Death Guard Plague Marine

Painting time: ~20hrs.

I painted this model for a bit of fun, and to do something less serious after the more in-depth miniatures I have been painting recently. It also gave me a chance to try working with white undercoat - I have always used black, as I enjoy the darker colour schemes, but this can be limiting - so I decided it was time to try something different. The miniature is the old plague marine champion, with some minor conversions to make it more interesting and give some more life to the pose.

For the painting, I set out trying to emulate Cyril's colour scheme for his 2003 French GD 40k single winning nurgle champion, which can be seen here. For the armour, I followed Cyril's tutorial, found on his website , using a 50:50 mix of bestial brown and snot green as a base, followed by snakebite leather, snakebite mixed with bubonic brown, then bubonic brown pure, then adding white for last highlights. The darker green rims were 50:50 bestial brown and snot green for the base, highlighted by adding goblin green and fortress grey to the mix, then straight fortress grey/goblin green 50:50 for final highlights. Both areas were shaded with dark flesh.

As I continued painting I digressed from the original scheme and added some more of my own ideas, meaning that the end result is rather different from Cyril's - and needless to say, far inferior! But it was an interesting exercise. The base is from Micro Art Studio again, one of their trash bases.

Guild Artisan,
Sebastian.