Classic Lord of Nurgle on mount - grimdark style

It's Grim, it's Dark, it's a Lord of Nurgle on deamonic steed! After the Warhammer Fest reveal of the upcoming new plastic model I dug out the old metal OldHammer one and decided to give it a lick of paint! I never really liked the old paintscheme as the contrast on the horse skin was too much for me in the photo. So I though, can I make a pale horse out of it? No blends, no highlights, just washes, a few glazes and a dash of drybrushing ended me up with this nice (filthy) feller in some kind of Blanchitsu style!
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[@Wijkert]

Love the end result! Like I said on Twitter, one of my all time favorite mini's.

[@dehoofdwerker]

Thanks a lot! The miniature is so much better from what I remember when it was released. Heaps of detail on it, all of it nasty :)

[@mohussain4792]

Beautiful work on a classic sculpt!

[@dehoofdwerker]

Many thanks! It was a lot of fun to work on :)

[@meanderingshade]

There have been many instances where I thought I didn't like a model to later find it was just the official paint job that was fooling me. I learned to wait until any figure I wasn't sure about was released out into the wild and seeing other people's painting before making my final judgment. I love this figure, one of my all time favourite Nurgle champions, you've done an amazing job with it. Carry on being awesome and take care :)

[@dehoofdwerker]

😁😁many thanks for the kind words! And I fully agree, the paintjob sometimes just doesn't highlight the model for me. Probably personal, but with this one it was the biggest contrast between not liking the model at all, and really loving the grimdark aspect of it. Don't know what it really is, it might also be the re-touching of the photographs (increasing contrast) that messes up an otherwise more balanced paintjob. And you keep up the great work as well! 👍👍

[@FormerlyChucks112]

awesome work as always

[@dehoofdwerker]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ADhammer]

Crow is my favorite

[@dehoofdwerker]

yeah it's a lovely addition to the scene!

[@livanbard]

Kislev is the bastion against the chaos horde on the old lore. That's why he is going there to enfeeble the city I always imaged that. They even used this plotpoint on total war warhammer.

[@dehoofdwerker]

Ah! Good to find someone who knows, thanks! 😁👍👍

[@graefx]

#dadhammer is a term I haven't encountered before and it's perfect lol. I really love the result, would be great to see you explore this painting style more The new model losing the sign and crow is a travesty

[@dehoofdwerker]

Haha yeah I don't know if it's actually a term, but most likely! 😂 I'm also sad that the new model misses the crow on top of the sign, but it actually does have the crow but on the back of the horse, and the sign is still there too. So not all is lost! Plastic is incredible easy to convert, especially compared to these old metal hunks :D

[@Wijkert]

I agree, your version looks better than the box art. Normally I like high contast, but the box art had too much even for my taste.

[@dehoofdwerker]

yeah they really overdid it especially on the horse. But it might also be a result of touch-ups on the photography, dialling up the contrast of the image to get a bigger punch. It's easy to get carried away with that slider XD

[@Wijkert]

@@dehoofdwerker definitely could be overdone in post

[@jimzo1985]

Nice one mate ... now you can get Uber Brorn the fellhanded done ha ha

[@dehoofdwerker]

Thanks! Yeah my hands are itching to do a big robot conversion again, so who knows! :)

[@jimzo1985]

@@dehoofdwerker Good man ! he deserves an epic model massive lightning claw double assault cannons ... loads of wolfskins extra armour.... runes .... magnus getting kicked in the balls ...

[@dehoofdwerker]

@@jimzo1985 hahaha oh my that would be an epic diorama

[@jimzo1985]

@@dehoofdwerker Your the man with the skills for it bro ! Bonus pissing on those thousand sons traitor nerds ....magnus did nothing wrong ... get pimp slapped by Fellclaw poindexter !! hah