DKoK Artillery - TO DONE

 

Greetings and welcome back for some actual painting progress, at long last. With some satisfaction, I record the completion of this Death Korps of Krieg artillery piece; 1st Gun, 206th Battery, 262nd Siege Regiment. And the big seal o'DONE:

I struggled to build enough enthusiasm and inspiration to get this one across the finish line. I enjoy the completed look of my DKoK models, but I have never truly enjoyed the process of painting them, for one reason or another. However, I stuck to my rule of not moving on to a new painting project until the one on the desk is complete.  Thus the looong pause in painting projects for the blog, including my intent to complete a squad for Squaduary 2026, boooo!

That said, I'm enjoying the completion here and the results. I like that GW made this kits a small diorama in it's own right. That's partially what took up some time. I still want to go in with some weathering powders at some point.  But I haven't done that for the rest, so for now this piece matches the rest of the force.

Seen here, a crewman is performing maintenance on this piece while another is on over-watch and the third looks down range assessing possible targets. This gun has been giving the team problems lately, as evidenced by the array of tools and other gear laying about.

I did complete the stubby mortar barrel as well, but the multi-rocket and thud gun options have not been completed; and may never be.  As I completed this piece, I recognized that the howitzer look is very much to my liking. Here's a final top down look at the rear of the piece.

 

 So, there it is at long last.  And now the real work; what to work on next?  I'm excited for several projects across LI, HH, and WH40K.  I have HH models to build, so that will likely be a palate cleanser while I wait and see where the muse strikes next.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope to keep the content flowing here from now on.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

 

On the Workbench [January] - Saturnine Armor and Araknae Weapon Platforms

 

Greetings!  As I continue catching up on hobby work to date, here are the models form the new Legions Imperialis Saturnine release. They are definitely chunky dudes. I'm not sure how many of these mark of armor may have been passed on to the First Legion, who were at the time far from the other legions.  But I imagine Vulcan did The Lion a solid and put some away somewhere the First Legion would find.

I built the terminators in two groups, one with disintegrator weapons, and one with plasma.

And again with the Dreadnoughts, two with disintegrator weapons, and two without. I'm looking forward to getting paint on these brutes.

Last up, I built the Araknae weapon platforms. Without anything for comparison, they look like tarantula batteries. But the are much larger. A mix of anti this and anti that for good measure.  Taken in all, it's a fun batch of models to put on the Astartes pile for Legions Imperialis.

At this point I paused for the most part in my hobby efforts. Next up, I'll post pics of the (hopefully?) finished Death Korps of Krieg Artillery piece.

 

Cheers and Happy Gaming! 

On the Workbench [December] - Legion Imperialis Super Heavy Tanks

 

Greetings and welcome back. I regret the long hobby pause, but now I'm back and it's time to catch up. In December of last year, I had the pleasure of building four super-heavy tanks for Legions Imperialis.  Each one is a different model, and all four are requisitioned for the Dark Angels.

The Falchion is perfect to represent the sort of weaponry provided to the First legion from the Emperor's secret vaults on Terra and beyond. When something big absolutely has to go away NOW, the Ironwing release the Falchion.

 

The Ascalon seems purpose made for the tactics of the Dreadwing.  This BIG ball of fury is going all in on the First Legion's scorched earth policy. Seriously, just stand well out of the way, please...we got this.

I apparently neglected to get pics of the next two prior to priming. This Fellblade is going to be a workhorse for the Ironwing. Looks great in black too!

Last up we have the Glaive, another heavy lifter for the Ironwing, likely seconded to the Stormwing in an infantry support role. The detail on these small models continues to amaze.  Close up like this, a person could be forgiven for thinking there are at 28mm scale. It's going to be a pleasure to get more paint on these big fellas.

And that was December.  January will be up next, then we'll revisit the Death Korps of Krieg artillery piece that has been clogging up my painting pipeline (I will not start a new project until a current project is DONE)...

That's it for now...
Cheers and Happy Gaming!! 

DKoK Artillary WIP - the Models

Greetings and welcome back.  Today I wanted to share what I have actually been painting since DreadTober. Some may recognize this from the background of many of the DreadTober WIP posts.  This artillery piece has sat on my painting table for a few months, since I completed the Heavy Weapons Squad with stubbers. This was meant to be a follow on project, but I ended up taking a break. As much as I love the Krieg, and very much love the painted results of my force (few though they may be), I struggle to maintain inspiration and momentum to complete them in any numbers.

