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Thanks! I've just noticed that I forgot to paint the grain on the CC group leader's Bolt Pistol. D'oh!


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A quick question for y'all before I get back to showing finished work. In the last few days of my break from work I'm trying to really knock out a bunch of single miniatures that have been clogging my space for too long. This old Marauder Orc (Biggin?) is one of them. Most of these figures have something or another that's acting as a "block", causing me to avoid finishing them or working any further on them. The problem in this guy's case is his basing. Because of his physical size, he'll have to be used as warmachine crew, or stuck on a chariot, or used as a mobile hero on foot. Bear in mind, I don't give two feths about "proper" basing for WHFB, KoW, AoS or anything else. I'm going for the best aesthetic choice given his role and the games can work around that.

25mm round?
40mm round?
40mm square?

The 40mm round looks tghe best to me. His toes hang too far off the 25mm, and the 40mm square looks too big for him, with a lot of space in each corner.

If you happen to have a 32mm round base, how would that look under him?

If you're going to put him in a chariot, I'd go with the 25mm round, as that's going to make for an easier fit.

Otherwise, I think the 40mm round looks best.

I don't know what I'm going to do with him yet to be quite honest. A chariot is just one of the options. All I really know is what I'm not going to do - and that's have him in a regular unit as a regular grunt. I do agree with both of you on the 40mm round, though - which is my leaning.

I don't have any 32mm rounds (yet!) though you've just given me an idea. I think I have some WM-style lipped 40mm bases. Let me check...

32mm might be best, 40mm should look good too

This is the final post of the triptych that deals with my little batch of cultists. It's probably worth pointing out at this point that at the time I kitbashed these guys, the only cultists that GW had produced were these guys, nice enough figures, but a mere four sculpts which I also believe were also well out of production by then. They had also released a "mutation sprue" that was sold in a bundle with plastic Catachans and other stuff as a "build your own" solution for Chaos Cults and LatD armies. This was also long before Forge World stepped up to the plate with their own designs.



The smaller of these two guys are pretty straightforward. More kitbashes from the Catachan and Chaos Marauder sprues. The big guy in the middle was originally a metal Ork Nob that had been an unfinished conversion into some kind of DiggaNob prospector hero (from GorkaMorka) by (I believe) a GW Melbourne Staffer. I somehow ended up with it through sale or trade. He originally had a shovel, which I swapped out for as "normal" looking a pistol as I could find from my own Nobz. I thought he looked just the part for the leader of a Chaos Cult. Over-bulked up? Fingernail-talons on the end of his fingers? Skull-beard-braids? It all works. I added the chaos-style plastic plasma gun and its sling (I must have had Necromunda in mind actually - I always gave my leaders a Plasma Gun!) As always, cheap-looking plasticky "wood" panelling for the weapons.



Rear View, with the plastic-wood panelled Plasma Gun. The Banner I kept completely plain. Green adds a possible implication for Nurgle, as do the brown and green tones of their clothing, while also not tying them to being only used as one-trick ponies of Nurgle.



And finally, the money shot of all of my cultists. I'll undoubtedly paint up more cultists at some stage, but they'll be a different batch and style to these guys. On one hand I'm somewhat tempted to revisit these guys and add a ton of tattoos and some satin and gloss varnish to represent sweat and oil, but on the other hand, they're done, have been done for years and I'm still happy with them - no purple pants on Orcs that need to be repainted here! So I think I'll leave them be and move onto other figures that actually do need to be touched up - and of course - completing and painting entirely new models.

They look really nice, great use of parts and I love the camo.

wood effect plasma gun, lol. Good thing its only effect. Great bunch of chaps.

Nice looking models there Azazel! The one at the far left sort of looks like a Luchador with that helmet on lol.

That never occurred to me. Now he shall be known as Violencia sin Pantalones

Group shot looks fantastic!

More models for the Lost and the Damned. A bunch of WarZone 1st Edition models first up that fit the Nurgle Cult theme.



