Age of Sigmar - Poxbringer
I realised recently that I’m pretty close to a Maggotkin of Nurgle Spearhead force. All I’m missing are Pusgoyle Blightlords and a Spoilpox Scrivener. And for some bizarre reason, Games Workshop doesn’t sell the latter separately, despite being on its own sprue. So I figured it would be easier to use a Poxbringer as a proxy. A Proxbringer if you will.
I assembled the model at the same time as I did the Grandfather’s Gardeners and it was fairly obvious that the Poxbringer is a much older sculpt, he’s not nearly as svelte as the Gardeners, a bit more crunchy. This is no bad thing of course, more an interesting tidbit. In any case, I got the miniature assembled but left them separate from the base for ease of painting. Both the miniature and the base were then primed with Army Painter Angel Green.
As with my other Nurgle daemons I started with giving the model a zenithal highlight from above with Liquitex Titanium White acrylic ink. The white ink makes it much easier to lay down Army Painter Air Jungle Green, which despite being very vibrant is a fairly transparent colour. Next I sprayed some Army Painter Air Violet Volt on his belly, under their outstretched arm and on the tips of the horns. I also carefully did this for the Nurgling sitting on the horns.
To tie everything together I then gave the model a head to toe wash of Reikland Fleshshade. I then brought back some of the vibrancy that had been lost in the wash with a drybrush of Niblet Green.
From there I could move onto the rest of the base coats. The obvious place to start was to painstakingly pick out each of the boils with a dot of Vallejo Goldbrown. I then picked out any sores in the skin and the tongue with Screamer Pink. I then carefully picked out the teeth with Army Painter Skeleton Bone. The guts spilling out onto the floor I painted with Two Thin Coats Runic Purple. The severed head that the Nurgling is holding onto I painted with Two Thin Coats Griffon Claw and the hair with Two Thin Coats Death Reaper. The Plaguesword was also painted with Death Reaper and then given a dryrbrush of Necron Compound to give it a metallic finish. Speaking of metallics, I finished the base coats off by painting any bells with Balthasar Gold and the rings that connect them to the Poxbringer with Scale75 Thrash Metal.
With the base coats done I moved onto the washes, starting with giving the tongue and sores a coat of Reikland Fleshshade. The bells I washed with Army Painter Strong Tone and the hair on the severed head was given a coat of Army Painter Dark Tone. The flesh on the severed head meanwhile I painted with a coat of Army Painter Speedpaint Malignant Green to match the rest of my zombie forces.
The next step was to add some effect paints to the model, namely some Greenstuff World Fluorescent paints. It’s fairly unlikely that anyone, besides me, is going to shine a UV light on my models but I enjoy knowing the possibility is there. Anyway, I painted some Violet fluorescent paint on the guts, a couple coats of Green on the weapon, Yellow on all the boils and Red in the eyes. I finished things off by painting some Nihilakh Oxide on the bells to give it the appearance of verdigris.
With the model done I moved swiftly onto the base. I started by overbrushing the rocks with Two Thin Coats Dungeon Stone, this is a bit more intense than a drybrush but still leaves some dark green showing in the recesses. I then filled out the rest of the base with Vallejo Thick Brown Mud and once that was dry I gave the whole base a coat of Athonian Camoshade. As with my other Nurgle models the next step was to dab on some PVA glue in patches then sprinkle on some Geek Gaming Scenics Base Read Forest Ground Cover. I then repeated the process in smaller patches with some static grass. In some of the recesses of the texture paste I dabbed in some thinned down Caliban Green to create some toxic pools. I then followed up with Nurgle’s Rot technical paint, adding a fairly thick layer but making sure to leave a ring of Caliban Green around the edges. For some variety I also stuck down an Army Painter Lowland Shrub tuft. Lastly, I painted the rim with a couple coats of Warboss Green.