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Hi all. I've been working on my IG army for about 5 years now. I take an annual company photo around this time each year. It started off as a desire to field whatever I wanted in a normal game. Then it turned into a desire to field whatever I wanted in an apocalypse game... So I present to you, The Fightin' 49th! It's approximately 37,000 points. I've hand painted all models except for the 2 titans, known as The Sistine Sisters. Those were done by GMM Studios. So if you want much better photos of those guys, check out GMM's webpage. http://www.gmmstudios.net/

And preemptive apology for photo quality. All I have is my cell phone camera, and the lighting in my apartment sucks.

Enjoy!

Thanks everyone! The army has definitely been a labor of love (and hate at points).

 mrhappyface wrote:
I still want to know how you can afford all those tanks plus two titans!

I live in California. Cost of living is so damn high that I'll probably live in a tiny apartment my whole life. But on the bright side the cost of a Leman Russ is the same for me as it is for someone in Texas!

 Miguelsan wrote:
Evidently this will not do. You need 3000 more points of guard to reach the mandatory 40K limit. And probably a new table to display them to boot

M.

Don't worry! I've still got another 5,000 or so points left to paint before I'll consider the army complete. But yeah, next year's photo is probably going to have to be on the floor.

 exploited751 wrote:
This is amazingly awesome. Serious question, how long does it take to lay them out like that?

Also when I saw that it was 37,000 points and you started 5 years ago I was like these are not going to be painted that well, that's an average of over 7,000 points a year over 5 years. I am not surprised to ever hear of a non-professional painter slamming out 7,000 points in a year, but its super impressive when they do that every year for 5 years. Anyways happy to be wrong, everything looks amazing.

Good question! Probably takes about 3 hours to set up. Vehicles go fast, but lining up all those little infantry takes forever. Luckily, alcohol helps break up the monotony.

And those titans are 10,000 points. So only averaging about 5,400 points a year. Plus, I've gotten really good at assembly line painting. Can probably bust out 75 infantry or 6-8 tanks a month if there's minimal interruption in my life.

 petitflacheur wrote:
That's impressive... How many single guard?

Just regular GW "Imperial Guard Infantry Squad" models, 462. All non-vehicle models, including 2 per heavy weapons squad, 693.