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Thanks EDC, I'll try to add a Paint in Progress picture of the nurgle dread soon, just having the base colours should make him more readable in picture.

Good evening Dakka ! Time for the update of the day

Added a third Skull to the Nurgle squad :

If the Skulls' plans to bring misery to the imperium are usually centered around obscure technologies and sciences, they are nonetheless very pious worshipers of Nurgle. Blinded Skull reflects that most esoteric aspect, as their priest, prophet and psyker. Blessed with many sinister powers enhanced by his demonic helmet, Blinded Skull has also been gifted with a relic from the past, the skull of a death guard archivist who is said to have died during the dark days of the heresy. A notable aspect of this skull is its eyes. The left one never decayed in ten millenia, but instead transformed into a glowing crystal that radiates corrupted energy. By looking into it, Blinded Skull is about to see many things, true or false, always grotesque. The skull's right eye looks rotten, and can be extracted and fed to a mere mortal. While the eye will grow back in around seven days, the subject it was administered to will enter a trance and start mutating toward a gory death. While in that trance, it will have access to knowledge no one should speak of, but of great interest to the Skulls.



I also finished painting my arm-swap chosen conversion, I am really fond of the backpack too. Not sure where is is from, but carrying the bones of a fallen saint brother really fits the "Khornate Zealots" of this warband.


And finally, here is a pip of the Nurgle dread, with only the base colors applied so far. If the gun looks like he is falling, it is because it actually is. Once painted and glued, it will be straighter.

That walker is fantastic. It's hideously nurgly. Good job. There's an element of John Blanche about what you do.

Thanks Corpuschain ! Means a lot, since Blanche's work is awesome and a great source of inspiration.
I have more news on the walker, but first, some more plague marines.


With an habit of taking on enemies with far greater firepower and numbers, the Skulls have become proficients at chemical warfare. Caustic Skull is their expert in the domain. One of his more infamous deed was discovered by the imperial authorities when dismantling a dubious chain of supply of sabotaged military hardware. The weapons decayed unexpectedly and filled several planetary defense force stations with deadly gas. The Inquisition traced the source of these weapons through unscrupulous officers, greedy traders or corrupted politics up to a cult who's leader could fit Caustic Skull's description. Unfortunately, the cult committed a ritual suicide using the same gas as the imperial forces were closing on them, thus interrupting the lead.




Hectic Skull has two pleasures in life, blasting people's limbs away with plasma, and using twisted Nurgle medicine to place them back in place. With a demonic helmet that has consumed the minds of dozens of apothecaries during the years, his taste for medical experimentation knows no limits. In times of need, he is also known to enhance his lower value cultists with different drugs or grafts, making them more likely to slow down the opposition, while the skulls go through with their dark plans.




And finally, here is the Dreadnought's plasma cannon, with the regular loyalist scum for scale. Painting is almost done, although I will probably rework the eyes, they look a bit dead right now...





Thanks for watching, and Nurgle be with you !

As a break from all this Nurgleness, I finished a Terminator lord for the Silent Reap.

It is said that the warband of the silent reap was born in one of the warships that brought back a defeated mixed contingent or Word Bearers and World Eaters from Terra to the Eye of terror. It would explain the age of some of the Reap's leaders, who fought at the siege of Terra. Minotaur is an exception, but since his first appearance a few centuries ago, he has risen to the rank of Bishop, and as such answers to only Khorne, and a few higher lords. Some tell that he already was an exceptional being when the Bloodsmiths recruited him on a medieval world they often raid for fresh blood. Surviving the initiation and following the blood god made him into an impressive killing machine, always avid for slaughter. While the other Bishops have gathered trusted warriors around them, no warrior seems to follow the vicinity of Minotaur for long. Whereas many are attracted at his side by the speed of his rise to power, he is regularly the sole survivor of his almost suicidal campaigns. Rumors also whisper that he cannot stand to see an opening in an warrior's fighting style, and that many of his followers paid for imperfection by the might of Minotaur's antique power claws.

