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Ok, so I'm going for a pre-heresy theme; essentially renaissance europe circa 40'000AD.

Lots of fun ideas, lots of converted units, lots of lovely Vostroyans as Vets. This one will come on slowly, but should flourish into a cool-looking army.
On with the pics!!


Here's the CCS Vets - over time this will become a Plasma-heavy CCS with Astropath - Maybe also a MoO.


Vet Squad One - this will flourish into a MeltaVet Squad in a 'detta.


I just finished GSing this guy. Vet with HF.


Here's a Commisar. Lord knows if I'll actually play him. Odds are I won't. Love his paint though.


Speaking of not getting played; here's my old Ratlings! These guys were awesome last edition. I much prefer these models to the new ones.


Hydra Autocannons? What do you think? I'm going for a fulltrack Gepard look, or more specifically, the British T-55 Marksman. I'm planning on elongating the barrels with plastic pipe, then somehow attaching them to the mount. I'll need to cast those mounts too.


Here's the first Chimera. Due to me gluing in the HB last edition, this will now be used for my PBS, who are still to come.


Penal Legion. These will be a wildcard to confuse my opponent. An outflanking mini-tarpit for 80 points is a winner IMO. Well, if you get the roll... These guys are Cadian Infantry and WHFB Empire Pistolliers. They have more GS since this pic, the Custodians horn looks better than it does here. These guys could be used for a regular Infantry Platoon when I make more...


With any luck these are the guys that brought you here. These models are hellish to paint! I'm not a great painter, and there is sooo much detail on these models, they put GW to shame! As you can see, they share colour with the vehicles, I thought that would be a nice idea.

"Wait, what happened to rest of the stuff from those Pistolliers?"


Here's a sneak peek of my next big project...

I really like them i just think that the sergeants should have the big hats other wise there is a bit of a gap between infantry and the rest of the army.

Thanks Loken! Yeah I toyed with the idea, and I'm slowly forming some fluff.
The way I see it, regular infantry need to earn the bearskin that marks them out as a Veteran or an officer. So even the infantry sergeants, although decorated with that awesome feather, remain without the bearskin.

The Ogryns and Rough Riders will all have them, marking them as comissioned officers into those specialised divisions.

The great thing about the Imperial Army is that there is no standardisation and that of course means you can go nuts! And that's what I love seeing and I'm seeing a lot of what I love here.

Colours are a tad bright for my taste but that's my problem and not yours.

Thanks infilTRAITOR, good feedback makes me smile.

Yeah the bright tunics are kind of a hallmark of what I wanted to do with this army. Almost Napoleonic in intention.

Updates tonight probably...

Tek wrote:Thanks infilTRAITOR, good feedback makes me smile.

Yeah the bright tunics are kind of a hallmark of what I wanted to do with this army. Almost Napoleonic in intention.

That was the first thing I thought about when I saw the commissar lol
Actually, I think thats a pretty cool idea and that it fits the pre-heresy style. More pomp than grimdark.

Looking forward to more. I for one really enjoy the brightness.
I think the autocannons are ace btw. Looks kinda like the Gepard AA tank turret.

Excellent stuff. I can't help but feel the penal troops would look better as conscripts though as they share the same sort of feel as your veterans. Looking forward to seeing how this pans out