Death Korps Painting Blog

[TraumaKitten]

It’s been a long time but today I decided to pick up the brush again. Overall I’m satisfied with my creation but I think the color scheme is too bright and I’m not a fan of the metallic. Flats would save me a bit of time as well. I have a lot of these little guys to paint 

Edited March 20 by TraumaKitten

[Grotsmasha]

The photo's we take have a bad habit of skewing our perceptions. This close up, under "perfect" lighting, maybe the model seems a little bright, but put it on a table and retreat to gming distance? I bet those details pop just right

 

Edited March 11 by Grotsmasha

[Firedrake Cordova]

Honestly, they look fine to me.

 

Maybe wait until their base is done before final judgement? A muddy or urban base may affect your perception of the colours? If you still feel they're too bright, maybe a very light glaze of Agrax Earthshade might bring the brightness down a bit?

[crimsondave]

Honestly, it looks fine to me.  What do you not like about the metallics?

 

Agree with Firedrake if you want to dirty him up and darken.  Agrax works well, just go easy.  You can always add.

Edited March 12 by crimsondave

[sbarnby71]

Looking good to me and based on the long time away from the hobby, this is damn good.

 

As others have said maybe some agrax to tone it down, can also thin it using some medium or if you want a real dirty random look a bit of water with the agrax as it will split the shade and make it patchy and give a random finish.

[DemonGSides]

I wouldn't change a thing. They look good and stylized which is way cooler than trying to approximate the scheme you see everyone else using.

 

A whole army in this style would be sick to see. 

[TraumaKitten]

Krieg Engineer #2. I’ve gone with a more grimdark attempt. Still getting used to some processes again. The eye glow effect, though better, still needs a bit of work. I bought a bottle of acrylic orange fluorescent paint to help with the next model, hopefully. The metals look more ragged and toned down. Better, but still not satisfied. Weathering and texturing needs practice. . .

[Firedrake Cordova]

They look great. The base really adds something to the model

[Tallarn Commander]

The Grimdarkier trooper is superior. Great job,

[Xenith]

Looking great! With the flat black base, I think models will always appear lighter in contrast to it. Nice work! 

[TraumaKitten]

Engineer #3: Different paint scheme, went with Castellan green base, rather than a grey. Started with black primer with a white primer base coat highlight attempting a halo spray. Needed more distance imo, less of a heavy hand. Eyes turned out better, but can still use work. I did all NMM, overall I think it turned out okay. Needs finer lines for highlights though.  The look is even more grimdarkerer than last! First attempt at a little mud spray, but the photos make it difficult to see 

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

I really like how they turned out

[DemonGSides]

I have an artillery crew I've painted in blues, but I think I might go the green for the engineers as yours is fantastic. Great job, again!

[TraumaKitten]

Engineer #4

 

Black primer, white sprayed about 2’ away to mist the model giving it some highlight/texture to the undercoat. Used Catachan green with a watered down Agra’s wash. Everything is NMM. I think this is my best one yet.

 

[Brother Carpenter]

Very nice, all of your test models. Far better than I can churn out

The eye glow really worked out well.

Liking 3 and 4 best of the 4 test types.

 

Keep it up.

[Urauloth]

Really like how the muddied up Catachan green looks. The colour pops without being too bright, and it's just vibrant enough for the weathering to stand out.

[TraumaKitten]

Another one done in a slightly different variation. Still using black primer base coat with a halo spray of white to help with pre highlights. Castellaten green base with a Elysian green dry brush. Fairly heavy but diluted application of agrax wash. Primarily used dry brushing to bring details out then did fine weathering and highlights on the armor plates. I think I’m improving in hand control and brush manipulation across the five models. Used Russian mud fx from Vallejo for the base and Russian mud splash for the uniform stains. Process was much faster this time, between the dry brushing and basing choice, it was significant. I also think it looks more natural, closer to some of the forge world stuff rather than the pristine models from box art. 

[TraumaKitten]

A little family photo of the last three side-by-side

[Firedrake Cordova]

Whilst I prefer the left-hand one, I think they all came out really nicely, and an army of any of them would look great

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I agree, though my own preference is for the middle model.

[TraumaKitten]

Started a new batch. Used Villainy Inks Goons Grime enamel wash. I like the effect and basically paints the model by itself. However, after this first model, I washed the rest of the squad and it’s been days where they’re still tacky and have not fully cured. Not super happy about that. About to hit them with an accelerant to see if I can save the lot. Not entirely certain why the rest are being a pain but the rest was dry within a couple hours even without a hair dryer. Also tried to expand the eye glow effect and find I may have gone too far this time. I’ll back that down a bit next time and rather than using a halo spray of white primer I’m going to start tactically dry brushing prehighlights on future models. Beyond that, I think my weathering/texturing has gotten better

 

 

[Bonehead]

For my money, that's the best one of the lot. Bit of a dilemma about the enamel wash though. I'd be worried about the reliability over any kind of large scale project.

[TraumaKitten]

@Bonehead They’re dry now, but still kinda look wet. It’s weird. I’m going to chalk it up to user error and try again on something. Maybe I didn’t shake the bottle enough or my base coat wasn’t impermeable. I used a heavier agrax wash on one I’m working on now and got more or less the same effect. The green/brown and sediment of the enamel is tough to beat when it works though

[Firedrake Cordova]

It should be possible to fix the "wet" appearance with some matt varnish (or Lahmian Medium)  

[TraumaKitten]

@Firedrake Cordova I’ve heard of Lahmian Medium. What is it exactly? It’s a Citadel product, right? I was thinking the same with varnish though