DKoK Grenadier with stubber
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:36 am
Hi all, this is my first project posted here.
I've been trying to get some painting done over christmas but noticed a severe lack of skill with the brushes. When I came to think about it I realised that I haven't painted anything since early July last year! So I decided to do something small to get me back in to the game again.
Looking through my riddicolously large supply of accuired models I found some Death Korps of Krieg Grenadiers that I had bought second hand really cheap. I had striped them from paint but the primer was still on, a rather thick black undercoat. I descided that it wouldn't matter too much if I ruined any of these and converted this fellow:
I wanted him to carry the machine gun with the stock under his arm for extra stability which meant I had to convert that arm. I usualy try to use as little Green Stuff as possible as I am quite frankly not a very talented sculptor. But in this case I found it more or less unavoidable. The hand and sleeve are both from the original arm that goes with the stubber, the main arm piece is from a regular grenadier scavanged for parts. The left arm is from my bits box, I think it's from a DKoK squad at ease kit but I'm not sure, it had nothing in its hand. It fit perfectly once I had moved the handle of the machine gun back a little and turned the hand around.
Here he is as he currently stands:
The idea here is that he is emerging from a crater blasted in a road or perhaps inside a building. The earth will be much more dry-looking once I'm done with it, this is just the color of the mix I used to build up the earth. I'm not entirely sure about the mortar shell, I might lay it down and cover it up a little to make it a bit less obvious but we'll see, that can easily be done without too much work so I'll leave it as it is for now.
I've applied some basecoats to the base and some basic highlights and shades to his coat (will work a lot more on those). I was looking at some pictures of "helghast" soldiers from a game called killzone 2 for reference, but now it resembles the original DKoK scheme as done by Mark Bedford on the Forge World site. We'll see where I take him in the end.
I'll post any progress here over the next couple of days, don't think it will take too long to finish this guy. Any comments and criticism is greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
I've been trying to get some painting done over christmas but noticed a severe lack of skill with the brushes. When I came to think about it I realised that I haven't painted anything since early July last year! So I decided to do something small to get me back in to the game again.
Looking through my riddicolously large supply of accuired models I found some Death Korps of Krieg Grenadiers that I had bought second hand really cheap. I had striped them from paint but the primer was still on, a rather thick black undercoat. I descided that it wouldn't matter too much if I ruined any of these and converted this fellow:
I wanted him to carry the machine gun with the stock under his arm for extra stability which meant I had to convert that arm. I usualy try to use as little Green Stuff as possible as I am quite frankly not a very talented sculptor. But in this case I found it more or less unavoidable. The hand and sleeve are both from the original arm that goes with the stubber, the main arm piece is from a regular grenadier scavanged for parts. The left arm is from my bits box, I think it's from a DKoK squad at ease kit but I'm not sure, it had nothing in its hand. It fit perfectly once I had moved the handle of the machine gun back a little and turned the hand around.
Here he is as he currently stands:
The idea here is that he is emerging from a crater blasted in a road or perhaps inside a building. The earth will be much more dry-looking once I'm done with it, this is just the color of the mix I used to build up the earth. I'm not entirely sure about the mortar shell, I might lay it down and cover it up a little to make it a bit less obvious but we'll see, that can easily be done without too much work so I'll leave it as it is for now.
I've applied some basecoats to the base and some basic highlights and shades to his coat (will work a lot more on those). I was looking at some pictures of "helghast" soldiers from a game called killzone 2 for reference, but now it resembles the original DKoK scheme as done by Mark Bedford on the Forge World site. We'll see where I take him in the end.
I'll post any progress here over the next couple of days, don't think it will take too long to finish this guy. Any comments and criticism is greatly appreciated.
Cheers!