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Never a shortage of stuff to look at, gobert. Cool game pics. The DG are shaping up nicely. The Eldar were a surprise. I thought at first you were diving into a new army, not a commission. Keep it up!

 youwashock wrote:
Never a shortage of stuff to look at, gobert. Cool game pics. The DG are shaping up nicely. The Eldar were a surprise. I thought at first you were diving into a new army, not a commission. Keep it up!

I’ve gotta be honest, painting those hulls the thought did cross my mind to do an Armoured Eldar Warhost… but I’ve still got Death Guard to spend money on… and several other in progress/not yet started armies!

Speaking of Death Guard spending, I won a Plague Marine Champion on eBay this morning. Sassy Nurgling incoming! Elsewhere I’m tempted by a couple of Biologus Putrifiers for those sweet Lethal Hits 5+. But obviously I want to convert them, so I’m eyeing up some Chosen of Mortarion as I’d quite like a third plaguecaster and may as well have another Blightbringer too. And while I’m buying retail perhaps a Playue Surgeon and Foul Blightspawn to have all of the characters… except I don’t have a Mortarion, so maybe I should get one of those… sh!t that escalated quickly! Maybe when I finish this batch I’ll treat myself?

Back to actual hobby stuff, I’ve not been massively productive this week. Though I seem to have completely abandoned my base layers then do the Poxwalkers and will probably finish them before moving on. The special weapons have had all of their flesh bits done, as have the Blighhaulers and the Heavy Plague Weapons.

The baby blue on the special weapons worked out ok, though the yellow is a bit pale for a shade colour. The purple on the haulers looks pretty decent too. I got confused between Heavy Weapons and Heavy Plague Weapons from my previous post. So the HPWs are pale green and the HW will be yellow, the Blight Launcher though didn’t really have any fleshy bits so his tongue will do that job. I needed to add a fair bit of white to most of the colours to make it work, but it’s turning out reasonably well so far. With any luck I’ll get the fleshy bits finished tomorrow, but that Lord of Virulence’s skirt will be tricky!

Thanks for looking!

It’s been a while dakka. I’ve started about 3 posts and for various reasons not gotten round to finishing them. Hopefully 4th times a charm! I’ve made steady progress with the Death Guard, going well beyond the bare minimum battle ready steps. I may as well finish them now… all of the fleshy bits have been done and I’m not convinced by the multicoloured version of the scheme. I might switch back to match the kill team, but will get them done first. Here’s a few older pics to show each of them done, first up the special weapons in yellow-green-blue

These actually look pretty decent, but the yellow wasn’t a great first colour
Next is the blighthaulers green-blue-purple

This one looked great at the green-blue mix stage, but the purple looks odd and lost my highlighting mojo
Next is the heavy weapons red-orange-yellow

The colour is kinda cool, but it doesn’t work well on the minis. Perhaps because it’s similar to the copper?
Heavy Plague Weapons orange yellow green

Works reasonably well, would’ve been better had I started with fire dragon bright instead of trollslayer orange. Again, it looks cool, but doesn’t work with the minis unfortunately.
And here’s the regular loadout guys and the nurglings in blue-purple-pink

These look much better and the colours seem to work for me.

I haven’t stopped there as I managed to get all of the rust and corrosion done.

I think that the orange rust might’ve been a bit too thick on some of the minis, certainly the plasma dude has some very large bright orange rusty bits.

I have also made a start on their green glows,

I should probably sort out a few other bits like skulls and stuff first before I do the brighter bits.

I think the crusade starts in a couple of weeks, so I should be able to get these guys done. Doing 10 poxwalkers to finish my list might be a stretch but my Blackstone Fortress Poxwalkers and one of the Ppague Marines will help get to 1000 pts and give me full wysiwyg painted army.

Thanks for looking

That's a lot of work, man. I think your original scheme works best, but that may just be familiarity. Keep up the good work. Onward to 1,000 points!

Plenty of progress here! And results are paying out, I like the contrast of the green accents on the black armour.

youwashock wrote:That's a lot of work, man. I think your original scheme works best, but that may just be familiarity. Keep up the good work. Onward to 1,000 points!

Yeah, it’s tough to tell, I’ll leave them as they are for a while and see if I want to make the change. The Cruaade starts in a little over a week… not sure I’ll get 10 Poxwalkers painted after this lot… we’ll see. Maybe a 1 weekend challenge will do the trick?

muette wrote:Plenty of progress here! And results are paying out, I like the contrast of the green accents on the black armour.

