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Great work as always! What's your weathering recipe, out of interest?

Uhm... does that Ratte... thing have nipple guns?

Orks apparently do not have a monopoly on ramshackle. Love your stuff. It actually reminds me of some of the stuff bled from the head of John Blanche.

16 of my 'conscripts' (underhive scavvies rounded up as cannon fodder!)
Extensive conversions using GW and Mantic ghouls, zombies, LotR orcs, celts and grots

wow great stuff, gonna have a better look in a while.

Good to see more people using LotR models in their 40k. The range is a gold mine that is left untapped too often.

loving them. How many are you going to include in your conscript unit? It would be cool to see fifty of those bad boys running around the table.

Damn, those are good. The detail is great. Just a suggestion: those could make a damn good Inquisimunda mutie gang.

And your muted colorscheme is so, so, so well done.

Excellant work as always.

Great idea to have mutie scum as conscripts, really characterful. Well executed too.

They look so chaotic. Another reason why Savlar chem dogs are so cool!

Yeah, awesome conversions indeed... They really look like a ragtag band of mutant brothers, I love them!!!

And if the LatD list is ever available again, you'll have it ready in no time lol!!

Wow, those cons are great! you have done a really good job on the paint work too!

Cool muties, but I would suggest playing them as penal legion instead. Conscripts is pretty much the worst choice in the entire IG book. Penal legion fits them well and should make them more playable

@Illumini : could you explain you point of view? Though I am not planning to play them, I don't see why you consider conscripts to be the worst choice in the codex... Cannon Fodder has always had its uses!!!!

Briefly, though this is more Tactic-y: they run away, they can't hit a thing, and are generally considered a waste of points. Penal legion are unpredicatable, cheap, and can drive your opponent to distraction, which is both valuable and hilarious.

You can get 20 conscripts with Bs/Ws 2, Ld5, no option for commissar or heavy weapons, or you can pay 20 pts more and get 20 guardsmen with Bs/Ws 3, Ld8, options for commissar and heavy weapons, option to blob or not, option for power weapons on the sarge, a sarge, option for chimera. Conscripts need a lord commissar to keep them in line, adding up to more than the guardsmen with commissar and he can be singled out. There is not a single thing the conscripts can do that the normal infantry can't do tons better.

Thanks, I just wanted to see your point... I have no experience with them, so...

Conscripts are a background driven addition, in my view. In this those scavvies work well.

Well, Scavvies work well either way. Heck, if anything they work better as penal legion, as you can represent the 'Handlers' that keep them in line, and, as said, they are unpredictable, which strikes me as being quite fitting.

I vote for Penal Legion as well, for both reasons terribletrygon just mentioned!

Conscripts are cheap bubble wrap for your tanks if you play an infantry+armored list. Send in the next wave isn't exactly horrible, either.

Anyway, on topic, those look totally awesome.

Thank you.

While conscripts are overpriced somewhat, they play really nice with Chenkov's special rule. Enemy HtH troops wading into a blob of conscripts only to have latter vanish, exposing them to some heavy firepower.
And don't underestimate big blobs, in general. 80-100 man platoons (max regulars and conscrpts) tie up and devour anything. Taking heavy losses, but that's how it works.

Or I may, in fact, try using them as penal troopers. Usually savlars are penals, but in all-savlar army they need someone worse than regular troopers to do the dirty job!

Oh, and by the way, their look is hardly something attributed to Chaos only. Imperial underhivers generally look like that, and some sanctioned muties even worse.

A prototype Stormtrooper.
Since Stormtroopers are generally specially trained commandos assigned to other regiments, I decided to go for a more hi-tech, sinister yet still PA look. Bonus points if you guess the source of inspiration (and this is not the game you thought of)

The obvious choice would be Killzone, but based on your comment that is probably not it. The other options would be STALKER and/or Jin-Roh?

Fallout New Vegas's NCR ranger guys?

Jin-Roh the wolf brigade.

Do I win any internets?

Jin-Roh, obviously.

I'm a Salvar fan myself, and love this blog. The smiley face motif is really striking.

Some of the tanks are OTT for my tastes, but I'm pretty conservative that way so I say rock on. Love the stormtrooper- was thinking something similar myself if I ever went and did Chem Dogs.

VikingScott wrote:Fallout New Vegas's NCR ranger guys?

That was actually my guess too, though I've seen Jin-roh, since the mini looks like he's wearing one of those blackwolf mod backpacks that almost every Fallout player seems to install for easier inventory management.