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So I was digging through my Guard army over the weekend to do some basic repairs and maintenance. And since I had so much of it unpacked anyway, figured I'd get everything out and set it up and take some pictures. So here it goes, hope you guys enjoy it. Just so you know, I'm not any sort of professional photographer so I apologize if the picture quality is not up to par. Also, I guess I should point out that I'm more of a tabletop-quality painter than a showcase painter. Still, it's a big collection (in my opinion anyway) and I'm fairly proud that I've got so much IG that is actually painted. Yay me.

So here ya go...

212th Dinbao Anti-Tank Regiment on parade...


The Colonel and retinue...


Basic infantry wave...


Penal legion platoon...


Padre Neels (priest)...


Heavy weapons and special weapons platoons...


Manticore battery & partial vehicle park...

You should be proud! Awesome!

yes agreed be very proud

very nicely done!

once again agreed AWSOME!!!

Countless! Great job mate!

NICE

OMG, that is immense, kudos, wish i had the funds for a killer array of models like that :p

i like the paint scheme too, epsecially the HWT's

Amazing that you have the patience to paint it all.
But I'm not really a big fan of the white (that's just me) and I really dislike the bases, to distracting from the models.
Nonetheless, amazed by your patience.

I like the 3rd pic the most.

Almost like a drawing of what you expect to see in an IG codex

Dude, thats a lot of IG and very nice looking at that, be very proud! I hope my space wolf force will look like this someday

I agree with the girl in the monocle. 3rd pic is EPIC!

Nice, now get to GA and play some games with them!

<---Deathklokk

Never seen it all on display at once...wow.

You should host an apocalypse event at GA.

You vs eveyone else....

awesome ! you should be proud . not many people have fully painted large armies !! great work its a big accomplishment !

I dont really like those random red stones/gems on the bases but other than that very very nice! That is a heck of a lot of guardsmen to paint

Many thanks for all the kind sentiments!

For a long time my policy on getting stuff painted was to do 2 infantry grunts a day, every day. Only took 30 minutes or so a day due to the pretty simplistic paint scheme... and 14 a week eventually got the job done. They came off looking a little more WW2 German than I had intended (particularly with the whitewashed vehicle camo)... but such is life.

@ kenshin...

Actually, the red objects are bricks, I was going for an urban rubble basing theme. Used kitty litter (not post-use obviously *grin*) for the basic rubble, primed black with the model, drybrushed codex grey, drybrushed white over that. Came off a bit too light in some cases but ah well. I've got a decent amount of terrain painted to match the regiment so it'd probably be more obvious if I had the terrain alongside. Thanks for the comments though!

Here are a few more. Again, sorry about the picture quality. Everything else is too blurry to bother uploading.

A mob of (blurry) flamers. They look blurry because of the heat they're about to unleash. Yeah, that's it, sure.


Primaris Psyker Reddlund, Chief of Regimental Psy-Ops...


Another (blurrier) shot of the infantry wave...


Heavy weapons ("Hi, my name is John, and I'm an Autocannon Addict")...

Looks very good, and if you ever come to Norway drop me a line. And we will have a game

That's a whole lot of sexy! Nice work, no go kill things with them!

Yeah... this army is definately lacking in fire support capabilities... *snicker*

Very nice man. I wish my IG army was as uniform as yours.

Impressive.

wow, that whold have taken awhile to paint.

looks like 10000 points army

I love an ANTI tank regiment with LOADS of tanks in it. Its like saying "we like tanks, we just don't like YOUR tanks"

very nice, lot of effort to do all that I am very impressed

By the Emperor... How many points does that army take?

Ya for real, how many pts you have there? Btw the heavy weapons teams just look mean. I would not like to be on the wrong end of that. lol

If you ever in CO hit me up, I got 7.5k in daemons and they're hungry for the sins of man!

Wow. An entire fortune worth of minis! Well done with these!

That is an amazing display of dedication, perseverance, and tenacity. And insanity. Did I mention insanity?

Have you ever tallied up the total points for that?

An anti-tank regiment can have tanks in support. Tanks can kill tanks. As for the Hellhounds... well, the regiment was founded as an anti-tank regiment. But it's had other mauled units merged in to remain full strength. And besides, efficient anti-personnel weapons like Hellhounds mean the others can focus more on anti-tank.

No idea how many points, I suppose it depends how I fielded the various models. I remember I played in a 6,000 point apocalypse game once and had stuff still in the box. I think that was with standard FOC though. If I threw out the FOC... who knows? Alot.

I'm working on a Deathstrike at the moment. It's not a very good unit, I know... but all regiments should have at least one nuke.

Any pics of the valks??

No close-ups, no. Just them lurking in the background. They're mainly used for special ops stuff, which is why they have black paintjobs. Matches my Storm Troopers, who don't have a zoomed in shot either (they're kinda middle of the pack if you squint hard).

Can we see a battle report with the full regiment in?