Paint Challenge Finished: Dan M

Here he is in all his Nurgley glory! Finished with only a few days to go. The Chaos Lord of Nurgle model was an absolute joy to assemble, very simple and quick. I started with the flesh tones, building up highlights and working on the diseased parts, before moving on to heavily rust and weather the weapon and armour. Concurrently, whilst waiting for various parts of the model to dry, I painted his base. The base is from Micro Arts' range and has been languishing in my bases box for a suitable model to decorate its stony and skully plinth. The competition was a perfect opportunity to use it. I painted a marbled texture using a turquoise colour before adding mossy patches of additional colour to add interest to the otherwise plain stone surface. The skulls were left deliberately dull to not detract from the main focus of the scene and the metal supports were rusted using the same techniques as the miniature itself to tie it all together.

Here you can see a close up of the rust effects on the weapons and armour, as well as the blood (using Citadel Blood For The Blood God) on the blade itself and the base. The adjacent plinth on the base is empty, save for a small blood stain, the Chaos Lord has just dispatched his latest opponent and now surveys the battlefield from his stony vantage point, waiting for his next vict... opponent!