Nasty people from the Warp

This will be some kind of cheating (does it still count as cheating if I plainly admit it?). I'm in the middle of painting new stuff, but until I get it finished, I have nothing to show, so I'm rescuing these old minis from oblivion.

In fact, to be honest, I'm posting them just because I'm giving them away to a friend who is starting a Nurgle Warband. They've been getting dust for ages, so I'm happy to provide them a new home where they receive the love (and the games!) they deserve.

Not much else to say, I painted them long years ago, so don't expect Golden Demon Award winners (in fact, if you are looking for that, you are definitely in the wrong blog!).

The most interesting piece in the batch may be this Great Unclean One:

Beeeeaargh!

It's the old classic model, but with some touches here and there. I greenstuffed it all over to give it more volume. The original model is, well, ridiculously small! So I had to put some work on the body itself and particularly the arms. The horns come from another model, I cannot remember which one (don't think it's a Citadel one), I felt I had to replace those rotten deer ones the model came with.

Besides, I also had these Plaguebearers:

Clumsy Demons of Rot

A fair mix of old and new models (when I say 'old' and 'new' I'm aware that means 'pretty damn old' and 'nicely old' for many people...). I don't even have developed a concept for the current models GW is selling. Not much to say here, they haven't aged that well, I would repaint all of them save for the weapons maybe. I still haven't got any better rusting stuff :P

Tetanus. That's the name of the sword :D

I also had some other tiny Nurgle creatures, but you have already seen them before.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what my pal does with them. Now I may find them on the other  side of a board!

Slaaneshi warband

All the guys as promised you last week!

Most of them are RT Renegades I painted up in purple and gold. As Slaanesh (un)holy number is six, all the squads will have six members. Six squads of six members each is too much, this is all I got.

First one. This is the leader:

 

What do you mean by 'your face is unexpressive?'

A standard bearer:

 

Having a problem with my face too?

And the rest of the guys:

 

Don't care, I still think I'm beauty

You might have seen the one on the left anywhere...

 

The whole squad looks like this:

 

Ooops! I'm just realizing the boss doesn't let you see the banner guy

The second squad is leaded by a guy you already saw in other colours:

 

New season's fashion

007's 'the man with the golden gun'

 

Not sure if a marine or a Daemonette in disguise

They look like this when together:

 

Pure Slaanesh

Well, we have two Squads, but, who is to lead these guys into battle? This one!

Yeah, I know it's from the Fantasy range, but I got the mini and it is cool!

The mini lacked one of the swords, so I replaced it with a spare one I had from somewhere else.

But... Yes, there is a 'but'... What is a Slaaneshi warband without Noise Marines? You saw Roy last week, let me show you the rest of them:

 

The vocalist has some ego issues

Absolutely ugly, absolutely Slaanesh

Let's rock, guys!

 

As you can see, they are a mix of pieces from 3rd Ed Noise Marines and regular Chaos Space Marines. I tried to spread the Noise Marines pieces all I could, but I must say I'm not really satisfied with this particular unit.

And this is the complete warband so far:

 

The lack of scenery is disturbing

So well, I guess it is enough for rumbling along the Galaxy!

I wonder when will they see some action...

Roy & the Daemonettes

Here I come in front of you to confess, my brethen, that I have failed.

I have not been able of achieving my goal. I tried but simply could not.

'What the hell are you talking about?' I pretend you say, so I can answer anyway.

I have not been able to paint this:

 

Classic 'Noise Marine'. Too much for me

 

40K-ers of old know exactly what is this and need no further clarification. For everyone else, let me briefly explain: Worshippers of Slaanesh, the Chaos god of excess and depravation, got themselves into a point in which their normal experiences were not enough. The world seemed dull and grey to them, as their way of life was more decadent everyday and discovered new things which made them unsatisfied of their previous ones. So they needed more extreme excesses: flashy colours, loud noises, extreme pain to feel anything... You know, BDSM was just soft kittens for them.

