Nurgle Forge World Terminators

I don’t have a lot of the time for the hobby, but I do try to paint every Sunday and I sometimes get a little painting in after work, but generally I’m tired and busy. Currently the second rust effect and the second verdigris effect paint is drying on my Nurgle Forge World Terminators, but I’ve been taking work-in-progress photos during the day so I can share those.

These models are now out-of-print and people are expecting me to just cough up my other two alas I didn’t get your DM bro. But it is not my responsibility to buy models with my limited income over the last twenty years then carefully keep the models in mint unassembled condition so you can then have them whenever you post to social media. My advice to you is build a time machine, or pay the Internet price.

Pay the Iron Price

How I painted these models

This is at least the second post about these models and there was a third model I primed years ago, that was actually finished first. That was the first green Diseased Son Nurgle Chaos Space Marine Renegade model I’ve painted in years. I guess I can dig out a picture of the finished model once again. I need to take more pictures of my old models and post them to Flickr, it is a much better repository than Instagram.

The finished Nurgle Forge World Terminator miniature

These models of course belong to the Right Hard Posse which is currently being run as Blightlord Terminators but will probably become Nurgle Chaos Renegade Terminators when the next Chaos Codex comes out. I have the original lead Rogue Trader era models then I probably have most of the 2nd edition metal models. Then of course I have the first plastic CSM Terminator models which I’ve augmented with the Forge World bits as shown above. I even did champions and terminator lords over the years.

The Right Hard Posse

I actually stripped and repainted some of my old OOP Chaos Terminator models, the lord may have been painted three times in total. But this is not supposed to be a greatest hits post. The new models I’m actually trying to paint less well. I used random greens, browns, purples, reds, and metallic paints. One good thing about Nurgle is no one expects your army to match perfectly and mine is so old, people often don’t know what army I’m even playing or codex I’m using.

Another converted terminator model with Forge World bits

I actually got to bust out some of my evil dark reds for these models, I painted some blood drops and the tank on the combi-flamer first terracotta then various red, including some Reaper Master Series paints I bought at Imperial Hobbies. I’ll probably hit the blood with Blood for the Blood God technical paint after I varnish the models. I actually varnish my models because they are gaming pieces. I’ve learned that this reactivates both pigments and the Dirty Down Rust product, but what can you do, I want the Dirty Down to interact with the other rust paints and washes I’ve used so can not apply it after varnishing, but I can apply the glossy Blood for the Blood God.

I just got out the poisonous “wine spirts” as the British call them and uses some of my formerly internet famous AwesomePaintJob.com rust pigments. I may even use some other Internet famous pigments to produce a more yellow rust. Dirty Down has released a yellower rust product and yellow isn’t a color I use often. I learned about these pigments from Hirst Arts, they are Doc O’Briens and mine have sat unused for years because I think for rust AwesomePaintJob’s selection is enough, but now that I’ve gone rust effect crazy, perhaps it is time for some yellow pigment to be added to my models.

The Bubonic Blades which are a little out of focus, Bill is slipping he hasn’t complained or commented on any of my social media posts for a bit. The Bubonic Blades were painted with some cherrypicked Monument Hobbies ProAcryl miniature paints. This is a bit different than what I usually do. I own a lot of green paint, I’d say 20% of my paint is greenish. I even have green metallic paint which GW used to sell and I used it along with their purple metallic on these models.

I actually used a lot of different metallics on these models. I used the Dark Bronze from ProAcryl but I used new Citadel paints and old Citadel paints too. I also used Vallejo, Army Painter, Nostalgia ’88, Warcolors, and Wargames Foundry triad system paints. I waste a lot of paint using the droppers some people love, but they may use wet palettes. I may have to bust mine out after all these year, but I am one of the few people online who tries to paint worse than they used to paint. I even take off my glasses because my prescription is for distance and they make miniature painting worse. I never got out the magnifying headset for these models and honestly I think they look fine, even if my photos are blurry.

