Troop - Children of Nurgle
Creating a Death Guard army without Nurglings is about as characterful and fun as eating a hotdog without any of the trimmings. Nurglings may not be the greatest most powerful unit of all time, but they have bags of character and frankly at 10 points a base the only reason I can ever see for leaving them out is to ‘Max Out’ points allocations on wargear. At the very start of creating this army I said that background and character were at the top of the list of requirements. What I wanted to prove is that you could create an army that was true to its background AND competitive without having to resort to cheap tactics like including three Defilers or the maximum number of Five Man Tactical squads just to include lots of heavy weapons and assault weapons. Sadly over the years I have seen an increase in 40K ‘power’ gamers at the expense of keeping to the background which I find very saddening. Anyway, enough ranting. Suffice to say Nurglings featured in my force to the full number of units permitted (one for each Squad or Character with the Mark of Nurgle, four in my case). Rifling through a large bag of past and present Nurglings I stuck down a selection of roughly five per base onto large 40K infantry bases with a few pieces of incidental terrain. The Nurglings were then painted in a variety of colours to match the Plaguebearers (see the Plaguebearers page for more details). The two Chaos Hounds were attached to the Aspiring Champion of Squad Pyrosis as followers and were painted with a mix of Scorched Brown and Rotting Flesh. Increasing amounts of Rotting Flesh was then added to the mix for each successive highlight before giving the entire model a wash of watered down green and black ink. A couple of Nurglings were then added to the base purely for detail. All of the bases in the army were textured with a sand and gravel mix after a few small rocks were added. After undercoating black the ground texture was then dry brushed Graveyard Earth and Bleached Bone in that order. Static grass and flock was then stuck down in patches with watered down PVA glue before painting the base edges Graveyard Earth.
Dreadnought Morbus As one of the reasons for putting together a Death Guard army was the fantastically detailed Dreadnought produced by Forge World, it would be daft not to include one. I left the model pretty much unconverted from the original with the exception of adding a single banner from the Palanquin of Nurgle. Unlike the other models in the army I actually undercoated the Dreadnought white as a lot of the detail would be obscured by the heavier black primer. To help identify which areas were to be painted as armour I then gave the entire model a watered down brown ink wash which revealed any cracks and pitting in the armour. All of the armour plates were then painted in a watered down mix of Bubonic Brown and Rotting Flesh, to which I added increasing amounts of Bleached Bone for the highlights. The armour was then given a wash of watered down green and brown ink. For legs, torso, weapons and banding I first repainted them black then applied a mix of Tin Bitz, Brazen Brass and Scorched Brown for a basecoat. Over this I dry brushed Boltgun Metal and picked out any details in Chainmail. The metal areas were then given a thin wash of Brown Ink and a final wash of watered down Chestnut Ink. The flesh areas around the eyes were painted with Dwarf Flesh working up to Palid Flesh highlights before being given a wash of Red Ink and Flesh Wash mixed together. The eyes themselves were then carefully painted white before adding the iris which was a 50/50 mix of Dark Angels Green and Snot Green. A small black pupil was then added to the centre of each eye before they were given two coats of gloss acrylic varnish to make them glisten wetly and catch the light. Red and Brown ink was then carefully applied around any boils and the gaping maw in the left leg as well as at the base of any spines which had been painted Bestial Brown, Bleached Bone and finally White. Out of all the models in the army, it was this one that I lavished most attention on as it just yells out to be painted. The surface detail sculpted onto Will Hayes original creation by Simon Egan has to be seen and handled to be believed, quite possibly one of the most finely detailed models to be released by Forge World to date in my opinion (perhaps with the exception of the Chaos Warhound Titan, but that's just unnatural!). With the Dreadnought finished it just left the Defiler to complete the army. |
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