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Any more updates? You can ignore Stelek, he likes to bash things but he is secretly jealous.

I will echo everyone else that the army looks fantastic. I will also echo that the basic troopers need a thinned green/black/brown wash or something to bring out the detail. Whatever you did to the Rhino do to the troops as well.

Looking forward to more.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Yeah, I've been busy painting. I figured I wouldn't bother with an update until I finished another full squad. I went back and gave the first 14 a wash of brown ink like I did on the rhino and did a few touch ups like painting the eyes orange-ish yellow and gave them and the rhino a coat of Dull Cote.

I've got 4/7 done for the second squad. This one being armed with 2 meltas. I'm also considering doing battle damage/chipped paint like on the rhino on all the PMs. I should have the squad finished in a few days and I'll post pics of them then.

Nice GS work, but I think the paintjob lets it down. It's rather rudimentary. Sorry.

I second that the troopers could use an ink wash of some sort to bring out some of the detail. I think picking out a few bitz with a different color would also help them stand out a bit more. As it stands the troops are a little boring to look at due to being pretty much all one color. It's unfortunate, because they have some nice detail, but it all blends in.

I'm really impressed with the attention that went into this nurgle army, and I'm looking forward to see your Plague Reaper!

could I ask what you used for the vents in the terminators and tanks, because it really finishes your model's off!
and what paint-scheme did you use for the armour of the rhino?

The plasticard tubes are from Gale Force 9. They come in a pack for about $10.

The paint scheme is as follows:

Primed black

Catachan Green base coat

Didi's Green ink and Black ink mix

Drybrush Catachan green

Drybrush of Camo Green

Drybrush of Rotting Flesh

Didi's Brown ink

Then for the battle damage I took a piece of padding from a blister pack and dabbed it in Chardonite Granite and wiped some off before dabbing it randomly on the raised edges. Then I touched up the blotches with Adeptus Battelgrey, leaving the edges of the Chardonite Granite showing.


As for the lack of detail in the painting. As I mentioned in the above post I went back and updated the PMs before hitting them up with Dull Cote. The finished models are now looking more like this:








Pretty much all that's left is the eyes on some of them and possibly going back and adding weathering to the armor.

Here's a few WIP champs and PMs:

Man, do those look good.

Have you considered an eensy little dab of gloss varnish over the eyes, just to make them glow more?

Great Army!
I'm pretty sure I've seen it over on b&c. Are you entered in the call of Chaos?

Savnock wrote:Man, do those look good.

Have you considered an eensy little dab of gloss varnish over the eyes, just to make them glow more?

No, I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try and see how it turns out. Thanks.

snorkle wrote:Great Army!
I'm pretty sure I've seen it over on b&c. Are you entered in the call of Chaos?

I post over at B&C but I'm not entered in Call of Chaos. I'm such a slow painter I just didn't think it was worth it to enter.

Thanks for the comments.

this is a great army all round, the paint job may be a bit standard but the sculpting and scratch builds and fantastic

Finished the 3rd squad today. Except the eyes. I always forget the damn eyes. Also I should note the yellow helmet looks particularly like crap in these pics. It's actually not bad in real life it's just got a funny angle in the pic I guess. It' also has the chipped paint effect which might be why it looks weird in the pic.
















I had planned to keep doing a bit more painting before going back to converting anything else but I've had ideas flowing for my next defiler and I really wanted to take a break from painting for a bit and get the second defiler built so I can play some larger games even with if it means using unpainted models.

So here's the initial design:

"Oh noes I is aspoldin' in my pants!"





....Ok, I just got bored when dry fitting some bits and my mind went straight in the gutter. I took a picture to document my immaturity. Idle hands and all that.

Now here's the real pictures:











Basically just the torso design. The head is just propped in place for now. I'll be filling it in with greenstuff and the smoke launchers have been drilled out and will have wires running to the back of the head.

I guess I should also mention this defiler is going to be a bipedal mech looking defiler. I wanted to do something completely different from my other one.

I didn't do really any planning for the model before I started building it and just kind of started assembling things on the fly. So I'm not really sure if I'll keep the cannon on the chest. It'll be a bit of a pain to change since it's glued together but I'll see how things look once the model gets a little further along.

My first thought on the defiler - WTF??
Then I saw the second pic, where my first thought there - So ... he shoots himself in the head with the smoke launchers??

Anyway, I like where it's headed, and props on using the bike prow as iron gob

The latest batch of painted plaguers look quite nice as well.

- Salvage

Looks good. The pink pustules is a nice touch and helps break up the color sameness (is that a word) of the model. Add more of those!

Ozymandias, King of Kings

tegeus-Cromis wrote:Nice GS work, but I think the paintjob lets it down. It's rather rudimentary. Sorry.

Good enough to make me wish my paintjobs were rudimentary

Fantastic looking Death Guard army. Many thanks for posting. Lots of great ideas to steal....errr, borrow.

Look forward to more updates.

Your Plague Champions are phenomenal.

Defiler #1 is 100% complete, based and ready for paint!

The flash kind of hides it but there are shallow holes in the gas mask filter to give it a more realistic look rather than just a simple cylinder.












Hopefully I'll be able to make the second defiler even cooler than this one.

