Plague Bearers, Herald of Nurgle, and full army shots

Although it's been kind of fun, it's something of a relief to be finally done with painting all these Daemons. It's also been an unusual experience for me in that:
1. I completed a project
2. It didn't take me a lifetime.

Having said this (and I think I may have hinted at it before), I do have ideas in mind for all the new Nurgle kits that got released for End Times.  Quite when I will get around to buying / doing this work, who can say?

The plague bearers I've been working on are a mix of the most recent metal ones from a good few years back, with a couple of older sculpts thrown in.  There is a bit of light conversion work to produce some Icon bearers, and they've all had their tabs cut off in order to mount them on resin bases (lots of sawing - urgh).

I had been intending on attempting to replicate the scheme I had used for the previous batch of plastic plague bearers, but I've either forgotten how to do it, or there is some bizarre difference in quality between plastic and metal that can cause paints to react differently. Obviously the latter is likely to be science I've just made up...  Anyway, the crux of the matter is, I tried something a bit different, and on several of the models went for a bit of a more abstract application of glazes and washes. I think they roughly tie in with each other, which is the most important thing. They also don't look out of place next to the plastic plague bearers either. Relief.

The herald is a proxy, which is produced by MaxminiEU, I can't remember for the life of me what the thing is called, but it's of little importance. It seems to more or less do the job. I have to say that I don't like the model as much as I did when I bought it (at Salute around 2 or 3 years ago). But hey, i was doing this whole thing on the cheap remember....

Plague Drones of Nurgle & Nurglings

More quick, dirty daemons of Nurgle. Thought I'd share with you some more evidence of my activities...

In terms of interesting things to say about these big flies, well I binned off making the riders for the plague drones, as I thought they made the models look ridiculously goofy. It's just improbable, but not in a cool way. I tried a bit of an experiment on the wings, which basically involved creating (or trying to create) a moth style mottled pattern on the wings.  This was then washed with successive layers of Athonian Cammo Shade and Agrax Earth Shade (or whatever GW calls them these days).  I then decided that the wings should also appear a bit more like the wings of bog standard insects too, so I painted on a significantly thinned down layer of Vallejo metal medium, which creates an unusual pearlescent effect. This seemed the best way of creating an iridescent effect. It doesn't come across too clearly in the majority of the pictures, as it only glisten as it catches the light, so you'll have to trust me when I say it looks good if you see it in person. Seems to combine well enough with my daemonflesh recipe, and the greenish carapaces

For the Nurglings, I used some stuff I had laying about the place, in the form of some models from Maxmini.eu that are their proxy Nurgling models I suppose. I also added a few bases of Nurglings using the Nurglings you get on the plague bearer sprues.  Not much to these. Quick layers to build up a fleshy tone, then glazed with yellow and purple. Add a bit of Tamiya Clear Red, and done.

Word Bearers Raptors #1 & #2

And lo', I bring you these bearers of the word of Lorgar.  Or, to the un-schooled, Word Bearers.

These are made up from various bits from Chaos Space Marines, Space Marine Assault Squads, Chaos Marauders, Blood Angels jump infantry (whatever those goths are called) kits, as well as resin conversion parts from MaxminiEU and Anvil Industries.

Once again I've used my scheme that I developed based around a description of Lorgar from the Horus Heresy series of books, and taken his penchant for applying gold to his face, and used it on the armour trims. Much better than the standard silver that our pals at GW seem to think is appropriate.

If any of you fools got beef with this, step to me. We'll settle this with a friendly game of 40k.

I did mean to post this up sooner, honest! But time gets away from a mudderfugger knowhutamsayin'?
Real life gets in the way. As does playing games of 40k and watching TV. And listening to high quality hardcore punk.

However, now Breaking Bad has finished (what an ending) and now Dexter has finished (seriously, they should have canned this trash at the end of the previous season), I find that I have a whole 2 hours per week to spare.

Word Bearers raptors W.I.P

Over the last week or so, I've had a bit of a kit-bash session, using bits that I had lying around the place. I decided that I'd make these Word Bearers raptors.

The main sources for pieces have been the GW Chaos Space Marines kit, jump packs from MaxminiEU, Steam Lord heads from Anvil Industry, and the legs come from both the GW Space Marine Assault Squad and the GW Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard.

There has been some trimming off of Blood Angels and general Imperial insignia and unnecessary Chaos spikey parts.

The results are as follows...

Another 3D Death Guard sketch

I've blue-tacked another couple of fine gentlemen. Continuing the theme of yesterday's (or was it the day before?) post.

Again I've used MaxminiEU Biohazard heads and backpacks.  I'm really into these, they give an interesting look to the miniature. Heavy duty breathing apparatus that seems to be powered by a personal furnace.

If you like this stuff, then you can find it here: MaxminiEU

I've also used Anvil Industries Steam Lord medieval legs, which I think give a nice pre-Heresy feel to the models.  You can find their stuff on eBay, or on their website: Anvil Industry

Anyways, here are some pics.

Before I glue this together, I will drill out the bolter barrel. 

This chap is carrying a flamer, which you can't tell too well from

this angle

The plan with this one is to link the under-slung canister on the
flamer to the large tank on his back by means of some type of
pipe or tube or fuel line