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I started on my imperial guard army about 3 years ago but after a while real life and other projects kindve took over a bit, i am hoping that this log might help to keep me motivated. I will be doing The 121st Alcari as my main force with any funky stuff going to a regiment or 3 from Hellainus Novus.
heres where we stand at the moment
4 Leman Russ tanks, 1 with forgeworld vanquisher turret
1 basilisk
6 chimeras, 1 with forgeworld autocannon turret

they are all glued together and awaiting stowage/battle damage



test poses for sentinels, all options magnetised

squished nob for 3rd sentinels base



these two are captains from the Alcari, the one with the cane is a heavy weapons captain


possible commissar bits + magnets allows for yarrick counts as



marbo counts as, unsure on scope?


priest


pask counts as, possibly for vanquisher



test model for Hellainus Novus rough riders




thanks to whoever did this first but i really cant remember. if you read this pm me as i would love help with the chasis

the females and rough rider mounts were from the phoenix project if anyone doesnt remember.

magnetised a chimedon/hellhound/chimerax, chimerax turret build is obviously still wip












am currently after opinions on this as a possible power maul, does it look ok or does it need a cabled power feed similar to the captains powerfists?





now please help get this army finished (or even just ready to paint!)



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mods, meant to put this in the blog section please move when you get a chance cheers

With my wife and daughter off to cbeebies live today I managed to grab a bit of hobby time
Somebody on the bolter and chainsword suggested I try an anvil industries scope on snake so I ordered a set, if I don’t use them they will go to marksmen in squads. Great service, got them the next day, just tried one and am still unsure

What do people think? Marine scope, anvil scope or no scope?


Also ordered some plasticard tubing to try sorting out the heavy mortar barrel. Whilst playing about with it I found out that a tank wheel fits exactly as well so out of the options below which looks the best? I prefer the biggest one but think it might be a bit big compared to a regular heavy mortar?







Got some guardsmen and women ready for spraying, quick coat of grey before the rain came, some of them have been converted a little bit, am not a fan of 5 or 6 poses throughout a 100+ model list, its going to mean a lot of work but hopefully it will be worth it




This was all done with a few minutes to spare so I started on my tech priest and retinue, a bit of chopping later and 2 plasma cannon servitors half done.


Any and all opinions welcome

painting has started on the guardsmen but my camera batteries have died, while paint is drying have been fiddling with my anvil industries fully posable bionic arms and legs for my straken counts as, am struggling with the sheer number of possible poses and so i ask for help from the internet, what is the coolest most badass pistol and sword pose you have ever seen? pics,links or general descriptions are all welcome

for straken i am going for the "walking forward determinedly" pose of the marine on the front of the Calth horus heresy book, swapping the shorter sword for the pistol. what i am after now is which head do you think works best with that? am thinking the head on the left at the moment and am hoping to build him tomorrow (finally!)



anybody think i should use one of the other 2 heads and why?
cheers

The head on the left is the nicest sculpt I would say.

I love that rough rider - how did you make it?

the rough rider was made as part of the phoenix forum community projects, had a load of them sitting in a box for years, now i am trying to concentrate on guard they will hopefully get some attention. one day......
i am def leaning towards the one on the left, i just wanted to know if anybody could change my mind before i put knife to resin and cant go back

doh!i didnt mean the calth book, the cover of Censure will show you what i am aiming for.
heres as far as i got on straken

i got distracted painting my first load of grunts. hte how pictures can wash out your models and pick out the errors, altough for3 years no painting they dont look to bad?


for fun this model represents my brother in law (horuswaspretty on the forums) not a fantasticlikeness but i will do






both of the ladies needed some boob removing simply due to the poses i wanted, not too bothered about the extra effort as they both look good imo?



i realise i should have drilled out the grenade launcher, will do it asap





although theres 10 regulars they wont all be from the same squad, i am aiming for themed squads, these 2 will be in the bayonet charge squad



these 2 stand and shoot squad



squad leader, are his chevrons too bright?



2 captains


also sorted the piping for th eplasma cannon servitors

bases will hopefully follow soon, still working them out.

So much cool stuff on here it would take forever to comment on it all. But I have to say that I love the crushed nob and the rough rider especially.

Subbed! This blog is looking fine!

cheers for commenting

Anyway……

with gothicomp models finished with and voting in progress (doing miserably, i entered purely on the understanding there would be maybe 1 other entry and i would have a chance of winning something by default ) i managed to get back to the guard, was going through the modelling process like lightning but found out i have run out of spray for the undercoating so pics are of bare plastic wips i am afraid





pics of straken counts as, didn’t really manage the level of awesome I had hoped for but he will do



i have magnetised his foot so he can swap bases and trophy kills dependent on who i am playing against, only the carnifex head modelled so far.



also lets him wall walk



also got marbo counts as undercoated, these pics show i finally went for a reflex scope, have added a demo charge and straps for the back pack









started on another batch of grunts, had the idea of a "walking wounded" type squad




chest wound







arm wound




sore arm







sorer arm







really sore arm






head/ear burn







got a bit annoyed as i couldnt find my tub conataining bits for the wounded serg and hwt so started on some healthier guys


power axe serg





this is the start of a replacement missile launcher. going for the M202 flash look, i know IRL it isnt an acceptable replacement but hey it looks cool obviously needs detailing but what do people think about the general shape/size of it?








his anxious team mate




anxiety inducer

Radu Lykan wrote:

pics of straken counts as, didn’t really manage the level of awesome I had hoped for but he will do

He looks pretty badass to me. Reminds me of the old metal "bounty hunter" bits you could buy from GW.

