Monster May(hem): Throkk, lesser daemon of Nurgle

Throkk was once three mischievous nurglings who were a pain in Fecalus' abscessed backside.

Thrakk, Thrukk and Thrikk tried to be helpful to their hulking master but always messed up in some way or another. One day, after they dropped a ladle of a potion Fecalus had been working on for five thousand years, the Great Unclean One finally lost patience and flicked them into one of his smaller cauldrons. The trio of jabbering pusbags sank below its bubbling surface and Fecalus got on with remaking his vile creation.

Several millennia later, a clawed hand broke through the scum covering the cauldron's contents. A large three-headed, three-armed creature dragged itself out of the vile broth and Throkk was born. Fecalus, delighted at his new creation, immediately forgave Throkk all his earlier mistakes and put him in charge of a cohort of Plaguebearers.

You're not going to believe this, but Throkk is yet another impulse buy off Etsy. I mean, how could I not? It's a superb model which really captures the whole plague daemon aesthetic and even better, it was pretty cheap. I wrote his backstory in my head as I was painting him.

I kicked off Throkk with two coats of Ork Flesh contrast over black primer. I wanted to use more saturated colours than the usual plague paints, so he was given a heavy overbrush of Black Green and then I settled in to get the highlights done.

I started with drybrushes of Loren Forest, Elysian Green and some Ogryn Camo before washing him all over with Athonian Camoshade to tie the different shades of green together. 

Once I was happy with Throkk's skin tones I painted the insides of his mouths and tongues Screamer Pink and washed them with Beserker Bloodshade before adding highlights with Pink Horror and a touch of Pink.

All of Throkk's teeth, claws and horns (and he has so many, many teeth) were basecoated with Chocolate Brown and then painted with Flayed One Flesh. After a wash with Agrax Earthshade I highlighted them with Skeleton Bone and a touch of Off-White.

With just his eyes, boils and base to go, I was on the final stretch. All his eyes were filled with White and then given a couple of layers of Fuegan Orange wash. I used Trollslayer Orange for his irises and then dotted in the pupils with the tip of a paintbrush handle. 

The boils are just Beserker Bloodshade with a dot of White on top and a dab of more Fuegan Orange.  

His base is the usual cork painted Black, Ork Flesh, Moot Green and Yellow-Green and then slathered with UV resin and some maggots.

Overall I'm really happy with how Throkk turned out. Despite being absolutely non-canon in the Realms of Chaos, he still fits into my Nurgle army and doesn't look out of place.

I  knocked up a couple more monsters over the weekend, so stay tuned!