How to quickly and easily paint Nurglings.

g'evening

So as i mentioned in the previous post i "Adopted" and army from my mate who did not have the space nor time to assemble, paint and give a good home to an additional army.

Ironic on two accounts.

I) It is Daemons, which contains a LOT of naked skin and hide. The one thing i am highly apprehensive of doing.
II) He is trying to focus on his armies in a more direct manner. Something i should do as well.

He initially gifted me a substantial amount of models, so we made an agreement where i  helped him sell all of the unopened packages, and in return i got to pick everything i wanted to keep. Which is more than fair as far as i am concerned.

So ,back on point. Upon receiving the models i really got a shine for the nurgle models, particularly the plaguebearers and nurglings, which is fortunate, as you will do whole lot of them if you go pure daemon list, unless you have a penchant for daemonprinces, which is also pretty nifty.

Quick painting nurglings 

This is intended for a decent table top standard painting. And as such, is pretty general.

First off, a couple of things to keep in mind.

Your average nurgling sprue has six groups of nurglings, as well as a spread of smaller collections of nurglings, this means two things straight up.
I) you can get a pretty big variation on the spread of guys. And no bases need look exactly the same
II) I've never met anyone who insists on having dual rows of nurglings, i have single lined mounds, and usually add some looser collections to fill them out. Depending on who you play and under what conditions this might be an issue. But otherwise this is a pretty good way of saving some time and money, it also simplifies painting, but that is easily amended by just doing "line" by line of nurglings.

either way.

Lets get going. Spray the entire line of nurglings black, with an airbrush and a properly thinned black this is pretty easily done. If, like me, you use a can of black. Take you time.

Next up, from an (approx) 90 degrees spray the line with a grey colour, vallejo modelair german grey is ideal for the purpose. Now, to finish the base colour, spray, from the very top, with a white paint. Either GW base, or Vallejo base white. Whatever your choice is.

So why the hell are we doing this in such an unnecessarily complicated way? The idea is that when we apply the shade we get a nice and natural transition, so that the shade gives the illusion of a shift.

The next step is painting sores,pustules, tongues, maggots, whatever you feel should be more of an open wound than not. Then apply a watered down layer of either GW's own Moot green, or like i did, the escorpena green that Vallejo does.

The result thus far should be something akin to this.

The next step is pretty much the biggest and easiest one. I cover the model in Gw's own Biel tan green shade. I then followed up by doing some extra work on the sores by dragging lines of thinned Tamiya clear green, which i think gives a running sore like effect, as if they were oozing from the open wound

Next up we do some easy clean up. I did the horns with "kabalite green" the teeth with ushabti bone, and the eyes with yriel yellow.

The step after this one is wholly voluntary (as is all of my shoddy work, of course) but i covered the entire model in a gloss varnish. I wanted the pustulant,gibberings mounds of nurglings to seem slick with slime. And i felt the gloss varnish gave me the effect i wanted.

The end result looks like this.

In my mind it is highly suitable for tabletop work. Not golden demon winning. But competent at least.

I decided to go with a dirty grungy basing. So i liberally added some stirland mud.

I doubt i will ever get to use a "special character" nurgling, but should the day dawn. Here i have one.


*EDIT*

i remembered that i pretty much used the same method towards finishing my plaguebearers. The intended usage is the same, but as they are bigger models (and bee-uh-ti-full ones at that) i spent some time with details, like gums, eyes and horns. These are not the finished models, as they lack the tamiya-clear-gore-detail (great grungecore band name here folks, up fo' grabs!) but a pretty decent capture of what i went for. If i could give a tip it would be that for plague bearers the boils really pop if you do them yellow. And the teeth look really rotten if you just Agrax earthshade them.

i was happy with it, and it looks well on the tabletop in my eyes.

runny eyes, hightened pustules, and rotten teeth. A-go-go!

i hope this is of use to someone.

ta'!