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Thanks folks, i'm happy your enjoying the blog, i'm certainly enjoying converting and painting them



the boils are a dark red (GW mechrite red) shading up to yellow (P3 mouldy ochre) with a few shaded up a touch more by adding a bit of white/off white

I also mix the red into the skin tone around the infected area for that really angry look

After a bit of a gap I'm back in the groove painting poxwalkers (a delight compared to admech cranes in yellow that needed oh so many coats of paint)



so here's the first of the new ones, i'm very pleased with how he came out, those boils look really angry

and another, in fancy orange trousers no less

Possibly the least successful conversion, the arm does give him a bit of a 'Thriller' look, but he painted up well at least

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:


Possibly the least successful conversion, the arm does give him a bit of a 'Thriller' look, but he painted up well at least

Don't worry about the "Thriller" look mate, it's in keeping with the theme ! Nice work on all the Poxzombies !

Cheers, they're a lot of fun to do and I've plenty more to be getting on with

I've managed to source some gellerpox infected, so i'm planning some conversion to change some poxwalkers to add to their numbers with some necron heads and artificial limbs etc. It will give me a chance to change up the colour scheme a bit

So we come to vox shamblers who suffer from the geller pox taking a look at them they have fewer pustules than the poxwalkers who suffer from the walking pox

they also have limb replacements with mechanical bits grafted on (perhaps pre-infection?), metal skull heads and most awkwardly of all this thing



a collar which means their necks are abnormally long and at a weird angle to allow the collar to fit

so my first attempts was to borrow a necron head, trim the lower jaw off to get rid of the silly giant chin and grab a hook/sycle from the bits box and a bit of sprue to imitate the antenna on the side of the head



the problem with this is it gives a short mini as the necron skull shape is pretty flat so lets do something different

I cut the poxwalker head in half, leaving the lower jaw on the mini and laid the necron head on top of that, reshaping things to fit



I've also done another amputation an changed the angle of the other arm

I think that works a lot better, i'll probably fiddle a bit more with these, remove a few pustules etc. I may also see if I can add my own version of the collar to some of the others I'll be doing if the base sculpt will accept them, but that depends on what sort of angle the head & neck are at (I tried with the two above and just couldn't get them to look right)

Love it ALL!

Recently getting back into 40k and playing DG. This is INSPIRING!!!!

and this is from someone who's original name on here was "Nurgleboy77" !

thanks,





on the far left you can see a neck extension in progress, I've filled the hole with the peg from the normal head, then added a disc of plastic cut from the poxwalker sprue. i'll then shape it to fit the necron head i'll add and add texture and detail either with knife work or a bit of green stuff

I couldn't leave the vox shambler conversions alone and have cut the head off and extended the neck to be able to add the collar, made from a bit of PVC tubing (cut with a razor saw, cutting a straight line with a blade is a real pain, especially if you want a think slice

next you can see a poxwalker on the way to becoming a void shambler, changing hands, tentacles etc, again I've gut the head off leaving the lower jaw behind which i'll graft the necron head onto, i'll also need to add a neck extension but that will be easier to do after putting the head together

finally something a bit more ambitious, this pox walker had a lengthy loincloth and bare legs, i'm planning to have the void shambler version in trousers, so I've cut away the loincloth and pustules and bulges on the legs to give the rough shape (it looks worse in real life than on the photo) and i'll work up the trousers out of greenstuff. I've also had to remake the belly since I've trimmed of the gasmask hose and drips of gunge on the axe handle

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more fiddling, trousers done,

but more fun



fun fact the hammer is meant to be pointing down and behind the poxwalker, but for the life of me I couldn't get it to fit, but it went together perfectly like this

a bit more fiddling, the lights(?) are added to the collar in plastic tubing, wire and greenstuff


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and another unmodified poxwalker painted up, got to think those pustules are close to popping

Another poxwalker appears from the stinking miasma of the battlefield



and the first of a new sort of disease appears




my version of the Vox Shamblers infected with the gellerpox during transit through the warp, I've gone for a paler skin tone, and green pus in the blisters (annoyingly it's not photographing very well, there a lot of variation in skin tone I just cant get to show up), and I include a poxwalker you've already seen as a comparision

I like it, alltough maybee you need a stronger contrast somewhere on the Vox Shambler?

I dunno.

I think it's just the photo, but we'll see, hopefully the next will 'take' better

Sweet conversions, the gellerpox infected and poxwalkers look great I really like the 'pale' look of that Vox Shambler, it's almost ghostly, which is rather fitting for a void-born disease

thanks very much

Well I've tackled the Herg, one of the three vox shamblers from the rogue trader box, I've taken the shade down lower (GW deathguard green with a bit of black) and up higher (Vallejo ivory white from) which makes it a little easier to photograph, and put him on a white background. After several attempts to paint something fancy on the backpatch I gave up and dipped into my dwindling stock of Hawk Turquoise for a splash of colour

Good work, impressed by the conversions and they look suitably techno-virus-y!

