Elites - Death Guard Possessed Squad Myelitis
The Possessed Death Guard with Daemonic Talons were completely inspired by Will Hayes fantastic army from the previous Tournament. I have never really been a great fan of 'general mutations' for Possessed Marines and hadn't really come up with a way of getting around the problem. Fortunately Will came up with the inspired idea of basing the Possessed on the look of Plaguebearers, which I thought made perfect sense! I added a few touches to the idea to create the Possessed Squad here, all at various stages of manifestation and shamelessly used Will's approach for the Daemonic Talons which were from some archived Dark Elf Harpies. This squad in particular involved the most conversion work consisting of parts from both current and archived Death Guard, plastic Chaos Marines, Plaguebearers and Gorkamorka Muties, not to mention a liberal amount of green stuff to blend them all together. Without doubt this was my favourite infantry unit out of the entire army. Painting the Possessed. To paint each of the possessed I used exactly the same techniques covered in the other sections for armour, diseased flesh and Plaguebearer flesh, all of which helped tie the entire army together into a uniform look. Coupled with their corrupt Rhino transport this unit in particular did more damage than any other in the army making them a must have in my opinion for any Death Guard General. No Death Guard army would be complete without Plaguebearers and their festering miasma of Nurgle’s Rot spreading flies. As I do like lots of troops in my army I took two units of seven; the favoured number of Nurgle. With two units at my disposal the chances of them turning up on the second turn are very high, especially with the +1 to their summoning roll from being favoured. Fortunately there are a good selection of different Plaguebearer models in the current range which meant few duplications in each unit. As I liked the models just as they were I did not feel that they needed to be converted in any way and based them pretty much as seen. Painting Plaguebearers Most Plaguebearers I have seen tend to be a combination of greens and browns and to a degree I didn’t want to move away from this palette too much. I did feel that in order to match the look of my army I would need to incorporate a few flesh colours into the mix as well as the ink mixes I had used up to that point on other units in the army. For the base colours I chose either Bubonic Brown and Dwarf Flesh mixed with Rotting Flesh or the same mix again, but with a drop of Sick Green added to turn the base colour into a dark sickly green. I varied these colours between the different models to create variety and highlighted each by adding increasing amounts of Rotting Flesh and Palid Flesh to the respective mixes. The Plaguebearers, including weapons were then given a wash of 50/50 green and brown ink. For areas of intestines or tumours, I painted a basecolour of Dwarf Flesh, which I highlighted with Palid Flesh. These areas were then given a wash of neat red and brown ink to give them a truly slick and black-blooded appearance. |
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