A return to the Death Guard and a new start.

[Biohazard]

I didn’t realise how much of a size difference there was between Death Shroud and Blight Lords, your work as always is stunning though mate.

[Sagentus]

Great work on that death shroud. always good to see your work, very inspirational!

[GuitaRasmus]

Thanks! Yep, they grow 'em big on Barbarus! ;-)

[GuitaRasmus]

Sorry, no pics yet, but having just assembled the first unit of plague marines (with a couple of small conversions of course), I can say that they are a dream to work with. Beautiful characterful sculpts, with lots of possibilities and crisp details. I love them. To me, they are on par with the Blight Kings for AoS, which is no small feat. 

 

Two thumbs up to GW and Mike Fores for this amazing kit. 

[Marius Perdo]

Those Blightshrouds look great.

[Sagentus]

Great to hear the plague marine kits are so good and have a lot of choice, especially with only 7 figures in the kit. Means that there will be lots of room for variety between squads

[Dosjetka]

Not too keen on the thingies you added to Typhus but the original conversion work is terrific. :tu: The huge Terminators look great, too.

[GuitaRasmus]

Thanks guys! 

 

I received my second box of Death Shroud today, and promptly tore into the sprues, snickering manically and swinging my scalpel, saw and cutters...

 

Well, not exactly, but I was very excited, since I had some cool ideas for them.

 

This next batch almost put even more of a fight than the first batch - as I told you in the previous post,  they are NOT easy to convert - everything fits together in one way and ONE WAY only; which is great if you're a beginning model builder, and you don't want to make mistakes. Lord knows I've assembled many kits the wrong way, only to find out the plastic glue is dried solid and there's no way to pull it apart without destroying everything.

 

Anyway, this quality is not so much of a quality, when a madman such a myself wants to do unspeakable things to said kit - so I used a lot of cutting, measuring, cutting again, a bit of greenstuff and some weird parts to make it work - but in the end it is so satisfying to "beat" a conversion - to pull off something that looks almost hopeless.

 

I'm really satisfied with the unit, and they look and feel soooo much better to me than the regular kits. Granted, it is a really expensive unit to build - but hey, this is the guy that once bought 8 (!) Chaos Lord in terminator armour kits, to build a Berzerker terminator squad with lightning claws.
In the end, I'm a one-army-guy. I don't play much, modelling and painting is my main hobby, and I want this to be the best army I've ever done, with all of the models looking awesome - so it was worth it.

 

 

Also a shot of the new Plague Marine unit I've assembled - only very small conversions, but I wanted to show off how great a kit it is:

 

Edited October 17, 2017 by GuitaRasmus

[The4thHorseman]

Looks Great. On that Plague Marine Unit, does that Icon come in the kit or is it from somewhere else?

[Soldier of Dorn]

Looks Great. On that Plague Marine Unit, does that Icon come in the kit or is it from somewhere else?

 

That's the Icon from the standard CSM kit, mate.

 

Looking good, Rasmus. I'm a particular fan of the Blightshroud with the plague flail -- something about him just sits perfectly with me. Great bits choice for the Plague Marines too, the posing works very well.

[Biohazard]

Ah man, I have a box of the Blight Lords and I’ve had the same misgivings about the kit. I’ve put them to one side until I decide what to do with them but you’re making me want to ditch them completely. :D

 

Those Blight Shrouds look awesome. A much better realisation of a Nurgle Terminator. The Plague Marines look great as well. Can’t wait to see them all painted up. :tu:

[Marius Perdo]

They look great.

[DuskRaider]

You, sir, are an inspiration. I'll admit it's a bummer to hear how difficult they are to convert, I was planning on doing a 40K iteration of my 30K Praetor using a Deathshroud model, but if you struggled I feel it's hopeless for us pleebs. 

[GuitaRasmus]

You, sir, are an inspiration. I'll admit it's a bummer to hear how difficult they are to convert, I was planning on doing a 40K iteration of my 30K Praetor using a Deathshroud model, but if you struggled I feel it's hopeless for us pleebs.

 

Thank you for that wonderful compliment.

 

Don't get discouraged by my bitching over it; to be completely honest - it's difficult, but nowhere near impossible. It reminds me a little of converting old metal miniatures, I've just gotten used to multipart miniatures being much easier to work with.

These, being monopose, require some more work.

 

A few tips; do NOT glue on the torsos before deciding and putting in the head you want - they are next to impossible to place in the head socket when the torso is on.

 

Most of the arms/shoulderpads needs to be removed from the Death Shroud - and you sort of NEED the Blight Lord arms to make this work, since regular Terminator arms are too small, and the shoulders don't fit. Most importantly, let the miniature dictate where the conversion is heading - there are som things that just can't be done with these without intensive sculpting work, and if you follow the flow of the miniature, you'll get there much easier.

 

While difficult to do, they were very enjoyable, and I love the finished product - I hope you'll give it a go, and post them. :-)

[Marius Perdo]

Now you have settled on a colour scheme a sort of warband background question.

