Momada's Daemon Army Blog! [Major Update and early GUO WIP! - 29 July 09]

Ive decided to dedicate a new gnoblog for my Daemon Army that i will be mostly scratch building. This gnoblog is, for those who isnt up to date with my or WLMs blog, is to keep track of a mostly scratch built 3000pts army (atleast planned to be) which will be battling WLMs scratch built 3000pts lizardmen at UK GD this year A big battle report with plently of pictures and description will be posted on the forums for those who wont be able to see the battle in action

Only my Daemon works and eventually my fluff and army list will be posted here, my ogres and TK and miscelanious (never knew how to spell that word) will still be put in my normal gnoblog.

In my gallery i will be posting more WIPs and Pics then will be shown here, so for anyone interested, visit Momada's Daemons Gallery.

Checklist:

Great Unclean One - WIP

Herald Of Nurgle on Palaquin - DONE

Skulltaker on Juggernaught (Herald of Khorne) - Fully Converted

Blue Scribes of Tzeentch - Planned

20 Plaguebearers with 2 Unit Fillers - DONE

15 Bloodletters Unit 1 - Built

15 Bloodletters Unit 2 - Built

Changeling with 15 Horrors - TBB and Planned

5 Fleshhounds - Built

5 Flamers - Planned

3 Bloodcrushers - TBB

2 Beasts of Nurgle - Planned

TBB = To Be Bought

Pics inc

Note: Post seperate to opener for neatness sake

Right, after being inspired by WLMs recent works, i couldnt help but take an afternoon of time away from revision (if i fail its WLM's fault >_> <_<) to sculpt my new herald Id say this is my best sculpt atm

So without further delay, let me introduce...

Jabba (name in progress ), The Herald of Nurgle!









Much better than my previous herald dont ya think? xD



Sculpts from first to latest





And size comparison ^^



And a handful of WIP pics for those interested (more in my photoshop gallery )







Whaddya think ?

And after this week's exams, ill need to sculpt multiple nurglings and stick him to a base

Wow that is the nicest herald i have ever seen i will be keeping up to date with this.
Haven't talked to you in a while hows it going???
I can't wait for the Green Scribes
Keep it up i will be at that table waiting for you and Warpy to play. The titanic battle of the Scratch Builders

See you later

That looks great!  My only gripe is that there is a lot of empty space in front of him.  Maybe you could make the end of his tail burst into tentacles or something... Or give him a salacious crumb nurgling...

-Kallus

Loving the work Momada, the herald looks great, can't wait to see it completely finished

Wow, this is making me think of doing some conversions myself.
Hey, could you ever think of doing a model that's disgusting? You know, distented offal, milky eyes, deformed fetus arms coming out of the chest...

Thanks for all the positive comments guys
kallus: The empy space infront of him i kinda like tbh xD It makes his 'throne' look important
Vyv: Well i thought the herald and nurglings i sculpted were kinda disgusting xD Though i guess ill have to wait till my GUO to see how disgusting i can make things

Well without further delay; hes finally completed! After two evenings of work

Here are the nurgling carrier pics









A full herald pic



The back



And finally anouther size comparison



Whaddya think ^^?

Edit: Actually after some great improvement idea from Monkeh, im going to improve the palaquin itself over the weekend!

Disgusting? They're downright cute!
Especially the one on #3, I want to take him home and keep him as a pet.

Very nice i mean disgusting
I like it how it is sloped and i have to admit that i'll have to fight Vyvyan for the pet nurgling

keep up the good work

looks cool! should have more details but hey its not finished yet how about more maggots and slime?

Why do people think this is disgusting? It's cute!
Give the herald a teddy bear and a blanket.

I really like that Sculpt, very nice!
The Nurglings are cool.

One thing that I think could be improved is the whole throne and base of it, I think it'd look amazing if it looked like it was made out of wood (rotting wood of course!) looks too plain at the min, but I suppose it depends on how you're gonna paint it 

Good stuff, look forward to seeing more 

I just dont like the platform the chair is on.  I migth take it right out and replace with actual palanquin poles running back and forth along the sides of the chair.  Or simply the chair/platform is so plain it detracts from the rest of the model?  Some symbols, cracks, or other decorative bits like a half dozen maggots or something would go along ways towards fixing that.

