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I recently got back into Warhammer 40k and decided on doing Imperial Guard and Space Marines. I'm starting with Imperial Guard and want to get at least 1000 points worth painted before I move on to Space Marines. I'm only doing basic tabletop quality on all models except characters/HQ's. So no highlights on random Guardsman.


Here's what I have finished so far:



My Company Commander:




He's important because he's standing on something I guess.

The new plastic Enginseer:



Plasma Veteran Squad:



Melta Veteran Squad:



Sergeant:


And here's what's next:

Hey, those Guardsmen look pretty good. I'll watch this thread for sure!

Excellent Guard you've got there.

Looking good. Much better than what I consider tabletop standard.

Looking forward to seeing more.

EDC

Awesome looking Cadians man! Very crisp and characterful. I particularly like your Company Commander! Very cool stuff and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff soon. As a Guard player, I always enjoy seeing more guard posted up. Keep painting & show us your Tanks once they're painted up.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

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My Company Commander:
He's important because he's standing on something I guess.

Yep, you get how 40k works! The bigger your Tactical Rock, the more important you are for sure!

Splendid paintwork, and welcome to Dakka! I look forward to seeing more.

Forgot to post a picture of my Tank Commander:






WIP Pic of my Chimeras:

Nice work so far. Subscribed.

A few pics of my Tech-Priest Dominus for my Admech army:






Next to a regular Tech-priest/Enginseer:

Cracking work on the Dominus.

Got some reinforcements. I bought some of these used and stripped the paint off.

Two more Plasma Gun Squads. Which brings me up to 3 total:


Another Meltagun Squad. Which gives me to 2 to work with:


A couple Commissars:


And a few Sentinels with 3 more on the way for one of the new new formations in the Mont'ka campaign book:



I really like using Veteran Squads in Chimeras so that's the theme I'm going with. I'm also working on the new Archaon model for a friend so there might not be a lot of updates for a while. And I just noticed one of the sentinels antenna is broke.

I love that new techmarine. Subscibed for sure!

Finished up a few tanks, minus some minor details such as writing "Cadia" on the sides of the Chimeras. They need something else though, not really sure what. Anyway, the one with the antenna will be my Command Squad's Chimera. I am going for a very simple tabletop standard Guard army so maybe I should leave them like this.








Next up is the rest of the Command Squad

Everything looks great, I do reckon though some quick highlights would go a long way though.

I would say highlighting as trephines mention, but also maybe some weathering. Soot around the mufflers etc, rust, mud, paint being burned away from bounced shots etc.

I like the idea of adding some weathering, I'll probably try that.

Painting Pedro Kantor

A few WIP Pics of Pedro Kantor:

Finished most of the basecoats and washes. Not sure what color eyes I'm going to do. I was thinking green because there's already plenty of red on the model.

A few more WIP pics of Pedro Kantor:

Pedro's looking pretty nice!

He's looking really nice! Great model done justice!

Finished my Command Squad:








Next up for my Guard is that unit of Sentinels in the background.

So I changed my mind about Crimson Fists. I just can't seem to decide on which chapter tactics I like the best so I'm doing Blood Ravens instead. I guess they don't belong to a specific chapter so I'm going to choose which tactics I want to use each game. Here's a WIP of my "Raven Guard" Captain. I used the backpack from the new Blood Angels Chaplain.




Next up is a Captain on bike which will be used as a White Scars Captain.

Finished up my "Raven Guard" Captain. And yes, that says "Cena" as in John Cena on his shoulder pad. It's a bit of a joke at my local GW. I'm working on getting some Blood Ravens transfers for shoulder pads/vehicles.








A few WIP pics of my Bike Captain:

Here's some more WIP pics of my Bike Captain. I didn't like the banner so I cut it off.

Blood Ravens are looking awesome. The BA chappy backpack looks great on your Captain.

EDC

Thanks!

Here's the Bike Captain finished:

Nice! Love the cream/ off white, really clean looking.

Good stuff, really like the Ravens!

Thanks guys! I just ordered some bits for a Captain on foot, so I'll be working on him next week. For now I have a few bike squads I'm working on. I could use some help with creating my Chapter Master. I'm very new to Space Marines so I don't really know which kits come with the bits I would need. What bits would you recommend using to create a model that resembles this:

Love your painting skills! And your converted assault captain looks great!