Malady Plague Marine Test Model (C&C Requested)

[Noctus Cornix]

So a friend commissioned me to construct and paint his army for him. He mainly did this because he likes me conversion skills because he already knows my painting abilities aren't exactly the best in the world. Nevertheless, I still want to give him the best quality product I can.

 

So this is the first finished model of his Nurgle Warband 'The Malady'. Their color scheme is a dirty greyish white with purple trim and a focus on a blackish oil-like substance rather than simple disease (somewhat like the Cleaved) He said he was looking for just simple tabletop quality paint, nothing special, yet I would still like some serious comments and criticism to help me in my overall ability as a painter.

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/WP_000519_zps254b4023.jpg

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/WP_000522_zpseef2e9d2.jpg

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/WP_000523_zps22200626.jpg

 

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/ac352/Noctus-Cornix/WP_000521_zpsce8f64ff.jpg

 

Enjoy.

[CablesandSkulls]

very nice paintjob! also very nice to see some nurgley who isn't all green and brown
the purple is especially nice, maybe you would be willing to share your recipe? 

[nurglespuss]

The Purple and corpse grey is nice, however, for me, the gun metal of the bolter etc. is lost in the colour scheme, it needs a good rusting up (orange stipple, brown/orange glazes)  and possibly some edge lighting on the armour, but looking great!!

[Mahoo]

Nice! Digging the purple trims.

 

Personally I'd go a bit heavier and streakier with the washes on the armour soft points to make it look like black fluid is pouring out of them (like what you've done with the backpack holes). Just my opinion though, he looks good enough for table top for me.

[Firepower]

Certainly a gnarly bugger isn't he? I like the choice in colors. White and pruple are always two of my faves.

The wash works well enough, but you can't be too liberal with it and hope it will work just cuz he's a nurgley sort. The skulls on his pauldron, the streaks on his lower right leg, the drips coming from the hols in the back pack, and around the wrinkly damaged bit of his other pauldron are all places where the wash worked very well. The left exhaust-ball of his backpack, and the back of his left thigh got far too much though, and could use a lot of touching up.

Wash is a fast and effective way to make a contoured model look awesome, but there are a lot of smooth, featureless segments on a Space Marine. Gotta watch for them so you don't get pooling like that

I'm kinda confused about why you painted the gun the way you did. With all those pocks and pustules, I would've gone with some more fleshy, warp-fleshy colors, or at least some rusting.

Painting the soft armor silver or black will do a lot to help break up the shape.

I think you're gonna have to do a bit more than a wash to get a real 'fell' for the model having some sort of black disease goo effect. A few carefully placed hand painted thin streaks in key places per model like you did on the back pack will go a long way.

Anyway, in terms of quality it is a very good tabletop standard

At least it will be once you base it Speaking of which, you could help sell the dripping black disease concept by simply adding some to his wake in the basing. Nasty, oily footprints and dribbling. Though that'd be really hard to pull off without choosing the right sort of base and a bit of practice. Dunno if you wanna put in that much work.