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well i've always had a soft spot for 40k! even if it appears to be broken in so many ways! i first played 2nd edition many years ago so i'm now going to have a go again! so for me it as to be Chaos............and NURGLE in particular!.............you see.... lots of RUSTY bits! so i've started...........

first squad of plague marines








and some Demon mates!







so thats it for now but more will follow soon!
cheers
AL
oh? sorry for the pic sizes i seem to have lost control of my images!

wow! not one comment good or bad!

AL

Really like your style man, love the use of the tec. paints. glad to see the crackle earth thing being used. might be worth adding a tuft or two on the bases to add a bit of intrest to the base.

P.S. NURGLE RULES! always been on my to do list and posts like this tips the scales so far in too the buy now side.

Keep it up man

How do you do your rust effect? It's really nice. Loving those Plague Marines.

Looking forward to more. What are your next planned units?

cheers Medium of Death and The FireDrake, your comments are most welcome guys,

the tech paint range has turned out very good in fact truth is, i still find myself going back to citadel paints time and time again! even after using loads of other company's! how ever! the 'crackle' earth i don't feel will be up to lasting when it comes to a lot of gaming ? it already has started to flake! with some heavy handling so they will get re-based to a wet mud effect,

my rust! i love RUST!....... i do a lot of post apocalyptic cars and truck models so i use the same method which is a mixture of washes and pigments sticking the pigments on to a wet wash, start with either a black or gun metal base colour then add a rust base colour, then i just keep adding a 'bit here and a bit there!' untill i'm happy with the effect.............it's that simple! BUT first start with a practice on a couple of spare bits first if you don't do a lot of rusting normally,
I then use a graphite pencil to do the metal edging either a 2b or 8b pencil, i hope that helps guys! i really make it up as i go!
unit wise TYPHUS is next plus ZOMBIES! and cultists.....i'm building a list i WANT to play with, not a power list, so there will be a bit of everything in there! NURGLE of course! oh! and more rust!

cheers

AL

Looks good mate. I have a mass of nurgle stuff either in build or on sprue and am planning on putting some paint to it when I finish my White Scars (probs at the same time as doing them tbh).

Got a chaos Reaver that I have heavily converted/nurglified that needs paint desperatley plus all manner of other things.

Keep up the work and the rust is great.

By the way if you want to keep the bases then just put a matt varnish on them and it holds it reasonably well.

Martin

cheers Martin, good idea about the matt varnish and i will stick some tuft's on there to break up the bases
i need to see that Reaver! love the idea
my 'RUST KIT!'


these have workerd as well!


graphite pencil 8b


cheers

AL
ok! imageshacke have changed there site? at the moment i can only get links not full pics? so links for now guys! sorry...........SORTED!

Here's some early pics of it. there is a lot more GS on it now. I have had to put it away so that I could concentrate on my scars for the tournament this weekend. It will be coming back out soon and I may do a painting blog on it. The image is not too clear but it's a WHFB Mourngal coming out of the crotch.

The scariest part was vandalising it with a dremmel, I had to take a sanity check ruining that expensive a model then remembered that Nurgle would ruin me if I didn't haha

Love the rust.

gianlucafiorentini123 cheers mate,

McManiak.................I WANT ONE! great work

AL

I love the pale/rusty look of the plague troops and demons. Very nice, and a nice change from the typical green that everyone does. They look properly weathered, old, decrepit, and vile. Nicely done!

I love Plague Marines. You did a great job on their paint job. I like that you went the rust/decay route versus the slime route most people seem to take for Plague Marines. The titan looks awesome, I can't wait to see the paint job on it.

Between the pale skin and that rust effect, these are some of the best Nurgle I've ever seen.

Plague Marines rock big-time!

Loving the rust effect and looking forward to more. Especially a group shot with tanks and such, the enemy seeing a tsunami of rust approaching their lines. I can visualise it already, awesome!

