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Worked all night on this guy, he started life 2 years ago as an obliterator and now carries the banner on a pile of weirdos.

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Simples.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4905320.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4905320.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4905936.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4905936.page GMT Re:100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin


there ya go have a click gents and let me know how you like him]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4906104.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4906104.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin
The palanquin, itself seems to be a bit featureless, and could be well served by a bit more detailing on top, like a throne or other additional stuff surrounding the lord to better fill the space, and a lot more gribblies to carry it.

Onto the positive aspects of the model, the texture on the basing looks great, no denying that, and with a bit of cleanup, could be made to look amazing. Top it off with a bit of woodrot and texturing to complete the structural appearance, and you could be well on your way.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4906852.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4906852.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin lol]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4907184.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4907184.page GMT Re:100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin I'd actually agree with pretty much everything that the guy said. The model itself is pretty cool but like it has been said, the face looks really odd, and the throne could look a little more interesting.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4907216.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4907216.page GMT Re:100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4907599.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4907599.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin OP is somehow not pleased by the fact that I presented my own opinion on the aesthetic qualities of the model, and that said opinions aren't the most positive thing in the universe? What are these threads for if not comments and criticism of works in progress?

I'm not a sculptor, I'd be the first to admit that, but the fact of the matter is that I know enough about aesthetics to be able to look at a piece and figure out, at least in my own eye, what it needs, and what, if anything, is just wrong with the sculpt.

You expect a chaos lord to convey a feeling of dread grandeur, to carry himself in a terrible and awe-inspiring way, indicative of his power and status within his warband. A Khorne lord should be mighty and imposing, a martial paragon and a seething mass of hatred and violence. A Lord of Slaanesh should carry himself with a certain subtlety and grace, with enough ego and excess to strike a mixture of fear and unnatural allure in his audience. A diciple of Tzeench should be mysterious, just slightly off, conveying a certain hyper-intelligent "wrongness" about him, unreal, predatory, but never direct. A Lord of Nurgle should carry a certain twisted grandeur, terribly malicious but mirthful, almost a king or politician, treating the battlefield almost as a parade in celebration, not of himself, but of the works of his surroundings. Most Importantly, all of them should convey a certain overt, or better still, implied, violence, with a sense that, at a whim, they have the capacity to butcher all that stand before them, in a manner as natural as breathing would be to you or I.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4910831.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4910831.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin
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Evileyes wrote:
It's kind of personnal preference I suppose. I, for instance, quite like the "goofy" expression. It lend's itself to Nurglings, and I like to think of this guy as like a child-minded super-nurgling, clapping and spitting and dancing about as the army sow's destruction. He's definately not the brains of the army, or the muscle, but that's not what nurgle is about. A Khorne guy with this face would be absurd. A slaneesh one, would be awful. A Tzeentch one, would be too weird. But this seems to fit nurgle in my eyes. Not every warlord has to be a badass, I imagine this guy as kind of an "Egor" style character to the hidden, true mastermind behind the army, ergo, nurgle.



Even then, Nurglings are a mix of "cute" and "I'm going to gnaw your face off when you turn your back". There's a certain brutal intellect communicated in even the beast of Nurgle sculpt, a gaze of baleful intent. Mindless and gibbering is more suited to the spawn, which is little more than a lumpen mass of corrupted flesh. It is, indeed, obvious that we view the setting through different lenses, but one seemingly universal idea behind the HQ units across all of the armies is some sort of implied intellegence, be it granted by a higher power, or bred from necessity and circumstance. Even an ork warboss, or even the near-insane weirdboyz are evidence of that.

I see nurgle having a presence much like the hollow, sociopathic smile of an abusive parent, with eyes completely devoid of compassion, and a smile just slightly too wide to be completely sincere.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4911036.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4911036.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin
I don't know the army this is running with, but if he is chaos space marines, I would fluffywise like to see him as a kind of second in command behind a greater intellect. For daemons, under the watchfull eye of a dissaproving great unclean one. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4911156.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4911156.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4911943.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/484602/4911943.page GMT 100% Converted Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Palanquin

Here is the progress


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