Blessings of the Plaguefather - Great Unclean One

Recently painted a second Great Unclean One.

I already have the Forge World model but the plastic kit is too good to resits.

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Completed Daemon Prince

Pictures of the completed Nurgle Daemon Prince.

If you don't remember the WIP posts, he is a Forge World Mourngul with wings from the GW Jabberslythe.

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Completed Plague Hulk 2

The second of my completed Plague Hulks, this time the one I converted using a couple of GW kits, a ping pong ball, tubing and lots of GS.

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Completed Plague Hulk 1

Next up is the first of the completed Plague Hulks.

This one is the original Forge World model.

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Completed Decimators

So my two Nurgle Decimators are now finished.

The weapons are magnetised, there is also a Storm Laser but I didn't get pictures of it. I may add more weapons in the future, such as a second Butcher Cannon or a Soulburner Petard (as I haven't got one of those yet).

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Heralds of Nurgle and Plaguebearers

Some more off the to do list.

Forge World Herald of Nurgle and the Spoilpox Scrivener:

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Scabeiathrax 6

Scabby has also been finished off, after being a works in progress for years...

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Horticulous Slimux and Beasts of Nurgle

Following on from the Blight Drones I have continued on a big painting roll of Nurgle Daemons.

Here is Horticulous Slimux and two Beasts of Nurgle...

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Blight Drones

A rarity, a post which isn't full of pictures from an event, but instead pictures of models I have worked on.

I am trying to prioritise completing WIP/PIP projects.

First up my second Blight Drone...and the first one which I ended up partially repainting.

40K Vigilus Open Day - Part 2

Second set of pictures from Saturday's Open Day at Warhammer World.

These are of anything that was on display or from Golden Demon entries that took my eye and on review had decent quality pictures.

Golden Demon Entries:

40K Vigilus Open Day - Part 1

Yesterday I was at the 40K Vigilus Open Day at Warhammer World.

Here is the first picture dump, new things on show...

New Titan...

The upper gun lifts out and the ammo slides out, should make alternative weapon load outs very easy to do.

Forge World and Specialist Games Open Day 2018

So today we got to see some things...

Warhammer Fest - Part 2 AoS, Horus Heresy and 40k

Next load of pictures, these cover Age of Sigmar new things on show as well as Horus Heresy and 40K pieces from Forge World.

Age Of Sigmar.

Floaty things of Death.

Warhammer Fest 2018 - Part 1 Specialist Games

Welcome to a massive dump of pictures from today's Warhammer Fest.

First up a load of pictures from Specialist Games.

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Plaguebearers 9 & Plague Drones 2

I picked up earlier in the year some more reinforcements for the Nurgle Daemons, namely another unit of Plaguebearers and another unit of Plague Drones.

This week I finally got round to building them.

For the Plaguebearers you may notice above that I am putting together three champions.

Originally when I build the first two units I had I used the Champion bits for one unit and as I didn't want duplicates I didn't use them on the second one, instead made him stand out in other ways. However now that I will be fielding 40 of the buggers I really need to have the unit champions stand out more, and what I did for the second (and later third) champion just isn't good enough when you have loads of 'bearers all bunched up. Hence now making three new champions using the raised sword so that the will all stand out nicely. For when I field larger units, e.g. two 20 man units or one 30 man with a 10 man unit the two champions standing on rocks will be the unit champions, the other two relegated to the ranks.

As with the other icon bearers I did previously I used the same standard but made a few changes so each one looks a bit different, in this case I kept it simple and just used a spare Blight Kings bit.

Plague Drones 2

I do hate building these things. Gaps everywhere and the wings are a nightmare to fit.

You may remember (but probably not) that I am using these without the riders. I've just never liked the look. When I had only three it was quite simple to tell who was who with the champion being the one without an icon or an instrument. Now I've added three more I needed the champion to be obvious as there will now be four drones without icon or instrument.

Obvious way to make one stand out is to add a Nurgling, who is obviously the brains of the operation.

Drones now come with 60mm bases rather than flying stands. So I have made three new bases for the existing drones, however I need to redo two of the bases to raise two of the drones up - even using the tallest stand the one drone scuplt is too low and they hit the base,

And about Nurgle...

I am sure everyone has seen what is coming out in the next few weeks.

I will be picking up both the new Daemon Codex and AoS Nurgle battletome.

I am sure this will result in some changes to both my 40k and AoS forces. The main thing is I will be adding some Beasts, I just don't know how many - though at £25 a pop it won't be a huge amount.

Taking everything into account, including now using the force for both 40k and AoS and adding the Mortal elements I have updated the State of Play chart...

The right hand column are all of the Mortal elements for Age of Sigmar. Kazyk and the Lord listed used to be down as Heralds. Likewise five of the Blight Kings were originally down as Heralds. As you can no longer take as many Heralds easily I won't be fielding any more than the three I already have...though depending on the new books I may add the new characters.

The Coming of 8th

Hobby is once more taking a back seat while I have the enjoyment of working and doing a degree in the evenings and at the weekends.

But  I am keeping an eye on everything and like many  I’ve been following the news about 8^th Edition of 40k.

So I thought I’d spend some time rambling about my thoughts about what is coming...