I finally finished it! I’ve had this model since it was released, back in 1990-1. It’s been glued together almost as long. One of the feet fell off, and was lost to time, so I had to recast it using Oyomaru (aka Blue Stuff) and Kneadatite (Greenstuff). Luckily, because Nurgle, it being slightly imperfect was fine. Despite the base feeling a little big (especially compared to the 40mm square it came with), I’ve gone for a 60mm round here rather than an oval for consistency with the new models that I’ll be adding later and mixing in.
The Main reasons this one took so long to get painted were the gaping big bloody seam down the middle of the model’s face and body, because metal (finally sorted with putty) – as well as no pressing need to paint it for anything (now rectified with that Nurgle Daemon Army I’ve been working on), and working out a scheme (just based it on the other models in the force). So now the bloody thing is finally done! Hurrah!
Here’s a nice little gathering of the old-school, original Oldhammer Realm of Chaos Nurgle Daemons. Well, except for the damned Nurglings! I guess I will have to paint them sooner rather than later after all!
I did also pick up three more of these a few years ago on eBay. And I have a V2 Beast that I bought just to use as tentacle bits who has since lost a few, so I’ve also got that in need of repairs. I also found a metal V3 beast in blister just the other day. (And I still regret passing on the pair of those I saw second-hand that one time). Once those five are assembled and painted though – all of my metal Nurgle Daemons will finally be done and I can allow myself to start on the newer plastic plastics while continuing to work through the last few resins.
Well, all the metal will be done except for the Nurglings… but they can be done on a more casual basis, surely?
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Great work on this friendly demon, the contrasting pink works really well against the putrid skin tones
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Thanks Dave, I was thinking during the paint process that I may have gone too *pink*, but since I’ve got a few more of them to come, I can vary them a bit, so all good, I reckon!
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Nicely done – tricky things to build well, but worth all the extra attention! Lovely paint job too 😉
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Thanks Alex – just don’t look in between the rows of tentacles…
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Very nice – still the best incarnation of the Beast I reckon and you’ve done it proud.
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Seconded!
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Yeah, I do like the new one, but this one has a certain charm and design purity that still stands out to me.
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Great paint job. I love the original beasts of nurgle. I took a quick look through ebay (as one does when struck by a cool blog post) and was reminded of the many lack lustre iterations that followed the original.
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Thanks Dave – with luck I’ll have all four on show together sooner or later. Hoping for sooner, but we’ll see!
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Crikey, that’s pretty awesome! I think I’ll have nightmares tonight now!
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You’ll be right mate – just go and do some gardening to calm your nerves…
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Great work on a great sculpt. I’ve always been kind of bummed that I got into the hobby too late to easily get this guy (among others). It is cool that the new plastics took some inspiration from it, but it’s not the same.
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Yeah. The old-school archive service was pretty great back in the day. Of course, it was harder to order back then since you needed the paper catalogues and then had to send everything through the post (and they’d make mistakes that were basically impossible to fix – they sent me the wrong BB Ogre). I guess trolling eBay is the main option, though the popularity of “Oldhammer” exploding makes picking up older models a lot harder as well compared to even just 3-4 years ago..
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I’m still mad I was so broke that summer that they offered that huge spread of archive Chaos Warriors/Champions. If I’d had the cash, I would have gladly picked up almost every last one.
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I’m lucky in that I picked up s many of them as I could manage to back in the day. Of course, that means I missed out on a lot of others, both partially (beastmans, chaos dwarves, plaguebearers, horrors, daemonettes) and also wholesale (I sady own zero of the old marauders). I should dig out a few of those models and reward myself by allowing myself to paint a couple of them.
I guess I should finish the ones that are out on the desk first, started in the 1990s and never finished…
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Can only agree with everyone else, very nicely done.
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Thank you, TIM!
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That looks great to me.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete – glad you like it! 🙂
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Very impressive work on a model I have never seen before. I like the slug-like appearance and the pinkish skin is a great way to make something look disgusting. It is somewhat lifelike enough but there’s something not quite right about it which makes it icky. I’ve never been much of a Nurgle fan but this sculpt is among my favorites that I’ve seen GW make.
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Thanks mate. I’ll probably go much more green with the next one, and then.. well, no idea at the moment – but that’s one nice thing about Nurgle stuff, and particularly the Daemons – you can very easily go by “feel” and still pull off a successful model…
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Nurgle is versatile in that he comes in many disgusting tones! 🙂 I think green will look great and I look forward to seeing it and any other tones you choose.
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Finshed the mould line cleanup on the other models today at work. Now I need a little time to assemble, and I can begin the slow, drawn-out process of trying to paint them up! 😉
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Another wonderful bunch of gross fellows mate ,well done !
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Cheers Pat. Now if I can only get these other models out of my way I can do some more Nurlgey stuff..
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That’s so purty I just want to give it a big ol’ hug!
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Perfect – the beast just wants to be friends and play!
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Nice and slimy!
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hmm.. good idea. Maybe I should lean *much* further into the slime for one of the upcoming models… sold!
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