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Finally finished off my Guard HB teams, and thought I should share

Extremely happy with the results (especially the magnetized assistants), now lets see if the paint increases their effectiveness in a game tonight





(More pics in my gallery)

Cool. Are the heads from pigiron?

Thanks

Yeah, Pig Iron Heavy Infantry helmets.

That drink bottle top looks really great. when i say it unpainted i had my doubts, but they are gone now. great work.

Flinty, your guard is awesome. Could you possibly take a pic of the second HB team from a different angle? I cant really see them behind that weird piece of metal

Ask and ye shall receive... although thre a\re a bunch more pics of both teams in my Dakka Gallery.

The attention to detail really makes this great to me
Even the tactical tri-fingerless gloves (remind me of mine lol)

The use of common items and parts add to the basing to make them even better.
Also, the cammo doesent look like the 5 min quick cammo you usually see.
It stands ouot well and looks like it actually works.


Also, i take it those are pigiron heads, but what ones please?

Wow, looks awesome! Could you tell me what kind of rifles those guys have? Did you convert them? Or are they bought as-is?

I like them! what arms do you use on the heavy bolter gunners?

( i have lots of heavy bolter bits un used, this looks good! )

Oooh... responses Thanks for the compliments, all. I think this is the best thing about Dakka, i.e. the support and encouragement for what is, in essence, rather a hard job

@JD21290 - I wanted to do gloved hands but I thought they would be a bit lost as almost all tactical gloves are camo or black. the fingerless aproach was a nice compromise. They are Pig Iron heads of the Heavy Infantry Visored variety. I went for the Mixed Heads sprues in order to get my mitts on the sweet, sweet additional optics helmet variant

@augfubouy - The rifles are Hasslefree Miniatured CAD guns type 2. I also use the CAD type 1 to represent cabines/laspistols. They are pretty much bought as-is but they are bullpup and need to be trimmed a bit to fit the Cadian arms. I have a few guys wandering about with the full rifles, with the rest obviously hiding portions of the gun under arms, etc

@Luna - The gunners both use one of the heavy weapon firing arms (can't remember if they come from the heavy weapons sprue or the Guard tank pintle mount arms... the two are rather similar). I trimmed off the central portion of the handles and the other arm, leaving the heavy trigger handle on the arm I wanted to use. The arm supporting the weapon is just the ML support arm.

Really like this. More good work from you Flinty. How is the lying down gunner achieved? Is it just adjusting the leg position on the base or is greenstuff involved?

No greenstuff on the prone gunner. I just had to file down the rear of the torso a little and leave a big gap between the belt and the legs at the front. However as he's lying down you can't tell

Thanks dude! I looked at the rest of your army at the Gallery and the tanks are awesome too!

Good job!