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All of your models are so well done. Great combination of model choices and dynamic posing. Your images have the feel of being captured by a combat photographer on the battlefield. Excellent work!

Great looking command squad!

Those Storm Troopers are very cool.

Your tutorial was really useful. If you haven't you should post it in the tutorial section as I am sure many would find it useful.

Great officer - a good head swap

Surprised he does not have a camo coat though?

carlos13th wrote:Your tutorial was really useful. If you haven't you should post it in the tutorial section as I am sure many would find it useful.

Thanks – glad it helped. In true Mechanicus fashion, I have no idea how to do anything useful with the Dakka tools, but SilverMK2 kindly created a article using the material from my tutorial (ta!). You can find it here.

SilverMK2 wrote:Great officer - a good head swap Surprised he does not have a camo coat though?

Don't worry, his uniform underneath is
I prefer greatcoats to be a plain colour – not sure why, but they always look a bit odd to me with a camouflage scheme. I think it's because they tend to be more dress uniform rather than field uniform. That, or all the source material I have is from the Great War and World War II, where camouflage wasn't quite so prevalent.

Turbulent priests











A select few Lamb's Worlder details











A close-up of the bags under Dresden's eyes

Lovely work Lamb. I'm really looking forward to seeing more. Love how you've captured that "damp and grimy" look uniforms pick up after a few days in the field.

 Apologist wrote:
I prefer greatcoats to be a plain colour

I completely agree.

Your lense and face details are amazing on these guys.

Cheers!

After this lot, I think a need to turn my eyes to a new planet – and see what the regiments from there look like.

There are lots of Imperial worlds to pick from in our sector (see link), but which one would you like to see me tackle, and why?
http://www.pcrc.org.uk/antona_australis/navigate
Clicking on each system will bring up the planet info.

Perhaps one of the Helswall mongrel regiments?
A Lachesine armoured regiment?
How about some of the Exercitine Expeditionaries, or the Ghost Point Skitarii?

Here's some troops (and a General!) from option 1 – the Aldebaran 18th Mechanised Infantry:

Damn Sir, these are truly inspiring. Uniform in their grittiness, individual in their modeling/posing. Great job of capturing the personality of the basic trooper.
The weathering on the vehicles is just enough to get the point across without looking like a rag-tag maintainence nightmare.
And as for the color scheme, it does a great job of capturing camo necessary for IG and still having enough color to represent the myriad of worlds and regiments in the Imperium. Well done Sir.

Your Imperial Guard models are awesome.

Love everything is there a blog for the Marines!
Your IG are awesome

Amazing work, a wonderful approach to the guard.

What models did you use for those storm troopers?

I have to say, I am impressed beyond words, the amount of work you put into every individual model is astounding!

yeh i love the conversion and placement of your models exspecialy the elysian converts
awsome purely asome

Those are some excellent models. Well done.

These are the best Imperial Guard I've seen, period.

Awesome models I love the realistic approach you have used on these guys, really comes into its own when you do the cinematic shots. Looking forward to seeing more of any of your models. Any chance of any army shots or links to where I might find them if they already are posted else where. Also would you ever consider painting a super heavy in these colours?

Young Logan

How have I not commented on this yet?!

Absolutely awesome work, hands down one of the best armies I've ever seen, the attention to detail, the character oozing from every model and the almost photorealistic look of the models is just stunning. This is truly inspirational stuff.

Thank you all very much – it's lovely to get such kind feedback for a hobby from which I get so much enjoyment.

My gaming group and I have started a new blog here. Please feel free to come and have a look – it's a large scale war involving hundreds of regiments and dozens of Chapters against the orks.

Forces of the Scallop Stars
+ Blenheim 2nd Expeditionaries +


+ The Perseus system is situated on the Grovsenor subsector's border with the Boten Cloud Nebula. The nebula dissuades most attacks from orkspace, but the system has come under attack on a not inconsequential number of times. As a result, while the planets are not always on a war-footing, they all maintain standing and touring armies.

+ The Civilised world officially termed Perseus II, and known in-system as Blenheim, is the system's second world. Green and pleasant, the whole of its surface is not only inhabitable but hospitable, with the exception of the extreme poles. Numerous mountain ranges dot the surface, and the planet is split into a number of allied – though nominally independent – states, overseen by the Federation Council of Blenheim. Much of the planet's tithe comes from food exports, including such delicacies as ghostberries, chew-vine and apebread.

+ The planet contributed three large armies it dubbed 'Expeditionary Forces' – each one an organisation of multiple standard regiments – to the M37 Scallop Stars campaign, an amount which is unsurprising once one considers the traditional hostility to raids from orkspace. Recruitment across the planet was met with celebration as the patriotic Imperial servants saw their chance to be involved in the 'great adventure' and take the fight to the orks. All threee armies were folded into the Grovsenor Front forces.

+ Blenheim regiments are mixed; with a roughly two-to-one proportion of males to females serving. Service is compulsory, though the planet is unusual in the number of veterans who eventually make their way home, owing to the Council of Blenheim's political links with the Imperial Navy.

