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

[Dantay VI]

Why couldn't all the maggty things in the Gnarl Maw be the missiles, that it spews out at things if they get too close.

 

You could do some random maggoty bits and bile etc corroding the paint on the carapace top coming from the maw,(maybe a little leaking into the pilots hatch.

 

The backpack.... Why does it have to be supersized? The Astartes may have warped and altered, but does the armour plate have to aswell. Why not have the back pack half buried in the daemon princes cadaverous body, or barely clingino on, but a regular size.

 

Or even have it dangling along behind him on the cables that are trailing along, as if it has fallen off his body and is only held on by the cabling?

 

Wings look good

 

Needs some armour somewhere to show it was once astartes though

[gaurdian31]

The ETL shot looks great. Really like the ports and cable you've added to the prince. I am interested to see what you do with the pack. I also can't wait to see you paint the gnarlmaw.

[KrautScientist]

Why couldn't all the maggty things in the Gnarl Maw be the missiles, that it spews out at things if they get too close.

 

THIS! I thought the exact same thing when I saw the mockup -- wouldn't it be cool for a Nurgle Knight not to be firing missiles, but rather some hideous kind of viral goo, launched from bursting pods of vileness? ;)

 

On a related note, if one wanted to add a smaller tree to a Nurgle Knight, the weapon from that GUO character might be worth a look, as it's smaller and still has the tree look.

[Gederas]

 

Why couldn't all the maggty things in the Gnarl Maw be the missiles, that it spews out at things if they get too close.

THIS! I thought the exact same thing when I saw the mockup -- wouldn't it be cool for a Nurgle Knight not to be firing missiles, but rather some hideous kind of viral goo, launched from bursting pods of vileness? ;)

 

On a related note, if one wanted to add a smaller tree to a Nurgle Knight, the weapon from that GUO character might be worth a look, as it's smaller and still has the tree look.

Don't give me ideas. I was wondering how to give a Nurgle Knight a cool looking missile launcher. :lol: And yeah, I second the thought of using a spare Gnarlrod from Rotigus' if one has it.

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

Good lord, you're working on a Knight now, eh? 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thnks, guys. today was meant to be a productive hobby day, but I ignored a tiny speck of dusty mould on the inside of the lid of a jar of peach confiture, put the jam in my yoghurt, and now I've been having severe food poisoning. So I just was able to do some simple washing and drybrushing on the tree to get it finished.

 

Hurray!

 

 

 

 

 

Before I had breakfast, I did some minor work on the Daemon Prince - I did some fleshy sculpting to integrate the wings and the sockets, and added two campaign studs to his forehead. Sadly, one fell out. The most significant thing though, is I dremelled away all the milliput rock I sculpted in his 'landing hand', and filled the holes with actuall rocks. FAR better. 

 

 

 

I hope you like the update. C&C most welcome. I'm back to the toilet.

 

Cheers

 

Replies:

 

@ Ashenwhyte: Cheers, buddy! Any suggestions other than the ones that are already mentioned to make its astartes heritage more apparent?

 

@ DuskRaider: Fair enough! Your idea is no pollution at all - this thread is set up to inspire and share ideas, so we're doing exactly that.

 

@ Dragonlover: it is big, but it fits bizarrely well even uncut. It wouldn't require a whole lot of effort or skill to make this work. As for the Prince - just claws - that's the best option anyway.

 

@ ElDuderino: Cheers, bud! Any suggestions for the astartification?

 

@ Mechanist: Haha Yes I thought about it, but I didn't particularly like painting the tree (although that might have something to do with the food poisoning). Dantay's solution for the Missile pods being represented by the seed pods of the trees is great and a logival, acceptable solution, but it doesn't jive in my mind, for some reason. Replacing the Knight's hatch with the mouth of the tree is exactly what I though the moment I checked the size ration. It'd be fricking wicked, no? I hate the Beast of Nurgle miniature as it is so monopose. I could see that as a challenge, though.... hmmm. This might need some thought. 

 

@ DuskRaider: Could work, indeed. Also, weapon facing does mean something in 8th. The Warlord titan's rear twin lascannons have a rearward facing fire arch. However all his ther weapons don't - so weirdly RAW it would be tactically more useful to put the titan on the table with his back to the enemy. Back to the Gnarlmaw: believe me it would ft really well. 

