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Okay, so I have this old army of third edition plague marines Ive had for a while. The thing is they are preety much normal marine models with a plague marine paint job, mostly a solid green with splotches of other shades of gree.. I want to do something to make it clear that they are plague marines and not just odly painted normal marines.

Here is what I was thinking: use static grass to make them look moldy, and hence be plague marines.

Is this a good idea? Should I try something else instead? Any help would be much appreciated

I think static grass would make them more furry than nurgley. You could green stuff patches of boils and rot, but since they are already painted you would have to hand prime those spots and then paint it, unless you stripped them of course.


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Something that just came to mind that you could try is weathering powder. Give parts of their armor a nice rusted look? At least you wouldn't have to repaint.

GIve me the metal bits a good application of rust. Rust/rust powders on the armor works as well,

Ideas:

Having difficulty seeing if fuzz would look cool, try it on one and see.

Take a hobby knife and scratch outer surfaces for battle damage. around shoulder guards and around shins of legs.

Cut a V in the toes of the boots to look a bit like a hoof, the models usually had that.

Take a small drill and make 3 tiny holes in a triangle in various spots.

Add a spike at the top of their helmets.

Cut 2mm dia plastic tube and make eyes look like goggles or try with green stuff (may be easier to form it on the eye).

Get some guitar string and run a breathing tube to the backpack OR attach two disks on either side of the mouth to look like a filter mask (or enhancer?).

Look at some pictures of other models out there and you may see something you could easily do.

Good luck.

Okay, being somewhat of a noob to modeling (Im not the original painter, and hence why I am leery of doing too much conversion to perfectly good models) I have a few questions.

What is a weathering powder?
How is it applied?
Where is it acquired?

How hard is it to use greenstuff for a noob?
What tools do I need for it?

Which of those is least expensive?

Umm, both ways are pretty inexpensive and both you can get from just about any model or game shop.

An example of weathering http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/87080weathering/

Greenstuff is easy to mix and nurgle is probably the easiest to work with as being "nurgley" is forgiving as long as it looks gross.

Okay cool. Thanks guys!