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This is a post to answer a request to post some pics of my guard. I actually had lined up all of my imperial forces up and taken shots of them a while back so here are the shots of the guard from that shoot.

Sorry, I don't have just a shot of the guard company only.


1st Platoon


2nd Platoon


3rd Platoon


Hvy Platoon


Veterans


Stormtroopers


HQ


Commissars


Rapier (Apocalypse only these days!)


Thosa Regulars (a PDF I've been working on very slowly)


Thosa Conscripts (these guys are going even slower now that the new FAQ has kind of hurt the commissar led conscript units)


These 2 shots were taken at a later date!

Ogryn


Rough Riders


Objectives

Red white and the Pabst Blue Ribbon! I've got one of my lascannon gunners having a Coors, but a whole case? Tre win.

It looks like a intimidating army to face!! Nice work. My guard army is a small fraction of you beast. But it helps me to see what mine can do when I get further along. Lots of good conversions in there.

Sweet!

I especially like that Ogryn angrily wielding a torn up lascannon xD

Fantastic.

these are BADA$$ man so awesome! love the keg and brew...such sweet objectives. love your 'ryns. how'd you make'em?

love the pabst

Nice group shot!

I'd one up you and post my Imperial Forces, but unlike yours mine aren't all painted yet

Impressive Amount Of Miniatures there!
But Hey, that's what Imperial Guard are About

Thanks everyone!

Zaku I wrote:these are BADA$$ man so awesome! love the keg and brew...such sweet objectives. love your 'ryns. how'd you make'em?

They are made from the Bull Ogre plastic set for Fantasy. Their belly plates became shoulder plates, and their weapons are a mix of the Sentinel hvy flamer and a grenade launcher.

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:Nice group shot!

I'd one up you and post my Imperial Forces, but unlike yours mine aren't all painted yet

Hehe! as H.B.M.C wrote recently NO guard army is ever finished. For me, that holds true for any armies I build. I just won't allow the shameful unfinished models to pose alongside the finished ones though.

Thats is spectacular! wish you had some close ups of those tanks :(

but great anyway!

I don't really have any closeups but they're all really simple paint jobs.

Simple and effective! Great stuff!

Thats a massive army, great job! I love the ogryns.

I really like the Thosa those are Bret men-at-arms how've you converted them with the plastic Cadian arms?

Pabst Objective FTW!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All those tanks/infs must give some real DAKKA!!!
I also LOVE the Thosa conscript with the bagpipes!
May I ask how long this labour o' love has taken?

Llamahead wrote:I really like the Thosa those are Bret men-at-arms how've you converted them with the plastic Cadian arms?

For some of them, I would just cut the Cadian arms at the elbow to fit into the socket on the Bretonian tunic. For others, I would just cut the shoulders off of the Bretonians so that the entire Cadian arm set could fit on just like it does the IG torso. A few are a mix of green stuff and other arms.

P4NC4K3 wrote:...May I ask how long this labour o' love has taken?

Well, some of you may recognize some of the models in the "Veterans" pic as some of the origional IG minis so that should be the tip off. For those that don't recognize them they're about 20-something years old. Honestly though, almost all of this stuff was built in the last 5 or so years after I took an extended hiatus from the hobby.

thats pretty damn impressive.
thanks for sharing and i really like the simple scheme on the tanks. well done.

how many points is this army worth in most battles with upgrades

i like the combination from WF models. nice!

lolzman wrote:how many points is this army worth in most battles with upgrades

I don't know if I understand the question. In most battles it's worth 1500 to 2000 points, but I'm constantly changing my lists around because that's what the voices in my head tell me to do. Are you asking what is the maximum amount of points I can push into the army is? Because I've never actually fielded all of the IG stuff on the table at one time unless it was in an Apocalypse game so the FOC would have been illegal in a normal battle. Also, even though I field a few tanks in most games they are technically a seperate force (Armored Company), so in the Apocalypse games the points don't quite match because of the command and ace tanks.

If it helps though, in most games I start with a core list and work up from there:
1st Platoon
JO with Storm Bolter and 4 guardsmen with 2 Plasma Guns
3 squads with Plasma Gun + Light Infantry and Vet Sarge with Bolter

2nd Platoon
JO and 4 guardsmen with Lascannon
3 squads with Missile Launchers

3rd Platoon
JO and 4 guardsmen with Heavy Bolter
2 squads with Heavy Bolter

816 points

Very cool. Like the use of the Rogue Trader era guys for the Veterans. Can you tell us more about the Rough Riders?

Thanks, but the rough riders aren't anthing too special.



They're just the Gryphon Legin Riders (I think) from the WHFB range. I just clipped the spike off of the top of their helmet and glued on some IG bits and called it good.

I like them... The paint scheme and design is a weird mix of medieval and modern looking.

Hmm I have quite a few old Kislevite horsemen lying around...I may loot your idea on Rough Riders.

lovely collection. I love that line of tanks you have there. Really makes me want to get back into guard