When the new Jabberslythe came out, I thought it would make an awesome GuO, and think its a shame that Beastmen are so unloved and their monsters overpriced. The idea came to me of a Jabber getting possessed by Papa Nurgle and then the whole tribe of beasts.



The Jabber is re-positioned to be climbing over some rocks, arm raised to wield a scythe. The model had terrible gaps and even chunks of pink mold stuck in the wings, and pitting all over. Finecast has potential to be TERRIBLE.. but this guys is nurgley so its OK. The upside is finecast resin can be hit with a heat gun and bent around without losing details as the GW plastic does. I took a mold of his left hand to make a green-stuff one to hold the scythe I sculpted from a harder 2 part resin. I also gave him an eye in his blank forehead. Better pics to come when its painted.

Watching this one with interest, as I too thought he would make a great GUO! Although I never thoght to convert him so radically, as the armies I might use him in will be nontraditional daemonic armies.

Here is the start of my flamers.. flames will be green-stuff


Plaguebearers will be mostly gors mutating with spawn bits


Bloodletters will be gor heads on letter bodies. The letter bodies look like hairless gors anyhow.

Ooh, definitely looking forward to more pics of the jabber-GUO! (And for the record, there must be something in the water, because I ALSO thought GUO when I saw that model)

do those bloodletters/plaguebearers rank up nicely?


nice work all around, love to see the jabberslythe conversion

This looks really intresting. Will keep an eye on these, no question about it.

Make yourself a favour and convert those bloodletter hands so that you can rank them up properly. You will thank yourself later, a lot. Theme around beastmen sounds pretty intresting. With it, all daemons have similar look around beasts but get their individuality of upgrades that you give them, like tentacles etc. Its like normal warriors in that have just normal equipment or something. And those bloodletters look pretty darn scary. Have you already thought somekind of paint theme for your army?

Wow um....interesting! :blink:

Letter gors look great....the other 2....maybe if the flamers were ungor based? I dunno, but the all gor thing seems to be going overboard....some further green stuff rotting flesh and pockmarks on the bearer gors might help there perhaps too.

I plan to airbrush them all some beasty brown color, then from extremities fade that into the color they should be like khorne red, nurgle green.

Some of my pbearers do have intestines hanging out and pock marks.. perhaps I could do more though.

Daemonettes will be ungors, size is appropriate for the crab claws. The horror arms are really long and wouldn't fit on ungors. Ungors will also be converted to furies if I can find wings I like.

Last night I whipped up this HoK on Jugger.. Timon on Pumbaa. OMG that razorgor model is terrible. I felt obliged to destroy that one gigantic eye and drilled it out and covered it with scars. Oh well.. Hakuna Matata!

Wow. You are going all beasty arent you?! I like the pumbanaught! lol!

maxmini has a great alternate big boar.

Have you seen the confrontation belial? Great beasty kipper for this army! I ver nearly considered something like the army you are doing led by him...

Speaking of which, does the jabberguo really fit this army anymore? Its kind of frog like/alien like, not really beasty. I suppose some green stuffed fur might help there though? Or beef up the rear legs with some giant cloven hoofed feet, or the cygor/ghorgon legs and feet? For that matter, why not get the cygor/ghorgon kit and convert that for various GD options?

Hey what king of pieces are the jabber kit in? Could you mishmash it with the cygor kit, ie particularily the head I guess, thats the jabbers greatest feature.

Having done mutated Beastmen in the past myself I second what others have said about making sure they rank up properly. Gors can be hard enough to rank up sometimes just assembled out of the box without adding a lot more to them.

I like the Herald on Razornaut. Personally I don't mind the Razorgor model too much. Its far from the best ever produced but its not as bad as the 'eavy metal paint job makes it look.

One thing I will say is I don't think this army will taste as nice as your last one. ;)

The theme is just anything from the beastman army range. In the future I might make up a ghorgon/cygor with crab claws and use it as a Keeper.

The jabber kit doesnt really come with any extras. Its Failcast!

Running a GuO I will need some beastly nurglings.. and there just isnt anything that small in the beasts army.. so I found the smallest humanoid in my bitz box.. gnoblars, and put on ungor heads and made them hooves. I thinned out the faces as much as possible with the xacto as well. Too friggn cute IMO. These have been airbrushed the rusty brown I plan to use for all the beasty skin.


My HoN is not as cute.. just a WoC nurgle dude with nurgled beast head and hoof conversion.


Here is the first daemonette. I like it but the unit is low priority now.


and this is basing material i'm considering, I have cast up a ton in dental plaster.

Love those nurglings and HON!

Daemonette is kinda....anh.

Those Nurglings are ADORABLE! Are you going to put them on 40mm bases though?

