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Ethald wrote:I think I would break up the gold on the officer's chestplate by doing a little drybrush of mithril silver. Looking good so far!

Not a bad idea, but I think I'll use platinum, for directional lighting. I'm using This Bronze/gold for JR officers, and silver for officers. Not sure if I'm going to have any heroic officers in my line corps, but if I did it would be bright gold. That way you could tell the level of commander at a glance.

What are your thoughts on the aesthetics of the DKoK Demolisher turret vs. the standard Demolisher turret? I need two more Demolisher turrets for my AC and I'm debating between spending $14 for metal turret (and sponson pieces which I won't use because I'm converting SM Devastator plasma cannons for my sponsons) from an online bitz dealer vs. the $16-$17 for a Ryza demolisher turret from Forgeworld.

Seriously great stuff, you did the DKoK justice with the paint job.

DKok have always been some of my favorite models, I just dont have the money to get any right now. Great job on the paint and looking forward to seeing more!

Death By Monkeys wrote:What are your thoughts on the aesthetics of the DKoK Demolisher turret vs. the standard Demolisher turret? I need two more Demolisher turrets for my AC and I'm debating between spending $14 for metal turret (and sponson pieces which I won't use because I'm converting SM Devastator plasma cannons for my sponsons) from an online bitz dealer vs. the $16-$17 for a Ryza demolisher turret from Forgeworld.

Ryza turrets... don't really say "Demolisher" to me. The barrel is a weird size as it looks too short for a standard battle cannon (I like vanquishers), and too long for a Demolisher. Demolishers have always been stubby things and I really like the metal recoil absorbers from the metal turret; it's something I wish the Krieg one had. So, I would go with the metal one, as it's also easier to remember what it is.

What dealer are you using to get the bits? I would love to get my hands on some plasma sponsons...

To the others: thank you!

Thanks for the info - I really appreciate hearing your take on it. I was seriously considering the Ryza demolisher turrets as they look really good on FW's website. On your tanks, though, (and not to disparage anything you've done with them) they looked a little...awkward. I'm glad to hear it's not just my imagination.

I've got an order in with BitKingdom for the SM Devastator Plasma Cannons. They're $3.99 a pop there. BitKingdom's also got the metal Demolisher bits for sale and I plan on buying 2 sets - if you want the plasma cannon sponsons that come with the metal Demolisher turret bitz, I'd be happy to work out a trade with you.

Quick update:

Grenaders have started to come together. We have the melta gunner and a converted Vet. Sgt. I had to cut off the hand and put on the power weapon one from the Krieg sprue. That sword is SOOOOOO thin I'm afraid to look at it. Added a resin basing bit from the 40k set and added some greenstuff all around it to make it make sense. I used the rock from the Heavy Stubber figure to create the texture. When the greenstuff hardens, I'll trim down the sides. All Vets will have something special on the base.



Next picture we have a bomb holder (someone has to do it because bombs won't hold themselves!) and a question. I have a nice ruined resin piece that I'm thinking of putting a commissar on. However, you can see that the sides spill out over the normal base size. I'm not sure this is a good idea, any thoughts?

I'd do one of two things with the base - either a) center it so you've got the most interesting part on the 28mm base and then trim it, or b) mount your Commissar on a 40mm base and have the resin chunk be a part of the terrain on that.

Nice work Moopy, thats a very vidid colour scheme and it works nicely.

Makes a nice change to see some Death Korp who aren't all muted dirty tones!

I especially like the work on that Junior Officer's Power sword. Very nicely done and a suitably imposing base!

The project has gone along for a while and it's started to get cluttered.



And messy.



I'll clean it up this weekend.

I've started to assemble yet more of the Grenadiers and it's horrible work. Gluing one fragile piece to another makes my eyebrows arch. Gluing 2 fragile pieces to another that rely on each other to come out right involves cursing. Gluing 3 fragile pieces to another than rely on each other involves high pitched shrieking. UNG.

I also realized that if I want to have a Grenadier Vox Operator, then I would have to convert one. This is going to be a challenge because it involves my Krieg philosophy:

Due to the exact and beautiful nature of the Krieg sculpts, all conversions should be subtle. While I would do something more dramatic with other ranges, I believe a converted Krieg figure should look like it came out of the bag.

With that in mind, it gave me some challenges. Fortunately I had purchased a few extra characters, parts and pieces, from ebay (back when I had money). Now these pieces will come together. For my conversion, I took a standard Krieg grenader, the head bit from the items pack, and an extra command Vox operator sprue from the Command section.



I got a couple of the Command squad members to convert them into Veteran Watchmen. In this case I am going to use the arms and the backpack. The Grenadier has a round rebreather on the top of his back and the vox-pack has the exact same one! So, first I cut off his hot shot pack and rebreather. Luckily the hose plug in port stayed on. Even though he's the operator, I want him to have a weapon, and therefore I'll need somewhere to plug in the wires.



Next I put on the data slate arm. Since he was holding the data slate, he wasn't going to be holding his hellgun, so I trimmed off the hand.



The more I fiddle with the arm, the more It looks odd with him holding the gun. So I'm going to put on the other vox arm, and try and cut off the hellgun from standard arm. The Krieg weapons pack does not come with a hellgun (nor does it come with a bolt pistol ) so I'll have to do cut it down. If I'm VERY lucky, I can save the arm with the tri weapon plate. As it stands I'm going to have to cut off the "C" symbol on the shoulderpad and put on some extra armor pads to get an even 3 on each side. Once the gun is free, I will glue it to the base then connect it to the backpack.

