Necromunda The ballad of how I lost my mind and decided to paint a ton of stuff

Got to work on a model I acquired impulsively when a friend ordered FW stuff a while back. Scrutinator-Primus Servalen.

Scrutinator-Primus.jpg

Scrutinator-Primus.jpg

What in the Omnissiah's name is a Scrutinator anyway?

Haven't gotten more than a bit of drybrushing done on her cybercanid, but I might get more colors on him and better photos soon.

Wow, a model done on Monday and have been working on a new one since Wednesday. That is an insanely short amount of time between minis by last year's standards, and I hope this is a sign things in my life are stabilizing a bit. My cogitator banks are abuzz with excitement. Or static electricity. Maybe a bit of both.
 
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Back when I started my Death Guard project in earnest (which was a shocking number of years ago) friends took notice and a surprising amount stepped forward and admitted they bought the Dark Imperium set for the Primaris, and gave me some or all of the Nurgle side of it.

Which is why I owned three assembled bloat drones. I say owned, past tense, because I bought a fourth one late last summer after finding out the set came with three different face plates, because bloat drones look weird with identical erratic tentacles and battle damage.

Blight Face off.jpg

Blight Face off.jpg


This is them after judicious application of modelling tools as tiny prybars and clippers.

I then found out the drone from Dark Imperium has a differently shaped face plate, making it impossible to fit the other ones on without massive gaps. This distressed me for about 0.001 seconds, before I remembered I was doing Nurgle models and just crammed the gaps full of green stuff and random leftover bits.

Blight Face on.jpg

Blight Face on.jpg


Status as of last night, will probably add a bit more GS here and there, along with basing material, tomorrow night when I have more time, and might get around to priming them as well.
 
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I feel weird liking Nurgle posts as they give me the heebie-jeebies. Have you seen mutantmodifier‘s stuff on instagram? Some truly disturbing creations…
 
cainex1 said:
Nice work, I'm kinda surprised you didn't build a cockpit on one for a nurgling.
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Well now there's an idea for a future project...

Punktaku said:
I feel weird liking Nurgle posts as they give me the heebie-jeebies. Have you seen mutantmodifier‘s stuff on instagram? Some truly disturbing creations…
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I remember his comp thread here, and I think he and I are the two different approaches to Nurgle. His stuff really is good. I say it shows that it takes a lot of thought to hit that sweet spot between looking random, interesting and disturbing; and just looking like you chucked a glob of glue in the bitz box, stuck it on the base and called it a day.
 
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So a package arrived from Spain:
Roly Poly.jpg

Roly Poly.jpg

Green Stuff World have a bit of a shady reputation, i.e. they are "inspired" by other companies' ideas quite often, but as far as I can see, these tentacle-roller plates are their ideas, and I'm looking forward to trying them.

Besides that, the boys are based and primed:
white boys.jpg

white boys.jpg


Took longer than usual because my old spraying chamber (the hobby room) doesn't exist any more, so I had to wait until I was out in the country at my parent's place to use their garage.

First time trying White Scar primer, and I gotta say, I've been really unhappy with white primer in the past, but this stuff actually is great. Where other primers, GW included, left the models quite rough and textured, this stuff went on smooth. Almost too smooth, now that I think about it, as my chief technique for painting my Death Guard kind of relied on that texture by now. Well, let's see how it goes when I come around to begin painting them later this week.
 
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SuboptimusPrime said:
Green Stuff World have a bit of a shady reputation, i.e. they are "inspired" by other companies' ideas quite often, but as far as I can see, these tentacle-roller plates are their ideas
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Actually...

I have some too though. I've played with them a bit but found it a little difficult to find the correct length of time to let the putty cure before rolling. Ended up with a lot of these:

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Be interested to see how you get on.
 
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Chaos Moomin said:
Actually...

I have some too though. I've played with them a bit but found it a little difficult to find the correct length of time to let the putty cure before rolling. Ended up with a lot of these:

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Be interested to see how you get on.
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Well now I know, bummer. But sadly that sort of idea theft has been a part of modern economy and capitalism at least since Thomas Edison stole ideas from Nicolai Tesla. Sometimes you can avoid being complicit in it, sometimes you can't.

