It has taken me a lot of time to finally even get to start on my (assembled and black basecoated) pile of shame to a mortal Nurgle army, Glottkin included -_- (so that's a very big pile in more ways than one) and theorycrafting a palet for it has been all the more difficult because I do not want to use the same palet as other armies of which I also have many.
I already did a white, blue and cyan palet on a snow biome with my disposessed, a red, orange, dark grey and beige palet on my Eldar, green, cyan and silver palet on my Tyranids, dark green, bronze and dark gold palet on my elves and a all colors in camo patterns mashup with bluish desaturated greens on my Orks. Very few options therefor remained..
Best I could think of was something purplish but I didn't want to make a Nurgle army look Slaanesh.. so I eventually decided to look up ingot types of ultima online for a good metal idea and figured agapite would be the best option.
I also chose to make the skin of the Nurglekin as pale as possible so that every color could be left subtle and still be noticable.. ultimately wanting to keep the palet bleached and work more with gradient darkening than anything else..
I finished the armor with some dryed spots of desaturated peach (almost beige) to make it look deteriorated.
I also chose to make whichever gore was to be created -oxblood- (in my case using berserker bloodshade) hued as of all things I wanted to avoid -green- to be anywhere near the lilac tinted armor (purple+green really gives me a headache, I avoid it at all costs whenever I can)
I redid the chains and chainlink bits twice, first trying it in dark blue but it was too fluorescent against the armor, then with gold but it made the blightking look too much slaaneshi, so settled with the oxblood on which I painted a darkened leadbelcher (mixed with black), the bells I layered with dark blue to darkened leadbelcher to silver, failing to think of something better.. but might redo them with red.. will have to think about it.
The horns and wood of the axe are laquered a bit with casondara yellow shade in the middle, but mostly a custom brown gradient into black with some apothecary white effects, the axe is carefully built up with many layers of light pink to stone types tints sponged on until I washed it with apothecary white aswell.
I am contemplating making the gradient tentacle end in oxblood rather than dark grey
atm though..
The mini was coated in matte stormshield, but the tentacle and the ends of the horns are coated in gloss ardcoat instead.
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any thoughts?