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Wow, generally Im not interested in Imperial Guard but you've done good work here with yours. Im loving the desert camo scheme, very effective.

Wow, those bits look great.

Love the look you are getting with the mix and match.

Awesome color scheme, and really cool turret, this army is going to be epic when finished

Curse you for adding to my plans of repainting all my guard in desert colours though

Fantastic camo on the fatigues and I love what you've done with pig iron heads too!

Wheres that turret from it's very nice.

That turret is ace, very high tech looking.

where do you get the stuff on the bases from?

Ooooh, spiffy turret! I am impressed!

I may steal that scout vehicle for my guard army too- it would hang from the bottom of a Valk wouldn't it?

absolutly stunning

Unbelievable... really well done, congrats mate

What is your final organisation layout going to consist of?

Mik

Frickin' Awesome blog! The turrets for the chimeras are stellar, and the added detail of reactive armor is a nice touch. The painting of your camouflage scheme is top-notch, as well. Keep it up!

Thank you all for the feedback!
Update time again. Firstly the Chimera production line rumbles on. I've started adding rivets to the turrets to help them blend in with the hull better and flexible wire added ariels to the comms unit;



I've added the missile launcher from the Sentinal kit to the Gecko FAV, along with rivets, an ariel and Blu-Taccing potential bits and bobs to finish off ;




My friend Craig stumbled across some end caps for piping whilst at work and brought some round. His intention was to use these as radar domes for artillery pieces. I thought of using the smaller size for helmets for my Ogryns;




Gundam-Mecha: The turret is from Old Crow Models. The link can be found earlier in the thread.

Illumini: The bases are mainly resin ones from Dark Art Miniature urban range but painted desert to suit my theme.

CadianXV: Steal away mate . I will take a picture for scale of it next to a Valk when I've built one up. Who knows, it may even be able to fit inside and drive out the rear ramp

Lord Castellan Mik: Final organistaion layout will consist of something along these lines;

1 Emporers Tank Company consisting of 3 Vanquishers, 2 Executioners, 2 Punishers, 2 standard Leman Russ and a Thunderer siege tank.
1 Command HQ mounted in Chimera.
1 Infantry Platoon consisting of 1 Command Squad in Chimera and 3 Infantry squads by Mortar teams and Lascannon teams and various special weapon teams.
3 Veteran Squads mounted in Chimeras.
2 Penal Legion Squads
1 10 man Ogryn Squad mounted in a Storm Lord
2 Stormtrooper squads mounted in Valkyries
1 Gecko FAV squadron (3) "counts as" Sentinals.
1 Armaggedon pattern Basilisk battery (3)
1 Deathstrike Missile launcher

The majority of it has been bought bar the Basilisks, Deathstrike and Stormlord with most of it built.

Wow, this is a really great army, im lovin' the camo, like most people. the pigiron heads really work too

one thing to consider would be dark skinned orgyrn, as it would create a nice contrast and show them living in the harsh desert

Looking really good! I like the scheme and the buggy is awesome ^^ Keep it up.

I love the semi-utopian sci-fi look you have going on, and the camo patterns are stunning.

Like you, I'm in love with plasma weapons and use them every chance I get. They're just great.

Sir, the use of the Old Crow turrets on the chmeras is a move of absolute sex. Gratz

I look forward to seeing some paint on them.

I love the chocolate chip camo, looks really good.

Rico...

That settles it- I'm officially stealing your buggie. If you'd be so good as to look the other way for me?

Really great work Ebsolom, as usual- officially my fav IG blog!

The helmets for the ogryns are a great idea, I agree with overlord that the ogryns should be dark skinned tho.

Thanks guys!

Overlord: I may just take your advice on that one, the thought hadn't even entered my head

Owain: Thanks man. The semi-utopian, new world order look is "in" this season for me

besring: I'm not sure whether to leave the helmet as is or try and match it to the Pigiron helmets with a little conversion work.

