Nurgle Herald

I've recently made a Nurgle herald out of leftover maggoth lord Morbidex Twiceborn's body, a Nurgle blightking torso with a nurgling poking out of it and plaguebearer legs. The gaps were filled with Milliput yellow/gray.

He's not that big, but those trophies and that massive scythe should be enough set him apart from the ordinary rank and file plaguebearers.

As always, all comments are welcome!

AoW Corrupters miniature comparison & review

Here's just a small comparison between some of the models I'm using in my Nurgle army.

The core of my army consist of AoW Corrupters of Apocalypse as my Nurgle warriors and GW's Putrid Blightkings as my Chosen.

From left to right: AoW Corrupter of Apocalypse, GW Blightking, GW Maggoth lord (conversion)

You might notice the difference in size at first glance.

This doesn't bother me that much, since I actually like the fact that my Chosen look bigger and meaner. After all, the lore says that Chosen stand one head taller than the normal warriors.

But for some people this may be problematic, since AoW Corrupters truly are a bit shorter than GW Chaos Warriors.
The first edition of AoW Corrupters was made in resin and the models were a bit bigger, but the newer retooled plastics seem to be a bit shorter. Unlike Chaos warriors, they don't have capes which give GW models that bulky effect. AoW Corrupters also come with their own bases which are a bit shorter than GW bases. All these small differences add up and make Corrupters noticeably smaller in the end.
However, placing a piece of plasticard or a cork sheet beneath the legs should make them more or less even.

AoW uses plastic material that is harder than your usual GW plastics. It also doesn't seem to react to plastic glue. The bits come in bags, already removed from the sprues.
Casting quality is good, but removing mould lines takes some time due to hard plastic which they use.
By the way, if you're thinking about getting a box of Corrupters with great weapons you should be informed that arms come in three parts: two arms and a weapon with hands sculpted on it. This gives you more freedom while posing your miniatures, but also comes with one obvious drawback: you'll have to use super glue while juggling 3 arm pieces at the same time. So be patient and expect a lot of fingers super-glued together.
Oh and once you assemble your models you'll still have some bodies, arms and weapons left, so if you're up to the task you can try and sculpt or kit-bash some legs which should provide you with at least 3 additional models.

However, the box I got was a real bargain, and it provided me with 24 warriors plus a metal hero.
The style of the models is also really good, and when mixed with some GW bits these guys make the best Nurgle warriors currently available at the market.

Nurgle Mounted Sorcerer

I've been getting a pretty good mileage out of Maggoth lord kit lately.

I've used the kit to make my Dragon lord, Slaughterbeast, Mounted sorcerer and a Nurgle herald.

This mounted sorcerer was a pretty straightforward conversion using a Maggot lord torso, chaos knight horse and legs, one hanging corpse from the zombie sprue and one trophy from AoW Corrupters sprue.

I think it looks pretty fluid and dynamic, with a bit of "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" touch.

Nurgle Barbarian Chieftain

I've been thinking about converting a barbarian chief for my Nurgle army for quite some time now.
However, I've had troubles finding a suitable model which I could use as a base for my conversion.

What I had in mind was a bulky base model wearing some sort of shabby heavy armour.
Now, the main problem was that I wanted my model to be more armoured than the marauders but still less armoured and less mutated than my warriors and chosen.

So after thinking about it for a long time, I've settled for Reaper Bones Kavorgh:

Miniature painted by JeffyBaby from Reaper forums

I wanted to go for a light conversion in order to save some money and keep the flavor of the original model.
What I'd like to go for is a head swap (using Otto Glott head without the helmet) and a flagellant banner just to make the model stand out a bit more in the unit.
I decided to keep the small mutations (4 fingers, hunched pose and the chin tentacle), but I didn't want to go for pus, sores and usual Nurgly things since I somehow need to make this guy stand out. Some sort of a purplish skin tone might be just the thing I need to achieve that, as it should provide some contrast from the rest of the unit.
I also decided to keep the original weapons as I feel that the model looks more unique this way.
The other idea I had was using dual scimitars from the Blightkings set.
I might also add one of the Blightking shoulder pads on the left shoulder since I don't like the Roman-styled bits of armour hanging there.

A quick mockup to illustrate the general idea

Nurgle Sorcerer on foot

This guy here is a conversion based on Reaper Bones Friar Stone miniature:

I've done some minor conversion work, adding a Chaos marine icon and Nurgle champion shoulder pad, as well as a trimmed-down Chaos spawn head.
It was a simple conversion, but I think that it looks pretty effective.
This whole miniature reminds me of old metal Nurgle sorcerers.

And here's a warning kids. Don't do Chaos. Not even once. 😛

Poor old Friar Stone got twisted by Chaos

Chaos Spawn

Painted OOP metal chaos spawn.
One of my favorite models in general.
It feels very chaotic, twisted and warped, much more than the newer plastic sets. I might do something about those claws and nails, though. I'm not liking the way they look at this moment.

Painting an Empire!

Empire was my first army when I decided to start the hobby, but due to my lack of painting skills back then, I decided to leave it mostly unpainted until my painting skills improved. Recently I've decided to paint my Empire army in basic colours just to kill some time and relax a bit. I went a step further with my captains though, just to test the Talabecland colour scheme.


So, the first guy is an ordinary GW Empire Captain.
I loved the style of this miniature so much that I had to buy as soon as it was released.

I got this second guy as a surprise when I was buying a bunch of used random miniatures. He was in a pretty bad shape, so I decided to fix him.

The model only had a body with an outrider cape and a part of an arm which held a completely broken and bent mace from the original box.
I've fixed most of the damage with greenstuff (although I missed some details on one of the tassels) and covered some problematic areas using Empire handgunner bits.
I've used a chaos warrior weapon arm to fix the mace.
The head comes from Empire archers sprue, but I've taken the liberty of adding a skull and an dagger from High elf spearmen sprue to it in order to make it stand out more.
The right arm was made form bits of Empire militia and Cannon crew sprue.