++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[Mechanist]

 

 

Mechanist: Good point! I've added tons of buboes on the armour. Also, that's a great looking colour scheme. 

Thanks it's a test model for my black legion which fizzled a bit with the new release of 8th and how I'm tying to get a usable core army together before playing with cult troops.

I look forward to seeing the results of you orange pustules and how you get the process down to 5 hours (wish i could manage that).

[Copycat Copycat]

I just signed up after powering through all 172 pages of this thread. Your NLs are some of the best I’ve ever seen.

[Midnightmare]

It’s testament to your skill with the hobby that I can’t tell which bits are converted and which aren’t with these Plaguemarines! Brilliant conversions and the paint jobs are very well executed (as always). You sir are a true Nurgle Lord :tu:

[Augustus b'Raass]

Yesterday something amazing and wonderful happened. No, I didn't get pregnant, no transdimensional portal to a realm of naked ladies opened, nor did I won the lottery. But that last thing comes close.  

 

A few weeks ago, frater hushrong contacted me asking me if I would be interested in a NIB unit of Deathshroud Terminators. I said sure, but what about the shipping - he lives in the USA and I in The Netherlands, so shipping would probably make it cheaper for me to just buy the unit in the GW store. His reply (and I quote):

 

"Yeah, but if you are cool with it I will ship sprues and instructions. Plus, they are my favorite unit and I would love to see you work your magic on them. Do you have an address I could get it shipped to?"

 

So he shipped them. For free. And today they came in the mail.

 

 

This is one of the most generous, kind, and plain nice things anyone has done for me, and I feel incredibly thankful and humbled by it. Hushrong: THANK YOU, buddy. So much. I've been having a pretty good week so far, but this icing made it quite the cake.

 

Now, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. So now that I have Hushrng's address, I will come for him and destroy his life  erm, I mean send him a gift as a thank you.

 

Hushrong, when I'm done with a bit more Death Guard stuff (I'm on a bit of a roll and don't want to interupt the flow quite yet), I will build a custom Black Legion Daemon Prince with weapon loadout of your choice. If you want, I'll even paint the sucker for you. And of course I'll send it to you

 

THANK YOU!!

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@ BubblesMcGub: Dunno about teplacing the staff, but I'll think about it. And bring your IW on!

 

@ Guardian31: I will, I've added some tentacles coming out of his faceplate. 

 

@ SkimaskMohawk: That's an interesting tactic, which I haven't realized yet - although I've mostly just been wanting to paint the miniatures and let my buddy Dean (who also plays DG) tictate what's good and what isn't....

 

@ DuskRaider: Plasma is great indeed. I've been getting mixed advice about this.

 

@ Wilks_: Cheers! Yup, I'll show a picture once the putty is dry.

@ hushrong: THANK YOU again, buddy! So nice of you to send me those DSTs. Also: Tentacles from the mouth grill sculpted!

 

@ Mechanist: Down to 5 hours is turning out to be an impossibility, methinks. Doesn't matter. Your BL dude looks great!

 

@ Copycat Copycat: Thank you, mate! Always nice to read that someone has taken the trouble of going through the entire thread and ended with a good impression! 

 

@ Midnight Runner: High praise indeed! Thank you!

Edited April 12, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Nemac Vradon]

Your Death Guard are looking awesome Augustus :tu:, I particularly like the head swap on the Malignant Plague Caster. It looks so much better then the pouty baby face it comes with. As far as the Terminators go, the generosity on this forum is always astounding, be it advice or bitz, the fratur here are second to none :). I am a little excited to see what you do with them.

 

Nemac

[DuskRaider]

golly gee, I never get free models 

 

Can't wait to see what you do with them, bub. And just some clarification... Blight Launchers ARE good, they can move & shoot with no penalty. They're great and I do use them with my CC Plague Marines (those or Plague Spewers... the Heavy Flamer ones). I've just had much more luck with Rapid Firing Plasma throughout my long years as a Legionnaire of the XIVth, including in 8th. Actually, especially in 8th now that we get a third one in our squads.

[hushrong]

He accepted the parcel? The contract is sealed and binding? Perfect! MUHUHAHAHA...

 

I mean: Good to hear they made it in one piece! I was just thinking I needed to check tracking. Definitely want to see what you do with them for the Death Guard. Like I said they are my favorite unit in the game and I didn't want to tarnish their honor and convert them to the Black Legion.

 

I am also excited to see the tentacles from the mouth grill! Never in my adult life would I think I'd state that.

 

And I would be honored and humbled to have a daemon prince built by your hands!

[BubblesMcBub]

 

Now, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. So now that I have Hushrng's address, I will come for him and destroy his life  erm, I mean send him a gift as a thank you.

