos vehicle with no apparent use just happen to slot perfectly into the centre of the larger sections. Gun is handily magnetised for ease of transport as it doesn't slot into cases very well from what I hear.

Then one closer shot of one of the daemonette horde, I've finally finished the warlock purple (apart from a few pieces I've now noticed on about three of them does it never end ). About two thirds of the way through the first layer of gold on them all now, which means they're drawing towards the finishing touches. The question is what colour do I do the gems and cloth, on the ones I did a couple of years ago I've gone for red gems and white cloth but if I'm ever going to change it now is the time. The original ones look pretty enough to me but I'm considering green gems for more contrast, not sure about the cloth white does look pretty nice without adding clashing colours.



I'm also getting involved with another P&M blog set up by Darkmoonlight to try and motivate myself to finish the plague tower, there's lot's of other great projects in there so do check it out as I'll be leaving the tower updates exclusively on there at least for now (And here it is).

Aegis is looking good! I often lie awake thinking up ways to make those loyalist ones look chaosy without pouring greenstuff all over them. I appreciate the ideas and the heads up that those rectangular tank plates slot in there so well.

@ Moltar - well fingers crossed you'll like the update then! Quite pleased with how smooth the filing has come out post-painting.

Yes it lives, I've had no useful paintbrushes for a while so I've been able to do nothing but paint scenery, it turns out doing a lot of models non-stop with brushes can make them fall apart till you're holding something too fine to do eye dots with. Fortunately I've received a good few sable brushes for christmas so hopefully I won't kill these ones too quickly, does mean I've had scenery quality brushes only for a while though so been painting big things instead. Which leads to the aegis line being done, also made liberal use of blood for the blood god to compare it to tamiya clear red and I'm honestly torn, for lazy blood I'll probably go with BftBG, for anything where I want stringy slightly slicker looking blood it'll be clear red.





Edit: Ah hell I didn't do the lamp on the quadgun with the airbrush yet, ok so 'nearly finished' *grumble grumble*