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Some lovely rust there, great job

 monkeytroll wrote:
Some lovely rust there, great job

Thanks Monkey! And thanks for stopping in again

On an update, I got ol' rustbucket on the table; check out the rep in the battlereps forum! Turkey day is next week, and a couple weeks after that I leave to texas for a while, so it may be some time til I get around to painting again... but I do plan to pack and bring at least a 2k force with me to Texas to throw some dice.

Oh, and I picked up two second hand Defilers and a blightspawn for $65, which was a great deal; the defilers loadouts are terrible, but I'll fix em good!


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Consider Rustbucket finished
















This is his Icarus Autocannon, Stubber, and dual gat loadout.

Howdy all,

Ahhh.... the day after thanksgiving. After playing some Red Dead Redemption 2 this morning, I decided to get some modeling in; as I mentioned previously I got two defilers secondhand for a banging deal; $50 for both was a steal! Th guy who sold me them even found the Power Scourge arms for them.




As you can see they were in OK shape, terrible loadouts though. I'm lazy and I don't strip models unless they're metal, but they sat on my desk all week... staring at me. I asked around to see how people play them, and while 1k sons sounded the best, Nurgle is my thing... and I have green stuff... so I tore off the arms and head off the red one, and the head and left arm off the green one.




Then I rummaged around my bitz boxes... I knew I wanted both to have a power scourge, and I knew I could make something look like a heavy bolter. I also wanted the heavy bolter one to get a combi bolter; maybe both will get a combi...







At this point I saw someone post a spider defiler on one of my facebook groups, which looked pretty neat! Of course, I'm not as good as this dude was, but I told myself "I want something to really stand out!"... so I decided one defiler would maintain its "defilerness" and the second would be radically altered; both would have nurgle elements, of course.

So with defiler one, I wanted to change the head (the tiny defiler heads look stupid) and make it slightly demonic. So I just tossed some bitz on him, light GS work, and wala... 20 minutes and he was essentially done.






I know its not super impressive, but that was kind of the idea... this seems to be "my thing"; when I do pairs of models, like my knights, one gets a ton of GS work, while the other gets mostly bitz additions. I like to maintain a good mix of organic and machine elements; nurgle is known for having both in spades!

Then the second one I went balls deep on. This guy was chosen to be the spider model because I had to tear off both arms anyway, but also he wasn't glued very much, so just prying with a screwdriver dismantled him easily. The idea I wanted to go with was a sort of scorpion/spider hybrid, using the helbrutes power scourge as a "stinger", and mixing demon and machine both in equal parts.










At this point I still had not figured out how to craft my "counts as" heavy bolter... but the general idea looked great. I also disliked that it was too organic, and I wanted it to have more machine to it. Digging through my bitz I came across a bunch of hoses and tubes, as well as exhausts, from my Armiger conversions.... herm.... then a lightbulb











Ahhhhh... yes, much better! He still needs some green stuff work over whats done; creating more flaps of flesh, making it more bulbous overall, and combining the machine tubes and parts to me more cohesive. But overall I think the idea is there! Hes drying on the table and I should get to finish him tomorrow I need to really paint more, but I leave for texas in three weeks :/

C&C is always welcome!

Both impressively adapted to serve his dark purpose!

Nicely done. And kick-started some ideas for my defiler parts.....

Excellent use of a cheeky nurgling

@ Graven: Thanks buddy!

@ Monkeytroll: Hell yeah! Defilers have good parts to make other stuff from.

@ Lindsay40k: Haha... I'm glad someone noticed I love sneaking a Nurgling in when I can

So I went ahead and finished up the modeling on both Defilers today.

First up, the green one:





Bulked up his scourge arm a bit more, then added just some fleshy pockets all over to just add a bit of contrast... nothing much there.

