Herald Palanquin Finished

I have finished one of my Heralds. The palanquin itself took about 2 hours to paint from start to finish with dry brushing methods. Another 30 or so minutes for the Herald.

Speed painting method - Nurgle flesh

So I decided to try a less detail oriented method at painting nurgle flesh. I really like to use my airbrush and paint highlights by hand. I rarely dry brush. This is my first army I'll be painting that won't have armor whether it's power armor or eldar armor. This time I went old fashion and gave dry brushing a shot. I have completed one Herald model. I use Game Colors for most of my paint. Total time was 20-30 minutes.

Skin
Base coat Foul Green (OOP GW Vile Green)
Dry brush Dead Flesh (GW Rotting Flesh)

Skin details
Filthy Brown (GW Vomit Brown)
I am considering Paracite Brown instead (GW Vermin Brown)

Robe
Base coat Cobra Leather (GW Snakebite Leather)
Dry Brush Plague Brown (GW Bubonic Brown)

Weapon
Beasty Brown (GW Beastial Brown)
Dry Brush Plague Brown
Boltgun Metal

Whole model coated with one generous coat of Devlin Mud.

Epidemius... Tally until RTT

Though I do not know when this army will be ready, it is pretty much my next project. I still have some CSM to work on, but I have pleanty painted. There really isn't much flex with an Epidemius army. For now, this is my project and army 1850 list. I'd prefer to have 3 more heralds with breath of chaos over the cost of Ku'Gath, but it's what I have to work with at the moment. And yes you can yell at me for having some non-nurgle units. I feel the screemers are necessary. Not just for anti-tank but knowing they have melta-bombs makes them big targets. With the games I've playtested, they have usually died before making it to a tank. However each squad was soaking up 3-4 enemy units' worth of firing which was extremely important keeping that fire off my scoring units. If they survive, that's just a bonus.

Ku'Gath

Epidemius

Herald of Nurgle
Palanquin
Breath of Chaos

Daemon Prince
Mark of Nurgle
Noxious Touch
Iron Hide
Cloud of Flies
Breath of Chaos

Daemon Prince
Mark of Nurgle
Noxious Touch
Iron Hide
Cloud of Flies
Breath of Chaos

14 plaguebearers
Instrument of Chaos

13 plaguebearers
Chaos Icon
Instrument of Chaos

13 plaguebearers
Chaos Icon
Instrument of Chaos

7 Nurglings

7 Nurglings

4 Screamers

4 screamers

Palanquins Part 2

All the puddy has dried and I am now just soaking the GUO in simple green. The puddy I used worked ok. It took about 2 days to dry which was bad. It also shrinks so I had to add a little more puddy (using much better material this time) to bulk up the top. Overall it was inexpensive to make. I also put glue/water effects around the larger gaps of nurglings to help secure them to the puddy core. Though still just a thought in progress, you can also see a pot of potential disease which may be used on Ku'Gath's palanquin.

Palanquins of Nurgle...(updated)

I stopped at Hobby Lobby today armed with a 40% off coupon. Picked up some modeling puddy. There's a lot out there. Some clay based and some play-doh based. I decided to go with the kids stuff. It's a lot softer. $6.99 regular price for 1 pound. I paid about $4.25. It's a pretty big tub. I used maybe 1/15 at the most for a smaller palanquin.

Pretty easy to do. I first started with a 40mm base and a glob a little smaller than a golf ball. The puddy appears to be super glue friendly when fresh. Throw on a hand full of trimmed nurglings. When dry, I can fill up the gaps.

I plan on using an urban theme for my Daemons. Here we have a palanquin for a herald that I have started.