Death Guard WIP: Pandemic

Cassarus · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:33 am

Yes he looks really good so far!

Svartmetall · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:32 pm

OK, so, in between stages of green stuff work on the Guardian Dryad I have finally managed to finish the Rhino:

...I'll almost certainly do better Nurgle vehicle conversions in future, but this is my first and I'm still pretty pleased with how it came out.

I also found time to finish off two Plague Marines who'd been languishing half-finished for ages; first of all the Plague Champion whose torso I made for the rotting skin and guts tutorial:

And secondly the Plague Marine I made ages ago as a sort of homage to the one in the current CSM codex on the Plague Marines page:

I really like the bayonet-style CC attachment on his bolter, it came off a Defiler's autocannon and seems to fit just right there.

Now to grab a cold beer - we're suffering a heatwave here in the UK and the heat is just vile right now - and see if the Guardian Dryad's ready for one of its final stages of work...

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nurglephill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:42 am

It just upsets me to see work this good. sigh.

Svart old chum, can you help a fellow Brit out? how do you get your GS that smooth?? I just love to insert badgers into my face get it like that.

phill

snolb · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:00 am

Thats so nice! Like the plasma-champion alot!

Cassarus · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:21 am

Yes, great work as usual!

Svartmetall · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:26 pm


	nurglephill wrote: Svart old chum, can you help a fellow Brit out? how do you get your GS that smooth?? I just love to insert badgers into my face get it like that.

One thing I do with GS is I use a craft knife to slice out the central strip, where the blue and yellow halves meet, as narrowly as possible to waste as little as possible of the rest. This central part, where there's always some unintentional mixing that seems to occur before you even use the stuff, is the part that I find gives the most lumpiness and unevenness in the final mixed GS; so I use that for the 'base coat' layers of GS when building up models over armatures and anywhere else that getting a really smooth finish isn't so important (e.g. filling in space around spacers at waist joints). I end up with two separated strips of yellow and blue (I can never remember which one's the resin and which one's the fixer) from which I make up the smooth GS for visible detail work.

To get the smoothest finish possible just knead the mix of yellow and blue to buggery so as to get as smooth a mix as possible, there's not much more to it than that really; on average I'll spend at least 60-90 seconds kneading a piece of GS, and it doesn't hurt to keep checking it while kneading to make sure no random bits of yellow are staying unmixed (which they do from time to time, I have no idea why) in there - if you find any, just pull 'em out and carry on kneading. A little foible I have is that I'll form the yellow into a little lump and then stretch out the blue so it wraps around the yellow entirely before starting to knead it all together. I don't know if that actually makes any difference or is just psychosomatic, probably the latter

hth

nurglephill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:52 pm

right. and thats it? damn i AM stupid

thanks svart

Svartmetall · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:31 pm

And just to prove that, even though I'm concentrating hard on my non-Nurgle sculpting at the moment, I've not forgotten about Pandemic - here's the current state of play with Herbie, now with finished face and improved upper body:

I like the scar on his left cheek, you can see the cut go inside to the tissue below the skin...

nurglephill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:42 pm

As ever svart...superb. a work of genious

Cassarus · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:14 am

a real cutey!

Nemissary · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:11 am

Incredible GS skills.

PhantomNinja · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:28 am

Daaaaang, I shall be reading more of your how to's and what not. Smashing army you got there.

Pontus · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:26 am

Excellent sculpting there.

Very nice conversions too, I really like the bulk you've added to the plague marines and all the extra crispy rotting stuff and hanging skin.

minamoto · **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:03 am

Ohh "Herbert der Seuchenhüter"? Shaping up nicely!

Svartmetall · **Posted:** Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:08 pm

Well, time to show you something I've had in the back of my mind for a while. A few months back I went to the Ammo Bunker Open Bash at Warhammer World, and someone there was looking at my army on the display table and suggested that I made some Nurgle Traitor Guard to add to the rest of Pandemic for Apocalypse games...and so the seeds were sown. Here, based on a Cat in a Can, we have the first test model for my Traitor Guard of Nurgle:

Now, actually making a few squads of Traitor Guard is low on my current list of priorities compared to getting my original sculpts done, but I wanted to make a test piece as a proof-of-concept model to stare at and work out what I'd want to do for a whole unit (just as I did with my first Plague Terminator, in fact). I want to keep them fairly realistic and low-fantasy looking, the logic behind Traitor Guard being that they don't have the superhuman physiques and resistances of Astartes so would tend to be more diseased-looking than Traitor Marines, but not just piles of slime and goo; he's basically just a very, very diseased-looking human. I like the Ghoul left arm on him, as it's fairly subtle but gives a nice edge to the model as a whole and takes it further away from the original pure-Cat in a Can look. I wish GW did plastic Ogryns, though...I think I could have a lot of fun doing a squad of Plague Ogryns :biggrin:

And here also is a work-in-progress Plague Commissar, based on the Fantasy Sorceror of Nurgle and intended to help inspire and discipline the Guard:

For some reason I could only get a decent shot of him with the flash off...the metal kept reflecting so much light from the flash it killed the photo. Ah well. I cut the long floppy bit off the top of his head and green-stuffed in a more sensible-looking one, gave him a chain belt holding in what's now a two-layer gut, added a chainsword slung over his back for that Grim Dark Future look (which will be having a green-stuff strap added going over his shoulders and round his bulging gut) and wrapped barbed wire around the haft of his banner. The logic behind this was that he could convince potential recruits of the benefits of Grandfather Nurgle's gifts by going "Look! Barbed wire through my hand and I can't feel any pain! Neat, huh?"

As always, all C&C is welcomed. It'll be a while till I spend any serious time on these - not least because once I can devote proper attention to my Nurgle modelling again I have the Daemon Prince Lord Borborygmus, Cardinal of Corruption to finish first - but I'd like to make an interesting, characterful and credible-looking bunch of Nurgle Traitor Guard once I do so.

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