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@OneManNoodles thanks alot man, I like how they came out when the model was painted, I had my doubts during assemble but they're actually quite good
@Knightley Good to be back! Starting to migrate back to the nerdcave for sure hahaha

====++++UPDATED FLUFF++++==== (4/07/2013)
Archer Company are one of the most organised groups of guardsmen on Domitian. Domitian was an accommodation planet, containing massive cities filled with people, urban environments consumed almost the entire surface of the planet. It initially had a small planetary defence force, however, Domitian was besieged by a colossal fleet of Orks. The PDF signalled for reinforcements, and the emperor replied in all his might by sending millions of additional guardsmen to the planet. The orks resistance gradually became futile as they were all but wiped off the face of the planet. All remained well for a while, however the ork attack had sparked additional interests from 'foreign' parties. Merely months later, reports of hellish purple blue contortions of fire were made to the Main Urban Regiment HQ, and it eventually became obvious that Demons had arrived on Domitian. The Urban Regiment, specifically Archer Company repelled the attackers from Domitians primary hive city, Titus, for weeks. However, they gradually lost contact with other Companies and collectives of guardsmen dispersed around the planet. Once again, Domitian signalled for aid. No report. No reply. The imperium had abandoned Domitian.

Archer Company, being the main force left in Domitian, issued a planetwide distress signal informing all Imperial Forces of any design to make their way to Titus to form a gigantic bastion and savehaven for any civilians who had survived the two onslaughts on the planet. Over the following months, Archer Company and the remnants of the Planetary Defence Force welcomed thousands of survivors from attacks in different areas of the planet. Most were militarised, arriving via valkyrie, or in small battered convoys or Chimeras and other such war machines. Some simply arrived in massive collectives of foot soldiers, broken from the months of destruction they bore witness to as they made their way to Titus. In time, it had become clear that although millions had perished, large elements of the Urban Reigment still remained. Titus was a full militarised area, with hundreds of thousands of guardsmen patrolling it's borders. Despite the large numbers, they felt miniscule in comparison to the countless millions that once inhabited the planet. Every year the Urban Regiment would send out distress signals and seek aid from the imperium. It had been seven years since they were abandoned. Luckily for them, Domitian was self sustainable from within, with large food storages and production facilities and mines to gain minerals and metals to construct a makeshift manufactorum. Despite the self sustainability of Titus, The UR couldn't keep up with demands and every year they grew less and less capable of maintaining capable defences.

To this day the Urban Regiment keep their brittle, dim spark alive by fighting daily to keep hold of Titus, one of the greatest displays of Imperial heroism, that had tragically gone unnoticed by the imperium. The men of Titus, Archer Company and the Urban Regiment had become grizzled, experienced and hardened by battle. Outside of Titus, multiple enemies had established strongholds in other areas of the planet. The Orks to the West, Chaos to the North, Demons to the East and Gruesome masses of Tyranids inhabiting the rest. Countless assaults would be made on all sides of Titus from all sorts of enemies. The Urban Regiment had to be extremely careful to reacquire as much of their supplies from the dead as possible from their battles, as supplies were limited. Most remaining companies of the Urban Regiment had few remaining members from the original PDF or wave of reinforcements but many were conscripts and boys that grew into the force. Archer company however had a large quantity of guardsmen serving from 'the drop' all those many years ago. Although it had decreased in size over the years, Archer Company still had thousands of seasoned, battle hardened veterans prepared to fight for glory, Titus and their lives.

The uniforms and attire of the Urban Regiment were maintained as much as was possible. Many uniforms were completely intact. The soldiers had become used to fighting in dangerous close quarters against terrible foes and had mastered the art of street fighting, hit and run and ambushes.

The Urban Regiment had repelled hundreds if not thousands of assaults on their noble city, and to this day continue to defend their last glimmer of hope for saviour in the future. Every man, woman and child in Titus has some contribution to the war effort, and the men of Archer Company and the Urban Regiment refuse to surrender, refuse to embrace defeat and will go unnoticed despite being one the most heroic selections of guardsmen in the entire Imperium.



Blimey that was fun. I'll write some more fluff when I get the time. That was all written off the top of my head, but I hope y'all enjoyed anyway

Yoyo! Sticking to the theme of my fluff about the grizzled hardened lads I did up this medic today, first time trying to paint a tattoo. Tell me what you think about the combo of bits etc, more on the way!

