How to Paint Death Guard Plague Marines for Warhammer 40k - Chaos Space Marine Guide

Death Guard are the centre of attention this week as I explore 4 different ways to paint your favourite resilient Plague Marines for Warhammer 40k and Warhammer 30k Horus Heresy. Be sure to let me know which was your favourite and why!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:43 How I Paint Death Guard
06:56 Surfshark
08:28 Grim Dark
12:58 Blue Marine
18:49 Contrast Marine
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[@flashingbadgerpainting]

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[@goofyork]

love the video my favorite is the original white and green 😀 👍

[@joshleonard8947]

Just got back into 40k. Had space marines as a kid and wanted a gross nurgley challenge as an adult. Interesting to see a couple different ways of painting and the techniques youve used.

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Welcome back into the hobby Josh 😎 Same for me! I had blood angels as a kid and now as an adult getting back into the hobby I was ready to break bad and turn to chaos. I have a showcase up somewhere on the channel of the whole DG army if you’re interested to see some of the conversions etc that I had a go at.

[@joshleonard8947]

Thanks! I'm embracing the chaos as well. Finished my plague marines and now I'm working on some poxwalkers. Love all the gross flesh and bone on all the death guard minis. I'll check out the video. I'll have to upload one of my own when I'm done 😁

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Now I’m excited, that will be cool!

[@Gumlass1]

Fun fact: Deathworld Forest is almost identical to Vallejo Russian Uniform WWII for those that prefer dropper bottles:)

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

I do enjoy a dropper bottle. Good tip!

[@joesheridan9451]

Closer to lufftwaffe camouflage

[@richardschwerdtfeger2765]

Army Painter has a number of new metallics in their Speedpaint range, but those particular paints create less of the shadow/highlight than most of the others. Still nice, so you might like them.

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey thanks Richard for pointing me in the right direction. I’ll give them a try 😀

[@RainieDay08]

Love how you included different color schemes! They came out amazing! Definitely feeling inspired now!

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Awesome thanks Sarah 😀 Glad they helped

[@YellowHornet42]

Really awesome vid Mike! I really liked the grim dark version you made. the way you build up from really dark to vibrant highlights looks great! The Blue one was also really cool and unique. Keep up the great work! As an idea for another video, maybe some age of sigmar stuff? I'd love to see your take on Serephan!

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey thanks so much 😀 your timing is perfect as Gordon and I were picking out a Serephan model for an upcoming video. You’ve convinced me to commit to painting one 🤌

[@Gumlass1]

I like the plague Ultramarines:)

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Thanks!

[@mulebutter433]

Sweet video! Love me some Chaos. I messed around with metallic silver-ish bases, and then army painter contrast colors over the top.

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Yeah nice that sounds like a great idea 👍

[@WyrdWyld]

Thanks, this was amazing :)

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Glad you liked it! 😀

[@eliastorres4461]

I've fallen in love with using the little-known Agrax Earthshade Gloss on my Death Guard. Slap it on over the green armor and it gives it such a nice browned, slimy looking texture, like there's just fluids oozing out of every crevice

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Love it!

[@MountedDeath85]

Blue one is SO COOL!

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Thanks mate! That one was fun. I think a whole army like that could look wild 😀

[@AlwaysEvilGaming]

Amazing colors and the fact you did 4 models in one video is next level. Stoked to try some of these ideas. Thank you

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Thanks for the feedback 😀 if you try some out you’ll have to let me know how you go

[@AlwaysEvilGaming]

@@flashingbadgerpainting just getting into the hobby slow process of gathering supplies at the moment but I started a boss snikrot

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Love me some Orks and that’s a great model to kick off with.

[@PETITWINKIE]

I’m such a fan of your content, already so professional and these minis are insane ! 😍

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

That’s awesome 😀 thanks so much! Sometimes I wonder if anyone is really watching and enjoying it so this means a lot. Made my day 😀

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

20:31 speed paint has metallics now

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Perfect timing, I just painted with them this weekend and really enjoyed them. Thanks for the heads up though!

[@fahaduddin6659]

Painted my first mini , it was a space marine heros s3 krug. It came out amazing, thank you so much your guide helped alot.

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

That’s awesome news. Well done on the first mini! I’m glad the guide helped and I look forward to hearing about what you tackle next 🤌👍

[@fahaduddin6659]

I am planning to hunt down rest of the series 3 space marine heros gonna make a squad . I sent a pic of the death guard i did in ig xd

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

I just saw the come through, I’ll go check it out 😀

[@Ankhin]

Great job with them all. But especially that grim dark PM, i miiight just have a go at that style. Thanks!

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Thanks so much! You’ll have to let me know how you go with it 😀

[@mr.cookiecutter]

What did you use on the leather straps for the Grimdark model? Amazing channel btw. Definitely subscribing.

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey mate, welcome to the channel 😀 the straps are a base of Mournfang brown and then a cheeky highlight of any lighter brown. 👍

[@tiniestmonkey5915]

That grim dark scheme is super cool! Tempts me to bust out some DG lol

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Haha thanks 😀 do it! Treat yourself.

[@theGreenChangeling]

there are some contrasts that can be used instead of metalics, but they don't have the same effect. Or in other words, there are no (Citadel) metal paints in contrast form. Warhammer has a tutorial for painting a Myphitic Blight-hauler with contrast paints available on KZbin, where they substitute Balthazar Gold with Gore-Grunta Fur, and Leadbelcher with Basilicanum Grey.

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey thanks so much for taking the time to talk me through that 👍

[@theGreenChangeling]

@@flashingbadgerpainting I'm glad I was helpful XD

[@waynefitzpatrick6220]

Great video dude

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey thanks so much for letting me know!

[@Fla1573sh]

Official "Blue" remix ringtone to download for my Nokia when?

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hahaha 🤣🤦‍♀️

[@mr.cookiecutter]

How would you use the Grimdark style on vehicles and other large models? I feel like the much larger flat plates would be really hard to paint with a sponge without having it look bad?

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Check out the video I have on the channel for the Blood Angels Dreadnought. It has large smooth panels but I think the style still works well on them. Let me know what you think 🤔

[@TheDartyParty]

Hi Mike! Love the work you did with the Grim Dark Variant of the Death Guard and I would love to use it with my army. Some of the models have cloth on them, but I didn’t see any on the model you used. If you were to use this same method on a model with the cloth, what colors would you use for it?

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey! Thanks for letting me know that you enjoyed it. Good question. I think I would likely use cream and bone colours for the cloths on the basic infantry and for elite infantry maybe crimson reds and important characters maybe even purple or blue. I think those colours would pair well and the great thing about the bone colours is that you could weather and stain them so dirt and blood would really stand out.

[@Matt-md5yt]

Glad you did this my friend

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

No worries 😀

[@toddthompson2782]

really did the blue one, great work

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Thanks Todd! Was a lot fun putting this video together. More chaos landing on the first of Jan for info 👀

[@pixelmunk6954]

What paint do you use for the bone sticking out of the shoulder?

[@flashingbadgerpainting]

Hey, from memory this was Zandri Dust as a base and then I’ll often glaze some darker browns like mournfang and rhinox. Hope that helps!

[@pixelmunk6954]

@@flashingbadgerpainting Yes it does thanks. Cheers for the tutorials btw, love your work 😊