While I am working my way through my Helsmiths, I thought I would show you what I ahve done done so far for the Chaos Kharadron Overlords. So the overall theme I wanted as a Dieselpunk style, very industrial yet Chaos without the trim, skulls and spikes you will come to find with my Chaos Fyreslayers as well are okay!
Here was the original idea (Plus some Chaos looking symbols I was toying with using), I wanted to use the default miniatures as much as possible so players could at least know what they were being used as and not just another kit from a different range that I wanted to proxy etc.
The plan was to use a new MK3 helmet from the Horus Heresy range and just cut the eyes upwards off the helmet, and then flip the mouth plate upside down and add pipes for a sudo-beard look. I did try this in a sense but It felt to futuristic for my liking shown below:
I was not sold on this however so I saw some looking around and found the Death Korps of Kreig combat engineers had some very inductrial shoulder pads which were large enough to use shown below:
This looked much better for what I wanted, the rivets helped add much of that industry vibe I wanted.
The other thing I wanted to change was the pistols, they are shown as flintlock pistols which work with the default KO models but that is more steampunk and not dieselpunk. So the one pistol I think of when it comes to dieselpunk is the Mauser pistol, luckily the DKoK engineers have a pistol that looks simlar so I took that and replaced the barrel with ones from an AdMech rifle and created the below:
I do think the barrel is a little too detailed so may just replace it for a brass rod in time but its fine for now.
As for the leader of the squad I saw that they can have either a one BIG barrels pistol or a three barrelled pistol, so I though I would make a revolver styled pistol and run this as the three barrelled version. I used a revolver pistol from another AdMech kit and just cut down the revolving cylinder and it looks better suited:
Now let me show you the end product of these, the leader isnt painted so I just slapped a black and white filter over it but the regular privateer is painted in the style I want so you can get an idea of what I am going for:
(Leader above , Privateer below)
