We are... the... Death Guard!
Hello everybody! I'll do this one in english ;)
The release of the Death Guard is for me a great opportunity to share a very exciting project with you. As a project leader on that range of miniatures, I kicked off the work and designed many of those kits. It has been a year and a half of Nurgle joy, I am sure you can imagine how excited I was since Nurgle is my favourite of the 4.
Fortunately, I was joined by a dream team of 8 miniatures designers who worked hard to retain the spirit of the Death Guard, and produced amazing models.
So let's have a look at the miniatures themselves!
Onto the Plague Planet now!
Mortarion, the Deamon Primarch himself. It has been an extremely intense project, full of emotions, challenges and fun. Probably my favourite "miniature" so far!
I made the miniatures for the Plague Brethren, a very nice web-exclusive collector's set that James Anderson put together brilliantly. It was just good fun to make some more Plague Marines!
The Tallyman. Designing this range allowed us to explore new types of characters, unique to the legion, all of them telling another story. This is something I like a lot!
The Plague Champion, with his already-famous Nurgling with a helmet. Nurgle allows you to squeeze a bit of fun little details here and there, which is something I particularly like.
The Icon-bearer. This guy was an opportunity to explore the Death Guard imagery a bit more. Him and the Plague Champion are there to offer a bit of variety in your army, or could be a fun painting project on their own.
I add up the miniatures from Dark Imperium, as they were the foundations of this range:
The original 7 Plague Marines. Everything started with these bad boys!
The Foetid Bloat-Drone, which was a great opportunity for us to develop a new kind of deamon-engine. It is a bio-mechanical analogue to the Chaos Deamon Plague Flies, with its own nurglesque weaponry: the Plague-spitter, a hybrid of a cannon and gardening tool!
The Lord of Contagion. I enjoyed making this model so much! Heavy, imposing and brutal were the 3 keywords I had in mind while making this guy.
Now I am going to show you miniatures that are collaborations with another designer. I either drew the concept, made a sculpted mock up, sculpted a few bits... basically did a bit of work to give an orientation to the designer who actually made the model :)
The Noxious Blightbringer, with the beautifully putrescent Aly Morrison.
The multi-part Plague Marines, with the legendary Mike Fores.
The Foul Blightspawn, with the magnificent Darren Latham.
The Biologus Putrifier, again with the beautifully putrescent Aly Morrison.
The Deathshroud Terminators, again with the legendary Mike Fores.
The Blightlord Terminators, with the marvelous Gavin Newton.
The Plagueburst Crawler, with the wonderful Nic Ho.
Typhus, with the amazing Gaku Matsubayashi.
The Plague Surgeon, with the fabulous Samir Battistotti.
The multi-part Foetid Bloat-Drone, with our Super-Hero Steve Party!
I think these guys deserve a round of applause!
Let me know what you think about these, bearing in mind that, as I always say, the miniatures I make for work are designed to fulfill a brief, and are approved by a team of highly skilled experts. They are made this way because they had to be made this way :)
And if you want more insight about the design process of this range, I would recommend the Designer's Notes article in this month's White Dwarf, written by Dan Harden.
Dan managed to make this article very interesting to read, full of fun facts and enriched by a bit of background. I really enjoyed reading it (even if, let's face it, I know a bit about the subject!) ;)
(all pictures from the Games Workshop or Warhammer Community website)
