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Hi

I'm trying to get a new Imperial Guard army started. I used to play guard back in 2nd ed as my first army. Now with the release of the new Guard codex and the beautiful valkyrie kit it is time to start building a new guard army again.
I'm a sporadic painter at the best so I hope a painting blog can help me to be a bit more consistent in my painting schedule. The idea is that the army will be a fully mechanized army when it's finished some time in the far distant future. I'm tying to go for a red army steppe theme for the army.
So here are my first few figures all opinions and criticism are appreciated. Oh and I would really be grateful if I could some name suggestions for the regiment my mind is blank atm.





This is what I'm intending to work on next.

Thats pretty awesome, what heads are those?

Looks like a solid start, might have to keep track of this one


also, on a random note
Got your name from a game?

Thanks for the kind comments. The heads are from Pig-Iron http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/ they are really good sculpts and fits the Cadian figures perfectly.
@JD21290 No from the Red October film probably describes my play style

Looks like its going to be really good!

I really like the camo scheme you've got here; excellent stuff

Ivan , how did you paint the goggle lenses?

Gotta love thos Pig Iron heads, I have them on my guard as well.

Really looking good with those models and the colour scheme is great. Cant wait to see this blog progress.

Ramius's World?
Ryan's World?
Ramius's Landing?
Uralia?

Also I'd be tempted to google/wikipedia Soviet Submarine and Port names as well as the characters from Red October! Another option is to take darts and through at a map of Russia see what names come out!

The heads look great and I love the Cammo patterns!

These models look great! I shall be watching this blod with some interest.

I absolutely love the camo, might have to steal it for my scout snipers. Could we have a step-by-step of how you did it please?!

Hello again, small update I'm getting the Hq figures ready for priming today.
Thanks again for the comments feedback is always appreciated.
Lunahound I'm painting the lenses the same way you normally paint gemstones to. I took a close up of one soldier, the important part is to put on some gloss varnish afterwards.


Llamahead thanks for the name suggestions, I'm thinking of reinstalling S.T.A.L.K.E.R again on my pc for some inspiration.

Vitruvian XVII sure no problem I use vallejo colours for this. Starting out with a base coat of dessert yellow and shades with earth and charred brown. the camo stripes are terracotta and russian green same green that I use on the armour. I usually darken down the colour for my first layer and then paint it over with the original colour leaving a thin edge of the darkened part. This will increase the contrast a bit and make it stand out more.

About the pig iron heads they give the cadian figures better proportions in my opinion the original heads makes them look a bit squashed for some reason.

The camo looks awesome, great job!

they remind me somewhat of the Helghast from Killzone. i like

They're awesome but I feel they need backpack

Awesome!!

Hello thanks again for the comments. I have started to paint the Hq squad as usual things are progressing slowly, but here are some early w.i.p. photos.





Here are also two more guardsmen i have started on, I'm not sure about the green stuffed hood on the flamer guardsman. Hopefully I can beat my bad habit of starting to paint lots of figures and take to long finishing them.

Lovin the camo scheme you have going .

slann wrote:Lovin the camo scheme you have going .

qft
camo looks awesome

These are looking ace. The camo scheme is well chosen, looks like Flora used by the Russian Federation Armed Forces.

And excellent greenstuff use on the kolony militia head with the flamer.

this is awesome i want more info

endtransmission wrote:I really like the camo scheme you've got here; excellent stuff

I agree, and the Basing complements it very well.

Awsome work man , I have a platoon of IG I'm working on using the same Pig Iron heads and I'll be following your blog for inspiration.

I agree with Infiltrator though you need some backpacks on those suckers, I always felt that IG look under equipped

Very nice. I have to say I prefer the camouflaged helmet to the green one. Logic says it should be green like the other armour, but the camo makes it act as a focal point, which is always good for a head.

Nice lookin guys you got there. Just when I think I've seen enough of those pig iron heads, someone comes along and makes em look good

Fantastic! I really like how the CS is coming along. I agree with everyone else, the camo pattern is outstanding. I look forward to your next set of pics.

very nice army.

OOO! OOOO! a name... THE TRENCH HUGGERS

sweet paintjob so far!

Love the Pig Iron heads. Looks great!