Tanks from Dust

I had a couple tanks from Dust Tactics/Warfare primed and ready for painting for several months already, and last saturday on our club we had a "tank workshop", so I finally got the motivation to sit down and get them painted.

I used the same paint scheme of my space nazi vehicles, as these are probably going to serve that army, even though the tanks are designed for the soviets in Dust, and are largely based on the KV tanks of WWII. 

The models above are identical. Each kit comes with both weapons choices, which can be exchanged easily, so I didn't even bother magnetizing them.

Here we can see how the weapons attach to the turret:

The kit also comes with a radar, which fits on the back of the turret, and I believe is meant to go with the anti-air version (the quad-gun below).

Here are some comparison pics of one of the tanks next to an eisenkern stormtrooper. You can se it's a pretty big model:

And here are a couple pics from the event on our club last saturday. This favorite blogger of yours is the guy on the dark blue shirt, on the far left of the pic below, accompanied by the awesome chaps of the Tropas Polares Gaming Club:

Eisenkern Keilerkopf - APC for my army of Space Nazis

I recently finished painting my first 2 keilerkopfs, from Dreamforge Games. These are the most complex kits I've ever assembled, but are quite rewarding, as the models are amazing, full of moving parts and thoroughly detailed.

The upper part of the chasis is left unglued, so you can remove it to check the inside, which is fully detailed. Once in place, this upper part fits nicely, and doesn't slip around. The kit also provides 10 extra models (in addition to the drivers) to be assembled sitting on the benches, representing a squad in transport. I chose to let them out, but this is an excellent addition to this top notch kit.

Another reason for the top to be removable is that there are a couple other weapon options about to be released and one of them requires the replacement of the top, as seen on this image I found on the web:

The excellence of this product shows in the little details, such as the glasses, which have a greenish finish that simulates the looks of bullet-proof glass. Outstanding!

Here is the second keilerkopf, painted with slightly different cammo stripes and a different coat of arms on the left side, but otherwise pretty identical to the first.

Here are some scale shots of the tank next to an eisenkern trooper. Pretty big vehicle!









And look at the number of moving parts on that model:

I liked the keilerkopf so much I'm ordering a couple more, along with some heavy troopers and heavy support also recently released by Dreamforge. 

Zombies, lots of them!

No army of Scifi Nazis is complete without some zombies. Thus, I finally, sit to paint my 45 Deadzone zombies. This was the largest number of 28-30mm miniatures I painted at once so far, but my "assembly line" approach works wonders, I must say, and I managed to finish these on 2 weeks of work in the evenings.

I wanted them to look mostly like prisioners who've been submitted to some genetic/biological engineering by the evil nazi scientists, thus the orange uniform. Still, I did a thrird of the mob (15 models) in some different schemes, so to have more diversity of looks.

Now this is a releaving sight, a horde of zombies running on the opposite direction!