I used on have a non-Dawi Zharr blog on CDO. Figured I’d start an updated one here, mostly for completed BATG things at the moment, but I’m sure there will be more to come later on.
In Feb I was out of the country for a week, got COVID on the way back and wasn’t able to get out of bed for a week, then was still isolating for a week, although that week of isolation I was well enough to start painting. Nurgle seemed fitting so I made sure I licked the brush during the start of the process. Here’s what I managed to finish:
I’ve had Epidemius assembled and he and the Plague Bearers have even been based since 2009 or 2010, so it was great to finally get them painted up!
I have around 40-50 Chaos Warriors from various eras - In hindsight it would have been good to have painted up 8-10 of them in the same colour scheme as the Blightkings. I may do that sooner than later anyway, as my next big batches are going to be Slaanesh, Tzeentch, and Khorne, so it seems fitting to have faction-appropriate CWs for each while I’m at it
there is always that strange feeling of home when looking at nurgle miniatures
idk, i find them cozy for some wicked reason uhahuaauhahu
well done Nico! those plaguebearers are very nice put all together!
It turns out that after searching I could only find 49 Chaos Warriors, although I am fairly sure I still have some metal command models somewhere. I opted not to modify the battle masters models, and will instead dress them up with lots of weathering effects. I used some leftover body, head, and weapon pieces from the Blightking set and then hacked up some preassembled chaos warriors I had picked up dirt cheap from eBay a number of years ago. I am really out of practice using Green Stuff. Mostly because I am so allergic to the glue I have to wear a respirator, so I just usually avoid doing any green stuff work until I have no choice.
I did manage to find enough remaining chaos warrior models and bits to make factions for the other chaos gods at some point too.
I’m recreating my post that was lost in the site update… or some semblance of my post anyway
My wife got me a Bambu X1C 3D printer for Christmas. I decided to finally commit to a plan I’ve had for several years to fill out one of the shelves in a display case in my hobby room with a large diorama for storing/displaying miniatures. I took advantage of the 50% off sale on myminifactory.com over the holidays to pick up Stormcrow City - The Silent District:
The plan is to build-up the left side of the space with an additional street level that joins with the 2nd story of the large building, kind of like the multi-level streets in some older cities, like Edinburgh:
The scale of the building may seem a little off, but it’s a rather grand scale of gothic buildings. Compared to doorways, staircases, benches etc it’s all very appropriate.
I’ve got a number of additional medieval town buildings printed with the backsides trimmed so they’ll sit flush against the cabinet walls. Any of the places where I messed up dimensions and had to cut pieces on the table saw I’ve been frugal and saved the off-cuts to possibly employ elsewhere.
The left side of the main building needs some extra modification to fit the design, so I’ve been cropping components before printing them and will have to figure it out as I go.
The plan is to fill the cityscape with the Warhammer Quest Cursed City models I’ve been very slowly painting my way through. The city streets levels will hold the larger models and hero characters, while the sewer level will be used to store trays of magnetized models that can slide out when needed.
Building the upper street level with a small bridge to the mansion. The parchment paper on the bottom was to avoid squeeze-out from the epoxy resin I used when gluing sections together. Not everything is glued, but it’s a bit of a jigsaw puzzle now with how it all slots together.
I had some spare threaded rod laying around from a deck project so I cut a length of it, pre-drilled into the top level street at a 45o angle and did the same in one of the tower pieces and secured them with 5-minute epoxy.
The bridge section was just a few mm too long to fit the space, to I notched into the wall of the mansion so it could sit more securely. I also had to print out an extra piece of curved stone work to go under the overhang on the mansion so the arch for the bridge didn’t just terminate abruptly. It’ll get patched with Green Stuff later.
The other segment of threaded rod went into the support for the top level street. I drilled straight through the street level and left the massive bolt head visible as it’ll be covered by a removable building anyway. You can see there’s still work to be done with where this joins the wall on the main street. I’m leaving that until I get the layout figured out.
This section also got two pieces of threaded rod inserted into the columns to really secure the top-heavy piece to the base (it’s a little better aligned after taking the picture).
Next steps now will be to disassemble each of the sections and start cutting away unneeded parts, manually fixing gaps, adding foam and Green Stuff to fix areas here and there. The trickiest part is going to be getting the stairs up the side to the upper streets. Wish me luck!
~N
