I’ve had a passion for Nurgle for a long time, since the Realm of Chaos box actually.
I’ve picked up a few chaos models over the years and have recently acquired some more. So finally it’s time to start painting them up.
The overwhelming theme of this army will be Nurgle, but it will not be a mono chaos army. Rather, the nature of the models will determine what god they will fall under. The trick will be that I will base them all the same. For example, the GW chosen metals are just too good (and too tricky) to bother converting to nurgle properly. So I’ve decided to paint them in very dark armour and treat them as an elite undivided unit. With halberds (as nobody would ever carry a GW that long).
On my painting table I have:
6 bases of nurglings
10 Wolves (needing stripping/ repainting)
10 plague hounds (dire wolves, 6 need assembling)
10 Chosen (3 ready to paint, 7 needing stripping).
7 or so Knights (which will be converted to nurgle)
5 Marauder Horsemen with flails (2 painted, but needing repainting)
5 Marauder Horsemen with HW & shield (needing stripping/repainting)
14 or so Plaguebearers, which I am converting to have weapons more like the new plastics.
Wulfric
Sigvald
Khorne hero (new one) x 2
Nurgle Sorcerer
Khorne lord on Bloodcrusher
Lord on daemonic steed (metal)
I also have the golden daemon Ku’gath and Korpus Festerheart models I painted.
The daemons I’m particularly pleased with, as I painted them to look as close to the nurglings in Tamurkhan as I could.
Marauder Horseman (rider needs repainting, and rebasing):
The trick on the larger bone parts is to use a brown wash (in my case Devlan Mud) after you’ve finished around the lower half of the horn. It really brings the grain of the bone back.
The toad I was painting earlier is more brown than the one above, for variety.
I spent a while experimenting trying to get the same colours as on the plague toad page (sort of snakebite leather colour), but I went more grey brown than yellow brown in the end. The yellow brown look I’ll save for the 3rd one.
Forgot to say that I will be putting gloss varnish on the water at some point.
nice paint job no your Nurgle force, and just like you, i always like father Nurgle and i am trying to make a maurder based Nurgle army and need some tips on painting and modeling them. can you help?
Cheers everyone. I am trying hard to paint up at least 3 models a week, so more fun this weekend.
@evilskull
I can suggest a few things. Some of this is taken straight from the WD a few years back.
Nurgle armour… Tricky this because it very much depends on the models. As I said above, I chose not to nurgle the Chosen models by sculpting as I like them as they are, but if I were you I’d gather all the WoC nurgle art images off google first. Mostly they are much more inspirational than any modelling I’ve seen.
Painting wise, I’d either paint them dirty or corroded. Mostly I see Nurgle as being ‘perfect imperfection’, that is; painted to look messy in a very precise way. Instead of painted badly to look messy.
Dirty stick to dark brown or dark green as an undercoat, limited edge highlights up to a light green. Then washes of black and/or brown to make them dirty and some chipped metal highlights. Corroded you can paint with tin bitz etc first, then limited highlights of boltgun, mithril followed by a watery green wash.
The Chosen above:
Black + dark angels for a basecoat
Add more dark angels for a highlight (sparingly)
Black + scorpion green for an edge highlight (note that I also did + shaped highlights on rounded areas to carry the colour through)
Pure scorpion green on edges (leaving some of the colour above)
scorpion + rotting flesh on corners of armour only.
Another option is to mix static grass, some sort of tacky paste and some glue and stick it onto the armour first.
Or put a really thin layer of greenstuff, then scrunch up tin foil (metal foil people use for baking that comes on a roll) and press it into it a few times.
Nurgle skin I’ll let you know once I’ve come up with something I like, bit it will inevitably involve an unhealthy yellow tinge and some green & brown washes.
Daemon skin, like the top pics:
Catachan green
Watered black wash
Catachan green
Catachan + snakebite leather
Limited Snakebite highlight
More limited Snakebite + bubonic brown highlight
Dots of bubonic brown highlight
Dots of bubonic + bleached bone on detail areas
Watered down black for shading in cracks/ flab etc, continually until deep enough.
Second frog I think I started with a mix of brown and green as an undercoat
Added more Commando Khaki (I think, away from my paints).
Finally a wash of very watered down purple (a little known great tip for all nurgle models btw)
Bases… I would have said it obviously depends on whether this is a pure nurgle army or not, but mine won’t be and it’s all the same basing anyway!
I base mine this way:
First stick bits of plasticard to make raised areas and leave some areas for water.
Glue sand and other gravelly flock to the plasticard (let it fully dry and brush off loose stuff).
Cut a small plastic bead in half
Cover the ‘water’ areas in a generous layer of poly cement (standard plastic glue).
Stick the bead in an area not too close to ‘land’ whilst its all wet.
Finally, I have a really old pot of GW gloss varnish that is way too thick to paint onto models that I use to form the edges of the water over the sand, to add random blobs of texture and to create stringy mucus etc from models (as you can see on the bottom toad)
I am still slowly plodding away with these guys, I’ve painted another horseman and a base of nurglings, though I’ll wait for a few more models before taking another pic.
Hmm. I was all prepared today to show you the pics of my first Nurgle knight, which (if I say so myself) is something that would 100% have inspired me as being well done and highly themed, had I not already made it myself.
However. It seems photobucket is down for a while so I can’t put the pics on! I’ll try again later and take some pics of the other models I’ve not put up yet.
The first of my Nurgle Knights. Despite the work that went into this he is just a regular knight. I need to sculpt an icon onto his shield still.
The base will be swapped for a regular cavalry one as soon as I can find one… (not looking good for the rest of the unit!). The unit seems a suitable candidate for golden daemon actually, so I may put off painting them a while until I get a feel for them overall.
EDIT A couple more pics as that one is tiny.
Also a few more horsemen and some nurglings. The guy in the middle is the champion.
