Some of You may have been following the Melbourne In Flames Painting Bet between Dark Apostle, sixty% and Myself. With the Addition of SpaNNerZ to the Bet I think its time to create a separate thread to cover my own progress as the original thread is about to become very crowded with 4 people uploading pics to it.

Just a quick re-cap

The Bet:

Basically we all need to get our armies done in time for MIF. This gives us each 10 (almost 9 now ) weeks in which to complete a 1500pt army to our personal standard. We will each have to supply a pic of a model before Friday the 29th (5th Feb for Me and SpaNNerZ) that will dictate the standard we must reach with each model for it to pass.

The loser of the bet must wear a "I'm Gay for S.A" t-shirt to terracon (all of us are from Vic). In addition to this they will also have to complete one action put forward by the people following these army diaries.

If all players succeed in meeting the deadline then we are all safe.

The Armies:


Myself (Kaihl) - Nurgle Traitor guard - I need to construct, convert and Paint the army in its entirety Im thinking I've chosen the wrong army for this challenge


Dark Apostle (tony) - White Scars. Needs to construct half of and paint in its entirety... a white scars army.

Sixty% (Steve) - Salamanders - Needs to paint the remaining 40% of his salamanders army as he has never fully finished an army for a tourney that wasnt only the basic 3 colours and based. Some Of you may remember him as the guy constructing and Painting a Dreadnought during the first mission briefing at this years arc

SpaNNerZ (Squish) - Imperial Fists - Construct and paint his imperial fists


The original thread can be found Here

So it seems I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here, 85 Nurgle guardsmen and a truckload of conversions. But I accepted the bet anyway :s (at least I don’t have to paint white )

Army List - 1500
Company Command Squad
Straken, regimental standard, medi-pack, plasma gun + 2 bodyguards

Primaris Psyker

Infantry platoon 1

Platoon command Squad
Infantry squad 1
Heavy bolter, grenade launcher + commissar / PW
Infantry squad 2
Heavy bolter, grenade launcher + sergeant / PW
Infantry squad 3
Heavy bolter, grenade launcher

Infantry platoon 2

Platoon command Squad
Infantry squad 1
Autocannon, grenade launcher + commissar / PW
Infantry squad 2
Autocannon, grenade launcher + sergeant / PW
Infantry squad 3
Autocannon, grenade launcher
Infantry squad 4
Lascannon

2 Armoured Sentinels w/ Autocannons

3 scout Sentinels w/ Lascannons + Camo netting

Basilisk

Medusa

Got a lot to do, but hopefully i can pull it off

The Basic idea is to sit back and shoot, counter attack when charged ect, hopefully Straken is worth his points. Haven't tested this list yet, might be terrible but I'm not sure

c&c welcome

Cheers.

and now for some pics


Rough colour scheme, still very WIP


Armoured Sentinel Squad WIP


Armoured Sentinels Again


Enforcer (count as Commissar) WIP


Another angle

Still Learning with green stuff, any tips would be greatly appreciated.

they look good so far, love the mottled armour look there

keep up the great work

Looking good there. I like the sentinel bases which reminds me I need to get some cork.

As for what I have to do Im in the same boat as you build and paint everything oh dear god!!

Your commisar looks like a fat guy...

.... It is a fat guy

He is just big boned.

Looking good mate. Love the sentinels.

Looks good so far.

Dont you hate it how real life has a way of getting in the way of your addictions. well here are lots of pretty little pictures to keep you all occupied while i finish the conversions my army requires

Squad Sergeants

Some guardsmen




Company Standard



Medic (still need to sculpt something oozing out of the needle)



Whats better than bodyguards??? you ask.... ZOMBIE BODYGUARDS



WIP Basilisk

The Astute among you may have noticed that i have changed the bases, the colour scheme was going to be to dark for the dark ruined industrial bases i had planned, so they are being saved for another project.

My Progress has been rather slow on this project, still need to sculpt a few more nurgle symbols, finish my basilisk, finish basing, Build 3 scout sentinels and sculpt my commisars before i even start painting still waiting on a deathguard sorcerer (count as straken) nurgle preachers and medusa from forge world

Looks like ill be wearing that pink shirt at this stage

Quick update on how everyone is doing

Dark Apostle (Tony); Still needs to build 2 drop pods, bike squad and captain on bike. Has 3/4 of a dreadnought and half a tac squad painted

60% (Steve); Has changed his list and now needs to model a 6 Marines riding carnosaurs. Has painted 1 tac squad last i saw.

SpaNNerZ (squish); Built most of his army and now just needs to paint yellow

Actually it looks like all of us are pretty much going to be wearing pink to terracon

I like where this is going, it looks fantastic!

i was wondering why the scout sentinals had camo in place of smoke launchers?

Luke

Lies and slander, ive got 100% of a dream painted and 95% of a tact squad done.

EDIT: Also the bikes are going together tonight.

Well, smoke launchers give me a 4+ cover save once per game while making me unable to fire. Camo cloaks on the other hand give me a 6+ all game and 3+ when in most types of cover. if i use them wisely i should have a 3+ cover save for most of the game while still being able to fire.