Maybe if I post another poorly focussed picture Bill will be summoned. I shared them on his Discord server and he said nothing, even DiceHateKris was silent. It is like my slaving away at the painting desk using long out of print paints on long out of print models doesn’t even matter to them anymore.

Luckily for me I have one fan on the Bolter and Chainsword who lives in Edmonton and threatens to come to Calgary and force me to actually play a game of Warhammer 40,000 with my every growing collection of painted Chaos Space Marine models. My posts also usually get liked by fellow bloggers but do very poorly on Mark Zuckerberg’s walled garden of a social network. I refuse to optimize my social media usage to maximize vanity metrics. I continue to hope that eventually my twenty plus years of hard work will again be noticed by the corporate overlords.

Paint then drink and blog

If you guessed I randomly opened a very strong beer you’d be correct. It is called Deth’s Tar and it has sat in a box in my apartment for months until this evening when I just gave’r. That is a genuine Canadian expression we even conjugate it. I taught Canadian slang to my fellow English teachers when I was in China, they were quite impressed with all the words we have associated with drinking.

I myself am going on vacation next Friday. I am going to Scotland and I will give’r. I have booked myself into a very long, very detailed whisky tour. Then I am pressing on to the far North of Scotland where my family originally came from. I am not a big whisky drinker. I actually prefer Irish whisky or bourbon over Scotch, but I want to make my coworkers jealous. I have some fans in Scotland and if I was smarter maybe I would have gone to Warhammer World in Nottingham, but I’ll just have to visit the UK again and tour whisky distilleries on Islay.

The North Remembers

A long time ago, or not that long ago depending on your thinking, Sarah McLachlan’s band had Corb Lund on bass and Luke Doucet on lead guitar. Now I’ve never seen Sarah McLachlan play but I’ve seen Luke Doucet many times. However, the reason I mention this is actually because of Corb Lund who is an Albertan whom my sister loves. I could not link to the official video, because Corb wouldn’t let me embed it on my blog, Corb why you do me this way?

My sister actually just finished her annual poker tournament, I’ll be in Scotland during some charity poker tournament I was asked to play in. I don’t even like Rye whiskey or poker particularly, but I like songs about poker and whisky. Corb seems open to drinking Irish whiskey. My sister is overdue for her annual visit to Alberta, alas she seems more interested in dinosaur bones and high tea than drinking whisky in honkytonks.

Last time she visited we did go to the Calgary Stampede and saw the rodeo, so maybe she’s gotten it out of her blood.

This is the end.

This blog has really gone off the rails. I’ll post one more picture because I’m going to have let that toxic mixture of poison and pigment dry overnight and then hit post, because these models are not getting finished this evening and GW is probably not going to feature this blog post on their podcast.

If you have questions about whisky, beer, or painting Nurgle you can leave a comment below. I gotta go.

Rebased Terminators

I would have liked to have had them finished two days ago, but I spent a lot of time waiting for paint to dry, for washes to dry, for glue to dry, for modeling paste to dry. I’ve now rebased all my old terminators on 40mm round bases and can move on to painting new models.

A lot of steps went into getting them to look like this, including many, many, many hours spent painting the miniatures themselves. The Right Hard Posse was never designed as one big squad, it consists of a lot of extra models and was actually painted as some HQ choices and a couple small squads. Having put all this work into it over the years, I’m going to give the ten man squad a run at this year’s Astronomi-con Vancouver.

Fresh Sprue

In order to get yet more bits to choose from I busted open two boxes of plastic GW models I’ve owned for years. The Goblins weren’t any use, though I was surprised to find Wolf Rider parts and four banner bits in this box. The Flagellants were useful. This box is great for bits. You get two of everything and lots of spare parts such as heads or little bits of chains. The rest of the plastic, metal, and resin bits came from my bitz box and my mountain of sprue.

