[EA] Death Guard Army for FSA

[Mageboltrat]

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.



This is a sneak peek of some mutants.

[Onyx]

Well that's Best Painted sorted out for the tournament!

Absolutely incredible art.
Totally inspiring.

[TuffSkull]

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.

[Mageboltrat]

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

[Mageboltrat]

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.



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.

[Mageboltrat]

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

[nealhunt]

litko aero sells bases in all sorts of sizes, shapes and materials

[Dave]

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.

[Mageboltrat]

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

[Mageboltrat]

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.

 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.





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

[Guthwine]

Awesome stuff. I specially like those bombards but the rest is just as great!

[jchaos79]

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!