Dr. Tortenkopf's Deathguard

This time I started with what terrified me the most. The Pox Walkers. Since there are so many of them and I also added the easy to build ones, I felt a bit overwhelmed.

Now I am quite certain, they will turn out ok. But at the beginning I had no idea on how to even get started. There were just so many of them. And all were different, as I had built only half of them according to the instructions. The others I cut apart and swapped their heads, torsos, arms and weapons, to make a second set of more individual figures.

This has worked very well and the fact that they are Pox Walkers actually excuses all the funny bumps, crooked necks, twisted wrists and even inverted hands this has resulted in. If anything I think it makes them better.

Still I was afraid of painting.

So here is what I did:

• I primed them with Death Guard Green from a Spray Can (This is one colour I will never paint my bedroom in. I actually doubt an uglier green can ever exist.)
• I then separated them into three groups and base coated the exposed skin of each group a different skin tone. From very light to dark.
• I gave all of those a skin tone wash and one or two dry brush passes in pocedurally lighter shades of skin tone. I have bought a Vallejo skin tone paint set to do this.
• Next I painted their clothes in shades of grey, brown and beige adding only a few more colourful pieces of clothing to shake up the picture. I also took care to colour the repeated parts differently. I also painted the horns a bone colour
• All the clothes and the horns then received a wash of either Agrax Earthshade or red or yellow for the two jumpsuited Pox Walkers.
• The tentacles got a pink wash.
• And I was in the process of painting ALL THEIR POX in Vallejo Elf Skintone when I decided that I should really get this project started.

Well they have A LOT OF POX. I guess thats why they call them Pox Walkers. I am since done with their pox and will give those a camo green wash to make them look more sickly. Like on the fat one in the picture, who was the tester for this process.

Hopefully they will be done soon. I am quite confident that Plague Marines will go rather quickly as my tester, shown above in the title, has gone rather smooth and turned out satisfactory.

Maybe I am not that slow a painter after all and it was really just the Howling Griffon scheme that ate all the time on the other project.