Assuming you don't move of course. And they don't give you a 6+. they give you stealth, assuming you remain stationary. Stealth only improves your cover save by +1. It doesn't give you one if you don't have one to start with.

if i deploy them properly i shouldnt have to for the entire game. my mistake on the 6+ cover

nice project, just caught the diary through your sig link.

Lots of conversion work going on here and it looks good. Very time consuming ! Love the plastic disposable plate chequerplate and pipe on the sentinel base !

I take it the idea is to use these as IG but modelled up as nurgle corrupted IG. Nice idea, ties in with my guys nicely, since my nurgle guys are the ones doing the corrupting !

hope to see 'em completed at MiLF and then again at Terracon, keep up the good work.

stu

Thanks mate, unfortunately i wont be using that sentinel base, the style i had in mind was going to be way too dark for my colour scheme , i need something to brighten up the models a bit. but don't worry those bases will be making an appearance in my next project, where i think they'll look even better. also, very time consuming making those bases as the others i had made actually line up to create a mini diorama.

I am doing something interesting with my new bases and all will be revealed when i post my fluff and display board



Yeah using IG codex, fluff is they're corrupted by nurgle and lead by a deathguard Champion (count as straken) Dont know how the list will go, haven't actually platested it yet

You gotta love those zombies - they work perfectly for nurgle guard.

Like the company standard

Looks crap, burn your minis and start again.

What the c**p!? These are beutiful conversions! They aren't realy converted that much, but it goes on in a kind of clean way (well, the cleanest a burgle person could be =p) and the overall models look really good. But they could use a bit more oogley goopiness on them. I really like these, did you ever thinking about buying a chaos marine death guard pack and using the nurgley goodness they come with on your gaurds? Anyway, I like these.
~Tu'shan

thanks mate, they'll look more nurgle once painted, didn't really want to spend too much time converting 85 guardsmen.

i did think about the deathguard packs but decided against it, i will however be using the forgeworld deathguard packs for my Deathguard squad with plague reapers (count as inducted grey knights) but that's only for 1750 games. wont be doing these for a while though.

hopefully get more pics up in a couple of days of some painted guardsmen, a painted sentinel and my WIP Medusa

oh and dw about "over_9000" he's a mate.

@nick, be careful i have some of your stuff and i might just accidentally eat it

For using the nurgle marine stuff, I meant the head, nurgley guns, and the other stuff. Also, the icon in the chaos marine with nurgle icon is pretty impresive. Lastly, Typhus could be used as some grey knight termie special character for HQ. Looking forward to more pics!
~Tu'shan

+1



Hes a good mate too, somebody needed to tell you

Stupid Malaysia making me not be able to paint grrrr. Stupid army.

What stuff of mine do you have??

the emperor

Arg, forgot about that ol' chestnut.

although i don't think eating him will be good for my health, he is made of resin after all

Melt it down into a dice

Alright, time for another big update. I received my forge world order a couple of weeks ago which included my medusa, death guard sorcerer and preacher as well as a few other bits and pieces. The medusa guard was warped so i heated and tried to straighten it but accidentally broke it so i made one out of the one from the basilisk sprue, i think it turned out better.

I've been painting a bit and have a quarter of my guardsmen done as well as 1 sentinel.




Medusa (WIP)


Count as straken


Primaris Psyker





Finished guardsmen (except bases)



Almost finished sentinel (a few minor details to go)

Hopefully they are looking nurgley enough, what do you guys think??

Those FW Traitor Guardsman really came out good. You have really done the models justice.

Played my first game with this list on friday, against the new Blood Angels dex... NOT fun at all. wiped out on turn 7 and managed to kill a total of about 10 blood angels Highlights for me were a blob squad of 30 guard w/ commisar holding out for 11 turns of combat against Mephiston (they finally killed him, but were reduced to 2 models in the process) and Straken killing 3 sanguinary guard and a sanguinary Priest in combat.

My scout sentinels did absolutely nothing, copped a charge from an assault squad 2nd turn and died many times over to Krak grenades, so i've decided to drop them from my list and replace them with a vendetta and a Chimera.

So here is the new list;

Nurgle Traitor Guard- 1500

Company Command Squad
Straken, regimental standard, medi-pack, plasma gun + 2 bodyguards

Primaris Psyker

Infantry platoon 1

Platoon command Squad
Chimera
Heavy bolter and Multi Laser
Infantry squad 1
Heavy bolter, grenade launcher + commissar / PW
Infantry squad 2
Heavy bolter, grenade launcher + sergeant / PW
Infantry squad 3
Heavy bolter, grenade launcher

Infantry platoon 2

Platoon command Squad
Infantry squad 1
Autocannon, grenade launcher + commissar / PW
Infantry squad 2
Autocannon, grenade launcher + sergeant / PW
Infantry squad 3
Autocannon, grenade launcher
Infantry squad 4
Lascannon

2 Armoured Sentinels w/ Autocannons

Vendetta

Basilisk

Medusa

Love the colours on the guardsmen. Any chance of a stage-by-stage?

Cheers