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Ok so my guard scheme is mostly urban grey with green. With these guys I was going for a dark olive drap look for the bdu's while still keeping the same look for the shoulder pads as the rest of my army. I plan on running them with forward sentries and or demolitions. Not always a good way to spend points but its fluffy. They're basically a recon element dropped behind enemy lines tasked with like blowing up enemy op's or disrupting supply lines and stuff. I made sure to give them a lot more gear than my normal guardsmen so they look like they could operate independantly of the main force. The only downside to the old sentinel pilot heads is that they all look very similar, not much I can do there.







I've included links to my dakka gallery if you feel like rating the paintjob/coolness

Love them, they look fantastic- the rim colour is a bit sickly for my liking.

I find it really interesting how the rim colour changes the whole feel of the squad. It makes everything feel greener. Video Haley. Kind of looks like they are selected units in an rts. Pretty neat.

Great job overall. No critisizms from my end.

Those look great, however the base color is too distracting IMO. Think muted earth tones. They work a lot better I think.

Your painting is really good and you could even keep the green bases, just maybe tone it down a notch.

Great job they look awesome keep us posted with any more stuff you paint for your ig

To be honest I really like the green bases.

Tortured-Robot wrote:Love them, they look fantastic- the rim colour is a bit sickly for my liking.

it looks better on a battlemat

So amazing!! Great paint job dude

riplikash wrote:Kind of looks like they are selected units in an rts.

That was my first reaction to the green base rims. They look as though they've units in an RTS that've been selected by the cursor god.

I really like these. They have a nice colour scheme and the paint job is very clean.

Great job!
Very nice!

Nice use of the old sentinel pilot heads. Like their look!

good job! But if I can tell my hopinion if gave them black bases rather than green they will look better! the black is neutral enough to mix them with the battlefield!

The models are amazing, but the green base kinda puts me off.

The thing with having a bright coloured base it that it draws the attention away from the modles and onto the base. Because your models are styled to be dark, the base draws away from the models even more.

Please repaint the base, but other than that, amazing work!

Keep it up

Don't think I'll be re-painting the bases :p

wow! great army mate! however can I ask how you have done such a good photo on an entire table and how you have created a background like this?

axia wrote:wow! great army mate! however can I ask how you have done such a good photo on an entire table and how you have created a background like this?

wide angle lens (that's why its so distorted) at a high aperture (f/11 or f/16) to keep as much of the army in focus as possible. For the background I just cut everything out in photoshop and then replaced it with a blue to white gradient.

ok I must buy a reflex!

Finished a few more models to help round off the unit's options. They needed a sniper, mostly just for coolness factor. I made a few more sgt's, the first has an old school bionic arm and a shotgun on his backpack, the other's rockin a powerfist and a meltabomb just for the hell of it. I made a dude with a demo charge in case I wanna run them with demolitions. Last and certainly least is my failed sgt harker, I really gotta learn how to do greenstuff. I also got some shots of these guys from a recent 40k game.












here's a link on dakka if you're kind enough to rate the painting/coolness

Yup, really nice though the base rims are not good on the eye!!!!! Change them to graveyard earth or some such....

Good figures though.

They look very nice. I don't care about the bases, they look kool.

Cool cool.I like the crazy green on the bases.Although it drowns out the paint job a bit.at the same time it make the army stand out as a whole.

Digits wrote:Yup, really nice though the base rims are not good on the eye!!!!! Change them to graveyard earth or some such....

Good figures though.

It's too late to change that I assure you (look at big army pic) :p

Wow, what a difference the background makes.
i was thrown a little by the bases too, but seeing them on the battle mat, it makes perfect sense!

Man, those are nice!
I was wondering what the gasmask would look like with just the face mask.
Great stuff as always.

Beautiful
Inspires me to do something more to my next squad

Great looking army! That's a lot of IG, and a great looking table. The paint scheme reminds me of Hydra uniforms from older Captain America comics, and that's a good thing!

I love the colour scheme.
In my opinion the bases look cool, they are nicely tied in with the highlights on the models.

Great Paint , great pics! I'm following this thread.

I like them a lot.

The bases remind of Brittains soldiers that I had as a kid.