Now onto the real guy: the Arach-no-filer:









Some close ups of all around him, including the bottom:



















So I placed GS anywhere I put bitz on the model yesterday, and slowly worked around the bitz to make them look more incorporated into the fleshy bitz. Overall I think it looks like something straight out of Doom, which I dig. I also wanted the Nurgling to look like he clawed his way out of the spider, so made the flesh peeling away, and lots of little gashes. On the other side, I incorporated the mouth a lot more, and made some small eyes; I really like how I did the eyes here and might do this to all the eyes on this model. I pushed the beads in, then folded the GS over the bead to give it an eyelid so it looked demonic and angry... surprised myself with this. I like it when you get inspired to do something and it comes together.

Now the question is.... what to name him?

As always feel free to leave me some C&C

Family photo time

Dig the salvaged nightmare machines, well done dude

It's very cool, but weird question: can we get a photo not on the dragon mat? My eyes are struggling a bit to separate the reds!

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Dig the salvaged nightmare machines, well done dude

Thanks man, and just in time for the points drop Looks like I'll be testing some mono-DG lists in the future! Or perhaps DG with 1k sons psycher support...


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 inmygravenimage wrote:
It's very cool, but weird question: can we get a photo not on the dragon mat? My eyes are struggling a bit to separate the reds!

Of course! I'll keep that in mind for the future. I need to get the light box out and take some real photos, just haven't had the time

Sorry for the long lapse in updates....

Recently took 1st in an event with my chaos! woo hoo! I haven't had jack all for time to paint with a recent promotion at work.... oh and I got smash brothers, lol.

That said, I picked up 5 more Blightlords and will be (hopefully) painting them you before long and paint my last Armiger. This will give me what Don Hooson ran at BAO, which I feel is a solid ITC style list and at least gives me SOMETHING fully painted... at least until I can paint all my nurglings and run my version.

I also picked up another 20 Bloodletters, and my wife got me a box of Blue Horrors, plus a get started Khorne set... so I have a bunch of building. I think this will be it for buying new models for a while; I really need to get what I have painted so I can run anything I want in events without feeling dirty with unpainted and unprimed models.

Wow your skill with green stuff is incredible. Thankyou for pointing me in this direction, it has given me great food for thought. I may practice with green stuff before I commit to a Deathguard army.

 Alphabet wrote:
Wow your skill with green stuff is incredible. Thankyou for pointing me in this direction, it has given me great food for thought. I may practice with green stuff before I commit to a Deathguard army.

I appreciate it! I learned to GS on this army, the beauty of nurgle is... even your worst work can work


Another update for everyone: scored 3 Contemptor Dreads for $45, two boxes of bloodletters, and a box of Blightlords... as well as a Maulerfiend Time to get to work... just a teaser; heres the Blightlord Sergeant; the clainfist counts as a bale axe. He also doubles as a Death Guard Terminator Lord

Ya lucky swine! Exciting stuff ahead!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ya lucky swine! Exciting stuff ahead!

Haha, thanks! Actually for xmas i just got the mauler, one box of letters, and some horrors. I found the contemptors second hand and horribly painted and the guy was getting out of 30k... the lords came from tournament winnings. And the last box of letters i traded the death angel board game for (i never played it).

I will say my new years goal is that i cannot get any more models til i build and paint what i have.... and doing a rough tally, i have a lot of work ahead of me!

Howdy everyone,

So as I mentioned earlier, I was able to pick up 3 Contemptor dreads for dirt cheap from a local player who got some given to him. They were, as you could guess, very poorly painted... but whatever!

Anyways, I've been sent for training to Texas, so I figured what better time to go ahead and make my Death Guard Contemptor squad finally. Not to mention I just got a Maulerfiend, so his gatling cannon arms would make some good butcher cannons...

Thus I packed up a lot of tools and a bag of bitz, and off I went! I picked up some small tubes of loctite at the Walmart here to assemble the models, flying with super glue would be a horrible idea.

What I started with was three dudes not much unlike this guy...


Way too loyalist for my liking. I pried off the arms, and popped them off their bases to make them easier to work with. As mentioned, I do not strip models unless they really need it... the spray paint coats over it anyway, and these guys didn't have gobbed on paint.

