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I really love your paint scheme! And these might be the best female IG I've seen!

Rogue Wolves wrote:I really love your paint scheme! And these might be the best female IG I've seen!

Wow thx for that rogue. I've got plans for more females some with berets and I'm going to inter grate them with the vehical crews and the hvy weapons, snipers etc.

They are awesome female IG and very realistic, not overly sexed up but you can still tell they are women... work of a genius!

Definitely subscribing!

MetalOxide wrote:They are awesome female IG and very realistic, not overly sexed up but you can still tell they are women... work of a genius!

Definitely subscribing!

Thx metal. I was keen not to sex them up or barmaid them but still make them look like women.

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evildrcheese wrote:Out of interest what recipe are you using for the maroon?

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Just simple old mecrite red with a badab wash then mecrite high lite. It just looked right.

Awesome, I always tend to over think when it comes to mixing paints and often go OTT. Like the simple recipe, it's very effective.

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These are absolutely fantastic. Loving the conversions and the colour scheme - I don't often see camo guard I like, but these look great. It's immediately identifiable as camo while being a coherant and distinctive scheme AND avoiding the common pitfall oif making the models look too busy, so much kudos there. It's a hard balance to get, I could never quite pull it off when I was painting IG.

The conversions are spot on, they really look like women in combat gear. I absolutely loathe the ridiculous "sexy female commisar teehee" nonsense that floats around so many p&m blogs and third-party miniature lines and this project is a great antidote to all that.

This is definitely one of the best IG logs I've seen, looking forward to more. What kind of vehicles are you planning?

A Kvlt Ghost wrote:These are absolutely fantastic. Loving the conversions and the colour scheme - I don't often see camo guard I like, but these look great. It's immediately identifiable as camo while being a coherant and distinctive scheme AND avoiding the common pitfall oif making the models look too busy, so much kudos there. It's a hard balance to get, I could never quite pull it off when I was painting IG.

The conversions are spot on, they really look like women in combat gear. I absolutely loathe the ridiculous "sexy female commisar teehee" nonsense that floats around so many p&m blogs and third-party miniature lines and this project is a great antidote to all that.

This is definitely one of the best IG logs I've seen, looking forward to more. What kind of vehicles are you planning?

Thx ghost, I'm glad you like them.
I don't really like some of the traditional IG vehicals as I've pointed out in other threads.
I see rapid response as wheeled and recce vehicals. So I'm looking at converting some US strykers for the regular platoons and maybe some elysian vehicals for the recce platoon. I think that this will add that different elite look I'm after.
I will get the stfykers in 1/35 the scale and make my own hatches etc.

Its been a while but the command squad is now finished.

That's 3rd company finished.

Hey, excellent work with these; subbed, definitely. I love the gritty, realistic feel you've got going, and both male and female troopers look fantastic. It's great to see some well done female IG, in particular. Nothing too overdone or cartoonish.

I saw you mentned possibly getting some Elysian vehicles. Are any other Elysian units on the cards?

i really like your painting style, especially the face on the company commander

Love the female troopers, great work. And to everyone who says the weapons are too big, look in the fluff. Lasguns are big to guardsmen as well

 AzraelHunt wrote:
Hey, excellent work with these; subbed, definitely. I love the gritty, realistic feel you've got going, and both male and female troopers look fantastic. It's great to see some well done female IG, in particular. Nothing too overdone or cartoonish.

I saw you mentned possibly getting some Elysian vehicles. Are any other Elysian units on the cards?

Thanks Azrael I appreciate that. For me I love war look veterans over clean models. I'm not going to get elysian vehicals noe I've settled on 1/35th gtk boxers. I really love the shape as nd look so im going to re-hatch them and '40k' them.


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 Rothstein wrote:
i really like your painting style, especially the face on the company commander

Thanks Rothstein I think unshaven gives them a grim in the field look.


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tundrafrog1124 wrote:
Love the female troopers, great work. And to everyone who says the weapons are too big, look in the fluff. Lasguns are big to guardsmen as well

Yeah I agree tundrafrog and I also think they would be lighter than they look and no army I know of make 'female' weapons and the IG of 40k are all about mass production, starship troopers etc......

I use those bases on my own guard in my P&M blog (around page 3 or so)

They are wonderful and well done arent they?

How hard have you found them to paint and work with? Im curious as a fellow painter. To me they been a welcome learning experience and the details to paint are really interesting.

Nice work. I love what you're doing with the female soldiers, can't wait to see them painted.


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Gah, posted my comment without noticing there was more than one page, and can't see the edit option on my phone. That's what I get for browsing half asleep.

 swampyturtle wrote:
I use those bases on my own guard in my P&M blog (around page 3 or so)

They are wonderful and well done arent they?

How hard have you found them to paint and work with? Im curious as a fellow painter. To me they been a welcome learning experience and the details to paint are really interesting.

Well its the first time I've used ready made bases and they are excellent. They were the first ones that looked war zone. I have found them easy enough to work and will defenatly buy more.


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lennymaybe wrote:
Nice work. I love what you're doing with the female soldiers, can't wait to see them painted.


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Gah, posted my comment without noticing there was more than one page, and can't see the edit option on my phone. That's what I get for browsing half asleep.

Lol done that a few times!

Really nice work. Did you consider getting some of hasslefree's weapons as well for the whole force. GW lasguns are foolishly large even for the men so downsizing all of them might have helped?

When I first saw these models, I was kind of thinking "Ehhhh...I'm not too sure about these..."

However, when I got to this final page, those thoughts changed to "These are fething awesome."

Great job!

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This.

The final result is great - all of your labor paid off in spades. I look forward to seeing the Strykers and Recce platoon.

 Flinty wrote:
Really nice work. Did you consider getting some of hasslefree's weapons as well for the whole force. GW lasguns are foolishly large even for the men so downsizing all of them might have helped?

Toyed with the idea but I still want them to be GW ish.


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 Smitty wrote:
When I first saw these models, I was kind of thinking "Ehhhh...I'm not too sure about these..."

However, when I got to this final page, those thoughts changed to "These are fething awesome."

Great job!

Thanks !


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Scott wrote:
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This.

The final result is great - all of your labor paid off in spades. I look forward to seeing the Strykers and Recce platoon.

Yeah I'm waiting for my spray gun to arrive. So I'm doing some nurgley bits at the moment.

I've not been browsing many IG blogs yet as I haven't got round to them for my army yet, but I thought I'd have a look here after you took the time to go through mine and I'm pleasently surprised after seeing "female" in the title (thinking oh no not more boooooobs).

The female troops look ... like female troops, that is to say not like scantily clad amazons.
There is a time and a place for scantily clad women and it's not a bad thing here and there , but realistic looking models wins in my book.

Nice painting and I really like your camo scheme (read; I'll be adding one to my army when I get round to IG ).

Good Job.