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Njal the Weatherman wrote:Another Update, this time on a very welcome package in the mail, CADIANS! i got 40 cadians guardsmen, 2 command squads, 2 sentinels, 2 heavy weapons teams, and the screaming image of cadia besides guardsmen, a leman russ (demolisher), i was really torn between these and the new Grey knights, but the arrival has silenced my fears, as i love the amount of custom ideas for a IG force
My questions is should i join these projects or make a new thread? make a combined on more exciting than 2 different ones.
So im torn between which Variant of leman russ i should take, ive always had a soft spot for the Punisher or the Executioner, so if anyone got ideas let me know, as for the Heavy weapon teams and sentinels i was thinking Autocannons all around, maybe, as for configuration of guardsmen i was thinking 25 (including 5 command) as a platoon and 20 veterans, with this i have 6 extra models due to the Heavy weapons, ideas anyone? so please let me know if i should converge or not and any comments welcome, waiting for the citadel basing kit and pig iron heads to really dig into these!

Keep it all on one thread.
Plus is this force of Cadians going to tag along with the Blood angels?

Asherian Command wrote:

Njal the Weatherman wrote:Another Update, this time on a very welcome package in the mail, CADIANS! i got 40 cadians guardsmen, 2 command squads, 2 sentinels, 2 heavy weapons teams, and the screaming image of cadia besides guardsmen, a leman russ (demolisher), i was really torn between these and the new Grey knights, but the arrival has silenced my fears, as i love the amount of custom ideas for a IG force
My questions is should i join these projects or make a new thread? make a combined on more exciting than 2 different ones.
So im torn between which Variant of leman russ i should take, ive always had a soft spot for the Punisher or the Executioner, so if anyone got ideas let me know, as for the Heavy weapon teams and sentinels i was thinking Autocannons all around, maybe, as for configuration of guardsmen i was thinking 25 (including 5 command) as a platoon and 20 veterans, with this i have 6 extra models due to the Heavy weapons, ideas anyone? so please let me know if i should converge or not and any comments welcome, waiting for the citadel basing kit and pig iron heads to really dig into these!

Keep it all on one thread.
Plus is this force of Cadians going to tag along with the Blood angels?

I was planning on, though the color scheme will be far from red, what ever color i usually paint space marines i come to despise, except white, but i was thinking along the lines on a planet under siege by chaos and they call for help for the Blood angels, and the Imperial guard will be a different responding force/local garrison, haven't decided quite yet, pondering it though

Welcome to the custom-IG party! One thing that i would say before setting off on a wonderfully intricate and needlessly fiddly path, less is more. 2-3 small adjustments will look much more effective than one big one. Anyway, love your work and I will be keeping an eye on this thread for the mountain of epicness that is taking shape.

Alright well due to the power being out..... twice for about 90 minutes i got these done, was going to wait but all my families gone for a few days and got nothing better to do, so i left the heads off for the Pig Iron heads, i plan on some cadian heads with rebreathers for that toxic theme, so i got 2 heavy weapons (autocannon/ missile launcher) and Sentinel, please let me know what you think of missile launcher targeter to "touch screen" targeter, and the GW sprue trenches and Barricades, comments and questions welcome

Fluff!: So The planet of Kalvian Prime is the capital of the trade hub Kalvian sub sector famed for it's stability and lack of corruption due to it's location in the inner sectors, very close to Terra . Far from the madness of the Eye of Terror and the menace called the Great Devourer. Thus this Planet and sub sector thrive into a gleaming example of commerce and production in the imperium. Due to the Small forge world located in the system doubled with the surrounding agri-worlds make this a very rich sector with the technology to mirror it. Thus the legions of PDF and Tithe guard regiments are the most supplied for many systems and serve with valour, much more so than the average guard army. Though for all this success has led to laxity and ignorance to the rogue psykers in the system. These Rogue psykers hidden in the worlds of the system act as a beacon to the marauders of chaos that would gladdy see this system burn. Chaos Warships spill from the warp into the system, after a prolonged battle the Kalvian Fleet is forced to abandon the system to call reinforcements. Without the Fleets the Worlds of the Kalvian system fall one by one till all but Kalvian Prime stand in the way of the oncoming wave of chaos. As the invasion begins the traitors attack without much success, as the Iron willed Kalvians repel each landing with Chemical and mechanized assault in the toxic Urban hive environment of the world. But the Psykers open a small rift to the warp causing daemons to spill through the gap in limited numbers, enough to tip the balance. Like a cancer the forces ravage the world forcing the Kalvians to retreat until all the remains is Principus Hive as the Last bastion of hope for the planet. As the forces of Chaos make prepare their final assault a stirke force of the Angels Encarmine reinforce the beleagued defenders as a last bid for time to give the imperial forces time to arrive to help. If they fll,l Chaos shall spill will greater force from the rift into the undefended heart of the Imperium causing untold damage before being halted.