 

@ Dantay_VI:Yeah, that's the spirit. I like that missile idea. About the backpack: you're absolutely right - it doesn't have to be supersided at all - it just needs to be 'there', or at least there should be something that hints at there once having been a backpack. 

 

@ guardian31: Well, the gnarlmaw is finished and the DP had some work done. Let me know what you think!

 

@ KrautScientist: The weapon from the GUO character? I think that's about the size of a guardsmen, so a bit too small, no? 

 

@ Gederas: Totally go for it!

 

@ Hungry Nostraman Lizard: Not yet! I do have two sitting on a shelf, patientely waiting for paint. Actually I have the FW Chaos Knight snce it came out three years (?) ago!

Edited August 3, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Mechanist]

Awe man that sucks. Food poison from a little bit of mouldy jam.

Still great job on the tree and the prince is coming along nicely, hope you feel better soon and can relax and get more done.

 

As for the knight I'm sure it's probably just the bad experience when it comes to painting the tree. Maybe grab a second one to join the first for gaming options. Would be fun to make them look different too. At some point I'm going to have to finish my start collecting Daemons and expand on it.

[hushrong]

The service stud popping out seems so appropriate. He is kind of falling apart isn't he? I wonder if you can paint that part of the head as a fresh wound to show that.

 

The update to his base and extra work also looks great as well!

 

I also do not know what the hell that thing is you painted but it looks good.

 

And sorry to hear about the food poisoning. That is never bueno!

[Race Bannon]

My eyes are poisoned looking at that heresy.

 

:P

 

Great work man :tu:

[Krakendoomcool]

What have I missed? A LOT.

 

Hope you feel better soon.

 

You've got an incredible army out of your ETL efforts. It's highly impressive.

 

The daemon prince is very ambitious but is going to be so unique. He would also have made a great Night Lords DP if you were still doing them and went in that direction. The plugs are great and help anchor him into the 40k universe, as do the cables. Way too late now to suggest in game terms those long arms could have counted as wings for high movement. You have an impressive amount of wing choices at your disposal. I like the fact he has no legs. It reminds me of the scene in the exorcist when she is crawling down the stairs. The daemon doesn't necessarily view the human body as functioning in the same way.

 

The gnarlmaw looks great, I like the gums and teeth particularly.

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

I like the organic look way better. Good to know about the gnarlmaw... gives me some ideas....

I know I've said this before, but I need to invest in an airbrush. Cool if i send you a PM about your set-up?

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

Your bowels are misbehaving? Must be the Nurgle influence spreading through ya'... Your speed never ceases to amaze me. 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Thnks, guys. today was meant to be a productive hobby day, but I ignored a tiny speck of dusty mould on the inside of the lid of a jar of peach confiture, put the jam in my yoghurt, and now I've been having severe food poisoning. 

 

Just because you like plague marines doesn't mean you are a plague marine!

[BadgersinHills]

Hope you get well soon! As for his Astartes past, maybe having a legion symbol branded on his body or having a vambrace that has the legion numerals could work. 

[Kizzdougs]

Dude! That Daemon Prince looks fantastic! 

 

I hope you get over the food poisoning quickly :tu:

 

 

Ps. Congratulations on your ETL Artificer badge! Typhus looked absolutely brilliant :)

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hi everyone! It's been a while! Nearly six days. The food poisoning was done ni about 24 hours, but I've been busy with work stuff and having meetings for my home improvement project. We'll be adding 18m² to my GF's 45m² appartment, hoping to live there untill maybe kids happen, and then sell for double what we invested in it. Wow, grownup decisions. 

 

Anyway, as my entire team has gone on holiday since yesterday, I have neigh on nothing to do. So I 'worked at home' today, and finished the two Foul Blightspawn!

 

First, the relatively standard guy, whose only modifications are a different muzzle for his hose, and a slight upwards repose of his head. He also has one Blight Grenade fewer than the original. Just to mix his sideways silhouette up a bit.

 

 Second and last, his buddy, who got a lot done -  new right arm, new legs. I thought to further differentiate him from his bro by painting his weird helmet green. 

 

I am particularly pleased with how both the backpack vats have worked out.

 

Now, I've started work on three of these. Magnetizing these things couldn't be easier. I'm also going to diversify their shields and their damage. I'm also still considering whether to paint them separately, or all three at the same time... 

