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ooh those white coats are sexy!...

you didnt here nothing... NOTHING!

Sorry, I got a bit confused

*minces off*

Wait... I am not that confused!

And no problem, I know you were not cutting me a new one. I actually prefer your idea... I was just throwing some thoughts out.

Maybe have the banner billowing in the breeze, with the bearer Leaning against it, in a relaxing way?

I just copied everyone else didn't I?

I like it, I'll have him kind of leaning against the banner pole, nonchalently smoking a cigarette. I can see it now!

you could make the doc addicted to morphine.

Glad to be of service boss!

Just made the standard bearer's legs, he's looking good. I used the forgeworld command guy that has a torso and legs together, and boiled his lower half and bent the left leg under him like he has his weight on it. I also repositioned the right foot so its pointing outwards a little. Then I cut the right leg at the hip and knee joints and positioned it so that its bent slightly. The legs look a bit like this:



@Miss Dee: Lol, not sure how I'd represent that even if I hadn't finished the model already .

The Kalashnikovan 2nd - An Imperial Guard Blog

A very small, very WIP update, the work I have done so far on the standard bearer.

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Company standard bearer.

Here's the standard bearer WIP then. As I said yesterday, the legs and torso are from the FW cadian command set, and I boiled him and bent the left leg underneath him like he has his weight on it. Then I sliced the right leg at the hip and knees and repositioned it accordingly. The left arm is from the FW cadian general I had sliced up to make my colonel, and the hand is from the demolisher tank commander. I cut between his two fingers and put a little piece of tube in there to make a cigar. The right arm is obviously from the plastic cadian command squad and the head is a FW veteran. I plan on sculpting him a piece of winter headgear and dangling his mask around his neck. What do you lot think?








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Next post?

Ok, I promise there will be some painted guys next time - I have four very close to being finished now.

The Standard Bearer turned out well, I love the casual pose.

Looking forward to some pics when painted.

Loving how the banner carrier has turned out. He needs a backpack though. Maybe you could hang his winter headgear from that?

Agreed, looks awesome!

Oshunai wrote:Loving how the banner carrier has turned out. He needs a backpack though. Maybe you could hang his winter headgear from that?

He hasn't 'turned out' yet (hence the blue tac holding him together), and yeah he will have a backpack . I'm quite keen on sculpting him some winter headgear - I think he'd look too different to the rest of the force if he didn't have it. If he wasn't holding the banner then I'd have him holding his hat under that arm, but you can't have it all I suppose .

Cheers guys .

The angle of the head is pretty much perfectly nonchelant (sp... god I suck at spelling, especially this early in the morning ).

Can you have hus hat tied to his pack or something? I think the model as is looks just right.

Perhaps have his pack on the ground with his cap on top, for that total "haha, I am standing at the back with the command squad having a rest and not getting shot at" kind of pose.

I dunno, I'm quite taken with giving him a hat . It won't be a floppy eared one, it'll be with the ears up. I think it might look quite cool.

Haha, I am sure he will look good either way, I am sure you can sculpt him a hat that looks good on him.

I have to admit from the original description I thought the banner would be placed into the ground with him propped up casually against it! It however looks really nice and to be honest I probably wouldn't be that cavalier with the banner standing next to the Colonel!

I did think about that, but I figured it wouldn't look quite natural. It would look more like he had a damaged leg and was using the banner pole for support. That might actually be cool though, I'll consider using it for my platoon command. He could have one leg and his trousers tied in a knot over the stump, and using the banner pole as a crutch.

That's not bad... just don't do a Tlanet Terror and graft a lasgun onto the stump as a replacement leg

SilverMK2 wrote:That's not bad... just don't do a Planet Terror and graft a lasgun onto the stump as a replacement leg

It would be better as an autogun strapped to the stump. this is of course assuming he's an ex pole dancer

"Are you pleased to see me or have you got an autocannon down your trousers?"

ooh you could have a bit of a evil dead moment and graft a chainsword to his arm!

I am not grafting weapons to people's limbs thank you guys. This isn't a chaos army.

Where is that head from?

On the standard bearer you mean? Its from the forgeworld Cadian veterans upgrade pack.

That's true. We need to go pester InfilTRAITOR for the Planet Terror/Evil Dead conversions... though to be fair, both characters are the supposed heroes of the films...

We could solve the whole problem by just grafting a single gun onto a single model... a gun which fires chainsaws!

Dakka delievers

Jesus, I appreciate some interest in my thread but could you all please keep it on topic please. I don't want this thread to descend into spam.

Sorry

[serious mode on]

*Waits for next update of goodness*

The Kalashnikovan 2nd - An Imperial Guard Blog

Well, finally there's some guys painted. I'll be unveiling them gradually and repeating/writing new fluff for each one depending on whether I wrote any when I initially built him. First up is Sergeant Boris! Comments and criticisms welcome!


Gallery votes, comments and criticisms please! The Bear wills it!

Platoon A Squad 1: Sergeant Boris 'The Bear' Varenkov:

Sgt Varenkov is made from the following bits and pieces.

