Havoks of Nurgle

Bit more Death Guard today, and this is the first completely new squad of them since the Traitor Legions supplement came along and made them good again!

Most of these leprous lads are built from the Mk3 armour in Burning of Prospero, mixed with some GW Zombie parts and some old fashioned Chaos Marine bits. For the most part, I tried to keep the Mk3 in the majority, since it's a Mark often associated with the Death Guard. To add the Nurgle feel, I made sure to add single horns to most of the heads and helmets, as well as damaging the armour and adding the usual Green Stuff pustules. The Champion and Icon Bearer both have Chaos backpacks to help them stand out- in practice the Icon is there for decoration, or to denote the squad leader when I don't feel like running a full-size squad with all the trimmings. The Champion has a combi-flamer left over from another project, and a mutated arm (I think from the old Possessed set) which represents a Power Fist.

The single horns are mostly made from Chaos Marine helmet horns cut short, and on a couple of the Mk3 helms I also added a cyclopean eye by filling in the existing eyes and then adding more Green Stuff. The trinary eye was made with Liquid Gravity as seen previously on my Chaos Lord. Since these Havoks are also equipped for assault I used Chaos Marine arms to make a couple in open poses with Chainswords, which also allows us to see the torso and gives me an excuse to use the good old ruptured intestines schtick again. I also added an extra Zombie arm to one Marine to get a bit more mutation in there.

The other point of interest is the Autocannons. I'm not a huge fan of them tactically, but they feel right for a unit that tends to advance relentlessly. To make them, I simply cut the barrels off the Heavy Bolters and replaced them with a length of plastic tube, using Chaos weapon barrel flares from the Vehicle Accessories sprue. Getting the barrels straight was a pain, and I'm not 100% sure I pulled it off, but it's close enough for Nurgle.

Painting was much as for my other Nurgle models, with the green based on Averland Sunset with a green wash and Warplock Bronze used for the metal along with Leadbelcher. I used a Soft Tone wash to tie everything together, and based the skin on Flayed One Flesh with green and Blood For the Blood God worked in to make it look raw or rotten.

Photography by me, all original miniatures (c) Games Workshop