As expected, it didn't take long to bash through these guys and get them finished.
Along with the Plague Bearers, these were a pleasure to paint. I followed the Nurgle scheme covered here but used the colours described for the wounds on some of the Nurglings. I wanted to see how they would look as an alternative colour scheme to the normal green tones. I think it worked very well.
Next up, following on from the Plague Bearers is a unit of cheeky Nurglings.
The Nurgle clour scheme I'm following worked so well on the Plague Bearers that I wanted to continue using it. However, I wanted to introduce an alternative colour scheme to some of the Nurglings so there was a bit of variety. In the end, I settled on following the same process, however, when it came to applying Bestigor Flesh >Ungor Flesh around the wounds, I airbrushed random Nurglings entirely in these colours. I think it works quite well!
These Nurgle Daemons are proving very quick to paint so hopefully I'll be able to complete these in the next couple of days.
The process and colours work well, however, I did screw up the base a bit so had to tweak the process and paints used for them on my future Nurgle Daemons. Anyway, I hope you like them!
Now my Sylvaneth force is 'finished' (for now) and my trip to Warhammer World is done, its time to turn my attention to preparing for Nerd Day 2018. Part of this preparation is to paint up 1000 points of Nurgle Daemons... and, obviously, I need a colour scheme to do that!
Whilst searching for inspiration on Youtube, I found the rather awesome video below.
Using the colours, techniques and process covered in this video I distilled my own process (described below) which I plan to use... and will test our on a unit of Plaguebearers in the coming days.
For now, here's the process:
STAGE 1 - BASE COLOURS
Skin Basecoats
Loren Forest - all over airbrush
Zamesi Desert - 45% zenithal
Nurgling Green - 90% zenithal
Nurglings2
Basecoat
Rakarth Flesh
Pallid Wych Flesh
Shade
Druchii Violet/Drakenhoff Nightshade
Wounds/Boils/Inside Mouth Basecoats
Bestigor Flesh - airbrush
Ungor Flesh - airbrush/brush as needed
Steel/Silver Metallics
Basecoats
Black
Leadbelcher - drybrush
Gold/Bronze Metallics
Basecoats
Warplock Bronze
Brass Scorpion
Horns/Claws/Toe Nails
Black - from the top down to green skin colour already applied
Heads and other Trophies of dead Flesh
Basecoats
Ogryn Camo
Rakarth Flesh/Slaanesh Grey
Shade
Druchii Violet/Drakenhoff Nightshade - random washes of the two colours on the skin
Cloth
Basecoat
White Scar or other appropriate base colour (e.g. Khorne Red)
Weather
Brown pigment - into areas of shade
Rust pigments - patchy all over
Black/Dark brown pigments - into recesses
Wipe off from highlight areas with a cotton wool bud
Seal with pigment fixer.
STAGE 2 - SHADING
Vallejo gloss varnish
all over shade with Dark ToneStrong Tone/wash mixing medium *do not wash any cloth* - instead, matte down the cloth with Army Painter wash mixing medium
randomly apply wash mix to areas of the base to matte them down
STAGE 3 - DETAILS AND EFFECTS
Skin Highlights
Nurgling Green - drybrush
Nurgling Green/White Scar 50/50 mix - drybrush
Targeted wash
Athonian Camodshde - into recesses
Athonian Camoshade/Nuln Oil 50/50 - wash into recesses already painted with Athonian Camoshade
Druchi Violet/Drakenhoff Nightshade - wash randomly around the model in the creases
Wounds/Boils/Inside Mouth Shade/effects
Reikland Fleshade - generous into boils/wounds!
Baneblade Brown/White Scar 50/50 mix - apply to teeth
Chaos Black/Evil Sun Scarlet - diluted so like a wash. apply to the lower areas of the founds/boils and drag down (leakage!). Also, apply in mouth
Blood for the Blood God (slightly diluted with water) into lower parts of the wounds/boils. Also, apply to the mouth.
Nurgle's Rot - applied around boils/wounds like above step
Eyes
Nurgle's Rot
Ungor Flesh
Heads and other Trophies of dead Flesh
Highlight
Slaanesh Grey
Ulthuan Grey
Dark Reaper - highlight any hair on dead heads.
Steel/Silver Metallics
Shade/effects
Rhinox Hide/Black - sponge over metallic areas
Agrax Earthshade Gloss - applied only to any mechanical parts (to simulate oily parts)
Typhus Corrosion/Ryza Rust - in patches (to simulate rust)
Stormhost Silver - drybrush (edge highlight for character models)
Gold/Bronze Metallics Shade/effects
Rhinox Hide/Black - sponge over
Agrax Earthshade Gloss - applied to any mechanical parts to simulate oily parts
Stormhost Silver - drybrush
Nihilakh Oxide - slightly diluted applied to some recesses (less is more!)
Horns/Claws/Toe Nails
Gloss varnish - towards the top of the horns
STAGE 4 - BASE
In terms of the base, I'll be going with something like the below. Black/brown colours and some rusty weathering powders along with some black glossy areas.
Base colours
Mechanicus Standard Grey - airbrushed over the whole base
Dryad Bark - airbrushed around the outer edge of the base
Abaddon Black - Airbrushed around the rim and at various spots on the base to create a shadow.
Soot/Dark Brown pigment heavily diluted and applied to the base
Weathering Powder/Effects
Rust pigment weathering powder - selectively dabbed on to the base.
Seal pigments with Isopropanol alcohol
'Ardcoat - selectively applied to areas of the base
