Sorcerer all built

Sorcerer (again).

It is with some satisfaction I have finished converting up the Fly Head Sorcerer and base coated him up ready for painting.
The plan was to create a unique sorcerer to use as a scroll caddy ( he might get a promotion ) with a big nod to an old Nurgle Champion I always liked, you know the one, you've probably seen it for silly money on Ebay if you searched with either the words Nurgle or Chaos Champion.

Original inspiration from back in the day.

It's been a fun conversion, although waiting for all the fiddly bits of GS cure before I could do the next bit was a bit of a grind. I do however have a horrible feeling he will have to be handled with care during gaming and transporting or break.

 

Well you are all probably sick of the sight of him now, so I promise you wont have to see him again until he is fully painted and that won't be for a bit as I have set myself of doing a few basic Warriors before starting him.

Vash

Sorcerer Spew and Champion Paint

Champion.

Decided to jump on to a front rank figure on the Warriors unit painting to make a change without changing unit ( or army or game system for that matter). So the Units Champion got slapped about with the brush.

Sorcerer.

Next up is the Sorcerers staff top, it's not finished yet but is starting to look like it is blowing chunks for a suitably Nurgly spell, well maggots anyway. Also the midriff Nurgle symbol, antennae ends get a bit of work.

Just need to infill around the Maggoty bits with a bit of GS, tidy up a few bits and bobs and he is ready for base gravel and undercoat. No doubt I'll have to go over him again after undercoat as it always seems to find mistakes I don't.


After that It's back to the exciting world of GSing shield fronts and painting warriors for a bit.

Nurgle Sorcerer progress

Sorcerer.

Some progress on the Nurgle Sorcerer to show today.

The fiddly job of adding Antennae and Palps has started with yet more wire formers as well as some more detailing on the head end of the Proboscis.
 I get the horrible feeling I might be pushing my luck with trying to GS such spindly and fragile parts though.

 

Also started a bit more of the generic sort of Nurglification, boils, holes in the loin cloth and amour corrosion.

In other non sorcerer related snooze a bit of work on the other conversion heavy model for the unit.

The Musician's worm horn gets some stumpy lil leg spikes and the worms skin starts to be be modeled up with its sores.

Musician.

 

Work is stealing my hobby time.

First rank finished

Actually managed to get a pretty decent shot of the rear rank all painted and finished. More than anything else this picture has got my excited about the project, something about starting to put a group of painted minis together for a picture is satisfying for a person that paints as slowly as I do.

Unfortunately my work always gets hectic just after Christmas and New Years Eve which means not much time for models. I have managed to to do a bit more GSing on the scroll caddy Sorcerer though.

First off the head; I was going to originally do a classic Fly head on him but the mouth parts just kept on turning out like a miniature Elephants trunk. After staring at various fly pictures I just gave up and rethought it somewhat and went with a blood sucker type bug. No one spreads disease like a mosquito so that was the vague idea here, yellow fever anyone?

I have also cut out and then filled in a couple of open sores, blanked out a disk on his midriff ready for a Nurgle symbol as well as starting to fill a nasty mold line down the staff and arm .

 

 Next was something for the staff top, once again I have had a change of heart. Originally the plan was to pop a Nurgle symbol on the end, but this just didn't work from certain angles. So with a couple of bits of wire I have made a form for a spiral which I will GS into a sort of spewing vomit style affair to represent a Nurgle spell.