Chaos Daemons: Beasts Of Nurgle

These are some of my favourite-ever homemade monsters - my Beast Of Nurgle proxies!  Suffice to say they cost a lot less than the £15 per model (is that around $25?) that GW ask for their regular finecast ones.

Basically, these guys are just made of a small sausage of clay (about thumb-sized) with some of the spare heads from the Plague Drones kit on top, and I put some clipped-off Chaos Space Marine horns into its body as tentacles.

I covered the clay with some Stirland Mud (the textured paint that GW sells) - this adds a bit of texture, but also covers over the roughness of the clay - and then painted it in a variety of shades of green and brown.

They're not as physically imposing as the GW ones, but I guess I saved myself £45 ($70)!

Chaos Daemons: Plague Drone Of Nurgle

For some reason, these guys took me AGES to paint - I'm not sure why.  Really, no particular part of them should be tricky, but it just ended up taking a long time.

The wings took quite a long time.  I actually used a watered-down silver, and then splashed loads of washes over it to try and get that kind of insectoid sheen to them.

A great model, potentially ruined by the fact that the Plaguebearer isn't sitting properly. Doh!

I always love painting Plaguebearers.  So easy, so rewarding, so effective.

Wings again, yadda yadda yadda, etc etc.