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DKK re-arms 3 of 3

This may appear a random selection, but bear with me. 

The GL guy is to add to the FOO party, as they don't have much in the way of local boom.  They have, as the great poet Baldrick observed, an awful lot of Boom, but need some boom to go with the flashlights.

The other two, one with an Anvil assult rifle and one with a broken las gun, are intended as buddies for the snipers.  the las rifle will need repair, fortunately I have a doaner. 

And the anvil stuff included some bits which are doubtless intended for the underslung GL they can provide for SM bolters.

The man with the book will join the watchkeepers at Div HQ

DKK re-arms 2 of 3

These guys need to be Blue Kreig, which is not actually a colour scheme I've ever done myself.  

But I appear to have another Quad Launcher, so these guys have a job.

Again, finished with a selection of VL, Anvil and Pig Iron

DKK Re-arms 1 of 3

A while ago, Admiral Drax expressed incredulity at some DKK needing re-painting.  So just to reiterate, these are the orphans from the internet - they're all the wrong colour(s) and of varying standards of finish and repair. 

DKK with sniper rifles.  Ghillie suits are a fantastic modelling option but I don't know if I'm up to that yet, we'll see how these go.  There is already one Artillery unit sniper, so two of these will go grey with mustard facings.  Which means I'll need another one to then have a set for the Brown Kreig.  I'll need some more bits - most of which I probably have but just need to find.

The rifles and arms are from Anvil.  Good stuff, reasonably priced and quick delivery.  I love VL stuff, which although sometimes looks a little odd on line, that's because it has been designed to be included as a part of a model.  But Australia is a long way away (Ask Col Aukland, te he) so the delivery times can be long.

There's a few FW bits and some white metal pouches from Pig Iron.  I love the Pig Iron stuff and was as pleased at their relaunch as I was sad when they shut up shop.

Getting ready for sniper duels in the ruins of Xyphonica.

Mortian King Russ completed

Bored now.  I'm calling these finished and have put them away. 

A sentinel.  It's the same colour scheme using the same tools. 

Aaaargh !  Transfers coming off callsign 34 !  despite the varnish !

Droopy melty barrel.  And the muzzle vents need cleaning out as well.

But hey, they look ok, especially en masse.

Either las cannon or auto cannon hull weapon

Twin heavy stubber hull weapons

The rear numbers.

Never did get 'round to disguising the gap in the track links with mud.  Oh well.

But not bad

And I didn't get 'round to any sponge chipping, either.

But these are good to go; they're possibly better (certainly painted in a more technical fashion) than the rest of the ASL.

But the sentinel will get a bit more work.

Off they go into storage; brumm, brumm.

Inquisitorial Commandos. (500 words)

One of these commandos is a lady called Sera Pahuelpan; she is a scion of the ruling house of the Filario Industrial Syndicate who own a significant share of civil engineering companies on Palladia as well as interests as diverse as hospitals as far away as Jornath and even abattoirs (now destroyed by war) on Devos IV.

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Her father, Arvies Pahuelpan married into the Etaltua family who own outright a chain of eleven hives on Palladia Prime as well as many more in syndication.   He was a hive ganger.  His children were raised in a very peculiar manner – half of their time they were raised in the pressure cooker environment of High Society with it’s academic and societal expectations and the other half was a curious mixture of brutalisation, combat training and lessons in planning and influencing delivered by his former gang mates.

Just at the age she was due to finish school, her parents were killed (by a fire bomb in a restaurant) in an internecine vendetta the like of which rearranges the top levels of the rich and powerful.  She and her other siblings were abducted and sold to a pit fighting gang in one of the mining outposts, at which point her father’s seeming overly harsh treatment of his own children began to make sense.

Two years later, in one of the pogroms which sweep the Palladian Mining Colonies from time to time, she and her remaining brother escaped.  Staying firmly in the underworld, they set out for Umbria et Etaltua[1]. 

It was relatively easy to find allies who also had reason to want revenge on those at the top, some for reasons directly related to those people and some for more general or political reasons.   There are plenty of reasons to be angry with the ruling elite of a hive city; economic, political and religious differences, segments of the population forgotten, internment without trial, failure to ensure security where it costs but does not deliver returns, pollution, lack of health care, lack of care, lack of opportunity, rampant corruption and cronyism.   They became one more clique of violent dissidents in the underhive.

Over years, patient diplomacy forged an alliance of several major Hive Gangs; but in the end the gangs sold her brother to the ruling family in a blatant double cross.  Sera escaped due to random spyrer attack on those chasing her.

The Inquistion came, chasing mutants.  They gutted the staff of the ruling house and they would obviously not be able to hold onto power.  With the remaining allies she had, she infiltrated the upper spires and fought her way into the inner sanctum; after all, she grew up there, the security had not been told to forget the dead, so she could just switch off all of the automated measures.

That’s when her unexpected new life began.

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[1] The region of Palladia where they were raised, where their parents were killed and where those killers were still enjoying the lifestyle of hive rulers.

Replicating an existing colourscheme

One of the last complete units (read - Imperial Guard armies) I bought before my children ate all my money was Jeff (Pirate Viking Painting)'s lovely iggies.  As as well as the foot soldiers, there are these mechanised assets as well, a demolisher, a hell hound and a chimera as well as a sentinel troop. 

They are all finished in a nice two colour camouflage with brown and black separating stripes, in the manner of a 1980's NATO scheme - google image US or Spainish 1980s armour for best results.

Click the pic, as Inso would say, and the glory of Jeff's subtle and realistic treatment of military themes is evident. I'll let you scroll down through the picts.

So my challenge is to colour match this scheme.  There's a huge amount of variation int he paints in my pile of airbrushing paints - all AFV colours, so I've got the right colour, I'd just need to match up correctly.  "Why, Zzzzz ?" I hear you ask, well gentle reader, these babies are going to join the same unit:

Gotta find some hatches, some dozer blades (got loads of those) and some searchlights.  Here's looking forward to child free good weather to actually get some airbrushing done.