The Siwa Contagion salvage project gets some heavy duty reinforcements today... literally! These Obliterators are huge chunks of metal that are very heavy and hard to work on. They continue the Death Guard theme although I've not added anything in the way of Legion Markings... ie. no flies or triple dots etc... to the armor itself although there are a lot of three dot recurrences in the mutated flesh. They also have the same corrupted weapons treatment that marks rest of the Contagion.
The models are both viscerally representative of the madness of the Ruinous Powers and strangely shallow in other regards. The heads in particular are very difficult to pick out and give depth to. I almost added some Max-Mini Bio-hazard heads just to make them pop... but ultimately decided to save them for some cultists that are looming over the horizon. On the whole I like the sculpts but wow are they heavy! I'm afraid some of the more fiddly plastic weapons that I used to replace missing bits will not endure.
These guys have had massive amounts of green stuff added to them, in the same manner as most of the minis from this project, to cement the Nurgle feel. Its the sort of a 'Flesh gone Wild' approach that I would normally associate with Tzeentch... except for the fact that Obliterators are inherently of the Carnival of Moving Flesh variety.
The next addition to the Contagion will be a set of Forge World Plague Drones but they'll be in line behind some Raging Heroes fantasy minis and some assorted Witch Hunter style retinue that are primed and ready for the brush. There is also a small pile of Sigmarite Sisters in process along with a few random Mordheim personalities.