The artillery piece has been completed to a point that is it now glued to the base. I used a mix of Monument Hobbies Newsh with black and brown acrylic inks in the same manner as an oil wash to shade it. I definitely appreciated the results.  I have never used an oil wash for the same purpose so I cannot compare approach or results, but this acrylic approach certainly did the trick.

Here is a closer look at some of the detail in the kit. I am impressed with the screen tech that allows this monitor to be attached to the gun without shattering during a barrage with this artillery piece. 😂

Now it is time to finish the troops. I batch painted these models to a point while painting the heavy weapons squad so they are well on their way.

There is still a lot of details and cleanup required to bring these to a completed state.

However they should finish up reasonably quickly. Once done, the crew will also be glued down making this piece a mini diorama, as well as a gaming piece. And then there is also some transfer work required on the big gun. I'm not sure why I didn't apply these before using the acrylic wash. I'll have to do a little over shading to weather the transfers into the rest of the model. And the last part will be painting the remaining options for the gun.  I did not glue the main gun in with the intent to swap weapons to suit the need, but I like the long cannon as a set piece.

So that's where this project is currently.  I'm looking forward to finishing it before the end of the year - then January will bring a new project - maybe completing the 40K version of Lion'el Jonson?? We'll see!

Cheers and Happy Gaming! 

On the Workbench [November] - More Legions Imperialis Astartes Armor

 

Wow - where did November go?! That may be the first month since the blog started that I posted absolutely nothing.  Ugh.  Well life happens, I suppose.  I have not been idle in that time!  With the Legiones Astartes getting a mega dump of new armor, I spent a good part of the month resting my brushes from DreadTober and building tiny tanks. While a fun exercise for an experienced modeller, these little bastards are not for the feint at heart! 😆

First up were the Vindicators. I built them as two squadrons of four, given that I use the tank commander model in the copula to signify a squadron's lead tank. These are great replicas of their 28mm cousins and I believe exact in every detail.  I find that still pretty amazing at this scale.  Thank you digital models!

Next up are the tiny missile tanks.  I guess I haven't memorized the Horus Heresy options for the Legiones Astartes...but I thought Whirlwinds were a 40k thing? I'm really not certain why we didn't get 8 Scorpious tanks instead of four and four of these. Regardless, they look cool. :)

The tiny Scorpious tanks are also amazing reproductions of their 28mm cousins. Still kinda annoyed you have to pickup two boxes to get a decent amount of them. Given the zero games of LI that I've managed to play so far, I imagine I shouldn't let that bother me.😂

Then there are the super heavy tanks.  So fun!  The Typhon Super-heavy Siege tanks are above.  Excellent replicas and so much cheaper than owning the 28mm equivalents! I took what might be an odd approach with these; imagining them as two squadrons.  One focused on getting in close with the front line and punishing troops and the like to help break the line.  And the second in an odd anti-armor support roll with lascannon sponsons and pintle mounted multi-meltas. I guess I imagined the latter in a support role to repel charging/advancing armor? We'll see...

Then my personal favorites, the Cerberus Tank Destroyers.  These will look epic in First Legion colors! I went for full anti-armor at range with the pintle-mounted heavy bolters for (limited) point defense.  Mostly because I couldn't see the extra points for multi-meltas ever having a practical use given the range of the other weapons 

Finally making a surprise appearance, since they do not appear in the tray pictured in the title, are the Legion Mastadon Super-heavy Assault Transports.  This is not a model I want to deal with at 28mm scale.  But I'm going to enjoy putting First legion colors on these two tiny ones...and maybe two more at some point since I have the slots for them in one of my Battle Foam Trays.

Probably a good time to put in a plug for Battle Foam. I love their trays for Legions Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus. Maybe not always the perfect tray for what you want, but so many options that you should be able to make something work.  I haven't used their custom tray creator for this game, but it's possible they have the cut-outs for LI, in which case you could design your own trays anyway. I've done that in the past with some 40K stuff and had a great experience.

Anyway, not a bad way to keep the little guys safe and sound.  Not cheap, but if you wait and shop the fairly regular sales, it ain't all bad - esp. compared to what we're already paying for the plastic...

So that was what I had on the work bench in November.  I didn't paint much, but rolling into December I have been putting effort finally into an old project...check back in a couple days to have a look at that one, if you wish.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!