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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Topic started by: Mageboltrat on March 11, 2010, 01:04:52 AM
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I'll be taking a Nurgle themed Black Legion army to Full Scale Assault at the end of March. Unluckily for me, I don't have one yet. so I have been working on it.. this is going to be a blog of how it's coming along (continued from the one on Tac Com)
This week so far has been productive. Have got my Plague Bearers and Folorn Hope finished.. Got some more counters done (broken formation ones. I had the Blast markers done for my Epic GT army from a couple of years back).. And now I'm over halfway through the Terminators.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_PlagueBearers.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Folorn_Hope.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Counters.jpg)
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Managed to finish the Terminators.. YAY... though they were much harder than I thought they would be.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Terms.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Term2.jpg)
Next should really be the Havocs
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Havocs.jpg)
but I think I need a break from infantry so very well might get one of my Death wheels done.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_DW.jpg)
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mighty nice stuff!
I like! :)
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Marvellous stuff.
I especially like the Forlorn Hope.
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Marvellous stuff.
I especially like the Forlorn Hope.
There must be Humoungous rats... to devour the followers of the Corpse god.... Mu ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaah... Death to the loyalists.
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Yeah I like them, they're very nice
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Great miniatures and painting,
very neaty work, dude
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Yay finished a Death Wheel.. Love these things... They remind me of some of the wierd machines the Germans's were planning during the Great War.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_DW1.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_DW2.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_DW3.jpg)
Would be cool to make one for 40k... As long as it worked ...
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Brilliant Mageboltrat! :o Probably the best painting Epic Nurgle painting job.
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Brilliant Mageboltrat! :o Probably the best painting Epic Nurgle painting job.
I'm starting to worry about getting it all done to this standard in time... but if I fail.. I take my Nurgle Guard instead.. I would rather get the army all done to this level than rush them for the Tournament.
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You, sir, are demented.
Well done. :)
Edit: have to say a bit more. I love the the mini-semi-diorama look, especially the termis and havocs. (And brilliantly painted too) Makes me want to hack up and rebase some of my SMs, but I dunno if I'd have the patience.
That slime's impressive and nauseating in equal amounts too, especially on the deathwheel. What'd you use for it?
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I didn't realise that you could use round bases for EA, I think it works really well and allows a much more natural looking unit formation. Other than that, very nice indeed, this sort of thing makes it really hard for me to resist popping some of the Epic stuff I've had in blisters for ages and slapping some paint on them. I've sort of promised myself that I'd get my WM, WMA, WH and 40K armies sorted out first....
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You, sir, are demented.
Well done. :)
Edit: have to say a bit more. I love the the mini-semi-diorama look, especially the termis and havocs. (And brilliantly painted too) Makes me want to hack up and rebase some of my SMs, but I dunno if I'd have the patience.
That slime's impressive and nauseating in equal amounts too, especially on the deathwheel. What'd you use for it?
Cling Film, cut into really thin slices and covered in water effect.. a real pain to do, I almost gave up twice.
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Managed to get the base white and brass on the first 8 stands of CSMs and the Havocs.. Almost finished converting up the last 8 stands of CSMs, and spent a nice evening getting the Rhinos converted
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Rhinos1.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Rhinos2.jpg)
I love working on Base tanks and adding lots of Nurgle bitz.
Now I'm staring at lots of models which I've got to get painted before the end of the week. It's a bit daunting.
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Been working hard to get things completed. Finished converting and basing the 2nd CSM Formation to go with the Rhinos.
