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Greetings,
Hmmm, I'm member since some time now, and haven't posted any pictures of my guard.
I have been working on my army since years now, due to an horribly constrained schedule at first, then periods of demotivation.
Imperial Guard is back on 2009, I have to go on.
I will show a large selection of my work, in chronological order until those I've finished recently.


My preferred IG minis are Valhallans. I've dreamed of such an IG army since the legendary 2nd edition herohammer 40k time.
Eventually I began 40k when 4th edition hit the stores. Get lucky to grab the last remaining blisters of valhallan stuff in several stores in France (GW & indep').
At this time they had became nearly OOP. Fortunately ebay was there to complete my lines.




back in 2005
So first IG minis I have painted:



Base coat slightly clearer than on the final result, to let room for a layer of stabilized citadel dark inks. Then drybrush and rough highlights.
I took more care on faces.



2006/2007
Realising that I will not achieve any improvements with drybrushing (which I never handled really well), I tried glacis technique. Beginnings were desperately hard, and it took ridiculously long time to finish a handful of 4-5 minis. But I improved and actually like this technique. It revealed useful for gradations on tissues and faces.





Vallejo color, dark citadel inks, multiple layers of glacis with Vallejo (corrections in shadows, then steps of highlighting). Still some drybrush in a few areas (czapka, ground, metal). Guns with Humbrol "metalcote".



Oh it is late !!
To be continued...

Looking good man, looking forward to the see the army in its completed majesty. Did you sculpt the respirator? Metal aspects are beautiful as well.

Very nice! Keep the pics comming and lets see some tanks! If they are done as well as your regular troopies they should be top notch!

very nice great facial detail

Yeah, those faces are awesome! I bet they still pop at a distance of several feet, too. Nice work.

Very nice! I'm another 'let's see some tanks!'

Nice pics! And I see your sergeants are even armed properly for the new codex . How many valhallans do you have?

Hi and thanks for your encouragements.

I've painted only ~35 valhallans actually, plus a squad of stormtroopers and a sentinel.
Just enough for patrol sized games.
Plus some already painted used things from ebay.
Fortunately, I had access to some other stuff to play games (usually 1k pts), grants to friends and local gaming association.


More pictures will be added as soon as I select / tone-correct / resize them.
Bye.