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Nice work in here. Tortured robot and Ailaros in particular, excellent stuff

Always happy for an excuse to show off

I've converted all of my force, but most of it is small infantry stuff and head swaps. The more serious stuff is below.
CCS with Carapace


Astropath


Hydra, Russ and Chimera:




Executioner/Punisher




Vendetta


Storm troopers


And my most heavily converted guys, the Stalker class rough riders (currently being painted)

Love the rough riders, very original idea. What are the guns?

Ta. The guns are Hasslefree CAD guns. Really nice pieces. they have 2 bullpup designs of which these are the smaller and hence these are counts as laspistols with the longer wearpons as lasguns.

Those rough riders are insanely awesome sir! I commend your work and look forward to seeing more.

Flinty, that female astropath is really great! Do you mind sharing which model you used as a base? Seems like it is a fantasy model of some sort.

DarkTraveler777 wrote:Flinty, that female astropath is really great! Do you mind sharing which model you used as a base? Seems like it is a fantasy model of some sort.

I think its the Lahmia Vampire

WOW Great stuff guys they all look great , i didn't imagine this topic would be so popular and that so many people play guard

Congratulations to everyone on there hard work these conversions look awsome ,Keep up the good work

Hits_the_spot wrote:Heres my attempts, this squad was done quite a while ago now, but im starting to get back to the Inq army i have planed, so will be piking up where i left off.



Im looking forward to seeing this thread grow, as i think IG are one of the most characterful and varied army in the 40k universe.

Those are some very cool weapons and please let us know when they are available. I'd love to use them.

I have some sad kit-bashing jobs. Will post them when it stops raining and I can prime again.

tortured robot you were asking me where my efforts were well i am busy painting it at the moment so i will try and get it up soon and if your wondering what it is , it's a Griffon that i converted out of the basilisk it is a really simple conversion but i think it looks great so i will try and get that and some other stuff that i have done up soon hope you enjoy

The astropath is based on the other lahmian vampire

DarkTraveler777 wrote:Flinty, that female astropath is really great! Do you mind sharing which model you used as a base? Seems like it is a fantasy model of some sort.

Thanks

What Lalabox said. Its the most clothed Lahmian vampire I could find with the teeth filed down and a GS blindfold added. I also thought that the staff made more sense than the weird snakey thing on the other foot vampire. The skull staff was modded with wings from the old Guard vehicle accessory sprue.

These are really old (2005/2006) but they are relevant to this thread.

Afriel Strain.





Assassin




Imperial Special Forces








Darkchild

Sweet mini's Darkchild!

at darkchild

i think that´s how catachans where ment to look like. that´s the look i have in mind when thinking about the first predator movie. outstanding work.
love it.

cheers, vik

@Darkchild - wow. Those are absolutely superb! Thanks for sharing. How long did it take to model and paint each guy?

Thanks for the comments, i feel like im cheating by posting stuff thats so old but i thought it was worth contributing.

As for how long it took to do each mini, for the Afriels and special forces guys i would build one an evening, quite slowly. when the whole squad were done i would paint one every evening (i use modelling minis to relax so i do things very slowly).
In total i would say each trooper is about 6 hours work. most of that is waiting for green stuff to dry before starting the next part.

The assassin took considerably longer.

Darkchild

It's not cheating, however old they are they still look great. I love the special forces guys.

Heres a few of mine , i like this thread

Wow, love the GoW guys, Neil! Immediately recognisable and a generally awesome job

Thanks Scarper , I think the green stuffing could be a bit neater , but getting better, Cogs and Gears just look great i think. very 40k
@ dark child those predator style ig are amazing mate! good work!

Heres my IG: Svog 227th

Platoon II done

My rough riders, usiong DE cold ones:




A converted hellhound




And not 100% IG, but definitely imperial, my knight titan, whioch can double as a Leman Russ in friendly games:

cool titan, is that a sentinel front for a head, nice idea...

vik

Nice minis in here. Really like the plasma glow on Darkchilds, always thought that look awesome, is it a hard effect to achieve?

Ailaros wrote:my army is nearly totally composed of models that have been converted in some way or another. Some of my fav's are these guys:

my ogryn:



my priests:



my commissars:



a random officer, guardsman, and my astropath:



And one of my guard-themed objective markers:



Among others...

I'm a fan of your army, I've read most of your site, particularly enjoy your battle reports.

But my one complaint? Your Commissars shouldn't be the same ethnicity as your army; they're off-worlders ALWAYS.

Unless all three of them are coincidentally from an Arabic(?)-themed world?

There are some incredible guard conversions here - great thread man.

Here are some of my efforts:

The Catachan 187th Regiment sallying forth from FOB DEVIL.


The kill team (with Nork Deddog):


A vindicare assassin:


A few ogryn:


And a pair of SGT Harker conversions:



I'll stop there!

Again, great thread - I love these guard conversions.

qoute "Arabic themed world " lol Why?

Viktor von Domm wrote:cool titan, is that a sentinel front for a head, nice idea...

vik

Thanks! And yes, it's and old sentinel head with some of the old metal cadian bits. The new sentinels should make this even easier

Here are my Praetorian Special Forces (counts as stormies) and their transport. I used some resin helmets from TrooperPX, Kaybukia Pulse Rifles and for the turbo jets a GI Joe six sigma dragon hawk (it's missing a forgeworld punisher cannon under the nose) I've converted three valks for other storm trooper units for the apocalypse datasheet. Will have to do a bit of green stuffing, hand turning etc for the guns to fully fit all the poses but quite happy. Armour will be black, red shirts, blue legs.










Bigger versions at my flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26990385@N06/