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....

By daemons be driven

Following on from the proxy Soul Grinder the other week, I've been stripping paint from old miniatures, re-discovering stuff in old boxes and the like...

Daemons of Nurgle incoming...

This is The Old Death from Enigma Miniatures

Good innit?

These from Maxmini.EU will make a herald and Nurglings

Gratuitous Nurgling bases and old Plague Bearers

and more

and more

and more

Gawd, yer don't sweat much fer a fat lass

Plague Bearers - first 7 completed

It seems like I've been neglecting this blog recently.  Real life has been getting in the way. I'm not going to go on about it, but it's been tough and stressful recently, and we've had a bit of good news today.

Right... to business. My regular readers will probably remember me painting up a plague bearer a good while ago.  You can see "it" here.  That was over 8 months ago. Good grief.

Anyway, That plague bearer now has 6 mates, taking them up to a magical 7. All hail the Plague Father.

I've been trying to have a bit of an experiment with glazes and washes, both separately and mixed together, and these guys are the results, basically. Some of them have come out better than others, I'll readily admit.
There are, however, a fair few more in the pipeline, so what I've learned from these guys, I've been trying to improve on.  When I post them up in about 15 years time, I'll let you judge...

Traitor guard / cultist beastmen part 3

I've managed to put together another beastman cultist / traitor guard model. This time I've used a gor body (off which I decided was it too tricky to try and trim the hooves from), the icon bearer arm from the plague bearers kit, the chaos undivided icon top from the chaos marines kit, and a beastman arm hand-swapped with the Catachan las pistol arm... and a bit of the old green stuff.

It was actually a bit trickier than it looks - for some reason I kept cutting the pins I was using too short, and getting distracted variously by the door bell, the phone and the Mrs whilst trying to get the glue to bond.

In the end, it somehow came together...

Plague Bearer #1

So I bought some of the new plastic plague bearer models a few months back.  Recently I got around to putting some together, and getting them under-coated. For some reason, I then just did nothing with them. Until the other day, that is.

The other day represented a certain cosmic alignment, when the bright star of willpower shifts itself from the "can't be arsed" quadrant and into the "painting experimentation" quadrant.

Or in other words, I finally got around to testing out a tutorial on painting corrupted flesh.  The tutorial can be found on a very excellent blog called Dark Future Games, and can be found here:
http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/corrupted-flesh-tutorial.html

This dude has been working up some pretty awesome Nurgle stuff, and is a constant source of inspiration to me.  Not that I often do anything with my inspiration of course. But that's besides the point...

Long story short, I had a go at following the tutorial (which, incidentally, I did wrong) primarily because it gave me an excuse to try my hand at using glazes for the very first time.  I also had a go at using Tamiya Clear Red to produce that realistic gore effect that folks go on about on the internet.

Here is how it turned out. Apologies for the low quality photographs. Ahem.