Legs: Colonel Shaefer, sliced with bonesaw
Torso: Tank commander
Left arm: Cadian Sergeant
Right arm: Heavy weapons squad set
Head: Pig iron kolony militia officers
Backpack: Assault group US vietnam light backpack, and Vietnamese camping roll
Accesories: Space marines pistol holster, forgeworld veterans knife (on leg)

He is painted the following way:

Clothing: White. Built up in progressive highlights from shadow grey, to space wolves grey, to ghostly grey to skull white with about 10 layers in all.
Armour: Black. Chaos black with shadow grey/black mix edge highlighting.
Shoulder Pads and weapon colouring: Blue. Regal blue with mordian blue edge highlighting.
Metallic parts: Boltgun metal followed by badab black wash, boltgun metal drybrush, chainmail highlights and a watered down blue ink wash. Glazed with satin varnish.
Equipment: Snakebite leather, brown wash, snakebite leather highlights, khaki highlights.
Water bottles: Charred brown, brown wash, charred brown/bleached bone highlights.
Grenades: Goblin green, black wash, goblin green drybrush, goblin green/bleached bone highlights.
Facemask: Khaki, brown wash, khaki highlights, khaki/bleached bone highlights.
Decals on shoulders: Skytex soviet decal on right shoulder, painted on II symbol on left. Weathered with drill bit, scalpel, picking fingers.
Painted on weathering: Humbrol 63 enamel, spread around while still wet with soft brush and thinner (it creates a rust effect, see chainsword ford detail). The metal weathering is boltgun metal which is mapped with a thin line of chaos black below and a thin line of skull white above (creates an illusion of depth). Other metal weathering done by grinding up a bit of graphite stick and mixing it with a little gloss varnish and then pressing it on with my fingers and removing excess with a brush.
Base: Darkson designs resin base (one of the urban ones), painted codex grey, drybrushed stonewall grey and light drybrushed skull white, then washed with badab black. Static grass applied sparingly. Snow made from equal parts PVA and water, a dollop of Gloss varnish and adding bicarbonate of soda until it reaches a slurry consistency. Edge snow done with a more watered down mix. Sealed with a coat of gloss varnish to stop it yellowing over time.





Sergeant Boris 'The Bear' Varenkov:

Boris Varenkov was born in the Bratasiva region of Kalashnikova to a family of farmers. Raised on the farm, Boris stood out from an early age due to his abnormal size and strength for such a young boy. Indeed, by the age of 11 he was already the strongest man in the small town in which he grew up. He was extremely well-liked amongst all of the local populace, due to his gentle and generous nature. 'Big Boris', as he was known in those days, was always willing to lend a hand to other farmers and townspeople, and was something of a local celebrity due to his immense height. As a teenager Boris had little time for school, preferring to spend time on the farm and doing physical labour. Though certainly not unintelligent, academia never appealed to the young Varenkov.

Boris' mother was concerned that he spent too much time helping his father on the farm and not enough time socialising with other boys of his age, and felt that he should partake in some sort of sport or youth group activities to broaden his horizons. Reluctantly at first, Boris joined the Kalashnikovan military youth group in the area. Though at first he was shy and unassertive, Boris' strength of physicality and strength of spirit quickly endeared him to not only his comrades, but the youth leaders as well. He was promoted to squadron leader and began to grow into his new leadership role. The Kalashnikovan 2nd were keen for Boris to sign up to the Moloyozhev (Whiteshield) companies when he reached the required age, but Boris wished to return to his family farm and follow in his father's footsteps.

It was not long after Boris' 16th birthday that disaster struck: Boris' father had travelled to Muscova to partake in the peaceful protests against the job cuts and benefit retractions that Governor Oleg Puskas had brought in, due to the planet's economic downturn. However, Boris' father had lost heart that what he was doing was right when the protesters started to become violent. Eventually, the Governor's Arbitrators intervened, and the situation escalated to the point where violent confrontations were taking place throughout Muscova between the Arbites and the protesters. Boris' father was trying to stop the protesters from fighting back, attempting to prevent further violence, when he was punched in the back of the head by one particularly fiercesome protester. Boris' father crashed to the concrete ground and was trampled by protesters as the throng marched through the streets, looting and burning as they went.

Mr Varenkov was left in a coma by the events and it was as he lay in his vegetative state that his son came to visit him. The sight of his father lying in a coma in the hospital seemed to bring about a strange and slightly frightening change in Boris' nature. Where he was once kind-natured and shy, he became aggressive and assertive - a thoroughly intimidating character when his enormous size (which was now approaching 7 feet) was taken into account.

Despite his mother's desperate pleas for him to stay at home, Boris joined up to the Moloyozhev afterall, and earned a name for himself through feats of immense bravery in the early years of the Kalashnikovan civil war. When it came time to do his induction to the main Kalasnikovan regiment, it took Boris just a day and a half to hike his way back to base camp - a new record. What was even more remarkable was that he had encountered a Kalashnikovan Polar Bear, and slain the mighty beast with his bare hands. This is how Boris earned his nickname, 'The Bear', a monicker he carries to this day.

As a guardsman in the Kalashnikovan 2nd throughout the remaining years of the civil war, Boris excelled in every aspect of soldiering life - and was duly promoted to Sergeant at the end of the conflict. He has held the position of Sergeant ever since, despite offers to promote to the rank of Leftenant. He is fiercely loyal to his men, and would gladly lay down his own life to save one of theirs. His troops know this, and he commands their unswerving loyalty and respect as a result. Though not a great tactition, Sergeant Varenkov is adept at calling orders on the battle field and knowing how his own squad's actions could help the army as a whole.

Whats in the next post?

I'll post another painted guy up in a couple of days: I'm spreading out unveiling them to give me time to paint the rest of the squad. I've only done four so far .