Now post more pics

cheers guy's, your comments are high praise indeed! cheers,
the pale colour is Vallejo model air light grey green 71.044 then mix a little white, then highlight upper most surfaces only, both done with airbrush.............i love my airbrush! and it's not an expensive one either? NEO for IWATA under £50 online.........the pale colour is more in keeping with the 30k original legion colour............and the rust? well i build a lot of post apocalyptic vehicles...........it comes with playing around until your happy

cheers

AL

.............and more will be coming soon

 london1662 wrote:
cheers Medium of Death and The FireDrake, your comments are most welcome guys,

the tech paint range has turned out very good in fact truth is, i still find myself going back to citadel paints time and time again! even after using loads of other company's! how ever! the 'crackle' earth i don't feel will be up to lasting when it comes to a lot of gaming ? it already has started to flake! with some heavy handling so they will get re-based to a wet mud effect,

my rust! i love RUST!....... i do a lot of post apocalyptic cars and truck models so i use the same method which is a mixture of washes and pigments sticking the pigments on to a wet wash, start with either a black or gun metal base colour then add a rust base colour, then i just keep adding a 'bit here and a bit there!' untill i'm happy with the effect.............it's that simple! BUT first start with a practice on a couple of spare bits first if you don't do a lot of rusting normally,
I then use a graphite pencil to do the metal edging either a 2b or 8b pencil, i hope that helps guys! i really make it up as i go!
unit wise TYPHUS is next plus ZOMBIES! and cultists.....i'm building a list i WANT to play with, not a power list, so there will be a bit of everything in there! NURGLE of course! oh! and more rust!

cheers

AL

In regards to the technical paint.
It's because you're laying it far too thickly, it needs to be partially attached to other sections of the 'crackle' in order to stay on the base, otherwise there is nothing else holding it. This is my only gripe about your models, otherwise the weathering and rust effects are fantastic, good work.

cheers BrotherofBone good advice mate, the flaking has only happened on only one or two, so i'm getting used to the thickness needed plus i'm laying a thin wash of Matt varnish over the top and that's working well and i need to add 'tufts' to break up the base............and i'm thinking of putting a 'stain' around the feet/boot area to simulate where ever they walk they cause decay? plus........do you guy's think i should do a bit of OSL on the plasma gun?

cheers

AL

If you can do good osl then do it mate. When it works it looks great....

Ok!............had a go at OSL for the plasma gun, and i thinks! i like it......what do you guy's think?




Don't worry about the base has i'm in the middle of trying different textures

cheers

AL

Really good job on the OSL very realistic looking.

cheers gainlucafiorentini123, the Airbrush as opened a whole new area of painting for me now.

cheers

AL

Did you use those new technical paints cause if so you did fantastic with them. Like how they look really morbid and pale, good job

Gross (translates to "awesome" in Nurgle)

cheers st2me and Brometheus,
to answer your Q, i was very skeptical of GW's tech paints! thieve turned out to be spot on! what ever is in typhus corrosion really works! it works well with the ryza rust, i used both over the back packs then hit them with rusty pigments,

cheers

AL

Love the rust on the guys, but i really cant wait to see the reaver

As a long time nurgle fan (they were my first 40k army) these are very well done and make me want to dig up my old models and rustafy them keep it up!

cheers ozzzzzyj, RobZie, Do dig up your Nurgle! i'm trying a bit of a rusty idea now on the Demons! it shouldn't work? BUT... it doe's, pic's up soon

cheers

AL

Hi guy's, quick update................has i love my 'RUST' so much! I've repainted my demons in more 'rusty' colours! and added a few more boils and lumps! using 'poppy' seeds! and 'quinoa' seeds?............there the big'ish ones! plus dry grass 'tufts' now i've got 2 demon units, 20 in all and the marines have been given the tufts to help break up the bases a bit...........enjoy










cheers
AL

Amazing mate, simply amazing.

I may well copy your idea for the extra pustules for my pb's f you don't mind?

cheers McManiak, please feel free to 'pustule'u'late! lol got both from Sainsbury's...............HANG ON! your not getting off that lightly!......REAVER!.....REAVER!.... REAVER! ............REAVER! lol

AL