Hello again, for a while now I have been picking up various miniatures with a vague idea of throwing together an Imperial Guard force for 40k, no real planning involved, just a gathering of models I liked the look of....
This is it so far.....
as you can see its a bit of a mixed bag.....
Concentrating mainly on the non GW models, because everyone has seen GW imperial guard models done a dozen different ways....
we have the beginnings of an infantry platoon...
Junior officer + squad, that's a GW catachans lieutenant, a plastic catchan with a vox, doc dorden a gaunts ghost model behind the officer, and a shadow forge missile trooper with a bolt action British commando on the heavy weapons team.
the beginnings of 2 trooper squads, a mixture of shadow forge models (with weapon swaps/mods) and GW catachan models.
Above are the 2 special weapons sections, at least the specialists, mostly GW, including a couple more ghosts, and one infinity model, and one shadow forge, no mods on any of these....
The beginnings of my veteran squad, more infinity and shadow forge amongst a pair of ghosts and a catachan...
I modded up this AT-43 troop carrier to count as a chimera transport for my stormtrooper squad, just a simple weapon swap on the turret, and the addition of a second heavy flamer for the hull mount....
Last amongst my works in progress for now... a unit of penal legion troops made from some bolt action American infantry, relatively simple weapon swaps so far, i am still 1 lasgun short, as I want the entire squad to have the one with the folded away wire stock.... and the custodian I just used a set of cadian sergeant arms.... which don't look too out of proportion.... the plan for these poor blighted souls is orange uniforms, with an explosive collar each, like in running man.... do as you are ordered or bang! no more brain case....
Finally just a couple of comparison shots of the various different companies models to show up the slightly varying scales.....
I am using the Cadian troopers as my stormtroopers because no-one else in my army is wearing armour.... my intention is to finish this group off with a few of Chapterhouse studios Banshees, to help maintain the mixed gender feel of the force..... and who knows I might pick up or sculpt some heavier charge packs for their lasguns to re-inforce the "hotshot" image...
Well thats it for my ramblings for another post... I hope you enjoyed reading it...
TWTs.
