Power and Decay...

Hi peeps,

As promised: a little blog post today with pictures of my second Nurgle Imperial Knight Titan. It was also part of the Nurgle Tau army that went with me to Throne of Skulls June 2015 at Warhammer World in the UK.

 

For this second knight I decided to with a more different approach and have a more squad, broad and warrior looking theme to it. In the end I think this one represents a more "Warrior class spider" than the other Nurgle Knight.The fact that he is armed with the mega big chain sword only adds to this appearance.

 

 

Instead of increasing his height (as I did with the other one) I made this one look more broad by adding 3 carapace looking mutations on his back but tried to keep the overall "spider" theme that links it with the rest of the army.

 

Of course I wanted this second knight not be too "Normal" compared to the other one, so I made a wicked looking stinger which replaced the banner hanging underneath . I like to think it also represents his Hammer-of-wrath rule that he has in the game itself, I can see the stinger slashing out before any actual blows are done.

 

Normally I post a list of the Games Workshop kits and materials used, please notice that it is almost the same as with the other knight with a few minor differences.

 

Imperial Knight kit (duh!)

Chaos Spawn kit.

Nurgling kit.

Some tyranid bits.

Plague Drone kit.

Demon Prince kit.

Cities of Death Scenery kits (for the base).

Chaos Space Marine vehicle sprues.

Plague Bearer kit bits.

 

LOOOOOTS of green stuff and texture paint.

A piece of chain for on the chainsword (taken from a broken old necklace)

The smoke on the exhaust pipe was the "Fire bit" taken from the Fire Belly (Ogres WHF)

 

 

The end result is something I am really happy with, especially all the little details that make him stand aside from his brother ;) The little gargoyle statues on his rear, the chain hanging on his sword, the smoke coming out of his reactor exhaust pipes..etc...

 

All with all I think Grand Father Nurgle is pleased with this tribute and...I have another great looking model to add to my Army.:)

 

 

Plague and Carnage....

Time to bring out the big guns! I really needed some close combat strength and some serious firepower at BS 4 to add to my tournament list for Throne of Skulls June 2015. At first I wanted to add more Stealthsuits and the special character Shadowsun and maybe one or 2 extra Riptides. After a look around however (and the release of the AWSOME new Imperial Knight kit) I quickly decided to go for 2 Knight Titans! This even left me with spare points for my freshly converted and painted Nurgle Tau Stealth Suits , double win situation for me! :)

 

Yes, the Knight has great rules in the game. But that is not the main reason I decided to Nurgle-fy 2 of these beauties . I mean; look at the model! It is so full of detail already and it is full plastic! Making my hands itch to convert it! It is also VERY big, and comes with an equally big base, so LOOOOOOTS of space to put mutations, some free hands, chaos thingies...extra scenery and of course: Nurglings :) 

 

And of course I wanted the Gauntlet/ Claw!!! You can pick up and throw around things and it looks insane!!

 

I wanted to go all out on this model and decided that I needed to make it stand out from the rest of the army... but at the same time keep it in line with the Nurgle Tau. So I kept most of the paint scheme and only added a little bit of aged gold and bronze to where it would enhance the model but not make it stand apart from the rest of the army. 

 

Another important part for me was making sure the model was converted in the same way as the rest, it was Nurgle after all and fluff wise the Knights would be under the command of my Nurgle Tau Commander: " The Arachnid" . And especially that last point of view gave me the inspiration for a lot of the army and these models too.

 

I wanted to have the "Spider-like" look to be there and tried to achieve this with adding lots of spidery, bony mutations and spikes and also adding height to the model. Of course the carapace on top and the tongue are also extra attempts to make it look like the Nurgle infused curse of the commander also flows through his entire army.

 

Also for this model I want to add a list of the Games Workshop kits and materials used to achieve the end result:

• Imperial Knight kit (duh!)
• Chaos Spawn kit.
• Nurgling kit.
• Some tyranid bits.
• Plague Drone kit.
• Demon Prince kit.
• Cities of Death Scenery kits (for the base).
• Chaos Space Marine vehicle sprues.
• Plague Bearer kit bits.
• Empty Lipton Ice can (for the 2 banners on top and on the shoulder)
• LOOOOOTS of green stuff and texture paint.

 

The black and white checker pattern base was a no-brainer as it linked the Nurgle Knight even more to the rest of the models. But I needed something extra...and by increasing the height of the rocket pod and having extra nurglings on there who are holding up and waving with banners (which are made out of an empty Liptonice can) I found this little extra something to look at.

 

All with all I think it really became the centre piece I was looking for and I looked forward to work on his brother... after all I wanted 2 of them ;) stay tuned for  this second Nurgle Knight...

Stealth and Filth...

Hi There,

 

I know...I know...it has been a while since there was anything posted by me here on my little Nurgle Tau blog. BUT the good news is: despite being very busy with work and social life stuff ;)  , I have also been busy with my Nurgle Tau. And I must say that Grand Father Nurgle would be proud at the tributes that I will bring to you in the coming days !

 

So I proudly present to you: My unit of 3 Nurgle Tau Stealth Suits.

 

 

The original plan was to make 6 of them and include the Tau special character Shadow Sun, however I changed up my mind and decided to go for something slightly different. The choice to do this was mainly based on the list I wanted to take to the Throne of Skulls tournament in June 2015 at Warhammer World in the UK. But...more about that later ;)

 

 

 As you can see I went all out with kitbashing and converting these little guys and I think the result is pretty cool if I say so myself. The orginal plan was to only give a "Snout" to the guy with the fusion blaster...but I liked the look so much I decided to give the other 2 a "Snout" as well.

 

I have already played a few games with them and on the table they look even better! The only downside is that due to all the bits and conversions they became 2 times as big as the orginal Tau Stealthsuits. So for rules as line of sight and cover saves they have become a more easy target, however... to see them lurking to the ruins, licking stuff and doing whatever they do is worth all that!

 

 

As normal I want to give you a little list of the Games Workshop boxes I used to convert these models:

• Tau Stealthsuits.
• Chaos Spawn kit.
• Chaos spacemarine vehicle sprues.
• Chaos Plague Drones.
• Cities of Death Scenery kits (for the base)
• Greenstuff.
• Texture paint.

So that is all for now, but more is soon to come! I have finished 2 Imperial Knights that I have painstakingly converted to nurgle...so that would be: Nurgle Knights ;)... stay tuned for pictures and blogs of those big boys ...