The Putrid Choir (Lord Thørn edition)

[Doctor Perils]

Hello there, and welcome to my Putrid Choir gallery!
I started out wanting to create a Death Guard force using the colours of the French soldiers of the first world war, as I thought the theme works very well for Death Guard. Also, I thought I was being clever using a colour scheme that wasn't green or bone...
Anyways, I started painting my Dark Imperium chaps up, and ultimately thought there was something missing, so I finally looked up the colour Schemes presented in the new Death Guard codex, and found that the Putrid Choir's scheme was more or less exactly what I was looking for - all I was missing really was a green pauldron.

I wasn't intending on getting any more of the Death Guard models then the Dark Imperium Plague Marines (as I wanted to keep focussed on my Shadow Wolves), but the new releases are sexxyy, and the DI Plague Marines were great to paint, so I'm rather conflicted now...

Anyway, enough naterring, on to the models!

The bases aren't quite finished, but I just wanted to share what I'd got already ;)

[Panzer]

Really awesome Death Guard. I like the Putrid Choir color scheme a lot.

[Doctor Perils]

Really awesome Death Guard. I like the Putrid Choir color scheme a lot.

Me to! What's more, it's rather simple. The basic blue is:

• Fenris grey
• Athonian camoshade in the recesses
• space wolves grey edge highlighting (old citadel)

 

For more of the recipe, here's a spoiler:

Copper:

• Balthasar gold
• Agrax earthshade (non-gloss)
• nihilakh oxyde in the recesses
• (clean up with more Balthasar gold if you go a bit too far with the Nihilakh oxyde... as I did ^^')

Green:

• Moot green
• Athonian camoshade
• Moot green highlights

Rust effect:

• Jokaero orange
• Boltgun metal heavy drybrush (old citadel)
• Agrax earthshade (non-gloss)

Brown (leather and robes):

• Zandri Dust
• Agrax earthshade
• Ushabti bone (EHs)

Purpley-red mutations:

• Screamer pink
• Druchii violet
• warlock purple (old citadel)
• Blood for the blood god for the bloody sores and stuff

Dark green piping:

• Caliban green
• Nuln oil (gloss)

Apothecary/sorceror's white armour:

• celestra grey
• athonian camoshade in the recesses
• white scar (EHs)

Optics and boils'n'stuff:

• Caliban green
• Nurgle's rot

and I believe that's basically it

Edited September 23, 2017 by Lord Thørn

[General Strike]

Love it, and that really is simple. It is gorgeous and almost ghostly in appearance.

[Cryptix]

I love your OSL, how'd you do it?

[Doctor Perils]

Oh, there isn't really any OSL ^^ - the plasma "effects" were basically Space Wolves Grey, with a hefty amount of Nihilakh oxyde that I made overlap the cowling a bit

The "shiny eyes" are only shiny because of the gloss effect Nurgle's Rot paint provides

If those are the effects you're talking about, then you're in luck - they were so simple I didn't even dilute those technical paints!

[Reyner]

Awesome stuff Lord Thørn the Putrid Choir is a sweet scheme!

[Marshal Loss]

They look great Thorn, really nice work.

[Isolia]

Really nice! I've taken a much brighter greenish direction on the Putrid Choir but I think this vectorium really fits multiple tones of not-green =)

 

I like the serious, grave ambiance they project on the table!