Thanks for the positive comments, ima ctually working on improving the palaquin itself at the moment Pics will be posted hopefully with some progress on the Green Scribes

are you going to modify the chair?

Ewww Daemons  , I like your sculpt, its looking great so far. Keep up the good work!

Very minor update.

With my major exam week approaching (1 or 2 everyday no breaks >.<) i wont have much time to sculpt, but!
I have done some work to the palaquin, added some moss (thanks Monkeh ) some maggots, and soon ill have nurglings dangling everywhere. Planning work has been done for the green scribes and my GUO, but thats where it is for now

I picked up some rocks and they gave me some inspiration for poses im going to do for my GUO (and also one for anouther thing, though its a secret, im giving my army plan away very slowly ).

Thats it for now.

Pics of the improved palaquin soon

Ooh, is the GUO covered with grazes with bits of stone in it? or are they going to be gallstones and tumors coming from its abdomen?

Well after comming into possession of enough money to buy a wonderful metal model unit
Ive made a couple of unit fillers and worked a little on my Herald of Nurgle (who is still having work done to it!)

Here are some pics

Notice the cute ickle nurgling sucking innocently on a larger instestine :3








No im not quite sure what the other thing on the base is either... But it has tentacles and thats all that counts!


Unit filler no2:

Anouther innocent ickle nurgling.





Unit as it looks atm








And for a little luck, a comfortable looking nurgling:



Note: i havnt put seperate pics of how the herald is progressing because im gonna post some once hes utterly complete

Anyway, im gonna start painting a couple of plaguebearers and finding a paint scheme im comfortable with

P.s. sorry for the second pi being of bad quality!

Okay, I'll just come out and say this...
Mad, you cannot do ugly.
You have a curse, everything you make is cute.
Accept that.

Vyv

Looking good.  I really like the unknown creature on the first unit filler with the maggots coming out of his back.  Also I like the visible changes to the palanquin.  Not sure if you're up to it, but you could do small conversions to the plaguebearers to make them fit a little better with the herald (not that they don't, it is all nurgle after all).

-Kallus

P.s. Are you done with whatever all those tests were yet?

I like the little nurglings in the fillers and the tentacles thingy is cool.

Work on the Herald looks like it's coming on well

Thanks for the nice comments guys

Kallus: Nah, im halfway through them After the end of next week ill have only a couple left and ill have all the time in the world to dedicate to my daemons
Vyv: I know it sorta turned out that way for my herald's carriers xD Though the three ive done recently were meant to be cute

Hopefully i can pull the real disgusting look on my GUO

Hopefully i can pull the real disgusting look on my GUO

Nope, it's just going to be a grotesquely obese Hello Kitty. Trust me, I know.

Hopefully i can pull the real disgusting look on my GUO

Nope, it's just going to be a grotesquely obese Hello Kitty. Trust me, I know.

Ill make you eat those words! xD

Fabulous PlagueBearer tutorial, I think you should definitely cut and paste it into a new topic in the Halfling Cookbook. Well done! Now to vote in your poll...

Minor update guys 'n' gals
Im off to Switzerland for a week and a bit, and ill be back monday the 20th
So unfortunately, until then, there will be no more updates! Unless i manage to get the remaining 2 plaguebearers done on sunday (which is likely) in which case you can expect a possible full plaguebearer unit pic

Until then.

See ya all soon!

Until then, have a nice holiday

JJ

Guess whos back!

I had a great holiday in Switzerland with all the cheese, chocolate and mountain hikes! (its much more colourful then dull, gray, dirty old london )
So im half happy, half sad to be back, mainly happy so i can get back to work on my GUO! (which won by a landslide suprisingly [/endsarcasm])

So expect some updates within the next few days!

Sorry for the lack of replies guys,
Ive been so busy lately sculpting small bits (if you can call 20 faceguards on swordmasters small D:) for some friends and for a staff member (for free ofcourse ).