I Love the uniqueness of your characters, in model and character! love how every individual person has a story

Cheers Chaos Emperor !
Well, the 7 Skulls are finished, blessed be Papa Nurgle !

Here are the two latest additions


Cursed Skull is the commander of the Skulls of Nurgle, regarding research, warfare, or faith, he dictates the tortured existence of his brothers. Three millenia ago, he led them to the derelict battleship The Mill of Sickness, and violently secured a large portion of its hull as their laboratory. At first, the demonic powers ruling over the ship were hostile towards these new residents, but Cursed Skull was able to demonstrate how invaluable his followers could be to the ship. Even compared to his martial skill and his intelligence, his ability to turn enemies, mortals or not, into allies is his greatest strength, and an ironic illustration of the corrupting power of his warband's cursed helmets.





Crawling Skull is both second in command and vanguard to the Skulls of Nurgle. As the master of information, he is always the first to arrive on site when the skulls take on new corruption endeavors. To fulfill his role, he regularly relies on lesser creatures, cultists being among the most common. He also entertains a privileged relation with any environment's vermin and crawling beasts. Wherever he goes, swarms of plague flies go with him. Mutations are limited among the Skulls of Nurgle, despite the evercorrupting presence of the warp, their demonic helmet preserves their integrity. Crawling Skull is the exception, a few weeks after that helmet is sealed on a new wearer, is starts to gift him with chitinous limbs, whereas his unbalanced steps become human no more.

Just received this dude, he will be a great addtition to the warp messias


Back to painting the dreadnought now, should soon be able to attach the gun.

Awww yiss oldhammer!

do you mean Messiahs?
anyway those models look awesome! love your style!

*Surreptitiously renames the whole gallery*
Thanks man, yeah was unsure about the plural but you are absolutely right !

Well that oldhammer dude was not in the current painting batch, but welcome nonetheless, as a refreshment from the Dreadnought.
So here is the latest recruit of the warp messiahs.


As many Warp Messiahs, Composer has been traveling long enough in the warp to have forsaken his humanity, merged flesh and armor, and replaced his limbs with weapons. As he did not talk in centuries, he lets plasma and blood sing for him, and for that reason, even his brothers in arms considered him as no more than a killing machine. It is not until recently that they discovered that Composer actually serves a higher purpose. On the battlefield, he occasionally shows an obsession with eliminating a particular target, regardless of strength, rank or strategic value. Once his foe taken down, he will unload his plasma weapon on the corpse until nothing but ashes is left. The Messiahs eventually realized that these foes' curse sometimes did not end there, but were instead reborn somewhere close to the heart of the eye of terror, from which the strongest managed to travel back. Even though Composer is probably but a tool for a higher warp entity, he regained respect from the other messiahs, as they now intend to discover the place where the cursed live again.

And a family picture :

Your oldhammer stuff is, IMO, some of the best stuff on this entire plog. Simply gorgeous!

Thanks man, much appreciated.
One the things I like most about models from this era, is how different these guys are from one another, because there was no modular kits yet, each was made to stand out with a personality on his own (thus making my job easier ^^). Yet you still get some coherency, for example with the very cool shape of the shoulder plates of the last guy.

Hopefully I will find more, not giving up on the last bloodletterhead marine !

Yes! Yes! Yes!

So good. The newest addition to the Warp Messiahs is wicked. I also really like the Khornite Zealot you posted a while back.

EDC

Thanks a lot friend, helps a lot with staying motivated at painting a ridiculously over sized dreadnought ^^ !

Good evening fellas, looks like I finally finished the Nurgle Dread !

