I've made a bit of progress with my Ork Armoured Brigade recently, so a few weeks ago I decided to take a break from painting all that green. Unfortunately I figured it would be good to add a few more gribbly Nurgle types to my Chaos Warrior Winter Warband, and, what with these guys being dedicated to all things rotten, they, of course, tend to be painted in various verdant, putrid or bilious shades of green.
Luckily, however, that's not at all what I had in mind.
I wanted them to fit in with my other Slaves to Darkness warriors – worshippers of my homegrown deity, Gshtaad, (a kind of mash-up between Khorne, the Blood God and the aforementioned Nurgle, Lord of Decay). These guys tend to be clad in rough leather and dark, badly-maintained armour, with pallid skin, on crisp, snowy bases.
To achieve the look I was after, I made some minor adjustments to the Putrid Blightkings' suggested build. Instead of following the instructions in the box, I used as much armour and as many helmets as I could, opted to keep overtly Nurglish symbols to a minimum, and to only have a few mutations on show. As a result there was a little green stuff work involved to blend together disparate components, or remove the odd mutation*, but not enough deviation from the box versions to warrant me recording it. Therefore there is no "Behold raw Chaos in all its glory!" photo today.
But here are some (admittedly slightly out-of-focus) close-ups of the finished characters.**
*To be fair, most Chaos mutations look pretty odd.
**The Lord of Plagues, in the middle of the third image, was painted a while ago and has only been included here for completeness. This is actually the third time he has appeared on this blog. Only fitting for such a great sculpt.
