From Mike F - Steel Legion Veteran Squad (50pts)

 It took forever to get these guys done. I've been sick since last week and could only do minimal painting. On the plus side I wasn't going to work so I had lots of time to pick away at these when I could. This is the last infantry unit for by Imperial Guard Steel Legion. They're a veteran squad and I used the Kill Team Death Korps box to represent them. They're pretty nice figures with a few different equipment option. I had to cast another arm for the meltagun, so I could have three special weapons in the unit. I'm impressed how well it came out.

I have one unit remaining, but I'm not sure I have enough time to complete it. We'll see I guess.

Thanks for visiting!

Uff.. hope you heal up soon, but not too soon that you have to go back to work, but just soon enough that you can paint more steel legion models! These are looking amazing, and love the color combo you have going on here as well. Also couldn't tell that you have to cast an arm to get it working.. all lots straight from the box! 

Wonderful, and 50 pts for you!
Kyle

From DavidB: Models and Memories (215 points)

  Shinedown- Dead Don't Die

Yes, I do have almost as many painted models as those that do lie in the Mountain of Neglect. Above are the poorly painted Goliath gang Jersey Boyz and yes the leader is named "Situation" They spend their downtime pumping iron and slamming Jaeger Bombs while using crude pick up lines at downhive bars. I was so proud of their camouflage and red and flesh tones, but they are rather dated now.

These are the War Dawgs. I only adjusted the flesh-tones on these guys, but they were the last crew I ran in the old Necromundia.

I have improved a little bit...besides not sloshing paint on bases!

I tweaked the fleshtones on the old gang so they wouldn't look outdated with these guys. They were customized with new war-gear scavenged and bought in the game. They were white primer.

The last of the old plastic goliaths in War Dawg colors.

"new" War Dog gangers to represent the promoted Juves.

The fourth Juve now with pigment and a shotgun ganger and heavy with a heavy bolter.

The War Dawgs are now roster accurate with WYSIWYG. They do sub as chaos cultists for cultists leaning towards Khorne Blood-for-the-Blood-God variety.

Now some new Goliaths from the new game. These are the Blue Bloods.

They are a lot larger than the older sculpts and still have the same design cues.

I do like these a lot more, but am still getting used to the rules.

I will be playing them for the first time with my gaming group at Adepticon on the freeplay tables.

Bases were primed in gloss black then painted in acrylic. I used an eraser to chip them up then painted P3 pig iron in the "chip areas" leaving black outlines. Then I weathered the holy heck out of them.

Also introducing the Death Korps of Krieg 215th Jaegers for Kill Team. I have two boxes of them for building all the options and also have plans for them in 40k, inquisimundia, 5150, Stargrave, ....

Sgts, melee, and veteran guardsmen.

Special weapon troopers...a thumper with grenade launcher, flametrooper, plasma gunner and a boltgun.

Plenty of bog standard guard troopers.

Medics on the flanks surrounding the zealot reading from the Tome of Sgt Bromley"...If I can't make you smart, I will make you strong. You will do push-ups till Sgt Bromley is tired of drinking coffee." Also the commo specialist with flares and a map or Opord.

 A spotter and a sniper.

My favorite of the Jaegers, an EOD tech with up armored chest plate and a skull on his mask getting ready to use something that probably involves the serious putty.

I really like everything about this model. he is well equipped for his job including wire cutters.

The kit had a loose mine that I absolutely had to make a marker for.

The Hospitaler for Sisters of Battle ready to assume medical duties with an Agent of the Imperium. She is pretty clean and soft spoken, She will be used for a ride in Sarah's Limo service. I am running outta time to get those rides in!

The K-9 is the doggo that was missing from last years challenge he turned up in the necromunda box of all places....Probably was finding contraband that the gangers were using/making/selling. He is a very good boy and hopefully will give me a start on the cold war with 5 points! he is a very good boy!

11 old Skool Goliaths for 55 points with 25 skulls

10 goliaths for 50 points and 23 skulls with fabulous blue hair.

