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.
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.
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!
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