Death Guard WIP

[Svartmetall]

Greetings - I\'ve only just joined CMON, and thought I\'d start by saying \'hello\' and posting a few pics of my WIP Death Guard army \'Pandemic\'. It\'s my first ever army, and I\'ve really been bitten by the converting-and-sculpting bug...

Lord Kothaar the Putrescent, leader of his band of pustulent miscreants:

He\'s a mishmash of Terminator, Possessed and Spawn bits and green stuff; I\'m maniacal about making everything look like it belongs together in the finished mini, with no obvious \'here is the green stuff\' parts, and I like the way this guy\'s turned out.

One of my Plague Terminators:

This is the first mini I ever finished, by the way...as such I think he\'s pretty decent. All my Terminators have at least this level of conversion on them; I love my Terminators, and wanted to make a really imposing unit of lumbering behemoths.

Jaws, my Possessed Champion:

In the last few months I\'ve been starting to really work on developing my sculpting; when I came up with the idea for having a huge vertical mouth in the body of a mini I wasn\'t sure I could pull it off at all, so I\'m pretty pleased with how this monstrosity has turned out. He may well be my favourite conversion to date, and I can\'t wait to see him painted up.

What do you get when you stuff an Ogre into a set of XXXXL Terminator plate? You get a Terminogre:

I\'ve gotten really into doing these guys now, and the mini I\'m currently working on is a Terminogre Havoc Champion with a vehicle rocket launcher hoisted onto his shoulder to count as a missile launcher. And look cool

A detail shot of the amount of work I\'ve put into Dreadnought Vvornth:

I particularly like all the cabling & tubing, and the tendrilly head...

And finally one of my Spawn; this guy\'s named Wolfie, since he\'s based on the \'Loper\' monsters from \'Return To Castle Wolfenstein:

He\'s almost all scratchbuilt apart from the Ogre torso and head; I especially like the torn flesh around the base of the torso.

And I\'m starting to turn my hand to scratchbuilding, again in an attempt to improve my overall sculpting abilities; here\'s a 3-up scale Ork head I did:

So, there you go. All C&C is welcomed*...I\'ll be posting more updates as I get stuff done.



*I still feel pretty much like a noob even though I\'ve been modelling for about a year now, so be nice

 

[Undave]

Those are freakin\' sweet!

I\'m trying to steer clear of the whole tentacled wibbliness with my Death Guard and going for a decrepit machinery feel instead. If I had gone down that route though your stuff is exactly how I\'d want them to look.

Any chance of a full shot of the Dreadnought?

 

[Svartmetall]

Originally posted by Undave
Any chance of a full shot of the Dreadnought?

Your wish is my command.

 

[Monkeysplitters]

everything is freakin cool. And you should be please with the vertical mouth cause it is great. Thats gonna be a superb army when its all painted.

 

[Cleezy]

Looking pretty cool, the green work you have done is really summat. Be nice to see how this progresses

 

[LadyBoy07]

im not a fan of the whole rotting marine thing,....... But you have tallent because i did have to do a double take, i think these are awsome!!

 

[nick232]

WOW!

i love that monster, walking on it\'s arms with the tenticals!

10/10:bouncy:

 

[krom1415]

Wow, love your green stuff work, keep \'em coming and welcome

 

[freakinacage]

awesome conversion work! you greenstuff skills are perfect for nurgley stuff. one thing for the paintjob though, this guy needs a bit more colour to break up the metal imo

Originally posted by Svartmetall

One of my Plague Terminators:

also with the three up ork, bear in mind that here can be such a thing as too much texture (to me, his face almost looks hariy)

 

[D35tr0y3r]

whoa! these look even better since i saw them on the firebase mag.

 

[Ghrask Dragh]

Great work man, that dread is crazy

Can\'t wait for more :beer:

 

[Svartmetall]

Here\'s the Terminogre Havoc Champion I mentioned, got a lot of work done on him last night:

The idea is that he sees the missile launcher on a Guard vehicle after a battle and tears it off to mount on his shoulder and use as a Terminogre-sized weapon. He\'s obviously not finished yet, I need to GS in the head properly and do his back (very tempted to use a Chaos Warrior cloak since that fits an Ogre perfectly) but I think he\'s going to make a really nice and imposing leader for my heavy support troops

 

[hivetrygon]

I\'m a big Nurgle fan and there are lots of cool things out there but these might be my favorites I\'ve seen in a long time. Great work. :beer:

 

[Svartmetall]

I\'ve been working on some new Plague Marines. A while back it dawned on me that the Terminators and Possessed I\'d done were quite a bit better than the Marines I had, since the Plague Marines were the first things I\'d made and I\'d improved a bit since then; so I decided to make an all-new Plague Marine squad, incorporating everything I\'d subsequently learned from working on the Terminators, Possessed and so on. I\'m always trying to improve my converting, sculpting and so on, and this is just part of the process; I think it\'s vital to be able to admit when something you\'ve made isn\'t as good as it could be, or could be improved upon., and act on that.