Awesome conversions throughout. Will be lurking.

Subbed indeed. what did you use for snake?

Some really cool stuff, snake is from the jungle swarm. I’m liking that rocket launcher conversion, stick and Aquila of her tank a chimera kit down the side and its will be very imperial.

Dead ork is pretty well done too, shh don’t tell the boyz.

Great conversions, particularly like the wounded folks. Never seen someone do an arm splint like that before, it looks really good! You've got some really original poses going on and some great sculpting too. Kudos all round!

Love the new missile launcher - the size is perfect, I feel. Though his mate's a bit of a bastard for just pointing at the striking snake instead of actually doing something about it

Thanks for the replies, especially pleased people like the missile launcher, will try to crack on with it soon, once one is complete I will start churning them out.
Posted this in the badass comp but forgot to post it here, a wip of straken counts as

whilst painting straken the other day i realised i was going to need some new varnish so i set straken to one side and picked up snake plisken/marbo. heres a couple of pip pics of where he is at currently


glad i took the pics as it highlights any flaws, think i will try to take pip shots a bit more often.

Very creative stuff, hope to see more soon.

Wow, some really nice stuff

Nice, I like your infantry conversions!

Fattimus_maximus - Zambro- Scrazza - cheers, nice to see somepeople think its worth converting 5/6 point models

grabbed a few seconds to do some work on straken, this will be my first ever attempt at osl so am probably going to be asking questions at every stage, what i am after here is advice on the size/area of glow, want input here as i dont want to go through in a blur and think he is finished only to have some one point out any flaws like why is/isnt there light in a specific spot when obviously there should/shouldnt be
any way, heres as far as i got, should i extend the glow further towards the front of his left shin? should there be any glow on the right foot/shin?
more than one pic for angles








any help greatly appreciated

a few minutes free meant some more work on strakens plasma pistol and its lighting effects



how does it look so far? should i lighten the glow on the leg? should i take the purple on the gun all the way up to white? have i highlighted it in the right/wrong places?
any help is much appreciated

It looks nice. I think you should lighten the glow up to nearly white, and the glow on the leg to the same level as how the gun looks now.

Hope this helps.

am waiting til his base is sorted before doing more to the glow as i will probably need to put the glow on his base as well, will see what happens


had problems with strakens base tonight and am very coss with myself,nearly had it finished and have had to rebase coat it and will have to start from scratch next time :( luckily i did get some work done on fixing marbo/snake plisken after his fall a while back. all of a sudden he was done bar his base

i finished Major Gari-Baldi my starken counts as just in time for the badass competition, got a bit trigger happy with the camera so have spoilered most of them




when it came to basing i couldnt find my bag of sand so might have gone a bit overboard with the whole walking through a sea of nid blood thing but the theme of the competition was over the top badassness so i dont mind too much

Definitely some amazing stuff right here!!!

There's some really cool conversions in this log so far, great stuff!

The Colonel is looking very cool. Nice job on the base.

a cool,a nice, another cool and an amazing? cheers guys

started work on my ammobunker single mini competition entry, was originally going to be a regular guy with a flamer but the head i wanted didnt arrive in time so i started on a lieutenant instead. as with all comps i enter i am not aiming to win but to get models painted, it worked last time so hopefully by mid december i will get this bloke finished.
had a bit of a problem when i started to make his fist, i wanted him to have a pointing fist, the only termie sized one i can remember is one of the space hulk models (sacrilege?)which i had ordered off ebay a while back. the problem being i didnt want to waste a whole space hulk terminator so i just cut off the actual fist part, no elbow joint or anything, no problem though as i had already gathered a load of black reach powerfists that i could take the joint off right? er nooooo, the black reach terminators have their shoulder pads already modelled on covering just too much of the elbow joint to make it usable, cue swearing and a trip out to the shed, hunting for mini parts in the dark with only the light of a crappy phone screen to aid you is not fun :( eventually found some real terminator sprues and was back in businesss





then it was time to glue him together, noticed while he was balanced for drying that he looked like he had had a few too many beers down at the early officers mess christmas party


he obviously had some kind of accident as he ended up needing this

Sometimes a motherfacker comes in and makes me go "damn, motherfacker is skilled".
You are that one skilled motherfacker

Loving the fist Radu! But that eye looks a bit smallish to me. Maybe after painting it looks the way it should, i eagerly await the results...