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Evangelist looking crisp!

Sorry to hear the nuCadians are scalecreeped too far to be of use to you. The new MKVI tac kit invalidated the vast majority of my own beakie models & bits so I know how you feel.. For me, it forced me to abandon all of my previous infantry models, but considering how much conversion and kitbashing work you do to your models, I can totally understand why something like that is never going to be a viable option to you. But as you are an experienced modellist and a bits hound extraordinaire, I'm sure you will do okay despite the new stuff being unusable for you.

Happy holidays!

EDIT: Since you have firsthand experience with the nuCadians now, can you tell me how much hope is there for kitbashing nuCads with the plastic DKoK? I have been thinking about expanding my DKoK KillTeam into a smallish IG partol for 40K (Allied detachment style), but for that, I'd want plastic artillery and heavy weapons platforms. Do you reckon the nuCad Artillery & Hvy Wpn platform kits could work kitbashed into plastic DKoK, so as to create Krieg artillery & Hvy Wpns? Since the DKoK kit comes with two kneeling models, I'd think I'd mostly need nuCad arms compatibility in terms of scale..

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chigwell, essex

tnaks Tauist. I did throw my toys out the pram a little there but I was just pissed that the new models are just too tall against the current ones.
however, As you say, I'm a perrenial bits-hunter so they'll get used if not just as bits, perhaps a new army might be in the offing next year? we shall see...

nuCads have pretty good clean arm joins.
much like the DKOK plastics. I'd say the two should be pretty interchangable in the arm regions.
meaning that the kriegers will definately be ok with the nucad arms. (I feel anyway)
the pads on the Nucads are a bit sleeker than the DKOK ones but the two are close enough so that as long as you use both right and left arm of the cadian on a krieg model they wont be mismatched. and will still look good if models are mixed in the squad too...

TBH with a bit of GS, to fix the neck join, there is no reason you couldn't graft a dkok head onto the new artillery torso (Im thinking of the sitting guy in particular) and then fit the rebreather tube into a suitable pocket mounted on the chest (a single one from the assault or heavy intercessors kits would be ideal).

you'd not notice any of the real scale issues I have as my models are 90% anvil. making them +/- the scale of FW Elysians (or second edition guardsmen if You're an oldblood, like me).
But The dkok and nuCads should be fine. and I've handled both kits so AFAIC you can trust me on that one. but I'm not going to say it'll be easy. nothing worth doing ever is...

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chigwell, essex


Adeptus Mechanicus Scribe Dorothy Maitrykes has been in service to the Omnissiah for untold years.
Dot currently finds herself writing her memoirs about her time in the Eoforwich system...


Yup, another Anvil female mini, the 'scribe'.
Again, taken from the sisters of the burning rose range, she oozes 40k vibes.
I went for classic ad-mech scheme, but kept the white to a minimum, to prevent the santa-look from creeping in.
I did do the feather-quill white as a compromise.
The rest of her kit is the usual bronze/brass and steel you'd expect from the ad-mech but I decided to add the green to the holster for some interesting contrast to all the warm tones of the red-robes/brown-leathers and to tie her in with the eoforwich troopers a bit.
one touch I added at the last minute was the turquoise marbley finish to the scroll-tube as a nice reference to the GW studio third edition Dark eldar (and also the deamonhunter) minis that often had this effect/scheme on. ('twas Matt Parkes that started that off I believe).

more soon...
   
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That's a great sculpt and your paintjob does justice to it as always. Thanks also for elaborating on the kitbash potential of the new IG plastics, arm swaps are probably going to be enough for me to get acceptable artillery bashes done
   
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chigwell, essex

no worries Tauist.
am very much looking forward to seeing them from you...
   
