My third Sqd complete and a heavy weapons team what do you think???

They look pretty cool

In Soviet Imperial Guard, Models build you!

Love those Ak-47's they got. They look great man.

I really like the idea behind the army, although you might want to push the Soviet angle a little stronger. Perhaps a red star on the shoulderpads? Right now the regular troopers just look like the pretty standard Cadian/Pig Iron head combo, aside from their pretty rad AK-47s.

Nice Spetznaz veterans too. This actually looks good so far.

Really nice. How did you accomplish the bases? is it a molded plastic card of the top?

looking good, but I agree to push the russian idea a little further. Also you may want to clean up the lower part of the bases that you have painted black as they are atm with some of the grey on them.

Love them, especially the Guardsman taking a sneaky swig from his hip-flask. Just wondering though, what do the blue berets mean? Are they Veterans or some other sort of elite troop?

They look awesome .

Looking good. Love the AK variant on the lasgun.

Those AK's rock. Even though alot of people use the Pig Iron heads I still think they look great for IG.

hey thanks all for the comments. yeah still have to clean the bases i known. Did soviet troops run around with red stars on the there shoulders in real life?? not likerly . The blue berets are airborne marines there my veterans packing ak74 with GLA. the bases are from forgecraft.

Valkyrie wrote:Love them, especially the Guardsman taking a sneaky swig from his hip-flask. Just wondering though, what do the blue berets mean? Are they Veterans or some other sort of elite troop?

The blue berets designate that they're Spetsnaz (Or... Vets. I guess.)

I agree that they need more Soviet-ification, though they look prime nonetheless. Just popping a Red star on one shoulder, or painting one Shoulderpad red and freehanding some communist-esque symbol in yellow would work good too

If I might make a request: A Senior Officer with a Fur Hat

Yeah, I second this and put the soviet logo on a few pieces.

And a Something is wrong with this guy hat will help alot too. But you got a great start!

Hammer and Sickle for the win!

Sky blue — Russian Airborne Troops (VDV)
Black — Marines, Special Militia Units (OMON)
Dark green — Special Units of FSB Border Troops
Rust red — Special Units of Interior Ministry Troops (MVD) — there is a special exam for wearing this beret
Orange — Search and Rescue and Emergency Ministry troops (EMERCOM)
Cornflower blue — Federal Protection Service (FSO)
Camouflage — non-regulation, but often seen at the Red Square parades

Now you just need an opponent making some Wolverines! themed Orks.

Lol i did watch red dwan for some insperation, theres also i good rusiian movie called 9th company. Im awaiting my tanks and artillery from FW cant wait hopefully there here by next week

that is one beastly looking army

Looking good! Any thoughts about making a Comissar for the unit? NKVD/KGB badge maybe? You must ensure that the officer in charge makes "politically correct" decisions.

Pretty nice, but you might want to have some squads of valhallans in their- now they are soviet!

the models look great! The Fritz helm looks a bit off with "soviets" but that is a minor complaint, and only something you notice when looking closely.

Where did you get the Ak74s?

Have a commissar made up with a head swap bit of dremeling and walaa, As for valhallans probly wont as all my troops are in NBC gear and valhallans look to ww2 and very cliche' i want different. The ak's are from the assault group. Will be doing ratlings with ghillie suits and SVD's


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you might want to turn the commisar's head to look where the gun is pointing.

Thanks for letting me know where the AKs came from, I wondered how well the TAG guns would work with IG.

yeah someone else has suggested that. but i picture him with the gun to someones head whilst addressing is men on the evils of failure

If you look in the picture of the Command Squad, because you have taken the heads off, it looks like the Commisar's shot the vox-operator.

The OC-D

Lol it illistrates the theme well then. the command sqd is awaiting dremeling and there new heads. they will serve as my company command

Just about finshed my last inf sqd and the 2 command sqds

The infantry look great with those Pig Iron heads. The AK variant lasguns are a nice touch. Great work.

Very nice, and unique looking. Well done.

AWESOME!!!!

well just recieved my airbrush and compressor in the mail so some air brushed super hvy and FW goodness will follow

Heres some WIP FW masterclass shadowsword 20% done

I'm not sure how experienced you are with an airbrush, but if you don't mask off areas then you can get a smooth blend on the edges of your camo with no effort at all- the airbrush does it naturally. This gives it (IMO) a more natural camo scheme.
Anyway; the weathering on the WiP Shadowsword is looking very effective- keep it up!

I have 0 exp with an airbrush. Just following the FW masterclass book and they said to mask so i did.

