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Thanks for all the comments! I really took my time on the grey knight, and I am excited to get to the rest of them. I just love the way they look.

I think my paint scheme for the raider is going to tie into my eldar army, which you can see here - http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The%20Bunky%20Eldar, but I am not sure how. I am planning on mixing the two, and using mostly eldar models while using the dark eldar codex. I really like the hellions and incubi, but I think the rest will be counts as eldar models. I have shaved or left off as much of the spiky bits as possible to prevent it from clashing, and I am thinking I will use eldar heads on the ships crewmen/women.

Which leads me to your actual question, color scheme. I was thinking dark green might look good, and tie into my eldar, but I am not sure. I do not like the main colors in the codex, and I am worried it may look like that. I think blue like my eldar would be to bright, but maybe a dark blue. I think using orange highlights for tattoos and decals would look pretty good. But I am very undecided, so any comments/ suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

So it has been quite awhile. I just bought a house, which is my excuse for doing nothing related to warhammer for a couple months. The work is beginning to slow down, and I took a day off from painting walls to paint some figures a few days ago, so hopefully I will get some pics up here shortly. This army is still going strong though, and I will be back working on it as soon as possible. Sorry to everyone for the delay

Here are some pics of the game I was able to play over Christmas against my brother. I used 2000 points of imperial guard, with Straken, and he used a 2000 point space wolf Logan wing list. It was a great game, and he ended up winning when it ended on the fifth turn. We were playing objectives, and I went for the win and tried to charge his lone terminator on the objective with 20 or so guardsmen, but was just out of range. I did find out that I really like using scout sentinals coming in on the flank with scatter lasers. They can cause some damage, so I am going to paint a couple up. Plus I really love the sentinal models.

And a few more. I wanted a pic of my general's unit on the board, and since it only lasted one turn after they got spanked by Logan and I forgot to use my banner to reroll their moral check, this is about the only time they were on the table. Also the lone terminator with guardsmen bearing down.

I should get some pics up soon of the meltagun vet squad I have been working on, as well as some progress on the next GK Terminator

Ok, here is my idea for my meltagun vet squad. Cadian bodies and legs with bare arms. Also no helmet, with the rebreather. I need to get the positioning on the rebreather right, i am not totally sure its in the correct position. The arms have so far been from the Catachan command squad, the troops arms just look ridiculous.

Ok, its been awhile since my last post, but I have made progress when possible. I am almost finished the second vet squad with flamers, and will post pics hopefully sometime in the next couple days. Once I have them finished I hope to knock out a few vehicles quickly to bring my army to around 1500 points. More to come soon.

Finally, finished second vet squad. Here are some pics, and I will post more of the individual guys when it is not so late. May change the color on the powerfist, let me know what you think.

Nice looking army the riot sheilds look great.

And im using the same excuss as you buying a house is so much effort models get put aside.

Thanks! Haha and the housework apparently just does not stop. Oh well. Here are some close-up pics of the rest of the regiment.

And just in case I have not mentioned before, they are a vet squad with two flamers and a heavy flamer, and shotguns.

The legs are from the catachan box set, and some from the catachan command, like the kneeling legs.
The torso and arms are from the cadians, with the torso cut off right above the belt.
The shields are from the bretonnian men at arms, and are cut off and green stuffed to the top half of a cadian arm.
The shotguns are from space marine scouts, and I filed down the hands a little so they would not look too big.
The head is a cadian head with the face and front of the helmet filed off, and the face of a necron cut and filed down pretty thin. Then I greenstuffed a brim over top of the necron face.
The powerfist is from the catachan command squad, cut off and glued to a cadian arm.

Got some sentinel. I am going to start using this as a scout sentinel I believe, I like the closed cab.

the guys with the rebreathers are great , can i ask where the heads are from , especially the viking looking one , i am thinking space wolves , but not sure. also are the rebreathers from forgeworld mate. necro heads look kinda scary , but look like the need some depth , maybe a wash . Also have you thought about cutting off the lower jaw so they are not so long ? and give that 40k skull vibe.

npeircemitch wrote:Got some sentinel. I am going to start using this as a scout sentinel I believe, I like the closed cab.

