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How to paint plague marines-w40k nurgle


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  • 3 weeks later...

I've found there are 2 schools of though when it comes to painting Plauge Marine armour: very pale green & darker brown/green. I prefer the darker colour-scheme as it looks more "rotten".

 

I found a quick n dirty way that works well if you're doing "darker" plague maries:

 

1 base coat in Chaos black spray

2 paint all the armour in knarloc green foundation paint (1 coat - really easy)

3 ink wask 20%brown ink, 20% flesh wash, 60%water all over the green areas.

4 highlight raised armour in rotting flesh

 

Then just do your fine detail however you like.

 

Here's a quick pic to give you an idea (as you can tell, I'm NOT a master painter! lol)

 

 

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/5190/dsc01622iu6.th.jpg

I do mine like this:

 

Basecoat Deck Tan+Olive Green+Desert Yellow+Black(2:2:1:1)

Highlight add Desert Yellow

Highlight add Deck Tan

Hightlight add more Deck Tan

Highlight pure Deck Tan for the edges of the armour

Glaze Dark Green

 

Examples:

 

WIP Deamon Prince

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/jeroendiks/DeamonPrince1.jpg

 

Plague Champion

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/jeroendiks/PlagueMarine5.jpg

 

Dreads

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/jeroendiks/Fotos-0013.jpg

Mine are

- Basecoat Scortched Brown

- Wash with Chaos Black

- Highlight Graveyard Earth

- Highlight Kommando Khaki

- Highlight Bleached Bone

- And then play around with all kinds of green, brown, red, blue and purple washes to make them look manky and bruised

 

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a285/squiggothnurgle/Plaguemarines/IconWhiteSquad001s.jpg

I agree about using the search function... I've painted a plaguemarine or 150 plaguemarines in my time. Lets just say I've tried a lot of things...

 

If you're looking for that really pale grey/green color and you are only using GW colors than rotting flesh is the key. I'm a big fan of washes, but to keep things pale the only wash I would use is armor wash. I would advice base coating black then two coats of camo green, then the armor wash, then maybe a 50/50 camo rotting flesh then a little pure rotting flesh and you'd end up with something like the color I have on this dreadnought.

 

I think a true Deathguard scheme has more grey in it. I used to use Ghoul Grey from the Monster or Creature paint set, but it long dried out. That was a great color for Nurgle. I've been using some Vellejo or however you spell it paints just for expiremental purposes, they have a grey green and a green grey. These are good Nurgle colors. I think I used them on this plaguebearer:

 

http://www.muschamp.ca/OffSite/plaguebearer.jpg

I don't play Chaos...filthy traitors...so I have no idea if this Fabius conversion is supposed to be Nurgle...but I do like the color scheme for DG.

This is a different technique I dink around with; there is no actual base coat:

Primed with fortress grey, washed with 2 coats of Catachan Green...obviouslythe 2nd after the 1st dries. From there I apply a few glazes of a really dark gray, with the slightest of blue tints. You can get the same effect by glazing on the dark gray, then a thin glaze of midnight blue...but it would have to be VERY thinned.

from there you just highlight up with GW foundation "gretchin green, which has to be REALLY thinned because of the pigment concentration, then worked up to rotting flesh.

Anyway, here's what it looks like:

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Mine are fairly simple, basecoat of chaos black followed by catachan green then a wash of brown ink finally highlight with camo green, below are some example's

 

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/Rogaldorn_album/warhammer40k033.jpg

 

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/Rogaldorn_album/warhammer40k030.jpg

 

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/Rogaldorn_album/warhammer40k021.jpg

 

As others have said most shade's of green are exceptible, do a couple of tester's from light to dark see whats best for you :blink:

Pretty soon, we're going to have a one-thread-fits-all guide to painting Nurgle! I see a lot of great color schemes, and ideas.

 

Captain Raiun...which ones do you like? Maybe the painters of those minis can help you through a few test minis.

here are some of mine

 

example 1:

 

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/Tomatron_photos/finito.jpg

 

example 2:

 

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/Tomatron_photos/50620076.jpg

 

example 2.5:

 

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/Tomatron_photos/50620075.jpg

 

heresy era example:

 

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/Tomatron_photos/50620291.jpg

 

gratuitous Typhus shot :(

 

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/Tomatron_photos/50620187.jpg

 

well thats 4 different styles i have to offer you, if you like any of them i would be happy to help a fellow rotter out! :devil:

 

:)

  • 5 weeks later...

Heres one of mine that i did for fun. :unsure:

 

http://s235.photobucket.com/albums/ee8/voider3/?action=view%C2%A4t=piczz090.jpg

 

1.) Undercoat Chaos Black.

2.) HEAVILY Drybrush Catachan Green.

3.) Drybrush Camo Green.

4.) LIGHTLY drybrush Bleached Bone.

 

There you go!

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 1 year later...

I went a different path for mine a few years ago; as a result they really stood out.

1. Paint them in pre-heresy colours:

1.1. Chaos black undercoat

1.2. Snakebite

1.3. Bleached Bone

1.4. Red Gore shoulder pad and arm (yeah I went with that scheme)

1.5. Metals done Chaos black and Boltgun

2. Dirty them up:

2.1. Armour wash (good luck finding that now, try Paynes Grey)

2.2. Watered down Brown Ink (now Ogrin Flesh or Delvan Mud might work)

2.3. Watered down Green Ink (now Thakka Green)

2.4. Dry brush or highlight (depending on how much time you want to spend) the whole mini (even the metal parts) with Rotting Flesh.

3. Final detail.

 

I don’t have any pics as this was more than 5 years ago, in a different country; back in my pre-career/pre-family days when I actually had time to paint.

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