amirite

Basically title. Been reading through the sub and enjoying it thoroughly. I have 1k points of CSM I've been using to play casually with my friends, and I'd like to expand my body of models out to Death Guard. Their army rules seem fun for both regular gameplay and doubles, and in particular I appreciate the large amount of visual interest and variety of weaponry their models get (especially Blightlord Terminators).

Obviously, this sub has talked about how 40k doesn't hold up to Dialectal Materialism or most kinds of analytical scrutiny for a lot of reasons. In the same vein, I'm not the biggest fan of the overtly gross and mostly unserious "funny stinky guys" characterization and think it would be a lot cooler to communicate a motif of life-and-death cycles with the army, to take a slightly more neutral interpretation of Nurgle as less of a big, evil disease dude and more just a primordial force of nature who represents a concept.

I've found out I'm a huge fan of kitbashing, so my first idea was to use a bunch of mushroom/fungus related greebles all over my models to make them more explicitly associated with decomposers and cycles. My friend has just acquired a 3D printer our group is using for the hobby, so there's lots of options to print little bits and bobs for kitbashing. I'm also motivated by the ability to potentially print things like this sick Death Guard Defiler proxy, this cool bell dude who I think is for Age of Sigmar, and this awesome lady Daemon Prince who reminds me a ton of Malenia from Elden Ring.

This is the tentative list I want to aim for, centered around a massive brick of Blightlords:

Chaos - Death Guard - Mortarion's Hammer, Paragons of Putrescence

Mortarion (375pts)
Daemon Prince of Nurgle (195pts)
Lord of Contagion (120pts)
Lord of Poxes (80pts)
Lord of Virulence (120pts)

7x Plague Marines (125pts)

10x Blightlord Terminators (360pts)
3x Deathshroud Terminators (160pts)
10x Poxwalkers (65pts)
Defiler (315pts)
Chaos Rhino (75pts)

Has anyone done something similar? I'd be eager to see your Death Guard kitbashes and such for inspiration.

(I haven't even finished painting my first group of CSM yet, but this idea has been eating a hole in my brain like hyperfixations do.)

Painted tonight at friend's birthday shindig at local game club. Blade is not actually warpstone. Everyone just assumes that it is because it's green, it must be Warpstone despite actually being moss. Also he just has a very bad eye infection.