Something a little different to set the scene for the new year.

I do hope some of you saw the My Little Pony spaze murheens.

So these are DKK torsos on VL Victorian legs.  Some of the arms are DKK and some are VL.  A lot of the pre-loved DKK rifles are broken at the worst possible point, but I have some ideas of how to deal with that.

Not all of these figures are 'dressed' yet to hide the join, but these two give a good idea - there's a mix of DKK and VL bits.

Junior Officer in the same idiom.  One DKK arm and one VL one.

Thats 'im again.  What a poser.

I've toyed with a couple of schemes, but am learning towards the Blue Krieg scheme with a red stripe down their trousers - representing the same regiment but wearing their summer jackets instead of their winter greatcoats.  Again, moving the fluff forwards.  As Col Hertford reminds us, one more stone turned in the search for hobby perfection.

Not the usual end of year round up.

No, this is more of a stock take.  Following the little video in the summer, I offer this (principally for Dai) - It doesn't include any of the more recent offerings from the brick of scrutiny, some will end up in here, but others won't. It also does not include that entire Army from Devon, either.   Apologies for the wonky lines, it's just the way blogger has imported the Word documents.  Make of it what you will:

Zzzzz’s Death Korps of Krieg Army

Assault Brigade

HQ                                          Marshall Venner & Chimera

HQ                                          Coy Command Section & Chimera

Elite                                       Engineer Squad with Cyclops and Chimera

Elite                                       3x Hydrae

Elite                                       3x Hydrae

Troops                                  PCS, five rifle squads & Chimerae

Troops                                  PCS, five rifle squads & Chimerae

Troops                                  Grenadier PCS, five Grenadier squads & Chimerae

Fast Attack                          2x Salamander

Fast Attack                          2x Salamander

Fast Attack                          3x Hellhounds

Fast Attack                          Waffenritter PCS, three ten rider squads

Heavy Support                  2x Thunderbolt

Heavy Support                  3x Thunderer

Allies: DKK Armoured Battlegroup

HQ                                          Coy Command Tank LR pkw

Elite                                       Forward Observer’s LR Executioner LR pkw

Elite                                       Commissarial LR pkw

Troops                                  3x LR pkw

Troops                                  3x LR pkw

Troops                                  3x LR pkw

Troops                                  PCS, six rifle squads

Troops                                  PCS, six rifle squads

Heavy Support                  Heavy Weapons Platoon, 9 Las cannons, 9 Auto Cannon

Heavy Support                  Field Artillery Platoon  3 heavy mortars, 3 quad launchers

 Armageddon Steel Legion (Armoured Battle Group)

HQ                                          CCS Col Cdt Welbahnn (Gen Odon) in Crassus

HQ                                          Stormsword

 HQ                                         Coy Command Tank LR pkw

Elite                                       Forward Observer’s LR Executioner LR pkw

Troops                                  3x LR pkw

Troops                                  3x LR pkw

Troops                                  3x LR pkw

Troops                                  PCS, Fire Support squad, Anti-Tank squad Chimerae

Troops                                  PCS, Fire Support squad, Anti-Tank squad Chimerae

Fast Attack                          3x armoured sentinels

Fast Attack                          3x armoured sentinels

Fast Attack                          3x armoured sentinels

Fast Attack                          Wolverine armoured car

Allied detachment  Mordian 7^th Iron Guard

Fast Attack                           (motor cycle) Rough Riders
Troops                                  Armoured Fist PCS, 3 rifle squads, chimera

Heavy Support                     AT Squad, 3 ATGW, 3 laser cannon.