Nice looking heavy wepons teams!

Really like the missile launcher, very cool use of bits

mate thats a ton of sprues to get through there,don't worry your not the only one just take a deep breath and dive in.

Epic, so much plastic gaurd, which I had that much, ironically my first sentinel looks almost identical apart from the direction of turn. One thing I love is the librarian, I love th pastel blue as well as the intricate armour. All the models ( gw made ) seem to be so devoid of chapter iconography so it's nice tonsee one that looks like he belongs for once
Keep up the good work

More updates, been waiting a bit for last of my mail to come, which it did earlier today, been holding back a bit waiting for the heads and i very exciting to dive into this project!
Got Imperial guard done, i worked on the command squad and the Leman Russ, which if i remember right i haven't assembled a new one and the treads were a million times better than the old on and even a rhino with the groves for the track to be glued into, so i got like 4 fully assembled, waited for basing kit for the bases so only the commander got a base
In the mail i got a basing kit, 60 pig iron heads, and white primer from army painter since i ordered the pig iron heads from the warstore for shipping since pig iron is in the UK if i remember right so i though i would try it due to the good things ive heard from it, along with that i picked up some books since i got family visiting and i go to the book sorry with some of them while their around
I also am doing a angel encarmine for the marine swap thread, got all of the base coloring done and washed it, which makes it smell bad and all the re coloring after the red gets old fast,
I also want to know what to make my last command squad dude, plasma or vox? or ever llike a standard bearer, idk
I also got 5 plasma guns from GW, converted it on one guy, slightly smaller on him that plastic IG one, looks better sense it looks more useful to him that the SM sized one
anyway comments/questions are welcomed!

Some more imperial guard related updates!
Got some Veterans, command squad and tank done, made a plastic master of the fleet also since it blends into the squad way better than a metal model would have
Been working on a paint scheme that ended horribly and i am back to drawing board, anyone got any good schemes that involve white?
Also just about finished my dakka marine swap dude
Beyond that comments and questions are welcomed

I love your heavy weapons team...

Great looking minis, and great paint jobs as well. Definitely going to have to steal that idea of putting ammo pouches/combat knives on the shoulder pads of tac marines

love your gaurd.....

So you're doing Angels Encarmine? I am too! I finally gave in to the desire to do a SM army, and the new BA stuff was too good to resist. I am planning on converting the feather-style wings to the bat-style wings that the Angels Encarmine use as their logo (I can understand why you're sticking with the feathers though - it's a pain in the butt!)

Look forward to seeing more finished stuff!

Update time! been painting more than assembling, also thanks to everyone for supportfull comments, really great to have them.
Anyway on to the paint scheme, i was stuck on this on, tried a scheme as you'll see and i didnt even finish basing him with colors and i knew that it wasnt going to work like that, so i pressed on and dabbled with some colors till i got something i really liked, really stands out, looks great for the effort i put into it, and only took me about 3 hours to everything but the metallics completely done, mainly
Also got another heavy weapons teams done, took an hour and a half, pain in the arse , went for a gun follows the binoculars, also if anyone wants a step by step or how i do it il gladly post up pics!
On the note of Pics Ive been fiddling with setting and these are clearer with less yellow, let me know what you think, comments and comments welcome

Time to once again show Progress!!!
alright so i got a Master of the fleet done, my lack of remembering to past before priming has really slowed this down, as i have to base, then pant over it twice and wash then dry-brush it before it is done, making it a mainly 3 day ordeal!
I did order some GK's!!! look really cool, i have been dying for about 2 and half years to do an inquisition army and the lack of buy able model have made that next to impossible due to the 50% price inflation on sisters of battle models and orginial GK's when they were up, so for once im going to real scout of the models and army more precisely that ever before, so hopefully there here before monday!
Alright also got another Heavy weapon team, i had the idea for a while and it turned out well and finished the squad for weapons, since you guys seem to love them above all else, also started the tank and some Sang guard, also got a full army shot and my basing formula! And i think the MOTF has the best face yet, let me know
Comments and questions welcomed as always, and got more army pics if wanted!

