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Ok, here is a few images of my death guard plague terminators. I had them on the shelf for a while because I wasn't sure how to paint the nasty green rotting nurgle look... Then I was challenged by my friend to paint them, but not use any green, persumably due to the fact that their aromr would rot green, only the exposed flesh.

So, can anyone give me some advice on what to paint these bad boys? I was thinking a bone color, for the armor, then tints of pale dead flesh for exposed skin, with subtle hints of bruising and clotting underneath.












So yeah, HELP! lol

Big B

well, you probably ought to have started by painting a color onto them. Any color, just so long as it's a color scheme, and then proceed to tarnish that. Part of the issue your friend is so terribly wrong about is their assumption that the laws of reality apply. Rest assured they do not. These guys are magickal space zombies. The power of the warp may have blended armor into flesh and flesh into armor, meaning that the armor would indeed be fleshy and indeed come to rot....

You need to add a real color onto these, one that isn't black. That may mean adding a color ONTO the black to give it some type of depth, because, being just black is not doing it. Then the gold needs to get tarnished, or pitted and scratched up with the underlying metal poking through and rusting out.
lastly, the organic/rusty growths need to be organic, and you need to scuff up the armor and have rust running down it.

I've looked through your stuff, and you are a decent painter, but, to be frank, these guys look like accidents, or that you intentionally set out to get drunk before painting these. I appreciate it's an uncouth remark, but......

 poda_t wrote:
well, you probably ought to have started by painting a color onto them. Any color, just so long as it's a color scheme, and then proceed to tarnish that. Part of the issue your friend is so terribly wrong about is their assumption that the laws of reality apply. Rest assured they do not. These guys are magickal space zombies. The power of the warp may have blended armor into flesh and flesh into armor, meaning that the armor would indeed be fleshy and indeed come to rot....

You need to add a real color onto these, one that isn't black. That may mean adding a color ONTO the black to give it some type of depth, because, being just black is not doing it. Then the gold needs to get tarnished, or pitted and scratched up with the underlying metal poking through and rusting out.
lastly, the organic/rusty growths need to be organic, and you need to scuff up the armor and have rust running down it.

I've looked through your stuff, and you are a decent painter, but, to be frank, these guys look like accidents, or that you intentionally set out to get drunk before painting these. I appreciate it's an uncouth remark, but......

Thanks for the response.

I was taken aback from your "drunk" remark, but then I concluded that you didn't realize the black was an undercoat.

Then I chuckled.

The black was a Base coat, and I had started on the first of quite a few washes and layers of paint. The brownish crap/paint is a base for bubbling rust coming from under the armor's paint. The gold will eventaully get tarnished and the rust will definitely show in the end.

I have been thinking about just making it with green rotting flesh, its still on the table, but I want to hear about other ideas. I am hitting a painter's block really hard right now.

Anyone else for advice?

Hmm. Death Guard models are one of the nicest we can have (IMO of course).

I would say try something different. Leave place for imagination.
Paint them greyscale with few accenst in colour - like, for exapmle: red eyes and weapon edges silver/brown, and nurgle markings in pale yellow.

That is only my suggestion.

But before you do anything, strip the paint and prime these models anew.

Good luck and post pics when finished!

Cheers

I paint mine in a bone theme. I go with the idea that these guys have been around so long most of the flesh is already rotted, and their armor is calcifying. The paint scheme is really easy too.

Here's an example, more in my album here http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Dez667/slideshow/Death%20Guard

Most death guard armor isn't green. its WHITE with drip marks where green pus has oozed through the armor and tarnished the paint green.



Like this, except imagine 10 millenia of this kind of weathering. Thats why death guard armor is generally green. You could just do the white with really dark water damage drip marks. I have seen it done and it looks beastly good.

 Dez wrote:
I paint mine in a bone theme. I go with the idea that these guys have been around so long most of the flesh is already rotted, and their armor is calcifying. The paint scheme is really easy too.

Here's an example, more in my album here http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Dez667/slideshow/Death%20Guard

That is exaclty what i thought. I mean "idea" of course.

Anyway - I really like that. These look so elegant.

Cheers.

I was looking at what the Death Guard looked like before they got sold out to Big Poppa by Typhus... I love the bone white armor look with the black and green rot drippings oozing from the crevasses of the armor. Thanks for the advice!

Any other styles out there?

I'm pretty positive the death guard's colors are bone white with green trimmings. Thus is how I painted my typhus base and then did some rotting effects etc over that! Typhus should be bone white and rotten, not green like everyone paints him, and that is how I feel about death guard as well!

i went with the Pre-Heresy colors on Typhus...
not the fastest color to paint with, but it sure looks cool...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/11901-Typhus.html?m=2

good luck...

cheers
jah