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Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I posted here, I've just started an imperial guard army.



~M

I had to click to see the picture, but I like where you're going with the army. The tank looks great!

Looking good so far.. man, forgeworld guard models look SO much better that the ultra beefy cadian GW models, it`s not even funny

I've finished building the first squad!



~M

Here we have the second squad in development, a Squad of veterans with melta guns.



~M

Lieutentant Evai-ja





~M

 MHVB wrote:
Here we have the second squad in development, a Squad of veterans with melta guns.

Oh god, these really highlight the scale mismatch between the true 28mm Elysians and the mangled 32mm-ish Cadians. It's a neat idea, but IMO the execution of it is really hurt by the fact that the size of the parts you're using is so inconsistent.

 Peregrine wrote:

 MHVB wrote:
Here we have the second squad in development, a Squad of veterans with melta guns.

Oh god, these really highlight the scale mismatch between the true 28mm Elysians and the mangled 32mm-ish Cadians. It's a neat idea, but IMO the execution of it is really hurt by the fact that the size of the parts you're using is so inconsistent.

Yeah I agree they're not a perfect match, I don't mind it too much. I think once I've got some paint on it will be less noticable as well. I'm going for darker armour and lighter cloth so that should trick the eye as well. This is the thread that inspired me: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/558258.page

Hi All,

There were some problems with the images because I was hosting them on google photos. I've switched to imgur now, not sure which ones were affected so I'll just post a couple of the more recent ones.

++ SQUAD A with chimera transport ++




++ SQUAD A with plasma gun ++




++ SQUAD B with meltagun ++




++Leuitenant Evai-ja++







Sorry if I have potentially duplicated any images, I can't see which ones don't work. Fingers crossed that works!

~M

The whole army so far



Working on making them a mechanised group

~M

Nice work so far. My buddy tried autocannons on the Chimeras but didn't find them worthwhile - do you? I like the bionic-limb-stabby guy.

Thanks, don't know about the autocannons as I don't play, but i imagine it could proxy as a multilaster if you wanted

I've started painting them, with an inquisitor



~M

I've ordered some extra paints and think I have narrowed down the colour scheme.



Basecoat of vallejo dark german yellow primer (no. 2)
Followed by zenithal highlight with vallejo german dark yellow (no. 3)
Airbrush a shade with vallejo yellow green (no. 5)
Then paint on the edge highlight vallejo german yellow (no. 4)
And then paint on the shade in vallejo US olive drab (no.1)

I'll then do some more selective shading/glazes with nuln oil and brown ink, and highlight again if necessary

Hopefully that will give a more balanced colour scheme than the one currently.

Number 6 is vallejo camogreen used in the previous colour scheme and mixed with brown so I think the new colours are a good solution, as their all a bit browner.

Let me know what you think!

~M

They look great. I did something similar with my ig. Be careful you don’t have to many steps in your painting process. It became nauseatingly painful to paint them by the time I got down to my last few miniatures.

@ShadowCaptainMathius - That is definitely something to consider, I hadn't really thought about it. I'm hoping the current scheme won't be too bad as most of it will be airbrushed and I can drybrush bits of it for the average dudes.

Adding another tank to the fold. I've been playing a friend who has orks and the current two chimeras can't handle the sheer volume of them, so I needed something a bit beefier.



~M

if you still can ad sponsoons to your leman russ

 MHVB wrote:
I've ordered some extra paints and think I have narrowed down the colour scheme.



Basecoat of vallejo dark german yellow primer (no. 2)
Followed by zenithal highlight with vallejo german dark yellow (no. 3)
Airbrush a shade with vallejo yellow green (no. 5)
Then paint on the edge highlight vallejo german yellow (no. 4)
And then paint on the shade in vallejo US olive drab (no.1)

I'll then do some more selective shading/glazes with nuln oil and brown ink, and highlight again if necessary

Hopefully that will give a more balanced colour scheme than the one currently.

Number 6 is vallejo camogreen used in the previous colour scheme and mixed with brown so I think the new colours are a good solution, as their all a bit browner.

Let me know what you think!

~M

I am doing something similar but I dont think #3 is a higlight of #2

Thanks guys,

I tried with heavy bolter sponsons and an hull HB and it worked much better, next step is Pask and a punisher >

Yeah it's not, still need some work to decide on colours, it looks okay but a bit green

I received some Ratgard track guards today and they are excellent! I feel as though they really put the model together.







~M

Thank you



I've made a little bit of progress on the tanks

I'm trying out using plasticard tubing for smoke launchers - not sure if brass tubing would be better as it has thinner walls



























~M

Subtle but extremely effective conversions.