got those aforementioned kriegsrkin done, at last!
full squad
This pose was based on the old metal kasrkin aiming/advancing guy. With the gun-wires gone (god I hate those, bloody stupid), it took very little effort.
Here is the squad commander. I added the chest lamp to tie him in with the engineers.
His robot hand is done in the awful pink to visually reference the hideously coloured early prosthetic limbs of the 50's and 60's.
It also reminds me of Lister's robot arm he had in series 7 of red dwarf...
Another mask guy.
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HWT backpacks help with the engineer theme, due to all the wrenches and screwdrivers and that on them.
As the backpacks duplicate a bit across the squad I made some swaps for other bits here and there, like the krieg hatchet and waterbottle on this one...
...and the shovel (krieg), knife (old cadian) and scope (boltrifle) on this one!
Made sensible by the fact his scope is absent from his hellgun. which I added a nucadian lasgun sling too for some extra detail/bulk
The team's specialist has a melta, because that makes the most sense as far as damage output and the demolition/assault nature of the sapper's they are supporting.
I added a spare muzzle (got the idea from a deathguard mini) and did the colourisation of the heat bloom on the current muzzle. With this in mind, I chose the backpack with the pair of asbestos gloves/mits slung on the backpack. (can't really see it here. but its there!)
I figured he can use those to swap his muzzles out!
To further sell the sense on working away from his own lines and in/under enemy territory, he has a spare tank of melta fuel on his pack. Taken from and old landspeeder multimelta ammo. (a meltabomb would do if not).
he aslo has a holster (heavy intercessors) as his backup weapon.
To hide the fact that I'd used the backpack with the roll of tape on before (the guy with the hatchet, where I'd removed the gloves from his pack and put a gasmask box on instead) I shaved the tape off and added an old cadian waterbottle. melting is thirty work, I guess!
...and here is an example of one next to one of the engineers. They fit together well.
I mean it makes sense. If the engineers are made from cadians then the stormtroopers should then be made of kasrkin...
I elected to do all the 'soft' armour in the grey.
I figured there was not much trou on display as on the engineers and this way, with camo on the trousers too, the colourscheme was balanced. if I'd done all that stuff black they would have just been very dark dingy and kinda boring...
This whole squad has been made of leftovers from my other endeavours. The heavy backpacks coming fom the crounching cadians I used in the filey 87th and the kasrkin being left over from my 3rd ed style stormtroopers. The heads were just sitting there in my bitzbox! never get rid of stuff you might use in the future!
All in quite the result I'd say!
also, as a diversion I've tacked this mini too this week:
Its a copplestone minis 'em4 Robot skeleton with MAR' mini I bought from Forlorn games on ebay.
But I know what your thinking...
"thats a second/third ed' necron, that is!"
Although similar at first glance, its actually quite different. except for the head. I mean damn, its bang on, no?
As you can see Ive gone full nostalgia-nerd and done it the 1997 army theme as shown here:
Well. I do remember those with much fondness but alas, never bought any when they came out originally.
I personally loved the fact the faction only had the five warriors, two immortals, a destroyer, scarabs and a lord to lead them all.
easy to collect and nice and uniform on the tabletop as reams of faceless, souless automata should be.
They had (and I suppose still do have) a certain egyptian theme to them that essentially made them 'tomb kings terminators' for
40k, which,
tbh this one lacks but
imho, its better for it.
The steel finish and red eyes were an absolute must.
As you can see Ive added some weathering and rusty patina across his frame, suggesting that this necron is a lttle older than the ones you see gracing the tables today (which is kinda silly as theyre all supposed to be ancient, but you get where I'm coming from)
I also added the gold and blue scheme to his chestplate (like the egyptian iconography parts on the originals) and decided to do the the gun in the simple black casing with the muzzle done in green to represent the classic gauss crsytal muzzles...
the original mini's gauss guns had large ribbed tubes that came out of the 'stock' end and were rendered as bronze.
as these were absent on these, I simply did the ribbed hosing on the thighs in weathered bronze to reference this.
the base wa the final touch for me.
simple corkdust and chunks in xv88, washed with agrax and then drybrushed in zandri then ushabti with a mournfang rim.
very oldskool and a very pleasent diversion from my usual stuff that was a real walk down memory lane and genuine fun to do.
You know, if you showed this model to me in 1997 and said I was the person who painted it I'd have never believed it...
now, if only I could get hold of an original '97 immortal to go with it...