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Nurgle Lord
Entry for Golden Toadstool XIV Hi Folks, This is the first figure I have painted up for public Internet consumption. It is also (in my opinion) the best work I have ever done and I hope I can continue to develop and improve my painting. The figure contains multiple new experiments in techniques for me hopefully I can hit them all. As this piece is the general for my Nurgle Chaos Army, I converted Archaon with a couple of bits from the New Nurgle Champ and the hand from the much older basic mounted Chaos Champion. The First thing I did was Get myself some new brushes After hearing about the Windsor Series 7 for the past few years, I finally tracked some down. Personal Tip Anyone wanting to improve their painting GET GOOD BRUSHES!! I bought 4 - 000, 00, 0 and 1. After using these I will never again use GW brushes for anything but mixing paint. The Mounts flesh has at least 10 layers of paint worked up from a Scorched brown to Camo Green with some Bleached bone. This layering is the first time I used Future to thin my paints for a smoother consistency. The problem with using Future is it gives the figure a VERY glossy sheen, to combat this I got myself some Vallejo Matte Medium. (Thanks for the tip Harry) Fantastic Stuff, a bit scary to use at first when you apply it is very chalky looking and I thought I wrecked the work I had done, but it dried clear and perfectly matte. About the time I started to work on the later layers of horseflesh acting on a tip from Saxon Angel (Thanks Angela). I got myself a wet palette. I recommend to anyone wanting to work on blending / layering wet palettes will save you tons of paint and extend your working time by leaps and bounds. Next was the armor I had originally planned to do the figure in NMM style but I couldn’t quite get the colors I wanted to work with right in my head for visualization so I decided to experiment with a old technique. The armor and scythe were painted Bolt Gun Metal and then highlighted with Mithril Silver. Then to get to the tarnished tone I wanted I washed the figure with the old GW Chestnut Brown wash and some Old GW Orc Flesh wash and used the mad medium to again remove the gloss from the wash. I then painted the Cloak working up from Vallejo Black Green with Vallejo White then I smoothed out the brush strokes using a glaze I made up with a very thin mix of the black green and Future. Again to remove the Glaze I applied the matte medium. The base was the last part of the figure I worked on since I’m going to a “swampy” theme for the army so after seeing an article on Envirotex in White Dwarf I decided to give it a try. After painting up the base using I was stumped as to how I would get the Water into the crevices without gucking up the rest of the base. Credit to my wife for suggesting a syringe. (Thanks Sweetie!) After a quick stop at my Pets Veterinarian (Who game me a hand full of plastic syringes for free) I mixed up the Envirotex and squirted it on.. Before I pinned him to the base I gave the figure a coat of Testors Dull Coat for a little extra protection. Links to more Pics: http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/crazy_c/NurglePics/Picture_010xa.jpg http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/crazy_c/NurglePics/Picture_006xa.jpg http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/crazy_c/NurglePics/Picture_007xa.jpg http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/crazy_c/NurglePics/Picture_008xa.jpg I would like to Credit these people for the advice and reference material I used to paint this figure: Zaphod – Glyn Evans – I bet I pestered him everyday for advice about this figure. Harry Colquhuon – Camera Advice and Vallejo Medium Advice Saxon Angel – Angela – Wet Palette – I WON'T paint without it now. Jericho – Dan Byer – Conversion work from a variety of his figures. Jason Richards – The Striations on the Horseflesh - I was done with the mount - until I saw his brilliant Golden Demon winning Fig and knew that’s what my mount needed. http://www.miniaturespace.net/archaon_lord_of_the_end_of_time.htm Goatman – His Figure inspired me to use Archon as the basis for my Nurgle Lord. I also drew heavily from his dark green colors. http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=7407&c=All&m=GW&nm=none Fredy – The Swampy base inspired the whole theme for my Army http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=15445&c=All&m=GW&nm=none SJB – For the His armor tones http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=9585&c=All&m=GW&nm=none MiniatureTaiwan – The 3 Skulls Nurgle design on his figures sheild http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=23466&c=All&m=GW&nm=none Thanks for Reading!! Roktop – Gerry Hodgson P.S. Sorry about the LONG write up. I promise it wont be so long for the next Figure I do.
Posted: 18 Aug 2003
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