20 jaegers from Krieg for 100 points and 74 skulls

A very nice sister for fixing wounds not making them 5 points

and a very good boy- 5 points

215 points and 132 skulls. new skull tally is 506 noggins.

Friday Minion: Welcome back David! I would congratulate you for the week off, but this was last week's posts and I know you're cooking up another whopper for us. 

Great work on this batch, love the comparison between the old school Necromunda Goliaths and the chunky new sculpts. But my true love is those Death Korps of Krieg, nice choice of green overcoats. I had loads of Astra Militarum Imperial Guard back in the day, it's no great surprise I ended up a historical gamer in the end. 

215 points for your tally, and you're so close to your 2000 target.

 

From StuartL - Counting Down the Days - Western, Gift Shop & Limo (289 Points)

Hello all,

I have quite a few things to post today, so let's get started.

First off, a trip in Lady Sarah's Limousine to an unplanned stop at the Gift Store. To pay for this, I offer this model is from Wyrd Miniatures' game Malifaux. Malifaux has 8 factions each with about 8 sub-factions (known as Crews) and this model is taken from the Showgirls crew of the  Arcanists. The Showgirls are illusionists and tricksters, running a smuggling operation from the basement of the Star Theatre in Malifaux city. This figure is the leader of the group, Colette DuBois.

Last week, my wife found some garden ornaments at our local dollar store (100 yen store actually), that she really liked. However, they were quite plain being mainly white clay with just a hint of colour. Knowing that I have a room stocked full of paints and other colourful substances, she suggested that they would look much nicer if they just had a tiny bit of pigment added. Figuring that these would qualify for the Gift Store bonus, I agreed to take time out of my schedule and paint them up.

Miniature Arab for scale.

So, after googling some pictures of hedgehogs and having my wife select one that she likes, I set to work. As the ornaments had a lot of texture sculpted on already, I settled on a 'wash and wipe' technique. I first applied some dark fleshy tones to the feet and mouth, then put Vallejo washes on the parts of the body that needed them. Before that had a chance to dry, I wiped a folded tissue over the figure, trying to remove some of the wash on the top layers of the fur. I then added a second darker wash over the top of the body and repeated the process. Finally, I painted the eyes a bit more, as the originals just had small dots of black in the centre rather than a fully black orb. Once everything was dry I varnished them and quickly grabbed some pictures before my wife could transfer them to the garden. 

With that quick pit stop out of the way, it is on to the next part of the studio, the Western stage, but to get there I need to pay my way in the Limo, so here is another Showgirl for Malifaux.

The Western stage is a tricky one for me as I don't have any real Western figures. However, I do have a lot of Weird West figures, or more accurately Wyrd West. Malifaux is a game set in an alternate world circa 1900, where magic is real. Using magic, people opened a breach between dimensions, linking Earth to the strange land of Malifaux. In this new land, humans have gone forth to settle and plunder, creating a new frontier of colonisation. Leading the way are an organisation called the Guild, they control traffic through the breach and maintain law and order in the most draconian ways possible. They maintain magically powered automata to bolster their forces as well as countless guards, undead hunters, monster slayers and more.

These are some Guild riflemen backed up by two Wardens, machines designed to apprehend and detain possible suspects using grappling claws. These five will form the start of my Guard crew. The Wardens can also pull double duty in one of my existing crews as well, so that is a bonus. Malifaux figures are usually in the 32mm range, but the constructs are bigger, standing around 40mm+.

With my main studio visit out of the way, it is time to see what else I painted up this week. I've been on a bit of a Bolt Action/WW2 kick this time and so I present the following, in 5-man Squirrel sized squads.

Some African soldiers to fight for the British against the Japanese in India and Burma. Models are from Warlord Games with heads from Gripping Beast.

Some Frenchmen, equipped by the Americans to fight the Germans in Italy. Models are from Warlord and Artizan (or Crusader, I forget) with heads from Gripping Beast.

Some Germans to fight pretty much everyone in Europe. Models are from Warlord Games.

And some Russians to fight for the Motherland. Models are from Warlord Games.