I arrayed everything I had brought with me, and picked through my bitz to find what I may need:


Perfect. I had pre-planned and looked up various Contemptor conversions on the ol' google-ator, and had found some neat ideas. Because I was going to go ahead and use my Forgefiend Hades Autocannons as one set of my "butcher cannons", I wanted the other sets to look similar.

So the first one I did up was this guy:










He is still unnamed, but the idea was gathered from a conversion I found online. Essentially I built the cannons by hallowing out two of the dreadnaught fist arms, I had to cut and reposition one because they only came as left hands> Next, I cut lengths of plasti-tube to make a gatling barrel. I had one hallow tube, and one solid tube, so I used hallow ones on the outside and the solid one in the middle to hold them together. I did try and reform the tubes, but I think cutting it make them perma-deformed :/ Anywho, once the arms were made, I used GS to make it look more seamless, added on a demon prince loincloth and some chains, a death guard plague marine head, and some nice spikes. I really liked how he was posed, so I'm not disappointed at all how he looks. Feels pretty dynamic to me!

Next up I already had glued the cannons together, so I figured I'd make the next dread using those arms. What I created... I mean, look at this guy!





He screams "badass", reminds me of a mechwarrior or some menacing death machine. His pose I really love, definitely gives off the "come at me bro" aura. Obviously I glued the arms to two of the dread shoulders, then added some chains to make them more... mean. I had a couple heldrake pads laying around, so I trimmed and fitted them as leg plates, which I think look really unique. To pull together the heavy metal vibe I added more chains, then green stuffed some of those rhino spike plates I have a ton of but never use. Finished him off with a topper I chopped when I converted a lord of contagion to typhus, and wala! I think hes friggin awesome.

And lastly... this dude.






At this point I had ran out of my smaller plasti-tube, so I figured I would repurpose the assault cannon arm. I added a blade from the heldrake plates to make it more like the "official" Butcher cannon. Then I converted another dread arm, only this time I had to use thicker tube; makes it look like a triple barrel shotgun. I'm not too stoked with him compared to the others, hes alright. Definitely not my best work. I feel bad because it feels like he was cobbled from the scraps I didn't use on the other two lol...

Family photo time!




And luckily when I bought these the owner had some spare Havoc Launchers he threw in with the deal; so I magnetized them as shoulder weapons I kind of wish I had done them sideways, but meh...

Zids model Tally
So I had to do a tally of what I have, painted and unpainted, because my resolution this year: get everything friggin painted. I have finished building everything aside from my Maulerfiend, which hes not getting anything special... lol. I want to keep him basic because hes not a death guard option, and I may use him outside of my Nurgle lists. So heres what I have painted and unpainted:

PAINTED MODELS
1 Demon Prince of Nurgle
2 Generic Demon princes
48 Poxwalkers
11 Cultists
30 Plaguebearers
6 Nurglings
1 Renegade Knight with Gatling Cannons and Icarus AC
1 Armiger
Ahriman
2 Foul Blightspawns
1 Scrivener
1 Poxbringer
3 Plagueburst Crawlers
1 Plague Marine (Counts as Lord)
Typhus
5 Blightlords
1 Gnarlmaw

UNPAINTED
1 Death Guard Rhino
6 Plague Drones
3 Bloat Drones
2 Demon Princes of Nurgle
2 Defilers
3 Contemptor Dreads
1 Maulerfiend
1 Armiger
1 Renegade Knight (plus all the other weapon options)
1 Foul Blightspawn
1 Slopity Bilepiper
31 Plague Bearers
30 Bloodletters
29 Cultists
10 Khorne Zerkers
1 Chaos Lord of Khorne
2 Terminator Sorcerers
5 Blightlords
3 Plague Marines
12 Nurglings
10 Blue Horrors
10 Brimstone Horrors
2 Biker Lords of Chaos
Demon prince weapon arms (for the generic princes)

Whew... thats a whole lot!

