Death March

A new month. And where the hell is Spring? Why is it -10 outside? These would have been done last week, but you can't spray varnish outside in this weather. Intolerable.


Plaguebearers for the Death Guard, first off. Nice and quick, mostly done with washes, although the spots take a bit of time to get through.

They're a pretty decent paint, nothing too challenging but good results when they're done. That's always encouraging for foot sloggers. Just as well it was the Leofa minor swarm I was painting, not the serried ranks of Kas's plague cloud (which he has luckily done himself).

I like the musician best, with his elegant fingering and bone flutes. Nothing against the other two commanders, just that their death's heads were fiddly and annoying to paint, whereas the pipes were a swift set of drybrushes to do.

Leading this pack is a Herald, basically a slightly larger Plaguebearer with a swanky base to him. He's got a slightly brighter colour scheme to help him stand out, although he's taller and spikier as well. More of a booger green than the drab rank and file.

Painting Guide: -

• Skins - Death Guard Green spray undercoat, then Athonian Camoshade wash, Elysian Green and Nurgling Green drybrushes. A few got either a Zamesi Desert or Dryad Bark basecoat first, but the higher tones are the same. Harald the Herald got Death World Green with Athonian Camoshade, then Moot and Niblet Green drybrushes
• Intestines and Open Wounds - Screamer Pink, Druchii Violet, Kislev Flesh layer, BftBG and Nurgle's Rot finishing touches
• Antlers and Spines - Karak Stone, Seraphim Sepia wash, Ushabti Bone layer, Pallid Wychflesh drybrush. BftBG on the spines afterwards
• Spots - Either Screamer Pink or Averland Sunset with a dot of Carroberg Crimson wash over it, and then sometimes a highlight of Bad Moon Yellow or Rakarth Flesh
• Bells - Brass Scorpion, Nuln Oil
• Eyes - Black with a Pallid Wychflesh dot, except the guy with the fly head who has Incubi Darkness, Nuln Oil Gloss, Glistening Green highlight
• Blades - Skavenblight Dinge, Nuln Oil, Dawnstone and Praxeti White drybrushes, Nuln Oil Gloss to finish
• Bases - PVA, Sand, Dark ochre Weathering powder, a little Terminatus Stone drybrush and Nurgle's Rot blobs

More Daemons to come, but I needed to mix things up a bit with something else so I didn't get bored!