Krieg Vendettas Complete

I only have a month to finish up my DKOK army. I've been drowning in commissions lately which is both good ($$$) and bad (Time). I've sold all of my fully painted armies for 40k as I'm getting more and more into fantasy and less and less into 40k. In between working on all my projects I have to find time to squeeze in some IG action. Today I finished up my Vendettas that have been at the 85% mark for about ohhh I'd say a year! ;) Enough Jibber Jabber and on to pictures!









I hope to get more done and get it done quickly. We'll just have to see if that pans out or not... Wish me luck!

Birthday at Krieg

So I turned 25. For my party I wanted a trench themed Krieg cake. My friend works at a cake shop and he made it for me with a little personal touch. It's peanut butter/chocolate cream cake with peanut butter cookie crumbs all in it. I just thought I would share the pictures with my fellow 40Kers! I don't remember most of the party I assume it was a success. Enjoy! :)

Death Korps of Krieg part 8

Weathering and Base Coating

I finished up all the weathering on the base camo on the tanks. This includes the paint chipping in spots and dirt and grime and rain streaks all over the tanks. They still need to be tightened up and brought more into focus but adding all the details and additional blending will do this. So far I'm proud of how they've turned out.







Now that the base Coats are done on the tanks I started airbrushing the base coats of my valks/vendettas. I could have gone with the same paint scheme and added an off white color to the bottom of the planes and it would have looked all right. I ended up going with more of an Imperial Navy look though. My reason for doing so is that some day I want to own about 8 valks/vendettas, 1 vulture gun ship, 1 of the world war 2 looking bombers and a couple of the lightning or thunderbolts and have a full apoc or just for fun only Imperial navy army. This is only a dream right now but I decided to go ahead and paint my vehicles to match my future IN project. This will also add a little variation in my army and break up the gray/desert camo pattern of all the tanks. I went with a gray top and a bone colored bottom.

Death Korps of Krieg part 7

Paint Initiated!

I've picked out my paint scheme. I've started airbrushing on the base coats. Right now they look very 'steel legion'. They won't when all is said and done though. I didn't want my stuff to be the normal dark grays of the Dkok's so I picked out a more 'stand outish' color scheme and went with it. The Camo pattern is done with masking tape and codex gray and desert yellow. Now for the weathering the funnest part of the hobby for me. You get to take something meh and smack it with the realistic stick. More updates soon!

Death Korps of Krieg part 6

Bringing home the pain

I've added a very important unit to the guard I'm working on... We'll for apocalypse anyway. I've added a Shadowsword. I'm thinking about naming it 'Legend Slayer'. It says I have to make up a pompous name for it right in the book. I didn't want sponsons on it as I liked the idea of its sole purpose is to hunt titans and get rid of other particularly nasty things. The most fun I've had with this thing in the one game I fielded it was shooting units in cover... Because you get to remove the building or woods or hill or bunker. Pesky things! Who needs terrain anyway? :)







I only modeled half of this and my friend wanted to jump in and build the other half. And I was more than willing to let him. After basic construction I added all my battle damage and do dads that I've been adding to my tank and its now sitting in black primer. I'm wanting to paint this beast more than I want to paint up my 'fieldable' tanks.

Death Korps of Krieg part 5

Excitement Ensues!

I made a lot of progress over the past week. I had my DKOK's assembled and they are ready to go minus 3 flamers I was short that I'll have to order soon. I finished assembling my 4 Hydra flak tanks. I got one more Valkyrie assembled as well. I'm excited I've ordered the Forgeworld Model Masterclass book and eagerly await it in the mail. I'm more than on schedule for my June deadline. My goal was to get everything assembled by March. I'm well on my way and I look forward to getting my brush wet! :P











My favorite guy is this one. To me it screams cool. A DKoK veteran jumping out of a trench blasting is melta gun to undoubtedly take out enemy armor.

Death Korps of Krieg part 4

It's in the detail.

Going with the sky is the limit with my DKoK army I decided to make it as real as my current modeling/painting skill level would allow. I've done a metric ton of internet research on everything from the DKoK's themselves to WW2 to current tanks and soldiers uniforms. I would be lying if I said I wasn't completely stoked about this army. What really has gotten me all worked up is the vehicles. Since my last army (Renaissance marines) I've learned a lot about vehicles and painting. I'm ready to put all this theory into practice. I've constructed up 5 tanks now and I would like to think that each one tells a story. The 4 below will all eventually be hydra flak tanks.

