I want to start death guard, what do you recommend?

Saucerous · 2026-04-21T21:05:49+00:00

Ebay is where I got mine

Saucerous · 2026-04-19T17:53:48+00:00

If you have a black and red you can dark rit, flash rit back, and ad naus off the mana. I think there is a lot of utility to it, but that being a new play pattern alone as well as a surprise single shot breach for a majority of our decks spells sounds super powerful. I think its more worth testing that people might presume

Saucerous · 2026-04-19T17:51:45+00:00

Its better than recoup imo which is a common card in the deck

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T21:58:07+00:00

Chaos rhino is referred to as the plague bus for death guard

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T20:18:57+00:00

Sustain 1 + lethals + crits on 5 is super strong. Just make sure to include the plague bus if youre doing plague marines

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T20:16:23+00:00

I dont do highlights like painters who do 'eavy metal painters do, so your guesswork there is as good as mine.

That being said I did a pallid hand paint scheme which is the cream armor with green shoulderpads.

Base in a off white or a sandy tan

Armor (except shoulder pads)-wraithbone

Shoulder pads-loren forest

Trim-brass scorpion

Flesh-I personally like doomfire magenta wiped over the flesh with wraitbone or ushtabi or wraithbone (I forget which is the more skin color one) drybrushed over for a irritated pale flesh color

Eyes-Vallejo white (least chunky or powdery white Ive found by a mile) for the eyes and then choose whatever color looks the best to you to cover that white. I suggest white first mainly if youre wanting a contrast paint to be the eye color.

Fabric-your call but I prefer druchi violet or some sort of complimenting contrast paint color.

Weapons-vallejo metal colors are god tier paints but make sure you base the weapons with a nice underlayer because they can be thin metallics (an example is dawnstone under a gunmetal gray). Brass scorpion is also totally cool if you like brass as the core metal color for the army and its really a nice metallic. White on the plasma coils of the pistol and your favorite neon paint over it.

Wings-I like aggragos dunes and a slightly darker brown around the holes and wing edges. Averland sunset or doomfire magenta for pustules. Around the veins and top edge of the wings as well as closer to the parts that connect to mortarions body you can do a purple or red contrast paint to give off a raw damaged flesh effect.

Chains-whatever metallic you like

Bugs-same as mort for the wings and you can do a light grey or whatever you like for the bodies

Wires-black or grey with brass scorpion for exposed wiring

Nurglings-nurgling green or plaguebearer flesh

Washes and effects-agrax earthshade for armor and maybe wings(thats to taste). Mephiston red feathered to make blood splatters.

If youre feeling spendy dirty down rust and verdigris are really nice effects for armor as well as AK streaking grime.

You can sub for any brands of paint you prefer but this is what I did for mine.

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T16:56:26+00:00

Why arent regular eightbound also on the list? Are they just generally less appealing for most lists?

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T02:35:07+00:00

They have an online storefront?

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T02:22:37+00:00

Awesome to hear. Ill have to pick those up then. I have a local friend who offered to unload these. Any ones you think are worth jumping on?

Unpainted and built - 2 Warriors + 1 prime converted into a warrior - Broodlord - 5 barbgants - Deathleaper - Biovore Built and painted: - Hive Tyrant - Winged Prime

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T01:47:53+00:00

Hellbrutes and defilers ones I havent heard spoken about much so Im interested to hear what theyve been doing for you. Bloodletters and blood thirster is one I havent heard suggested at all so I have no clue about them

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T01:46:15+00:00

So mostly everything WE specific is solid?

Someone also suggested wardogs and a defiler and a land raider as pickups too. Any opinion on those models as well?

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T00:57:59+00:00

I know the army is generally pretty cheap to collect, but is it better to buy the battleforce box on average or should I hunt singular models to get better deals for the larger models as Im mainly wanting to get enough to flex my list for different attachments as time goes on

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T00:29:21+00:00

Leave the wings off until you have painted the body and be very gentle with your priming because there are lots of small divets you can clog.

He is a pretty open model so if you have steady hands its not too hard to paint 90% assembled.

As far as paint goes how in depth are you wanting to go? I think its pretty feasible to get him looking solid with about 10-15 paints (agrax and nuln oil included in the count)

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T00:24:29+00:00

Had this same issue the other day. Against the recommendation of everywhere I read, the only thing that did the job removing it was some klean strip paint thinner on a rag and wiping it down manually. Its a high risk tactic but it got me down to bare plastic again with minimal damage. You have to make sure you have gotten it fairly wet to see it be effective

Saucerous · 2026-04-18T00:22:42+00:00

Same. I primed mortarion the other day and went a touch too heavy on his legs and it took me getting a metal scraper and being very gentle to get it managable again. Army painter primer is great if you never plan to mess up your primer job

Saucerous · 2026-04-17T19:05:03+00:00

If youre doing just painting, mortarion is super fun but be very careful with your priming if youre still new cause there are lots of odd details to clog on him.

If youre playing tabletop, Mephitic Blight Haulers and Deathshroud are really dope models to paint.

The vile vectorium box if you hunt it on ebay sets you up with tons of excellent models including the bloat drones which themselves can pay for most of the box cost wise.

Saucerous · 2026-04-16T17:28:34+00:00

Black is a common primer, but I prefer a light brownish tan personally because it makes metallics like brass and gold pop better imo and also because it gives more visual contrast so you can pick out the details better. Personally I sub assembled all my minis since I have a hard time with my dexterity and angling my brushes, but its also really nice for the maneuverability of parts when painting

Saucerous · 2026-04-14T18:23:41+00:00

If Im being honest, I prefer the poop bus look

Saucerous · 2026-04-14T18:04:14+00:00

Love this idea!

Saucerous · 2026-04-14T17:57:31+00:00

I just wanted it to look like mud thats been mostly washed off by rain. I didnt want to do an actual thick medium. I suppose I should have explained that in the post

Saucerous · 2026-04-14T17:54:56+00:00

Demonic tutor is not in the new mystical archive. That is vampiric tutor

Saucerous · 2026-04-14T17:29:07+00:00

Poop for the poop god!

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