See here for part 4.
Well, this week I was finally able to make my force codex compliant. Although, it was more I got things built, than actually painting them.
While I waited for bases, I made a start on some big guns. The Grognards Heavy Weapons are by and large another good example of the Deathfields series. Not perfect, for reasons I will go into, but highly useful as a kitbashing resource. One box easily produces two squads of heavy weapon teams; with three easy proxies for 40K use. The odd one out is the bizarre and honestly compelling quad turret affair, which has no direct equivalent. You may not like these; they appear to be off a WWII bomber. I kinda love them though, and against all practicality I decided to field these as Krieg Heavy Stubbers. Unfortunately, getting them together is a mild nuisance, as they should probably be painted in sub assemblies, but mine didn't want to fit together right, and the whole affair is obviously top heavy. This is probably just a me problem, but I ended up snipping off toes to get the gunners in, before opting to just glue them and have done with it. This would not be an issue with the other guns though, so its self inflicted annoyance. The second team will be a more thorough kitbash with the carriage modified to feature wheels, although I'm still trying work to that out. Progress on these was however paused, as I took a brief getaway to Skegness.
When I returned from the windswept tackiness of Skeg-Vegas, I decided to start on a third aspect of the project, the Krieg Command Squad. While I am loathe to to have more than one plate spinning at once, getting that squad assembled was going to be essential if I wanted to use the new codex. As mentioned last week, such units are now tied to specific regiments, so if I wanted to run my infantry as Krieg, I'd need to have one of these. And a second if it looked doable for Monday. It took me a long time to settle on a look for these, as I wanted something that A) easily said to a foe what it was, B) fit in with what I had already, and C) could possibly proxy as another type of Command Squad. I opted for a mix of basically whatever I had to hand, but mainly Bulldogs with certain key pieces from the Grognards sprue mentioned above. Assembly proved to be relatively swift, which should not have surprised me, and so I proceeded to make up a second. I've got a lot if painting to do, but at least I can game easily with the new book. There's a few time saving things I did here. I had ordered in some 3D print meltaguns from Scourge Scenics, (Remember them?) which unfortunately proved too big. So I snipped the barrels and mounted them to the energy weapons from the Bulldog kit, a trick I've used a few times now, and it just works. I also opted to use some old scenery bits as Servo-Scribe tokens. Yes, I could absolutely make better versions with green stuff and wire, but they would be titchy and fragile. The terrain bits, previously used for remote bomb parts, have skulls and speakers on them, so its not really a stretch for relaying orders in the Imperium.
Up next: painting I hope.
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