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Looking good.

Looking nice....coming out well

As for your conversion of the chimera....I say go ahead...just be careful not to change it too much into a centaur, especially if you are still using it as a chimera.

Other than that weathering of the tanks look great...I'm thinking that I should start learning on that technique soon.

Keep it up

The weathering technique i use and im going to stick to. Conisdering the first salt attempt was dreadful. I use GW ogryn flesh, delvan mud, and watered down paint washes. I use about 1 part paint to 4 parts water. This way i will get a very slow concentration and build up. Any veteran player knows that once you overdo a wash you may as well start over. But i try to build up to the final colors. This way i also form almost a shadow casting effect as well.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I ALWAYS get green with envy when I see FW DKOK....nice work so far!

Dude, amazing!

I actually saw this thread without realizing it was yours... Seriously super nice, your style really suits these models.

I really like the green you used on the armored plates

Lovely stuff!!

Impressive start. I'm thinking over what I'll need for a DKK army and I've got some great ideas, I'm just hoping they will pay off. I managed to start my collection by getting my hands on the limited gamesday mounted commissar and really looking forward to my days off when I can finally get some paint on it.

Well done so far. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future *Subscribed*

@Major, thanks man. I tried to get a more real feel to them. Not just the dull grey all over.

@Reg, Hope to see some work from you as well. I would have more up but my other order has not come through, and im not touching either of my new chimeras until i know what i really want to do with them. My next order will be a very tough challenge for me. Hopefully you will see. Should have some updates tomorrow.

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@Reg, Hope to see some work from you as well. I would have more up but my other order has not come through, and im not touching either of my new chimeras until i know what i really want to do with them. My next order will be a very tough challenge for me. Hopefully you will see. Should have some updates tomorrow.

I hope to start on my Commissar on Sunday Evening and will get some pics up if that goes to plan

nice i always liked the death korps

So got two more new squads in the mail today, let me tell you i got a bad batch this time. Almost every gun is warped. ALOT of flash. arms are not fitting right. Oh boy its a hassel.

Call em up, I hear forgeworld is usually pretty good about replacing stuff... oh and paint something already, don't keep us waiting lol!

Ditto MajorTom on the replacement side of things. Also, they're often quite reasonable about you keeping the stuff if it's seriously warped - which is, after all, often fixable with patience. FTW!


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Sorry, that sounds rather cynically exploitative of FW, doesn't it? Ah well...

Sorry about the lack of posts on painted minis. Im right now trying to straighten them out. Realized the first squad at ease i based did the fuzzy thing. So now i have to go back, strip them, with something weak and rebuild them. Then had basecoat them again and add color. What a waist. If only i took the time. Here are some pics of what i have thus far though, Not much changing, this process is becoming slower than i expected.


First pics of the new squad leader with command upgrade. Very useful for the army. Then the fuzzy squad that i really dont like at all. I was initially going to use them that way, but i cant do it. The chimera is me experimenting with MIG pigments. I like them alot. For death korps and rust they are perfect. Then there is the pic of some rust on the hull of the soon to be siege tank.

Mig pigmenting is impressive. I've been using Tamiya rust but not sure about the results; might switch after seeing this. Love the chunky chimy btw.

The chimera is an experiment right now. Im going to paint around the mig pigments and see how well i can blend them with acrylics. It is a hard technique but possible. Lots of water and clean wet brushes. should be fun to try though.

As for the fuzzies, arent they terrible?! Im really, really irritated by those.

The rust effects look amasing! Looking forward to see the finished model

brush_slip wrote:Sorry about the lack of posts on painted minis. Im right now trying to straighten them out. Realized the first squad at ease i based did the fuzzy thing. So now i have to go back, strip them, with something weak and rebuild them. Then had basecoat them again and add color. What a waist. If only i took the time. Here are some pics of what i have thus far though, Not much changing, this process is becoming slower than i expected.

Wow that's a shame....especially after the hard work that was placed into them....but if you are able to top the original off...its all worth it at the end

Really like the rust effect....would be interesting to see how the chimera would turn out.

What did you use for stripping resin....for resin can be a delicate material to strip (and I am in need to strip a FW model myself, but never dared )

Keep it up

Pine-sol, let it sit for a night, about 10 hours and it was still good. I was suprised myself! Im thankful though. It works, I was so happy to see that it did. Man was i happy.

