Nurgle Plague Marines

 Greetings all ! As you've probably guessed from the header and title, well I'm still pretty deep into chaos renegades and thought I'd channel my current mojo into getting some of the core troops done !
I've been considering the Nurgle boys for a long time since I had an idea of how to I wanted them to be.

Now of course there's plenty of inspiration to draw from everywhere and there's no wrong way to approach those but there were a few things I knew from the start :

-I wanted them to fit my other renegades so black would have to be the base of them

-I tend to get a bit bored of green plague marines so didn't want to fall into the green Nurgle trope (again)

- I had painted  a lord on palanquin and a great unclean one already so wanted them all to fit nicely.

So that closed plenty of doors though. I just remembered Nurgle is meant to be a rather joyful kind of guy with his demons laughing and dancing at the futility of life and from good enough source material, I knew rotten flesh tends to be far more colourful so wanted to add this bit of grusesome joviality by having a few colours without clashing too much.

Illustration by Mark Gibbons

Now there are 7 Nurgle marines in the range and one of the heavy weapon one being distinctively Nurgley as well, making a total of 8. Now being the sort of idiot that I am, I wanted to round that up to 10 until I remembered I had a conversion from aaaages ago so ended if a number of 11 renegades...

Here you can see the converted champion in the middle, built from a Jes Goodwin Nurgle champion, scavvy head and Kharn's chain axe along two of the most leader looking renegades of the bunch. The plaguebearer head one on the right is probably my favourite.

In the picture below, you can see #1 and #3 aren't nurglates to begin with but I thought they'd fit the bill well enough ! I'm not exactly sure why a Nurgle renegade would hold a flamer when some of his colleagues fear flame weapons but I guess Nurgle isn't the kind of guy to worry for much if anything at all.

 

Now there are plenty of illustrations that convey the feeling I wanted my renegades to have, guys who are ruthless, brutal, gross but also carefree and fun, Nurgle is the embodiment of YOLO.

Illustration by Tony Hough

 

I really love that those renegades come in different sizes and shapes, with the 3 squatting ones different from their more physically impressive counterparts. Some of the sculpts have had tobe fixed with green stuff because teenage me did terrible things to them in the past. I do think it's a good thig though since the tentacles I sculpted on the heavy bolter guy integrate the weapon better than they used to.

 Keep in mind a good Nurgle force is always an opportunity to play your favourite tunes with armpit farts while rolling dices and that it's OK to pick your nose the whole time.

Illustration by Kevin Walker

 

Now this looks great, I should probably add a few demons in due time, I reckon a beast and a fistful of plaguebearers would hurt right ?

 

 

Oh and wait, what else could be great ? :) 

Illustration by Adrian Smith