I had a new flash of inspiration the other day, while looking at a box of Shock Troopers I had originally purchased to supplement my Vor Neo-Soviet army. It occurred to me that I might be able to scratch-build myself the vehicles I need, as long as I could provide the infantry for the army. Digging around in my bits box, I found a large cache of Pig Iron Kolony Militia heads, and the sparks flew.
Reading about the Death Korps of Krieg, I decided to do a similar force. Wargames Factory's Shock Troopers look the part, but I wanted to add my own twist. The Death Korps of Kremlin will be arriving soon!
Coupled with my Neo-Soviet models from Vor, this will be a communist-soviet twist on the traditional DKoK army. I plan to hybrid the army between the Imperial Armor version and the standard IG codex, reserving the bulk of this army for Apocalypse gaming or opponent's permission games. But lets face it: I only get out for big Apoc games or opponent's permission games anyway.
I have a mountain of scratchbuilding to do though. I have barely 1500 points, and that's stretching it by loading the infantry with upgrades. So, I am making a list:
Scratchbuild List:
2 Hades Breaching Drills (I can make these work easily enough)
3 Medusa/Basilisk Guns on Carriages (whatever I can make work, I don't really care at this point)
3 Trojans to tow the Guns (I bet these will be the hardest)
3 Heavy Mortars (Shouldn't take too much work, I hope)
3 Centaurs to tow the Mortars (Might tie for hardest scratchbuild)
3 Bombard Mortars (Might require a bit of PVC pipe)
Maybe I'm being too ambitious. Or not ambitious ENOUGH.... *rubs chin*
That's it for me, be on the lookout for our newest blog author Robert! He has ran some ideas past me on his first post, which include spicing up your normal 40k games with added planetary effects!
So until next time,
--FP135
Heh, I'm using a combination of the Pig Iron Kolony militia & rebels as Rad Troopers (I like the Rad trooper minis, but there's a serious lack of variety). Also with the addition of the IG Hellhound commander's Peaked caps work well for officers. That said I was thinking of using the WGF Shock Troopers with the peaked caps for officers (the pig iron NCO's arms are way out of proportion) and maybe Vanguard.
ReplyDeleteAs for vehicles, check out Old Crow Miniatures. I used to have one of their tanks that I used as a Blizzard, but scrapped the model for parts at some point. They have a few others that I'm considering for use as a Blizzard APC.