Spent quite a bit of time converting the Aspiring Champions, lots of whittling down plasticard into horns and spikes, head swapping out the heads of Khorne Berserker and replacing arms with claws off Daemonettes.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_CSM2.jpg)
The second formation of CSMs, has been undercoated with black spray, then the marines undercoated with Vallejo 70998 Bronze, I'm starting to really love Vallejo paints, never used them until I stopped working for GW, but the Bronze is really nice to work with. After the Bronze, they have a coat of the Classic GW Brown Ink mixed with some 'ardcoat and water. The white plates were then picked out with Vallejo 70971 Green Grey, a colour that was just designed for painting Heresy Death Guard armour. Finally they have had another coat of the Ink-Ardcoat wash. The coat of Green Grey is actually one of the most time consuming parts of the scheme as you have to be really careful to get it put on really cleanly.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_CSM1.jpg)
After this stage I move on to the Trim and the cleaning up the plates. First I painted the Trim with Orkhide Shade to give me a base to work off. I then painted the plates again with the Green-Grey, this time I'm not trying to paint the entire plate, I want to leave part of the washed area around the edges so it's much faster than the original coat. The 2 stands at the back are up to this stage.
I then paint the edges of the shoulders with Camo Green and the highlight with a Camo Green / Green-grey mix. After this I get pure Skull white and highlight the plates which brings us up to the stage the front 2 are up too.
With the Havocs I've based them with 4 heavy weapons to a stand, I know they only get 2 shots, but it makes them much easier to pick out, I've also added mussel flashes for this reason. The heavy weapons are made from a mix of the Heavy Bolters and Converted Noise Marines from the new Chaos Sprue.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Havocs2.jpg)
It's all moving along nicely. and I'm feeling more confident in getting it all done in time. I've set myself the goal of getting all the infantry done by the end of the week.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_infantry.jpg)
Which means all I have to do in the last week is one more Deathwheel, 4 Gunbeasts (to represent Oblits for the moment, they will later go into the LATD army I'm working on next) and a 3rd HellBlade to go with these 2
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/hellblade.jpg)
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These are great.
I find 10mm difficult enough so I really admire anyone who can do this level of work at 6mm.
I would love to do similar to my eldar army, but there are no epic players round here so looks like being left in the garage for another 5 years :(
Are the 'death wheels' scratch built?
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Yep.. You start with 2 Terminator sized bases stuck together with IG track around them. Then everything else is made from bits from the chaos vehicle accessory sprue.
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This
thread
is
awesome
!!!
You really give so much love to them and they look so great. If those are finished, your work won't be sell-able.
:o :o :o
Keep 'em coming!
Greetings
Peter
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ve getting on quite well on the basic marines, should be able to get most of them completed in the next couple of days. Needed a bit of a break so converted up the first 2 of the gunbeasts I will need for the army.. Of course with my obsession with Rats they needed to be hugh Rat-things with big guns, hearded on by Nurgle Beastmasters.... ROAR... DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA.. SQUEEK.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Gunbeasts.jpg)
(You see I said I would sneak in rat things)
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Dang, Ratty. That's just plain cool.
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(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Army.jpg)
Undercoated the second CSM formation with the Rhinos. Added rust across both units. Dabbed Dark Flesh followed by Vermin Brown, which is a nice starting point. Still need to add chipping and washes. Wanted to finish the Grey Green Coat on the Second Formation, but started getting painters cramp, so converted up the last two gunbeasts. The only thing left to convert is the final Hellblade, but I've got it's base done today, unfortunately I don't have any of the correct brass rod so I have to go out hunting some tomorrow.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Gunbeast3.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Gunbeast4.jpg)
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(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/DG_inf.jpg)
It's been a little while since I last posted. I've been batching out all my infantry, so there hasn't been much to show however in the last couple day I've actually managed to get them finished.. so here are some of the basic Chaos Marines. Still need to edge the second formation but should have photos of them up in a day or so after as the Enamel takes over a day to properly dry, however it shouldn't chip.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Inf.jpg)
These are my Havocs had some fun with Lighting Effects
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Havocs.jpg)
In Epic each side places Objectives, as I'm on schedule for having everything finished by around Tuesday, I'm going to make some Objectives to go with the Army.. This is the first of them, They are just fun to make, grabbing random 40k bits and altering them to frak with the scale.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Obj.jpg)
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Managed to finish the last formation of Chaos Space Marines, So that's all the basic infantry complete. So I can have a nice relaxing weekend, all I have left to go are the 4 Gunbeasts, 4 Rhinos, Hellblade and a Death Wheel. I'm quite far through the Gunbeasts and Rhinos so they will be done before the end of the weekend.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Inf2.jpg)
I've also finished the final stand for the Hellblades. They are on really tall Brass stems with magnets at the top so I can swap them easily onto Aeronautica bases.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_stands.jpg)
Also got another of the Objectives finished. I'm thinking of making some kind of pit with Tentacles and swarms of nurglings pouring out of it. I might even make some kind of platform with a sorcerer summoning...rising out from between the nurglings, we will see.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Obj2.jpg)
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Finally in the home straight, just 2 more models to finish and they are quite a way through. I've also started working on my last Objective. It's going to be a fanged warp rift with a tongue lolling out of it and a Plaguebearer stepping through into a carpet of nurglings, It's already quite far through contruction, but it's going to take a while as I have to of course wait between coats of green stuff.
