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Henners91 wrote:But my one complaint? Your Commissars shouldn't be the same ethnicity as your army; they're off-worlders ALWAYS.

Unless all three of them are coincidentally from an Arabic(?)-themed world?

But anyone spending time out in the hot Foleran sun would quickly tan to Foleran skin tone. I once read an interesting anecdote about how German soldiers in the DAK only needed to spend a few months out in the desert before the only way you could distinguish them from the Berber traders that would wander through camp was that they spoke German, and the Berbers didn't.

Plus, what's to say that there isn't a schola progenitum on Folera?

Also, I've got to do another shameless plug for my lord commissar. Made entirely out of GS, a bit of brass wire, and parts from the regular cadian infantry box.





And nice work to everyone else as well!

Great stuff
really good job with the plasma glow on that mini darkchild it looks awsome!!!!


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commisarkhaine really like those rough rider conversions they look Insane

with this transport you don´t need any kind of weapons additionally, the valk just has to swith from forward to backwrds and blows the enemy wherever your troops want. heck even tanks couldn´t withstand such blowing power...

cool thing...and i love your praetorians...who wouln´t^^

cheers vik

I love alot of your work. The objective marker is sweet. I like the idea of the valkyrie wings, and also love the vehicles youve made...they fit nicely with the IG look!

Love that Lord Commissar...

funkyRatDemon wrote:Heres my IG: Svog 227th

Platoon II done

I remember when Joel Green did his Undead IG, inspired by Heavy Metal, years ago for Games Day, but his was based on the more generic skeletons available at the time.

The new Vampire Counts Skeletons give your army a lot of distinct flavor. I really dig them.

adamsouza wrote:

funkyRatDemon wrote:Heres my IG: Svog 227th

Platoon II done

I remember when Joel Green did his Undead IG, inspired by Heavy Metal, years ago for Games Day, but his was based on the more generic skeletons available at the time.

The new Vampire Counts Skeletons give your army a lot of distinct flavor. I really dig them.

Thanks man

The old Tomb Kings and Catachan IG look I didn't want, mostly because the pants/armour look to bulky when attached to bones

Trying to figure out how to Heavy Metal up the army. I plan to use TK Ushanti for Ogrnys soon.

"The imperial regiments had suffered terrible losses, and was forced to run a skeleton staff"

they just took "not even in death does duty end" seriously.

Undeath is the natural conclusion of taking most of the Imperium's propaganda at face value.

My Airportable Cav just need the weathering stage now... yes I have been pottering about with these for about two years

Chimera


Hydra


Russ


Vets

your vets look cool, what models did you use? also with all their cowboyhats and tophats the have a really good steampunk feel to them...like it a lot^^

vik

yeah, those hats are good!

Viktor von Domm wrote:your vets look cool, what models did you use? also with all their cowboyhats and tophats the have a really good steampunk feel to them...like it a lot^^

vik

Looks like Elysian bodies, with head/weapon swaps. and i agree, they look Fantastic!

I like how they look like prospectors. Enemy or not, those vets just used their dowsing rods to find gold!

Ailaros wrote:I like how they look like prospectors. Enemy or not, those vets just used their dowsing rods to find gold!

Wait til you see their still....

Hey, thanks for some ideas guys…..
Currently converting shock troops for my human auxiliary and looking for some conversion ideas.
I got the Forgeworld Cadian upgrade with respirators and adding some “Tau” details but always enjoy seeing what everyone else is doing too.
I’ll post up once I have a few completed.

the pig iron respirator heads used in this thread by Flinty on page 2 are quite good substitutes for cadians, fyi.

Orinoco wrote:the pig iron respirator heads used in this thread by Flinty on page 2 are quite good substitutes for cadians, fyi.

I asked about them in another post... where can you get those?

Rhich wrote:

Orinoco wrote:the pig iron respirator heads used in this thread by Flinty on page 2 are quite good substitutes for cadians, fyi.

I asked about them in another post... where can you get those?

