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Nice stuff, always had a soft spot (probably should get that checked considering...) for nurgle themed marines.

Those guys look great! Lol to the guy giving the crotch chop!!

Look suitably Nurgle with a nice unique color scheme. May want to check the solo photos of the champions as I am seeing the same two photos for both Champions. Only in the group shot am I able to see the second guy.

Thanks Archer - fixed!

Nice! One of my "one day" plans is for a force of Plague Marines and allied daemons. One day....

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Remember this guy? Still stuck. Some of the suggestions from last time have been taken up. The purple skirt is now a deep red. It will have mystical symbols painted on it (probably in yellow - when the rest of the figure is done) since he's a Shaman. Thoughts for the vest? I'm really stuck. Once I get a vest I'm happy with, the rest of the model will fall into place and finally get done. I want to avoid garish, or overly-drab.

So remember that guy!! loved that fig. Still have him (somewhere) back at home in Ireland. really need to go a digging when I get back home this summer and try and find all my old figs

I would just go with a simple leather colour for the jerkin, with a browny fur trim - keep it simple with the bling reserved for the robe bits

He's a shaman, and therefore a pretty important character for the army, which is why I'm very hesitant to go with muted dull colours such as browns and leathers. Black is one option, but I'm obviously open to other ideas...

Why not "drab" leather or black with a tiger or snow leopard fur trim?

Crotch chop Plague Marine FTW! Excellent work.

Thanks Thraxas! The wrestling leeched its way into quite a bit of my painting in the mid-late '90s.

Actually, Archer. You might have just solved my problem. Tiger (or Zebra) skin. Not the trim, but the vest itself. Yes!

Looking forward to seeing which one you go for.

I vote zebra

Yeah I vote zebra. That would look cool.

I think it's actually going to be Tiger. The splash of strong colour on the shaman will work nicely and (should be) exactly what I want. But I promise I'll Zebra up another Ogre in the near future.

But first...

These guys provide the final set of newly-shared figures (for now) of my Nurgle Lost & Damned force. With a bit of luck, I'll be able to get a fair few more painted up before too long. I bought this figure back in the Realm of Chaos days, and started painting him not long after in the browny green olive tone above. Unfortunately, I stalled out for whatever reason and it took over a decade before I'd get back to him to finish off. I did so about 4-5 years ago now, and did so with a combination of The Dip and normal highlighting and shading. Basically, I wanted him to look properly disgusting, which seems to have worked decently well.



The nice thing about these models was the fact that you could essentially build your own unique Greater Daemon - as there were multiples of all of the main components, so you could really put together a series of unique models, and your Greater Daemon was unlikely to be identical to your friends'. Something replicated somewhat these days with the new plastics, but still not to the extent of old (without a bunch of kitbashing, anyway!)



I might have another one of these somewhere with different components - I'm not 100% sure. I do have the later one that came out in the mid-90's, though I have the early version with the horns and prehensile tail. I also have a FW one here as well, though neither are painted, and it'll probably be at least a while before their numbers come up.



This big dude is probably unfamiliar to most readers. It's a Devout Tormented from the Chronopia line of the mid-late 1990's. Chronopia was essentially Heartbreaker's take on Fantasy Skirmish following on from the Success of WarZone. Unfortunately, with the fall of Heartbreaker, both games fell. WarZone has had several resurrections over the years, but Chronopia has sunk into the dust, mostly forgotten. I had this model sitting around for quite some time before I decided to use him as part of The Lost and The Damned. As is often the case, the idea behind him is for multiple use. He can play the part of a Chaos Spawn when needed, but also fill the role of a Daemon Prince of Nurgle. He's a good size, and is much more of a unique model than the usual Daemon wearing Space Marine armour. I've got a couple of those to build one day as well, but it's nice to have something very different as well.



Obviously the sculpt has some Nurgle-friendly elements. Being torn in half and still draging himself along the ground like a Zombie Crawler is one thing, and the large mono-horn ties in strongly with the Plaguebearers. As such, he can also fit in with my eventual "proper" 40k Daemon army, and in my Kings of War Abyssal (Daemon) Army (of Nurgle). The two will be mostly the same figures dual-purposed, as you do. Shortly after painting the "Gym Cultists", I painted this guy. I used a similar palette to tie him in with them, and used "The Dip" via brush on his exposed viscera and dismembered sections, to tie him in with the Great Unclean One. It hasn;t come out well in the photo above, but the back of the base shows a trail of blood and general disgustingness behind him.



This is the boxed set he came from. Along with a very Dragon Ogre kind of model - the Damned. Both are mostly resin with metal detail accessories. Unfortunately, they're the resin of the time, so don't expect something like McVey or Mierce's stuff here. The resin is "drop-cast", like Scotia Grendel's scenery and while the Tormented here is fine due to his design, but all of the space underneath the Damned's torso is filled, and you're kinda expected to paint it black etc and try not to notice it. I suspect that the resin components of this kit might have even been outsource-cast by Grendel.



A group shot with the Plague Marine Sergeant shown recently, to give a sense of scale for the two models. Not huge by today's standards and more recent models, but they were both big for their time, and I think retain a lot of their presence simply by being cool models.



The whole army for the time being. It's probably not a legal force, with a tiny points value with all of the zombies and cultists - and there's obviously more to come, but this was the first time I ever managed to get the whole lot of them together on the table. So it's nice. Marouda also took some photos at the time, so I'll have to get hold of her photos and if they're any good add one final update (for now) of close-ups of the force...

Those are horribly awful, nice work More of those guys than I thought, fancy army shot.

Those old models hold up so well. Great work.

The devout tormented is a little creepy looking, which is the point. Never seen (or heard of) that line of models before.

The back part of the model is what is so disturbing, and your paint job does a good job of bringing that out.

The army looks absolutely fantastic. i hope you are happy with them. Would love to have a game against you and your armies.

Good to see the varied models I use Chronopia Dwarves as Chaos Dwarves in my Nurgle forces

Love the original GUO model, lovely stuff.

Great little force there!

Great work on those old 1990's minis!

Again, it's amazing what a good paint job can do to older minis.

Also, that GUO is a Nurgling compared to the one FW sells!

The Great Unclean One is excellent, I still like that model.

Thanks guys! It's funny, I don't think of my stuff as "retro" models, though I do use the "oldhammer" tag when I post on wordpress but when I step back I actually can see just how many are quite old indeed. It's not so much intentional as the result of making myself finish stuff that's been half-finished for years, and updating the older stuff I painted with new bases and touch-ups. Especially since I'm (mostly) not letting myself start new stuff till I clear out the part-painted stuff I've accumulated over so long by actually finishing them off. Still, I do really like and enjoy a lot of these older models, which is not to say that I don't also really like a lot of the newer stuff as well. I'll probably be rolling in my few Chronopia Dwarves into my Chaos Dwarf force as well. Archer - we'll have to set up a game sometime, though I have to admit I'm incredibly rusty on 40k these days and haven't played in quite some time.

An admirable habit, finishing stuff.

I'll look forward to the chronopia dwarves!

Nice classic Nurgle work. That GUO will always have a place in my fetid heart. I think it takes real application and reserve to back repainting/rebasing like you do, it must give you a great sense of achievement.

Hey I would be quite happy to learn KoW or any other tabletop game going. I am far to easy going when it comes to rules and gaming that I am happy to fit in wherever.