At some point they discovered/invented/whatever these sonic weapons. That was perfect, noise and destruction altogether. So 'Noise Marines' were born. Extreme colours and extreme noise.

Well, apart from that, late '80 were some crazy times, you know, and GW sculptors were quite fond of heavy metal. So we had Rokk Goff Orks and this model. What can I say, glam rock into 40K.

I have not been able to find any inner peace trying to paint that pattern nor anything even remotely similar to that. Sorry, pals.

Instead of that, I have a few Emperor's Children Marines painted in their classic purple/golden colours, so I went for that with this mini. This is what I got:

 

Won't say it's better, but I cannot do anything else

 

I'm not quite fond of this scheme either, but as long as I have some RT Renegades of old in these colours, I'll try to make up a warband and see what happens. I'll show the whole bunch quite soon, as I still have to complete some minis to fill in units.

So here we have Roy the Noise Marine, ready to rock all over the scenarios. He is doing his tour with his choir girls, these two classic Daemonettes:

 

Itchy? Let us help you

 

Daemonettes hypnotize their victims and make them believe they are in a lusty dream... till they come to them and tear them apart with her claws.

I have a bunch of Daemonettes sculpted by Juan Diaz, but got these two and had to paint them :)

So these are the rock stars, Roy & the Daemonettes. I believe it's a fancy name, don't you? :P

Hmm, while you wait for the rest of the warband to come along, I'll post this other guy riding a Steed of Slaanesh:

 

Hi ho Silver, away!

 

I'm thinking of repainting the Slaanesh Marine I showed you a few weeks ago in this post. It will probably be for good in order to get some coherence in this army... if coherence was an issue for Slaanesh!

Well, now you get an idea of what is coming...

Old scent of Chaos

Just some few creatures of old, Warhammer demons.

Tzeentch, besides being quite tricky to spell, is the demon god of deception and trickery. The servants of this god show ambition for knowledge, secrets and perpetual motion and change in all its ways.

These Tzeentch demons are probably the most delirious insane design from all the ranges from those ages. Sculpted by Kev Adams, the so called 'Horrors' had some really funny rules.

 

Gollum's Chaos cousins

 

  Pink Horrors march into battle emerging from warp holes in reality. But when a Pink Horror is 'killed' (well, if that's the correct verb), it begins to twist and writhe, suddenly looking to split up into two smaller creatures, two Blue Horrors which take the place of the first demon. So the confident opponent believing to have killed an enemy, suddenly has to face two more!

 

Pink Horror. Yes, it is a horror. And it is pink

Warped Tony Manero

He left a promising future in baseball in favour of scaring children all over the galaxy

The most horrible things here are my photos, as usual. The minis have much more depth and richness in colours.

But let's go for a change. If Tzeentch is the demon god of knowledge and change, Nurgle is the demon god of rotten decay, death and stillness. Patient erosion, illness and plagues are the banners of Nurgle. These Beasts show it perfectly:

 

Gigantic warped putrid slugs

Medusa's pet

Don't even know if there are current rules for this. Don't think so

 

Notice that these are not 25mm bases as in the Horrors, but 40mm ones. These guys are big. I painted the bases not just in plain flat earth, but with dark colours surrounding the Beast, showing that Chaos presence is so strong that even earth itself rottens at its path.

I repeated the idea with these Nurglins, the smallest demons of Nurgle, attacking in nasty packs (Packs? Flocks? Ahh, groups, whatever)

 

Sooo tiny and adorable

 

Here the earth rotting effect is easier to see.

If you remember, when storytelling was part of this game and you were looking for action stories told with minis (not just killer combos to win whatever you win here), Tzeentch and Nurgle couldn't fight in the same side, as they were totally opposed (change/stillness). Only extreme circumstances could make them put their differences aside, and even then they could spend as much time fighting each other as fighting the supposed common enemy!

I have lots of Chaos demons belonging to all different gods, but I have repainted these recently. I'll try to bring here all the other ones.

Hope you enjoyed them!