Try it out on a piece of card or something- the paint splatter produces a fantastic effect. If you like it; great- glad to help, if not; ah well at least you didn't waste a model!

they look good.

Where did you get those bases?

Thanks for the advice mate will try it out. The bases are from a company called forge craft 25 for $13 or so bucks. pretty sweet deal.

Did I mention how cool the heavy weapon team is with the guy drinking from his canteen? Freaking looks great, lex. Love the AKs too, I love that gun.

Thanks alot, killing capitalists made him thirsty.

Looks awesome. Great work on the chamo color scheme.

The camo is all fantastic, but the lenses seem a little flat.

Lextheimpaler wrote:I have 0 exp with an airbrush. Just following the FW masterclass book and they said to mask so i did.

Nah. You've got the right idea, just maybe a bit clunky execution.

It LOOKS like you're using fairly thick and wide masking tape, but I can't really tell. If so--a smaller tape might help out quite a bit and allow for more intricate designs. There's also liquid mask(Abteilung makes one, there's a bunch though. www.squadron.com has stuff like that, which isn't generally found on most wargaming retailer sites.)

The other thing to remember is that, if you need to, you can just remask the camo areas and then put on a fresh coat of the original color of the tank to tidy it up.

Haha! Nice work mate, the only criticism: The commisar's head..idk about you but i'd be looking towards my enemies while shooting them..but then again, maybe he's too cool for that nice work!!

Lol his not shooting the enemy though lol his shooting his own men whilst chastizing the remainer on the cons of cowardice

Nice IG Ak-47s look great with the heads. Although the lenses look a bit flat.

yeah im thinking maybe putting some gloss on to them IRL they dont look as flat though

Heres an update
Marbo in all his beefcake goodness



Platoon Command and Lord Commissar

All the soviet goodness

Nice, I suggest you put some brown around the rim of the Heavy Weapons team bases.

Love the fact that in the pic the commissar is pointing his gun at the platoon sergeant. So very russian.

Great work, keep it up

Thanks for the comments guys, will stick with the black on the bases though, breaks it up

9 Rota. Excellent movie about Soviet Airborne troops in Afghanistan. I highly recommend it. You can get it through Amazon. You really need to get some BMP-1s for troop transports, or kit-bash the fly-ing Imperial POS into a HIND-D mock-up.

In soviet russia you not paint models, models paint YOU!

Sillyness aside this is a very original idea for IG, cant wait to see the rattlings.

I love those gas mask and beret wearing troopers.

Hey thanks guys here some more of the shadowsword progress




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I have thinned out the dust and blended it a bit more since these pics.
As for my rattlings im just waiting on the weapons from the UK then i shall begin.
Same same for my last vet sqd waiting on the AKSU's and Riot Shields and then all the foot sloggers are done and its time for some armour and air units.

Did..did you say riot shields? *collapses from too much awesome*

Yeah my first lot of vets are Russian airborne, so my second lot of vets will be OMON Special interior troops. So black berets dark urban camo riot shields and SMG's. Heres a link and you get the idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMON

This is awesome and it's a bit funny to see Marbo with with a gas mask, which I mean in a good way.

In Soviet Russia Sly Marbos You!
(Yes I just used 'Marbo' as a verb)

For another Russian movie for tank references get The Beast.

These look mega....inspires me to give my guard army a new set of issue uniform..

Cheers guys, yeah the beats is a good movie. Been watching red dawn, red scorpian, 9th company.

Shadowsword look nice and gritty!

Awsome stuff!

Cheers good news my forgeworld order has arrived so stay tuned for some forgeworld goodness

i love the russian airbourne with there blue berras very cool!! great work!

I love this. It's great to see someone do something unique with IG instead of the usual "Cadians painted in X colour" (No offence to anyone else).

cheers, i hate being the same as everyone else so wanted a diffenret unique take on 40k

heyyy i had the HIND-D idea :(

and thank god whoever said 9th Company i saw the film ages ago but never knew the name ! (: good shout

Looking good. Didn't see a comment on it (may have missed it), but I'd drill out the barrels on the grenade launchers and auto-cannons. The troopers are fine, but when the barrel diameter is that large, a flat, capped tip really throws off the look. Generally, I like it.

Heres an update for you my medusa and vanquisher.
PS i hate the medusa worst constructed model ever.\



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Were those custom made AK47's or did you buy those bits? if you bought them, would you mind telling me where you got them? theyre just what i could use for a diorama

Not exactly Soviets, more like modern-day Russians. Though still a really cool idea.