They first hydra is one of my favorites. I put little indention all over the front of the vehicle centering most of the dents around the front hatch. This was to represent the traitor guard shooting a heavy stubber at the front of the tank every time the hatch was opened trying to take out a DKoK that was inside. I also included extra treads in case the tank got immobilized and needed to make field repairs. I also bent the ladder on the other side to show that this tank has been in use. If you've ever walked past construction vehicles you would know that almost everything is bent and well 'used' on treaded workhorses. I included a couple of used gas cans on the back placed casually as if they were thrown to the side after use.




This one is my favorite. I included an auto cannon shot from the traitor guard into the left front track guard. I have DKoK lasguns leaned up on the sand bags on the left of the vehicle. The guardsmen have undoubtedly been fighting off troops to the left side of the vehicle as all the sand bags are piled up on that side with the spare guns laying about by the top hatch. I also included the ammo crate on this one so they wouldn't run out of ammunition fending off the infantry.




This tank I've included lots of shovels on top and some on the side as well as a tow cable on the side. This tank was recently stuck in the mud. The dangers of trench warfare. While stuck the tank and crew were taking some heavy fire to the front of the vehicle. I'm guessing from an Auto cannon heavy weapons team from the damage up front.




This last hydra just came to the front lines. It has no damage yet and hasn't had to drop sand bags off any where yet. Also all the tools are secured in there right spots and all the luggage and baggage are in their rightful place on the side of the vehicle.

Death Korps of Krieg part 3

Getting out of the mud...

I don't know how many of these will make the cut in my final tournament list but I plan on having a total of 8. 6 Vendettas and 2 Valkyries. As its "paint my army for tournament" crunch time I need to narrow down exactly what I want so I'm not painting unnecessary units. I have 2 Vendettas now and 1 Valkyrie assembled and primed in Mr. Hobbies Mr. Surfacer 1000. The best model primer in the world!!! (IMO) I also have 1 Valkyrie being assembled and am working on purchasing 2 more. Most people convert up their lascannons for their Vendettas. I've seen some killer ones and some that look very natural. Wildeyedjesters Chaos Vendettas are a great example of this. I've already spent so much on 9 forge world tanks and 60 some odd Dkok whats a couple more forge world conversion kits. :P Now I'm off to the Internetz to look up paint schemes for my mad airborne trench fighters!

Death Korps of Krieg part 2

After an abundance of painting and modeling ADD one of the large tournaments I attend every year has snuck up on me. Last year I had the honor of winning Best Painted with my renaissance marines. Not wanting to return with the same army I had decided I would return next year with a DKoK army. Well the deadline is fast approaching and so far I've assembled 7 Dkok's and 1 Commissar lord on a horse. (which I can't even field) So now its crunch time. I've assembled one Manticore and one Vendetta for my army coming up. The Manticore is what the worthless whirlwind should be. A limited number of templates of death wrecking havoc on low to mid armored infantry. I'll have enough 1 shot wonder guns in my list for the heavy infantry and vehicles. What I'm lacking is something to deal with 180 boyz or gaunts. The Manticore will fit this goal nicely and if there isn't any light infantry her str 10 ordinance can be thrown at vehicles with decent enough results. The Vendetta is just all around good for 130 points. 3 TL lascannons, fast, transport, cool looking. I have a feeling I'll be adding a couple more of these before I'm done.

Death Korps of Krieg part 1

I've officially started my new army. After seeing Wildeyedjester starting his new army and Monkey getting to paint up some new units for his existing army I've been itching to finally start up my new army.

I started with my commander, a Death Korps of Krieg death rider commissar. I assembled and primed him tonight and I'm currently looking for a color scheme. I'm going to do him as the test model for the rest of the infantry based models. I plan on using the Forge World master class book for inspiration on doing my vehicles.

I don't want the usual dark gray trench coats of the Death Korps of Krieg. I'm thinking more of browns and greens. What do you guys think?







So excited I started painting tonight. This is what I've done so far.