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Shadowsword look nice and gritty!

Awsome stuff!

Cheers good news my forgeworld order has arrived so stay tuned for some forgeworld goodness

i love the russian airbourne with there blue berras very cool!! great work!

I love this. It's great to see someone do something unique with IG instead of the usual "Cadians painted in X colour" (No offence to anyone else).

cheers, i hate being the same as everyone else so wanted a diffenret unique take on 40k

heyyy i had the HIND-D idea :(

and thank god whoever said 9th Company i saw the film ages ago but never knew the name ! (: good shout

Looking good. Didn't see a comment on it (may have missed it), but I'd drill out the barrels on the grenade launchers and auto-cannons. The troopers are fine, but when the barrel diameter is that large, a flat, capped tip really throws off the look. Generally, I like it.

Heres an update for you my medusa and vanquisher.
PS i hate the medusa worst constructed model ever.\



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Were those custom made AK47's or did you buy those bits? if you bought them, would you mind telling me where you got them? theyre just what i could use for a diorama

Not exactly Soviets, more like modern-day Russians. Though still a really cool idea.

Lextheimpaler wrote:PS i hate the medusa worst constructed model ever.

Try building a thunderfire cannon.

Got the AKS from the assault group, google it there great. Well the soviet era ran all the way up to the early 90's these guys are 71-89 era soviet troops. why must everyone one think soviet means ww2????

Because Valhallans in greatcoats are pure awesomness. Nevertheless I like the army. Some of the characters could be withouth the masks though eg. Marbo

Wouldnt it look stupid then, All the troops are set for NBC but all the commanders arnt???? GAs masks ties it all in together

Well it makes sense that everybody have gas masks, but the leaders lack personality. It's like with space marines and eldar. All of them have helmets except some awesome, badass HQ for example: patriarchs, chapter masters, sargents, some autarchs. You could give your commanders and some troopers normal heads and attach gas masks next to them or somewhere else like on the belts. This would give some variation. Anyway do whatever you want. It's your army, a very nice one though.

Hmmmm thanks thats actually a good idea weith the mask on the belt and just wearing a resperator. Will use that idea for my Psykers.

I love Vanqs, don't know why. I look forward to seeing that one detailed. What pattern is it? It looks a bit different from the one I have.

cheers mate its a stygies 3

Great Job! I'm a big fan of unique IG armies, and am also working on a Pig-Iron+ cadian army.

If you make any other comissar's, may I suggest sourcing one of the plastic imperial squad leader heads from the warzone plastics (still available from prince august) They are a bit higher than the Pig Iron hats, and have a nice skull emblem on the front.

Other than that, ace job here. The canteen-siping figure is a great addition and your shadowsword is well worn in the best way.

Hey chees will check out the heads can you post a link

Makes me want to start an IRA themed IG.

sick AK's

I think that paratroopers gas masks are... wierd. Its like too blank and not keeping with the face or too small/ wrong posed eyes.. dunno really. What about having them REALLY huge air filter? Like in call of duty 4 specnaz spec ops troopers have.

Everytime I see this blog, I love these little dudes more. So I'm going to give it a bump to try and get some more updates on .

Although in Soviet Russia, Threads bump you

The one thing I would say is to dull down their eyes a bit with a Gryphonne Sepia (spell that right?) wash. That'll also add some shading. Other than that, very cool!

"If you ask ye shal recieve" will put up some pics of my company command sqd today. Converted from the old metal sqd.

Lextheimpaler wrote:
Platoon Command and Lord Commissar

As much as I like this army, that Commissar is bugging the hell out of me. It would really help if he was looking in the direction he's shooting in. If you did that I'd have no complaints.
How's about adding some Enemy at the Gates-style snipers to your army? You could use the heads from the Kolony Militia winter head sprue that are wearing caps.

Well as preveously explained he is addressing his men on the rewards of cowardism as he shoots there Sgt in the head. Enemy at the gates is WW2 this is a cold war era army 70's-80's 40 years difference dont think they will fit in.

these are really cool! i would love to see more units, have you thought of converting stormtroopers or some psykers that would be very interesting!