Daemon Prince of Nurgle

I'm plugging away at painting 70+ Plaguebearers at the moment, and it's going slow and steady. After I basecoated and then washed them yesterday, it occurred to me that I needed a Daemon Prince for my Fantasy army. I can't always roll with the big man every game, so I went searching through my bitz to kit bash a Prince of Filth to lead them.

I'm a big believer in rewards in hobbying. Painting is never my thang, but I set the reward for getting a bunch of them done, and it motivated me to finish the Plaguebearers (well, at least the first stage of them), and then get to my favorite thing in the hobby: converting.

So I went tearing through my bitz and came up with this guy. The body is a Forgeworld bile troll. One arm and the axes are from the minotaur kit. The head is leftover from a giant I put together years ago and the wings are from the plague drone kit.

If Fantasy sorta peters out, he's going on a round base. I love the story of Ignatius Grulgor from the Horus Heresy books; this could be him once he reappeared in the Medusa Campaign as a Daemon Prince. That expression on him just looks so pissed off and tormented, perfect for a prick like Ignatius!

Nurgly Wurlgy

I'm not dead! I feel happy!

So, I have been looking at the new Khorne Daemonkin stuff, and I really like what I see. GW rewarding the faithful with a mono-god codex for Chaos is uber-cool. I'm a fluff purist at heart, so I have always loved pure Khorne or Nurgle forces in the past. With the last two Chaos codexes, you sorta had to play some mixed stuff to stay competitive though. I didn't feel too bad about combining Nurgle and Slaanesh (the pink and stink list) or Nurgle and Khorne (pus and....ahh fuck, nothing rhymes). I can't wait to see a Nurgle Daemonkin book, and I think that's the one I'd like to build going forward.

Well, having said that, I need something to distract me from all this Khorny goodness, at least for now. I'm getting back into the swing of things, have my work area all done up, and will be setting up a gaming table soon out above the barn (I live on a horse farm now). It's time to jump back on the horse! (see what I did there?). A good warm up for painting would be my Fantasy Nurgle Daemon army.

I've had most of it built for a while now and absolutely love the models. They are pretty easy to paint up too. Only thing I'd love to build for it would be a proper Great Unclean One and maybe a Daemon Prince or two. With all the awesome Nurgle stuff released for End Times recently, there's definitely some good models to make some conversions out of.


Sign of a good Warhammer unit...easy to rank up!

I love these counts as Beasts of Nurgle and can't wait to get them finished!

Fantasy is about to make a comeback and I'm excited to see what direction it goes. And you know what? If it sucks, I'll have a fully painted army to move and that'll be that. I recently sold off my Orks and Ogres, so I have no qualms about scaling back my armies as I go forward. Don't get me started on the Skitarri, I love almost all the models coming out for them. Be disciplined, Brandon...stay on target...

Sorry Skeletor, you're just gonna have to wait!

Liebster Awards!

I am truly humbled today. I got selected for two Liebster Awards from a couple of kick ass bloggers you had best be following!

Tony runs Miasma Of Pestilence, and is a dedicated follower of all things Nurgle. He always has some great conversions and painting; some really disgusting stuff! Go check him out now and hope your immune system is ready for it.

Chris blogs over at Sippin' on Paint Water, a very eclectic place with posts on Warhammer, African Wars, mech stuff, you name it. I love his Chaos Marine work! Go there and enjoy the variety.

Also, the Garage just went over 20k hits. Very cool!

So here's the deal with the Liebster Awards.

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog linking it to the blogger who has given it you.

2. Pass the award to your top 11 blogs with less than 200 followers by leaving a comment on one of their posts to notify them that they have won the award and listing them on your own blog.

3. Sit back and bask in the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you have made someone's day!

4. There is no obligation to pass this onto someone else but it is nice if you take the time to do so.


Without further ado, here are my 11 blogs under 200 followers I am giving a Liebster to. These are all quality sites you should be checking out daily!

1. 40k Warzone
2. Green Stuff Industries
3. Plastic Crack
4. How to Lose at 40k (and look good while doing it)
5. Dice and Brush
6. Officio Convertorum
7. Terminus Est
8. Maxxev's Blog
9. Gardens of Hecate
10. Warhammer 40k Orks
11. Atomic Warlords


And here are my questions.

1. Why did you start blogging? I needed motivation and feedback to keep building, converting and painting. I started, stopped, and now this last go I've stuck with it and am glad did. I've improved my skills and communicated with some really good folks out n the blogosphere.

2. If you could change one thing about the wargaming hobby, what would it be? Wargaming celebrities...Ugh. Stop.

3. What is best in life? Running around the woods like you're still a kid at 43.

4. Do you want to live forever? Only if Sandahl Bergman wants to fuck me.

5. Fame or Fortune? I have to quote Frank Underwood from House of Cards here. "Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power - in this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries."

