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I've been reading the book flesh and iron and am inspired to make a riverine platoon in my guard mercenary army. This is a blog about my creations and ideas for them, here is my stormtrooper sgt Marcos. Fen hammer in hand hes still a wip so comment please.5 months into this hobby and I'm neck deep on projects. More work to be had!

Nice to see this, I'm doing a similar army, based on Flesh And Iron. Only mines are Ousians, not Ouisivians. You should check my blog out.

The first model is looking great

My starting of a commando with my custom hotshot las gun. The hotshot is rigged to the backpack and has a special muzzle end to increase the shots piercing damage.

I realized that I have until Thursday to finish at least making these commandos because of a tunnel fight game I will be trying with a friend of mine. I have 2 done and I need 7 more. The commandos are equip with Flayer mkIV hotshot las guns and are the veterans of the Riverine campaigns.

You're stuff's looking great. I'm surprised I'm the only one subscribed to this thread...

Hot shots are looking impressive for swamp bases I recommend PVA glue water effect, milliput and paint brush bristle reeds....

More updates from todays work and my progress.

As the cool dew settled, the swift motion of a hand beconed from the jungle, motioning to the other figures within the wood to move. A small group of figures sprang from the bushes, hotshot las guns poised to take the life from those who would oppose the Imperium. Though only men, they were different, burley and hunkered down with muscles, they began their sweep of the small village ahead of them. Their faces covered in beards laden with grease and covered in sweat from days marching through the forsaken jungle from wince they came. The man in front of the group of troopers was larger then the rest, carrying a fen hammer and nothing more, he carried himself differently them the rest, stronger and a lot older. With him were also older troopers, carrying scars from wars long ago and from wars fought in sectors far away. They carried with them hotshots that were bartered from the quartermaster before deployment as they knew that it was necessary in these battles.

The troop advanced with speed towards the small and humble village that lay before them in an open section of the jungle. The terrain was wide and barren due to the constant hammering of the 508th's artillery companies basilisks. With it it made the land a literal no mans land, the ground strewn with debris and the remains of both guardsmen and heretic alike. There in the village a man stood on the edge of town, carrying an unmistakable banner, one of chaos. The man was soon raising his mutated arm and screaming in inhumanly tones as a hoard of other heretics rallied to his cause. Many poured out of the village showing off the mutation that plagued them with pride as they boasted simple weapons and old and miserable excuses for Autoguns. With their moral boosted by their numbers they charged out fo the town into the wasted grounds towards the small group of commandos heading towards them. As they vaulted over a low set of walls that were crudely constructed they began to realize that these commandos were no alone, but the vanguard of a much larger force, one intended to take this village at all costs.

The first shell rang out across the wasteland and as it sailed towards the rebels it screamed towards them with a vengeful wail. The massive explosion was followed by many more like it, one after another they fell from the sky by from the emperors artillery nestled far in the overgrowth. Four squads came sprinting out behind the commandos, clad in imperial armor and lead by men of the ecclesiarchy, they ran with fervor, their fire was zealous as was that of their leaders who wore nothing more then robes and carried mighty chainswords. The heretics in the head of the assault were stricken down by the might of imperial skill. Sgt. Thorpe, a veteran of 11 years shot his shotgun in all directions pummeling those who would cross paths with him as his men battled the others with their las and autoguns. As the two armies hit on another, the heretics were already half obliterated and their courage was waning.

The commandos were the first to make it into close quarters with their enemies, with fen hammer in hand Veteran Sgt. Marcos broke the skull of a plagued looking individual with a bludgeon. Another came at him from a slit of open shell holes with a large axe, but was quickly put down with the quick throw of a knife from a fellow commando. Soon more came upon him with hate and rage from their false gods, as Marcos turned to engage he saw a large and plagued beast, no more that of a simple ogryn, but that of a mutated servant of nurgle. With a swift swing of the massive hammer he felled more of the heretics, but had his eye set on taking the ogryn. Marcos vaulted over a rebel and hammered another away from him as he rushed towards the massive rotting beast. It turned towards him, its one large and yellow eye staring with a vicious intent, its mouth from one ear to the other shown a slobbering and hideous grin full of yellow teeth covered in rotting flesh from an imperial citizen. Marcos brought down his hammer into the chest of the putrid beast, with the impact the bones of the beast were broken and bile and pus began to spew in all directions from its mouth and open green sores on its body. It swung violently with a large tree branch that it had salvaged, it swung with on regard for its own.

