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Plastic Plague Bearers

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I found this awsomeness on spikeybits.com and you won't beleave what these Plaguebearers were converted from.

I saw these guys the other day, along with the Ku'Gath model I posted earlier, and was really really impressed with them. The are brought to us by the same Nuglely genius; isotope99. This is his walk through of how to make plastic plague bearers (which if you are chaotic at heart like me, this is just what the doctor ordered).

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You will need:

•One box bloodletters
•Some green stuff (or your preferred equivalent)
•(Optional) some leftover spawn bits, particularly the eyes, spare genestealer heads

Head
1) Take the bloodletter head and glue the pieces together then cut off the horns and the back part of the head so it's not so long (or use a genestealer head).

2) Drill a hole and hollow it out with a knife where the main eye is going to be. Cover the bloodletter's eyes with green stuff if you can still see them and put one eye in the middle. If you've got some spawn eyes, these fit nicely. Otherwise, just use a blob of green stuff and (optional but looks better) when it is dry add two thin slivers to be the eyelids.

3) Finally, put one of the bloodletter horns (or something similar from the spawn kit) on top of the head.

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Body
1) A big blob of green stuff will serve as a rotting belly, then smooth it out at the edges so that it joins to the body. (optional) thin sausages of green stuff work as exposed entrails.

2) Fill the gap on the back where the bloodletter's spines go either with green stuff or just cut down some of the spines so that it looks less uniform.

Sword

1) Make the edges of the sword more jagged and uneven so that it looks older and more corroded.

2) Three tiny blobs of green stuff on each side of the sword handle cover up the khorne symbols (with a nurgle symbol).

Extras (see the Ku'gath pics)
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1) Pustules are blobs of green stuff with the edges smoothed out to meet the skin.

2) Sores can be made by flattening out a blob of green stuff and then gouging holes in it with the sculpting tool.

3) Rough skin can be made the same way but use a pin to poke smaller holes in the GS.

4) Sinews are the same again but this time scoring in lines with the tool/knife

Finally cut/file off any remaining khorne symbols.
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I love when you can find a way to make a pewter kit, out of plastic! -MBG
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That's actually rather cunning...I may try that myself. I'm gonna need a lot of Plaguebearers for that Nurgle Daemons army, after all...
I'm going to do this conversion as soon as i can. I'm tired of wateing for GW to get off their assess and make Plastic Plague Bearers.
Beautiful. Thank you for pointing this out. Now I have a way to turn those extra bloodletters into something useful.
oh... I like this. I have a box of Blood Crushers I sacrificed to build other models so I have several Blood Letter rider models sitting around. Now I have a use for them. Plus rep!
Excellent stuff here! Thanks for posting this up. I am sure that it will be useful to many.
Thanks guys i hope this helps everyone out.
Hey Judas, I got your message but I can't respond. It says you either are not receiving PMs or are unable to receive them.
Hey Judas, I got your message but I can't respond. It says you either are not receiving PMs or are unable to receive them.
I don't know how to make that thing work. All the message said was thanking u for the REP and asking u what part of VA you lived in thats all.
I don't know how to make that thing work. All the message said was thanking u for the REP and asking u what part of VA you lived in thats all.
yeah, I got the message. I was trying to respond to you and that was when I got the message that you couldn't/wouldn't recieve the pm. In response to your PM I'm in stafford. Since most maps of Virginia don't list Stafford it'll be easier to tell you an hour south of DC and an hour north of Richmond
I live in Stanardsville witch is 30min away from Charlottesville. BTW have you ever herd fo The End Game Center? thats the place where i do all my gameing. If your ever going to be over this way let me know and i'll play a game with you.
I live in Stanardsville witch is 30min away from Charlottesville. BTW have you ever herd fo The End Game Center? that the place where i do all my gameing. If your ever going to over this way let me know and i'll play a game with you.
Will do. You're about an hour and a half away from me so it wouldn't be a trip I make just for a casual game. Though if you have any plans for a really big Apoc battle I can be convinced to make a week end trip out of it.
this thread has made my day, i have about 20 blood letters 8 unassembled, and i need plaguebeaers, im gonna need more green stuff, filth for the filth god!!!!
this is amazing, very clever.
May Nurgle bless with his might!!!

Just read this thread. More plaguebearers are always needed!!

Was begining to despair of ever getting plastic nurgle daemons

Thanks again!!
Thank you for posting, these models look really sweet.
that is some good stuff but recently i discovered an awesome tecnique to make massive numbers of blaguebearers.You could buy a box of horde of zombies( vamp conts) and with some greenstuff cover one eye and make some bellys.(it would be a good idea to use some chaos bitz for hornes)
Just remember guys these models are not my conversions so i don't take any credit for them.
Amazing conversions :) Going to get me some Bloodletters
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