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i'll second dysartes, he'll turn out good

Thanks guys; I have stuck his legs and stuff together... and then I started procrastinating and decided Morty needs more boots on the ground.



Added a couple of meltas for my close combat squad (thus making it legal). Also added a couple of grunts for a a small 5 man squad.



Three more here. Super proud of the terrible 'I hold a bolter and knife in each hand and stand flat for no reason' pose. Classic. That axe is insanely old too; think it has been in my bits box over a decade and survived two house moves.

Started a helbrute made from bits:



And finally....



Yeah. That's a practical well-sized sword.

Great work here, both modelling and painting.
Good luck with Mortarion, I just recently finished him and subassembles were definately the way to go, but judging by your work so far you should be fine

The small plague swords always irked me.
Good job i'd say.

Nice mix on the new guys, Denny. Why you say you're putting a Hellbrute together from bits, how much is from a Hellbrute kit, and how much is random bits from the bits box?

Gloriously disgusting, I particularly like the brilliant work on the vehicle pool. Well done, mate.

maxwin wrote:Great work here, both modelling and painting.
Good luck with Mortarion, I just recently finished him and subassembles were definately the way to go, but judging by your work so far you should be fine

Thanks. I had a look at yours; very impressive! I have him almost assembled now, just debating whether to stick the head on (and waiting on my white spray-paint to arrive).

Not Online!!! wrote:The small plague swords always irked me.
Good job i'd say.

I gave into my insidious self doubts and (slightly) trimmed the tip...

Dysartes wrote:Nice mix on the new guys, Denny. Why you say you're putting a Hellbrute together from bits, how much is from a Hellbrute kit, and how much is random bits from the bits box?

I got the 'shell' of it from eBay, but no weapons or heads (or all of the armour plates). But I found an imperial missile launcher and a couple of lascannons (might be from a guard tank?). Pics below; its not going to be a fancy conversion)

Ragsta wrote:Gloriously disgusting, I particularly like the brilliant work on the vehicle pool. Well done, mate.

Thanks. Yeah, Skuttles is probably my favourite. I think it might be the most ambitious conversion I've ever attempted (at least in terms of scale; its not like its subtle or smooth...)

Minor Update; working on the helbrute.

A very Nurgle face. Good work!

Seconded Gwyn. But then again in regards to tentacly nurgley thingies, this blog is a treassure.

Nice work on the kitbash Hellbrute, Denny - I really should finish putting the base together on mine.

 Dysartes wrote:
Nice work on the kitbash Hellbrute, Denny - I really should finish putting the base together on mine.

It now occurs to me I need to find a base...
(I like your use of Nurglings BTW; I should add a few to things)

Apologies for going off topic, but I got something I'm pretty proud of in the post:

Black Library Debut Novel: Fire Made Flesh



Release date 1st April... which I'm hoping isn't some elaborate joke...

I still can't get any white spray paint though, so overall the day has been mixed.

Nice cover - I'm working my way through the Uprising anthology at the moment.

I think I prefer most of the loose Nurglings as a way to add a Nurgle theme to "generic" units for the Death Guard, rather than adding them to Nurglings/Plaguebearers - admittedly, some of the ones with Plague Marines are a bit too iconic to leave off, like Sassy Nurgling with a Helmet

Minor Update:

I got white spray paint.



Still some way to go...

I've been sorting through my boxes of doom, and stumbled over my Nurgle Blood Bowl team. I started converting these right before the official models came out (this is where my poxwalkers ended up)






This Rotspawn is basically made from leftover Great Unclean One parts.




Four Blockers. Weirdly same armour colours as the Death Guard (unplanned)




Beastmen of various levels of grossness.

And rotters!





These guys tend not to achieve much. Did convert a kicker and a dirty player (who might have something tucked behind his back)

Finally, every team needs a coach to call the plays.



And a ball and chain special character.

This is amazing Denny
Like the coach

Very cool stuff! Especially enjoying that Rotspawn & all the tanks.

The BloodBowl team is amazing. Love it!

Not Online!!! wrote:This is amazing Denny
Like the coach

Thanks. I'm really pleased with him; first and only top hat I have ever sculpted.
His success has been mixed. He has led The Mighty Maggotlords to one a single Blood Bowl season where they were dominant... until we had to abandon it due to Covid restrictions.

Grandfather Nurgle works in mysterious ways.

Mutant Modifier wrote:Very cool stuff! Especially enjoying that Rotspawn & all the tanks.

Thanks. I built and painted the Rotspawn before I even began the GUO. Nothing more satisfying than a Blood Bowl Big Guy made from bits.

RobertsMinis wrote:The BloodBowl team is amazing. Love it!

Pretty much all I have played for the last three years is Blood Bowl. I don't have masses of free time for games, but can easily squeeze in an evening's Blood Bowl. At some point I'll take some picks of my Chaos Renegades Team: 'The Evil B******s'.

Pretty Boring Update: blocking out the colours



I've struggled to get motivated recently, but I really want to paint Cursed City, which means I need to clear my desk. These guys should be pretty quick actually; I've none enough now that I know the shortcuts. But I think I will spend a bit longer on the Lord and Helbrute.

Morty is assembled and undercoated... and might go in a box for a while...

Further uninspired update: Brown wash fixes all



(This is the point I start painting models in groups of one or two, and make more of an attempt to aim the paint.)

Also dug out some old Nurglings (and I mean OLD; these guys were part of my Daemon army in 5th edition). I've manged to pick up a bunch more and am trying to work out how best to paint them to match the, for want of a better word, 'style' of my earlier work.



Currently they look like fruit pastilles....

Quite amazing.

Thanks man. The new Nurglings are great but I love those old models (where half of them just look miserable as hell)

Minor Update: Couple of marines are nearly done.



The guy on the left is the least inspired posing ever. He really reminds me of the old mono-build plastic plague marines. The older dud is holding a plasma gun in his tentacles, which seems a terrible idea, but there you go.

Fruit Pastel Nurglings are awesome! I did mine like Skittles, all the colours of the rainbow!

Plague Marines look great, and if I had tentacles I would hold my plasma pistol in them... more chance of them growing back than an arm

Looking forward to seeing the rest painted.

Thanks man. Another update: slowly dragging these guys towards painted.



I keep looking at Cursed City. Seems so much more appealing that moar Death Guard at the moment, but I will press on... for a week or so anyway...

Minor Update:

Think this guy will go by 'Derpnaught'

He is gorgeous. Love him, literally.

Fantastic face!

I just love the scheme..
Fits perfectly

RobertsMinis wrote:He is gorgeous. Love him, literally.

I get it. He sure looks like a good kisser.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Fantastic face!

Thanks. Can't say it was planned exactly. Initially I tried to stick a generic space marine helmet in the mouth, but it fell out and is now stuck inside the torso somewhere.
So I did the tongue instead. He still rattles, so the head is in there somewhere...

Not Online!!! wrote:I just love the scheme.. Fits perfectly

Thanks! I like my Death Guard to still have the same colours from their loyalist days, just rotted and corroded (rather than repainted).

I'm currently flirting between these models, disapplying an appalling lack of discipline. But, given that I'm mainly painting them as a way of procrastinating from starting Morty, that makes sense.

Bit more progress on my new Chaos Lord.



Keep thinking a Bale Sword and Power Fist is overkill, and he'd be better with just a combi-bolter... but there is something nice and 2nd edition about the sword/fist combo.

Suspect this guy will need some tidying up, but for now I'm calling him done.



Pleased overall as, just like the landraider, I wasn't sure he was going to come together. Finding a couple of old lascannons in the bits box was super helpful.

he is awesome though?

What makes you unhappy?