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So it’s been a while since I posted a hobby streak video, but rest assured that I’ve been continuing to hobby. Painting minis in the morning before work is the best part of my day. I’ve been struggling a little bit with what to paint, and even went so far as to strip some models and repaint them. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

The first models that I want to showcase are these from the Batman Miniatures Game. I will 100% acknowledge that every sculpt in this game is spot on beautiful, but I am so bad at painting them. I struggled with Marvel Crisis Protocol, too, and I think it’s just that I have a hard time recreating the comic book aesthetic. The colors in comics are so saturated and have heavy black and white lines and shading, and it’s hard to translate that to a mini (or at least, it’s hard for me.)

The other problem with the Batman Minatures Game is that these models are 1) fiddly, and 2) resin. So they’re hard to put together as it is (they come in many, many parts, and there are zero instructions on how you’re supposed to put them together other than staring at the box art), and then you add to that that you’re needing to use superglue to put them together, which has some good qualities but gluing one tiny thing to another tiny thing is not one of them.

Even so, I managed to put together all of the cops, including the big guy up front whose name escapes me, but I love the model of him holding a donut and a cup of coffee. He even has a special rule where he can plant evidence, so I like him.

I don’t have much to say about the other cops except that they’re painted in a very quick and easy manner, trying to keep that vibrant blue and not dirty it up too much with washes.

The next thing that I painted were the aforementioned stripped minis. When Kill Team Octarius came out I knew I needed the Death Korps of Krieg, and as a matter of fact I did paint them and I liked them, and I made up lore that they were the scouts for my Rock Badgers Space Marine homebrew chapter.

But I wanted to paint them again, because I had a new idea cooking in my head: now that they’re releasing the individual boxes of Veteran Guardsmen (I do not understand why they don’t call them Death Korps of Krieg) I started hearing the siren song of “New Year New Army.”

Now, I had planned on starting a new Space Marines army this year, because danged if I don’t love some Space Marines, but I thought that maybe I should look elsewhere in the Imperium. Maybe I should make a Krieg army. So I stripped the models.

This first picture is the test colors, giving them red greatcoats. You will see in a moment that I didn’t like this and moved to a more traditional color scheme.

So now I painted the rest of the Death Korps of Krieg unit (I still have to go back and repaint those red ones), so I’ve got eight in a good-looking color scheme that I’m happy with. They’re not as dark as the first time I painted them, and I like to think that I’ve gotten better with a brush in the last six months, but they’re no Golden Daemon winners.

Still, I like them a lot, and I’ve already got a new box sitting next to my desk, and I have something special planned for them–a little diorama of sorts (but something that will still allow them to be moved and played with.) You’ll be seeing a lot more of that in upcoming hobby streak videos.

So now it’s time for the big thing. Wanting to start a Death Korps of Krieg army but knowing they don’t have a lot of units (that aren’t resin) other than the Veteran Guardsmen, my mind turned to vehicles. And, because I had never painted one before, my mind turned to the Baneblade.

The decision of which variant to make the Baneblade was made kind of spur-of-the-moment. I texted all the pictures to my dad, who is an armchair historian with a love of tanks, and asked which he preferred. He recommended the Shadowsword or the Banesword–he likes big guns. Lookiing over the stats, I found that I liked the Shadowsword more, and seeing as how all of my armies are Rule of Cool and not chasing the meta, I dove in.

(I will be writing an article in much more detail this weekend about the pros and cons of each Baneblade variant.)

This is not the finished product. This is the best angle of the current work in progress, but there’s still a lot of highlighting to do (so many rivets) and you’ll notice that some of the heavy bolters and treads aren’t painted yet, and there’s much more detail I want to add. In my haste to weather it (this thing got several rounds of drybrushing, Agrax Earthshade, and Tamiya Black Panel Liner) I fear I may have overdone it a bit, but I think it’s coming together pretty nicely overall.

Anyway, that’s my hobby streak this week. How did you do? Leave a comment below!