 

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@ BubblesMcGub: Dunno about teplacing the staff, but I'll think about it. And bring your IW on!

 

You sure you want your army to lose against my superior Iron warriors?

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks, guys! This gift has inspired me to work like crazy to finish the second squad of plasma plague marines. Take a look!

 

 

And the individual miniatures:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you like them! These have more pustules to tie them in with the poxwalkers. They show me that the standard DI plague marines are easily convertible to differentiate. :)

 

Cheers!

 

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@ Nemac Vradon: Yeah I agree. Bolter&Chainsword for the win! 

 

@ DuskRaider: Aww! I need to send you something to thank you for the inspiration! PM me your address!
 

@ hushrong: Hahahaha great start. So.... what kind of DP do you want? Wings, yea or nay? Weapon loadout? Which mark?

 

@ BubblesMcGub: Of course not! As long as the game is fun - who cares wo wins?

[BubblesMcBub]

Hidden Content

This one is my fav he is really cool!

 

@ BubblesMcGub: Of course not! As long as the game is fun - who cares wo wins?

Darn you and your positive attitude!

Edited April 14, 2018 by BubblesMcBub

[Mechanist]

 

 

@ Mechanist: Down to 5 hours is turning out to be an impossibility, methinks. Doesn't matter. Your BL dude looks great!

Thanks again. 6 guys in 10 hours would make me very happy to be honest as it should give me a solid chance of a unit a week and at that rate I may actually finish an army. 

 

The new guys look spot on the pustules have worked a treat painting the teeth on the belly mouths is also helping to make the champion pop. 

[Greenz]

Aw man, looks like I’ve missed a few updates. Those plague marines are disgustingly awesome, I love what you’ve done! Really nice touch adding in the additional highlights on the plasma coils. KrautScientist was right, the original green just wasn’t quite pulling through. But I agree with you, red coils are a big “nope!” That added yellow/ green looks terrific

 

Side note: I really enjoyed reading about what Hushrong did for you. It’s things like that that really exemplify what this forum is about.

Edited April 12, 2018 by Greenz

[Sagentus]

Dam aug, they look epic! Really like the individuality you have got with them. They all have a tonne of character. The green shoulder pads really helps break up the armour colour. Amazimg work mate and i look forward to seeing what you do with the deathshroud bodgard ;-)

[DuskRaider]

Haha, I'm only kidding I don't want anything. These new guys look great!

[gaurdian31]

Loving the new guys, they look great!

[SkimaskMohawk]

Looks ace, a nice little spot colour that comes across very organically

[KrautScientist]

Seems like you're knocking out those guys by the boatload once again, buddy: Your output is nothing short of staggering. You're like a one-man painting sweatshop ;)

 

Seeing the completed squads proves beyond any doubt that your armour recipe is rock solid now! Love the addition of the yellow pustules! I am still not in love with the plasma effect (and stand by my earlier opinion that radiator coil orange would work better), but I acknowledge that it's a matter of personal preference.

 

The one part where I think you need to rethink your approach is with the plague knives: I think the two big ways to go with these is to either have them look really rusted through or really slimy/icky/mutated, but yours seem to be "just kind of there", if you know what I mean: I think they are a bit too close to standard silver blades, which seems like a bit of a missed opportunity.

 

Beyond any such minor gripes, however, the army seems to be coming together really brilliantly! Keep it up!

 

As for your work on the Plaguecaster, you know I personally went even further with my own version of the model, mostly because I couldn't stand the staff. Also, if you are thinking about changing the right arm, be advised that it looks much better when carefully sawn off and reattached at a lower angle (although that means you won't really get to use that wave of puke emanating from the hand, for fairly obvious reasons). I like the addition of the Mk. III helmet, although I'd agree with hushrong that the helmet needs to be distressed via some tentacles, cracks, dangling cabling or what have you.

 

Speaking of hushrong, that is indeed an amazingly generous gesture! Huzzah for hushrong! :)

[Augustus b'Raass]

HI guys, I had a great hobby day yesterday with my regular gang of four 30+y/o guys, and a new Irish guy that I met at my local GW shop two weeks ago. We started chatting and he told me he got into airbrushing recently, so I asked if he wanted some pointers and we hit it off on a hobby tangent. He's a super nice guy so I asked his phone number so I could invite him when hobby things came about. So when I and my buddy Ruben agreed to meet on Friday (my off day (I work 4x9 hours instead of 5x8, so Friday is always an off-day (although I do work from home for a couple of hours on most Fridays - but anyway)) to get some hobby time together, I remembered the nice conversation with Graham, so I invited him over, said so in our whatsapp group, and lo an behold Friday saw us building stuff in the afternoon and gaming at night. Great times!

