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The title says it all. Pics and spoilers are welcome.

The Marines remind me of the Mordian iron guard.

A lot of the models have real life inspiration. Valhallans and WWI/WWII Russians.

One of the Eldar aircraft and the X-1

An Imperial Navy bomber and the A-10

Roughriders of Atilla seem fairly obvious.

There's a Forgeworld anti-air tank I can't remember the name of that was surely inspired by an M270 MLRS

Cadians remind me of of the Vietnam era reality, non-camo, thick vest, while Catachans are the fictional shirtless bandana wearing version.

Kreig are World War I gas/trench warfare, often times down to the actual trench coat.

Lasguns themselves have a resemblance (as best as possible given the scale) to a tacticool Ruger mini-14

For the Marines,

White Scars obviously draw from Native Americans, and Mongols between the "light cavalry" bikes, and ritual scarring.

Robed Power Armored space marines are all paying a slight homage to armored knights on horseback with their "tabard covered armor"

The Bolter, epsecially the older one with a shoulder stock most of us cut off has hints of an H&K MP5 to it.

The Assault Cannon to the Gatling Gun and it's descendants.

The Chimera and the M7 Priest have similar lines.

The Basilisk and the M40 Gun Motor Carriage.

Drawing real life comparisons to Nids, Necrons and Titans is a bit harder.

Armageddon Steel Legion looks like WWII Germany
There's an IG regiment that reminds bedouins

Any chance to pimp out the mighty Bob Semple of NZ

Spoiled for 1 bad word i noticed.

There's this shop in my town..

British WW1 tank = Space Marine Land Raider

Breton wrote:

For the Marines,

White Scars obviously draw from Native Americans, and Mongols between the "light cavalry" bikes, and ritual scarring.

Given their leaders are "khans", and a few other aspects, they're closer to the people of the steppes - the same mongols that the rough riders of Attila were modelled on (because GW and original ideas is a short list).

DA at one time used Native American influence for their Deathwing - but that changed when they became emo knights in 2nd ed.

Astartes Rhino is so an M113.

the taurox is actually based on an old british field transport truck crossed with an arctic expedition half track.

From memory (and the title should probably be "Wh40k Things that look like Things in real life",

Catachan Jungle Fighters - US forces in Vietnam
(metal) Cadian Shock troopers - WW2 German infantry (the tunic and the shape of the webbing. You can even see hints of the side bulges of the German infantry helmet in the Cadian helmet too).
Steel Legion - WW2 Fallschirmjäger.
Death Korps of Krieg - WW1 [b]French[/i] infantry, in German-influenced helmets (and using heavy stubbers that look like British Bren guns).

The entire Second War for Armageddon is Operation Barbarossa with the Goffs, Evil Suns and Bad Moons standing in for Army Groups North, South and Centre, Hades Hive for Stalingrad, Ghazgkull for Friedrich von Paulus and Yarrick for Zhukov.

Orks generally used to have a WW2 German vibe - hence all the stikkbombz and the wartrakk that looks like a Kettenkrad. It used to be a lot more obvious (and plenty of Orks had German-style helmets and greatcoats, especially the Stormboyz.

(and on a related subject, the lightning bolt symbol that crops up a lot across the artwork and miniatures isn't a million miles away from the logo of the British Union of Fascists or the SS sig rune - presumably chosen ironically, like all the WW2 imagery)

The Autocannon Predator looks very much like the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. It even has the spotlights on the front.

 Swastakowey wrote:
Any chance to pimp out the mighty Bob Semple of NZ

Spoiler:

Its like they ran out of metal and stuck a old water tank on it.
Hey, that corrugated iron from a tank, so we can still call it a tank

'Tank' was the codeword used when British military were building their first armoured vehicles in WWI, IIRC.

"The British WW1 tank = Space Marine Land Raider"
More like the Leman Russ BT, to me.

 Vector Strike wrote:
Armageddon Steel Legion looks like WWII Germany
There's an IG regiment that reminds bedouins

That regiment would be the Tallaran, as they hail from a desert world

 Skinnereal wrote:
'Tank' was the codeword used when British military were building their first armoured vehicles in WWI, IIRC.
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they used the word tank to make it seem like it was a water tank being built. My grandfather worked at Fosters in my hometown of Lincoln where it was built (although he wasn't alive at the time...never thought to ask about his father)