Another Vox Shambler, and it looks like this one might have been a woman.... before she mutated, was cut open and had something take up residence in her abdomen, she's Grummax


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now for some transport, the rhino Unseen Decay is unusual for Deathguard unit with no significant blemishes on it's ceramite hull, but this does not mean it's not corrupt as the occasional cloud of fouler than normal smoke and flies that issue from its quad exhausts shows

I thought i'd show a bit of my process



first I paint the basic deathguard green base coat then heavily stain with seraphim sepia, and detail some bits with snot green (I've also shaded the green and the exhausts before I thought to take a photo). At this point it looks terrible and I get depressed



I then use a deathguard green and ivory white mix to steadily bring up the contrast, and edge highlight the panels and it starts to look smart. A bit of nulm oil stains the area around the vents

more photos when it's done

I've had this chap base coated for about a year, but haven't been inspired to finish him, but a burst of enthusiasm over the weekend



and i'm really pleased with the result. It's clear this champion of Nurgle likes skulls almost as much as a follower of Khorne, and doesn't he look smart with all his cranial inspired bling

Good old No7 he's always happy to see you! My next Vox Shambler conversion is finished and I think is looking suitably sickly, and the belly eye has worked rather well too

the gellerpox has claimed another victim, there wasn't enough space round the neck to fit the collar/lights set up so I moved it to the arm (tentacle), and I've left off the cabling to the head for the same reason, but I imagine this one was only plugged into the ship via the conduit in his back. I think the head spikes add a nice touch to help keep the look of the genuine vox shamblers

Well painting has stalled a bit as I cope with various issues, but I've been inspired to do a bit of converting thanks to some rhino bits left over from somebody who picked up some resin conversion kits







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Basically this 'grav/flying' rhino is made from the external side pieces of a rhino kit with the wheels cut off flush with the main hull, the front driver window section and a bunch of the detailing bits

I wish i'd though to take photos of the build as I did it but i'll try and explain how I did it, but there's a garbled verbal description under the spoiler



the gun turret isn't actually destined for this vehicle which will pick up a kromlech missile launcher to make a flying whirlwind but is going to be part of a deathguard predator conversion on a standard wheeled chasis, but the photo shows off the rough idea of what it will be like, it's made from the gun from a Taurox and a cut down ball from some vending machine toy

WIth threads that thing could go though as the Relic predator for chaos you know that right?
Well done chap, altough gotta ask, what is the turret?

It's made from one of those plastic balls that you get toys in from a vending machine, I then added a the battle cannon from a taurox prime (with a zinge industries muzzle brake), into a slot cut in the face of the ball,

the screw threads were cut off the half ball and a 50mm base was attached to fill in the underside, and to 'kick' out the bottom of the turret

the optics are part of a rhino pintle mounted missile launcher (the tip is also used as the ventilation fan for the grav rhino)

and finished off with the rhino hatch

Edit: Yes the relic preditor did come to mind, but i'll be doing a standard tracked hull for it where I can put together a top plate to fit it better

Painting again, we have a poxwalker who's won the who can have the most tentacles contest



and I've painted up the vox shamble from earlier

and I've just realised I've not used my Vox Shambler pustules paint scheme, so i'm going to have to redo him,

sigh, that's what I get for not checking my notes

Well I redid the boils in pus green to match my other Vox Shamblers



I really like the effect of the useless, swollen hand hanging off the tentacle that used to be the arm, creepy


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and another Pox Walker gets painted up

a bit more work on my 'Relic Predator' (thanks NotOnline!!! for remining me about this as i'd forgotten the Deimos pattern Rhino had a different nose which is going to make this look cooler) to add to the gun turret gives me this



I've built an armoured nose with sheet styrene, part of the roof hatch, and the window trim from normal rhino, and by some miracle it's ended up pretty symmetrical



I've made some plaguespitter sponsons using some rhino doors, plague spitters from a bloat drone with the fuel tanks & hoses removed and tidied up with green stuff, and a couple of gates of antates ghar walker heads as camera substitues, plus a couple of bits from a taurox to add a bit of detail an some plastic rod to join it all together



I've also given it a dozer blade which I think is intended for a Leman Rus. In order for it to sit low enough I had to add an additional bit of front armour, and because of that I added another bit of armour to blend it into the belly plate



I also had to cut slots into the rhino top to allow the hinges from the split hatch to sit flush with the surface since I didn't have another hatch that would fit

I need to decide if i'm going to try putting holes/pits in the armour for a more nurgley look like on the plagueburst crawlers or just leave well enough alone and use paint/weathering to give the right look, probably the latter. Ive also got to decide if i'm going to go for some smoke launchers. but I don't like the look of the normal 3-pot rhino ones so I might leave them off or look for some of the 4-pot chaos versions or try and make my own, not sure since i'm feelng I want this finished now

Death Guard Rhino, a recent acquisition it's armour is yet to succumb to the corrosion & decay that effects many of the other machines that serve the Plague God

quite pleased with how this has come out as I wanted the painting style to match the 'sketch' look I've used for the marines and bloat droes, and I wasn't sure that it would work on the larger flat pannels