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chigwell, essex


Agent William, J Blazkowicz
A master of stealth and secrecy, B.J, is the filey droptroop's bad-boy of espionage and terminal action seeker.
Armed with a silenced bolt pistol and mono-filament dagger, B.J is sent into enemy territory to seek and destroy enemy targets, his demolition charges making short work of enemy vehicles and bunkers, in and out with nothing but bodies and smoking rubble to show he was ever even there...


so yeah, this is my Filey version of Sly Marbo.
yup I know I already did the rioteer for the 39th's Marbo but I felt the filey could use someone similar!
I chose wolfenstein's protagonist as the inspiration due to the filey's american theme...
based on anvil stuff, he uses the d-day torso with fatigue legs, got to have the matching kneepads with the rest of the filey troops right?
The head, pistol and holster all come from the scoutsprue, the silencer a piece cut from an imperial tank smoke-launcher to better match the design of the astartes sniper and stalker bolter silencers some.
The silenced boltpistol was a nice nudge to both the silenced sten and luger in rtcw and a suitable weapon for infiltration and assasination if ever I saw one...
His knife is from the oldcadian sprue but whittled down into a stabbier point to make it look more like the commando knife from RTCW.
The dynamite charges are from the old whf handgunner's sprue and the pockets are straight off the assault intercessor sprue.
The lid on his waist is cut from a victoria lamb arcadian head and was just added for a bit of interest but any would have done I suppose.
I just liked the pack of fags tucked into the strap.
Yes, the pose is more or less the same as on my 39th infantry sgt. But this time I have left the arm joint un-glued so that this pose is also possible:

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Nice work on your newest additions, digging the scribe, gonna have to find a copy for myself!

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That's wild! If someone said to me they'll use a SM scout head on a regular human model, I'd think there'd be no way you could make it look decent, the head being enormous and all.. And yet, here it is, and it looks great somehow! Well done
   
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BJ looks great, love the Wolfenstein reference and that is the best use of that scout head ever (including on scouts themselves ) Extra points for the pose-ability!

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chigwell, essex

thanks guys!

You know, I've never understood all the hate out there for the scout heads.
I love them! I've been using them on guard since back when guard and scouts were both metal! (was a wastefull and expensive method back then but it got results nonetheless!)

17 of my royston rifles have them and 6 of my 8 spaceshark scouts use them too. ok the scouts were based on palanite enforcers so the scale is better but the roystonrifles are just anvil guardsmen.

I think it comes back to the scale style.
anvils scale is closely linked to the classic guardsmen proportions but is just a lot more refined on the details. therfore a slightly large head doesn't always look jarring as we've been programmed by GW to accept them, as all the original metal guard were that way.
at least thats my assumption
in fact the (now) older plastic cadians heads were too, just try putting an old cadian head on on a nucadian body.
its a bobbleead doll... LOL
   
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Northumberland

Great updates mate, I particularly like the admech scribe.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the new cadians.

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chigwell, essex

 Olthannon wrote:
...I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the new cadians

oh, ok then

this is a wip shot of an upcoming regiment I have in mind. The Selby 151st Infantry Division.
shown here are two kill-team veteran characters I have so far.

Col. Falk - partial to a meta-bomb and a good old pose-up...
scout-head again (you've set the bar for a challenge guys!) and anvil fatigue arms with slung 'york' pattern lascarbine. the hands are from the gsc's neophytes

Spence - always keeps a shotgun handy, for close encounters
Anvil watch-cap head and spare knife and GSC's shotgun arms (salvaged from my old gsc's minis) with spareshells onthe webbing fromthe DW kit

yes I've got over my tantrum around the scale issue of the nucads vs the anvil minis. the answer? new regiment. if they stand alone and are all made from the nucads, problem solved... ish...

looking at the new stuff, as I've already said, the nucads have just as much in common with the metal mini's designs as they do with the 2002 cadians.
the webbing, the redesign of the helmets, the kit on the webbing etc... all nice design cues that hark back to the 2nd/3rd edition aesthetics.
However, I'd been trying to figure out what it was I've been missing, so-to-speak on the most recent guard minis thats present on the old ones and not the new ones and today it hit me.
its the bloody shoulderpads!

many of the old guard minis had pads the same as the cadians of the time, the over-the-shoulder pad, not around-the-shoulder pauldron style.
the cadians, tank crew, tallarns, even the tanith first had them.

with this in mind I set about getting something appropriate and hit on the necromunda vansaar pads. literally perfect for the job. I could have shaved off the stripes but these reminded me of the tanith ones and I found I rather liked painting the extra detail back when I did those so I figured they were good here as-is. saves a hell of a lot of work and still does the job exactly as I wanted it so jobs done on those AFAIC...

now this opens new problems. only arms without existing pads will look the part. meaning two things. either the arms have to be from someone like anvil or mad-robot or the existing pads must be meticulously removed and resculpted as cloth as needed (as I've done ont he GSC shotgun arms)
a mix of this will be present as/if I continue this.