After gluing the bitz to the bases, I then busted out some modeling paste I had bought.  This wasn’t in the original plan, but some people sware by products like this as a basing material. You can mix paint with it so it can be any colour. You can cut it after it dries, you can even add grit to it. It goes on like icing a cake. I used it to fill in the gaps between the big and small base, but perhaps I should have done this first and then stuck the plastic model bits into the paste, but it was a new product to me, and I never thought of that until it was too late.

Modeling Paste

After the paste dried, it looked a lot like snow bases, I’m sure some people have used it for that. One benefit of gluing the bitz to the base is you can then sink them into the ground with paste or just sand and glue. The white paste got a layer of watered down white glue then a dip into my box of beach sand and then another lengthy drying period.

Next came several coats of black paint. The first was regular consistency, the next two were watered down. I recommend gluing sand, and whatever else you plan to use as basing materials to the base during the model assembly phase. That way if you use spray primer you don’t have to go through the repeated coats of black paint that I did. Spray primer does a good job on sand. This is one advantage I have over those paint the model in pieces or mounted on a handle people.

Drybrushing was next, the usual three GW manufactured brown paints. I used a small drybrush, and was a bit heavy, but I’d never get every base to be perfectly the same or the sand to match that was old and with the new. Especially because the old sand was really fine. I like beach sand as it is irregular.

Terminators with modeling paste

I started with the metallic bits. They got painted chainmail, followed by two washes, one of Badaab Black and one of Devlan Mud. I also painted some brass bits using Tin Bitz and Brazen Brass. I used a custom thinned Rust Brown Ink with some Plasma Red Ink for them. I also painted the skulls Snake Bite Leather then Bleached Bone. They two got the Rust Brown plus Plasma Red Ink wash.

After all that was dry the metal were done and the skulls looked pretty good, but I put a highlight of Vallejo Beige on them which looked two harsh so another custom wash was used, this time a darker brown mixed with red.  That was it for the skulls. The various heads were painted Dhenab Stone then given a wash, of thinned down purple. Then a highlight of Dhenab Stone. Other bits were painted purple, or red, or brown. I even tried out my English Uniform Brown that I ordered from the Vallejo range.

When all this was done it was time for rust and blood. I did the rust first mixing up a custom wash consisting of water, rust brown ink, and Fiery Orange plus some left over half dried pigments that remain in my rust wash mixing spot…  For the blood I used Tamiya Clear Red and the Lonewolf Blood and Gore method or my interpretation of it.  This really gave the models I nice final touch and it was off to the photo booth.

Sand applied to bases

The squad was pretty much too big to photograph at once.  It worked better as a squad of five models.  I also took some individual model shots all of which are up on Flickr.

Now I’m at a cafe as it is so cold in Vancouver. This weekend I’ll continue to look for a new job, but also start on some Lead Painters’ League entries.  I hope to finish one or two weeks worth before returning to models for my armies.

Second Test Post

It seemed to me that before the posts were appearing in reverse chronological order. I’ve never seen that before, WordPress is always adding new features which is another reason I have a WordPress.com blog, but also a self hosted blog that I can test things out on.

I dug up another photo which probably hasn’t been widely seen, instead of an Ork Nob it contains three OOP (Out of Print) Chaos Terminators. I’ve got a lot of painted terminators that I never use, I plan to rebase them. I have some of the Forge World Nurgle ones on my table which I’ll get to in a couple months, they seem to always get put off, as mainly they are just for fun figs. Nurgle terminators are too expensive pointswise to use regularly in small scale Warhammer 40,000 games.

I painted them quite a while ago, I’m not even sure they’ve all hit the gaming table, but they probably have by now.

Update December 2019

It is now many years later and I’m editing all my old blog posts to improve the taxonomy. I did rebase these models but based on the new Death Guard Codex many of them are unusable. Nurgle err Death Guard terminators can no longer have power weapons. Plague marines can no longer have flamers. So basically every squad in my army needs updating with new models and probably champions. Plague marines can also not have bolt pistols again. I will have to look into the regular Chaos Codex but first I need to get back into the habit of painting regularly and and actually play something, even if it is Warcry.