Yesterday I finished the Gunbeasts and Rhinos, which completes 3 more formations so I've taken some photos of them too. I really like how the one with the Chemical Weapon came out, the photos really don't do it justice. anyhow, I'm going to have a small kip and then get back on with the Deathwheel, Warp Rift and last Hellblade
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_gunbeasts2.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_gunbeasts.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Rhinos2.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Rhinos.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/DGsupinf.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/DGfastinf.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/DG_term.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/DG_FH.jpg)
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..., It's already quite far through contruction, but it's going to take a while as I have to of course wait between coats of green stuff.
One trick to getting green stuff to cure more quickly is to put it under a light bulb. The heat from a light bulb at close proximity (obviously an incandescent bulb, not an energy saving bulb) literally bakes the green stuff and it will be cured and ready for another layer, etc... within minutes...
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There are still quite a few layers of Greenstuff to be added to it. lots of fine detailing to be done around the maw, suckers to be put on tentacles etc.. The plan is to use water effect to make a liquid effect to the actual gateway like the STARGATE, but in Blood, with the Plague bearer stepping through.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_PlagueGate_WIP1.jpg)
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Right Finished the construction of the Gate, got the last paint onto the second Deathwheel. Just got to finish the Hellblade tonight and that is the Army complete... YAY... just in time for my Birthday.... Wait it is my birthday now...It's went midnight.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_DW4.jpg)
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Best gift for an Epic player: a nicely painted army :) Happy Birthday Mageboltrat, have a nice day admirating your freshly painted minis!
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Best gift for an Epic player: a nicely painted army :) Happy Birthday Mageboltrat, have a nice day admirating your freshly painted minis!
It definitely a nice B-Day surprise to have them done with 4-5 days spare.
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Last model done, this one really worried me, I had painted 2 planes for the unit ages ago and when I undercoated them the spray went on funny. It actually looked really Nurgly when painted but the inks acted very strange. when I came back to painting the 3rd plane ofc the spray worked properly so I though it wasn't going to match the rest of the Army. Luckily due to the fact that the first 2 aren't exactly painted the same with slight differences the last one looks fine with the first 2.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_planes.jpg)
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Finished the Warp Rift Objective so I've got everything I needed to get done done. The Photo doesn't quite live up to the model in the flesh, the colours are much more vivid and it doesn't really show the transparency of the slime.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Obj3.jpg)
This is a sneak peek of some mutants.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/TS_mutants.jpg)
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Well that's Best Painted sorted out for the tournament!
Absolutely incredible art.
Totally inspiring.
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Simply incredible.
I've not played epic in years.
I've not been to a tournament in a lot longer.
Yet I find myself compelled to get to FSA or another soon, just to see what you guys are painting these days. Its gone through the roof!
Keep up the truly astounding work.
