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I've never been one to shy away from a bandwagon ....

I've always liked the Imperial Guard, they have far more character than a Space Marine force but the task of painting a guard army is quite daunting. As they are the flavor of the month and I really like the new book IG it is.

I have various IG minis I've collected over the years from previous attempts at this, I have added some new models too and am determined not to stop till they are all painted into a cohesive guard army.

Heres the first batch of painted minis, all comments and critique welcome..

Russ


2nd Russ


Infantry squad


multilaser scout sentinels


penal troops, as you can see I am using Catachans to represent these, I think they kinda suit the role so have armed them with a variety of guns pistols and knives to show the special rules.


Finally a hydra, these seem great with the new codex, oddly the gun barrels look warped on this pic, they dont in real life?



Loads more to come, time to get cracking on more troops....

Good stuff I've always found white hard to paint. Also like the rust effect.

Love the names on the tanks. Female Names always seem right to me for vehicles. The basing is also nice and simple but well thought out. I like the paths on the sentinels bases.

Thanks for the comments so far. yeah I like to name my IG tanks after ex girlfriends, kinda gives me a chuckle when they explode.

Gonna finish off the next infantry squad tonight and do some work on my shadowsword.

Rosy?Lucy?


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WHY DON;T YOU GIVE THE SENTINELS NAMES???BUÄÄÄÄ!

Looks cool,I agree name the sentinels.

Lovely white paint scheme, and great detail touches on the tanks with names/kill marks.

I agree with above. Excellent face painting on the sergeant

Well the first of my very heavy support arrived in the post. I ordered 2 warhound titans!

The first was from a fella on ebay, he has already painted it but luckily it has been done lightly. I'm gonna paint over the blue and red stripes. All he has done to the insides and other parts is paint them a metal colour so I'll carry that ont and add a lot more detail.

Heres what I got...



Unfortunately when I checked its missing its forward hull roof!!

I emailed the dude and he has managed to blag a replacement from FW which he is gonna send up. I'll just work on the rest of it in the meantime.

I should get Orcboys 'hound too this week too, my Imperial army is starting to look scary!