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I am in the midst of heavy 40K painting but my newly arrived Dust Tactics models simply demanded patience. So I shoved the Orks and Guard aside and gave them some loving. I painted one Grenadier and one GI.

Oh my, these are a blast to paint. Compared to "GW Style" the "WW2 ~realistic~ style" is super easy and fast. I am going to enjoy this And these results were enough to splash out and use Maelstroms Easter offer to buy...uhm...everything.

Pretty good start, nice free hand on the shoulders

Yeah I prefer the more realistic painting style. Sometimes the ridiculous blending and highlighting so prominent with GW's stuff gets on my nerves. Good stuff man, I really love the GI, very gritty and real looking.

Really nice models! Much better shading than I can achieve even with washes!

also, how much did that American model cost, and what is the size compared to Guardsmen, because I think that'd be really nice to make a guard army out of, though it's probably expensive.

I like them. Great job.

Jake

Thanks for looking peeps.

The GI was one of 32 models (and 4 walkers) from the basic box. There are 15 GI's somewhat like it in the box. They are a little more slender and taller then Guardsmen. The base is also a little bigger. The basic box can be found online for around 65 US dollars if you shop around. The small infantry boxes retail for around 17-20 US dollars for five miniatures.

I used only Vallejo paints for this, using painting guides from Flames of War. I painted them rather swiftly, only highlighted the armour plates and washed the GI with GW Devlan Mud and the Grenadier with GW Badab Black. I guess I might have added a tiny bit of water to the wash/ink before using it. The bases were black and drybrushed with GW Bubonic Brown and GW Bleached Bone. I sorta lightly drybrushed the mini's with Bleached Bone after for some more highlighting

Like I said in your other thread, these are fantastic.

Interesting that you're using FoW painting guides as a reference. I'd like to do the same thing, though I can never seem to get my hand on the FoW Vallejo American Paint Set.

nice man looks great loving the colours!

Cool minis on top of a nice paint job!

Its nice to see something different. I'm looking forward to seeing those crazy walkers...

Man I want that game! I love those bases!

Love the ww2 style of the german figure, the other one is not bad at all!

I totally forgot about the easter sale. Just bought the hardcover 40k book. Oh well serves me right. Cool looking models btw.

Wow, great looking mini's! The freehand work on the shoulders is quite inspirational!

How do these compare scale-wise to 40k? I've been wondering if the parts for the tanks would be suitable for kitbashing with.

Nowlan wrote:How do these compare scale-wise to 40k? I've been wondering if the parts for the tanks would be suitable for kitbashing with.

As for the walkers, you need a bit of extrapolation, but:









Hope that helps.

It does, thank you.

a bit of a WIP on the Zjermans