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Well after seeing ph34r great coat guard models on here, I decided i must have my own, and what better time to start IG when the new book is coming out so soon? I have a month to get this army into playing state. I have 3 more and the coats took me about 2 hours for 4 models...hopefully as my green stuff skill improves so will my time management skills. This is the first serious project I have undertaken with green stuff, so excuse the somewhat bulky coats and some rough spots.

Credit for this idea goes directly from the man I stole it from on dakka: ph34r

Test model with paint coming soon.

Sorry about the double post, but here's a quick update before i go to bed of a test model along with the 3 others I mentioned earlier.

Damnit! Stop taunting me with those awesome pig iron militia heads!!! the miniatures you made looks really good, do the pig iron heads fit onto the torso well or do you have to do filing and cutting down on his body?

Im diggin the great coats, but just a littl opion from how I made my greatcoat guard, use the Men-at-arms if you can. they still make a mean looking cuarg, and greenstuffing isnt a real need. But if money is tight and you have the GS Id say make the coats a little thinner. they look alittle thick to me atm but they still kick ass.

Yeah, besides looking a little "skirty," they're a great substitution for Steel Legion! I'm sure you'll get better with the pattern as you do more of them. Good luck!

Thanks for your replies.

@ thekingofdinner: they fit well if you file down the heads properly, no body work required.

@Zaku I: I considered men at arms, but yes buying two kits (or even the bodies off of ebay) would cost way too much. And yes I do have a ton of GS lying around anyway. The look also wasn't exactly what I was going for either. I'd like to see some pictures of your guard though.

More tomorrow hopefully, but now off to bed.

Well my good sir, all you have to do is send me a note Or look about my profile. (I think theres a gallery thing in there....

Best skirt wearing guard I've seen in a long time!

Looks pretty good. I would focus on smoothing out the coats, reducing the "poof" of the coat at the hips, and making the edges and corners of the coat more sharp. It will be cool to see more of this army get painted up, keep posting pics!

Brilliant job I'm impressed.

Look good though I would say trim the area the gs goes over to make it thinner and maybe flatten it more? Make it look more like cloth

Update time. Here's the rest of the squad. I think my greenstuffing has improved in a short time (less bulky coats). Tell me what you think!

The guy to the far right in the first pics longcoat seems a little bulky, but the rest are looking ace especially the vox caster. The pose on the seregeant is also pretty neat, might i suggest you try and grab the pistol holster bit off a sm/csm and attach it to him.

not really a fan of leaving the coats open. but then again its a pain to close it up without losing detail and then going back in and not stertching it. yeah that did the same thing with my chaosified guard if......

the good thing about closing the coats is that it hides the bulkiness with some sculpting, if its not bulky to begin with.

their good but i rekon put some coat over the flak armor

There looking nice

The painted one, i hope, shows the finished product, if so, I can't wait to see the squad as a whole it will be totally awesome.


A Humble tech Priest

these are cool. i'd love to do this if i had them money

The coats seem to stick out too much from under the belt. I'm sure it'll look better painted, but right now they look like they just stepped out of the sauna.

Heres a update as I resurrect this thread.

I've done some work on 20 more of them. I've improved on the technique since I started. Also a some shotguns I built for my vets.

i like it. way less bulky. is there a secret to your technique or does it just take practice?

Very nice. Im looking forward to see a complete painted squad.
Would you share us your experiences or technique so far?

Well the secret is to completely shave off the shorter skirts which the cadians wear so your longer ones aren't so bulky. I've found that you also have to flatten out the green stuff to about two paper thicknesses to get the desired result.

I have a squad painted, I'll see if I can get it up later tonight.

When am i gonna get a chance to face these in combat?

thekingofdinner wrote:Damnit! Stop taunting me with those awesome pig iron militia heads!!!

DITTO!!!

I having been toying with the idea of doing a couple of platoons of IG for inducted guard for my WH army, and these are calling me very very loudly...

I had been holding off because i had convinced myself I don't like any of the IG models enough to commit, but these are far superior to stock models.

Then I'll need some sentinels, a Russ and of course a Baneblade for Apoc games...

Awesome converstion work! Sometimes it's the little things that make your army stand out and memorable.

Those are magnificent... if I don't end up buying some third party models I'd do this with mine. Thanks for the inspiration.