Wow, awesome comment from Stelek. Considering his sub-laclustre contributions to our hobby I am surprised that he's been so negative. HF's comment, whilst nowhere near as insulting, is rather hypocritical (you can't criticise as well as compliment in his book, you see, unless you're playing some sort of Kafkaesque mind games).

As individual pieces these would be good, as a whole this army is pretty much as good as it gets.

Wow. That defiler....
Just wow.
At first I was worried you were going to be satisfied with "giant on top of the defiler carriage." But you took it sooo much farther. Well done.

Your original Defiler/giant designs were ok. I thought to myself that I would keep an eye on them and see where it went etc etc. The final version on the other hand is much much better! I really like what you have done with the mask on the giant face and the skin looks very good also. Great job!

I like the look of your entire force, but when ya get this defiler painted up, you need to give us a pic of em all together. I think it is a great centerpiece!

Keep it up

Daaaaaamn. Nice work.

I really do wish you would do a Defiler with the first pose you were test-fitting. Considered doing an EC Defiler just for a lark?

May I ask what bit you used for the gas mask on the finished Defiler?

Thanks for the comments guys.

Savnock, I believe that the 'splodin' pants defiler will be no more than a fond memory, unless you want to pay for the kit... Also, the gas mask is from a Fantasy Orc Warboss. I'll be using the same bit for a daemon prince.

Alright, today is a double dose of defiler day.

This one seems to be coming along a lot quicker than the first.

I can't really get a good pic of the pose it will have until more is glued together but here's the legs and torso so far:



Legs close up:



I changed the pipes on the back from the Ork bits to these, mostly just to keep the vent theme running throughout all my vehicles. I may have gone a bit overboard, though, it looks a bit like a naval mine.



A little bit of wire work I've started for the limbs:

Question for ya - what did you use for the obnoxious-yet-deadly-flowing-river-of-going-to-be-painted-like-liquid-death on the defiler base?

How is the Plaguereaper coming along? I'm really interested in seeing what you do with it.

DeathGod wrote:Question for ya - what did you use for the obnoxious-yet-deadly-flowing-river-of-going-to-be-painted-like-liquid-death on the defiler base?

Hot glue for the"liquid." I'll be using water effects on it once it's painted.

Ungentle wrote:How is the Plaguereaper coming along? I'm really interested in seeing what you do with it.

I haven't started it just yet. I'm going to get the second defiler finished and then I'll be doing the plaguereaper. I did go to the hardware store last week and got all the PVC bits I need for the tanks. So I have everything I need to start building. Luckily this defiler is going pretty quickly so hopefully I'll start work on the plaguereaper in about a week.

I am stoked. The theme with the exhaust ports will look really interesting on the Baneblade, but are you planning anything else? I've got it in my head to do something along the lines of a bad ass Nurgle super heavy this summer, and I was wondering what ideas you were thinking about? I'm definitely planning on pimping out the main weapon array with some extra cannons, but I'm stumped as to what to do to make it more Nurgley.

I've been planning how I will build my plaguereaper basically since I got the Apocalypse book. I knew it would be something I wouldn't want to build until I had made a good amount of progress on the main army so over the months I've had ideas and picked up bits I would need and set them aside so I have a large amount of stuff already on hand for the conversions.

I've only opened the baneblade box once or twice to look things over and didn't even bother looking through the instructions so I'll need to go over it more carefully before I get to work and make sure all the ideas and bits I have will look right and fit where they're supposed to but generally this is what I have planned for it.

Hellstorm cannon with WHFB hellcannon horned skull head and jaw on the end of the barrel.

Large dozer blade made up of 2 or 3(have three but might be too many) IG dozer blades angled where the ends will slant back towards the tracks. The dozer blade will be covered with spikes and lots of dead bodies/skeleton caught up in there.

Some loose panels and damaged hull bits with nurgly stuff coming out, some nurglings too to show nurgling infestation.

For the tanks on the back I actually wanted to make it alot different from all the other ones I've seen. I was thinking about where the acid ooze stuff from the cannon would be made of and how it would be acquired.

I'm mean it shoots a rather large blast and the tanks would only hold so much. So I decided that I would have 2-3 large tanks on the rear of the vehicle that were like processing dead bodies into a soup to feed into the gun. These tanks would have tubes going to 2 smaller tanks on the back of the turret that obviously feed directly into the gun.

So I got 3 extra Ork wrecka balls that will be converted to have grabby bits on the end that pick up dead bodies from the battlefield to feed into the vats. I bought the corpse cart from WHFB for the corpse piles that will go into the processing tanks.

Also from the corpse cart are zombies impaled on spikes that pull the cart. These I'm taking and adding to the sides of the vehicle. Basically just there as trophies or what have you.

So that should give you an idea of what's to come. There's more but I don't want to give away every detail of what I'm doing.

Wow, that's pretty detailed, lol. I didn't think about using the Hellcannon barrel, but that's a pretty gnarly idea. I'm just trying to stay as far away from the grabby/squibbly phallic symbol cannon on the one Plaguereaper I've seen.


http://ca.games-workshop.com/Apocalypse/painting/baneblade/plaguereaper.htm

Yeah, I think it's a pretty good idea in general for everyone to stay away from adding spiky penises to their tanks.