Unfortunatley there isnt much to show, as the only things i have done are build some of the models i have purchased recently and only begun sculpting my GUO (though i dont want to spoil anything yet so no pictures ).

This is a list of what i have done since ive been back:

I've built 30 bloodletters.
I've built and sculpting bits onto 6 flesh hounds. (pictures soon)
I've finished painting my 20 plaguebearers. (pictures soon)
I've sculpted the first bits of the face of my GUO.

Expect some updates on my GUO once my order of new milliput arrives.

Thats it for now!

Mad

Well, im back from the Warhammer World hobby camp, which was great fun!
I also got the chance to view the models done by the 'Eavy Metal team, which i lost myself in. Holy shit are the models better in real life then they are in the army books and white dwarf magazines. I was completely inspired by all of the models and i even learned a few interesting painting 'techniques' by looking at them and trying to think how certain parts were done.

Enough with the picturless portion of the update.

While i was at Warhammer World, i treated myself by purchasing models which im going to enjoy painting very much:



The Daemon Prince of Khorne is going to be given wings to onvert him into a Bloodthirster


Unfortunatley ive been so busy recently, that ive got hardly anything done! So to make up for this, here are some pictures of what ive done so far

Here are the pictures of my finished Plaguebearer unit:










Here are my flesh hound conversions ^^





As you can see, I filled in the holes in their head with putty sculpted as hair, added some tails, and a 'Collar of Khorne' substitute: 'Armbands of Khorne'!


While i was at the Hobby Camp i managed to finish only 5 Skeleton Warriors for my Tomb Kings, which is because i remove every mold line from the models and i take ages to build them xD Also the paintjob is very complicated, the shield has 12 stages and about 8 layers, the blue headflaps have 5 layers, the gold has 5 stages, the bone has 5 stages etc etc etc. And here is the champion of the unit



And here's a better view of the shield:




Finally, to make up for lack of updates recently, heres the early, early, early, early, early, early stage that my GUO is at (His mouth and eyes). Unfortunatley i cant continue him until i get my order of Milliput, which will hopefully be soon.







Here i raised him up to how big i hope him to be when he is given legs. Its also a size comparation


Next in line: 30 Bloodletters to paint D:

Wow, all great stuff Mad! I especially like that tomb-king bloke, very well painted!

And i Am intrigued about how the GUO will turn out...so far it just looks like a possessed Russian Doll, but i really do see potential in that bad boy, i especially like the tongue

And for some reason, it seems the milliput you used on the GUO looks alot darker than the stuff i use? Are you using a different brand, or is it just a trick of the light?

- Warpy

I agree with warpy on the GUO, not cute at all!
Also, which minis did you use as Flesh Hound Proxies?

Dont speak too soon Vyv...iv also seen that body shape before somewhere...



GAHHHHHHHHHHHH

- Warpy

Whoa! Somehow part of Wildcard's inspired mind has found a home in Momada's body! Quick, let's exorcise him before he starts vomiting pea soup!

Its probably just a trick of the light warp It the usual mix of GS and Terracota Milliput.

@Vyv: The Flesh Hounds bodies i've used are those of the WoC Warhounds

Cant wait to see that GUO finished.. looks really awesome

rabbids! YAY!

Maybe this should be Mad's theme for his Daemons: The Daemonic Legion of Hello Kitty and Rabbids!

No but seriously, it looks great Mad. It reminds me of Lahamian (sp?) vamps with their whole 'I r soooo innocent' routine. Nice.

-Evii

It reminds me of Lahamian (sp?) vamps with their whole 'I r soooo innocent' routine. Nice.

Finally, someone understands -.-

So you're creating an army of decieving little bastards? Cool!
Though I believe that I am more nurglish than any Great Unclean One...

Plaguebearers look great, that pus is really gross!! Your wolf conversions are subtle and really well executed, and the Skelly looks really nice.  Love where the GUO is headed.. he he, even if he stays looking like a Raving Rabbid he'll still be pretty cool!