Although these two have bare-heads (scout and anvil respectively), I will be using helmeted heads but not the nucads.
I will say only one thing about those; "Batter up!".

Instead I shall be using anvil alternatives with some greenstuff tinkering to look a little more akin to the classic cadians.
Before you suggest it, No, I shant be using Vikky Lamb's arcadian heads either as I'm not a huge fan of that particular sculpt. (the faces? I dunno. something just feels off about those and I want some gasmask ones too and anvil has something ideal on that part.)

A good mix of weapons and a ton of character is the intent. we shall just have to see If I succeed on that part though...

I've still a dozen filey guys to get done first... sigh... why do I always do that, eh?
I go and start a new project that gets my imagination burning with ideas before the previous is quite finished?
but then don't we all in this hobby?

oh yeah the black parts are scavanged off of my old GSC engineer conversions (I did for the proto-royston rifles) that I stripped in the safety-clean tank at work.
five minutes at 35 degrees C and a quick going over with a toothbrush and airline and they're back to undercoat.
yes, I found a quick, easy and safe way of stripping plastic minis... its a miracle! shh... dont tell GW they'll cry with dispair!

lols

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Lovely updates, I should pop in here more often. I really like your new characters.

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Northumberland

Excellent work, this is my favourite thing about the Guard. You can really convert some cool original regiments. The shoulder pads were a great choice.

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chigwell, essex

thanks folks, been too busy for painting but here are four more of the WIP's of the Selby 151st veterans:


O'neil - master of looking cool at all times, even under fire...
anvil fatigue arms, beret head and the hand from the cyberpunk hackerpad for the smoking-posed fingers.


Clint - Stone-cold Cut-throat killer...
another with the Anvil watch-caps (like 'spence', the shotgunner I showed before) this one uses the gasmask one to hide his face and give him a bit more menace and mystery. the knife is the new bayonet from the cadian sprue but mounted on the DKOK flamer support arm hand.
and yes, geting the lasgun on this posed arm was an absolute cowson... but well worth it I feel...


Ford - All-round bad-ass soldier. A little inexperienced but makes up for it with enthusiasm and confidence.
Rolled sleeve arms from anvil, another beret head (this time goggled) and more time than I'd care to admit getting the arms and gun to allign in a manner that looked convincing.
It came out better than the one I did for the bebbanburg commando but I feel thats down to both my increased experiance and the fact the nucadian proportions make the lascarbine's stout proportions a little less exaggerated somehow...
kinda how the scout-head on 'Falk', the meltabomber from the other post looks ok considering how much larger it is than the nucadian heads.


Sgt. Basilone - hero of legend
this one's based on the real-life marine sgt who's acolades went on to inspire the captain america legends... go look him up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Basilone
(or go watch HBO's 'the Pacific' )
Identified by his iconic "stinger" heavy-stubber, (yes, also from anvil) this mini also shows off the Anvil M1 helmet heads that my regular troopers of the 151st will be wearing.
These other troopers are to be considered veterans/kill-team specials, Basilone being a one-off special character (like Harker if he's still in the codex?)
The rank and file will also be sporting M1 helmets, both with and without net covers and gasmasks, and will be armed with the classic 'galaxy' pattern lasgun (for that oldschool 2nd/3rd ed cadian look) because the 'york' pattern lascarbines are expensive and bloody hard to convert to look good on the model's arms, LOL so consider those bullpup carbines as for the veterans only...


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Edinburgh

Aha yes, the slippery slope of every Guard collector - creating new regiments!

Nice combo of parts indeed, mate. I do like those ‘heavy stubber’ arm sets - I’d love to do a squad or two of heavy shock troops wielding some of them like the Jantine in Gaunt’s ‘Ghostmaker’.

I have a sergeant in the same bolt pistol and scout head pose lol!!

   
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Oh snap, that didn't take very long..

Looking forward to these as always!
   
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Nice work on the new regiment!
I kinda had the opposite head problem to you with the old Cadians, a lot of the Necromunda heads were too small to use with them...

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chigwell, essex

LOLs I never had that problem as the anvil figs looked fine with necromunda heads!
however the new cadian heads are really really small... I refer the anvil sized stuff on them whic is a good size between old(2002) and new (2022) cadians...

