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[Image] Gün Schwarm heavy infantry with new accent(s) Do you ever finish painting a figure(s), and then decide something was missing? I was feeling this way about the GW Kasrkin figures I had painted to serve as Gün Schwarm heavy infantry.  To my mind, those big shoulder plates needed a decal, so I rummaged around and found some WW2 Stalingrad decal sets from Battlefront, and applied them last night while the Jets got hammered by the damn New Jersey Devils.

[Image] Decals from Battlefront on the shoulder plates I selected a decal attributed to the "100th Jag." division - I have no detailed familiarity with the battle of Stalingrad, but I assume this was one of the German units that would ultimately find doom in that campaign. At this scale, the decal appears to be a little shield of some kind, with a small marking on it.  Not very elaborate or overdone.  Seemed to fit the Kasrkin shoulder plates well enough, so I popped them on.


[Image] "Will that be a decaf latte?" While digging out the decals, I found a nutty little GW bit - a "servo skull".  I cannot remember when - or why - I would have acquired something like this.  In general, I find the GW tendency to splash skulls all over absolutely everything to be quite tiresome, but I couldn't resist painting up this little accent piece. Loaded with what appears to be both advanced optics as well as a brace of grenades, the servo-skull could serve all sorts of niche roles on the tabletop.

[Image] Servo skull doing....something..... Nothing captures the grim esprit of the Warhammer 40k setting more than a "servo skull", as you try and ponder the thought process behind this - an Imperial officer approaches the tech adepts and says "hey, I found Phil's remains on the battlefield, and I was thinking that if you could just attach a couple bits to his skull here, I would have the perfect mobile docking station for my iPhone 400s..."

I'm going to try and find a purpose for this thing in tonight's game...either as a medical bot of some kind, a recon drone, or maybe the grim, far-future version of an embedded journalist...