I eventually settled on a combination of Contrast Aethermatic Blue followed quickly by Contrast Magos Purple in a first time attempt at wet blending. After that, it’s time for final touch-ups. I did some nice Blue tongues in the same style on my warlord for the Astradus campaign. Plaguebearers are the best for experimenting with this, as you can just move on to the next one trying new colors until something looks right. The result was a very good looking fatty-pus layer, or at least I think it came out well. Maybe go with a milky white blind cataract eye, or Evil Horse Eye all black (seriously, horses have creepy eyes). Try to make your darks super dark and your brights super bright, while choosing colors that create visual interest, and it’s hard to go wrong. Many possess psychic abilities, moulding the energies of the Immaterium to their will and unleashing them in the form of plague outbreaks, torrents of infectious slime, or hideous, wasting hexes. I found very quickly when starting this hobby that I not only am bad at consistency, I also find little joy in it. The skin has been tinted a little more towards “green” and a bit more saturated. I’ll highlight the raw muscle with Bugman’s Glow as well. They willingly sacrifice both foes and friends in service to their ambition for power and willingly risk their lives at the hands of both the enemies of Chaos and their own fickle masters, who do not suffer failure gladly. Daemon World (Novel) [Needs Citation] Tallomin: Known as the "Prince of Daemon Princes". Amongst the ranks of the Death Guard Traitor Legion, Daemon Princes act as warlords, leading the XIV Legion's sepsis cohorts and vectoriums into battle. I want the eyes to have a bit of a sunken look, so I wash them with a tiny amount of Duruchii Violet. I don’t want to say his name, he’s a very litigious misfit. Most of it will look fine if it’s uniform on a single model, and you could pick a few that look good for a few different rots across your horde. Let’s get into it. I like to think of these as rotting more than bleeding wounds, but hey I’m not your supervisor. Starting from a Grey Seer Spray undercoat as usual, I’ve painted the body with Contrast Nazdreg Yellow. The Sloppity Bilepiper is one of the best-named units in Warhammer, and it’s great fun to paint, too. I start by painting it with Bugman’s Glow. Daemon Princes of Nurgle often remain at their master’s fortress as his devout servants yet sometimes return to their old tribe in the Chaos Wastes. Always prime black. Bloodquest (Graphic Novel Series) The Pilgrim: Led the Cholercaust. What other features have I painted? Nurgle, or “Grandfather Nurgle” as he’s affectionately known by his followers, is the god of decay, disease, pestilence, plagues, and despair. I encourage you, future corpse, to take a swing at it! If I can’t paint real eyes why should you have to? The bell is much the same process, though I’ll hit this with Typhus Corrosion as well to give it an aged patina. The key to visual interest lies in large part with contrast. And I mean either mixed together, layered on top of each other, or both. For the hordes and the Nurgling piles I tend to pick every wash I own. Well I hope you enjoyed this step by step of my descent into the madness of inspiration of creating this Daemon Prince. Gross! Liber Chaotica, pg. They each carry their own diseases and serve their own role in the plague horde, but none is more or less valued, none more or less worthy of Nurgle’s love. They lead their former companions into battle, feared and revered as a veritable god, yet in reality they are nothing but the slaves of the Plague Lord, doomed to serve his every whim. DISTURBING. The last step is to coat the whole thing in Nurgle’s Rot to give it that virulent sheen. When I’m done, I cover the whole thing in a thick coat of ‘Ardcoat, which makes it appear wet. For Daemons that works fine – spooky possessed glowy eyeballs. Average customer rating: 5.00 out of 5 stars. It probably doesn’t matter, and I definitely forgot how I did it. Their followers unquestioningly obey their commands; not only do Daemon Princes retain their martial skill and cunning from their former lives, but they are also the living embodiments of Nurgle's favour. Enter your email to get the very latest - news, promotions, hobby tips and more from Games Workshop. You can help with this gradient by doing a second wash on only the darker part of the gradient after the first has dried. A few more shadows darkened too. Enter your email to get the very latest - news, promotions, hobby tips and more from Games Workshop. Just make sure to wash your brushes so you don’t cross contaminate your wash pots. Troll Forged have some cool daemons and a really customisable daemon prince. You can unsubscribe at any time. In fact, it’s better if it doesn’t! This is the base color, but we’re going to need to make this darker and add more variety. The same will work for tentacles or other fleshy growths that you want to distinguish from the main mass. Avatars of war have a couple of cool heralds in their