Alrighty then another update!
What i got is that im working on me leman Russ, let me know what you think of colors, i only have gotten wash and basecoat done really, and some other blue work
Also got some grey Knights, really interested in them since i have been wanting that Inquisition army a long time, if i did go along with it will be very drawn out
And some various other painting of the dudes and finished building the vet flamers and the sergeant
Comments and Questions welcomed as always

i love the blue!

More Progress!!!!
had a slight painting/assembling break and partly due to the gears of war 3 beta i haven't done a whole lot in the time between stuff
Almost finished a grey knight, started another one and have all of them primed, on top of that i primed alot of guardsmen and got them based
I got the Commander, a sentinel, a Veteran Sergeant and another one with a power sword and PP, all base coated and washed
Comments and Questions are welcomed as always,
AND on a side note thanks to all the comments and critiques that i got and a general thanks to any readers/viewer who watch or even comment to it to help me out

MOAR! WE DEMAND MOAR! Very nice i must say! very nice!

More and More Progress, if only more
Been working on the Knights of Titan, very fun detail painting, Armour finishes very fast making them to long per model unlike dark eldar and more amour based schemes
Got some Imperial progress, i did so rust work, let me know what you think, go a sgt mostly done along with working on the second guy
Also got a WIP rhino with some freehand on it as well
Comments and Questions welcome
also do you want to see some Marines since i haven't done a whole lot of them lately, or more guard exclusively or that and the knights?

Alright Progress!!! Even if because of gears of war 3 it is small
Anyway got some more Knights of titan progress in all the models have been somewhat painted at some stage, but not on entirely done
And some more Imperial guard work, including the sentinel and various models including my first go at a storm trooper
Comments and questions welcomed as always

love the stormtrooper! simple but effective!

Well imperial Progress!!!! or to much free time tonight
Got lots of assembling done! Including the Storm Troopers and the Primaris Pysker!!!!
and some other dudes for the infantry platoon
Been going a little bit crazy with some metal wiring for effects on the models, but ehhh? what can you do?
Comments and Questions are welcomed!
And thanks for the Comment Sageheart!

Alright, been busy at work on my storm troopers!!! i wanted a simplier look than some scout or heavy green stuff conversion really, and i really like how they fill out in the end, schemes go together better than i could have hoped, really was worried at the start because it doesnt come together till the last 80%
Started on the rest and the Pysker, and got some libby work done also
Comments n Questions welcomed and very much wanted, Please let me know what you think, love any critique, and ideas are also welcome, and what you want to see more of next??? Grey knights, Guardsmen or Mehreens?

the stormertroopers look good but a bit too flashy i feel like they would have more wear and tear or camo due to extensive long range operations

More progress!
i have been hard at work on the storm troopers and i can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel a bit
Got some work done, so the 1 guys done, and the sergeant is mostly complete, and then the 3rd is a bit more behind that and every other trooper is at around 60% done
Also got some pysker progress, and made maybe a lord commissar or commander conversion, idk which on i want to yet, if you got an idea let me know
Comments and Questions let me know
Also if you got an battle damage painting tips let me know, i haven't really worked on a IG battle damage so suggestions would be nice

The Angels Encarmine are nice especially the first Librarian. The guard are well executed if a bit bright for my taste. For the Heavy Weapons Squad you could try making them all. Missile Launcher, Mortar and one of the Guns can be dome without effort. I'm not sure about the Tzeentch symbol on the Primaris Psyker too heretical i my book (He's obviously a spy). The commanders looking nice although he does lack the nice hat of the Commissar!

Flicked through this thread and then realised you had PMd me about a Marine Swap! I am looking forward to it indeed! great stuff! Love the blue guard colours!! Keep up the good work!!!

Been woriking on more Progress!!
i have been mainly working on sphess mehreens!!!
i got two dakka swap models going so i got wip work for them!
with the blood angel i really need to work on the orange a little more to make it a bit more neat and work on the bone colors like the seals and scrolls, in all i would say around 70% done
and the other marine is assembled, i haven't showed all the work so i can post some later on quicker
Comments and Questions welcome and encouraged as always!