Learn how to paint your Nurgle Demon from PGTM looking like a true plague-riddled master. Check out how Jack of Clubs does it!
Jack of Clubs Painting is a regular here and today he’s giving us some advice on how to make the new, totally not a Nurgle Prince, from Pop Goes the Monkey looking amazing!
Follow along with the video for a detailed tutorial to get these minis done right! Or you can use our notes to check out all the highlights.
How To Paint a Nurgle Demon: Jack of Clubs
This is part two of the series and how he finishes it off. If you want to see part one, you can check it out here. But for now, let’s see how to finish him off!
Chipping
To start, he cuts up some foam to chip the paint. He then takes Burnt Sienna and dips the foam tip into it and then dabs it off. Once you are happy with how much paint is on there and hits all the areas he wants to be rusty. Then, he takes the same color on a paintbrush and hits all the edges he couldn’t hit with the sponge.
Just be meticulous with your application so it doesn’t take over the model.
Painting the Cloth
Once that dries, he takes Burnt Red and Dark Purple, and mixes them 50/50, and blocks in all the other colors on the mini. Then he takes a lighter red and stipples over all the cloth to give it a beat-up feel. He just keeps going back and back with more grey added in to make it lighter and lighter.
Painting the Bronze & Sores
He takes Bronze, Golden Brown, and some maroon and then mixes them all together. This will give the bronze a grimier feel. He then just hits all the areas on the mini he wants to be bronze. For the sores, he mixes Yellow Ochre and Light Umber and hits all the nasty little sore things all over this guy. He does the same stippling here as he did with the cloth, but the brown colors.
To finish those off, he highlights them with Olive Skin. The last stage is to paint the little worms on his armor. He starts with Magents as a base coat and highlights them with Pale Flesh.
The Rest of the Color Blocks
He starts with Dark Metallic and throws down a base coat on all the steel bits. For the skulls, he mixes Olive Flesh and Umber in a 5/50 mix and basecoats all the skulls. He uses Olive Flesh as the first highlight and moves to Bright Ivory for the final highlight. For the eyes, he uses Bold Pyro Red and slowly adds in more and more Olive Flesh to give it a little bit of a glow effect.
Washing
He uses Mr. Weathering Color Multi black and mixes it with their solvent to make it not so thick. He lightly hits everything other than the sword. To keep too much wash from building up, he regularly dips his brush into the solvent to keep it clean. Once everything is dry, hit it with a matte varnish.
Final highlights
To pick out the rust, he hits the rust with Agent Orange to really make the rust pop.
Finished Mini
And with that, you have a really cool-looking centerpiece to lead your army!
If you want to learn more from Jack Of Club’s insight, watch the full video! And if you love his work, check out another great set of painting tips here.
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
