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Death Guard: Plagueburst Crawler

 It's not often that I agree to commission paint miniatures, but a friend of mine whose entire Death Guard army I've painted asked me to paint another Plagueburst Crawler in the same scheme to add to his army. Thankfully it's quite a simple scheme, made up predominantly of GW Death Guard Green with some metalics,


After getting some inspiration from YouTube i decided to add texture to the miniature before i started. I used Tamiya Basic putty mixed with thin poly cement and applied it to a lot of surfaces. the Putty/cement mix damages the plastic and adds texture to it. The downside is that it takes about 3 minutes for the mixture to dry, so you have to be quick when applying it. You will also need to use dead brushes as applying it wrecks them.


Once the putty was dry, which was almost instantly, I primed the whole thing in red brown. i picked that colour because there will be rusty bits on the finished product, and i wanted any places where the primer showed to be mistaken for rust, rather than be black, grey or white. I then applied the basecoat of green with an airbrush, but you could use a spray can or brush instead.
        

Next, i washed all the armour with Agrax earthshade. and then using a sponge, applied the base colour of Death Guard Green again. this, combined with the texturing done at the start really makes the armour texture take a rough appearance. At this point i noticed my first mistake. I applied the spikes on the hull too soon, this meant it was very hard to get full coverage with the sponge. I'll remember that for next time. I then painted the metal parts using Balthasar Gold and Leadbelcher. The leadbelcher was washed with agrax earthshade, and the gold with reikland flesh shade.


I added Edge Highlights with Ushabti bone, and then added some Lamenters yellow glaze to all the pustules to make it look like the armour is weeping. Finally, I added a lot of Typhus Corrosion to the tracks, and the front of the dozer blade, washed with very thinned down trollslayer orange to make it look rusty




the final stage was to add the flamers and the mortar to the miniature, both painted in the same way as the rest of it. I had intended to spend 2-3 hours on the miniature, but ended up spending closer to 10. I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Please let me know what you think.


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