6. What miniature are you most proud of having painted? I really liked how some of my Nurgle stuff has come out recently, especially the Soul Grinders using the new GW tech paints. Usually I can get very down on my painting skills, but those inspired me to keep going and always look to be improving your techniques.

7. How do you deal with burn out? I take breaks and jump between 40k and Fantasy. I also like reading the occasional Black Library novel between all my WWII stuff; that gives me a lot of motivation to jump back in.

8. Why is a raven like a writing desk? Cause Raven from ECW was put through some tables during his career?

9. Star Wars or Star Trek? Star Wars, unless we're talking Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan. That movie f'ing rules.

10. If you could only buy from one miniature company from now on, which would it be? Games Workshop, hands down. They have me hook, like, sinker...and wallet.

11. Favorite takeout? Chinese


And lastly, 11 truths...

1. I am an avid horror movie nut.
2. My other main hobby is WWII reenacting.
3. I'm a country boy.
4. I almost died in 2007.
5. I can still do all my Rocky Horror lines.
6. I miss Breaking Bad.
7. I have some eclectic music tastes.
8. I have a degree in Art I never used.
9. I love photography.
10. I've swam with sharks.
11. Oona Chaplin from Game of Thrones is seriously hot.

Great Unclean One

This guy just seems so small now. I can't imagine how big the new one will be once they release it. I have a feeling it'll be one helluva model.

I added the Bile Troll weapons to him to give the model a little more kick. The horns are from an Ogre standard bearer bit.

Gonna start priming this army over the weekend as the temps are improving some. I'll paint some of the units over the next few months to take a break from 40k stuff. That always helps keep my motivation up.

More Nurgle Daemons

Progress on some of my Fantasy army this week. It's been fun working on it, not to mention a nice break from round bases.



This is the second Beasts of Nurgle unit. More of the same with some slight conversions to separate it from the other unit. Had to use some river troll and spawn arms as I'd used the weapon arms on my Great Unclean One already.

Next up is Nurgle's favorite Tallyman, Epidemius. He's made from an old metal Plaguebearer command model and rides a Necromunda giant ray thingy as a counts as palanquin. I've always loved that model and had to find a way to use it. I added a big, over the top gut to him to really up the gross level.

I made this Herald of Nurgle Standard Bearer using another old metal Plaguebearer. The head comes from the Grey Knight kit (it's skewered by a power sword) and I had to add half of the face back to him.

Lastly is a unit filler for one of my Plaguebearer units I cleaned up with some green stuff. Those little nurglings end up in the darnedest places!

Beasts of Nurgle

My WHFB army sits on a table behind my work desk. Daemons of Chaos, mono-god Nurgle. I built it a while back and it's pretty much done, except for a counts as Flesh Hound unit I want to do to tie them in with the Nurgly theme. I keep thinking more and more of finishing it to finally have a fully completed Fantasy army again. It might just happen as I really enjoyed painting that last batch of Plaguebearers. Who knows what's gonna happen with Fantasy this year. As I've written before, I really enjoyed the few games of 8th Edition I played and don't want to ditch my stuff; Fantasy is what brought me to the game after all.

I got an itch to finish the counts as Beasts of Nurgle unit tonight and it was a blast! I had to go through a ton of old Spawn bits to get them to fit right in the movement trays (which was a bitch!). Forgeworld really knocked it out of the park with these guys. I think they're gonna be really fun to paint!

Plaguebearers and unit filler

Making S L O W progress on my Fantasy Daemon army. I haven't played with square bases in a good while so there isn't too much motivation there. It is a nice change from doing all 40k, which I think is important as it doesn't get you too burned out model wise, so I try to work on them some as much as I can.

Another thing slowing me up may be that 9th Edition is probably coming next year. I'm excited to see what they change with Fantasy. I don't really have anything bad to say about the current edition, all my games with it have been fun. I know having big horde units probably turned a lot of folks off but I dug it; it gives Fantasy that epic battle feel I dig. I'm looking forward to a new Dwarf army too as long as they re-vamp pretty much the entire model line for them. Horrible, horrible core plastics...

I based this unit and finally got the unit filler done. That tentacle maker from Green Stuff Industries comes in handy once again! Poor cow though, it had no idea it would be the host for that Nurgling...

Nurgle Daemon Fantasy stuff

Took a break from painting to finish up some Nurgle Daemons I had sitting around (or sliming around?)

I plan on selling my Ogres and just going with these guys as my Fantasy army. When Dwarfs come out though, we'll talk.

Battle Standard Bearer. Mix of some old and new.

 

 

Ol' Big Head McGee, Herald of Nurgle. I used the decapitated Plaguebearer head from the Grey Knight sprue for him. The scale is crazy off, but hey, its Daemons.

Another Herald. His head comes from the FW Bile Troll kit.

 

Some musicians

 

FW Bile Trolls (counts as Beasts of Nurgle) Awesome models!