Lance-corporal Maximilianus Mustermann

+ Lance-corporal Maximilianus Mustermann is a typical example of the standard trooper the planet contibuted to the campaign. He is pictured here during the first year of the campaign during the landings on Cibernum Alpha, a notoriously tough tour of duty that saw the guardsmen quickly adapt to off-world fighting or perishing.

+ Clutching a Fulzene-pattern lasrifle, an archaic and temperamental type with a wooden stock, marks Mustermann as a later assignation to the 2nd Expeditionaries; as the first were equipped with the superior Yoke-pattern type.


+ The distinctive red-and-yellow system mark of Perseus II was displayed prominently on each uniform, and was often incorporated into unofficial clothing such as hats and scarves sent from family and well-wishers back on Blenheim.

+ Contact with home was an indulgence denied to most regiments, but available to the well-connected Blenheimers until later in the war, when supply lines became attenuated.


+ The heavy 'bergen' backpack is non-standard, though the cylindrical smoke and fragmentation grenades were issued to all Blenheimers.

+ Imported from the Forgeworld Braun VI, the payloads of the grenades were distinguishable only in infra-vision, owing to a mis-stroke by a Munitorum factotum, which led to a number of regrettable casualties and confusion as troops attempted to provide cover for allies – with explosive results – or destroy ork vehicles and emplacements with harmless smoke bombs.


+ The final image incongruously shows what appears to be a large and valuable Catachan 'knife' strapped to Mustermann's backpack. This is either spoils of war, a treasured relic, or possibly a reproduction bought for intimidatory purposes. The Blenheim troops deployed in the assaults on Cibernum Alpha believed vulgar displays of power provided a benefit against the superstitious orks. Such reports were investigated, but proved largely unfounded.

+ Mustermann's lack of head covering denotes either recklessness or its loss; both punishable by Commissariat reproach – or death.

Viewed this a few times but first time commenting, absolutely amazing what you have done with this army!!! These look so great you can almost hear them! Like I see the picture and imagine the guns going off, people yelling orders, etc... (bit of a cinematic player as much as competitive lol)
I like the extra effort some people put into their armies, makes the games that much more enjoyable win or lose.

Gritty and realistic. Love it!

Do you plan on getting the Arcadians when they are released and running with that as a more uniform look?

Once more, hugely impressive work.

"I've seen things, man. Things that no Emperor-fearing man should ever rightly see. But I know in my heart that if I don't take up my lasgun and give my life for the Imperium, someone else's son will have to make that sacrifice. Maybe one life doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I'll be damned if I stop believing that. It's the only thing that lets me sleep at night."

I don´t want to comment your work at all, I´m not able to express the awesomeness but I got a question


Where is this head from?

Very good looking miniatures. Makes me want to start a guard army. Thanks for sharing your stuff.

Medium of Death wrote:Gritty and realistic. Love it! Do you plan on getting the Arcadians when they are released and running with that as a more uniform look?

Thanks, and I really like what Vic's doing with her models. I'll be picking up a platoon or two, but they'll probably be used for a separate army (after all, there's a million worlds out there)

CrazyLegz wrote:Very good looking miniatures. Makes me want to start a guard army. Thanks for sharing your stuff.

Paradigm wrote:Once more, hugely impressive work.

Cheers – much appreciated, all

DarkSoldier wrote:"I've seen things, man. Things that no Emperor-fearing man should ever rightly see. But I know in my heart that if I don't take up my lasgun and give my life for the Imperium, someone else's son will have to make that sacrifice. Maybe one life doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I'll be damned if I stop believing that. It's the only thing that lets me sleep at night."

Shadowblade07 wrote:Viewed this a few times but first time commenting, absolutely amazing what you have done with this army!!! These look so great you can almost hear them! Like I see the picture and imagine the guns going off, people yelling orders, etc... (bit of a cinematic player as much as competitive lol)
I like the extra effort some people put into their armies, makes the games that much more enjoyable win or lose.

Ta – and I agree; much more fun to get down low and see a models' eye view. We sometimes play with ambient war noises (from computer games, I hasten to add!), which adds to the immersion, too.

tommse wrote:I don´t want to comment your work at all, I´m not able to express the awesomeness but I got a question

Where is this head from?

That's the head from the Land Speeder pilot, I think. I haven't bought one in years (I think this may come from the 3rd edition boxed set), so I'm unsure if they still make it. Hope so, as I like the crisp rebreather grill and comms aerial. The hair is made with a little greenstuff.

I have over 80 Guardsmen and a handful of vehicles, and I now wish to smash them all, for they are not worthy of the name: Imperial Guard.

Best. Guardsmen. Ever.

I especially like that most of the squaddies have bullpups. Hint at British L85s?

Please bottle your modelling skill and sell it, thank you.

I live that guardsman you posted on this page. He looks so characterful. Just imagine if GW could produce miniatures like that in plastic for the IG army.