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@romeo.lima - The heads you are referring to are probably the Pig Iron Heavy Infantry heads. They are lovely things to work with and I'm surprised more folks don't use them

romeo.lima wrote:Henners91, where did you get those heads? I want those for my BT Neophytes.

If you're referring to my Urban Vets/Master Chief ripoffs they're Pig Iron 'Heavy Infantry' heads:

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd5-heavy-infantry-mixed-head-sprues-p-12.html

Ah, thank you very much, guys. I'd rather have "faceless grunt" neophytes than clones.

These paint schemes are all very awesome, by the way. Makes me want to start an IG army. If only I had the time to go through so many models and vehicles...

i seriously have not worked on this army for a long time, i better get back to it

I liked seeing the stuff on this thread so much I decided to get out my Steel Legion and finish them off. I thought I'd add them to the thread now even though I've not finished the bases, not got the right flock at the moment. I want to use brown grass.

here are my two IG color schemes one is the Turok 142

shown here:


and the catachin 10th. here is the commander:

Do the men of the 142nd hunt Dinosaurs in their spare time?

Good life is back in this thread!

hpw is every one else able to paint so well its hard for me as it is.

Flinty your IG are still one of my favorite armies out there. Keep up the good work man!

I have a WiP shot of a couple of my melta guys... they're since been finished (the clothes were redone, bases and weapons finished as well as red touched up a bit) but I don't have pictures of them like that. I'll get some ASAP.

Big up the Pig Iron heads!

My vets have the same ones

I know, they aren't all finished and I can see some paint chipping but most of these minis have been in the field since second edition.
Members of the 12th Tallarn Sand Wolves

indiana1000 wrote:
i hope someone replies as not many people reply to my theads (is it because im new or what?)

Ummm...yes?

Good idea for a thread though...gonna have to bust out the camera soon, methinks.

@Caffran9 - I'll see what I can do I like the guy reading the instructions on how to work a Melta Good work on the red as well.

of course they hunt dinos!!

i love the idea of this thread

My Guard are pretty traditional:










And my Stormtroopers get a more "Russian" feel to their colors:


My armor keeps to a flat green mostly:




Although Duke Nukem doesn't need to wear the uniform provided:

There's some nice stuff here. I especially like the red-clothed catachan.

So here's my scheme. The fluff is that the armor is brown because it has a type of solar power paint smeared on it so that their armor slowly recharges their laspacks over the course of a sunny day.

The uniforms are white on the top and camo on the bottom because the planet isn't willing to spring for both a set of dress uniforms and fatigues, so they just get a half-and-half:



The neat thing is that it sort of acts as camoflage for the same reason zebra's camo works. Imagine your sergeant tells you to pick out the meltagunner before its too late:



Even in action shots, it sort of creates a kind of visually confusing static:



As for vehicles, they're just sort of painted up like the troops:

Figured I'd make a contribution to the excellent work that is showing up in this thread. I'm pulling together a Cadian army which has made it to a decent size (at least I can cover the minimums in a FOC) even if it is pretty badly imbalanced. Currently my troops would have to draw straws to get to see who rides in a chimera (which aren't fully painted yet anyway) and who has to walk.

Just 3 types of Guard colors:

Pic1: Plastic Cadians requested from the =I=...
Pic2: Metal Cadians as Mech Infantry, part of a fully mechanized army in greys.
Pic3: Plastic Catachans for the old mini-dex, soon to be Air CaV.

I'm painting up some urban camo Guard for a commission right now:

Rangerrob wrote:Mordian scheme, based on the Napoleonic era British 95th Rifles. (Green ans Black)

Huh. The Praetorians that make up my first platoon are based around the same unit's uniforms!

Everyone else is done in the same color scheme.

My vets for an idea on how they and the Steel Legion that make up the rest of my Mech Guard look like:

Im trying to do the cadian 39th camo but its my first time painting and I need some help with an easy color scheme

Some of my Inquisitorial IG

Here's some of my Steel Legion I just started working on. It's a dark green gray scheme inspired a bit from WW2.

I use the British DPM pattern on the guardsmen (Vehicles have a NATO inspired three tone green and black - no pics of the tanks sorry)

Usually I'm not a fan of typical, contemporary guard schemes, but this is so well pulled off that I can't help but to admire. These guys definitely look like something I'd expect to see in the real world (of the 40th millennium, that is).

Just have to do the belts with black leather and boltgun buckles

My force is Inquisitorial Detachment.

Really Like the DPM scheme, very well done, i like the green webbing belts/buckles too.

Just posting to put this thread on my subscribed list and to congratulate everyone on their incredible armies, i'll post my in-progress scheme when i can find a camera.

I went for a pretty standard woodland theme with my Guard (still somewhat WIP; I need to do faces)