17 Korps HQ

HQ                                          Korps Commander (3* Gen Tolstoy) CCS, Chimera (AT-AT)

902 Div HQ

HQ                                          Cadian 24^th Liaison CCS, Taros

HQ                                          Cadian 127^th Liaison CCS, Taros

HQ                                          Palladian Guard Liaison CCS, Centaur

HQ                                          Elysian 141^st Liaison CCS, Chimera

Elite                                       DKK Grenadier Squad & Bastogne

6 Platoon Necromundan 1^st Death’s Head Regt

Troops                                  6 four man fire teams

11 Bn 157^th First Born Regt

HQ                                          5 PCS

Heavy Support                  AT Squad (3 laser cannon) FS Squad (3 Heavy Bolter)

Helgedad Sworn Bands

HQ                                          CCS

141^st Elysian DTR “Helljumpers”

HQ                          CCS

Elite                       Storm Trooper demi squad

Elite                       Storm Trooper demi squad

Troops                  PCS, 3 rifle squads w/ML

Troops                  PCS, 2 Drop Sentinels, 2 Taros, 1 Taros Venator

Dedicated           6 Valkyries

Fast Attack          4 Vendetta

Cadian 144^th Long Range Reconnaissance Regiment

Troops                  3 Taros (HALO Warthog)

Troops                  3 Wolverine Armoured Cars

Valhallan (Kado) 540^th Heavy Infantry

HQ                                          CCS (Chenkov)

Troops                                  PCS, five rifle squads

Troops                                  PCS, five rifle squads

Troops                                  PCS, five rifle squads

Corbanian 2^nd Infantry Regt

HQ                                          CCS (Straken)

HQ                                          CCS + Commissar

Troops                                  PCS + Commissar, five rifle squads, 2 SWS

Troops                                  PCS + Commissar, five rifle squads, 2 SWS

Elite                                       27 Kasarkin

Elite                                       10 Snipers

Elite                                       Veteran Squad w/Sgt Harker

Heavy Support                  Anti-tank squad (3 laser cannon), Fire support squad (2 AC 1 HB)

Heavy Support                  AAA Squad (SGT + 3 ML), AAA Squad (Sgt + 3 ML)

Knovian dismounted infantry (Geno 5-2)

Troops                                  PCS, two rifle squads

Troops                                  PCS, two rifle squads

Elite                                       5 Snipers

Heavy Support                  Fire support (5 Auto cannon)

42 Bn Helegdad Vnutrennye Voiska

Troops                          PCS, two rifle squads

Troops                          Penal Platoon

Hulin Rifles

Troops                          PCS, five rifle squads

Departmento Munitorium Delegation

HQ                                Lord Commissar

HQ                                Eight Commissars

Troops                          Factor, runner & Honour Guard

A Section, No2 Platoon, Psyker Coven 555

HQ                                Primaris Psyker

Troops                          PBS (7 plus minder)

Heavy Weapons

Heavy Support                  6 mortar base plates (unmanned)

Heavy Support                  6 laser cannon emplacements (unmanned)

Heavy Support                  2 auto cannon carriages, 4 laser cannon carriages (unmanned)

Fast Attack                          2 Hell Hounds

Ozark Mountain Daredevils (Combat Engineers)

HQ                                          CCS + Commissar, Chimera

Elite                                       Ogryn Brute Squad

Elite                                       Kasarkin Squad

Troops                                  PCS, four rifle squads

Troops                                  PCS, four rifle squads

Fast Attack                          3 armoured sentinels

Fast Attack                          Hell Hound

Heavy Support                  LR Demolisher

Heavy Support                  FS Detachment (3 auto cannons, 3 auto cannons)

Sarainian 5^th Geburgsjeagir

HQ                                          Von Creed, CCS + Commissar

Elite                                       Veteran Squad

Troops                                  PCS, three rifle squads, dog handlers

Troops                                  PCS, three rifle squads, dog handlers

Dedicated                           Six Keilerkopf APCs

Commando D-66

Troops                                  Kasarkin Squad

Troops                                  Kasarkin Squad

Helgedad Sworn Bands

HQ                                          CCS

Troops                                  PCS, two rifle squads

OOP Star Wars stuff in FLCS.

Ok, so being a little topical...

