The Garden of Dry Rot - a Nurgle Chaos Space Marine blog

[Quareni]

Hi all!

Here's the project I'm working on these days. Actually, I've been working on it on/off for the last year or so, but not until very recently did I feel I had anything to show you (or anybody).

My starting point was a fascination with Nurgle and the possibilities for conversions, rot, guts and a general feeling of nasty. Also, my previous project had been Tyranids, so I felt I would do somthing that wasn't a horde army - Hence Nurgle CSM. I wanted to try and avoid the more traditional green colour scheme, so my paint scheme is pale bone and lots of rust - a bit like the cleaved but without the oil.My army will be constructed around Typhus as HQ so that Plague Marines can be troops - lots of rot, yes please. I know he probably ought to have a different colour scheme than the one I'm using, but I guess he'll just have to live with it. As will anybody getting to play games against my army.

Here are the first few minis I have actually finished off to showcase what I'm doing:

As you can see, they are a happy mixture of GW CSM, GW SM, Forgeworld Plague Marines, MaxMini backpacks and helmets and a little GS.

I'm not working on a specific plan, but work on several units/models at the same time as my fancy takes me. My present projects are:

More CSM - here the unit champ in the middle and two heavy weapons. I know Plague Marines can't have heavy bolters and such heavy weapons, but I like the parts, so I'll let that, instead of the rules, take precedence. Since I spend extremely more time building, converting, painting, and looking at my minis than I do actually gaming, I will not let rules and fluff stand in the way of a look I like.


Here's the first of the two Rhinos I've got so far. Lots of more conversion to do, and the picture has shown me that I need to work on the blobs of rot to make them more alike. I'm a little at a loss as to how to apply my paint scheme to the Rhino so far, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.


This is my first Hellbrute of two - only assembled and (intentionally) damaged a little, but my plan is to swap his shooter for the autocannon from my other Hellbrute (the new one with all the nice options in the box) and then of course add pustules and other nastiness. I've cut away the tentacles underneath his left arm because I thought they stuck out too much. Something else will take their place.


Finally, there's my Daemon Prince which is my most ambitious project ever so far. I'm not done with the conversion of him yet as I feel his jump pack (which counts as wings) needs a little more bulking out, and I also have to decide whether he should have a tail or something else to cover his butt (which I'm sure will otherwise be mocked by friends, family and fellow gamers).

The future of my army also holds 3 bikers, a landraider, a unit of cultists, a champion and of course Typhus himself. I'll keep you posted, but be warned that I don't work fast, so progress will be like a Hellbrute - slow and ponderous with sudden fits of rage/creativity.

Cheers, Q

[Manus]

Hey how very good to see you here. Those new photos of the marines does the trick, fully - and does indeed show all those little details I mentioned earlier already was done. The green also has a much richer and darker glow, which makes all the difference as the perfect spotcolor. Great - now move on!

[The Irontooth]

Awesome work on those first Chaos Marines.

I don't mind the different colour scheme than the usual pale green. I may even prefer it.

[Farseer Kyladras]

Woohoo those are just lovely

FK

[Geifer]

Ooh, very cool.

[Quareni]

I got a little more work done yesterday, so now I have my first five marines completed:


It might be a bit tricky to see, but I have added swollen pouches to parts of marine #2, and hopefully you can see the swollen belly with inserted tube connecting it to the backpack on marine #4. BTW, I'm sorry about the dark picture - it was snapped rather quickly.

Next project is Typhus, and so far I have assembled him, primed him, painted rusted metal and given the armour the first layer of paint with a wash:

[The Irontooth]

Really nice work.

Looking forward to your vehicles and Daemon Prince.

[Manus]

Great marines mate. Looking really evil and ...eh evil. Got any pics of the greenstuff work before painting? Also a step by step of the armour wouldn't be too bad to have around.
Anyways, looking forward to vaporising them

[Quareni]

Okay, so I've got a little more work done on my marines. Typhus has had his white armour plates completed (except from blacklining, spots of wash and trompe l'oeil) and I'm working on the copper trim. If I'm a good boy tomorrow and finish grading my pile of student essays, continuing the work on his postulence will be my reward (fingers crossed!).


I've completed all the tentacles on the rear hatch of the rhino, added the top hatches and GSed a few postules and odd stuff. I'm not really sure how to continue on the top, and I'm a little afraid that what I've done so far is a bit too inconsistent. I'm thinking the knobbly klots of GS might have to go - any thoughts? My main fear with all this nurgle GSing is overdoing it and making it look crowded.


And then there's the Helbrute. Not much done, but his puny shooter has been converted a little by adding the cannon from the new Helbrute set on top of the old one (securely pinned in place). Next up on him is GS: bulging and split armour, swollen pouches, tentacles and yuckiness. Great fun!

[The Irontooth]

I really like the work you've done on these vehicles.

I din't think the hatch needs much (maybe a single tentacle) or even anything, as I agree there is the risk of overdoing the model. But how it looks now it pretty cool.

The weaponswap on the hellbrute is probably a must (tactical wise), and I think the model could use a belly as well.

[paladin7221]

How about diagonal chains, crossing over in the middle of the hatch? Like the Marines saw the daemon inside trying to bust out so they chained it in for good measure?

[Geifer]

I like the Rhino.  Especially the tentacles and the way the rear hatch looks. I don't think the yucky growths are a problem, honestly. Maybe you could tie them into the vehicle a bit more but roughing up the surface around it, making it appear either like they found themselves a rough surface to grow into rather than a random spot on the even hull, or else they settled there and are corroding the metal around them. Adding a couple like that to the top should help finish the model.

May 17, 2014 22:54:41 GMT paladin7221 said:

How about diagonal chains, crossing over in the middle of the hatch? Like the Marines saw the daemon inside trying to bust out so they chained it in for good measure?

I like that idea.

[Manus]

Cool work, I like the look of the rhino - wouldn't remove anything, and wouldn't add any more

[Quareni]

Thanks for the feedback. It was actually so inspiring that I went and applied most of the ideas you gave me (at least those that were compatible). So: Chains across the top hatch, two more tentacles and a few blobs more. I also stippled liquid green stuff around most of the GS to simulate growing corruption, and that probably looks worse right now than it will once painted - it actually only added a little effect. All this gives us:

I'm really chuffed with the mutating rent with the nurgle symbol and additional blobs, and that's definitely an effect I'll use on other large armour plates. So what's next? Probably not much, but I think I might need to add a combi-bolter held by a number of tentacles - maybe even with a tentacled eye taking aim. This will replace the closed hatch next to the driver. How does that sound?

I haven't done much to Typhus, but I can show you a little more conversion on the Hellbrute's autocannon - definitely more Nurgle than Slaanesh now. Also, I found a spare magazine from a MaxMini gun which I thought made sense on the Autocannon:

[Manus]

Uh that's looking really good - the new details work a charm ( a rotten one that is!).