Time To Announce Our Second Winner

Good evening explorers of the lonesome warp and welcome to our corner of the garden. Wednesday has rolled around again and it is time to announce our second winner of the Nurgle Lord of Chaos model.

As I did last week I have picked the name of one our followers out of a hat as is the tradition and our lucky winner this week is...

Nasty looking bleeder he is

Dalinair

A big congratulations to Dalinair from The 40k Project who played the odds and gave us a shout out for competition to secure a cheeky second entry. I can reveal he is in fact not a Trygon but his profile picture was of a different hive fleet so I thought his latest painted monster did him more justice. Looking at his latest posts there does looks to be more to come in the near future so worth checking in on if you like uncompromising nightmarish creatures and their painted Tyranids.

That is two winners drawn which means next Wednesday is our last draw and the last time I use the stock picture of the Nurgle Lord I give you my word.

Until next time keep doing Nurgle's work and you too will be blessed by our generous patron.

O'Shashar

The Results Are In And We Have Our First Winner!

Good evening children of the Plague Father and thank you for joining us once again to see the results of our painting competition and who is our first winner. To help build up the suspense of who is getting a freebie I will announce the painting competition results first.

In third place with 18% of the votes is Dorn's Arrow
In second place is myself with 25% of the votes
Which leaves Mighty Simo to claim first place with 56% of the vote.

Mighty Simo's winning model

However this is the news I am sure you are more interested in hearing and it is who has first choice of the three models on offer. With the help of my darling wife I have used a highly scientific follower selection method ( names out of a hat ) and our first winner is...

Shamelessly lifted from his blog

Hendybadger

So please joining me in congratulating Hendybadger in gaining the favour of our patron. This mysterious space faring member of the weasel family can be found nurturing his love of skirmish games, pirates and super heroes in his set found here.

Until next time keep a keen eye on the going ons in our dark recess of the garden as we still have
two more models to give away.

O'Shashar

Dorn's Arrow's Finished Chaos Nurgle Lord (and whats that on the horizon?)

Hi there followers of the pestilent one, I finally have photos of my completed Nurgle Lord.

Although I was the first to finish painting the model, my lack of decent photos means that my post is somewhat belated. What I wanted to get out of this competition was to try out some new skills. The armour is where I have practised my first use of blending. I wanted to achieve a death guard type light green colour and am very happy with the result. I got this colour by using a foundation of fortress grey, followed by a couple of washes of catachen green. I then glazed adeptus battlegrey with a tiny amount of enchanted blue over the armour. After this I used a couple of layers of watered down gretchen green, pulling the brush away from the recessed areas and towards the raised areas. I repeated this step, gradually adding in rotten flesh and leaving part of the previous colour showing.

This model was a joy to paint, with no real fiddly or hard to get to areas, and I think it may inspire me to start my own warriors of chaos army. My obsessive compulsive nature is going to make it hard to let go of this model, and I may have to instead award the winner of my model with a brand new boxed version as this plague fiend whispers to me from my shelf. As for now, I have just completed painting my Heldenhammer from the Dreadfleet set... it took me much longer than expected as it is such a detailed model. Here is a rough photo from my phone:


My next project is to paint the Bloody Reaver so that the pirate battles can commence! Until next time...

Three Voting Days Remaining

With only three days remaining to vote on your favourite Nurgle Lord of Chaos painted by ourselves here within Nurgle's cupboard I am throwing up a cheeky post to bring us back to the foreground.

I apologise that this is purely a plug for the competition and please rest assured I have prepared a few posts already for the coming weeks once the competition ends.

Until next time please vote using the poll in the top right of the site.

O'Shashar

PFW FOR GRAZIA

my daily coverage of PFW can be seen on grazia.it

Nurgle Lord of Chaos - Voting

Good afternoon children of Nurgle and thank you for joining me today so that I can announce the voting poll is now up for which of our three Nurgle Lords you prefer ( found in the top right corner ).

For those of you which are unfamiliar with our competition if can be find here along with details of how to get yourself in the running to win one of our three versions of this gruesome brute.

O'Shashar

First up is my contribution to our patron lord of Chaos and my post about my time painting him here.

Mighty Simo

Next we have Mighty Simo's take on the Nurgle Lord, a full post about this model can be found here.

Dorn's Arrow

Unfortunately Dorn's Arrow's picture if from his phone as real life has stopped him being able to get to Mighty Simo and his photography magic but a post should be up within the next few days with shiny pictures for your enjoyment.

So now you have seen the contenders for the crown and we would appreciate you taking your time to vote ( using the poll in the top right of the page ) over the next week and then I will announce who won the vote and our first winner.

O'Shashar

O'Shashar's Finished Chaos Nurgle Lord

Good evening followers of Nurgle and welcome back to our pestilent domain. The time of reckoning is drawing closer and soon the voting will commence on which Nurgle Lord our followers find the most repugnant.

The final day for us to finish painting is the 29th at which point I will put a poll up for you to cast your vote for your favourite. Now you have all seen Mighty Simo's and I hear he is venturing into the dank dungeon that holds the shambling horror that is Dorn's Arrow to give his model a glamorous photo shoot for your twisted pleasure.

However this post is about neither of my fellow pawns in Papa Nurgle's games and is about my contribution to our competition. So without further ado here is my Nurgle Lord of Chaos in all his filthy glory.

As you can see I have tried to go with how I feel a Nurgle Lord should be rather than the artwork Games Workshop has provided us with. I went for a more rusted look to the armour without taking it to the point that it would crumble to dust if it was struck.

Next up was the skin, I imagine this brute to be constantly at war rather than recently converted, he is a Lord after all and not a freshly formed conscript. So a more advanced stage of decomposition was in order and I thought a green hue leant itself well to this.

The horn and skulls I tried to give a dirty appearance to as he doesn't strike me as the kind of chap who would take the time to boil the flesh off and bleach his trophies so much as throw it on his belt until all that remained was the bone.

With his loin cloth I went for purple to compliment the green while making sure it was suitably filthy while still covering his modesty.

I tried to keep the base simple as he is a rather large model for the base size he is on so rather than try to over crowd it I just picked out the rocks in a grey tone while giving the ground a muddy appearance as don't imagine much grass would survive his march.

Overall I really enjoyed painting this model and hope who ever becomes his new owner takes care of the ugly little monster.

The draw for the winner isn't far away but if you haven't entered already all you need to do is follow this blog for a chance. Also if you want an extra crack at the prize just link to the original post found here and post in the comments.

Until next time keep spreading his plague so all can enjoy his blessings.

O'Shashar