Painting Challenge Submission 5 - Death Guard Back Pack

The final remains of Larpdouche McPus, great Plague Lord of Nurgle.

Not much to show in this entry - it was intended to wind the crank of fellow Analogue Hobbies Painting Challange participant and Minion, Millsy. He is an affable sort, and a hardened veteran of the Painting Challenge. He also likes to have fun tweaking beards, and did so with me. I felt this would be a suitably petty response. 

You see, Millsy has been putting some of his considerable painting skills and valuable time towards work on some of GW's "Plague Marines", their vehicles and allies - all followers of the Chaos God "Nurgle". I wanted to recognize his efforts by painting up this tribute figure, a Plague Marine hero known as Larpdouche McPus, a noted Plague Marine Commander in the 40k setting.

Just think how scary this guy would have been if he had not joined a cult that rewards its followers with exotic, fatal diseases!

What do we know of McPus? Well, Imperial records offer several clues. Prior to joining in with the Nurgle cult, McPus was a medical sales rep, selling ivermectin and anabolic steroids to the population of Catachan. As with many deluded cult members, he worked his way into the Nurgle cult by volunteering with the local Green Party on that world, demonstrating the requisite mental acumen one would need to be an active part of a warp cult that rewards you with fatal disease.

Larpdouche McPus was all set to be the greatest Chaos Lord seen in the segmentum - the Raven Guard were even called in to bolster defences! But of course, as we have already established, Nurgle rewards his moronic followers with fatal disease. McPus and his dread company were last seen dissolving into their component atoms following a religious ceremony. This backpack from his armour is all that remained. The segmentum was safe, and the remains of this Nurgle cult were managed by fourth class waste servitors, while Raven Guard were rerouted to deal with actual problems elsewhere elsewhere in the Imperium.

Millsy is a great guy, and he enjoyed this submission in the spirit it was intended - plus he responded with a hilarious escalation this past weekend, so I'll need to look at a response at some point...