All this cryx stuff has made me pine for old school realm of chaz and dave. Some demons require a summonin'
Pappa Nurgle! Pappa Nurgle!
Oh happy days. I finally glued together my greater demons of Nurgle. Boy I am knocking those painful tasks out this week. Its making me all confident and stuff.
I always coveted these, especially after Mike McVey pulled of a masterfully blended deep green pj in a white dwarf article. After decades, I am about to fullfill the childhood wish to paint one up. Twice!
This is the spirit of what drives us... that need to fill the voids white dwarf burned into our souls.
That little beardy gold grabbin git.
The three nurgle champs front and center I owned back then, did my best paint jobs on ever and promptly gave them away before migrating to oz. I am excited to paint them again after all these years!
Later down the road I have me a plague Ettin, two mounted nurgle lords from different eras, and a cthonian larvae that will double as a beast of nurgle (til I get one).
I have some slaanesh stuff bagged up still, but not one tzeenchian chap to my name, strangely. I will have to rectify that... anyone got a lord of change or two they fancy swapping?
A little more work on my fat nurgleblaster lady. She was my spare putty project today- you know, each time a sculpt goes in my mini oven to bake I dick around with the leftover putty on something so its not wasted.
So today I made a pleasant discovery in the form of a fifty-fifty mix of Aves putty and Procreate. The general vibe I got off the hinterwebby is that Aves is too coarse for fine detail work on minis, but it's cheap and great for terrain.
I found that to be true, and set my big tubs aside for that purpose.
Yet I decided to mix it with procreate today for an armature and see what happened.
The resulting apoxie/procreate (propoxie? Aproxie? Apecreate?) is really firm, feathers in well, is sticky to begin with so adheres well to previous layered and sets pleasingly rigid- has a few hours working time and is neutral grey.
Once set, it scrapes well and can be smoothed with sandpaper.
This means fingerprints are of no concern and I found I could work quickly and more roughly massing in forms with little concern for surface memory and less understructure. The coarseness of the apoxie was cancelled out.
It was really surprisingly good to use, far superior than other mixes I have used. Give it a go sometime.
The second picture shows a couple of sculpts using the mix.