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Well I'm back home now after the tournament. I had a really good time, didn't do half as badly as I thought I would with only one game under my belt with the army prior and being about two years rusty. Came 4th and got the players vote best painted army. A really fun weekend and I will definitely be doing more tournaments. Got a chance to see the proposed Epic-UK Death Guard list, discussed a few things, but I really like the look of it, I will probably still play Black Legion 50% of the time but it looks a really interesting and challenging list to play. I've been asked to get some photos for the Army list when it's finally released.. But there are a lot of models I don't have yet.. so before the end of July I want to have made and painted
8 Defilers
1 Nurgle Space Craft
5 more Contagion Engines
15 stands of Zombies
2 Plague Towers
8 more Terminators
2 more Gun Beast
1 Nurgle Demon Prince
2 Hell Talons
4 Nurgle Dreadnoughts
1 Nurgle Warlord
1 Nurgle Reaver
4 Vindicators (If they are still in the Death Guard List, I know they want to drop something and this is one of the things that I don't think are Death Guard Specific)
4 Landraiders
It's going to take a little bit of time.. I'm currently making a Defiler leg and then I'm going to see if I can make 64 copies of it.
The markers I made for my War Engines worked really well.. the Void and Damage markers came in so useful
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_WECounters.jpg)
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I'm going to be using these as my contagion engines, I was using them as Bombards when I did my Traitor Guards but they are perfect for the job.. Unfortunately they come in 4s not 3s so I've got to paint at least 1 more. But I would love to have 2 formations.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/EN_Contagion_Engine.jpg)
Constructed the first Defiler leg which I'm going to press cast out of greenstuff, this is not perfect but as I'm making nurgle and I'm just going to use them as the base ti which I'm going to greenstuff extra detailing like pustules and spines onto it should be fine.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Defiler_Leg.jpg)
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It's turned out to be really hard to clean up, and due to the greenstuff being rubbery not being particularly good for using to hold up the bulk of the model. Someone suggested using a mix of 30% blue hardener, 20% yellow and 50% mixed fine milliput. it should dry stiffer but the greenstuff should stop it being brittle and you should also be able to sand it.. well I've been told this... so lets see how it goes
Anyhow I have about 9 legs to use for basing on other projects.
Does anyone know anyone that sells plastic discs in a variety of sizes.. the old Titan ones are impossible to get hold of and I will need ones roughly the size of a Terminator base for Land Raiders and Defilers
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litko aero sells bases in all sorts of sizes, shapes and materials
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If you're in the US check out Michaels, the arts and crafts stores. They have a bags of Loew Cornell Forster Woodsies (wooden shapes about 1/16" thick). They have a bag of 7/16, 13/16, 1-5/16 inch circles, and a bag of bigger random shapes that has 2 and 2-9/16 inch circles. They run about $3 a bag.
And then there's litko, I base all my stuff with their .8mm plywood and magnetic base bottoms.
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I'm not in America, however I found this and have a dremel. It might help us all out a bit with the impossibility of finding 60mm 1.5mm thick plastic bases for titans anymore, also it will help making bases for large models like Defilers. http://stirfried.org/~wigs/gaming/miniatures/circularbases.html (http://stirfried.org/~wigs/gaming/miniatures/circularbases.html)
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In the end the small flight bases were the right size for my Defiler. Should work for my Greater Demon too.. which I'm just going to go up and have a look for.. I have both of the classic ones and the Warmaster one. I'm thinking of going with this one.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/epic_guo_11.jpg)
It just has so much character and it's not quite as comical as the other classic one.
On to the Defiler. Got the Test one put together. It came out not to bad at all.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Defiler.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Defiler2.jpg)
Over Easter I'm going to try and get 4 Dreadnoughts, the Defiler and the Last Contagion Engine I need for a formation completed, if I can hide from parents for long enough ;)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/mageboltrat/Epic%20Nurgle/CM_Projects.jpg)
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Awesome stuff. I specially like those bombards but the rest is just as great!
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Really impresive and very cool stuff. Do you have some pics "in action" of the army? or a global pic of the army?
keep the high quality stuff!