I got the chance to look through a copy of the Kill Team compendium the other day and discovered to my surprise that I only need one more Plague Marine to have a Death Guard kill team. Now I don’t know if I’ll actually get around to playing Kill Team, although skirmish games are my preferred poison these days. What I do enjoy though is anything that motivates me to get more painting done, and sure enough this did the trick.
Adding this champion to the Plague Marine warrior I painted previously makes a two man fire team.
Meanwhile the second fire team will be made up of 8 poxwalkers.
Put them all together and we have this foul-looking little lot.
I think I can put together several other Kill Teams from models I’ve already painted, allowing me to field Space Marines, Chaos Marines, Orks and Adeptus Mechanicus if I so choose. I like building warbands though so I reckon I’ll take a look at some of the other factions and see where my imagination leads me.
January 31st, 2022 at 7:51 am
Looks great – I don’t think I’ve seen that head with the skull inside the helmet before. Looks like a light Honey coloured filter on his white armour – along with some Mud on his feet.
January 31st, 2022 at 8:56 am
Cheers! The head is actually a trophy from a Chaos Marines backpack, I thought it worked nicely for a member of the Death Guard though. As for the armour it’s just a wash of Seraphim Sepia/Agrax Earthshade over Ushabti Bone (then all the usual highlighting and weathering to get it looking suitably manky).
April 7th, 2022 at 8:31 pm
That’s awesome – love little conversion touches like that which you can’t even tell aren’t a “proper” model. I’ll be stealing that one, and possibly the painting as well when I get to my own Death Guard, as I want to use the original Legion scheme on them rather than the “standard modern” green…
January 31st, 2022 at 7:57 am
Nicely done, not the figure that’s excellent, but the excuse you found to paint one more! 😉
January 31st, 2022 at 8:57 am
Cheers! Truth be told I can always find the excuse, it’s the time I struggle with! 😀
January 31st, 2022 at 8:04 am
Top job mate – love that daemonic backpack, and the Marine’s head is fab!!
January 31st, 2022 at 9:10 am
Cheers mate! The backpack was a lot of fun to do, getting those nice fleshy colours pushing through the metal, but really – what kind of crazy daemon do you have to be to possess a backpack?
January 31st, 2022 at 3:15 pm
not particularly ‘forward-looking’ is it!? (fnarr fnarr)
January 31st, 2022 at 5:03 pm
😂
January 31st, 2022 at 3:25 pm
Very nice- the new Kill Team is a great game. They new system is rather clever- quick but it has subtlities in it.
I must try doing some of my Death Guard in the originial white… I’ve got a few left before I’ve finished my army.
Cheers,
Pete.
February 2nd, 2022 at 9:20 pm
Thank you! Aye, it looks interesting from what I’ve seen – and fairly straightforward to learn (I really don’t have a good head for game rules…). I’m not sure about the measuring system though – I find it hard enough to work things out in inches but all this 3 triangles past a circle boggles me. That aside though it looks very appealing, next time I’m at home for more than about ten minutes I might even try it out.
Good thinking on the Death Guard – I’ve found that the pre- and post-heresy schemes look quite nice alongside each other in the same army.
January 31st, 2022 at 5:07 pm
As you say, gruesome, but nicely done! 🙂
February 2nd, 2022 at 9:25 pm
Thank you – he’s pretty foul isn’t he! 😀
February 2nd, 2022 at 2:45 am
Nice work on the latest Nurgle mini! The squad really looks great together and there’s nothing like hitting a gaming goal to motivate some painting too 🙂
February 2nd, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Cheers! Yeah, I don’t play very much but I do find gaming goal really helpful motivation for getting things done. 🙂
February 4th, 2022 at 9:00 am
Niiiice. A bit of vomit came to my mouth looking at him
February 6th, 2022 at 7:54 am
Haha – then I’ve done my job well! I don’t think he’s as foul as the fat one though, he really is disgusting!
February 6th, 2022 at 6:15 am
Mud Honey!
February 6th, 2022 at 7:14 am
🤘🤘 Brilliant band eh! 🙂
February 6th, 2022 at 5:36 pm
I think it is one word, it was a Russ Meyer movie first, I prefer the Supersuckers.