He's a Spawn of Demnogonis from the first edition of WarZone. The stitching and bandages make him thematically suitable for a Nurgle force, and the model looks to be suitable for perhaps a 40k Hearald of Nurgle or a Big Mutant directly from the LatD list. He's mounted on a 30mm base from some brand of semi-soft plastic prepainted figures that was available in the 1990's.





WarZone Carnal Harvester. He makes a great Big Mutant or Chaos Ogryn for Lost and the Damned forces. He's not an especially Nurglish model, but he's been painted to go with the Kitbashed Cultists from the previous few posts. Though without a wood-grain finish on his weapon.



And a little group shot. I've got another half-painted WarZone figure (Gomorrian Emasculator) somewhere that will make another great Big Mutant/Chaos Ogryn if I can find it and finish it, as well as quite a few others that are entirely unpainted.



These models are actually Warzone 1st Edition Dark Legion Blessed Legionnaires, to be used as Nurgle Plague Zombies in one form or another. I showed them off last year, but the photos weren't the best, and so I took a new one as part of the Lost and the Damned force I'm showing here (and seeing what I have ready to run and what's started and part-painted while I do it).



...like these guys that I've just found. 11 More of them. They've been spray primed and are now going into the paint queue to be part of this army.

Good stuff!

Looks great Azazelx.

Really like the old warzone zombie things.

Getting through a fair bit of the model painting backlog now. The not plague zombies will work great in their new incarnation.

Sadly these are all figures painted some time ago. I've still been painting, but I thought it'd be nice to show off something more cohesive from the vault than a few random bits and pieces here and there. Once these guys are shown, I'll probably show some recently completed LotR stuff - and then back to the randomness of cleaning the desk off.

Nice, so the first edition of Warzone was how long ago? I really like those sculpts, but the painting on them is better.

Released in 1995 and we played it for a couple of years. It was a really good/fun ruleset, but the second edition which had nicer models somehow killed it for my group.

Love the Chaos cultist very nice, looking forward to more!

Some more painted figures from the LatD Army-oriented models.



I'm still pretty proud of this figure, another from the WarZone 1st Edition line - he's a "Dark Legion Heretic". I'm not especially a fan of Iron Maiden, but with that face, could he actually be Eddie in miniature form? I clearly thought so! Replicating their well-known font on a tiny miniature t-shirt was always going to be a bit much, so I went for more of a "Heavy Metal"-friendly font.



He's painted with Dark Legion iconography rather than Nurgle or Chaos, but the DL is pretty much Chaos with a different name. The interesting/fun part of this model is the Gatorade bottle I gave him.



These two are (I think) Necromutants. I can't find them on the Prince August site, and I suspect that these two might even predate WarZone 1e and actually be Mutant Chronicles models. Clearly these two were sculpted by Kev Adams as their faces both have their trademark style. From their faces, they look almost like they used to be an Ork and Squat, now fighting side by side in undeath. Which suits Nurgle just fine. Even looking at their gear and posture, I find them to be very reminiscent of early Rogue Trader Orks and Squats, right down to their quilted armour. I've really got to dig out and (re)paint my RT-era Boyz sometime...



This guy is an Undead Legionnaire. They usually come in sets of four models, but apparently I only have the one painted. While the Blessed Legionnaires are much more generic zombies, the models of the Undead ones are designed with the look and uniforms of the WarZone corporations. This guy is a former Cybertronic trooper. I believe I have some more of these - but - down the track!


Sharing is caring - want some sausages?

This pic isn't that great. I may have accidentally turned off the Macro function, according to Marouda - and the Zombie is pretty washed out. I built this guy using Citadel Catachan models combined with their Plastic Zombies and a bit of putty. I built it for use with the first edition of Frag! as I recall. He's also got a welcome place with Papa Nurgle's band of misfit models.



A group shot of all of today's figures, sans the Zombie Horde part...



Much like the DL Blessed Legionnaires in the last post, I've shown these DUST Zombies before but took the opportunity to take a new photo of them, as Nurgle Plague Zombies were always one of the things I had in mind when I painted them originally early last year.