Daemons line for khorne and nurgle, and possibly a couple more for slaanesh and tzeench heralds under their Apocalypse line. If you want names, I’ve used the Biel-tan Green for that classic green look, Agrax Earthshade for a nice dirty look, Reikland Fleshshade or even Carroburg Crimson for a more gritty/bloody look, Druchii Violet over green makes a grey sort of flesh color, and I’ve even used the Drakenhof Nightshade and Coelia Greenshade on the Nurgling Piles. This boxed set contains one Nurgle Daemon Prince - a finely detailed resin cast kit that comes in 11 components, and is supplied with a … Wounds, Blisters, and the like. This is mostly for lack of owning other metallic colors more than anything. After that, it was just Contrast Plaguebearer Flesh on the Plaguebearer with some Contrast Blood Angels Red on the guts. I pick out the rest of the tentacles and pustules with Bugman’s Glow, then highlight them with Emperor’s Children. This was all washed Biel-tan Green. I cover the model in liberal coats of Agrax Earthshade and Reikland Fleshshade to tint the skin and give it more color depth. Recently, I’ve started fleshing them out into their own army and really taking on some of the bigger models they have to offer, which meant painting my Great Unclean One. I then chose to use Contrast Shyish Purple for the Carapace and Claws. Also, I painted some Nurglings. After that I go back and edge highlight the areas where the skin is broken using Ogryn Camo. Daemonhood; ascension; immortality and otherworldly power. Received within 2 weeks (including it being over the Christmas period. I like to start with a nice dark purple – I’ve got a Vallejo Warlord Purple or a Xereus purple that work well. I know what you’re thinking. I also pick out the edges on parts of the horns with Reaper Polished Bone, and I pick out the blisters with Averland Sunset. Nurgle is the third of the Chaos gods, and his followers are blessed with rotting flesh and bodies wracked by perpetual disease. The next step is to wash them heavily. Same thing with the Nurgling piles – I picked a few in each pile to wash each color to make a nice mix of teeming mischief makers. I use Army Painter Banshee Brown for most of the teeth and claws now because I found it and I like it. OK, time for these open sores and entrails. For boils and such I have used a nice bright red to pop out the blisters and contrast with the greens. This gives them a dark purple hue. These go on haphazardly, but I’ll pool around the sores and add streaks in key places like below open sores and wounds to give it the skin a stained appearance from whatever was seeping out. The shadows have been further darkened with purples, reds, and browns, while the highlights have been further brightened with creams and greens. They’re all decomposing or rotting to some extent, but they’re also blessed with preternatural vitality and toughness, able to shrug off wounds that would fell a normal being. In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. I did opt to go with a classic green for my army for the sake of my opponents. I paint the whole damn eyeball yellow, wash with Agrax, then dot the middle with yellow again. Next I hit the innards and tongues with Bugman’s Glow or Blood Angels Red. I’ve used some of the Typhus Corrosion as well, on the silvers. It may be my favorite model in the GW range and I can see myself painting another. The goal is to not spend too much time on these, especially since I need to paint 9 of them. Such are the ultimate rewards that the Heretic Astartes and other mortal followers of the Dark Gods strive for. Oh look, it’s a scale model of the humble Australian house fly. 6: 0: 0: 0: 0: 1: no rate: Excellent! I am sure there are other off white or bone type colors, but I like this one. My concept was that they just have sharp rocks that they hit you with. I’m going to do the same on the horns eventually. Then I cover the iron/silver parts with splotches of Typhus Corrosion. The horns and teeth are Rakarth Flesh. There’s also a fair amount of bone in there – a couple of pipes, the claws/nails, the teeth, the little horn he carries on a strap, and I think on the back some of the spines as well. These are way faster, but let’s talk about the process. I also edge highlight the under-lids and smooth out the transitions on the upper lip. I like to start dark because it would be dark and poorly lit inside the body. I only recently picked up some of the Nickleback Oxide (or whatever) and have used it on the brass which makes some nice corrosion effects. They’re also incredibly gross, covered in boils, pustules, rotting flesh, and typically pictured with open abdomens and entrails spilling out. Back to the dagger. So my good friend ‘Fabius Bile’s backpack’ asked me if I would write something for his weird nerd blog about my method for painting Nurgle Daemons. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Using 5 washes on 30 plaguebearers that’s 6 each color, which gives you enough of a mix that your horde looks varied but still like they belong together.