MunkyFunks 40k blog

Been a fair while since I scrawled anything in here. Lifes been busy lately, credits been crunchy etc. But my army has not been forgotten.
Firstly I have made the decision to go fully 100% nurgle. Partly due to a growing interest in the fluff and background of Ol' Papa Nurgle; and secondly because the results of my Nurgle colour scheme look so damned good (by my rank amateur standards) that they put my undivided marines to shame.
After the vindicator was complete I set about finally finishing my three man biker squad. A boxed set I bought a long time ago, that has been assembled, dissasembled and partly painted a few times, never with a satisfactory result. They were going to be Tzeentchian, then Khornate, then undivided. Now they are Nurgle bikers, I have actually finished them, and loved them so much Ive bought two more to boost it up to a five man squad. I realise this will be an awfully expensive unit (powerfist, icon of nurgle, 5 men, two meltaguns). But if I need to shave points I can always leave a couple of guys behind on the sidelines.
I've been hanging back on re-doing my already painted units as its going to be a long job. however at the weekend I finally got my hands on the Citadel Spraygun! So I placed a whole lot of newspaper down and had a go. Undercoated my two new bikes (currently riderless, have discovered its much easier to paint the bike first, then the rider, then put the two together). For anyone considering the gun I've got to say I'm very impressed with the coverage, I had to touch up a couple of areas but I'd put that down to me having never used one before rather than blaming the gun. Also this may seem obvious but when pouring foundation paint into the spray guns pot, its best to unscrew the white lid off the foundation paint pot altogether, as I discovered if you just pop the lid open and pour that way it tends to just run everywhere and make an ungodly mess.
My current dilemma is basing, I've gotten rather good at it and lots of my marines are on some pretty well done bases, So im hesitant to destroy them by re-spraying. But the only way I can think to avoid this is to carefully remove marines from their base, stick them to a box with blu-tac or something similar and then re-glue them after painting.
My impatience is such that I couldnt wait for a solution to my basing problem to try the spray gun out. So I thought to give it a go on a baseless model, Step forward Mr defiler. I couldnt resist giving it a bit of a tinker seeing as I would re-spray it anyway. My first move was to make it codex legal, I only noticed recently that Defilers by default carry smoke launchers and a searchlight, and mine has neither. I added smoke launchers to the back of the 'wrists' and to give it a nurgly touch, I replaced the defilers head with the searchlight (I've seen this done before somewhere but my memory fails me). After that I added two chaos stars to the main claws, then snipped short a few of the blades on the legs and arms for some quick'n'easy battle damage.
Tinkering time over I gave it a first coat of foundation paint, unfortunately I'd used rather a lot of paint on the bikes, and added a little too much water on refilling the gun. So the first coat didnt look terribly impressive. But I'm planning to pick up some more paint tonight, hopefully there will be more painting and pictures soon