Troop - Death Guard Transport
Although both of the Rhino’s initially appear similar, I actually approached the construction and painting of the vehicles slightly differently. Both have been given extra armour; the first from Forge Worlds Chaos range and the other scratch built out of plastic card. Forge Worlds excellent Death Guard icon doors have also been used in both cases.
The extra armour on the front and rear was made from plastic card, as was the extra armour at the front of both vehicles. For the crewman I used a number of Chaos Space Marine and Death Guard parts as well as green stuff to fill and finish any gaps in the detail. The second Rhino is part of the Death Guard Squad Pyrosis and has been converted to appear corrupt and filth encrusted as opposed to mutated in any way. The icon on the roof was based on the metallic fly icon from Typhus’s armour and was sculpted in green stuff. For both models the painting consisted of a black undercoat over which a Bestial Brown undercoat was heavily dry brushed. Over this I then painted Bubonic Brown in a streaked pattern across all of the armour plates to which I added increasing amounts of Rotting Flesh for subsequent streaks. Once the armour was painted in its entirety I added a few streaks of Bleached Bone to any highlights and edges before giving the entire model a wash of green and brown ink. For the banding, similar to the Plague Marines I first painted a mix of Brazen Brass and Boltgun Metal. This was then highlighted with Chainmail Silver before being given a wash of brown ink. To break up the uniformity of the armour I then picked out a number of panels in dark red. |
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The
first Rhino is for the Possessed Squad Myelitis. As this would
be carrying one of my most precious units I gave the Rhino
extra armour and smoke launchers to help get them into combat
safely. Unlike the second Rhino I wanted this one to show a
few small signs of stigma and mutation. As I mentioned earlier
I don’t like overdoing vehicle conversions as it is very easy
to go from a characterful looking tank to something that
frankly looks comical with its profusion of tentacles and
spiky bits. I settled instead for a twisted face in the front
armour and a small number of bony structures and changes to
surface textures such as rust and pitting. The main difference
to the first Rhino was the hinging of the top hatches (which
do work!) and the decay sculpted inside the crew compartment
using green stuff.