Here are a few of the new Marines...

A Plague Champion - I\'d been thinking of making a Marine or two with a sort of plague monk look to them for a while, and this is the result:

It was very fiddly to get the multi-stranded belt right, but I\'m pleased with the result. I\'m intending to paint his robe up to look like the robes of the weird monk-like guys on the cover of Black Sabbath\'s \'Mob Rules\' album.

I liked the power-armoured leg from the tutorial so much that I decided to use it as one of the new squad of Plague Marines; this guy looks kind of Fantasy-inspired with this helmt, which I think may well be at least partially due to listening to Sabbath\'s \'Neon Knights\' track while making him. Ah well. There is no such thing as too much Black Sabbath...

I replaced the right arm with a Nurgly appendage to match the right leg; this was very fiddly indeed to do, but looks nice on the finished mini.

Here\'s a mini I started like 9 months ago, then hit a brick wall with - the \'Siamese Twin\' Marine. Very, very tricky to get the basic assembly right, but I love the final result:

He looks really distinctive among the rest of my Plague Marines; I don\'t remember ever seeing a Siamese-twin Marine anywhere, so he may well be a genuine original

There is another new Plague Marine already, but I am honour bound to not reveal him until the new issue of Firebase is out. I shall say no more

And here\'s a new Terminator, again using the leg from the tutorial...

He may well end up being a heavy flamer wielder....

As always, all C&C is welcomed.

 

[Recoil889]

I demand a link to the tutorial you speak of...please

 

[Svartmetall]

Originally posted by Recoil889
I demand a link to the tutorial you speak of...please

Click on where it says \'Nurgle 101 Tutorial\' in my sig

 

[hivetrygon]

If you ever decide to try your hand at sculpting and want some castings of them check out my forum. I\'m getting a lot of talented people together and helping them produce miniatures like my own and even pay for materials. Your free to come over regardless and share your stuff with others. There are a couple big nurgle fans and one guy is doing some cool robotic nurgle stuff.
http://trollsforge.proboards83.com/index.cgi?

 

[Springbok]

They look really good! Does remind me of someone thoughhttp://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/04/26/tree-man/lol

 

[DaN]

TBH I\'m not that much of a fan of your \"twisty-tentacle\" greenstuffing - but that Siamese-marine is EXCELLENT

 

[Svartmetall]

Urgh...after some delay caused by one of Grandfather Nurgle\'s choicest \'blessings\' being visited upon me (I\'ve thrown up more in the last week than in the previous 10 years put together and lost almost a stone in weight), here are the first three completely finished guys from the new batch of Plague Marines.

The \"I haven\'t thought up a nickname for this guy yet\" Marine:

I wanted to have a reasonable variation in height between the guys in this squad, and while he\'s not one of my Plague Pygmies(TM) this guy\'s still fairly short; I really like the detail of the multi-stranded \'belt\' of flesh extruded around his waist.

The \'Neon Knight\' Marine:

One of my favourite conversions to date; I love the limb-replacement detail and also the hanging tendrils of flesh from his right side. Inspired very much by the description of the Garden Of Nurgle in the Daemons codex, I wanted to give the impression of something like a spreading vine of flesh...

Twin:

He\'s big, considerably wider than one of my Plague Terminators and almost as tall even without the backpack; he makes a really imposing Nurgle Marine. I don\'t know how well it comes out in the photos, but the layering of flesh around his backpack and the left arms is something I\'m very happy with. It\'s also nice to see something I started so long ago, that had been languishing half-completed for so long, finally ready for its paintjob.

And a first look at the next one of the new batch of Plague Marines:

I was inspired by the Twi\'lek \'brain tails\' when I came up with the idea of the flesh of his torso spooging out and wrapping around him like this; there are tiny thin strands of smooth tubing buried in and weaving through the rougher-textured flesh, which was fiddly as all hell to do but I think the final result was worth it. I added rips and tears into the original model\'s robe to make it look less pristine and more Nurgly...also I like the little touch of having half the back of his head blown away, and his brain growing back...

These guys have involved a hell of a lot of work given that they\'re just standard Troops, but I want to produce a really kick-ass bunch of heavily-converted marines who can hold their head up conversion-wise with the Terminators, Chosen and Possessed, so it\'s worth it IMO.

As always, all feedback and C&C is welcomed.