Something Wicked This Way Comes 2: Electric Boogaloo

I remember failing to make a Nurgle Plague Tower some time ago: https://deathzap.co.uk/2019/02/22/something-wicked-this-way-comes-part-5/ That project burned out for me, I think because I didn’t have too many skills yet in the trash bashing arena, but another attempt is bubbling away in the back of my brain. This time round however I set my sights on […]

Trash Nurglings

Babies abound on Amazon. So I bought some, these babies in particular: A day later I had 90 for £5.99. I was hoping they’d be large enough to play the part of Plague Bearers, however they were about half the size I needed (although two in a trench coat might do). So I settled on […]

Baby Dinosaurs

After the success of my Porridge Baby, I wondered if it would be possible to make an entire Nurgle Daemons army out of discount toys and cheap Amazon purchases. So I turned to Beasts of Nurgle and/or Chaos Spawn. Naturally I bought a bag of baby heads and a bag of dinosaurs. Luckily they were […]

The Saga of Porridge Baby Part 2

I’m kind of blow away by how well this has worked. When I was looking at expanding foam splatted on pizza boxes in the back garden I was cautiously optimistic, but I couldn’t have imagined things were going to end up. So from where we left off, I spent a lot of time plugging gaps […]

The Saga of Porridge Baby

Bolstered by my recent success in building a Dreadnought for my Death Guard army, I set about turning another idea of mine into reality. I felt convinced that expanding foam was a great way to build your own Great Unclean One. Putting down rough shapes onto cardboard was where I started. Not having used expanding […]

Making Your Own Nurgle Dreadnought

Last week a friend and I finally got a game in of Grimdark Future. Wanting to try something different, I pulled out my Death Guard army. I’d long forgotten how much I loved this force, and after a cheeky victory, I was itching to add more. Key to my force were two Dreadnoughts, and I […]

Baba Nurgle

I wanted a new Daemon Prince for my Death Guard army after seeing how effective they can be in my last game of 40k (long time ago now). Despite having a drawer full of official Daemon Prince models I set out to essential scratch build one with my bits box and a small baby doll. […]

Bits Box Pox Walkers and a Bit on Having Shaky Hands

I guess this counts as another post on the importance of never throwing anything away. I’ve recently been playing Warhammer 40,000 which to be honest is a bit of a childhood dream come true. I’ve got pretty shaky hands, which doesn’t just affect my ability to paint figures sometimes it also makes it almost impossible […]

Chaos Daemons for 9th

Is there some irony in a person hoping to become a Church of England Priest collecting Daemons? Chaos Daemons have always been a favourite army of mine. It’s probably down to how bizarre many of the models are, how the range stays close to its roots and even newer models are very close in appearance […]

A lesson in never throwing anything away…

I feel like I’ve posted in this topic before, maybe… maybe I’ve just got a serious case of deja vu or it was one of those unposted drafts we all keep hidden away. Marie Kondo has been rather influential of late with her philosophy of if something doesn’t bring you joy you should get rid […]

Contrast Paints are Pretty Great… Part 2

I recently acquired some Nurgle Rotbringers from a friend who was having a clear out. I like the models a lot but they were always one of the armies I probably would not have seriously attempted due to how much time would need to be invested in painting them. But since GW’s Contrast paints have […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 5

Haven’t posted in these guys in a while, but my Chaos army for Age of Sigmar is really taking shape so here’s some beauty shots: The Mrs and I are off to Disneyland Paris for a few days this coming week, so you might get a blog post about that.

Slaves To Darkness Part 4… How to paint Rust

My latest unit counts as any 25mm based chaos unit if people are picky, or counts as literally any chaos infantry unit. Primarily for me they’ll be marauders, plague bearers or another unit of warriors. If you like converting your own stuff you can save yourself some dosh by having units that can ‘counts as’ […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 3

So I’ve started painting with a unit of chaos warriors. I’m so happy with how they’re coming out, I’m going for a rusty, grimy look with the chipped and peeling remnants of their armour’s paint on flatter surfaces or in deep crevices. My poor old drybrush was a casualty of this process, it is now […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 2

That’s my previously seen Slaves To Darkness army for Age of Sigmar primed and ready for painting. In the back you can see my Maulerfiend conversion, it’s a counts as warshrine/ maggoth rider/ mutalith vortex beast/ slaughterbrute or whatever I want that’s a similar size. The whole lots comes in at around 1000 points with […]

Slaves to Darkness

I didn’t do much on the plague tower this weekend as I was striving forward with the army to go with it. My basic warrior is based on a chaos space marine legs, torso and arms with a basic head and weapons swap and leaving the backpack off. My Chaos Sorcerer Lord is based on […]

Something wicked this way comes… part 5

Today I started skinning all the air dry clay with milliput, and texturing it. I pressed some beads into the thicker areas and these will eventually be pustules. You probably noticed that I’ve removed the tongue, this is so I can make a much better looking one, the top left corner of the face is […]

Something wicked this way comes… part 4

To quote Mr George Lucas ‘I may have gone too far in a few places.’ I think it’s crunch time now, make or break… if I keep going this whole exercise could end up in the bin, or turn into something great… only time will tell!

Something wicked this way comes… part 3

Today I made less progress, although it looks like a lot. I order to save on Miliput, I glue gunned on the foil substructure of the nurgle details that are soon to be added! From plague towers I have looked up on google, most people avoid the face, I however felt it was probably the […]

Something wicked this way comes… part 2

I’ve made a decent amount of progress over the last day. I’m building towards a Plague Tower of Nurgle as a counts as Chaos Warshrine. Only time will tell with how successful this venture will be, but I’m happy with the results so far!

Something wicked this way comes… part 1.

Part of my latest Age of Sigmar project… all from the bits box. See if you can guess what it is? I’ll be hopefully be posting updates all week.