And now it’s on to the last of the six Plague Marine Heroes, Scabboth with his flail of corruption. There’s really not much to say about this other than that I also painted the backpack as a separate sub component this time. That made painting him a little bit easier and attaching it after painting is incredibly easy. Would I do this for every miniature in future? Maybe not, but if I’m painting an individual model rather than I squad I’d be tempted to repeat.
I’ve started gearing myself up for getting back to playing 40k on the tabletop. I didn’t play much 9th Edition before we were locked down again and I’ve not played with the new Death Guard Codex at all. So there seems to be quite a gap between where I am now and where I want to be as a gamer. As a first step of getting back into things I’ve started updating the cheat sheets that I made for each of my units. This allows me to go through the units one at a time and notice all the changes, so it should help me pick up the new Codex. The first unit in the Codex is the Death Guard Daemon Prince.
I moved on to work on another of the Space Marine Heroes.
This time I decided to try a little something new. Normally I would paint the plasma coils on a plasma weapon the same colour as the weapon, that is to say that they wouldn’t stand out. This time I wanted to add a little plasma glow.
How do I think it turned out?
Odd… A part of that must be because it looks different to me. But, after talking with a few people, I think it’s also that there’s no lighting up of the area around the glowing coil. If you got this bright glowing thing it would have an effect on the things next to it. It was suggested that I give Object Sourced Lighting a go, but for now I didn’t have the courage. I’ll give it a pop on another model that I’m less invested in.
Colours Used
Armour – Base of Death Guard Green, wash of Agrax Earthshade and drybrush with Nurgling Green.
Rusty metal – Base of Leadbelcher, wash of Agrax Earthshade, dry brush with Necron Compound, apply Typhus Corrosion and then drybrush with Ryza Rust.
Brass – Base of Balthasar Gold, wash of Agrax Earthshade, Nihilakh Oxide for verdigris and then drybrush with Necron Compound .
Red cloak- Base of Screamer Pink, wash of Agrax Earthshade and a highlight with Changeling Pink.
Base Nurgling – Wash of Reikland Fleshshade straight over the white undercoat, wash of Carroburg Crimson and then drybrushed with Pallid Wych Flesh.
Back Nurgling – Base of Death World Forest, wash of Biel-Tan Green, highlight of Nurgling Green and a final highlight of Screaming Skull.
Sword – Base of Abbadon Black and a highlight with Chronus Blue.
Plasma coil – Layer of Hexwraith Flame straight over a white undercoat and a highlight with Ceramite White.
Plague Gardening 