Lord Marshal Dreir leading Deathriders of the Death Korps of Krieg

 

Here we have the plastic Deathriders for the Death Korps of Krieg with the new special character Lord Marshal Dreir.
I am really really impressed by the new plastic Deathriders. Lots of options, bits and such nice movement in the miniatures.

The old Forgeworld resin miniatures were nice but they were standing still. The new ones larger so it might be hard to interchange them in units, but I have plans to rebase the old ones with raised bases so it would trick the eyes somewhat.

I gave their officer a hackle from a Napoleonic shako from my historical collection of bits... To make hime stand out even more.

I gave one of the riders a drum, also from my Napoleonic bit pile...
I guess his drumming skills might be a bit unappreciated as I think all of these miniatures might have hearing disability, both from their helmets and gas masks but also from all the shelling and livefire from both training and actual combat...
But i like the added fun little detail.

Lord Marshal Dreir him selves.
 

Death Korps artillery

Here we have a piece of Death Korps of Krieg artillery.
The kit came with a variety of swapable barrels so you can use the one that is most fitting for the task or which one is cooles.

I didnt like the look of the lower gunshield or the sandbags that is supposed to be placed on the sides. They didnt make any sense so I just leaved them of and I think the results looks better this way.

I tried some different colourschemes on the gun platform. Still keeping with the theme but I went with some "wrong" colours, trying gray and yellow. The "wrong" colour choice I really feel capture the ww1 look when they just started to try out camouflage. But after chipping and weathering the colours really tied the modell together and the yellow and gray against brown fitted really good together.
That was a fun experience. 

I havnt glued the gun to the base. The reason is so I am able to use it as a terrain or objective piece in games.

All the gun is interchangeable and just snap-fit together. 

La saucisse

 
A friend printed me the sausage man for my Death Korps of Krieg collection.
I just love the miniatures, I think is hilarious.

Its inspired from the pictures bellow.
But apparently its not a colourised WW1 picture as I initially thought but rather it's from a French movie called "un long dimanche de fiançailles" by Jean Pierre Jeunet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OlX6W4sQic

Samaritan battlefield medical vehicle

 

I have now painted my Samaritan battlefield medical vehicle. An armoured ambulance.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Samaritan

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Samaritan



For work in progress pictures of the unpainted vehicle look at the previous post:
https://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2023/07/40k-samaritan-battlefield-medical.html

A large flag is attached on the radiomast.

As all the weapons are either magnetised or pinned I can change it around or as seen here, removed and replaced with optics. The unarmed version is meant to be used as objective in special scenarios.

But what really makes this model pop is the medicae servitor that takes care of the wounded...
Way to much time was spent to make this construction work but I love how it turned out.

Some picture from the inside of medical beds and observation monitors.

Fully extended it gives the medicae servitor a long reach.

Here we can see the Samaritan with some of the field medics attached to the regular squads.
The combination of the medics with the Samaritan will ensure that a long siege would be possible and less costly so the numbers game will ever be in the favour of the Imperial forces...

More pictures of the field medics can be found here:
https://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2023/07/death-korps-of-krieg-medicae-detachment.html

And at the end of the day you can pack it all up and the poor medicae servitor can get some rest at one of the beds...