Lextheimpaler wrote:PS i hate the medusa worst constructed model ever.

Try building a thunderfire cannon.

Got the AKS from the assault group, google it there great. Well the soviet era ran all the way up to the early 90's these guys are 71-89 era soviet troops. why must everyone one think soviet means ww2????

Because Valhallans in greatcoats are pure awesomness. Nevertheless I like the army. Some of the characters could be withouth the masks though eg. Marbo

Wouldnt it look stupid then, All the troops are set for NBC but all the commanders arnt???? GAs masks ties it all in together

Well it makes sense that everybody have gas masks, but the leaders lack personality. It's like with space marines and eldar. All of them have helmets except some awesome, badass HQ for example: patriarchs, chapter masters, sargents, some autarchs. You could give your commanders and some troopers normal heads and attach gas masks next to them or somewhere else like on the belts. This would give some variation. Anyway do whatever you want. It's your army, a very nice one though.

Hmmmm thanks thats actually a good idea weith the mask on the belt and just wearing a resperator. Will use that idea for my Psykers.

I love Vanqs, don't know why. I look forward to seeing that one detailed. What pattern is it? It looks a bit different from the one I have.

cheers mate its a stygies 3

Great Job! I'm a big fan of unique IG armies, and am also working on a Pig-Iron+ cadian army.

If you make any other comissar's, may I suggest sourcing one of the plastic imperial squad leader heads from the warzone plastics (still available from prince august) They are a bit higher than the Pig Iron hats, and have a nice skull emblem on the front.

Other than that, ace job here. The canteen-siping figure is a great addition and your shadowsword is well worn in the best way.

Hey chees will check out the heads can you post a link

Makes me want to start an IRA themed IG.

sick AK's

I think that paratroopers gas masks are... wierd. Its like too blank and not keeping with the face or too small/ wrong posed eyes.. dunno really. What about having them REALLY huge air filter? Like in call of duty 4 specnaz spec ops troopers have.

Everytime I see this blog, I love these little dudes more. So I'm going to give it a bump to try and get some more updates on .

Although in Soviet Russia, Threads bump you

The one thing I would say is to dull down their eyes a bit with a Gryphonne Sepia (spell that right?) wash. That'll also add some shading. Other than that, very cool!

"If you ask ye shal recieve" will put up some pics of my company command sqd today. Converted from the old metal sqd.

Lextheimpaler wrote:
Platoon Command and Lord Commissar

As much as I like this army, that Commissar is bugging the hell out of me. It would really help if he was looking in the direction he's shooting in. If you did that I'd have no complaints.
How's about adding some Enemy at the Gates-style snipers to your army? You could use the heads from the Kolony Militia winter head sprue that are wearing caps.

Well as preveously explained he is addressing his men on the rewards of cowardism as he shoots there Sgt in the head. Enemy at the gates is WW2 this is a cold war era army 70's-80's 40 years difference dont think they will fit in.

these are really cool! i would love to see more units, have you thought of converting stormtroopers or some psykers that would be very interesting!

You must have read my mind lol, In the works are some female battle psykers and some orgyns with a twist though. stay tuned

Love the themes.
Any chances of a Baneblade in the appropriate T-80 style?
And I do believe that Hinds would look supurd, the Vlk kit is supposedly easy to turn into a chopper of sorts.

Is one of them holding a LIGHTSABER!?!

This Army= PURE WIN!!!!
More tanks!!!!
i love the unquie army.
I like the commie, keep him how he is.
keep up the good work

Ask and ye shall recieve

My second medusa

My first fully painted medusa


Vanquisher

This is one of the best armies I've ever seen. Congratulations, Mother Russia has decided to let you live.

Lextheimpaler wrote:
Platoon Command and Lord Commissar

IN MOTHER RUSSIA, YOU DONT SHOOT COMMISSAR. COMMISSAR SHOOT YOU!

But seriously, amazing work! I'd love to see a group shot.

These look really nifty and Its always good to see TAG get a plug. I quite like the Commissar he's looking as if he's gesturing to his men rather than directly shooting "3rd squad charge that Carnifex etc...." I'd quite like to see a Commissar led Heavy Machine Gun blocking squad and I'd point out that the Snipers were a huge part of Soviet strategy for decades after Russian snipers are still meant to be extremely good......

I really like the theme of this army. It isn't all FUR CADIA LOL. Its gritty, and all of the little details you have added give it a lot of flavor. Keep it up!

Hey thanks heaps guys will endevour to finish it lol and take a group shot soon.

"FOR THE MOTHERLAND"

Have you considered checking out the Soviet range from Darkson Designs? I think the sniper and psi officer would make great additions to your army!

