This idea came to me after me and a mate were talking about the new Hell Brute models, which in case you’re not a 40k player, are essentially chaos dreadnoughts, with a different name, for some reason only known to the high lords of Terra.

Anyway, there is currently only one sculpt of the Hell Brute, and it comes with the Dark Vengeance boxed set, and what a model. Full of movement, chunky, looks like it has some serious weight to it once painted. Really amazing sculpt all told, especially as its plastic! We decided to paint ours up to see exactly how different we could make them look, given he plays Nurgle/Deathguard and i play Emperors Children, two very different aesthetics. Clearly his would be worn down, dirty, rusty, and pretty sickly looking, whereas mine should be pretty bright, clean lines, lots of gold and purple and the like, even with the warp spawned mutations. We also took different takes on what was skin and what was armour, him adding flesh to some of the model where he thought skin should be, almost like a warped plague marine. I am planning a much more mechanical look, as in a dreadnought that has been twisted up by the warp with minimal biological elements bar said mutations and the pilots head.

The chains and explosive tentacles really lend themselves to Nurgle as you can see in the work in progress, the huge horns look really beastlike and rotten. Its going to be a challenge to get one to look much more mechanical and less biological.

We’ll be posting images up of the works in progress, adding a few words on how we went about the painting itself as the models develop. Or I will be, and I’ll be parroting his words as he’s too much of a lazy twat to join Corehammer.
So with that, I leave you with a midway shot of the Nurgle Hell Brute, plague marine style not Deathguard, and I’ll get some pictures up of my Emperors Children model once its started.

This will be a rolling feature, with people coming in at random when they want to, like a Royal Rumble, so expect more postings from others once it gets under way.