Krieg 3rd armoured division : the iron knights

So I may have a taken a few years off. Not even sure if people read these blogs anymore since we all use discord. But in the spirit of an old habit, I figured I should cap off (or resurrect?) this old project. I moved states an about 3 years ago, started a new job and got engaged. Needless to say this put the hobby on the back burner for a while.
but a few months ago a found out a few people I knew here actually play 40K. And take it fairly seriously. Seriously enough in fact they wanted me to come with them to the warhammer grand narrative in Atlanta this year.
naturally, having not played since 8th edition, I needed to revamp my army. So two new banblades were added for this very very fluffy event! (Who doesn’t want to rock 3 super heavy tanks!)

adding some new bases (since we now have plastic Krieg!) to all my units. Sprucing up a few old models, and adding in some glow effects I learned to help add some excitement to a normally fairly bland colored army. And below is what I ended up taking to Atlanta.

have to say what a way to get back into the hobby! It was an amazing experience and I even took home best painted for the event!

I’ll have to decide how I want to proceed. I’m also tempted by most of them playing lord of the rings. And being a massive fan of that ip, I might have to jump ship to the skirmish side of the hobby. Although I did just pick up that “new” sweet avatar of khaine. (Hmmmmmm)

So what do you do when your friend is terrified of a model? Well, you build it and paint it for them obviously!
so a friend of mine picked this up last year and was far too intimidated and overwhelmed to build and paint it. They really really wanted it ready for the apoc game coming up so I put aside my detailing and those never ending bases I still need to finish and I took on the challenge of building and painting a Titan in a weekend.
This wasn’t my first. A few years ago I completed both my reaver and warlord so this appeared to be a far easier task. So I set about pinning and clipping many resin bits and took most of the day to get her built from the ground up

Fortunately my friend wanted to pitch in so I had them back coat it and spray it silver in preparation for the painting day to follow.

After this I set about speed painting a Titan. I only had one day to complete it so we decided the interior is out and a 90% airbrush job was in!
I took on the task of moderately matching my color scheme on the blues while my friend took over the task of painting the trim.  A quick airbrush of black in the recesses of the silver gave the appearance of grim and 4ish hrs later we had a finished Titan! Ready to stand alongside the 3rd armoured division in the coming battle. She will have to wait for an even larger game before she can stand in the shadows of her kin. But for now. She will certainly be the lord of war for the imperial side!

I noticed I never showed of the finished version of this guy. I had finished this about two years ago when I initially started this blog but I hadn’t updated it. With shipping and storage the old girl had taken a bit of a beating with a few parts coming apart at the seams. Fortunately though, all the parts were there and a few light super glue applications later she was was a good and new! Fortunately it only fell apart at the joints so no parts actually broke! Who here likes filling in resin with green stuff? (Not this guy) anyway while I was repairing, I decided to add a few details such as decals to the crew and the real scale brass shell casings to the gun decks.
Looking forward to finally getting this model in a game for the upcoming apocalypse! I also seem to be able to only post a few images otherwise I get an error message over and over so forgive the limited number of pics!

Medusa carriage is now complete. I do still need to add the “3rd” decals to their shoulders but the sheets have yet to arrive so I’ll call it done for now.
nice to have this guy out of the way. This should complete my artillery battery for the apoc game. On to 30 bases to complete and at least one other small vehicle! Onwards to the apocalypse!