Nurgle, Nurgle, quite horrid purple, how does your Garden grow?

The second Chaos Spawn in the set. This one had all the “fly” and chitinous bug arms and such thrown at it.
Same colour palette as used in the rest of the project.

Five Marines on 40mm bases.

• Tallyman
• Foul Blightspawn
• Biologus Putrifier
• Noxious Blightbringer
• Plague Surgeon

All the base colours are down. Ready for shading a.k.a. adding a layer of grime. The plan here is to get all the shared textures done at the same time in a batch paint, then go in on each one as an individual. They’re not Characters as such, but they have enough unique elements each that I will treat them as such.
Including a bit of freehand on the large mushroom that replaced the large bell on the Noxious Blightbringer.

All of these miniatures bar one is stock, no conversions. The exception is the Noxious Blightbringer. They’re characterful enough as is.

With these four done, I’m down to four minis remaining for this project. Two more lords in Terminator armour, a Bloat Drone and the tank! I’m going to take a short break to shake things up, then push on.

The set included the current plastic Typhus model. I didn’t want any Named Characters in this army, so this piece definitely was up for conversion. Included in this:

• Head swapped for an alternative Plaguemarine head
• Used the hands and the axe head from another Plaguemarine terminator lord
• Destroyer Hive vents changed to greenstuff Fungi
• Two heads from the old plastic Zombie kit
• Extended the axe haft using wire and greenstuff

There’s a couple of details about the axe that I would’ve like to have improved. But overall, the conversion has come out pretty well since it has probably been my most ambitious to date.

The last human-ish sized mini for this project is another Terminator Lord. This was a much more-straight forward conversion. Essentially, a hand swap with the Typhus conversion. Some greenstuff work to rebuild the wrists, that’s about it.

The scythe blade height meant that I had to prop it up higher on something, so wood chips from the garden will become rocks when I do the basing.
One thing I should have paid more attention to was how the feet were placed: there were gaps left that don’t look good.

I used some chunky sand-grit and glue to fill in the gap under the foot, and an excess of PVA with Citadel Death Guard Green mixed in. The intention was to fill the gap with the sand to look like stone and gravel, but also a slick of slime from the pile of Nurglings under his foot.

The slime look kind of worked, so I bulked it up with more PVA and topped it off with Citadel Nurgle’s Rot technical.

One Bloat-Drone and one Plagueburst Crawler vehicle to go.

Second last mini to do in this project is a Bloat-Drone. Similar in design to the Myphitic Blight-hauler, it’s a demon possessed machine of dubious origin.

It was painted using the same colours as the rest of the army, with the exception of the shading/ grime-up step. I used an artist-type Sepia ink, mixed with Flow Improver and water to create the wash. It was something new for me, and I’ll likely use it again in the future.