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Hey Guys ive always like imperial guard but never really liked the emperor so i thought how about renegade guard? im making a blog so that you guys can keep me motivated to finish this army within a month or two so thanks and heres a photo of my veteran sergeants.

Im also starting to write up a background for these guys if you are interested the links in my sig


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Come on sixty views and no comments?

Unbelieveable, I am the first one to actually comment these two mini's? Great..

I've read the background, a bit sparse, but else a nice base to go further with afterwards. Flaggelant and Guard parts mixed up together always give nice end results for traitor guard, cultists and heretics alike, but the paintjob could be slightly better.

You've got my interest, now get on with building more! The Dark Gods demand it!

And the shall be appeased! im gonna port up some new pics tomorrow when theres light, i have about 20 guardsmen assembled atm but am waiting on my pig iron heads which should arrive sometime this week, im popping out tomorrow to get some hellhounds and devildogses so you should see them tomorrow as well.

for the paintjob im kind of stuck on what to use for a highlight, any suggestions or ideas anyone has would be great. Thanks



Edit: i have added some more to The Background it will be updated as i go i have about two pages so far and want to let it out slow so as to not make everyone wait as i write another 2 pages.

I think the problem with the paint job isn't the highlights, but more with brush control and paint thickness. The torso of the first pic is actually really well done as far as shading and definition, but you can see that some areas aren't well covered (you can see black through areas of the arm for example) and there is paint from other areas splattered on it (like where the scythe meets the arm.) Overall, fairly good job, I like the models, just work on cleaning it up a bit and this army will look really good!

Agreed. You know what to do and how to do it; you just need to be a little more careful so we can see your full potential.

Thanks guys your right i do need to be more careful with my painting i just really wanted to get these out on the table im going over the other ones as we speak and finished a tank and a model today here it is

Heres promised pics of some more that are done with my camera it seems to pick up really light shades of grey that arent there, especiall of my tank not sure whats wrong but im a novice to miniature pictures so bear with me.

Our Dark Gods have been appeased... for now...
still, they require more! MORE!!!
hahahaha I'll be watching this with lots of interest (maybe "borrow" a few ideas for my own chaos army)

ShadowAngel159 wrote:Our Dark Gods have been appeased... for now...
still, they require more! MORE!!!
hahahaha I'll be watching this with lots of interest (maybe "borrow" a few ideas for my own chaos army)

whats this? THERE IS A THIEF IN OUT MIDST HUNT HIM DOWN

You DARE threaten ME?! I am the Herald of the Black Dawn! Show some respect to your superiors or I will have you flayed apart by my very hungry flesh hounds!

hahahhaha okay, now that my chaos ranting is over...
what set did the scythe from your first mini come with? also, do you think mixing up tau firewarriors pieces could work with guardsmen? I want to try it out sometime, give them a scavenged armor look for my renegades

Avoid the temptation to rush out the paint jobs. It’s worth the extra few months of work, to have an army that you will ogle for decades to come. The only thing that feels better then stomping a bunch of space marines, is looking damn good while you do it, well looting the corpses feels pretty good too. BTW does anyone Know some CSM that would like to buy some gene seeds?

ShadowAngel159 wrote:You DARE threaten ME?! I am the Herald of the Black Dawn! Show some respect to your superiors or I will have you flayed apart by my very hungry flesh hounds!

hahahhaha okay, now that my chaos ranting is over...
what set did the scythe from your first mini come with? also, do you think mixing up tau firewarriors pieces could work with guardsmen? I want to try it out sometime, give them a scavenged armor look for my renegades

Very hungry flesh hounds? isnt that a board game?

i got the rediculously awesome and unnneccesary scythe from the empire flaggelents box set they work really well with imperial guard if you want a ragged look, i bought a box of guard and a box of flaggelants and thats enought to make twenty guardsmen BUT you will need ten other circular bases or it wont work.

@meatshield i definately am going to concentrate more on quality rather than speed but please not that this is my first experiance with humans and have only painted three of them at that so im sure that ill get a lot better


EDIT: horrible occurance today! i went down to my flgs to pick up a hellhound and devil dog BUT THEY WERE CLOSED!?!?!? i feel pretty stupid as this is the exact same thing that happened to me yesterday...i really need to check theyre business hours sometime.

Have you tried that army painter... thing? paint on the base paints, dip it in some wash/varnish/whatever that can holds and let it dry? A friend of mine painted his guard army that way, and they look stunning!

FerrumIgnatus wrote:Have you tried that army painter... thing? paint on the base paints, dip it in some wash/varnish/whatever that can holds and let it dry? A friend of mine painted his guard army that way, and they look stunning!

Thanks ferrum ill have to check them out alothough im not sure if they have them in asutralia.

Still waiting on bases and pigiron heads to arrive, went down to games workshop to order in stormies, i think the redshirt tried to sell me three other things XD so ill have to go back there next week sometime to pick them up but

I may be the only one noticing this but aren't renegades supposed to have taken the eagles off the vehikles and such?
Or is someone gonna tell me I spent enourmous amounts of time on nothing?

Anyway, looking good. As always the heads really make the models.
But? Isn't that scythe arm way too thin for the model, well not on the foto, but IRL with the Catachan arms, not sure.

Good luck.

maart3n wrote:I may be the only one noticing this but aren't renegades supposed to have taken the eagles off the vehikles and such?
Or is someone gonna tell me I spent enourmous amounts of time on nothing?

Anyway, looking good. As always the heads really make the models.
But? Isn't that scythe arm way too thin for the model, well not on the foto, but IRL with the Catachan arms, not sure.

Good luck.

thanks for the luck, ill use it well. With the eagles in the photos its hard to tell but i have damaged them quite a bit to make it look like they have been forcibly removed, for example on one of the sponsons for my russ its hanging diagnol and half of the wing is broken off, let me know if you guys like it or if i should just remove them completely in the future. Thanks

in that second group of pictures they sure look like a bunch of thieving [see forum posting rules] to me

Oh my God!!! The first guy with the spiked head looks vicious!!

Why thank you thats exactly what i was aiming for =D

My Pig Iron heads have arrived! im undercoating the guards men after i write this and so you should see some more pics sometime today or tomorrow, Thanks!

Awesome. Can't wait for the pics.

New Update! These are some pics of my new Hellhound all assembled and with a VERY rough paint scheme, it still needs to be washed, tidied up, highlighted and other details need to be put on, i just wanted to see what you guys thought. Thanks

looks very good

For the photographs theres a good article here on Dakka fiddle about with the setting some and it'll improve.With the tanks I'd recommend trying to undercoat them first as I can still see gray plastic on the vehicle. Do you use a sparay undercoat on these by the way if not I would suggest that as a good first step.

nah i did undercoat em with spray its just codex gray looks like plastic in these photos, ill have a look at that article llama thanks.