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That looks sweet! All that stuff really sets the scene. It doesn't look overcrowded at all after priming.

Wow, so many comments. I'm flattered you guys!
Thanks everyone.

Syro_: Hehe, yeah I had to use surprisingly lot of the stuff for six new bags. Would not use it for bigger projects though.

416_SpaceWolves: It's the best feeling when the box full of resin goodies finally shows up!

mcmattila: Thanks mcmattila! Yeah the price is definitely quite steep. For that reason, my ~2000pts worth of Kriegers have been in the works for ten or so years. Little by little.

Captain Brown: Yeah I agree, although Milliput is a lot cheaper. Gotta try that Tamiya stuff, thanks for the tip!


Managed to paint the bugger in a little over two days. Mostly on Thursday and Friday nights with some small touching up on Saturday morning.
There are a few things I could improve upon, but as I'm leaving tomorrow I would not have the time to work on it anyway.
Plus a deadline is a great motivator for once to call a miniature ready before spending too much time on irrelevant little fixes that only I can spot

Followed the same mindset as I did with the Weirdboy: nothing too advanced but quick layering and edge highlighting.
The color scheme follows the one I've used for the other hundred or so Kriegers. I aimed for gritty and depressing, instead of bright and colorful.
I actually tried something new: painted most of the clothes using a black wash over grey primer with some tiny highlights. If only had I figured it out when painting all the line infantry

Even though there are a few messy parts and the backpacks for example look a bit boring, I'm really happy how the overall aesthetics turned out. I think the base takes the show and helps to cover most of the small mistakes.
Plus I really love doing these scenic bases. With the elements like the sandbags and the barbed wire, I can just be messy with my dry brush without thinking too much about layers or blends. Puts my mind at ease.





This project made me really really want to do some more Krieg, once again distracting me from my Dark Eldar project. It's just so much fun to paint and base these guys.
The downside is, that it takes a few weeks for the models to arrive. And I might have to eat nothing but instant noodles for a while.
That being said, this team will definitely not be the last Krieg model you see in this thread! Not sure when it's going to happen, but it will.


Thanks for looking guys!

The shot dead-on along the barrel looks amazing. Good job on the muzzle flash!


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The shot dead-on along the barrel looks amazing. Good job on the muzzle flash!

That's a great looking diorama.

Muzzle flash looks good, always nice touches like that which sell a set up. The barbed wire is a good touch as well.

How do you do the snow effect?

Thanks Theo and Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll!


@Theo: the snow effect is a mix of white acrylic, pva glue and baking soda stirred (not shaken) in a cup. Apply with a brush.
You can play around with the amount of baking soda to change the consistency.

I have a few demo pictures and a more detailed explanation in my Armies on Parade blog here.

That turned out fantastic. Such rich texture and detail. The snow, bags, barbed wire all mesh together perfectly. The muzzle flash wound up being a perfect splash of brighter color. A very successful piece.

The heavy weapons team looks great Ezki! I'd be totally fine if you continued making more Krieg stuff

I’ve got to agree with the others, you’ve pulled together a great diorama. It has the feel of a long occupied gun pit, including a pile of spent brass next to the ejection port was a good idea! I might have to look in to that snow recipe, it looks really great

That HWT looks fantastic, really love the grittyness

Amazing work on the weapons team. I love them.

Wow, that looks amazing. You really get the feeling they've been dug in for some time, great rust effects and the application of the snow looks perfect!

Thank you guys! I'm really flattered.

youwashock wrote:That turned out fantastic. Such rich texture and detail. The snow, bags, barbed wire all mesh together perfectly. The muzzle flash wound up being a perfect splash of brighter color. A very successful piece.

Thank you youwashock! Imagined the flash would work as a eye catcher, as the model is quite monotone otherwise.

Syro_ wrote:The heavy weapons team looks great Ezki! I'd be totally fine if you continued making more Krieg stuff

Will do! I'm about to order some more stuff from Forgeworld in the next two weeks

gobert wrote:I’ve got to agree with the others, you’ve pulled together a great diorama. It has the feel of a long occupied gun pit, including a pile of spent brass next to the ejection port was a good idea! I might have to look in to that snow recipe, it looks really great

Thanks gobert! The snow is really simple to do. Just play around with the mixtures a bit and you get the hang of it.
A small warning though: some people claim that the baking soda might turn yellow over time (that's why there is the white acrylic paint to counter this) or worst case scenario into a moldy goo.
Never seen that happen though, and my oldest snow bases are almost three years old. Just something I have heard / read over occasionally.


