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First Gruppe of the 1stGermania I.G. Inf. Rgt.

Here is the first soldier ( Schütze) of the 1st Gruppe, 1st Zug , 1st Kompanie of the 1st Germania imperial Guard Regiment. The Germania System, home of the Galactic Knights space marine Chapter, consists of three habitable planets and one Death world. The planets are called Ruhr, Germania Prima, Germania Secunda and New Berlin. Ruhr is a forge world, Germania Prima is a death world, Germania Secunda is a agri world and New Berlin is a hive world. The 1st Germania Inf. Rgt. was raised on Germania secunda. The dialect spoken in the system is German. Of course High Gothic is the language of the Administratum of the System according to Imperial law.

The 1st Germania belongs to the so called “Landwehr” of the Germania System and is part of the Imperial Guard. There is a System defense force also wich is stationary in system in contrast to the Landwehr Rgt.s wich will be used anywhere in the Imperium of man. Most of the time the Landwehr operates in the same campaigns as the Galactic knights .

Here is the first Schütze:



The 1st Germania is designated by the systems heraldic shield ( a black eagle on yellow). As used by the Galactic Knights, too. on the right shoulder pad there is a colors field ( in this case red for the first Zug [Platoon]), showing a white I as designation of the first Gruppe ( squad) of the platoon.

The figure is a Games Workshop Cadian trooper with a Anvil Industry head and a Eisenkern troopers helmet. The heraldic device is a selfmade decal the rest is freehand.

More pictures on https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/07/16/first-gruppe-of-the-1stgermania-i-g-inf-rgt/

Here is the next Schütze of the 1st Gruppe (Squad):

Nice so far! the second guy is solid, and the freehand roman numeral is quite good.

The next member of the 1st Germania Inf. Regt. Only seven more to go to finish the first squad.



More pictures on https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/07/23/the-next-imperial-guard-soldier/

The head swap looks great !

Here is the the next soldier of the 1st Gruppe ,1st Platoon, 1st Kompanie, of the 1st Germania Inf. Rgt.

And the next 2 soldiers:

Descent looking Vermarkt

the next one

here is another trooper of the 1st Gruppe 1st Zug 1st Kompanie of the 1st Germania Imperial Guard Inf. Rgt.



More pictures on my blog: https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/08/20/another-1st-germania-trooper/

The last missing trooper of the first Gruppe. Now only the Feldwebel ( sergeant) of the Gruppe is missing.

Here is the last missing figure of the imperial guard unit I painted up. The Feldwebel (sergeant)

Hey man I like the theme of your guys.

Also like the moustaches. Nothing beats a good moustache.

I am really curious though: How does one self-make a decal?

You can buy decal paper for inkjet printers and laser printers. I used ink jet paper. So can't coment on the laser printer stuff. You design the decal with a graphics program like gimp or adobe or paint and print it on the decal paper. Then you let it dry and spray the paper with a gloss varnish. Do several thin runs as otherwise the design will start to dissolve. After that just cut out the decal and apply as usual.

There is an article I think here on Dakka Dakka about decals somewhere. I will try to find it for you.


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https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/How_to_make_custom_waterslide_decals

This is the article on doing custom transfers.

Here is the commissar of the 1st Germania imperial guard regiment. The commissar is called Irina Decker. She was born on Adrastapol and belongs to the house Draconis, a knightly house at the moment ruling the planet.



More on https://wargamesgazette.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/lrg_dsc02160.jpg

1st Gruppe with APC Ziege



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The first trooper of the 2nd Gruppe:



And the Feldwebel of the 2nd Gruppe

More pics of the tank!

For more pictures go here: https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/09/13/the-apc-of-the-1st-gruppe-1st-germania-imperial-guard-regiment/

FairPlay mate you made a mould for it and everything!


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FairPlay mate you made a mould for it and everything!

Here is the next trooper of my imperial guard regiment.



more pictures here: https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/09/27/the-5th-trooper-of-the-second-gruppe/

two more troopers of the second Gruppe:

Really cool stuff. I love the self-made decal! I really want to try that myself someday, when I get the time to do the research and order the stuff. And the head swaps are excellent.

If I had to give a constructive criticism, I would suggest making the eyes a bit smaller. The idea is solid: white eyes, black line them, and draw the pupil and I have done them that way also, but the entire eye area ends up looking a bit too large, because my brush control isn't good enough to do hair-thin lines. What I have tried to do instead is make a small black slit (or just a dark brown area from the wash) and then make a tiny white slit completely inside the black slit (leaving black or dark brown around the edges that is thinner than I could have painted it). Then the tiniest dab I can make for a pupil or just leave it as a tiny white slit. (Always better to be too small rather than too large.) I'm sure there are better methods and tutorials out there, but that's about the best method I could figure out with my skills.

Keep up the great work. I love the character of the army so far.