Impressive and inspiring as always, bro!

Reminded of mega-obliterators, which isn't a bad thing. Nice work

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Impressive and inspiring as always, bro!

Thanks Graven! Getting lots of battle reps this week....


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 Boss Salvage wrote:
Reminded of mega-obliterators, which isn't a bad thing. Nice work

I could kinda see that... Now I want to make obliterators to match. Damnit Boss Man.... giving me ideas my wallet can't fund right now :(

Crikey. That is a *lot* of high BS, no movey shooty penalty firepower

 lindsay40k wrote:
Crikey. That is a *lot* of high BS, no movey shooty penalty firepower

Haha that it is! I have tried them Death Guard, but i feel that alpha legion might be more appropriate... they died very quickly, and i think AL may help them stick around

Nice work on those dreads!

Someone seems to also have taken a liking to the hades autocannons.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Nice work on those dreads!

Thanks!


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Not Online!!! wrote:
Someone seems to also have taken a liking to the hades autocannons.

I think they make a good differentiation to be called butchers cannons instead of another weapon.


So slight update,we have a narrative tourney in February and i have deigned that i will play a painted list in the event... as such, i have to paint 6 terminators, 2 drones, and 2 dreads before then. Can i do it...? Stay tuned to find out!

Today i did prime and basecoat all the models i need to paint; tomorrow i plan to get all armor washes done and paint my armor colors completely; hopefully i can get some of my minor base coating done as well (i.e. fleshy bits). Ill get pocs up when i can

Howdy all,

So getting ready for a 1500 point event next month and decided I wanted to enter in for Best Painted for once; I might lose, but damnit... I'm gonna do it!

Being a narrative event we are limited to a single Battalion, single codex (forgeworld allowed)/faction, and max two of any non-troop unit... oh and no special characters. Taking inventory, I realized Death Guard was my best bet at creating a fun, well rounded list. I decided to "fluff it up" and center the list around Terminators; everything supports them, and this kind of fits the Vigilius narrative. I would have done Poxwalker hordes, but I need Typhus to do that :(

So the list (boiled down):
Demon prince (painted)
Terminator Sorc Lord (unpainted)
10x Blightlords w/ bolters, axes, two flails, two blightlauchers (5 unpainted)
10x Poxes (painted)
10x Cultists (painted)
10x Poxes (Painted)
2x Bloat Drone w/ spitters (unpainted)
2x Contemptors w/ dual butchers and havoc (unpainted)

The list will play very well I feel, and not be overwhelming for newbies; everything is killable within a well designed list. I purposely avoided using my PBC's, while it would have lightened the painting load, dealig with 10 termis and 2 PBC's is rough, especially because there will be no Knights or Primarchs in this event. It should be fun.

That said, I have a bit of work to do:
6 Terminators
2 Dreads
2 Drones

To paint within... 3 weeks? Maybe 4? So I hopped on it.











Welcome Bloaty the Bloat Drone to the fold!










And... Dready the Dreadnaught!

Yeah I know, creative names... lol.

6 terminators, 1 Drone, 1 Dread left! C&C welcome as always.

Well, they're disgusting the splashes of purple really contrast nicely. In a gross way

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well, they're disgusting the splashes of purple really contrast nicely. In a gross way

Thanks bud! I think purple goes very well with the green armor

Howdy all,

Quick update!


Terminator sorcerer is almost complete





















And three terminators

Still working on the weapon arms... 4 models left to go! I was able to basecoat and do an initial wash on the last two Terminators... Sorry to run, just a quick update!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLiPUI3zwSxPiHzWjFQKcNA

I made a youtube channel now to post about my P&M and I'll be doing Video Battle Reports now rather than written ones as requested Take a look and subscribe

 Zid wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLiPUI3zwSxPiHzWjFQKcNA

I made a youtube channel now to post about my P&M and I'll be doing Video Battle Reports now rather than written ones as requested Take a look and subscribe

Awesome stuff bud, subbed and I'll still a link in my blog too