The Lost and the Damned

[EricF]

Right a thread for my chaotic and more monster-like stuff is long overdue and to kick it off lets start with what has only taken something like thirty five years to get across my painting table, some Dungeon Crawlers from Scotia Grendel that were mentioned back in this post.

I'm still wondering if I might do more with the bases, I don't want them to be too out of place in most environments so opted to just do a browny/grey and a few tufts rather than flock them properly or anything. They still need a coat of varnish (with a bit of gloss thrown in for the slime of course), but otherwise I'm calling them done and off the lead (resin in this case) pile!

Once I've taken some photos (hopefully a bit better than the camera phone snap above!) of my Nurgle daemons I'll add those to the thread, but until then you can see one of them over on the Papa save us! thread.

 

[Loose Loser]

Great looking! The Unclean One from that link is very nice also.

 

[Sleepysod]

Love that green stuff oozing out of the giant leech!

 

[Golgfag1]

Nicely done sir, classics.

Paul / Golgfag1

 

[Old Hob]

Those are horrible. I'm especially upset by the giant leech with the toothy sphincter and luminous butt-slime.
Cracking stuff.

 

[twisted moon]

very nice, especially the bony effect on the carapaces.

 

[EricF]

Since I'm on a roll with posting some recent pictures and this thread is looking a little bare let's dig into the Nurgle swamp I have painted. First up my classic plague bearers (and a few more recent Little Lords tagging along)

All basically various washes over pale base coats.

And then for a bit of comparison some current plague bearers (and Sloppity Bilepiper). I quite like these plastics, but they did need a bit of green-stuffing around the arms and necks in particular to hide the joints. I got these in the Blightwar box set because I wanted the Horticulous Slimux model (which I just finished). I sold most of the other models, but kept the plague bearers.

Alas I probably should have checked the lighting more when doing the photos, not quite diffuse enough, so sorry about the harsh light.

Interesting to compare the old and new models, certainly more character in the old ones (although dear Sloppity has quite a lot of character!), in many ways the new models better match much of the old artwork in The Lost and the Damned, but if I had to pick I'd choose the old sculpts but I guess on the Oldhammer forum that's not too surprising!

 

[popevaderii]

Lovely work! Especially the plaugebarers which reminds me to get mine painted

 

[twisted moon]

excellent; are you going to mix them amongst units?

 

[EricF]

Do you mean mixing in the Nurglings or mixing the old and new Plaguebearers? I'm not really sure what I'll do with the loose Nurglings - those ones are the larger later ones GW did and they don't really fit with my old ones hence ending up just loose on their own bases. Mixing in is quite a good idea. I'll probably keep old and new Plaguebearers separate given the styles. Unlike my armies of youth all the more current (as in acquired) stuff is a rather random selection of things that I've liked rather than any actual army planning so who knows if it would work or be list legal!

Anyhoo speaking of Nurglings here are the the fruits of too many eBay auctions some years back. I think I painted these up 2-3 years ago now.

The bases have 4 or 5 on each which seemed about right although I still keep finding the odd additional Nurgling in the lead pile however! You can never have too many Nurglings!

These were all fixed to bits of stripwood in batches of about ten for painting, quick prime in white and a few with various light base coat colours. Then washes and some highlighting. Then the snot/rot/slime/etc picked out. I remember being quite pleased with how the swarms turned out. Various skulls and mushrooms and stones to make the bases more interesting and give the Nurglings some height in places - although of course thanks to some gloss varnish many of them have had accidents on the stones...

I've never been quite sure about the current GW plastic Nurgling kit (I quite like the general more characterful odd one you get with other models - like the chap on the fly in the earlier post). The piled up swarm concept I like, but the finished models are not ones I'm keen on (hence only keeping the Plaguebearers and Slimux models from the Blightwar box set). Compared to the old ones with all their little quirks the new ones just loose the dark humour aspect of both Oldhammer and Nurgle.