The swings were unrelenting and missed wile taking other heretics with its untrained blows. Marcos took a hit to his back, putting him to the ground with his face deep in the mud. As he regained his footing he ducked under a swing and jumped on the beast with a knife he had made when he was first shown the process of hunting from his father. He landed upon the creatures back and dug the knife deep into the throat of the beast. It swung rapidly with its arms trying to dislodge its assailant from its back, but was put down with the mighty shot of a bolt pistol from Marcos. as the creature fell the remaining militia retreated, nothing more they could do against the imperial forces they split and fled into the jungle.

Marcos stood up covered in green mucus and bile from the giant beast and looked around, imperial casualties, as far as he could see were minimal. He gave the motion to his men to rally on him, Thorpe and his men joining on the position as well as the rest of the platoon cleaned up the dead and executed the dying heretics. As Marcos took out a stick of tabak, he handed one to Thorpe and said, "This is just the beginning, cant wait to see what the next village will bring."

"Hopefully it doesn't smell so fragging bad, wish i could put a few manstoppers in that load of guts." Replied Thorpe.

To be continued...
Hop everyone enjoys reading this and people follow because i have plans for this blog. Painting will begin tomorrow and the rest of the storm troopers will be made as well.

Love the beards. Great way to make unique guard. Makes me want to start a new army based on that theme.

O and i forgot to mention those catachans are actually part of the Riverine i decided, need a little unity with my troops.

My first commando has come fresh off the painting stand and is able to be seen.

Great start I specially like how each solider has there own name and character about them.
If I could suggest one thing I would say 'ghillie suits' nothing say riverine commando/sniper more than 'ghillie suits'

Ill put up a few photo's that I found on the Internet to give you a good idea of what I mean, I think your army would look epic and really fit the part with a sniper team of these guys.

Second commando is done after a lot of repainting and some detail work. Carries a mk IV Stinger autogun.

They look great when painted, well done.

Got a few boxes of empire troops and put some archers together, why not I thought, my friends started their armies and mind as well now while I still an motivated to. Holy Roman Empire theme too. I'm still working on him though I'm at work now so when I get home ill work a little more.

Update on my empire stuff, its going well and I have a poll question. Holy Roman empire theme, or Irish army? What to do, you guys tell me.

Very nice man, your skill is improving quite steadily.

Commando 3 is done! 2 more to go! This one is Trooper Fralorn, a veteran of 23 years with a solid record, and a solid shot. Hes a long term veteran and a man of steel among his men. With his special hot shot, "Haphestus" he aims his shots with perfect acuracy even with the weapons limited range, he prefers a scope saying "Id rather have their head in my sights as i frag um."

i like your camo suites for the snipers. Nicely done.

The snipers aren't actually mine haha, someone posted that pic up for me to look at.

Some cool new stuff, mek. Keep it up.

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Now that I look at my messy work/ computer table I began to think, wow I'm not even close to being done with my list and when I look at my army after playing a tunnel fight today that me and my buddies were testing i also came to the realization that my army needs a lot more bodies to fill in the gaps. In the next forgeworld order i plan to get a large quantity of kreig guardsmen to do just that, more bodies. Thanks to a job I can do this, but here is some stuff, WIPs , old stuff and lots and lots of unfinished stuff that I haven't began to start.

Plans for the future from the thoughts of the forgeworld order to come, I'm giddy with excitement at the thought of having a kreig regiment. It will be awsome. Planning on having a kreig siege list by the end of the year.

Love the fralorn, and the sniper.

Yesterday i finished up the book, Flesh and Iron and was suprised at how much i enjoyed the book in comparison to Dead Men Walking which turned out to be a disappointing end after such a cool build up. The characters were well written in and the way the book went from story to story was excellent. Col. Baedar was indeed a bada** and i would not like to meet him in a dark alley. I will be making a model for him and continuing to renforce the riverine regiment as i go, may even make some carnibales fighters in the future, but with the forgeworld order in the future i dont have much time for them. With that being said a company of krieg will be my next project, heavy weapons and mortars will be filling my ranks. I plan on purchasing 40 krieg soldiers, and 10 grenadiers this is only because i dont know when me and my friends will be ordering again. Also if you get the chance, any of you readers, pick up Flesh and Iron and I hope you enjoy it as much as i did.

I started working on my priests and am going to be knee deep in green stuff this week. I also have reset my computer and changed up some stuff so i can work a little bit more efficiently.

Tzneech preacher is what I settled on to continue on my renegades that i put to the side so I aught to continue them.

Another update before bed... here it goes, Raven Rogue Primaris psyker and my preacher of change with a mutated face and a mutated leg. Evisceration and all.

Brilliant sculpting skills you're using

Update before work, I'm going to buy a mass of kreig and renegades because I have plans to have the kreig as salvaged gear for my renegades. Also plan on getting a malcador, still indecisive as far as the type but the defender is looking pretty cool. Also plan on getting some of those enplacement weapons aswell.