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I just finished painting up the bases for my first two Putrid Blightkings. Since I'm going to use the same recipe every time I do one of these, I decided to make a separate for them just so that I have the full list of paints in one place. Note that these will still have water effects applied to them and I will make a dedicated post just for that as well. If you're interested in how I built these bases, you can find a step by step guide here. Primer Citadel  Chaos Black - I usually use Mechanicus Standard Grey as a primer, but wanted to try something new this time around. although I think a grey primer is nicer to paint over, I did notice that the chaos black gave a smoother result for me. So I will most likely use this in the future Rocks Citadel   Eshin Grey,  Vallejo Game  Black 9:1 – Basecoat Citadel  Mechanicus Standard Grey – Dry brush Citadel  Administratum Grey - Dry brush Citadel  Nuln Oil/Athoni...

So here's my second Blightking, or actually, it's my first. You see the steering wheel on my other model was initially planned to be on this pretty fella. But during the building it quickly became clear that the wheel wouldn't fit on his back due to his massive shoulder pads sticking out too far. But hey, that's okay. I had other great plans for this mini. Since I'm doing a pirate theme for my Nurgles I wanted to try out making a peg leg. Up until now, all my modifications have been additive. I have never taken away a part to replace with something else. And I gotta tell ya, cutting away the leg was quite scary. It just felt wrong snapping of a part of the miniature. But after a bunch of green-stuff work and sanding I think I manage to provide him with a fairly decent prosthetic leg.

After my Lord of Plagues build, I wanted to up my green stuff game a bit. As I'm working with a pirate theme for my nurgles, I figured that a steering wheel from a ship would be a nice thing to stick on the back on one of my Putrid Blightkings. This was how ever easier said then done and turned out to be a long process of sanding and reapplying greenstuff. I am pretty happy with the result though and once I start to slapp some colors on this, I think it can turn out pretty okay.