All this for one freekin vox operator. Considering I want to field at least 2 squad, I'm not sure what to do for the 2nd one as I don't have a 2nd command vox. : /

Moopy wrote:Quick update:

Grenaders have started to come together. We have the melta gunner and a converted Vet. Sgt. I had to cut off the hand and put on the power weapon one from the Krieg sprue. That sword is SOOOOOO thin I'm afraid to look at it. Added a resin basing bit from the 40k set and added some greenstuff all around it to make it make sense. I used the rock from the Heavy Stubber figure to create the texture. When the greenstuff hardens, I'll trim down the sides. All Vets will have something special on the base.

I just did this same basic conversion.



I was afraid I would have to do what you did, but after I clipped the handle from the sword, it fit the hand perfectly. Yours looks great, can't wait to see it painted.

NICE! How is the stability of the conversion? Firm?

Moopy wrote:NICE! How is the stability of the conversion? Firm?

Yeah, I literally snipped off the handle on the sword flush with the hilt sides. Did the same to the chainsword for just the hand left, applied glue to both top and bottom of the hand, then slipped it into the basket hilt, they meet exactly(great thing about FW's consistent scale on their models). I'm more worried about the blade bending or snapping than that hilt coming off the hands, there was plenty of surface space for the glue.

That blade does snap. Take a look at my Jr. Officier with the blue power sword. That blade has broken twice. You can't tell because it took me forever to put it back on after it was painted, but its going to happen.

Moopy wrote:That blade does snap. Take a look at my Jr. Officier with the blue power sword. That blade has broken twice. You can't tell because it took me forever to put it back on after it was painted, but its going to happen.

I'm not looking forward to that. So far I've been lucky with my other FW infantry models on that level(Lok,Titan Techpriest, Culn), so here's hopin...

Love your stuff keep it up I fianlly got my Grenadiers I'll post them when i'm done.

Love your progession at first I thought it was ok bu tknow it all looks out standing

Did you get the infantry standing side-by-side to put in that Gorgon? If so and if you can comment on how attached they are, I'd like an opinion on how easy they would be to hack apart and repair.

Sadly I don't have those. I have a feeling that while you could hack them apart, you'll have to do a good amount of green stuffing.

Speaking of Green stuff, I got a new batch of it and the vox operator is almost done. Stay tuned!

stonefox wrote:Did you get the infantry standing side-by-side to put in that Gorgon? If so and if you can comment on how attached they are, I'd like an opinion on how easy they would be to hack apart and repair.

I've been wondering about this too. I'll be at the Glen Burnie Bunker tomorrow night and check on the possibility.

Your DKoK are looking good Moopy.

Cheers
Dave

Sharp looking DKOK My furry titan always tries to take the brush out my hands when I paint. LoLz

Finished up the Vox Grenadier. Sorry for the crappy photos. My camera is a Kodak EasyShare Z712 IS and it's a piece of garbage. Don't buy.

First off, I've bleached out some of the photos a bit so you can see where the green stuff is.







These are easier to see:





Green stuff additions:
Finger armor (other arms didn't have the grenadier armor).
Extra arm armor
A thumb (it broke off)
Joiner for the backpack and rebreather hose
Hellgun cable input box
Hellgun handle replacement/rebuild
Fill in a divot on the shoulder
Fill in a divot in the gun
Add in the Hellgun trigger guard

Also had to soak the hellgun cabling in hot water to reshape it to reach the gun on the ground.
Had to cut the gun from the body. One side still looked good- the cut side is on the ground.

I really like that conversion.

Fabulous conversion, Moopy. It succeeds with exactly what you wanted - that thing's going to look like it came out of the FW bag.

Really, really nice peice, really creative concept and positioning.

Grenadier squad is finished! These... were a royal pain. The arms combined with the cabling was miserable. Many times I dropped the pieces (actually it seemed that they rather shot out of my hand into the carpet), glued my fingers together, glued them in the wrong position, etc... Ung.... To sum it up: 1 converted Vet Watchman, 1 converted vox operator, 2 "conversions" by adding demo charges.



Demo Charges



Special Weapons (not that I'll ever be using the grenade launcher)



And a heavy flame thrower. You HAVE to heat up the cabling and bend it into the right position. Be aware if you buy this.



I still need to cut off some of the flash on the cabling and green stuff in the gaps. And to think... I need to assemble another squad of these. Arrrgh.

Assembly left to go:
2-3 more squads of regular Krieg infantry. + vet watchmen conversions (2 squads already assembled/primed)
1 squad of Grenadiers
2-3 units of ammo loaders
Quarter Master's Retinue
HQ squad

Then a massive day of priming.

Wow really nice. I like the use of Bronze its not used often enough in my opinion. Good luck on assembling them.

Grenadiers There cabling is the biggest pain ever.

I always feel like I will break it when i'm putting it on the model. I love your conversion I would never do that (due to I suck at it) and also I wouldnt want me to ruin my costly models.

I love all that you have done though keep it up.

Wow sounds like you have a ton of building ahead of you, good luck with that. Stuff looks awesome by the way, keep up the good work!!

Everything that you paint starts off bad, but ends up looking amazing. Krieg is one of the coolest armies, and you are giving it the treatment it deserves. Well done.

Thanks to everyone for their comments!

@ Mcfly= yes! Very much so. Every figure starts out looking dorky but gets a lot of polish.

Right now I'm building out a few units and that's not all that sexy, so I'm not posting pictures until their done. Or if I convert something.