Got home from our road trip to Norway a couple of days ago. 4041 kilometers of driving from southern Finland all the way to Nordkapp in Norway and back.
Was a great trip and the scenery there gave me a lot of inspiration for various things (D&D campaigns, possible terrain pieces etc).
It was also a great way to practice somewhat of a social distancing, as we spent most of the time driving or hiking in the mountains.
We even got mentioned in one of the Finnish newspapers, in a story that talks about finns travelling to Norway

So I've not been able to do any painting for a while. After the trip, I was so tired that I could not get myself to pick up a brush.
I have been however once more taken some interest in Necromunda. Not sure how long that will last (my interests come and go in a few week long streaks, which happens with all the hobbies) but I'm thinking of continuing to work on some of the unbuilt models for that gang.
I will also try to find a suitable miniature for this months dakka contest.

What woke the interest in Necromunda, was the fact that I got to play it first time in a long time (2 years or so).
We had a game themed datenight with the missus consisting of wine and Necromunda. She's not that much into miniature games, especially to 40k as there are 'too many things going on'.
But occasionally she likes to play the smaller skirmish games with my minis.
She seemed to reallyenjoy herself, so we might play again in the near future. Can't get her to buy / paint her own minis though

A really bad picture due to the poor light conditions, but it's something.


It was really fun!
Thinking of playing some more with a few friends over the next weekend.

While setting up the board, I also thought about refurbishing some of my older terrain pieces.
Most of them have been just quickly brushed with grey paint and left like that.

So, a lot of different projects in my mind right now. Will pick one of them and try to start there.
Will also finally order some magnets for the Stompa, so I can get that project started!


This update was more or less just rambling, but I wanted to write something regardless the lack of progress.
Will get back as soon as I get something done!

My longest trip was UK to Slovenia, if I hadn't Googled it I’d never have realised Southern Finland to the top of Norway was an even longer distance! That’s one heck of a long journey in what must be spectacular terrain.

The Necromunda set up looks pretty cool, thought there’s something wrong with the water in that water tower

Good luck picking your next project

Yeah, the terrain was breathtaking. Never seen anything quite like it. Southern Finland is so... flat

 gobert wrote:
thought there’s something wrong with the water in that water tower

Maybe the Escher gangers poisoned it


Yesterday we visited the local mini store and I bought the new Necromunda rulebook and a box of blackstone fortress cultists for my Helot Cultist gang.

The Necromunda bug hit me quite badly. So that's what I started working on.
Decided to start the actual modelling by finishing the three unbuilt Escher and Goliath gangers from the Necromunda starter box I bought when it released. Not sure why I never built them.

The Goliath gangers I mostly just bashed together with some cool looking weapons. I will paint all the Goliaths, but mostly for demo game purposes. I'm currently not too interested in them, but that might change.
For some reason I had lost one of the heads, so I used the only properly sized one: a space wolf head. It's a bit out of place, but it looks funny enough.



While visiting the game store, the missus got quite excited about the Escher gang. She claimed that she might be interested in joining a campaign with them if we get around organizing one.
Now she still isn't interested in the building / painting side of things, but she wanted to customize the models nevertheless.
So, I laid down my 'Escher compatible' bitz collections and had her dive right in and pick something that looks cool.

She liked the hair from one of the AoS Khinerai sprues (have those mostly for conversion purposes) and a knife from my Drukhari bitz.
After browsing the weapon lists, she also claimed that a sniper might be cool.
After a bit of cutting, drilling and gluing, her commission was complete

These are small conversions, but 'the customer' seemed happy to see her ideas take form.





She wanted to equip this chick with the autopistol rather than las pistol. The extended hand looked the coolest, so I cut the old weapon away and replaced it with the autopistol.


The sniper (long las / long rifle) was the most fun to build. Used the stock lasgun from the kit combined with a sniper from a space marine scout kit that I salvaged some time ago.



I also started building some more Helot Cultists. The current ones are mostly just the old easy kit models with autoguns, which frankly look a bit boring.
Almost finished two gangers from the Blackstone Frotress 'Cultists of the Abyss' kit with some conversions.

They still need some more work (mostly cleaning and bases), but here's a sneak peek.
The cultist (champion?) on the left will most likely have her pistol swapped to something else. Not sure yet.



If I get enough of my friends interested in the game the next weekend in a hobby get together, we might start planning the campaign. It will most likely take place sometime in the autumn.
Currently it seems that I will be the one running it. I will either play with the cultists, or use the cultists as NPC gangers to annoy the players

I will most likely get to try out the 9th edition during the weekend as well.
As the last 40k model I painted was a Krieg model, it's only fitting to play the first game with them!


Will keep you posted. Most likely with some more Necromunda stuff, as that's what I'm really excited about right now.

I need your secret to getting your wife involved in gaming, I failed miserably with Underworlds and WarCry

Very fitting conversions all around, excited to see them get painted!

