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The New Disease! Nurgle Blightdrone

12 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dark Imperium, Finished Work

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chaos, Dark Imperium, Death Guard

Finishing off the my Dark Imperium boxset, this Blightdrone. After the trouble I had painting the Death Guard from that set I put off painting the Blightdrone because I couldn’t face more failure. There is so much lovely detail on the Nurgle minis but my painting skills are not really up to it. I hope that it doesn’t put kids off – I know that it finding things hard used to put me off things, but I wasn’t raised in an environment that rewarded persistence. However I am pleased with how this has come out. It took a long time, and its not Golden Demon standard, but I’ve learned from the earlier DG and applied that learning and I am quite pleased. So now I have a small Death Guard army, just like I wanted way back before the DG were relauched. Being a sucker for punishment I have built the Gellerpox Mutants from the Kill Team Rogue Trader boxset to go alongside. You’ll get to see them in however many months! I lke the Blightdrone, its basically a really angry clam! I don’t eat molluscs, but I am reliably informed that they are basically delivery systems for getting heavy metal pollution from the seas into human beings, which is delightfully nurglish.

I’ve also included a picture of my ‘lightbox’ set up, as someone was grumbling about the quality of my photos! As you can see, I’ve got TWO daylight lamps and my shots are still quite dark, so if anyone has any suggestions for getting better shots with that set-up, please let me know. I’m a bit of a technophobe and have not brain so maybe I am missing something obvious!

  • Blightdrone
  • Extra slime for me please!
  • my current lightbox

Dark Imperium Poxwalkers

16 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dark Imperium, Finished Work

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Death Guard, nurgle, plague zombies, poxwalkers, WH40K

Finally finished these tricky bleeders.  I’m not very happy with them.  Like the Death Guard, they are lovely minis that I think really encapsulate the Nurgle plague zombie look.  They are heavily detailed, and you can see by looking at them how much time the poor sculptors must have spent looking at icky pictures of diseases and weird infections and gross skin conditions.  But they are blinking hard to paint.  There’s just so much there, so many different textures, so many tiny details.  In the end I had to accept that there is only so much a boy can do!

 

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Dark Imperium Death Guard

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dark Imperium

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40k, chaos, chaos marines, Death Guard, noxious plaguecaster, terrible stinky poo men yuk

Sometimes a hobby can feel like a chore and trying to get this lot done was one of those times.  I found them very difficult to get looking this good, and I don’t think I did a very good job at all.  Beautiful minis but there is so much fine detail!

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Death approaches

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The Noxious Plaguecaster

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The unstoppable march of death

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Ring-a-ding-ding!

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Plague Marines in the house

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More Plague Marines.

Newhammer Warning: 30K Death Guard

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Betrayal At Calth, Chaos, Finished Work, Space Marines

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30k, Betrayal At Calth, chaos, citadel miniatures, Death Guard, newhammer

I was given Betrayal At Calth for Christmas.  I can’t tell you yet if its any good as a game, but the miniatures are lovely. Whilst they lack the charm and crazy genius of the late 80s Citadel output, these really are beautiful models.   Deciding against painting the contents as Ultramarines vs Word Bearers (as Ultramarines are yuk, and Word Bearers similarly uninspiring), I had to consider other options.  The baddies were an easy choice really – I’ve already got an Alpha Legion army and have given up ever getting a painting technique I am pleased with for those snakey scamps.  I do want to paint a Night Lords warband – in fact, I want to make the warband from the Night Lords series of novels by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.  I was tempted to use these as a place to start, but I want to use these as game pieces in Betrayal At Calth eventually, not chop them up into individuals.  So Death Guard it was.  Nurgle is my homeboy.

 

The paintjob was loosely based on the Forge Word painting instructions for Death Guard, along with some making-it-up-as-I-went-along.  It’s pretty hit or miss to be honest.  I’ll be changing the recipe slightly for the next Death Guard squad.  Still,  I am happy with this first attempt.

 

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