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Afternoon fellow Dakka'nites, this may be a new guy question and might have been answered a billion times before but I can not seem to find any answers using the search function so I am turning to you guys to either help me with an answer or point me in the direction of where I may find an answer. I want to build a World War II themed Imperial Guard army using historically accurate vehicles and aircraft, and yes I know this is not tournament legal, this is a personal project that will only be used in games against my friends. I need to find articles, blogs or any information I can on what models to use for the vehicles, basically I need to find any and all information on this topic. I plan to use regular Imperial Guard troops but I want the vehicles to be accurate. Any and all information you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Death Korps Of Krieg or Steel legion are your best bets.

Bolt Action plastics with weapon swaps?

I need advice on vehicles such as tanks and what not, I want to have Sherman tanks. I want to build a historically accurate army to use in 40k.

For vehicles aim for 1:35 or 1:48 scale as the GW vehicles hover around that scale. Just be prepared that all real weapons look teeny tiny compared to GW's preference for macro-calibre guns.

Bolt Action 28mm from Warlord Games would be your best bet.

 Mr_Grimm wrote:
I need advice on vehicles such as tanks and what not, I want to have Sherman tanks. I want to build a historically accurate army to use in 40k.

That's what I suggested. Look at the tanks & such, the more common vehicles are plastic kits. In fact armored fury would be a great place to start. The Sherman is tiny compared to the russ however. Even as squat as it is.

For Shermans, I would actually use 1/35 scale Shermans and use the correct weapon loadouts for the Russ. You might have to do a bit of scratch building for the turrets.