Some cool conversions Ezki, I hope your customer is satisfied with the work! The sickle that the cultists leader has is pretty gruesome looking, nice choice for Chaos! How did you find the gaps of the Cultists? Some of mine were pretty bad, too wish I’d have spent more time fixing them on mine

Viterbi wrote:I need your secret to getting your wife involved in gaming, I failed miserably with Underworlds and WarCry

Very fitting conversions all around, excited to see them get painted!

Couple of glasses of red/white magic potion does the trick
Just kidding. She likes the aesthetics of the Necromunda models and the fact that it's small scale and easy to pick up.
I've failed multiple times trying to get her to play 40k, as she thinks it has "too many things going on" with massive armies and that the setting is "too much about just war"

gobert wrote:Some cool conversions Ezki, I hope your customer is satisfied with the work! The sickle that the cultists leader has is pretty gruesome looking, nice choice for Chaos! How did you find the gaps of the Cultists? Some of mine were pretty bad, too wish I’d have spent more time fixing them on mine

Thanks gobert! The gaps are still pretty horrible. They can't be seen very well in the pictures, but they definitely need some filling!


Gathered with a couple of friends last weekend to try out the 9th edition and to play some more Necromunda.
Got to play one 1000pts 40k game with Krieg against Tzeentch daemons, and 3 games of Necromunda against two different gangs.
I packed three 40k armies with me just in case, but ended up using only a small part of them for the games. Well, better to have excess models than regret not bringing something.

Just two game shots this time. Was too caught up with the new rules to remember taking any more pics.




Five 40k games in total were played over the weekend, of which I more or less observed all but one (in which I played). So I think I got quite a good grip of the 9th edition changes.
So far I really like them. The new terrain rules feel quite nice and the new missions with secondary objectives are very interesting.
Maybe too early to say, but I got a feeling that this one will be the best edition yet.

In between the games, eating pizza and enjoying a good sauna, I managed to build a few more gangers.
As far as supplies go, I managed to find the Servants of the Abyss box! Instant buy.
Also got some more Escher gangers for different load outs and cool bits plus some Vallejo metallics that I've been meaning to try (thanks mcmattila for the suggestion!)


Ended up swapping the pistol on this ganger to a flamer. Flamer on a bs3+ champion is not the best choice, but this time I went more for the cool looks rather than the best possible pick.
The weapon swap consisted of lot of small cuts around the hands and arm. Turned out pretty alright. The flamer itself was stolen from a quickly built old ganger, that I never really liked.


I also prorotyped a few 'ex Escher gangers' turned to chaos. Used some daemonette, cultist and AoS bodies and combined them with Escher and Wych legs with boots. Because, well... boots.
They still need some cleaning up and I need to cover some marks with greenstuff.


Also finished the Chaos gang leader and built a second Escher leader with a slightly different equipment.
The missus requested a chainsword, so I happily obliged. I like her taste, as few things are as cool as a chainsword.


Few stock gangers were also built. One of the had their laspistol swapped to autopistol, but other than that they are still untouched.
Might modify them a bit, not sure yet. The renegade guardsmen are really successful sculpts, so they won't need anything else than a possible weapon swap.


Will likely build a few more cultists, as I got a bit carried away with all the bits and ideas. My chaos gang will probably end up being a lot larger than is required for Necromunda
Might also build a few more Escher gangers with different loadouts. And maybe do a couple of conversions / customizations, if that is requested.
It's a fun challenge to try and build models with requested configurations.

I've been in build mode for now, but I will try to get some of these guys painted before building too many more. Trying to keep the pile of grey models to a reasonable level.

And speaking of piles of shame. If you ever think that you have too many unbuilt / unpainted models, you can look at this picture:


Thanks for looking!

Great looking models. The new Escher leader is sexy as all get-out. The chainsword fits perfectly.

Neat conversions, the added boots are a cool addition to the cultists. That pile of shame is impressive, i think that half alone would take me a lifetime!

Great conversions Ezki! That daemonette head fits the Escher body really well, and the pony tail is just epic! I'd move the model a bit on her base though, so that the "center of mass" is roughly at the middle of the base.

And I'm bummed to say this, but those are not the metallic Vallejo paints that I've been using. I've got some of these. Vallejo has a confusing amount of different ranges.. That being said, I've hear people swear by the Model/Game range metallics as well, so most likely not a bad purchase. Tell us how they are!

Thanks guys!

youwashock wrote:Great looking models. The new Escher leader is sexy as all get-out. The chainsword fits perfectly.

You said it. Really liking the model too!

gobert wrote:Neat conversions, the added boots are a cool addition to the cultists. That pile of shame is impressive, i think that half alone would take me a lifetime!

You and me both! I feel like I'm getting slower and slower as a painter

mcmattila wrote:Great conversions Ezki! That daemonette head fits the Escher body really well, and the pony tail is just epic! I'd move the model a bit on her base though, so that the "center of mass" is roughly at the middle of the base.