Anyway, before I start any more infantry I thought I'd have the welcome distraction of getting all my tanks built;


Here are some Ebay rescues which I've been working on. The extra turret armour is from the bottom sponsoon plates with plasticard added for that ablative look (I hope);

The plasticard looks more like small squares of reactive armour, although that might be what you mean by ablative. Nice use of those parts of the sponsons, by the way. I always find the turret of the LRBT to be the chunkiest (and thus the ugliest) part of the model, and that does a lot to give it a much better-looking profile. Quite a vehicle pool you have there, can't wait to see it with the 'chocolate-chip' treatment.

I'm going to keep an eye or two (or three) on this thread. It's brilliant! I'm impressed at how you've gone through all of those Guardsmen so far. Nothing beats the IG footsloggers in 40k for me.

Normally I don't like to see such a huge amount of tanks compared to infantry - remember that a tank counts for many troops - but I do think that it fits in with the more high-tech feel of your force... And I've just noticed your plans for the army list. Looks good! Have fun with these guys.

Update time again. I've kind of come to a turning point with this army in that I want to change my chamo scheme to suit the gaming boards I have (should have thought about that in the first place). Anyway, the scheme I was thinking was the 357th Krieg Plasma Storm Pattern shown in the right hand column fourth one down here;

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=1100020&pIndex=1&aId=2400009&start=2

I'm not sure I want to spend time changing my gaming board and terrain pieces to suit a desert theme thinking it wiser to stick with the terrain I have and frankly I don't have the time at the moment (or anytime soon). Sooo... I'm gonna finish building the rest of the army and leave them unpainted till I decide what to do. I'll probably Ebay the four squads I've done so far and strip down the Stormies and Ogryns (and any other metals).

Now for some pics of where I'm up to with my Chimeras. I recieved the rest of my turrets from Old Crow Models along with some rather nice stowage sets. I've gone for the sunken rivets look on the reactive/ablative armour (always get those mixed up) and have magnetized all the HK missiles to swap in with searchlights.


and the company command Chimera;


I started on the desert scheme on 2 Russ' using 2 thin coats of Dheneb Stone with a Devlan Mud wash to use as the base;


Meanwhile I'm itching to continue with my Space Hulk Termies and finish off the rest of my BA. I'll see how it goes ^o)

Wow, that is a lot of armour

Love the base colours on the tank, it could almost be finished already (by my standard of painting anyway ).

Great work.

I like them. I like them a lot. I always wondered how well Old Crow stuff would fit as they sell them as 25mm. Time for me to make an order!

wowza, i like it.

This is an amazing blog - love the conversions, sweet camo work, its win and awesome mixed.

I'm definitely stealing the gecko for my Air Cav guys. I would be interested in seeing if they fit inside the Valk, or if they would with a bit of modification.

Great camo scheme - very Desert Storm.

Wonko

Personally, I prefer the camo scheme you've come up with over the Plasma Storm one. Could we get some shots of your gaming board for a better idea of what colour scheme your changing to?

IMO, you'd be better off working out your own variant on that pattern- check out the IA books, they've got some nice ideas.

I really like the banner on your command Chimera, but I can't help thinking it needs more bitz. Extra radio masts and targeting arrays,etc.

Anyway, excellent work as always- the sunken rivets are a nice touch, as in the Grim Darkness of the far future there is no welding!

Well, it's been a while since I posted any progress of my guard, mainly due to CoD MW2 :blink: (damn that game and all those hours I've spent on it). Anyway, decided to stick with the desert camo. I've done a few mods to the lasguns converting them into autoguns by replacing the battery with a Bolter mag and trimming of the end of the muzzle. I've also done the boots a beige colour and changed the lenses to red (still work to do on them);

... and painting has begun on my Chimeras. I've used Dheneb Stone over a black primer in two thin coats (yep, it would be easier with an airbrush :ermm: ) ;

Wow! i rediscovered this thread just a sec a go, and im impressed! love the helmeted ogryns XD

and thats alot of tanks you have got :O

congratulations on a lovely army!