Pox Set

Smile for the Camera

More Nurgle!

The Plague God has the best models going of the Chaos lot right now, I reckon. Not that the Khorne Bloodthirster or the Screamers of Tzeentch aren't great too, but Nurgle's lot have a sweep of great stuff across the board. Troops, vehicles, characters - a really impressive selection. Makes you hopeful that if the Noise Marines ever make it back to a new sculpt, that something suitably over the top and 'Eavy Metal will result.

Marching (mostly) from the starter box set, these are Plague Marines, the rank and file of any Death Guard army. You're not going to be surprised by the models, exactly, they follow years of well-established patterns, so spiky helmets, ruptured boils and pox marks, tentacles and unexpected mouths aplenty. But all to the good, I reckon, and a pleasure to paint.

Quite fragile in places for such tubby models. They're big, far bigger than the space marines I'm used to painting (even given the larger bases), which I quite like as it makes getting the details easier for my clumsy hands. But there's lots of protuding grenades on slender stick handles, or extra-thin hat spikes that keep snapping off. I'm sure being posted to Sweden in a big box didn't help, but there were a few bits that needed repeated fixes after every drybrush.

Painting Guide:

• Basecoat - Death Guard Green spray, I think
• Green Armour - Athonian Camoshade over the above, then the official paint scheme of Elysian Green and Nurgling Green for layers
• Bone - Ushabti Bone with Seraphim Sepia and Tyrant Skull
• Pink Bits - Screamer Pink, Nuln Oil, Emperor's Children
• Fleshy Tentacles - Same start as above, then Kislev Flesh layers over the top
• Slimy Tentacles - Moot Green, Bieltan Green, Kabalite shaded up through Putrid Green to Bad Moons Yellow
• Dark Armour - Stormvermin Fur, Nuln Oil, very limited amount of Leadbelcher drybrush
• Rusty Armour - Steel Legion Drab, Agrax, Deathclaw Brown washed in for rust, Leadbelcher drybrushw
• White Armour - Celestra Grey, Agrax, Pallid Wychflesh
• Brass - Warplock Bronze, Nuln Oil, Gehenna's Gold, a bit of Brass Scorpion here and there
• Goo - Nurgle's Rot, usually over a Gorthor Brown base

Not much left to do for the Swoffboot Death Guard, I think. A few characters, and then I need to complete the Tyranids.