And I'm bummed to say this, but those are not the metallic Vallejo paints that I've been using. I've got some of these. Vallejo has a confusing amount of different ranges.. That being said, I've hear people swear by the Model/Game range metallics as well, so most likely not a bad purchase. Tell us how they are!

Yeah, actually noticed that as well regarding the base. I glued them on the bases quickly before a game and did not think the positioning trough. Gotta fix that.
Did not do enough research regarding the Vallejo metallics. They were nothing but an impulse buy. Noticed them while I was getting a few electrical connectors, so decided to give them a go. But yeah, did not know they had so many ranges
Anyway, anything better than the citadel silver is a in my book.


Run out of glue so instead of building more gangers, I started painting the two leaders.





Mostly worked with the Escher leader. Base colors done, still needs highlighting, something for the sking and slight fixing on the tiger pattern.
Will continue painting these next week.

Those tiger stripes are all win. Looking great so far.

Put me down as another who loves that Krieg HWT - everything about it is just incredibly well executed. Interesting work on the gangers, looking forward to seeing more. I agree with youwashock on the tiger stripes, well painted, and they're going to look so 80's!

Leaders are starting to look good, nice freehand on the Escher, gotta echo the praise for the tiger stripes and the eye on her gun is equally awesome!

Thanks youwashock, Bellerophon and Viterbi!

Viterbi: I have to admit, that the eye on the gun is sculpted in the plastic


Just a quick update before heading away for the weekend.

Escher leader is pretty much done. Still need to finish the base and maybe touch her up a little (no pun intended).
Trying my best not to though, as I really want to call this ready.

Took couple of really quick phone shots without any cropping.
But I will get better ones after the weekend. Just wanted to show her in the current state.






More info when I post the better pictures, but here's a few words:
The main goal was to practice wet blending / glazing on the black clothing and painting the skin without using the traditional washes.


Gotta hit the road, my ride is waiting outside.
Will write a longer 'story' behind the painting process later along with better pics.

See ya!

Escher looks lush, and tho kreig WOW!

She's a beauty. Marvelous detailing.

Thanks guys!

Took me a while to post the final pictures. Been a busy week.

I could not decide if I wanted to take the pics on a black or white background, so I took both.



In comparison, the old leader painted ~three years ago:


Now to the painting process itself as promised:

As I briefly noted in the earlier post, the main goal was to practice painting the skin and to highlight black surfaces.
I also tried to minimize the use of washes. Not because I don't like washes, but because I just wanted to give it a shot. So the only places I used washes on, are the hair, the weapons and the very deepest recesses of her loin cloth.

For the black, I used the same technique I used for Eldrad's cloak: Gradually layering and glazing with bluish greys all the way to light grey.
On some areas, namely the cloak, the transitions could have been a bit smoother. That's not a big issue, as it's mainly visible while observing the model really close.
I have noticed however, that when I'm trying to do layering or blending, I'm obsessed with getting near perfect transitions. Which I'm rarely able to do.
The funny thing is, that the models that receive only a 'really quick three shade layering' with really harsh transitions seem to look better on the tabletop. Like the Weirdboy.
So what I'm trying to say is, I think I should focus more on the contrast rather than the transitions that much.

But this time I actually enjoyed painting the black bits. The process started to feel a bit more natural and I think I'm getting in to the habit of it.
Instead of water, I played around with matt medium in a few spots. Mixing the medium with paint gave me more control, but the consistency was a lot thicker.
Still not sure which I like better, water or medium. Need to experiment some more.

I'm quite happy with the black bits nevertheless. Even though this technique started to feel more comfortable, it takes a very long time and will only be reserved for special characters.
All the basic troops will still get the harsh two layer grey highlights

The second goal was painting the skin. I have had a lot of trouble with this (and to still to some extent do).
The main issue is usually that I don't thin the paints enough. On a few models, the skin is glowing after too extensive use of washes (and not shaking them enough).
So this time, I decided to go really slowly and work my way up with a smooth and thin base layer. I started with Bugman's glow, and worked my way gradually up to Kislev Flesh.
The deepest recesses have been tinted with really thin Rhinox Hide and Doombull Brown.
It's still not the smoothest result, but I'd say it's the best one yet. Light years ahead of my old Escher leader.

There are a few lazy bits, like the bolter an the hair. I actually disliked painting the hair most, as it was the last step before completing the model and at that point, I was a bit hesitant to get her done.
In the end, I'm happy with her.

It's kind of fun to paint the same mini after a few years. That's how you can really see the progress.


Will try to get the Chaos gang leder done soon.
Tell me what you think! And thanks for looking!

Definitely a marked improvement from three years ago - well done.

The definition you got on her abs is amazing!