I used the closed cab for my scout sentinels as well, means I can use them as either if needed. Really liking the army, I love the idea of taking something very real worldly and putting it into the 40k universe. And tbh I can see an entire planet full of these guys

Thanks for the comments!

The rebreathers are actually from the cadian command squad, you get 5 on each sprue.

The mustachioed head is I believe from the cadian command squad, and the other two heads are from the catachan command squad. they may in fact all be from the catachan command squad, I cannot quite remember.

I may fix up the necron masks down the road, but I won't work on them at least until I get the rest of the army finished. I am not really sure how I would go about cutting them down and them still looking good, so I have been hesitant.
Also as far as the paint goes, it is difficult to tell from the pictures because of the flash, but the masks have been brought up from a gray with 3 layers of white, I will try and get a picture with better lighting at some point, but they may still need some work, I am not sure.

As far as progress goes, I have started on the chimera's for my vet squads, so hopefully I can finish them up in the next week and get some pics up. I have vacation in a week also, so I hope to get the army to at least 1500 points over that break. All I need to get there is the two chimeras, one more sentinel, and another priest and a commissar.

Again, love any comments and constructive criticism, I am always looking to improve, so thanks again everyone!

Ok, I was finally able to get to some painting over easter break. Here is my second chimera, this will be for one of the vet squads. The first chimera with the gold stripe will be for the command squad. I notice after the pics i have some clean-up to do on the one side with the chain hanging on it, I will fix that up next time I get out the paints. I hope to finish the third chimera in the next couple days and get some pics of that up as well. So close to 1500 points!

Looking good!

Thanks! I have the third chimera painted, and I touched up the red lines on the side of the last one, the black stripe was much larger than on my leman russ. I have some pics of the tank, and all my tanks so far. All I have left to get to 1500 points is another priest and a commissar. Hopefully I can get them finished soon!

More Tanks!

Huzzah! I finished the commissar and priest this weekend, and now have my 1500 point army! Here are a few pics, with more to come soon. I will put up some more of the whole army, plus more angles of the commissar and priest. Next up will either be a hellhound or some ogryn, I have not decided.

wow i love the tanks keep up the great work

Thanks metalhead! I really like the look of imperial guard armies, the tanks and troops. I can't wait to get my rough riders going, but I am saving them for the last models before 2000 points. I may actually paint a second hellhound first, just to get to 2000, cause the rough riders are going to take awhile to convert and paint. Here are some more pics of the priest.

Great stuff, dude. I'm subscribed.

Thanks for the compliment samwellfrm! I am really excited to move on to 2000 points, so hopefully I can get there pretty quickly. I worked on my yesterday, and I will get some pics up of them soon. I am really happy with how they turned out, and I just have greenstuff left to do on them. Here are some more angles on the commissar, I really like this model with the cane/whippy thing behind his back.

And here are a few pics of the 1500 points all out on the table.

Really digging your stuff! It's very characterful.

npeircemitch wrote:Thanks metalhead! I really like the look of imperial guard armies, the tanks and troops. I can't wait to get my rough riders going, but I am saving them for the last models before 2000 points. I may actually paint a second hellhound first, just to get to 2000, cause the rough riders are going to take awhile to convert and paint. Here are some more pics of the priest.

I cant wait to see the rough riders

Excellent work! I love the strong theme and attention to detail. Really great stuff you have here.

I LOVE THOSE HATS

Thanks for all the compliments! The hats chopped off the heads of bretonnian men at arms, and put on the top of cadian heads. Here is a pic of the one rough rider I have sprayed black but not painted, his spear broke off. You can see more pics of him on the first page of this thread before he was sprayed black. I am not totally sure on what I will do with his left hand, so if anyone has any ideas that would be great. I am considering a shield or holding onto some reigns or a laspistol or a combination of all of these throughout the unit.

And here are some more pics of the whole army, because I just love how it looks all set up.