Blessings of the Plaguefather - War Altar of Nurgle 14

Bit more progress:

As mentioned in the last post the plan was to have each third of the top plate to be different. The front  third is the wooden platform for the bell ringer, the right third is the 'deamon skin' and the left third is now done - the plan for this will be to create a 'pool' using water effects tinted to give an impression of depth (I hope). Some sort of warp pool/portal perhaps - hence the Plaguebearer arm reaching out...

All three thirds had the edging strip added which was then distressed/textured. Once that was on I could add more GS to the right third.

 

I attacked the cross bars with the dremel as they looked pretty crap before. After that they got a bit more texture to them as well.

With a bit of blu tac holding the bell ringer in place and a piece of rod joining him to the bell this is what the whole thing looks like at the moment:

Blessings of the Plaguefather - War Altar of Nurgle 13

In the last post I said I would next work on the Militia and Bunkers.

So naturally this post is about the War Altar.

Basically after getting it out after all that time of it sitting in a box I couldn't not get some work done on it.

I decided to take the jump and finally get the bell attached to the top plate and start detailing everything up.

The metal work on the upright sections got roughed up with the dremel.

The bell also got some more attention. I did some work on it previously but now I went to town on it with the dremel and added some other textures.

This included inside the bell itself.

After that I put everything together to allow me to put cross bars across and glue the whole thing into position. The top section is still removable to make things easier.

Once that was done I moved onto detailing up the top panel.

Still very much WIP but I think you can get the idea of what I am aiming for. Different textures which tie the top panel into the rest of the War Altar. Still need to do the final third, clean some things up and add some trim as well as other details like bolt heads to hold the planking down.

Above you can see how the whole thing will sort of look once finished. The front third is panelled as that is the platform for the bell ringing mutant.

Nice to get some work on this thing done for the first time in years. I will aim to get this top section all finished up asap while also getting on with some other things.

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Heralds and the War Altar

So it was back in July that I last built a model (not including repairing a few Militiaman or the bunker) and it was December 2014 the last time I did anything on behalf of Papa Nurgle...how embarrassing.

Tonight's post bring both of those up to the present time.

War Altar of Nurgle (aka WAoN) 12

As mentioned in the post a few days ago one thing that I wanted to do over the next month or so was get the War Altar out to take stock of it and decide what I wanted to do.

I checked and it was August 2011 the last time I did anything on the WAoN. That is pretty bad.

This is how it currently looks:

At the rear we have the 'power plant'.

And at the front we have the main platform.

To go on there I have these two old classic Nurgle figures:

To go on the other platforms I have a number of Nurgle figures and Nurglings, for example I have a couple of the FW Plague Toad riders...

The magnetised Rot Cannon and Demolisher Cannon.

After getting it out I definitely want to finish this monster off.

So the first thing I will do it sort out that top bell assembly which means doing the bell and structure itself along with the top plate above the demolisher cannon turrets.

(New) Heralds of Nurgle 1

At the 40th B'day thing at Warhammer World I picked up a box of Blight Kings at half price (should have bought more, just for bits).

My idea is to use some of these as Heralds for my Deamon army. I already have four, but as you can take four in each HQ choice I can potentially field eight of the little buggers.

So I started putting these together over the last couple of evenings. It is a very nice kits with lots of options, though the bits are generally designed to fit one particular body so swapping bits between bodies needs a bit of work.

Starting with the guy who will have the most conversion work here are the current state of the 'kings.

I didn't particularly like either of the front bodies you get for this guy. I took the one I liked the most and made a few adjustments. Originally this is meant to have a tentacle thing coming from his stomach and have weird hook like flesh below his belly. Instead I did some GS guts inside and rounded off the belly with GS. Undecided on his right arm at the moment.

The guy below is stock straight out of the box, because he has a scythe. Why would I want to change anything?

The remaining three are early stages, bodies are together but I am yet to add the arms. Guy on right is going to have the massive axe, because a massive axe is awesome (blu tac in place at moment). The one in the middle is likely to get an axe and shield combo, though they don't fit that body front piece so I'll need to do some converting to get it all to fit. The fellow on the left is likely to get a staff/icon piece.

My plan is all five will not get bases just yet. All of my Heralds (on foot anyway) are based on rock bases. This was originally due to the first two being painted by Sheep many years ago and I needed to rebase them to suit the Daemon bases and the easiest way without damaging or ruining the paint job was to fix them to rock bases.

One of the original Heralds painted by Sheep on his new rock base.

Now with these guys I am going to be sending them to Sheep to paint. I am going to stick with the rock bases for three reasons - 1. it helps Sheep getting to all the areas to paint, 2. it matches the existing Heralds and 3. I plan to use these ones as multi-purpose Heralds. I will magnetise them so that they can either be dropped on 30mm rock bases for the Deamon army or be dropped onto the War Altar as travelling Heralds/Priests/Guards.

For example the Blight King which will (probably) have a shield and axe will be a handy Guard at the front of the Altar protecting the wizened priest:

That is enough for now...


If that has wetted your appetite for all things Bubonic check out The Convertorum who has been producing some excellent Nurgle models of late including some great looking Blight Kings (which I may have to blatantly steal ideas from...).

War Altar of Nurgle 11

A bit more progress has been made.

The rear platforms are now in place, bolt heads added and some GS/sugar added.

Under the pustules on the one platform I also added some GS:

At the front the angles plates where the lights go I finally started to do something. Been uncertain till now about what to do there but decided to jump in and do something.

And on the other side, not so happy with this but there is plenty left to do before i decide if I redo it or not.

War Altar of Nurgle 10

Been busy. Hence no updates. Till now that is. Short sentences is the way. Probably.

Anyway, enough crap.

Rear and side of the War Altar has progressed. Most notable the exhausts are glued in place and I have started putting together the platforms each side of the engine block/sacrificial pool. Plenty of GS and other texturing has been done on the top and around the sponsons.

Added a bit of chain to keep the hatch shut (the other side already had some). Started added some interesting detail to the side platforms as well.

Pic showing some of the top texturing.

Quick pic showing the two rear platforms in place, the inner ones (with the GS on) are fixed in place, the others are just resting there for the pic

War Altar of Nurgle 9

During the gaps between packing the bits sold on eBay a bit more progress has been made on the WAoN.

At the rear some plastic was removed to allow more GS to be added around the 'flesh pit'. The plates which the fuel drums normally go had all the detail removed so they were flat, with the holes filled with styrene and GS. Replacement rivets will be added shortly. GS was added to either side of the engine block/flesh pit and onto these side plates.

GS was added in a few other areas (mainly as I had some left after each period of work on the rear), such as the join between the front of the sponsons and the side of the hull, as well as a few spots on top of the tank.

Now some shots with bits blu-tac'd in place. On each side of the flesh pit I had the idea of doing some more planking, where the slaves can push the 'supplicants' into the pit.

Meanwhile a bit more work was done on the exhausts. I am thinking of offsetting the height of them, just to make them a bit more interesting.

So much still left to do...