Konflikt 47 Whalestorm's First Foray

For the Axis force, I am in a similar mind that I don’t want to go for a camouflage scheme for the troops, at least not for these Stahltruppen.

After reading the lore sections of the rulebook, I ended up down a rabbit hole learning about August(us II) the Strong, Dresden and the Electorate of Saxony.

I have been wanting to paint something yellow for a while, and fully prepared for the struggle, I settled on Black and Yellow for the scheme.

The black armour was a simple drybrush job, starting with black spray, Eshin Grey and then Dawnstone to finish.

The Yellow caused some trial and error.

I started with an Emperors Children pink layer (or 3) to lay down a medium/dark pinky magenta. This was followed by Fulgrim Pink to the higher areas, in the hopes of giving some pre-highlights because…

The final Yellow was achieved with a coating of Imperial Fist contrast paint (I bet you saw this coming).

The first attempt (left, below) resulted in a bit too much orange for my liking, and my clumsy sponge work with Thondia Brown for chipping doesn’t come across as well as I had hoped. I left much less of the darker pink showing on the second two (middle & right, below) and added a little Corax White edge and dot highlighting prior to the Contrast Paint to lighten things up a bit more.

I decided that each truppen would have their own patterns, partly as a way of almost giving them their own heraldry, but also so I don’t get bored of the design.

As a lesson for the future, I will probably base the pink>yellow areas with a good covering grey. This should limit the number of pink layers as I can see a few brush strokes (I can also work on how I’m thinning the pink, hopefully just need more practice).

To end, I have a WIP of my next challenge, the Vogelspinne. Will be interesting to see if my planned effect comes off.