Danny Cyanide does Imperial Guard - Elysians and DKOK

[Withershadow]

So you took the plunge and made them Commissars! I painted four of mine as Field Officers, and gave one a powerfist and a bigger base to represent Yarrick until I can get my hands on a real one.

[Danny Cyanide]

Yeah, while they may not be all that useful right now, I love the fluff behind Commissars, and these two are such nice models that I decided to go for it!

 

I'm going to do officers out of the sash wearing models from the command squad.

 

One Warlord and 4 officers. I'll use these guys both Marshalls and field officers, but for Marshalls I'll sculpt a helmet crest on them.

[Danny Cyanide]

May I present to you all, Commmissar Barton le Fissh and Commissar Darius Von Duzik:

 

[Danny Cyanide]

Trooping the Colour may be done, but the 111th Krieg Combined Battle Group still has a long way to go!

I'm not much of a sculptor, but I did sone helmet crests on a couple of command squad dudes tonight, as I described a couple of posts up, so here are the Marshalls of my force:



They are made with miliput white, so I'll sand them a bit once they are dry!

[WarriorFish]

More excellent work, your work rate is most impressive too :tu:

[Danny Cyanide]

Thanks Fish!

 

I am working out in the bush away from my family, so I have nothing but time! Plus, I'm able to paint and build some while I'm at work! I won't be able to keep this rate up once I'm back home, but it's great while I'm away!

[Stofficus]

Those are some fantastic looking Krieg. I've been slowly working on my own French inspired Krieg, but have always struggled to find a blue I really like, how'd you get yours if you don't mind me asking?

[Danny Cyanide]

I'd be more than happy to share my blue recipe, with pictures even!

 

Base coat over White pre-shaded Black primer (No pic for this, sorry) with Vallejo Model Air IDF Blue 71.113

 

 

Brown - Citadel Mournfang Brown Beige - Citadel Zandri Dust Metals - Vallejo Medel Air Metallic - Black 71.073

 

 

Wash with Citadel Agrax Earthshade

 

 

Bring blue back up to Vallejo IDF Blue 71.113

 

 

Highlight blue with Vallejo ModelAir Light Blue - 71.225

 

 

Shot of the back

 

 

Beige highlighted with Citadel Ushabti Bone

 

 

brass with Vallejo Model Color Brass 70.801

 

 

Highlight leather with Citadel Skrag Brown[/background][/font][/color]

 

 

Base with Citadel Texture Stirland Mud

 

[Reviler]

Are you using an airbrush?

[Danny Cyanide]

Just for priming and base coating the blue. Everything else is brushes

[Danny Cyanide]

So I'm sitting here building some more infantry for my DKOK, and have been contemplating the Army as a whole. Fluff wise, they are a combined Battle Group, a force made from a mixture of Regiments. The thing I'm having trouble deciding is if I should do them all in the light blue uniform, or if I should mix colour schemes by role.

 

If I went mixed, I think I'd go with something like this:

 

Infantry squads - blue

Engineers - olive drab

Grenadiers - almost black gray

Artillery crew - brown

Death Riders - ???

Officers - ????

 

I'm really not sure if mixing so many schemes would look good, or just make the force look like a mess on the table.

 

Let me know your thoughts! I have time to mull it over as I only brought infantry squads it to work with me, so for now it'll all be blue!

[WarriorFish]

I think you have enough variation, too much could detract from the army as a cohesive force especially for officers who will be few in number.

[Danny Cyanide]

Enough variation if I go with the 4 groups of colors, or enough if I leave everyone blue?

 

I might actually do everyone blue except for engineers and Grenadiers. Kind of a middle ground.

[WarriorFish]

With the four colours you're already using yes, but I'd say going predominantly one colour for the rank and file is best. The more colour variation you have the less special it is ;)

[duz_]

Ill second WFs thoughts.

 

Too much variation and it'll be distracting

[walter h]

The death riders could be blue with grey this would tie them to the infantry,as well as the grenadiers.

[Danny Cyanide]

Cool! I think I'll keep it to just the 3 variations then,

 

Infantry including artillery and officers will be the main blue, with engineers Green and Grenadiers dark grey. Thanks for the input guys!

[Maerlen]

Might be late but what about colouring the collars and the end of the sleeves? Red for artillery, black for engineers or something like that?

[Danny Cyanide]

That's a great idea, I think I'll give it a go for my artillery, officers and special weapon dudes!

[Danny Cyanide]

Well, I've been busy building the next batch of Krieg since Trooping The Colour ended. I'll be saving my armour for the ETL, but I'm still out in the bush working, so I've got to work on something!

 

Here are the next 4 infantry squads and 3 Marshalls ready to start getting some colour!

 

 

I'm really happy with how my Marshalls helmet crests turned out, still have to straighten their swords a little though:

 

 

[Ulrik_Ironfist]

As far as variation, I think you're fine. I agree with Duz and WF. If you're dead set on marking out squads though, just add a stripe on a shoulder pad, or make a marking on a sleeve, or better yet, different color cuffs (especially on the DKoK guys). 

[WarriorFish]

You're on a roll Danny, good stuff an example for all to follow :tu:

[Danny Cyanide]

First at ease squad in progress:

 

 

To be honest, I'm not really a huge fan of these guys and I'm happy that there are only 2 of these squads in the lot of Krieg that I picked up! I honestly wouldn't have picked to buy them myself as I find the poses pretty boring, but I am planning to use the 2 that I have as back field squads.

[Tallarn Commander]

Yeah, the at rest troopers could work in certain dioramas but don't really fit a combat miniatures games.

[Res Ipsa Loquitur]

Maybe I'm a little late with this, I think that the blue works for basic line troops and I can totally see why officers and special forces would have different uniforms but different uniforms for different units is likely to start looking messy. 

 

But then, you know, your plastic resin.