Death Korps of Krieg Repaint: Platoon 1 Complete

So here's your weekly does of Krieggy goodness!

The first of my two Krieg Platoons is now complete with another two squads and a Platoon Command Squad added since my last Krieg post.

Unfortunately my airbrush died (again!) after being resurrected with spare parts, which means that my Krieg armoured units and artillery are sitting in the cabinet collecting dust! Very frustrating! So until £70 drops in my lap to buy a decent Iwata, its on with the troops!

So here is Platoon 1 (yet to be named!!)

Platoon Command Squad

Squad 1 with Melta Gun

Squad 2 with Plasma Gun

Squad 3 with Melta Gun

More Krieg coming soon, along with a few more new years resolutions!!

141st Elysian Drop Troop Regiment "Helljumpers" Showcase

As promised here are the pics of the Helljumpers! I asked Mrs GunGrave to perform her usual photo magic on these guys, but some of the pics aren't as good as the last bunch!

Company Command Squad

Long Range Ground Scanner

Veteran Squad 1: Heavy Flamer and two Plasma Guns

Veteran Squad 2: Heavy Flamer and two Plasma Guns

Veteran Squad  3: two Melta Guns and Plasma Gun

Veteran Squad 4: Three Melta Guns

Sentinel Squadron 1:

Sentinel Squadron 2:

Now for their rides! Mrs GunGrave performed a little extra photoshop magic on these pics! An experiment that might see more use in the future!

Valkyrie 1 with Rocket Pods

Valkyrie 2 with Rocket Pods

Vendetta 1

Vendetta 2

Vulture Gunship 1 with Twin Linked Punisher Cannons

Vulture Gunship 2 with Twin Linked Punisher Cannons

Well I hope you guys liked the showcase! I'm exceptionally pleased with this army, and have had great fun designing and building it. I'm just sad that it is done, and theres no more Elysians or Valkyries to build! As i mentioned a few posts ago, i will be attempting to expand this force into a viable Apoc army, but that'll probably be a way down the line as other projects beckon! I may do a Vostroyan showcase soon, as those guys haven't had much exposure on this site.

 

Next post its more from the Krieg!

Legio Custodes: Project Update

Just a quick post here!
The Custodian Body Image problem has been solved! A big  thanks to Scibors miniatures for going ahead and producing some torsos, so i don't have to improvise!! These guys are fantastic sculpts are are going to make perfect Custodians!

Here's a guy some arms and shoulder pads on:

So I'm just waiting for a few more bits in the post (possibly another week or two) and then i get to the really hard part; painting the test mini! You see, these guys are going to be painted in Non Metallic Metal, and as I've never done it before, its gonna take some perfecting! Nothing but the best for the Emperors finest!

Elysian Drop Sentinel Squadron 2 Complete

This now concludes the construction of the 141st Elysian Drop Troop Regiment "Helljumpers"! This 1750pt army only took me a mere 4 months to complete, but I'm sure it could have been sooner if Forgeworld wasn't so expensive! So here they are:

Sentinel "Herak" Armed with Multi Melta:

I love this base, having the sentinel stalking through a breached perimeter fence! Thought the smoldering edges of the melta'd fence were a nice touch!

Sentinel "Montu" armed with Heavy Bolter:

I'm interested in expanding this army further to make it a reasonable sized Apocalypse force, prahaps adding some Tauros and a few more squads in Valkyries! In the next post i'll get some shots of the current army together!

Next on the to-do list is Tyranids. This 'Nid fest has been sitting in the cabinet, almost complete, for about 6 months now and its time to get it squared away so i can start thinking about my Dark Eldar again (sigh, so much to do!!)

New Years Resolution No:1 ; Elysian Sentinels WIP

New Years Resolution No:1 - Take Better Pictures!

While i was taking pictures for my last post, i saw that the quality of my pictures was slipping, despite using an SLR. Recently I'd  noticed a few articles on the blogs about building light boxes and the associated benefits of them, so last night i decided to give it a go!

Here it is in all its glory! I went for a big box so, if necessary, i could snap whole army's in it! Two lamps at the sides and one on the top.

So for this little experiment i enlisted Mrs GunGrave's help, as shes an avid photographer! We took a few snaps of some models that i chose randomly out of the display cabinets and here are the results:

Elysian Sentinel:

Death Korps of Krieg Squad:

Space Marine Terminator Chaplin:

Tyranid Hive Tyrant:

WOW is all i can say! I cant believe the improvement that this makes to the pics (well i can believe it but never thought that i could achieve it!) I believe that these pics were taken using something called a Macro Setting (or lens) for detailed picture taking, and also using a tripod. Storage for this thing in my study/Forge/Warhammer Room may be a problem though! I'm currently trying to persuade Mrs GunGrave to let me buy some new office furniture, so if this is successful and i manage to find £300 from somewhere, it should create the space for me to have this set up permanently. SWEET!

Onto other things; i cracked on with the remaining two Elysian Sentinels which are nearly ready for painting. The first one here is prowling through a breached perimeter fence. I'm gonna try and paint the edges of the fence to look like they've just been blasted by the Multi Melta!

The second one is not nearly as interesting, because i simply ran out of ideas for the base! So i coped out and chucked a bit of barbed wire and a sign on it and left it at that. I'm gonna try and squeeze one of the Death Korps sector marking transfers onto the sign, but aside from that this Sentinel doesn't get much more interesting!

So the Elysians are nearly complete! They've been an awesome army to collect and even more fun to play! With nearly everything outflanking, not even i know whats gonna happen in the game! Once the Sentinels are done, I'll get some group shots organised!



Death Korps of Krieg Repaint - Squad and Demolisher Done

I've finally got a few days off now and I've waisted no time in cracking on with the Krieg repaint! So today i got the first squad completed.

Once this was done, i quickly started to wonder about the colour schemes of the artillery and armour!! So i picked out a matching scheme from IA: Siege of Vraks Pt1 and slapped it onto a Demolisher! The usual weathering was also applied.

Just in case you cant remember what the last colour scheme was, here's a comparison photo:

I feel like I've just bought a whole new Krieg army and I'm painting it for the first time (though without the huge credit card bill!) Unfortunately this means that other projects have been severely neglected, mostly my Dark Eldar, which is currently only one squad strong! I guess I'm easily distracted!

In an effort to break my Krieg Fever, i made a start on the last two Drop Sentinels for the Elysians and I hope to have a few WIP pics of that tomorrow.

The Great Death Korps of Kreig Repaint Continues!

Well I've been hampered by work once again in my attempts to progress with the re-paint, but did make some headway on the first squad while Mrs Gungrave was out this evening! The more i do the more i believe i made the right decision about this repaint! As it stands i have most of the basic colours on, just the washes and highlights to go.

In an effort to save time on this project i visited my old mate The Army Painter and picked up a tin of their Uniform Grey. Its pretty much Codex Grey in a can, ideal for the greatcoats of the Krieg.

I have a few days off coming up and Mrs Grave is off for a girly weekend, no doubt pillow fighting in pajamas for two days solid if my imagination is anything to go by! So, wandering imaginations aside, I'll get another squad or two repainted by the end of the week. I may also start on that awesome Dark Eldar Archon i bought a while back, we'll see.

Laters