Pimple my ride - Nurgle Palanquin for Rogue Trader

Hi there, I'm in the final steps of my tale of several gamers so still trying to finish as much as I can for my Chaos renegades. I've only realized last month I haven't painted a single character in this challenge and thought I could use some leadership. Now of course I couldn't settle on something simple could I ?

And that's how I remembered I had this Nurgle Palanquin with no less than 3 potential riders, all fitted with Magnets !

Best part of which being one is pretty neutral and could be your regular undivided chaos lord.

Since I didn't have enough corks to put the riders on, I had the best idea in the world (aka worst idea ever, don't do this at home) and pinned all three on the same cork !

Now this one is a fun one. I've had this really worn out Marneus Calgar in my pile for a long time but the details were so soft he looked like he had had a few spins in the washing machine. Not exactly the model you're really eager to paint...

But with the possibility of making him a Warlord, things were a little different.

I tried to keep neutral enough with just a little mutation and altered armour. I didn't even change the decorations because I believe he's still somehow proud of them and he probably only got in the heresy business lately...

Manspreading like an evil boss

Of course you might best see what the miniature truly looks like when superbly painted by someone with the skill and talent to do it justice :

From Curis's Ninjabread

Next rider is the funny guy, you can tell he's a party boy with both guns in the air and he's probably one to overdo things because he's lucky (I mean, Meltagun AND plasma pistol... jeeez).

And last but definitely my favourite nonetheless, that guy has a bit of a wizard's look but he's holding a shuriken catapult (which is pretty cool I find).
His face is concealed by his hood and he's probably a remote cousin of Judge Death, the horned king, Skeletor or Slough Feg...

For a little change I didn't add the original 2 banners so it looks a bit different and I had to change the seat part which looked too fantasy and couldn't take Calgar's manspreading.
I also had a quick read in the Lost and the Damned bookand realised I needed sticky pools to represent the trails of slime and filth nurglings leave in their path.

 Painting the nurglings took a good while since my OCD wouldn't let me paint two of the same colour next to one another.

I'm also pretty happy with the gross textures I managed to get with different technical paints such as Typhus corrosion, nurgle's rot or blood.

This is the third palanquin I've painted, the first was stripped and repainted but here are the last 2 next to each other. I know I was quite happy with it at the time (and still am to some extent) but I like to see the evolution.

I still have a few things left to paint this month and Nurgley things too, there's little time left but everything should be OK !