[EA] Death Guard Army for FSA

[azrael71]

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?

[Mageboltrat]

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.

[Meister.Petz]

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.
 

Keep 'em coming!
Greetings
Peter

[Mageboltrat]

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.



(You see I said I would sneak in rat things)

[nealhunt]

Dang, Ratty.  That's just plain cool.

[Mageboltrat]

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.

[Mageboltrat]

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.



These are my Havocs had some fun with Lighting Effects



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.

[Mageboltrat]

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.



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.



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.

[Mageboltrat]

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

[Stomm]

..., 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...

[Mageboltrat]

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.

[Mageboltrat]

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.

[ScREaM]

Best gift for an Epic player: a nicely painted army Happy Birthday Mageboltrat, have a nice day admirating your freshly painted minis!

[Mageboltrat]

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.

[Mageboltrat]

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.