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I played a game of 40K with my Death Guard recently in its full glory.

Although it is a far cry from being an optimised force, it is fun to be able to resist twice as much damage as your opponent can dish out.

My core to the army is Plague Marines but this is likely to change as I now own the new Codex, so will be looking to update the army with some new additions and units (or adapt a few existing/ older ones if I can).

I suspect I have been on the Nurgle spree for a little too long.  Tea time finds me facing this little treat.  I wonder if Papa Nurgle is trying to influence me from behind the veil…

(Yes that is Marmite on my crumpets! Don’t judge until you have tried it.)

I am fairly proud of my snail and worm Dragon Rampant army.  It has taken a fairly short time to complete (for me at least). Its not huge but it doesn’t need to be for use in Dragon Rampant games.

It has been proxied into service as the Daemons of Nurgle in my 40K games of late and performed well in this role (it would never pass if I tried to play it in a GW store, but in the Shed it does fine).

It got some Nurglings recently as official GW additions, and has Plague Bearers waiting in the wings, which should be added in the next month or so.  Before them in the queue are the Plague Drones though…

I got these done over the course of more than a few evenings last month (I am slightly behind in my posting to the blog it would seem).

These guys are so much bigger than you think!  Not tall or even bulky, but just that sticky out, wide winged and pokey legged kind of big.

I kept to the simple paint scheme of the Nurglings and they came out really nice.  I have to say that painting hundreds of rivets on steam tanks was quite easy compared to painting thousands of boils on plague flies.

They are worth the effort though.

Did I mention that they are big?  The footprint of the unit is about a foot wide and you can’t crowd them together as the wings and legs just won’t allow it.  For a six man unit this is slightly worrying.

Bases to match the army was the last job to be done and after a few little blobs of light grass I am calling them done.

I am still not sure how they will fair in a game but they are probably the nicest looking giant plague flies I own…

A while back I did the first base of these as my test piece for the daemon army.  The remaining 5 were done recently to finish the unit so I could use them.

I went for a simple paint scheme that would ley me get them done quickly but also get a tabletop level of detail picked out.

The photos show it poorly but the nurglings are done in 2 differing shades of beige.  The details allow a bit of colour to be added with minimal effort.

Even unfinished they are bland but bright.  Maybe too clean for Grandfather Nurgle but they are ok for me…

 

After so much rebasing and repurposing of older figures I needed to add something new to the force for a recent game.  This chap was a good start point but I built him and stuck him to his base before engaging my brain…

He has so many pipes to his undercarriage that they almost demand differing colours to bring them out.  After sticking him down these became a pain to paint due to their position.  As I was in a hurry, and as I didn’t relish redoing him, I took the decision to finish him off as is, and promised myself I would learn from him when I do the second one of these that I have.

He is a daemon engine that fits nicely with both the Death guard and the Daemon army. A very clean, detailed, model with some nice touches. Better painters will get more out of this kit. I did him quickly and might make more effort with more of the details on the next one that I do. Even with minimal effort he came out ok.

I tried a pool of ooze on the base but think more colours are needed to get it to work.  I will maybe revisit this in a week or so when I have more time.

Then again, I might just try something completely different with the next one…

More Ebay purchases so I cannot claim the paint jobs as my own.  Bases changed to bring them in line with the remainder of the army.

First up is a slightly converted Typhus figure.  On eBay it was cheap! I needed a HQ character to buff my Pox walkers and he would do that well.  In the flesh he looks a bit rough… In this photo he looks ok, but he will be getting replaced at some point, and rebuilt/ painted as something else (most likely as a Lord of contagion or regular terminator).  But as I want him in the army, for now he will have to do.

Next up one of a set I bought years ago.  I think these are Forgeworld figures.  Priests of Nurgle I suspect. Although I cannot find any rules for them as that.

His companion is the model better suited to a 40K universe I suppose, with a staff full of speakers to help pass on the good word. Not sure about the Xmas decoration on the front of his hood though… Is that a sprig of holly 🙂

He was slightly damaged when I got him and had lost a sword I think.  After a rummage in the bits box for something fitting I had no melee weapons that fitted so gained a pistol as a replacement.

These are likely to become proxies for sorcerers or dark chaplain types I suspect.

I have been cracking on with the Nurgle force and added a few new fellows to the army.  This time its chaps from the Death guard legion.  I could hardly stay away from Space marines in a 40K force now could I (even if they are chaos space marines..?)

These are the older (and in my opinion nicer) sculpts, rather than the new Death guard plague marines from the new starter set.

These were a collection that I found on eBay, so are not my paint jobs.  By just changing the bases to fit in with my existing figures they have been inducted into the force.

Being particularly rugged units of 5 of these guys should be ok.  I may change that in time though as it might take me a game or two to see what works best.

This force has the potential to spiral out of control and I suspect I may end up with two Nurgle based armies.  Chaos space marines and Daemons.  It should allow me to mix and match though (that’s what I keep telling myself).