an imperial guard army blog

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As it says in the title it will be an imperial army blog, im going to try and convert all the models in some way probably just by putting carapace armour on, but in otherways as well, as you will all find out
I recently bought some models of ebay, 3 heavy weapons squads and 25 imperial guard troops and i have like 40 imperial guard troops from an old imp guard army so they will be used as well as a couple of tanks and 2 sentinels and i have grand plans for them all feel free to give me ideas as i want to make this army look cool any on with the pictures ;D


lots of bolter rounds muhahaha oh and btw the're a city fight army
this will be used to carry around the armoured fist troops whilst blasting everything with bolters ;D

the squad of heavy weapon teams


the guys individually
my favourite the leader of the squad and for no other reason than for him to look cool i also made him a voxoperator from team #1





the spotter guy for team #2



the missile launcher man team #2



The missile guy team #1
this guy was fun i did a head swap with the metal head of the cadian sentinel driver and i wanted the missile coming out of the launcher so i pinned it and added green stuff and i think it turned out well



the loader of team #3

you may have noticed that there is no guy with a launcher in team#3 that is because im not sure what position he should be in so he'll appear later on

and finally a vet. sergeant
minus a head



there will be more in the future
any tips, comment, criticisms or ideas are all appreciated
thanks matt

[Mabus]

WOW! They're all brilliant! I love the missile that is being fired out of the barrel, not too mention the headless V. sarge.

[twerd]

yeh fricking brillaint esspiecialy the misslers i love the dude lying on the ground

[Commissar]

Missile launcher is cool, I woulda used that goggled helm for a vet sarge, it seems fitting.
But very cool greenstuff work there.
The only suggestion I got is to switch out the stormbolter for a stubber.

[Rolling Thunder]

Bloody cool! ( Darkside:Only problem is that missile weapons can't be fired fromprone, as they blow up...)
But seriously, how do you make your models lie down?

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WOAH....they literally blow my mind haha, i love the detailed little dioramas on the big base....ooh...ooh can i suggest something please!!!

Anyway here it is, i like how the loader in team 3 on the big base is just behind that rock barrier....since the head is not on....i was suggesting you make it as if he was peering around the rock wall at the enemy. AND AND fer the misile launcher guy, he can be soldier crawling like the guy in team two, only this time he isnt going prone, rather he is dragging the launcher with him by the straps as if to avoid bing seen, getting ready to set up an ambush

Good stuff again Matt, this was only an idea though, can't wait to see your guys painted!

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no update today coz...
...woops i just cut myself really badly
the blade went in it about 0.5cm and there was a ton of blood
lesson learnt next time don't cut towards yourself ;D
it probably wouldn't have happened but i lost my proper craft knife so i had to use a different one that had a different shape of blade so i have to cut in a different way so that every time i had to cut towards my hand
my mum put super glue on it to try and glue it back together but she said if she could she would have put stiches in it (shes a doctot btw)

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the vet sarge is not finished yet but he will have a bionic arm
i did the arm on the 2nd missile launcher

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i also did a small tutorial on the hands and ill do one for the lying down guy to
i will make it better if i have the time but it wont be this week as this weeks hectic enough already with tests and rugby matches

any way
ingredients ;D:
green stuff
vaseline
a sculpting tool
a paper clip
clippers
a craft knife
pin vice

some of these aren't needed but they make it easier by a long way

first of all take the pin vice and drill into the arm where you want the hand
then using clippers cut the paper clip into a piece about this big

then put the paper clip into the hole and use super glue to glue it.
wait for this to dry

then add a blob of green stuff


dip the sculpting tool into some vaseline
then shape this into a handish shape



then add the fingers but making 3 lines in the shape


then add a small blob of Gs for the thumb

make it a bit more realistic

and tadaa you have a hand
easy as that

thanks matt

[Commissar]

Aww, damn.
That looks bad.
LoL.
Bleeding...
Anywho, that tanker has a funky hand, I mean it in a sorta good way sorta iffy way.
It looks cool, but funny.
Like, its a little small or something.
Meh, it'll be fine.
Cant wait to see more!

[twerd]

but when you drive a chiremaira no bodys going to notice.

[Commissar]

LoL, thats true!
Vroom, hes goin fast!

[knight (M.I.A)]

The size of the hand is totally fine. the only thing is that we're not used to see hands/fists without guns that often in 40k. So we only think that it's too small, but in reality it is fine but we only know "fists" while holding a gun...

[Mabus]

He looks pissed off, I like it. He looks like he is saying a very bad word and implying the guy he is looking at has a good time with his hand.

[Mabus]

Hey! I didn't say "urined" I said pissed!

Damn! it's happened again!

[7heoz]

looks awesome! I am really liking your heavy weapon teams. ;D

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Damn cutting yourself inte the finger is really painfull (the daily adventoures of the modern hobbyist) and disables one for a couple of days. I dont recomend anyyone to get GS-water/fluids into a cut wound. Great GS skills on the details, wish I had your skill, im still struggling with GS as I dont get to use it all too often. Great idea with the missile launcher and the GS smoke!

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finally after the very long wait there is an update hooray ;D
anyway we all want to see the pictures so...

some troops, some of them i may change to vets with shot guns after if i buy the veteran pack from FW and then im going to make the FW shotguns out of plasticard but thats for the future
there still WIP and some have no heads













I'm not to fond of the respirators anymore as i feel they take the character out of the model so i'm going to scrap having respirators

A little pic of what the guard will look like when all the GS is finished on their bodies



a load of the bodies


I started to make a prototype of the hellgun, ive got to get some plasticard to add the top sight thing


In all the research i did for this project (finding cool ideas) I found that removing the eagle from the helmet looks really good when painted


I did a trade and got 28 kaskrin backpacks its awesome


The vox operators backpack
just started


Started working on some more vehicles
Ive got 2 sentinels 1 russ and a basilisk
ive got good ideas for all of them



I added stuff on the side not very interesting but you can't really do much with a sentinel thats already been built.

Plain old Basilisk
im going to cut 1/4 of the shield off add using plasticard extend it around the sides and i might buy a second one and have people loading it


I added a kind of filter for the engine like the ones forge world do

its just the back of a search light with a bit cut off

IDEAS
any ideas on what materials and bits to use to make them?
Some ideas for a leman russ exterminator


Some rough riders




storm bolters



Vets




and finally the loader for the 3rd missile team? maybe?


Ill see if i can get some bigger pics of the ideas because they're really small images

Man that took a long time copying and pasting all those links

Well thats all C&C would be really appreciated
thanks
Matt

[Commissar]

Very nice, I am liking the troopers.
I think the respirators are cool as well...KEEP THEM OR I WILL MURDER YOUR...minis?
Yah, keep it up!
Those are awesome models.

[Mabus]

I am lving everything you are doing so far, decided on a colour scheme yet?

The sketches are pretty cool too.

I really do think they look awsome, well done!

[Deleted]

I really like the conversion work you are putting into your army. I'll keep an eye on this thread!

[Deleted]

Nice models, they're great conversions. What's up with the vet sarge's arm though?