Warhounds 2 Warmasters

After a little over forty hours sat with: two rescue Reaver Titans, four Nurgle Plague Drones, two Blighthaulers, one Foetid Bloat Drone the remains of a Maulerfiend kit and a liquorice assortment of alternative and/or 3Dprinted Warhound and Direwolf parts I am almost finished building four completely Nurgle dedicated Reaver Titans, two Warhounds and two Direwolves.

This force has evolved, at random, throughout those hours with a suitably organic approach to the conversions. There have been firsts – I’ve tried my hand at greenstuff sculpting where possible and I’m pretty happy with how disgustingly disturbing they have grown to be. I’ve arranged two of the Reavers so that the weapon options are magnetised and once I have a Warlord Titan ready (the Glotkin arrived this morning) I will have the necessary components to field a Fortis and a Ferrox maniple.

As the project has moved along, I’ve grown ever fonder of the notion of being able to field these towers of filth in place of some of my other forces, subject to whim, and I can say that closing on having an alternative set of models to field my typical Vulpa, Mortis, Vulcanum and Fureans lists is going to put a large, rictus grin on my face.

I’m hoping my next post should cover the first wave of completed Unbidden Pox and some not-so low effort photos.

My plan, such as it is, for painting these little monsters is spray them black, drybrushGrey and then mottle over the grey with White. I can then use washes and contrasts to block in colours like pallid/oxygen deprived flesh and rancid carapace/chitin.

I want the metals to be a mess. Darkened, rust-covered and plenty of verdigris.

Whilst I have been basing most of my Titans on Martian basing, these had to have a hat tip to Baz and his amazing Mordaxis – so they will start with a mud and have rest topped with snow effect. Yet more firsts for me so, if this goes tits-up… well… there isn’t much I can do about it, really.