I believe these are flinty's:

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd6-heavy-infantry-visored-head-sprues-p-16.html

Some Pics of my Imperial Cockatrice Mobile Howitzer ( Griffon with enclosed crew) i built from a Leman Russ Kit and a old Chimera with a few odds and end bits. It and the rest of my Armour is in the process of basecoating gonna do a wasteland camo hope it works out. This little guy has killed many a Grey Hunter in the current dispute over the Gamma 4 Landing Fields the Space Wolves have been using for operations without authorization.

Orinoco wrote:

Rhich wrote:

Orinoco wrote:the pig iron respirator heads used in this thread by Flinty on page 2 are quite good substitutes for cadians, fyi.

I asked about them in another post... where can you get those?

I believe these are flinty's:

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd6-heavy-infantry-visored-head-sprues-p-16.html

Yup, they are the ones I used. However I always buy the mixed head sprue version (HD.5). You get a bunch of heads with no helmets that I don't use, however you also get the awesome helmets with additional optics that I've used for my commanders, snipers, stormtroopers, etc.

Flinty wrote:

Orinoco wrote:

Rhich wrote:

Orinoco wrote:the pig iron respirator heads used in this thread by Flinty on page 2 are quite good substitutes for cadians, fyi.

I asked about them in another post... where can you get those?

I believe these are flinty's:

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd6-heavy-infantry-visored-head-sprues-p-16.html

Yup, they are the ones I used. However I always buy the mixed head sprue version (HD.5). You get a bunch of heads with no helmets that I don't use, however you also get the awesome helmets with additional optics that I've used for my commanders, snipers, stormtroopers, etc.

I wondered where you got the helmets with the extra optics from. They only come in the mixed sprue? :(

I have to say I'm loving the thread.

I'm also looking to steal ideas.
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^.^

@Orinoco - I didn't e-mail them and it is possible that you could get something organized if you wanted to buy an awful lot of them, but I never realized how many I would use before I started

To be honest though if you don't mind using the bare heads and are kitting out a whole army you should end up with enough.

Here is an old one of mine:

I did these a while back, but here are 2 units of vets with shotguns, plus a hq command squad that travels around with them to make a sort of "vet platoon" kinda thing.

For the shotguns, I ordered the marine scout shotgun arms from battlewagon bitz. The arms didn't quite fit right so I had to do some filing and a little greenstuff at the joints. It's not perfect but they look fine on the table.

I also have a cadian Harker that I made with the scout heavy bolter, but I haven't gotten around to painting him yet...

There is so much awesome in this thread that it's hard to catch up with it all. Some of those I have seen since being on Dakka and was blown away to begin with, seeing EVERYTHING in one place is staggering.

Great idea, OP!

I'll add my own to the mix over the next couple days, subbed!

Here's my contribution. All of these were done in 1999 when I last played IG.



Top left- Commisar with combi-weapon and replaced Power Axe with Power Sword.

Top right- Needed a Tech Priest for a specific campaign scenario so I made one. Body is from Warzone or Mutant Chronicles, can't remember. Backpack is combined from CSM backpack and old Servitor arm. Bottom part of Force Halbred is missing, was converted from a Chaos Warrior axe and 2 Space Marine Power Axes. Master Craft Plamsa pistol is a slightly converted CSM Plasma Pistol.

Bottom left- "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!!!" ... except it fell off. Commisar leading a squadron of Chimeras. Or Leman Russ. He's completely removable.

Bottom right- Did someone say "firepower"? Catachan w/ Plasma Cannon in Hellhound turret. Is also completely removable so can be used on any IG tank I have.


And individual pics of each:

I've always thought guard armies looked boring, but after this thread, wow, if only gw made they're guard models a bit more exciting, these are just amazing!

Ailaros wrote:they just took "not even in death does duty end" seriously.

Undeath is the natural conclusion of taking most of the Imperium's propaganda at face value.

neil101 wrote:"The imperial regiments had suffered terrible losses, and was forced to run a skeleton staff"

Loving these quotes