Morty's 40k / WHFB Daemons

mortiferum · by **mortiferum** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:23 pm

The entire army is being bought 2nd hand, stripped if needed and repainted.

Nurgle models were the priority (Epidemius lists in 40K and Fantasy) - anything else I tend to purchase as and when I find a good deal / price for them.

Heres what I've managed to get painted so far, in chronological order:

Posted before, but for completeness I've included again.

Experimenting with the washes resulted in these...

Picked these up cheap and they were already base coated in blue

More experimenting with the washes...

and lastly...

First time using greenstuff to model (flames on the backs) rather than just filling in gaps. Not sure I like them but they are very colourful...Ghoulishly, Horrific Horrors!

Thats all for now

Morty

Edit: Its amazing how photograghing things shows you all the imperfections1 Just noticed the massive mold line on the Flamer and that I've forgotten to repaint and tidy the base rims. :roll:

mattjgilbert · by **mattjgilbert** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:50 pm

Those are looking great, especially with those bases.

That's an impressive and scary number of flamers!

Angelwing · by **Angelwing** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:32 am

Good stuff. The ghoul conversions work really well!

timewizard · by **timewizard** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:34 am

They all do look great Morty. I second Matt's appreciation of the bases.
TBH, I thought the mold line on the flamer was the way it was supposed to look! The paint job is that good :!:

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the force.

TW

killmaimburn · by **killmaimburn** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:45 am

I like the horrors, what bitz are in them, a bit of guard a mutation spru?

LordMalekTheRedKnight · by **LordMalekTheRedKnight** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:15 am

killmaimburn wrote:I like the horrors, what bitz are in them, a bit of guard a mutation spru?

arent they Ghoulswith the heads replaced by a big eye (and greenstuff flames, as morty said)?

i think it all looks great, mate.

cheers

~ Tim

mortiferum · by **mortiferum** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:50 am

Thanks for the support and kind words

Glad you like the bases, easy to do if a little time consuming. Makes the models 'pop' and I'm hoping it'll eventually tie in all the various models from each of the four Gods into a cohesive looking force.

LordMalekTheRedKnight wrote:
killmaimburn wrote:I like the horrors, what bitz are in them, a bit of guard a mutation spru?

arent they Ghoulswith the heads replaced by a big eye (and greenstuff flames, as morty said)?

About the Ghoul / Horror conversions.
They are indeed the crypt ghoul models. Its not an original idea - there's many others having done and executed this much better than mine.

The 'eye' is simply the neck (heads weren't glued on). Trimmed all the 'bones' and 'severed limbs' from the ghouls. A few of the ghouls have hair / fur already scuplted on their backs / arms - most of them don't

.

Used greenstuff to cover up a lot of the messy trimmed models by 'trying' to sculpt flames over these areas. Anyone have a good tutorial on greenstuffing flames?

mattjgilbert wrote:That's an impressive and scary number of flamers!

12 in total. :twisted:

I hear / read they are really good in Fantasy :twisted:

. Not so bad in 40K either - all having flamer templates - reminds me of 2nd edition (?) Tyranid Gargoyles who also all had flamer template weapons. I might pick up a couple of the new sculpts to represent the 'Pyrocasters'.

mattjgilbert · by **mattjgilbert** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:29 am

In 40K they can fire in two different mode IIRC.

lostandthedamned · by **lostandthedamned** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:30 am

mattjgilbert wrote:In 40K they can fire in two different mode IIRC.

Either as Wind of Chaos (4+ to wound anything, no saves flamer)
or Warpfire S4 AP4 Assault 3

When they work they're awesome, but i've started taking only minimum sized units as 1. if they drop in the right place only three can flame due to other unit members blocking and 2. they won't survive more than one turn on the field, even with more members, as everybody will blow seven shades out of them asap.
Turns them into a 1 shot unit. Though 105 pts of flamers killing a 250pt unit of sternguard or terminators isn't a bad trade.

timewizard · by **timewizard** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:58 pm

mortiferum wrote: Anyone have a good tutorial on greenstuffing flames?

There's this one. Looks to be a pretty simple technique. Let me know if it helps.

TW

mortiferum · by **mortiferum** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:02 pm

timewizard wrote:
mortiferum wrote: Anyone have a good tutorial on greenstuffing flames?

There's this one. Looks to be a pretty simple technique. Let me know if it helps.

TW

It does help very much! Just the comment regarding supergluing the greenstuff in place first would of been enough help for me!

I was originally trying to 'pull' the putty into 'flame shapes' initially but all the greenstuff would just pull away from the model - can't think why now I wouldn't of used superglue to afix to model first! :oops:

Thanks once again

conscriptboris · by **conscriptboris** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:47 pm

nice fire technique!

Elvis

mortiferum · by **mortiferum** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:33 pm

conscriptboris wrote:nice fire technique!

Elvis

Thank you

Painted a few more models - had these models for awhile.

mattjgilbert · by **mattjgilbert** » Sun May 10, 2009 8:56 pm

Are those fiends?

mortiferum · by **mortiferum** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:27 am

mattjgilbert wrote:Are those fiends?

They are indeed! Not the current model range and not theoldest ones either - was trying to find a link to them on solegends website before responsing but failed.