Finished IG Grunts & other Imperial stuff

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**Ash 1**

**Broadside**

Question. Backpacks, Where did you get them? (the picture right above the last) Very nice paint job too.

**Flinty**

There sure is a lot of awesome there! I love the sapper

**Maniac_nmt**

Nice stuff there.

I particularly like the officer in the first, the guy kneeling with the goggles, the boonie hat, and the ghillie cloak at the end.

**A Black Ram**

It's so hard to choose the best!

**MadMaverick76**

Wow, I like all. Did you paint them in a Multicam Camo Scheme? If so, you just got +15 Bad Assness!

**Joske De Veteraan**

Wow i love the personality in your models

**Fire_for_effect**

Your models are beyond awesome! Please continue posting stuff

**Ash 1**

Thanks for all the feedback comments.

@ Broadside : Backpack are (L-R) Vox from Catachan Command sprue, Cadian pack from FW upgrade pack, Medics pack from Cadian Command sprue.

@ MadMaverick76 : Cheers, it was an attempt at a Multicam/MTP feel. Done about four squads with this pattern and so far each one has turned out slightly different.

Previous effort was a take on three colour desert, the pictures came out a bit muted :

**shingouki**

some of the best guard ive seen in a long time.the camo is nice too.

**Broadside**

Err.... FW stuff is kinda pricey. =/

**Ash 1**

Broadside wrote:Err.... FW stuff is kinda pricey. =/

That sums up the whole hobby!

You can often find individual components from 'bits' sellers on eBay. Saves buying the whole kit.

**kenshin620**

Wow looking very cool. Still basic cadian but all those extra tibits added on makes it quite characterful

**MadMaverick76**

That one custom commissar in the second to last photo on the right looks great! Did you GS his coat?

**Scrazza**

Those models look ace. Great job, theres a lot of individualty.

**Theofilos**

Pretty great job there! I really liked the whole feeling/painting/posing of the models.

**Ash 1**

@ MadMaverick : The coat is indeed GS. It was a first attempt at using it for something other than as a gap filler.

Get a better idea of what the colours should look like in this snap as I used a flash.

**alarmingrick**

And i thought it couldn't get better than your tanks!
Holy cow, you have some impressive looking work!

**Ruglud**

@Ash 1 - Totally gorgeous IG here. Would love to see some WIP on these, especially the desert scheme. Any chance of putting a tutorial together?

**Jordankeeps**

loving the snipers, looks great what you did with the cloaks!

**Ash 1**

Thanks for all the kind comments, I've had a delve into my old photobucket and found some of my early IG,
some of these were done a long time ago but I redid the bases a couple of years ago to make them blend in a bit:

All my Commissars:

**SilverMK2**

As with your tanks, rather excellent work

I particularly like the round flame tank on the heavy flamer trooper.

**WhiteWolf01**

Mmmm...gritty

**Double tech5**

Amazing models. By the way on the picture of all your commissars, the 2nd to left is it GW?

**Ash 1**

@ Double tech5 : He's an old Citadel Commissar, late '80's.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2039impguard-h.htm

(top row, far right)

This was the last unit I did:

I know the transports non Codex, but the IG had Speeders back in Rogue Trader so why not.

Comparison shot of different camo attempts. (L - R USAF Tiger stripes; DPM smock over OG lightweights ['1980's Brit]; Multicam) That was the idea anyway . . . .

**HelSinG**

Great work. lots of character in them

**worldwarme**

Oh I am so freakin' inspired right now. Love the speeder!
Want want want!

**DODcrazy**

Noooooo not multicam; should have gone with MARPAT!

Either way great job, the fact that it's easily distinguishable as multicam is the amazing part. I really like how you value the low-profileness of IG fluff, whenever I see those flashy bright colored regiments I want to smash their models and hit them in the face for it.

**Ash 1**

DODcrazy wrote:Noooooo not multicam; should have gone with MARPAT!

Either way great job, the fact that it's easily distinguishable as multicam is the amazing part. I really like how you value the low-profileness of IG fluff, whenever I see those flashy bright colored regiments I want to smash their models and hit them in the face for it.

Damn, just nearly sprayed coffe over my keyboard! LMAO
Cheers for that mate.

I thought about having a go at MARPAT (desert version) on the previous IG platoons, went with the three colour pattern instead as it was a lot simpler.

Added a bit more green to the Multicam effort to try to make it look more like Brit MTP.

And just to really freak you out here's an old pic of some of my earliest IG - suffer!

These guys spent over a decade forgotten about in a storage unit - thinking about repainting them (got approx platoon of 40 blokes)

**Knightley**

Really liking the models, they all seem to have quite a bit of character about them, nicely done.

Really digging the weathering on the Landspeeder storm conversion you did, looks awesome!