Painting Challenge Finished: Rich P

So I finished my Painting Challenge the other day! Fancied trying out a few things different with this model, notably the new GW Technical paints (all have been used on this model) and creating a unit filler (have never done this before). I’ll be honest and blunt, I’m not usually the biggest fan of unit fillers but in principal I think they are acceptable when they enhance a unit aesthetically, have reasonable effort put into them and tell a story. Conveniently this also helps me with my painting commitments for Caley Carnage as I have run out of empire character models for my knight unit (not using plastic empire knights damn it!).

Anyway so the Nurgle Lord, I loved this model, was an utter joy to paint (no conversions at all), all parts were easily accessible and great to highlight. I used Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust on the steel, Nilliac Oxide on the copper/bronze, Nurgles rot on the good bits and blood for the blood god for the…errr blood? All of these paints are just excellent and I cannot recommend them enough! I liked the difference in painting this model to what I normally do, very muted (only one colour blue used on the cloth) and the effects paint providing the spot colours that make the model stand out. This paint scheme would really benefit from a lighter basing colour (snow for example) to make the model pop.

The story of the piece is Valten yelling “Come at meh bro!!” to the nurgle lord while the empire cav charge to support him (you will see this when the model joins the knight unit). Anyway I hope you like it, I will post this along with the other entrants in one complete post for voting at the end of the month. Can’t wait to see what everyone produces as Joe’s executioner is simply excellent!