So here it is thus far. The army as a whole. I plan on having MUCH more infantry. The first squad is in the paint process. The squad at ease got some maintenance. Next its off the stripping for them. The command squad still needs some work. Will finish them up while doing the first squad. The chimeras that are built. Havent touched two more of them. Those two are just in case i do decide for a mechanized army. Im probably going to scrap the rust one. Not sure if i want to use it. It is pretty beat up. The baneblade will probably never enter battle, unless i need it in a high point game. The leman russ and seige cannon need work as well.

Luckily i have off until Wednesday, this way i can get some good ol fashioned painting time in all day.

I must apoligize for the bad pictures...I was out a little too late last night, and lets just say i have the after morning shakes from a hangover.

brush_slip wrote:So here it is thus far. The army as a whole. I plan on having MUCH more infantry. The first squad is in the paint process. The squad at ease got some maintenance. Next its off the stripping for them. The command squad still needs some work. Will finish them up while doing the first squad. The chimeras that are built. Havent touched two more of them. Those two are just in case i do decide for a mechanized army. Im probably going to scrap the rust one. Not sure if i want to use it. It is pretty beat up. The baneblade will probably never enter battle, unless i need it in a high point game. The leman russ and seige cannon need work as well.

Luckily i have off until Wednesday, this way i can get some good ol fashioned painting time in all day.

I must apoligize for the bad pictures...I was out a little too late last night, and lets just say i have the after morning shakes from a hangover.

Looking great so far. Really looking forward to seeing these come together. I'm making my order in just under a month for some Krieg stuff. Thinking over what to order first. Its the choice out of the 3 squads.... the advancing, at ease or shooting...

A frosty gritty undercoat sucks squig, I HATE it when that happens, especially the first time when I thought painting would smooth it out lol

B Really loving this stuff, and still waiting for that blending tutorial step by step you promised!

C These guys are going to deserve really beautiful bases, do you have anything in particular in mind? Whatever you do, I really hope it has lots of details, whatever they may be.

Cool stuff as always Slippy

I know what you mean on huge investment, I've already spent 1500 dollars on krieg stuff. I'm a competetive painter and these models have too much detail to pass up. I have around 80 infantry, 15 heavy weapons, 3 command squads, 10 death riders, 2 machariuses, and 16 tanks.

Holy Man, that is a lot of DKOK, I hope i get there! Its also a slow process, Considering you have to buy them here and there, unless your a civil engineer or heart surgeon, or some sort of celebrity.

@Major, the tutorial is coming, Lets just say i may have something "orky" on the down-low, right now as well...Hmmm and yea as for the paint, thank the lord i have found pin-sol, doesnt warp or turn the resin to moosh. Worked like a charm. So they will be getting painstakingly stripped. That will be super tedious. Oh and im looking at doing trench bases, in the muddy fall season. Except some pools of nuclear waste here and there wouldnt hurt.

@Reg, I have a squad of everyone, to see which one gave me the best batch. I mean the one without busted parts and warping, and the at ease troops were the best, other than the spray paint mishap. OH and ORDER EXPRESS, you will not like to pay that much extra, but you will thank me later. I live in Wisconsin. VERY long way from the UK, and i get my stuff in 5 days, no more than that.

Oh, i found 5 of my other DKOK, the second hand cheap ones i recieved off line a while back. I dont know if i should add them to the command squad, or make them into tank drivers and other randoms for the other parts of my army. That would mean converting death korps, which a lot of people are NOT fond of.

You convert away if you are confident. I will be trying the pinesol thing to strip an old school hybrid I bought off ebay, I don't think we have simple green in Quebec...

Down-low orkyness eh.... sneak peak for a buddy???

"sigh", ok well here are the two sneak peeks i can offer.

Orky, cult of speed huh? whats more dangerous? Maybe something Feral?! Im still in concept with it, i wish i had a scanner i could show sketches.


Marshal, for the crusade? Maybe?

Took a little break from the DKOK, im getting to the irritating stages of painting the coats. Doing twenty of them is not fun, considering each coat has about 6 shades of gray, maybe more!. Here is what i started as a little project, only because i wanted to do an old school feral ork. here is what i have come up with.

Im going to be experimenting in weathering NMM metal. Just to get a feel for if it is possible. The Ork boss as a whole i think turned out to be a nice little conversion though.

oh man that's gonna be awesome... clone yourself a few times and get going on all at once lol

Oh man do i wish! I would dictate over all of my own clones though. Then i would want to make an army of myself, and i may get a little too ambitious. Lol

I didnt mean for that to sound arrogant. I think it may have. Im not sure if an army of myself would last. I would probably choose to overthrow myself, then myself would take power and then be overthrown by myself, this causing a very long chain of overthrowing until there was just one more of me left. Concluding my Tyrant journey, and me just walking away.