But anyway, I'll get around to trying this thing out sometime later this week I hope.
 
I've got one, and I found you had to get the pressure you put on the green stuff exactly right, otherwise it flattened as per Chaos Moomin's picture. You also have to have the tube of green stuff exactly uniform thickness along it's length for it to work properly, otherwise you end up with ridges only on the fattest bit.... So it's quite fiddly, but it does look good when you manage it.
 
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Still at work on the drones, I do get to put brush to model here and there.

plagued assembly line.jpg

plagued assembly line.jpg

It almost makes me miss poxwalker zone...

Those blasted iron halo things around the turbines are really hard to get paint on, and the amount of metal hoses half-hidden by meat-tube-things is off the charts. My only solace is that I will probably never paint another plague drone in my life after this. This has turned into another one of those "I need to prove I can" projects, but it's getting there.
 
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Clocked in nearly 2 months on this one, but I just got the last few dabs of pus and coagulated blood done:

The blight cannon drone:

Blight Cannon Drone.jpg

Blight Cannon Drone.jpg


This one was built entirely with the kit, and I might go back and change the skulls in the faceplate up at some point, because I find them distracting. Otherwise my favorite
of the bunch, both painting-wise and model-wise, though I admit I have no idea if that cannon is any good right now.

The flesh mower drone:

Flesh Mower Drone.jpg

Flesh Mower Drone.jpg


This was the first one I built out of my existing drones, the plague spewers came off badly, but I just superglued the entire shebang to the new body, and the bond is quite strong.

I cannot tell you why, but in an army with guns that shoot stomach acid and grenades that are shrunken heads filled with virulent pus and sealed with earwax, I find the flesh mower especially heinous. Something about just strapping a piece of farming equipment to a vehicle and going to town on the enemy seems, I dunno, extra disrespectful.

The spare plaguespewer:

Plague Spewer Drone.jpg

Plague Spewer Drone.jpg


This one got a new face plate, but otherwise stayed the same. I think the eye came out well, it somehow feels like it's having fun doing it's thing.

The whole gang:

All of them in one place, with their elder brother who was painted almost two years ago as one of the first ever Death Guard models.

Drone drone drone.jpg

Drone drone drone.jpg


So that concludes that. Feels good having it done, and I found the fun in it again in the end, but I have no idea why I insist on doing these batch-paint projects with models that really shouldn't be batch-painted ever once in a while.
 
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After being away from the spires of Necromunda for far too long, I return to do some Escher, because I need a Death Maiden, a Wyld Runner, a Juve with a stubgun and an autopistol, two Phelynxes and a specialist with a grenade launcher. For a thing.

The first four problems were ticked off with the help of the gang expansion and some dives into the massive Necromunda bitzbox and will be posted once they have paint.

The last one was more of a puzzler. Didn't want to spend 40+€ on another box of Escher, so I pressganged one of the Wyld runner bodies for the project, because I doubt I'll ever need more than two of them any way, and definitely not four. Just switched the weird random block of tactical concrete out for a tactical skull.

Specialist.jpg

Specialist.jpg


With the body sorted, I needed the gun. There is no native option for an Escher grenade launcher anywhere (though I bet there's an STL somewhere) but I do have the Orlock weapon set.

Conundrum.jpg

Conundrum.jpg


The hand is a bit too chunky, but it will go away in both conversion variants, which are:

1.) The elegant and complicated: Use the shouldered lasgun arm, cut and file the lasgun away and somehow mash the nade-launcher in there.

2.) The cowardly but leisurely: Just chop off bits of the chem thrower until the launcher fits as an underslung thingamabob.

Thoughts? Preferences?
 
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I think I'd prefer the underslung version. But honestly, the shouldered thing could have a cool, casual vibe going for it.
Great help, I know. ;)
 
Hmmm... you could be really wild and git away the whole rifle and just have the launcher held leisurely to the side?
 
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