Into the Void Part I

This small vignette of a Death Korps of Krieg combat pioneer fire team has been a real keen interest of mine ever since I bought the figures from forge world about a year ago and now that the final piece, a small square base from Andrea miniatures arrived in the mail I was able to begin working on it.

The plan was thought out for me by the fine folks at Forge World in that they created a set of figures that screamed to be put in this halted tactical column formation. As seen in the pictures, the NCO has used a hand gesture to halt the fire team, the two center pioneers scan the flanks nervously while the tail end trooper has spun in place and watches the rear. The base was simple fashioned out of two small squares of styrene which were carved into a somewhat random ditch shape and placed on the base to give the appearance that the rifle pit was opening up at a juncture or artillery bay.

The colour scheme for the soldiers was something that I had tried on a test figure way back when and found the ochre body armour over drab fatigues to be a passable if not somewhat unimaginative combination. Given the DKK uniforms and their overwhelmingly Prussian/Kaiser like feel I wanted the colours to be regal yet functional. The initial coats on the figures were a mix of Catachan Green, Chaos Black and Gunship Green at a ratio of 6:1:3. The Plates were then painted with Khorne red from Citadel. The overall feeling applied to both the base and figures was a faded, worn, lackluster drab as if both the armour and environment had been involved in a close fought protracted conflict.

To that end, the highlights on the figures were achieved through either running Black Ink into the recesses and or using grey to build up the highlights. All metal bits were dulled and then weathered with a brown mix. I then touched the occasional exposed edge up with Citadel Chainmail (I focusses most of the silver on grenade pins, moving sections on weapons or tools etc.) The base was easily assembled which left me a lot of time to apply multitudes of highlights subdued intermittently by washes dark and light and then a final run of various muddy looking pastels.

Hical, James