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Beasts of Nurgle – Final

Posted on February 1, 2014

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As I said last time, I was in a painting frenzy and just wanted to get some things done. These guys had been basecoated last I wrote about them, and now they’re done.

The manes are pretty simple – Ushapti Bone, Gryponne Sepia and then drybrush up Ushapti Bone and Skull White. I haven’t drybrushed for a while, but I think it works out really well for this sort of thing.

The skin is blue, similar to the horrors from a while back. (Actually, it seems I didn’t post a final photo of the horrors…oops). But I didn’t want just plain blue daemon cat things, so I painted some faint lines of Warpstone Green in the middle. Not really strong, but strong enough to be a little green tinge.

Last, I used Bloodletter GW glaze along the edges where the metal and skin meets…because that doesn’t look comfortable at all, and red is the colour of uncomfortable skin? Sure. Here’s some photos.

Work-in-progress

Beasts of Nurgle – Basecoat

Posted on September 11, 2013

Tall Paul made fun of my Escalation League army at CHOP Sunday August, questioning whether I owed everyone in the league a beer since I hadn’t finished my models. I replied that each of my models had 3 colours, to which he said “what, blue, blue, and blue?” I was irritated, but he was right. My horrors and flamers only barely got more than blue on them recently (I was counting the base as a colour!)

My 1000pt models now have 5 colours on them (and the daemon prince could almost count as “finished”, if I could find his blasted arm!).

Work-in-progress

Assembling a Hell Dorada Jaws of the Deep

Posted on September 5, 2013

While preparing this model for assembly, I had lots of great things to say about it, but my glowing praise was dampened during assembly.

Before GW kicked my gaming group out of the store, I hadn’t realized that there were other miniature companies who made models that looked great. I knew that Privateer Press existed, but that was another game with models that I never really liked the look of. And I knew that Reaper was a thing, but that in general their models were kind of lackluster.

Fast forward a few years, and now there are dozens of companies doing lots of good things, and now I have a Hell Dorado Jaws of the Deep model on my desk that I’m assembling to be a Beast of Nurgle, because I really don’t like how the GW model looks.

There was very minimal flash on this all-metal model (a rarity in this brave new world of resin and plastic). There was still mold lines, but for the most part the pieces had been parted and cast in such a way as to reduce their effect. As I happily cleaned the model, I was amazed at how well the whole thing was going.

As I started to assemble it though, I found a flaw – there was excess metal in the tongue/groove joint where you glue the parts together! I had to cut into the groove as best I could, then cut down the tongue as best I could, and then hope that the joint would still hold!

Putty in the joints and then liquid green stuff to fill some gaps. The tails are a little worrisome, but here we are.

These are fantastic looking models, and I’m really excited to add them to my army!