Imperial Guard List-Looking For Ideas On Making A Reality

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**JNAProductions**

So, I posted a list in Lists subforum, of which I have literally NO models for.

The list includes:

1 Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken
3 Company Commanders with Power Fists
1 Sergeant Harker
2 Ministorum Priests with Autoguns and Chainswords
2 Ogryn Bodyguards with Slabshields, Bullgryn Plate, and Mauls
1 Primaris Psyker with Force Staff
3 Hellhounds with Heavy Flamers and Inferno Cannons
3 Leman Russes with Executioner Plasma Cannons, sponson Plasma Cannons, and Heavy Bolters in the hull
8 Infantry Sergeants with Boltguns and Chainswords
8 Infantry men with Sniper Rifles
8 Lascannon Heavy Weapon Teams
56 Infantry men with Lasguns
9 Mortar Heavy Weapon Teams

That's... That's a lot. And I get bored of painting and modeling easily.

Does anyone have any interesting ideas of what I could make this list out of? I tend to game at GW, so try to stick to their products, but if there's any ideas besides just "Buy the main kits" I'm all ears.

In addition, does anyone have any good color schemes, modeling details, conversions, anything that I could do that'd be cool with them? (Especially conversions for Harker and Straken.)

Thank you in advance!

**chrispy1991**

My tips:
Pick a color scheme that includes one of the primer colors that GW already makes as your primary color. Prime all the models with that, paint your skins with your choice of flesh color, wash the the skin and clothes with appropriate washes depending on color you chose. Paint your guns same color as the primer too, with exception of metal parts that should be painted with leadbelcher and washed with nuln oil. Basing can be as simple as ,glued, painted, and drybrushed aquarium sand.

For vehicles, prime the model with chosen color, drybrush whole model with a slightly lighter version of the color. Paint barrels and tracks leadbelcher, and wash them with nuln oil. Apply decals.

**Supershandy**

For Iron hand you could probably borrow something from a Necron or the The Adeptus Mechanicus for his "Iron hand"

If you get bored of painting easily, you're going to struggle getting this done so I would recommend reaching out to painters in your area, maybe see if they will do you a deal for the whole lot or your could split parts between different painters if they cannot do the whole army.

As for modelling, that's more the fun part, but again if you get bored of that easy, i'd ask those painters if they assemble parts as well, but all of this is going to cost you quite a bit of money.

As for kitbashing i'm not sure if any of them will do it due to the fact that, although you have the idea in your head , they might not be able to make it a reality but then again it's probably worth asking....

**warspawned**

I'd say it depends if you're going full Catachan or not or buying new or not or a mix of new and used. I'm sure you can get some Catachan or Cadians off ebay or elsewhere relatively cheaply if you don't mind doing some fixing up.

It's hard to not simply say 'buy the kits' though, so here's how I'd do it if buying from new.

Spoiler:

My only other advice is to plan it in game legal roughly 500pts blocks to help mitigate boredom or to help stop being intimidated by mountains of plastic. Complete one block before moving onto the next can preserve funds and sanity.

Paint wise I agree with the above post.

If going Catachan, here's some tips:

Spoiler:

Hope this helps