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 toad chaos spawn finished

I finally finished these late last week.

I'm really feeling a bit unsure of the results, and I reckon if I was to get another set and start again, I'd probably do it all differently - but alas, hindsight is mankind's eternal curse.  Having said this, I am quite happy with how they've turned out overall. Particularly happy with my use of glazes, which I think have really smoothed out some of the colour transitions in the greens, and also hopefully caused some reasonably grim effects in the mouth areas...

Apologies if you think the colours came out strange due to the flash, but I really thought it was necessary. Without the flash they seemed to be coming out a bit flat looking to my eyes...

On the table top they have already gained a bit of notoriety...

Plague Toads work in progress part 2

All work and no play makes Tony of Nurgle eager to spread the pox.

So I've done a bit more work on these gruesome little bundles of joy over the past week or so.

I haven't seemed to get any more than a half-hour or so to sit and work on these at any one time, but I think I'm slowly getting there...