Thursday, September 20, 2012

Count the Seven...

I recently got my hands on the new plastic Plaguebearers and oh man do I love them.


I started a Nurgle Demon army back in 2009 when the Chaos Demons codex was first released. Part of the reason I picked a mono-nurgle army is because I think they look sweet and provide plenty of painting and conversion opportunities and because I already had 20+ Plaguebearers from a previous army. I went through and repainted them and I think I only added about 10 new Plaguebearers to the army. I decided that I was going to hold off until plastic models were released. I figured it couldn't be to long until the came out. Well almost 4 years later they are finally here.

I wanted to paint them to fit into my existing army (not repainting an entire army again) but also make sure they showcased my current skill level. So while I kept with almost all of the tropes of my original color scheme I went about painting them in a completely different way. About the only thing thats the same is an abundant use of Rotting Flesh paint.

I will let the pictures do the talking now.





And here is a picture of one of my original demons from 4 years ago.



Comments and crit welcome, and be sure to cote for him on CMoN here.

(bonus points to anyone who get the reference in the title)

Tyler


8 comments:

  1. That is amazing, the pallid tones you have gotten into the flesh look really diseased without going to far towards rotten.

    Could you give a quick break down of the paints and techniques please? I'd really like to emulate this.

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  2. Looking great!

    I just read that section of "Flight", so it would be unfair of me to seek the cookie ; )

    Cheers
    Dave

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  3. Awesome work. I think your example is better than the Eavy Metal example on the box art. I would love to paint up a unit of these at some point.

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  4. Wow ridiculously amazing job man!
    Always jealous of your amazing painting skills.
    I agree with Snake88, way better then the 'Eavy Metal examples!

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  5. Thanks everyone! I will try and do a step by step when I paint the next one. Dave I was actually thinking of Cadian Blood (which I just re-read) although I'm not surprised Flight has it in there too. Been a couple of years since I read that one.

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  6. Good looking stuff! Just found your blog after reading your article on BoLS. I'll check back to see your new stuff!

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  7. Hey there, I think this paint job is actually just amazing. it is just the scheme i have been planning for my own nurgle daemons. i am wondering exactly what paints you used for the flesh specifically. Also did you use any washes or anything else?

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