Nice stuff

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Sharing is caring - want some sausages?.

He looks surprised...

They all look fantastic. But a special mention has to go to the iron maiden fan. He is incredible, all that detail and the Gatorade bottle is awesome.

That is so cool, its mondo cool. The Zombie sausage merchant, genius. Well done for making that He is all like "Intestines anyone?". That gatorade bottle. That's extreme. I don't think I've ever tried writing on a tiny cylinder before. They are all fantastic, and I may have to look them up - I bet they are cheaper than citadel.

Thanks guys!
The WarZone 1e figures can all be purchased from Prince August, and still at a very reasonable price. The stuff I've been painting and showing here are all from the Dark Legion range, which to be qute honest is pretty uneven like the rest of the WZ1e range. The 1e game itself it pretty good as well, though I haven't played it since my old group moved onto something else back in the 90's (WZ2e killed off the group's enthusiasm for some reason).
http://shop.princeaugust.ie/mutant-chronicles-warzone-classic/

'Eddie' is, in a word, bloody awesome! the idea, and the neatness of the freehand.

Superb Az!! Eddie sends me right back!! Got some blast from the past 'Maiden up on YouTube now as I paint. Top banana fella!!!

Thanks guys. I'm thinking it might be worth visiting "The Trooper" at some stage. He'd make a good Army Standard Bearer for the undead, surely?

Now, more stuff! Despite having collected rather a lot of them, I've only ever finished a couple of "normal" Plague Marines. These are those few.



First up we have one of the Two Nurgle Lords in Terminator Armour. Both of these figures were shown in the very early days of this blog about 5 years ago - but as with several other models, new photos and a new context. This guy is a Terminator Champion of Nurgle. Converted for me by my mate Dave who had a good supply of figures and was willing to cut them up (I was unwilling to cut up my own metal models after a certain point in time.) Simple enough, it’s a Chaos Terminator base, Jes Goodwin Chaos Champion head, terminator combi-weapon and left shoulder with a Abaddon Lightning claw, with beckoning fingers to finish. I can’t remember if Dave put the tentacles on it or if I added them myself later on.



Abaddon's claw is still a fantastic "bit". Makes for a great "come, try it" beckoning look. Paint-wise, I thought the work metallic green looked quite good on him, and it was the thing that inspired me to paint the copper-tinted guys below. Who in turn got me started on a green-tinted squad based on the Terminator's colour scheme that I never got finished...



Another Terminator Champion of Nurgle. I think Dave started this guy but I was unsatisfied with the result so extensively reworked it myself. Abaddon body, Chaos Warrior right arm with the original Chaos Terminator Power/Daemon sword on the end of it. I’m pretty sure I swapped out the original left arm for the GorkaMorka-era Ork Bioniks Claw and swapped in the plastic Chaos Champion head. I also drilled out the various tri-abcesses in the armour, added the bloated torso with putty over the top of some plastic Zombie intestines, added the dismembered heads, sculpted the simple hooves and added the tentacles.



This guy in his olive-coloured armour has much more of a traditional Death Guard Plague Marine colour scheme of the days when I painted him. When I get back to my Plague Marines and past the half-finished ones, I need to figure out a scheme to go with for the rest and then try to stick with it. Greens? Browns? Grungy Metallics? Death Guard White and Green?



This combat squad of 5 is all I managed to finish. I went copper/black with metal and some hazard stripes. This was years before I decided to build an Iron Warriors force (that I also need to get back to!) but the stripes will integrate the two of them nicely. The Plan (which never got finished) was for the second squad of these guys to have a very similar scheme, but with metallic green replacing the copper. And if you're wondering just WTF that one Plague Marine is doing - he's giving his enemies the crotch chop. Because I am nothing if not classy.



Finally, the Plague Marines "Family" shot.

Is the guy with no weapon about to give someone a boost up?

He's giving the crotch chop. His bolter is slung at the waist.