I drop into my Friendly (not really)Local Comic Shop whilst the small are trampolining* on a Saturday morning.

And if occurred to me that someone out there might be interested in some of the 'top shelf' stuff they have.  So at the risk of being branded NSFW, here it is:

So if this stuff piques your interest, let me know and I'll get you the vendor's details.  I was thinking that Slave 1 might be a good space ship for a heretical renegade Inquisitor.  But that would break my rules of acquisition.

* Spelt "Champolining" with no trace of irony by the small people. 

Macharian 203rd Line Infantry

So,  I have some fluff for these boys already, but it can wait until there's three-colours-minimum on them at least.  But here are some notes on construction.

The brick of scrutiny is a bit damp at this time of year - that patch of moss is bigger every time every time some little guys form a resin human pyramid and climb up for their photoshoot.

These guys are DKK legs, VL victorian torsos and arms and Puppetswars heads.  I've included a few shots to show how they are dressed about the middle - a variety of bits from FW, VL and Raging Heroines.

A couple of guys with FW packs from Devon

Some of the helmet rims were damaged during the conversation - annoyingly.  I do like the puppetswar lids.  But will be painted up as battle damage.  I think these guys will suit the worn look (?)

A decent illustration of the variety of kit carried.  I was sort of anticipating a formerly-uniform-but-now-having-more-cobbled-together sort of look for them.  I think the models do that, now to sort out a suitable paintjob.

The special weapon guy with the DKK melta gun.

The junior officer type.  There's sixteen of these so far, I'm only anticipating there being twenty of these in total, so the Jnr Offr may end up functionally being an NCO for list building purposes.  But if I do end up illustrating the conflict by showing the Macharian 203rd in a picture, then an officer waving on his troops would be appropriate.

Captain Pasquilliano looses a book, a cirlip and his bunk.

As 72AG were moving out of Fort Nuttar.

“I’ve lost my book.”

“What ?”

“I’ve lost my book.”  He clicked out the interlocks on the plasma pistol and slid the containment chamber out of the receiver.  Placing the chamber between his knees he tipped the remains of the weapon up to the light and squinted at the venturi inside the muzzle cowling.  His other hand fished about in his cleaning kit for a moment before pulling the Ryzatool.

“You look like a dork.” She snorted.  “You always look like a dork when you try to maintain that thing, your tongue sticks out the side of your mouth like a little boy and it always takes you twice as long as anyone else.”

She swigged the amsec out of the bottle, grimacing and making a face.  “What fefthing book ?”

The Cadian looked at her for a brief moment, purple eyes maintaining their plasma pistol cleaning squint.  “It was a swap with Colonel Has.  The one I gave him was a lot better written.  I need to find ‘Ethel the Pirate King’s Daughter’ to swap back again.”  There was a soft plink as the serclip holding the muzzle choke sphincter pinged out and disappeared somewhere under a table or pile of backpacks or ammunition boxes or, well wherever the heck it went.

“You’re fefthed now, Mr President.”  She put the lid on the bottle and swung back onto his bunk, tipping her commissarial cap down over her eyes.

The Cadian maintained concentration on his task in hand.  “Nah, I carry supply of those little critters.  Every last one I’ve ever caught has broken, cooked by the heat or something.”  The plasma pistol was now completely stripped down on the tiny table in his bunk.  Most of his kit was packed up, the HQ would likely be leaving Fort Nuttar tomorrow, some thirty six standard after the lead elements of 902 Division.  Now he needed to get a few hours downtime before HEY !

“What are doing on my bunk ?”

“Commissar Tora snores.”

“That’s really sad, it must be awful for you, but I’m gonna be getting in there in ten, I’m just going to the thunderbox first.”

“Have you got the shits ?”
“I beg your pardon, Commissar ?”

“You’ve never been that fast before Captain.  Besides, you need to find Colonel Has’ book before we move out.”  She settled down to be as conspicuously comfortable as possible.