Plagued Wisdom is the name under which the inhabitants of the Mill of Sickness talk about an ancient dreadnought that dwells in isolated quarters of the ship. They call him so because of his willingness to share his knowledge and memories with the ones crazy enough to visit him, even though his age and his demonic condition makes him very likely to attack in the middle of a story. Among these stories, he often tells his own, how already sealed in his sarcophagus, he accompanied a fearless army of plagued Astartes, that ravaged many world and melted all of their inhabitant in a single gem, a powerful artifact named the Warp's ventril. He also tells how they build a gigantic fortress in the eye of terror to defend the gem, and how they were besieged for centuries by warbands coveting it. When all seemed lost, his brothers sacrificed themselves to let warpsmith attach the gem to his body, and raise him to godlike powers. For days, Plagued Wisdom, as Nurgle incarnate, slaughtered foes and friends. Eventually, the artifact was drained out, and as warp storms raised, both sides retreated, weakened and no longer attracted to an empty shell. A grotesquely deformed dreadnought was left alone on the battlefield, the powerless artifact still attached to its carcass. He wandered aimlessly for thousands of years through the Eye of terror, until he reached the Mill of Sickness, a place he no longer leaves for long.


Plagued Wisdom towers above the Nurgle freakshow !
















His legs are regularly used as altar for devout ant utterly insane worshipers of the Plague God


And a few more shots of the plasma cannon :




Thanks for watching, well that was the last one in my painting queue. Back to building I guess !

The face cannon is such a cool concept! Really well executed too!

Thanks mate, glad you like it !

Feels like it has been a while since the last building session. Anyway, finished corrupting the last two DV terminators :
First off, a clerical looking leader for the Silent Reap :

And then, an Asylum Knight, making use of the recent epidemic of skull acnea in the AOS models ^^ !


Finally, that magos did not make it in the last painting batch, but now he is on its way to finition, with new insect legs (to be sculpted), and claws to eat the flesh of its slaves !

Creepy!

Creepy is the goal, thanks !

Two more new concepts tonight, first an unfortunate eldar that somehow got stranded on the Sacrifice to Sin homeworld


And a king size servant for a magos that enjoys digging up corpses.

Really like the termies and the insect.. thing...

Thank you man, sculpt began on magos bug thing's legs, glad you like how the concept turned out.

I should also mention that I just reaped off the arms of the ogryn shovel guy, I'll come up with something more disgusting. Also, they were making it look smaller.

So I recently received a Kastelan Robot kit, meaning I could start working on my fourth dreadnought, for the Khornate Silent Reap warband.

Here is the basic concept so far :

The next step is to build him spaulders, I was thinking some bone structures, like ribs ? But at this step anything is still possible, would love to get some thoughts on that.



Progress went nicely on Magos Bugthing, replaced the chainsaw with a big deforme arm. Still need to add mechanical features and human stuff to mitigate the whole insect look.



The doomed eldar received some greeenstuff and some kind of wires entering his head. Starting to think about making a cultist crew of deranged/posessed eldars...


And finally the Ogryn received more appropriate arms, a demonic mace and a plasma cannon that should receive skulls or chains. The head will need to be altered too, for now I cannot unsee a sontaran...


Thanks for stopping by !

Some amazing new additions you've got here, Kernel! That Nurgle dreadnought is absolutely massive

As for the Kastelan, a ribcage modelled unto his chest would be pretty cool, perhaps he could also have a massive spine reaching upwards with an icon of Khorne up top?

Thanks man, glad you approve my latest heresies

Actually I am putting the rib idea aside in favor on a new design for now. Ran into these hooks while going through my tools and after a bit of cutting they do pretty nice spaulders, with a cool retro look. I will greenstuff stuff onto them of course, but I think their shape matches the castelan parts.


I like the icon idea, especially since I have this big ass Khorne icon from AOS lying around. On another hand, the original back from the dread is pretty cool I'll see if I can work with it without hiding it.

Looks really cool! Love the head especially

Thanks man, thought you would ^^ ! Oldhammer FTW.
4 more old school renegades are on their way btw, pics when they arrive !

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And a family picture :

These guys looks absolutely great! Will you be getting more?