 

I managed to build no less than 18 (EIGHTEEN) Plague Marines. I am utterly thrilled about them and want to make more, MOAR! But as my general rule of thumb is to build, then paint what I have built, and only then build more, I have some painting to do. 

 

You won't notice, as I will enforce my rule of thumb here and only post them five at a time.

 

So here goes the first squad - with two blight launchers and a plasma champ. 

 

 

And here's shots of the individual guys:
 

The first Blight Hauler. The first Plague Marine that I built using the Plague Backpacks from Maxmini miniatures.

 

Next up is a stock guy from the Easy-to-Build Plague Marine box, only with a maxmini Plague Helmet (I LOVE THOSE THINGS!!)

 

Next is the Plague Champion, who has a sneaky plasma gun on his backpack, and is wielding the bell from the Noxious Blightbringer from the DI kit. 

 

Of course, the squad needs an icon bearer. Why you ask? Because all squads need icons or standards. Not that I ever pay the points for them, but because rool of cool.

 

And lastly, the second blight launcher. This guy uses the blight launcher from the Easy-to-Build kit, which I botched the drilling out of the barrel. It broke, but then I realized: who cares? It's Nurgle - everything is going to crap! He also has a backpack and helmet from Maxmini miniatures.

 

I hope you like them! They need some micro beads and PVA as additional buboes, but then they're ready for primer!
 

Cheers!

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@ BubblesMcGub: Cheers, buddy! I hope you have a great time converting that Poxwalker champion into a creepy medic for your INQ28 gang. (also may I ask that if you want to adress a single picture, just describe it or to quote it but put it in hidden brackets? No need to show the same pic twice, right? Hidden brackets can be achieved by writing [hidden*] before and [/hidden*] after the picture, but without the *. Thanks!)

 

@ Mechanist: Thanks! Although the mouth-belly guy is not the champion - the champion is the guy with the plasma gun and the smoke stacks on his backpack

 

@ Greenz: Thanks for the vote of confidence in non-red plasma coils And I totally agree with you re: the forum and how awesome this place is. 

 

@ Sagentus: Yes! Deathshroud Bodyguard I will start after ten more plague marines. I swear!

 

@ DuskRaider: Well, I might send you something anyway. PM me your address.

 

@ guardian31: Thanks, buddy!

 

@ SkimaskMohawk: Cheers! Which spot colour do you mean? The red buboes, the green pads, or the purple tentacles?

 

@ KrautScientist: Oi! Accusing me of all people of running a sweatshop  -even though in your scenario I would be exploiting myself - is a big nono! Solidarity forever!! Thaks for the vote of confidence on the armour recipe (it must be said it's largely DuskRaider's) and the pustules. I guess the plasma effect is a matter of taste, then, as I love the yellow glow on the green coil  -it looks so sickly now! Thanks for the continued feedback, nonetheless - I do always appreciate and the time and effort you put into it, and always consider it! on that note, I do hear you on the plague knives, but am not sure how to make them look more plague-y. I like the rust effects as the base, but am afraid the Nurgle's Rot would look a bit weird and clash with the rest of the model. I shall give it a go, though. Regarding the plaguecaster - yeah, that staff is hideous. I also think the right arm is proportioned weirdly, because I exchanged the hand and it look so short! I also did some tentacles on the faceplate, which I'll make a picture tomorrow.

 

[BubblesMcBub]

changed it to be in a hidden tag!

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks buddy! 

[Pearson73]

Liking the Maxmini parts, they work well with the GW components. Solid pose and choice of weapon parts for the champion too.

[Augustus b'Raass]

While smugly gloating over my 105 recently finished poxwalkers, my three boxes of  Neophyte Hybrids that I was going to convert to cultists arrived today!! Sadly today is also the day that the Tide of Traitors stratagem was deeply nerfed, making this endeavour merely a fluffy one, instead of also something that increases my army's effectiveness. 

 

Thanks, GW. Thanks.

 

Sad times.

 

Sad times indeed.

 

 

Cheers.

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@ Pearson73: thanks, mate! Yeah those maxmini parts are great! And thanks re: the posing of the champion. I figured since his buddies use blightlaunchers, there's no reason why he shouldn't carry a plasma gun.

Edited April 16, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Chaplain Raeven]

GW giveth and GW taketh away.

[Augustus b'Raass]

I know, brother, I know. I'm just sad that GW taketh away before I was even able to remove the cellophane from the kits to use as GW had giveth!

Edited April 16, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[BubblesMcBub]

If you don't want the kits anymorw i'll happilly take them!

Haha but cultists are still good to have but yeah i heard my cultists cry out when i read the nerf....