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Since the Death Guard/Plague Marines are notoriously grimy and heavy on the weathering, I thought I'd start a thread compiling some resources from the web. Feel free to contribute any of your own favorites and your own recipes too, but please try to provide a pic or two with the recipe so we can see how it looks. First up is some stuff from WarhammerTV WHTV - How to Build DG. WHTV - How to Paint Lord of Contagion WHTV - Weeping Legion scheme WHTV - Pallid Hand scheme WHTV - How to Paint Poxwalkers WHTV - Nurgle Skin WHTV - Toxic Bases WHTV - Plagueswords WHTV - Rusted Weapons WHTV - Armor Chipping WHTV - Dust and Dirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVx62P6LLPg WHTV - Bubbling Vials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-BWaF1M5ps WHTV - Verdigris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4o-5HUFrx8 Here's some others I found on YouTube and might have more advanced techniques, like airbrushing. TheApatheticFish - How to Paint DG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq18Gkrz9s8 TheApatheticFish - How to Paint Poxwalkers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWK8xZUdrpU Firestorm Games - Quickly Paint DG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1PL5ss8nQ Firestorm Games - Quickly Paint Poxwalkers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVQVjuUDRts Miniac - 'Eavy Metal Marines: DG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWW5AIRCrRg The next two are more advanced than the previous ones, both in techniques and materials used, which the average 40k hobbyist may not have on hand. Zatcaskagoon - DG Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGxgFRSR5U Zatcaskagoon - DG Vehicle Weathering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhEb_zcQxYo

So this may sound like a strange question but it has a great story behind it. For the past few weeks one of my friends has been messaging our 40k group and constantly mispells plague marines as plaque marines. As a joke I acquired the DG half of DI and am planning to make a plaque marines themed deathguard army. Thus I need to know, if I wanted to paint up the marines to look like rotten teeth, I was planning to paint them to look like normal teeth first then to use washes and glazes to make them rotten. So now to the topic title: How would you lot go about painting marine armor to look like teeth?

So like many people since 8th Edition dropped, I've decided to get going on a Death Guard army. Background: I got into the 14th Legion back somewhere around 2003, after reading a then-famous White Dwarf article featuring tactics on playing Plague Marines. The early 2000s was a bit of a Nurgle renaissance, as we'd wrapped up the awesome Eye of Terror campaign and Deathguard.org was still around. I painted up ~2000 points using the Jean Francoise tutorial (basically drybrushing + washes), and spent a few years bashing them into my brother's Ultramarines and Tyranids. Eventually I moved on to other armies, and at several points over the years I decided to dissassemble and repaint my army. All those attempts stalled after a few models, and eventually I was left with a pile of half-painted models that couldn't really be fielded effectively. This year I decided to get my together and actually paint my army. Drawing inspiration from a number of awesome DG army logs (especially the work of Squiggoth and Animerik) and using downtime from Hurricane Harvey this weekend, I finished up my test model. I figured the old dime-a-dozen monopose 2nd Edition Marine would be a good test model (though he's missing some common features of later sculpts, like weird growths and puss). Some notes: - I'm gonna use the right greave for squad markings. The first squad will be checkerboard. From there, I'm thinking maybe caution stripes and flames for some other markings? - I'm planning on doing freehand on any blank shoulderpads. This idea is shamelessly stolen from Squiggoth's army. Dunno how easy this will be, as I don't have a huge mental tank of Nurgle freehand iconography . . . - Blue accents are also kinda stolen from Squiggoth. I think they pop well. - I love a lot of the grimy, gritty DG armies out there, but that's not one of my strengths as a painter. I kept the weathering to a bit of a minimum here, with just a bit of blood and Typhus Corrosion. Some other guys might get a bit grimier, especially the 3rd edition models with more mutation and nasty stuff in their sculpts, but this is generally what I'd like to shoot for. - My other 40K armies have summer (Eldar) and winter (Blood Axes) bases. I figured fall would be a good addition to that. Now that that's out of the way, I'll start work on the rest of the squad this week.

So I got the "Know no Fear" starter set, and I had this vision that I should do the Plague marines as that they came from the Iron Warriors chapter. I am wondering what else I should do to with them, and just to be clear, I am not going to do hazard stripes, as I suck at free handing. 1. Do they look like they are IW and not DG? 2. The lords smoke is grey atm, but should I go a more sickly green? 3. The lords cloak is red atm, but I am thinking go another colour, if so what should be good colour 4. Shall I rustyfie them even more or can they get to busy. They are in no way done, there is quite a lot of work to be done, I can see some errors and such which will be cleaned up, the lords stomach ache is not done and so are not the squished nurglings under his foot.. Cpt. Danjou Edit:Changed some wordings and spelling errors. Sorry Excessus for making your post a bit strange after the editing..