Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition ~ Death Guard #2

We are back this week with another Dave Andrews Plague Marine miniature. As with last week, this is from the 1993 release, which I view as a transitional Chaos Space Marine miniature. The 1993 range deviates a little bit from Jes Goodwin's Iconic Death Guard sculpt, but does retain or add some of the more typical details we would associate with later Death Guard/Plague Marine miniatures i.e the wooden panels on the bolt gun (how chic!), groin guard, helmet spike and of course battle damage/weathering. Interestingly though this figure sports a more standard MK7 helmet breathing grill as opposed to breathing pipes or filter caps, perhaps to make greater emphasize that these are 'bad guy' versions of the popular Imperial Space Marines. The 1994 multi part versions would fully move away from the 'bunny teeth' grill to give the range it's own unique identity.

I had a huge amount of fun painting the other member of this set, so decided early on that I wanted to paint a standard, unconverted set. So no conversion this time, I do however have a spare one sitting on the desk with a head and weapons swap which will be finished at some point. Like a lot of miniatures of that time, it is a single piece cast with a separate backpack and I think I did actually use one of my original metal backpacks to finish him.

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Thanks for reading,

Chris