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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Squat Brotherhood Sappers¶

With the flu slowly recedeeding, I managed to put in some painting time between suffering (thats the term my wife uses). I first consulted the original texts introducing the Squats in the Warhammer 40,000 universe concerning colour choice:

Squats prefer muted colours reminiscent of the rocks and sands of their Home Worlds: browns, greys and green are popular in varying shades and mixtures, as are black, white and deep red - it is common for seams and piping to be picked out in a contrasting colour.

- White Dwarf Compendium 1989, p. 172

With the models I have only consisting of helmet, beard and coat, the coat colour would be the main colour seen when looking at the models. I decided for Vallejo 70.984 Flat Brown.

While painting the coats, I noticed that there is hardly space between the coat bottom and the base itself, therefore the next step was to paint the base, to not later ruin the coat painting it. I followed my usual basestyle, basecoating in RAL 8015 chestnut brown

highlighted with 2:9 RAL 8001 ochre brown : RAL 8011 nut brown, and finally drybrushed RAL 8001 ochre brown.

I then picked out individual sand corns and larger stones in two grey tones (those vary every time I paint a new batch of bases)

and drybrushed the grey stones in Vallejo 70.884 Stone Grey as always.

I then painted in the other colours:

Helmet and shoulder pads: 70.884 Stone Grey
Webbing: 70.988 Khaki
Weapons and Canteens: Vallejo 71.073 Gun Metal Metalizer
Back packs: 70.890 Retractive Green
Red decorations: 70.946 Dark Red
Glasses: 70.807 Oxford Blue
Boots: 70.950 Black

The current status of the models:

This squad is a sapper squad, trained by the Guild (allowing me to use their hammer symbol) on placing charges and blowing things up (as shown by the stylised explosing upon the front of their helmets). The backpacks contain mainly exlosives and detonators. Due to their special training they also have access to more unusual weapons in the form of bolt guns, as

Brotherhood troops are generally armed with lasguns[...]

- White Dwarf Compendium 1989, p. 172

he Guild symbol and a squad number I will try to paint freehand on the shoulder pads. Good luck to me with that...

Published 2015-02-27 13:08:00

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[Kickstarter]¶
Maki Games¶

Already 3 weeks ago or so a big box with my pledge arrived. But I only managed now to take some pictures and play around a bit with the content. So much more stuff to paint...

Published 2015-02-26 13:22:00

28mm | Kickstarter | Maki Games

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Squat Brotherhood Sappers¶

Another few models that were sitting around for quite some time (actually as long as the Alternative Army Marines) are some Squat sappers. For the younger ones among us, Squats were Dwarves in Space (as they were actually initially called) during the Roque Trader era which were unfortunately dropped by GW.

I used models from Olleys Armies for the models. What I do not like about them are the weapons, especially the diversity they come equipped with. I want the squad to be armed with the same weapons plus a support weapon. I was looking for replacements that looked like a bolt gun, and settled for Hasslefree's V.E.R.A.. I chopped away the old wepons, glued the bolt guns in place and then did some minor sculpting where neccessary. The shotgun/grenade launcher I left in place, but replaced the barrel by a plastic rod and added a foregrip.

After all the time they were sitting around collecting dust, I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of the dust and any manufacturing residues. When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012.

Published 2015-02-26 12:30:00

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[Modern]¶
Mercenaries¶

I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of manufacturing residues. When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012.

Published 2015-02-26 12:16:00

28mm | Kickstarter | Militia Miniatures | PMCs

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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶

I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of manufacturing residues. When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, followed by a spray from a roughly 45Â° angle with Vallejo 70.830 German Field Grey WWII, thus creating the first shading of the uniform.

Published 2015-02-26 12:15:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

Today I put the last touches to the command models:

The lieutenants have personal heraldy on their right shoulder pads, and on the upper leg/shoes. Both models had two stripes sculpted on the left arm, which I also painted in yellow like the rank badges on the Sergeants. Both officers have a plume on their helmet which I painted in a darker blue than the other blue parts on all the models.

The Captain has quite some parts painted in gold to distinguish him even more than his helmet already does.

The apothecary has a white right shoulder pad and helmet, both showing the Helix badge in blue. Otherwise, the apothecary is painted like a common Marine.

The Librarian is mostly clad in a dark blue robe. The Lexicanum badge is painted on his forehead, he also has a gold decoration on the helmet.

Next steps are painting the rocks on all the bases.

Published 2015-02-18 23:42:00

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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶

While working on the Alternative Armies Terminators, the de-flashing and gluing bug bit me and I started to work on several other miniatures from my lead pile.

Among the miniatures waiting to be worked on were

Joseph Umfangle, Mad German Doctor (Blackball Games)
Wehrmacht Zombies including Officer (Studio Miniatures)
Improved Whermacht Zombies (Blackball Games)

I assembled them, glued them to washers, applied plaster of paris to hide the integral bases, and added sand. While assembling the plastic zombies, I added some weaponry from Bolt Action to some of the miniatures, rifles they had still slung over their shoulder, or weapons held in spasmed hands, dragged behind the unliving.

Ready for basecoating.

Published 2015-02-05 23:07:00

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[Modern]¶
Mercenaries¶

While working on the Alternative Armies Terminators, the de-flashing and gluing bug bit me and I started to work on several other miniatures from my lead pile.

On of the group of models waiting for a treatment are the modern mercenaries from the Militia Miniatures Kickstarter. I based them on washers, used plaster of paris to hide the elevation of the integral base and glued sand to the base.