First of the Selby 151st done:

Yup I know, the colurscheme is a rehash of my old Royston 111st...
In all honesty the Selby 151st is kinda just a reimagining of them; the bullpup rifles, the colourscheme, the characterisations, all in common with the 111st, but just done better. I've learnt a lot since then; My conversion is better resulting in more natural poses, my GS sculpting vastly improved and most of all the painting is tonnes better. IMHO anyhow...

more soon...

including this guy;

he uses anvil arms, (which were mismatched, but are fixed with a bit of GS for a matching rolled sleeve)
His head is from the reptillian overlords Space-nam sprue.
But more on that later...

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The new regiment is looking good, looks like the new cadians are a good base for conversion work!

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chigwell, essex

thanks, ph34r.

they are indeed a fair base for conversion, once you get past all the usual hissyfits and grumbles of a hobbyist thats spent 30 years in the game and cringes at the thought of any change being anything else other than bad news.

truth is they are good. and its as simple as that.
a bit tall, yes but good nonetheless.

I shant pretend that converion is easy by any means, but that is more than likely the added effort of trying to make my own bullpup lasguns out of mk4 heresy flamers and then grafting those onto 3rd party arms and then in turn grafting those onto the cadian torsos.

nucadians are a bit wider in the torso by half a mill or so (not got my vernier calipers about this weekend so cant say 100% for sure how much bigger exactly)
making arm swaps a little fudgey, but nothing a good setof clippers, a knife and a pack of greenstuff cant fix...

I think that DKOK rifle arms would look great on them, for exmple. Alas I've used all mine on the Filey drop-troops or I'd show one as a proof of concept but I'd say off the top of my head that they'd look the part no problem...

also, FYI, the new cadian heads are +/- the same scale as the plastic DKOK ones...

just food for thought...

also, anyone after the new cadian heads, I shant be using mine (too small I feel), so drop me a message if you're in dire need of any specifics...
   
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 osjclatchford wrote:
His head is from the reptillian overlords Space-nam sprue.
But more on that later...
Tease!

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Northumberland

Brill work, I've got that itch in my head to start a new IG regiment and this isn't helping! It started ever since I started reading the new Gaunts Ghosts book.

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In the Loft

Beautiful stuff as always mate and your parts scrounging ability is first class
   
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chigwell, essex

Thanks guys. lots more to show this weekend I hope.

must ask you though, anyone got any Idea where in the cursed-name-of-the-eye can I find some scout missile launchers...
one would do for now but I think I'll need at least three... yup more conversion fodder incoming...
If you've one or more knocking about I'd be only too happy to take them off your hands for the appropriate price/trade.

Marine ones would do at a pinch but its the everso slightly smaller nature (it is mostly inperceptable I know) and ease of conversion that the scout one affords that attracts me to it. the current tactical and devastator launchers have gone a step backward and are all but one piece; gun arm and puldon.
making the desired conversion both messy and cumbersome, let alone expensive and time consuming...

none on bitzbox (big surprise) and ebay is surprsingly empty of them...sigh...

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chigwell, essex

Nothing painted to show as yet as I've had a bit of a weekend of chores and stuff that crept up on me but I've got some bits I built as WIP during the week to show, so even If I dont get any painiting done tomorrow, theres something to see!


Major Sterling

this one uses anvil head and arms (one is cyberpunk sprue, tother fatigue)
the bullets on the webbing are anvil, the radio and smokegrenade from the spacenam sprue and the pistol is orlock necromunda on a GSC jackals hand. the holster is from the nucadian sprue.

in other news I've been getting one hell of a piss-poor service from Bitzbox of late. lots of missing bits in three orders in a row now.
the first I overlooked. the second I called craig on and he claimed it was out of stock even though there were four on the site when I ordered. I pressed him still and got a refund for the the missing bits then discoverd the lasguns I ordered were wrong too. and now again, bits missing... Sigh... I've got no apology about it either. Three times now and
I think its pretty bad all told so do be carefull and check what you get is what you order in future...

   
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Love the new addition. That pistol is awesome. Very Dirty Harry.

As for the Missile launchers. I'm afraid not mate as I have never even bought the plastic scouts. All mine are metal
   
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Those models are looking great. I like the shoulder pads a lot.

Bitzbox used to be great, shame to hear the service is declining.

Edit: where are the "York" pattern lasguns from? They look good. Also look plastic.

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