Glory for the walking ash trays!

It is comparison and decision time for my Kaos Spesh Muhreens!

Here are the finalists.  As always, please ignore the horns.  They will have Rubicae heads in some form.

What is your personal opinion lads?  I do know they will look different all lined up next to others with that paint job.  They also will be on Egyptian bases from STP.

From left to right: Green + Incubi + Mixed Gold, Periscopes Blue + Sand, Periscopes Blue + Wash + Gold, Temple Guard Blue + Tin.

Russian stand off.

Or...does Nurgle say no!

End this foolishness mortal!

Chaos Space Marines of Nurgle - test paint scheme mark 2

This time I am going for a more severe corroded CSM look.  Thanks to varying guides I have tried a few things out on these guys with sand, sets, liquid green stuff, and just playing around with drills and sprues.

They have been primed black, and then given a light spray of Army Painter - Uniform Grey Colour Primer.

Here they are as they stand now, before I hit them with anything else.

The three lined up together.  I must say they do look rather menacing.

Death Guard test models WIP

Here are the three lads at present.  A lot of this has been new for me of course.  Breaking away from my love affair with Quickshade and the magic it brings is hard.

Anyway I am trying new things and they still are not finished.  Need a thinners coat then a very low burnt umber wash.  Plus the bases of course.

I am happy with a few components.  That rust effect, omfgwow.  But also even the gun colour is more muted than the GC bolter paint I have used, so again happy there.

Not 100% happy with that white.  I think maybe a white undercoat with a bone top coat would be better.

But either way all learning and testing!

I cant do more until my cough clears though :(

PS the wife did say they look a bit rubbish compared to some of the ratmen I had done (her words).  I had to explain it was meant that way!  Its hard to paint bad looking!

Death Guard & Daemons

It is no secret that I am going to embark on a Chaos Marine Army for 40k.  Well obviously it is 40k, I mean come on, can you have Death Guard in WHFB, noooo.

The Theme for my army is Nurgle, but I intend to throw the traditional foot slogging title frequently given to Death Guard & Nurgle troops out the window.  As such it is a fast and mechanised force, currently named "Swift Rot".

There are certain units I want to include in the list regardless of effectiveness, these being Plague Drones of Nurgle, Heldrake & Chaos Space Marines.  As I do not want to play a pure Daemons army, the only way I could ever field the PDoN is with an allied force.  So this entire army and foray back into 40k is because of the jetpack flies with dodgy looking proboscides (yes, that is the plural of proboscis.)

The Core of the army will be the Plague Marines, unlocked as a troop choice by taking a Chaos Lord with the Mark of Nurgle.  These infected hobilars will charge across the field using their metallic equines purely as a fast transport and if said transport is not destroyed before disembarking, used as a mobile shield.

To keep with the mechanised/fast theme, I would like to ensure that many of my units have the capability to cross ground quick.  However in saying that the advancing units may still get shot to ribbons without other prime targets or distractions for the opponent.  As such I intend on using Nurglings as my required troop choice from Daemons.  Whilst not as strong as a Plaguebearer, they still have a reasonable toughness and can infiltrate in.

Army at this point
Bearing in mind the requirements from theme & core, the army is starting to form.

|HQ| Chaos Lord (65pts) - Bike (20pts), MoN (15pts), Power Armour, Sigil of Corruption (25pts), Power Axe (15pts), Burning Brand of Skalanthrax (30pts) = 170pts.

|Fast Attack| Heldrake (170pts) - Baleflamer (0pts) = 170pts.

|Troops| Nurglings (45pts) = 45pts.
|Troops| Nurglings (45pts) = 45pts.

|Fast Attack| Plague Drones of Nurgle (126pts) - Plaguebringer (5pts), Rot Willy (15pts) = 146pts.

Current total = 576pts.

So that is the army at present.  More to come as further decisions are made.