Maulblade the Doomkin

My Nurgle Chaos Lord is named Maulblade the Doomkin. He is sort of the Eternal Champion of my Chaos collections as I've had several models to carry the name over the years. You can see my Oldhammer version on my Stro'Knor Macekiller blog. They share nothing in common beyond the name. While I intend to eventually paint all of the named characters GW currently supports, I always enjoy having my own aspiring icon!

I simply painted him in the same colors as my Blightkings and he may serve as a champion in one of the units in the future when I've painted some of the 'name' characters.

While I am interested in seeing the new point values due out this summer I am enjoying just building a meandering force. Currently I have...

Maulblade the Doomkin (Lord of Plagues)
Addlecroft (Rotbringer Sorcerer)
Quor (Harbinger of Decay)
Festus the Leechlord
Gutrot Spume
Morbidex Twiceborn (but the rider is magnetized to be able to field any of the others)
The Glottkin
20 Putrid Blightkings (and Maulblade makes 21... see my last post)

3 Varanguard (converted to bear Blightking riders)

Herald of Nurgle
20 Plaguebearers of Nurgle
12 Bases of Nurglings
2 Beasts of Nurgle

Skaven Plaguepriest
20 Plague Monks
5 Plague Censer Bearers
Plague Furnace

Not sure when I'll get around to painting all of this, but I like that Age of Sigmar encourages varied collections (at least for the time being). When I am tired of painting Blightkings, I can paint a unit of Skaven and use them on the table without committing to painting an entire chittering horde.

Bringing out one of the big guns next week!

Nurgle Rotbringers

That makes ten - one big unit or two small...

I think my plan now is to paint up twenty-one of these brutes (I have a few extras from a box I bought for conversions). Then I can field four five-model units or three seven-model units (the sacred number of Grandfather Nurgle). I have enough boxes now to do this, but I think I'm going to paint up a few characters first...

Nurgle Rotbringers

I keep saying this, I know, but again I find this is one of my favorite models!

Deluge of Nurgle

I tried. I really did.

There are a pile of tutorials on the web on how to quickly paint Nurglings. I tried them all - spray paint, airbrush, drybrush - some of them looked ok, but they didn't look like MINE. They didn't look right next to the Blightkings. So I resorted to going about this the hard way and treating them like any other model meaning base coat, washes, and multiple layers. It is going to take me a couple of weeks to paint the minimum nine stands I need to field the Warscroll Battalion, Deluge of Nurgle, but hopefully the results will be well worth the effort. I like this battalion because it blends mortal followers and daemons and serves as a great core to expand the army in either direction.

More Blightkings coming up, but once I've slogged through these little monsters I'm going to tackle Morbidex Twiceborn and his hulking Maggoth.

Nurgle Rotbringers

I love everything about this model - the face, the axe, the shield... a brilliant bit of sculpting by GW!

More next week - musician and standard bearer!

Nurgle Rotbringers

Here is another great brute...

Nearly all of the Battalion Warscrolls require three or four units of Putrid Blightkings so I have plans to get another two boxes!

Nurgle Rotbringers

It's been a while since I've painted any Age of Sigmar models, but I have a pile of them. My brother is rebasing his old High Elves for the new rules and I need to get busy, so I decided to dig back into my Putrid Blightkings...

Hopefully this will just the first of a wave of Nurgle models!