Also loving the HoN. Simple, yet awesome. A Nurgle-themed Beastman army is something that I'm considering for the future, and I'll definitely have to remember that guy if I ever do it.

And I'm with Talonz on the 'Nette. Something just seems off.

I love the piggyback nurgling.. almost makes me want to do a pygmy army with single little guys as ungors and piggybacks as gors..

Hey! nurglings aren't cute, they're natural born killer! :P


(quote from squiggoth, just had to use it)

nice conversions! especially the herald is very nice :)

All the dudes will be painted separate from their final bases, hence the temporary round bases. The 'nurglings' will go 3 to a 40mm.

Slowly making progress on the nurgle stuff..

Wow... If only GW were to be as inspired when they make the next GuO...

Yeah that's one hell of a GD all right!
Great work Colonel!

Sweet baby jesus this army is coming together well and fast!

inspiring stuff with nurglings :)

Painted up a Hot last night. About 4 hours total in this little bugger. I still need to finish his sword, base, and horns.

Nicely done (so far)!
Really effective shading on the blue armour. Well done!

I agree with DReign, the blue is outstanding. I would recommend adding some color into the wings somewhere though. Either the little skin flaps or the spikes (or both).

Also, I just noticed that you got that Jabber onto a 50mm base. Was the repositioning troublesome or easy? I was thinking about using one of those for the basis of a Tzeentchian GUO, but had given up on the idea because I didn't want a chariot base for it.

Re-positioning the jabber onto a 50 was not particularly easy. By building up on the front of the base he is at more of an angle up which buys some room, and his tail is off the base. His back feet are on the edge and front is beyond the base. The right arm had to be heated and bent. The left arm would need the same but I greenstuffed a new hand and bent the arm up to hold a weapon.

The pieces of the jabber fit poorly and the pitting in the resin was bad. It is fine for nurgle to have pitting otherwise I was very dissapointed in the model.

Nicely done Colonel! The little pit of purple in there adds a nice pop of color to contrast w/ the blue and all the flesh tone.

I really like how the skin turned out. How did you do that if you don't mind my asking?

Hmm, unfortunate. Thanks for the info though!

The results look well worth the efforts, it looks fantastic.

The whole model was airbrushed Scorched Brown after priming, the skin was just thinned Scorched brown and progressively more Bleached Bone. Thinning the paint the right amount for layering is the tricky part. If it is just a touch too thin you have to be careful that your brush isn't too loaded or all the watery paint just seems to jump off the brush and fill the low points like a wash, exactly the opposite of what you want!

Its always shocking to see a picture even 2x the real size of your painted model and see all the flaws!

Yeah, I know all about that. That's probably my biggest problem right now as far as getting into more advanced painting. I usually end up w/ paint that's to thin and then there goes all the shading and definition of the model. <_< I end up getting more frustrated and annoyed than anything and skip all the extra steps. I guess I'd almost have to see it done to get a better idea. I always see people write that they used "many layers of very thinned paint". Tried it on multiple occasions but it never turned out like what I was looking at. :P :( More practice I guess.

This is oh so true! Doesn't it just make you cringe!? :wacko:

Last night I broke out the green paint, bleached bone, and thraka green wash.

The great unclean one just needs some detailing on scales and such:



The plague fellas now in need of brown work and details:

Very, very cool! Totally digging all the little spawn bits in there! Is the GUO eye going to remain all black like that? Just curous, not necesarilly a bad idea. Maybe a single yellow dot in the centre or something? dunno.

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I'm thinking the 3 eyes will stay black, with a high gloss yet to be applied. There is a light reflection painted on there, like a grey arc with white dot. The other 2 eyes are on the cheeks.

I tried a few variations of white eye with black dots and black with white and it was cartoonish. like this guy:

I absolutely love how that GUO came out. Its much more savage than your standard unclean one, but still nurgely

My nurgle herald will be my BSB, but his hands arent free to hold a banner.. so I decided to make a long banner without pole that will be carried about by some sort of flys or something. I cut a triangle of plasticard (for sale sign!) and drilled holes in the top corners, hung it by those points while heating with heat gun and pulling it with pliers.

I still need to make the bugs that will drag it behind my BSB herald.


This gives a good size perspective, and shows i'm slapping paint on my khorne beasts!

Well I'll be... That is awesome man, your GuO has got a few rave reviews from my GG it is truly a stunning conversion!

For an upcoming tournament I decided I will need 2x5 furies. I picked up a box of gargoyles and pinned the wings on some ungor.

The arm size is a major mismatch so delicate greenstuff required

I decided to try a new primer.. Ace red oxide. it is still wet in this image, but it dried a bit shiny still. The color is almost vermin brown so I drybrushed vermin brown over them in light layers with more and more bleached bone.. forgot to take a picture painted.