Maggotkin of Nurgle (pt.4) - painting the Plaguebearers, continue sculpting the Great Unclean One

Got some colours on them Plaguebearers. I've heard quite a few times how it's always a good idea to paint a test model with the intended scheme before committing fully to painting an army with it. Well, I just started my run with 40 test models. Wet blended in 3 different washes / contrast paints in every group of 10. In hindsight I definitely like the ones with cyan-magenta-dark blue base colours the most. Maybe should have painted every unit like that? Or maybe not. It's nice to have variation. And when things don't go exactly right in the beginning, it's always possible to do changes later. So I continued with painting just one unit first to see how it goes.

I had an idea of how I wanted these Plaguebearers to look. Necrotic, mouldy, rotten and algid flesh. Autumnal yellows and oranges. Feint blue greys and dirty magenta. Not the regular set of greens that Nurgle models sometimes get painted with. Grey unrecognizable bases, that could be organic, stone or even demonic? And I wanted to have fun and relaxed time painting, so went for lots of careless washes and drybrushes, because that's what I like doing the most. Only did a few important details with more care (like the banner, some pimples, nails and eyes). 

I also added some flabby layers of skin and other details on the Great Unclean One. 

Maggotkin of Nurgle (pt.3) - sculpting more details on Plaguebearers & the Great Unclean One

Just a few more details sculpted on the Plaguebearers this week. Still hiding the joints of different parts, adding pustules and maggots, doing eyelids on one unit and some work on the banners to make them unique. I think they are ready to be painted now! 

The Great Unclean One is also gaining weight. The 50/50 mixture of Das modelling clay and Milliput worked out just perfect! Very soft to work on, not sticky. Doesn't shrink and crack upon drying like pure Das, yet still some nice textural surprises might appear on it's surface. Easy to drill and cut. I'll very much recommend you try out this mixture (or something similar). 

I wanted the GUO to have some cool and big "weapon". Not sword, so was thinking about some different blade options such as a sickle or a scythe. But since this guy is more of a sower than reaper, I decided upon a huge gardening fork! The face is also turning out to be quite funny. Like the old ill geezer just told something they think was a great gardening joke, like "let all flowers bloom" and is now boisterously tittering about it. Gonna fill the front of the base with tiny maggots and worms bursting out from the underbelly and the bell. Still not sure whether to add horns?