LDP

Commander is down! Tell me what you think y'all!!
Here he is

I really like the color choice of your guardsman, the muted red and green look good on the grey.

Thanks scitech! But one minor thing the camo pattern is muted red and dark grey

I guess I need to get my eyes checked.

The Camo is looking mint man, did you have any references to work off of?

Like everyone else I like the camo! Fluff sounds good too.

@Knightley no reference no. I mean in a way I was inspired a little by the urban camo scheme in Combat Arms but that's quite different to my scheme
@sparkywtf Cheers man. I'll try write some betterly structured stuff next time hahaha. Got some battle stories in progress

Some nice painting here LDP, just one minor quibble for me; you haven't drilled the barrels of the guns out (sorry it's my pet hate!).

That said overall the finished paint jobs are very good and the bases while plain fit your theme well. Regarding the bases a bit more detail here could really finish the models nicely. I have sand bases on my IG and found that some light brown tufts (for dried scrub grass/plants) really helped make the models look finished. So its worth considering with your theme something similar with some random bricks to finish your models.

Notprop yeah I tried dead grass on one of the guys, it does make the composition more interesting but it takes away from the boggy cityscape effect im trying to create with the simpler style :\

Anyways update time! Was up at the bach these last couple of days and got a whole bunch of work done there (seems to up my production being there). So yeah in four days I painted four models and this entire Leman Russ.
I've finished the platoon command squad now and did the commander of the company command squad aswell
Tell me what you guys think PLEEEEEEEASE!!!

Cheers all,
LDP

Very nice! is there any chance of more shots of the guys with the powerfist and eye patch?

More pictures, as requested K-DAWGGGG

May I ask what bit the powerfist\bionic arm is based off of? That looks badass!

Believe it or not its just the normal powerfist but from the catachan command squad box. Normally it has a bare part of the arm at the top but I put the shoulder pad from the leman russ tank commander on it to complete the arm

Awesome, love the use of the sniper cloak arm and the powerfist, hats off for great thinking!

Haha, shot Knightley!

NEW UPDATE! WAHOOOO
Kasrkin have been my favourite models for an age, YEARS literally. But their metalness had always put me off. But with some newly gathered miniatures experience added to the fact that I now have a guard army, I scooped em up! The 10 man squad, the 2 special weapon troopers and a metal commissar whose book arm I swapped out for a different one which I think looks pretty nice.
Sorry the pics are so bad, i'm not sure why that is, they looked nice when I took them. I may have to retake some later, but here's what I've got
Tell me what you think of the scheme!

Hey guys.
I finished off the Commissar today. Quite pleased with how the red turned out but I feel there's something missing, but I don't know.
Also did another Kasrkin squad member, the plasma gunner is up next.
Please tell me what you think guys, I haven't received much feedback recently and i'm losing motivation to keep posting up here.
PICS BELOWWWWWWW

LDP

Love this scheme and all the subtle yet clever conversions littered throughout this blog.

Urban guard are few and far between I find, and Im certainly going to borrowing more than one of your ideas in here!

Shot firebat! Yeah in IG and just general military terms I think urban schemes are often the coolest, and I still get a grubby rundown feel from them which I like.
Cheers for the feedback!

It's the shoulder pad on the commissar, its got this spare area which isn't being used, I would look at putting something there.

Liking the way the scheme is going though

I freehanded an insignia on it and it was clean and all but I didn't feel like it really added to the composition so I painted over it, but I may try adding something again later.

Plasma gunner is finished!

Really enjoying the Commissar with Cigar and the Commander really has character which is rather rare for Cadians.

Ahaha I know what you mean about cadians lacking character! Thats why im trying to develop such a thick storyline wherein theyre battle hardened and grizzled because what better way is there to develop character

Every little thing to make each model represent an individual rather than a nameless cog in the machine will help with that.

Label me a fan! I like your paint scheems and overall work! Well done

@Nowlan ye I think i'll put like kill markings and stuff on some of them

@Trondheim Cheers man, glad to have you on board

If you run out of ideas on how to make each character unique, try looking through photo archives of US Marines in Vietnam. They stuck all kinds of stuff to their helmets and flak jackets.