Malika2 wrote:Have you considered checking out the Soviet range from Darkson Designs? I think the sniper and psi officer would make great additions to your army!

Wow, those Sniper miniatures are really impressive. I would love to see some of them in your army (which also looks fantastic by the way. I like how Marbo is shirtless but still wears his gas mask)

Those miniatures look really impressive, i worry though that there scale may be off as they look really ganglie. I once purchased some infinity modles on advice about scale lol and they look like little children compared to the rest of my army. As for snipers i just need to buy a box of cadians to convert. I have a box of SVD's for them so they shouldn't be far away.

Marbo is one crazy Mofo


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Heres an i dea of what im going for

Lextheimpaler wrote:Marbo is one crazy Mofo

QFT

Hey got the painting itch again, finished up the vanq and pask, what you think?. Have also started the exterminators and second medusa. The idea between the alt paint scemes is the exterminators get up and close in the urban invironment wheres the vanq sits back in the tree line and provides overwatch.

Lookin' great!

I'm envious of your Forgeworld Models. Great looking scheme though.

Lol glad you like them, im very fond of them. Im planning on getting 2x FW conquerors(use as eradicators) 1x tank destroyer and a Marauder destroyer in the next 2 months so stay tuned. Yes i have a FW obsession

I like a lot. You've goven thought to the roles of your tanks and applied that in the colour scheme, not a lot of guys do that.

Good job

Looking really good man!

Thanks guys should be finished this lot in a day or 2 recieved my FW executioner yesterday in the mail have undercoated that and will start upon that now too. My mate has commissioned me to paint about a dozen of his ork vehicles as well including the FW mega dread so i may post some pics up of that. Stay tuned

Your armour is just, well, the tits!

So glad I found this...kinda wanna trash my IG and start over doin em like this...

Wow these are pretty cool

Thanks guys


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Something im working on for a friend

Wow, so many little rivets and bits, good luck!

Awsome so far love the tanks i also saw this on the GW website and it looks very russian cold war style missile launchers

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=&prodId=prod770022a

how about some converted stormtroopers or cadians. and maybe some like special pathfinder guys using elysians?

Yeah saw the new manticore kit today looks so god will suit my coldwar theme very well. Im thinking about some storm trooper atm, arming them all with PKM machine guns to count as hot shot las guns. Still waiting on my cadians to convert to ratlings using svd sniper rifles. Also in the works is some power armour count as orgyns. So theres a bit to get underway still. And then come july there will be air power, in the form of a maruader destroyer.

I do sincerly hope that those Stormtroopers are painted in the Spetznatz Flora camo.

I shall try

Ahhhhh yes.

Awesome army you have going here LexImpaler! Those Pig Iron heads always look great on guardsmen (I think that's why they made them! ), and I'm particularly fond of the overall Soviet feel you've achieved. The camo coupled with the worn appearance (it is Soviet equipment after all!) came out beautifully! With my French trench-themed army, we could whoop up on some German Death Korps! It'll be WWII Redux!

Except they're late-era Soviet troops...

And the French didn't do much whooping in WWII

And the Kreig are more like WWI German Soldiers than those in WWII...

BUT OTHER THAN THAT...

metallifan wrote:Except they're late-era Soviet troops...

And the French didn't do much whooping in WWII

And the Kreig are more like WWI German Soldiers than those in WWII...

BUT OTHER THAN THAT...

I just thought it would make for an interesting game. I know Krieg is WWI-esque, and Russian soldiers looked more similar to Vahallans as far as GW ranges are concerned. But still, I was more focused on the origins than anything else

I hear what your saying. Two well themed and nicely painted armies always makes for a nice game. Nothing worse than playing an army that has been givin no love.

The guy sipping his canteen on the first page = pure win!

Lol thanks killing captialist pigs and defending the mother land is hardwork

Had the day off today so whilst watching the intire series of "Hitlers Bodyguards" i got some painting done. Just need to add decals and weathering to the valk and pigments to the tanks then im set.

The fence on the base of the valk is a nice touch, I assume thats just sprue and wire you used? Might have to "borrow" that idea...

I take it that the vendetta is the forgeworld kit?
Looks good!

Yeah just good ol sprue and fishing wire. Now sure if its "THE" FW vendetta kit but i picked it up from a seller in russia. Thanks for the commnets guys

Was that seller on ebay? I almost bought some of them myself. I ended up using Leman Russ side sponsons and TL lascannons from unused dreadnought arms instead, and it looked ok.