 

[ManicMan]

very nice work ^_^

looking at them current ones.. they look like one issue I had with Chaos armies through the 90s, though probebly started late 80s.. they all look the same.. Chaos is a vary orangised and regimental force with everyone looking the same.. how is that Choatic? reminds me of pretty much every Punk i've seen or met.. they have there own rules and outfits which they all wear the same.. not very punk there ¬_¬ hell, techinally punk music should be random and all over the place, where most of them are very static and regular...

maybe if you kit bash them new ones with a mixture of older and just random parts, they might be of interest but.. naw.. dull and boring.

 

[popevaderii]

Love the Nurglings...never thought of a purple one...great stuff!!

 

[EricF]

Choosing a few different colours was fun. I was glad I tried some blues and purples, but I think my favourite is the orange/yellow one towards the top right of the first photo.

 

[EricF]

Since I mentioned it on my second thoughts thread and had taken a photograph, my ahem not very Oldhammer (you'll have to forgive me) Beast of Nurgle.

I think probably technically a superior model to the original (and those in-between), as I mentioned in the linked thread I find myself wanting a few originals now. Maybe eBay will come to my rescue in a weak moment when I think the lead-pile ins't too large...

The tentacles on this chap were another modern experiment with whatever GW's purple contrast paint is called and some thinner to blend it out to get a bit more of a gradient from the base to end of the tentacles. I'm pleased with the result. The rest my standard Nurgle methods of washes over lighter bases. Will be interesting to varnish this chap since I might do a light mist of gloss over the tentacles to give them a slightly wet look.

Then since I'm off on a Newhammer rogue post we might as well throw in Horticulous Slimux (and Mulch) as well. A model I just knew I needed when I saw it.

I left off the Nurgling on a stick (to tempt Mulch forwards) since I felt it got in the way, but to make it proper Oldhammer I put one old Nurgling on the base The rocks I built up a little with some slate and putty to give the model a little more heft and whilst you can't really see it the plough being dragged has some furrows in the mud texture. One of those modern miniatures with old school vibes I think, probably because it's not too serious.

And sorry about the slightly harsh lighting on those last two, I'll remember to actually put the diffuser on next time!

 

[Old Hob]

Oldhammer or not - these are incredible paint jobs. And I agree about the sculpts having a certain old skool charm. I think it's because they're all such happy chappies rather than all grimdark and brooding.

+1 for a glossy varnish on the tentacles.

 

[EricF]

Thank you. I was very please with how the tentacles turned out - one of those time when what you have in your mind actually ends up being realised. Gloss varnish it is then!

 

[EricF]

Now before I forget I've painted it time to post another old beastie. Again another old Scotia Grendel model - 10032 - The Guardian (£9 if you fancy one!). Just like the post that kicked off this thread I've had this chap for more decades than I care to remember and he was probably purchased around the same time. Well I did finally assemble him (the wing connection is a bit iffy) and prime him a few years ago and then the poor fella has sat to one side neglected once again. Finally his time came and for some reason I decided I'd have a go and slap on some paint, maybe it was because I was in a dragon painting mood (although I still have two Forge World ones in the cabinet begging for some TLC)

Afraid like a few of the other recent photos I didn't really check the lighting and pictures before packing everything away so he's a tad washed out. I actually ended up with more contrast on this model than I normally do with my painting, but it seems to have worked and I'm happy with the chap.

I think other than some terrain pieces that concludes figures from my ancient Scotia Grendel purchases. I've nearly finished up the Altar from their 10063 - Demonic Altar and Pillars set and there are a few other bits tucked away in the pile that will one day see the lick of a paintbrush!

 

[ManicMan]

nice.. I like the carapace like style for the spine plates

 

[twisted moon]

great palette on all the recent figures.

 

[Machen]

Beautiful work. Nurgle's usually not my favorite, but I love what you're doing with his daemons. Since I usually lean sci fi, I never checked out Scotia Grendel's fantasy stuff, but after seeing your work I'm going to have to. Love your painting style!