 

 

Another project n B&C I'm working on is moving all my pictures here to Imgur. It's a LOT of work, seeing as I literally have posted thousands of pictures in this thread alone... I'm just sick of Photobucket taking my money for basically the worst service there is on the web.

 

Hope you like!

 

Cheers!

Replies:

 

@ Mechanist: Oh man, definitely expand on the start collecting box. Nurgle Daemons are so much fun to paint!

 

@ hushrong: haha maybe so, but I'm going to replace it nonetheless. The tree is a fortification you can buy for your Nurgle Daemons. It's in their codex and it gives a huge boost to Nurgle Daemons. 

 

@ Race Bannon: Or perhaps you've finally seen the world as it truly is! 

 

@ Krakendoomcool: Cheers. yeah, I thought about the ide of having his thin, long arms count as wings, but then it would be hard not to just see a Mourngul...

 

@ Eldrick Shadowblade: Sure, bro! Send me a PM! I'd be happy to help.

 

@ Hungry Nostraman Lizard: hahahah maybe that's what happened, yeah.

 

@ Brother Chaplain Kage: http://media0.giphy.com/media/3i7zenReaUuI0/giphy.gif

 

@ Ashenwyte: A Legion Symbol branded on his body! Brilliant! Vambrace will be difficult as his arms are so long. But maybe on his pauldron! 

@ Kizzdougs: Thanks, buddy! Congrats to you too! 

Edited August 8, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Dragonlover]

Why not just use the BNC gallery?

 

Dragonlover

[Gederas]

Why not just use the BNC gallery?

 

Dragonlover

Probably because when the site's code is borked (which seems to be often?), it's near-impossible to use the BNC gallery. Like, I've not been able to use the gallery to upload pictures EVER. Edited August 8, 2018 by Gederas

[Augustus b'Raass]

Why not just use the BNC gallery?

 

Dragonlover

Because 1. I'd like my pictures to be vieweable by others; 2. Picture storage costs money; the more we upload, the more money the B&C needs, the harder it becomes to keep the site in the air; and 3. Unfortunately, I don't find the B&C gallery to be all that user-friendly, unfortunately. It's the one thing about the site I'm not a fan of; and 4. what Gederas said...

[Pearson73]

The Prince is progressing well, the mechanical tendrils really root it to the forty-first (second?) millennium.

[hushrong]

Ahh, I don't know much about daemons. They look pretty neat!

 

The blightspawn look great. I really want to get a hold of one to use that backpack for a flamer guy in KT. I do not know why I never paid much attention to that mini when I had DG. He has an awesome sculpt. The plaguecrawler is awesome as well. Hand down one of my favorite tanks in the game at the moment. Great rules and I love the non STC design it has...thank to a Primarch.

 

And good luck moving all the pictures. Before they held pictures hostage their website just sucked for me. It would take minutes to load an image, just one, and it was agonizing. Thanks to that I started using B&C's gallery to host.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks guys!

On a side note, I am humbled by the fact that my ETL VI-output has been nominated for the Master Artificer Badge of ETL VI!
Captain Semper opened a poll for the election of it. 

 

THE POLL FOR THE MASTER ARTIFICER IS NOW OPEN!

 

Please, go there and vote for your favourite miniature(s) of this ETL, whichever they may be. There's some fantastic and absolutely stunning work in there.

Oh, and Typhus is there too. Take you pick(s)! 

 

I'm off for a vacation in Piemonte, Italy. See you all in about two weeks!

Edited August 10, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

For the plagueburst crawlers, and on the topic of battle damage - why not have a chunk of hull be missing (punched out, burst by a shell) and leaving a crater from which can be seen a rather surprised little nurgling? 

 

If I were personally working on the crawlers, i'd give them something on the back a bit. They're so front heavy it's cartoonish. Maybe a wagon (as in like a little trolley-car) of plague-bearers? I believe the fluff for the crawlers is that they're particularly upset daemons thrust in there by Mortarion himself. I'd wager other daemons would be quite jolly that they're up and about. 

[Midnightmare]

That Daemon Prince is soooooo freaky......! Will be the stuff of nightmares with one of your paint jobs.

 

Can I ask, what is that crazy tree thing? Looks awesome, but just a genuine ask :)

[Atia]

Great that you managed to do so many awesome models for ETL Auggi! Makes good for me oversleeping the entry date

 

*removes my hood*

 

And welcome in the Artificer Lodge - you deserve it!

Edited August 13, 2018 by Atia