Have you thought about which Plague Company/Sepsis Cohort/Maladictum/Colony/warband name you will be going with?

Just curious to see where all the various DG threads on here will end up coming from in game. Each Plague Company tends to have an operational preference so i was pondering who you'd go with (5th use a lot of daemon engines for example).

 

Also pondering how cool it would be if all the armies where on the same table. Obviously improbable with real geography but a virtual shot merged by some Photoshop wizard might look cool a few years from now when everyone has built and painted what they have.

[GuitaRasmus]

Now you have settled on a colour scheme a sort of warband background question.

 

Have you thought about which Plague Company/Sepsis Cohort/Maladictum/Colony/warband name you will be going with?

 

Just curious to see where all the various DG threads on here will end up coming from in game. Each Plague Company tends to have an operational preference so i was pondering who you'd go with (5th use a lot of daemon engines for example).

 

Also pondering how cool it would be if all the armies where on the same table. Obviously improbable with real geography but a virtual shot merged by some Photoshop wizard might look cool a few years from now when everyone has built and painted what they have.

 

To be honest, no - I have some ideas, and it will probably be 5th company, seeing as I do love me some Daemon Engines, but I think it will be a Vectorium of my own, and ditto for the warband leader (Pandemion). 

 

 

 

Something big is approaching...

 

Inspired by the ever inspiring Biohazard (http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/234115-world-eaters-warband/) I saw a Redemptor Dreadnought conversion, and I saw that it was good. Actually I started out really not liking the model when I first saw it, but after seeing Biohazards version, I got so inspired that I had to do one myself for my DG.

 

Here is the humble beginnings of my Leviathan Dreadnought. It's obviously very WIP, and it's only mockup stage (I'm not sure about the sarcophagus or front armour - the shoulder pads obviously need some work as well), but the basics are starting to form - I knew it needed to have the front armour rounded, as well as the shin armour, to match my existing Daemon engines - it would look out of place to suddenly have a lot of square edges. I'm also pondering how to do a Grav Flux Bombard - any ideas?

 

 

It's only really when you see it in real life, that you appreciate how big this fella is - but I've included a scale shot, so you can get an idea:

 

[Jukkiz]

You could do something like grav flux, but make it with nurglings? Those tiny, giggling toppleover hazards love a good laugh~~

[Biohazard]

He looks like an absolute beast buddy! Strangely enough I had that drill bit to use as well, I was contemplating putting a magnet in the Fist so I can switch between that and the saw.

 

Love what your doing with the armour plate, especially the lower legs, that’s my biggest peeve with this model is it looks like it has very weak ankles. It definitely doesn’t look like that now :tu: For the grav flux, this might be a bit of a stretch but what about something like a bigger version of the Ork shokk attack gun?

 

Great work. I also love how between myself, SystemSyn and your self who are all working on the same base, yet we have managed to come up with 3 completely different models

Edited October 23, 2017 by Biohazard

[Marius Perdo]

Nice.

 

Love the use of bits. I have found the putrid blighting shield is quite large, so great to see if fits on shin. And the inverted bloat-drone shell looks cool, almost shell like with something emerging. And the plaguebearer icon as a metal loincloth.

 

As for a grav-flux bombard that you can convert and build-up yourself.

Maybe a plastic Ironclad seismic hammer as a starting point, possibly using the power scourge mount defiler mounting bits to help lengthen it (as it will probably be too short otherwise). Barrel exits I think one of the Lord of Skulls multi-barrel plates might work (nozzles bored back and recessed), or if too large a diameter the hades autocannon ends from the daemon engine kit. As for the accelerators I am fairly sure the Kataphron kit has those bits. The counter-weights at the backend, again I think a kataphron has stuff that will work there.

 

The sort of cowling at the front could be done using the venturi (?) nozzles from the engines from various Imperial flyers.

I have all those bits so when I ascend to the attic I'll tac them together next to a small steel ruler for scale.

Edited October 23, 2017 by Marius Perdo

[Sagentus]

Holy crap that looks good. I really think GW are missing a trick here, with a little rework on their part they would work great as levi dread kits. Really like the smooth GS work and the chest/belly looks great, awsum choice of parts and the drill on the claw looks great! 

 

I think between you and bio we will be seeing more of these pop up ;) 

[Dragonlover]

I won't lie, I'm now seriously tempted to take a stab at one. If I decide to put a Leviathan in one of the Legions, I'll probably go this route.

 

Dragonlover

[The Traitor]

Wow, looks wicked, Biohard, SistemSyn and you are going to make me end up with a leviathan ;)... Curios to see you three used the heldrake claws...

[Sandlemad]

Dang, very nice use of the upside-down drone frontplate. I really like how regal it looks. It's partially the way it's crowned by horns - works much better here than on the normal helbrute - but it's also the pose. It looks assured and actually sane.

[SystemSyn]

Wow! Your Siege Dread is looking amazing! The use of the fly icon as a loin cloth is a really smart idea, I may well steal it for my Rotbringers :)

[steamius]

WOW! That dread look beast!