Hobby update: The real plague wing

by | Jul 15, 2013

I have been pretty busy, but slowly have managed to paint this stuff over the past few months.

My friend James has put the Drones to the test in countless games for months now and just recently the internets are saying that this is a good unit.  Kudos to James for picking this up early! ( also check out his blog : http://birdux.blogspot.com/ )

First off I managed to get through 9 plague drones.  (6 are pictured)


I did 2 different heads and 2 slight variations on paint schemes as not to confuse squads


These guys were fun to paint, but I have no idea how I'm going to transfer them to tournaments.

Next up are my Beasts of Nurgle.  Still a WIP, but I think they are looking pretty good.


Easy to paint, but lots of green stuff work.  The one on the right is eating a terminator whole !!


I still need to do some basing and add a few paint details, but I feel they fit the bill for nurgle type daemons. 5 almost done with 5 others to follow.

So what would all these units be without a leader or 2.  Enter the Hearld of Nurgle on his new palanquin.


I used some older nurglings with lots of tentacles and basing to represent the Palanquin.  The 60mm base seemed like it needed the extra mojo to go with the herald. ( Herald is forgeworld )


Now for the big baddy. The GUO. He is a combat machine and lays waste to most units he can get to in a game ( which is not many )

 He is a ultaforge model and very very fun to paint. I have another one in the paint booth, but still deciding on a color.  I think we can all agree this model is way better than the GW GUO.
The pictures don't do this justice as the armor is a rotten bronze color with plenty of rust.  The flesh also didn't seem to photograph well. Still not bad though.

Well it's not all nurgle all the time.  I built a skull cannon and used the Khorne Herald with a jugger that I had on sprue.  Too bad Blood Crusher suck nerf bad now.

So I modeled this guy with dual swords as I usually take 2 on him anyway ( ether blades ).  He is a bad A$$ glass hammer.  I usually do the juggers in red, but for him I went grey to illustrate a elevated jugger for the herald.

Last but not least I repainted a Daemon Prince, but the base is where it's at.  I did a lava base for the first time and it turned out pretty good.  Very demonic and super easy to do.


Well that's all for now.  I have plenty more to finish painting and that's not even touching the other armies I have on deck.