Cheers muette, the black and green do give a good contrast. I wasn’t too sure about the goop on the modified blight hauler, but I think it looks pretty good

Kept up some steady progress. Got the first highlight on the green and then switched to bone, with the first layer done on all of them except the Terminators.


They’re starting to really come together now, though painting the biologus putrifier I realised I still have lots of bottles to paint. I think they’ll have to be a slower time project, maybe a fresh bottle for each battle or mini his unit kills? Maybe the colour could match the enemy army!?

Speaking of games, I had my latest league game on Sunday against Ad Mech. I lost, but had good fun nonetheless. I didn’t get many photos but here’s one from the end of Chaplain Germanus’ heroic last stand, he whittled down a full squad of robot thingies after he lost his accompanying squad of Vanguard Vets.


And continuing my recent trend, I wrote most of that a week ago, so here’s the very nearly finished Plague Marines.

I’d forgotten how fun these bases are to paint, yellow speed paint all over (got a few bonus tones thanks to another 100% dry dark yellow) then slap on some thick spots of orange speed paint (watch it diffuse) and finish off with a few spots of heavily thinned turquoise mixed with incubi darkness.

Will do a couple more bits on them tonight before I switch focus to some Poxwalkers to finish off the crusade opening list.

Thanks for looking!

Awesome as ever Gobert. The black on the Death Guard looks excellent. Really like your little pinky purple nurglings.

That's some serious batch painting! My limit seems to be about three models... Your army's shaping up nicely, and that color scheme is a hit!

Just had a good old wander through the last five or so pages back to the 2024 wrap up. You've built up a seriously impressive catalogue here mate!

Everything is looking good - the Void Panthers are resplendent, especially the (now jump) Chaplain and the Librarian.

The new DG are likewise great - personally I'm a big fan of the tweaked colour schemes for individual units. The main colours are a large enough part of the models to maintain cohesion while the themed extras bring a bit of life to the army when you see them all together. Their bases are particularly well done (and gruesome, they remind me nearly exactly of when the kids all had school sores at the same time...)

But my favourite work has to be the terrain. So often those big pieces get a quick wash and a drybrush and that's always serviceable but it's always heartwarming to see a board that has had time and love put into it. Plus it makes your action shots and general photos of the gang look 10x better.

Thanks for sharing!

Olthannon wrote:Awesome as ever Gobert. The black on the Death Guard looks excellent. Really like your little pinky purple nurglings.

Thanks matey, those pink nurglings really do finish off the minis, I need MOAR NURGLINGS!

mcmattila wrote:That's some serious batch painting! My limit seems to be about three models... Your army's shaping up nicely, and that color scheme is a hit!

Cheer mcmatilla, it was quite a batch, but Death Guard work can be sloppy and still look pretty good imho. There’s going to be another batch shortly as well so I can get up to 1500pts, ideally by the 26th.

tzurk wrote:Just had a good old wander through the last five or so pages back to the 2024 wrap up. You've built up a seriously impressive catalogue here mate!

Everything is looking good - the Void Panthers are resplendent, especially the (now jump) Chaplain and the Librarian.

The new DG are likewise great - personally I'm a big fan of the tweaked colour schemes for individual units. The main colours are a large enough part of the models to maintain cohesion while the themed extras bring a bit of life to the army when you see them all together. Their bases are particularly well done (and gruesome, they remind me nearly exactly of when the kids all had school sores at the same time...)

But my favourite work has to be the terrain. So often those big pieces get a quick wash and a drybrush and that's always serviceable but it's always heartwarming to see a board that has had time and love put into it. Plus it makes your action shots and general photos of the gang look 10x better.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for taking the time to catch up! It’s been quite a fruitful year so far with plenty more in the pipeline. I reckon you’re right on the terrain making the pics better. Theres a couple of other terrain projects in the background; I’ve finished building the Sector Imperialis sets that I bought on made to order and I’m aiming to get a Killzone Bheta-Decima set printed and painted for September. It might be a Summer in the garden project when the kids finish school.

Since my last post I’ve gotten the Black Death Crusade army ready for battle. They’re still quite rough around the edges and need a few more things to be properly finished, but good enough for the early rounds. Here they all are alongside the Poxwalkers and Kill Team I did a while ago

All that’s missing from the list is another 10 poxwalkers that I also made a good start on

I’m loving how different these are looking, even the ones with duplicate bodies appear sufficiently different with their new heads and arms.

I’ve taken some decent pics of each unit separately and will upload them over the rest of the week if and when I get time

Thanks for looking

The Black Death Crusade army looks really really good. That scheme combined with the name is just genius.
A magnificent force to behold.