Knives in the Shadows: The Wormlance

[Urauloth]

WIP thread for my Plague Marine Kill Team.
I'm going to try to get these guys done for the Knives in the Shadows event - I'm not very optimistic about the deadline given how much painting desk time I have at the moment, but I want to give it a shot!

Here's the official vow:
I, Urauloth, vow to complete one Kill-Team of the Death Guard, to be fully painted and based by the 31st May 2025, and to provide at least minimal fluff/background for them. May Grandfather Nurgle curse me to darkness and ruination* should I fail!

 

Here's how they look prior to rattlecan priming:
 

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That's slightly more than the 6 models that make up the Kill Team, because the idea of making Plague Marines in batches of anything other than 7 is viscerally upsetting to me, so I got the the drilling, greenstuff, basing etc sorted for the proper number (plus the Plaguecaster). I'll probably only aim to paint 6 for KitS, though.

 

Fluff-wise, the Wormlance isn't a Vectorium in its own right, but rather a strike force drawn up ad-hoc from members of several fighting in the same warzone, so they won't all have the same colour scheme. I'll probably stick to warbands of the 2nd Company, partly because I want to try taking a crack at the Pallid Hand heraldry and partly because the Ferric Blight the 2nd are infected with is a great excuse to slather everything in rust.

 

Speaking of rust, though, I've accrued a fair bit of it myself: it's been a few years since I did any painting and even longer since I finished a whole model. It'll be great to get back to it! I might have to re-learn some of the fundamentals though, so I'm not sure what my results will be like.

 

_{* honestly that just sounds like an average Tuesday in the Garden where Nurgle is concerned.}

Edited April 2 by Urauloth
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[Firedrake Cordova]

To those who are about to paint, may your brushes be forever pointy and your paints thin.  

Edited April 2 by Firedrake Cordova

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Good luck with getting your team done for the event!  My (way behind) slaaneshi battle goats will cheer you on!