And some Death Korps of Krieg, just because I was painting Germans and thought the colours would be a good match for these models. The figures are from Games Workshop and are part of their Kill Team range. Being GW Imperial figures with a name like Death Korps, they obviously bear a lot of skulls. 1 on each helmet, belt and backpack and 2 each on most guns.

So, with that, I just have to pay for my trip to the last section of the studio before the Director's Chair, the Fantasy Studio, which I will be tackling next week. One more Malifaux model should do the trick.

Ok, on to the scores.

31x 28mm models @5 points = 155 Points.

2x 40mm models @7 points = 14 Points.

3x Limo Rides + 2 Studio areas @20 Points = 100 Points.

Hedgehogs = ? These were really fast and simple and I didn't paint large sections of the lower body. If my minion feels like giving me some bonus points, that's fine, but it was mainly just splashing on two layers of wash.

Total = 289 Points

My side duels.

Squirrels + 6 = 34

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Dwarves, Fire Giants, WW2 Polish, Daemons, Viridians, Vasa, Junkers, Turnips, Necrons, Tau, Genestealers, WW2 Japanese, Teutonics, Lizardmen, Gnolls, Arabs, Space Marines, Kung Fu Chinese, Wolf's Dragoons, Merfolk, Fishmen, Fish, Mummies, Greek Myth, Peasants, Desert Terrain, Guild, WW2 Africans, WW2 French, WW2 Germans, WW2 Russians, DKoK

Skullz + 24 = 224

Turnips - 115 Points

That's a lot of squirrelling. Great work, love the western ladies. I'll count he hedgehogs as 28mm cavalry, just for cuteness.

From GregB: Death Korps of Krieg Infantry (50 points)

A squad of "Death Korps of Krieg" troops - plastic from GW.

These cheerful fellows represent a squad of troopers from the "Death Korps of Krieg", a military unit set in Games Workshop's "Warhammer 40k" universe. With a name like that, you know they MUST be happy chaps, right? These are multi-part plastic 28mm figures from GW.

The "Death Korps" have a specific story in the lore of the 40k setting, but it's a bit TL/DR. Suffice to say the setting offered the sculptors at Forge World, (the sort-of-associated-but-not-totally-coordinated-but-still-wholly-owned-or-something GW studio) a chance to explore a particular design theme for the "Imperial Army" troops - that theme is "World War I, but, you know, in the year 40,000". This sort of look had been attempted by others, but the Forge World sculptors at the time hit it out of the park with the "Death Korps of Krieg" - a full range of figures blending the kit, look and despair of troops on the western front in 1916 with certain 40k flourishes (skullz!).

Lots of detail on the kit.

Can you spot the small skullz?

The Krieg sculpts from Forge World were amazing, a stark contrast to the plastic offerings of the day (either the deeply uninspiring Cadians, or, much worse, the complete-crap Catachans). As nice as they were, however, they were only available from Forge World, and so were seldom seen on gaming tables.

Communications trooper.

Love the flare pistol.

Another comms trooper...not sure what I was thinking by doing two of them...oh well...

Really like this pose.

Fast forward to summer 2021, and the release of a new edition of the "Kill Team" rules. The new box set had guardsmen from the "Death Korps of Krieg" - and they were plastic! I picked up a set, and wow, I think this might be the start of something...the figures are so cool, with lots of options for assembly.  I built this unit mostly to represent a basic infantry squad (one sergeant, one special-weapon trooper), but I did mix in a couple of specialists with comms equipment for use with "Kill Team".

The grenadier is fantastic, loading another round...

Suitably action-ish pose for the officer.

It would make sense for GW to add a couple of more plastic sets for the Krieg troopers - all they need are heavy weapon crews, and some officer sets. That said, GW's moves often don't...make much sense? We'll see. But I certainly am going to track down a few more boxes of these fellows, it will be a fun new-project for the future!

A couple of the regular chaps aiming their laser rifles.

For points, we ten 28mm figures. And, because this is 40k, and the "Death Korps", we got some skullz! 42 tiny skullz! Oh yeah! Thanks for reading!

I love red trousers on these guys. The name is germanic, but the uniform is pure poilu. Woohoo for skullz!

Barks