Imperial Guard Urban Assault Unit

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hi

First post for me in this forum, please be gentle
Here's my version of an Imperial Guard Cityfight uniform.
C&C very welcome.

Cheers

CC

[9th Company]

Thats a fantastic camo design. Perfect for urban warfare. I wish I could comment further but there isn`t a lot I could add. Maybe you could add some debris to the bases.

How do you plan on painting your tanks?

[Deleted]

I would concur with 9th here.. they look awsome.. but the bases make me cry... they are so bare when the models are so well done.. if they are cityfight models then the bases should be more rubble strewn or at least a pale to dark grey color to reflect being in the city instead of the country roads and dirty outerscape..

Than again looking at the pictures I see that you have your terrain in that dirty brown color so it works for there.. though maybe add some of the sprue bricks to the bases to break them up a bit.. or even some brown grass.. to show vegitation but dead..

Hope that helps..
Cheers

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

first pic I thought to myself "thats f**king tight..could use some eyes though"
second pic: "that's f**king tight"
third pic: "that's f**king tight"
fourth pic: "that's..."

you get the picture.

I dig it, you almost made me want to go buy a box of cadian infantry just to paint up like this and start a new cityfight type army. nice

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hey
Thanks for all your kind words!

How do you plan on painting your tanks?

Don't really know yet, probably something like the urban camo the British Berlin Brigade did in the 70s.

@bases: Yeah, guess u are right here. They do look a wee bit empty. I am always lazy doing bases and don't like the standart GW ones. I will add some selfmade rubble though

@eyes: Each time I do paint eyes the minis turn out as if they're
on Speed..
So the zombi-like-unpainted eyes became kind of a trademark
during the last couple of years.

Has anyone a good idea what to do as squad marking? It should be easy to be reproduced??

Cheers

CC

[thefishki345]

wow!, theese look really awesome, maybe one idea for the bases is either use the same gravel you have for your terrain (if you didnt) and add some spare parts from the cities of death sprues.

As for squad markings its a bit of a toughie, maybe (call me boring) use the cadian transfers or maybe some skull symbols or something like that, but the models look great on their own without symbols so dont go over the top with squad markings if you decide to do them.

[twerd]

Try glueing small leghts of razor wire to the bases or cut apart some of the cities of death buildings like the railings of r somthing that would work but don't go over the top though

[9th Company]

I don`t bother with squad markings. In reality the soldiers would know what squad they are supposed to be in, plus squad markings would give away to the enemy who the important squads are. I paint the underneath of the bases a certain colour. That way if two squads get mixed together in close combat I just look at the underneath of the bases and I know who belongs where.

[Mabus]

Those are the nicest models I have seen for a while. I concure with the others on the matter of basing the models. You could also try using different sized grains of sand, it will make 'em look even better because it would look more realistic. You could also try using some slate, if done right it could look like bits of fallen masonary. Sorry if this has been mentioned before I could not be bothered to read all of the other posts.
Try using less variation in colour, it would make the tanks look less visable on the battlefield and so more realistic. They look fantastic and I think you should keep up the same level of quality. Good luck with the rest of your army!

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hi again

I think I sorted the markings problem of mine..
Printed paper numbers

What do you think?



Group pic


In action, fighting 'nids:


Cheers

CC

[twerd]

hay they fit into the urban battle field really well again great job

[dethklok]

Is that your table i would love to have sumtin like that. and awesome paint job it is nice to see people steer away from the urban blueness

[Mabus]

Wow, I really love that officer.That's also a nice board.

[Cadian 117]

Nice man. Urban camo is sometimes the hardest to paint.

[thefishki345]

yeah, really good, maybe with the guy reloading his clip reform the top of his fingers a bit so they dont look as circular and closed, other than that, they are so awesome! and that table is really nice too!

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hi there

here my Standard Bearer:





Cheers

CC

[Mabus]

Is that hand painted? it looks brilliant.

[Deleted]

Beautiful models they look good without the eyes. I dont paint mine either. Fluffwise its my counter to: "Dont shoot till you see the whites of there eyes." They'll live longer.

[Ciaphas Cain]

And here it is: my first tank (APC) for quite a while..






As you can see I went for a single colour look, what do you think?

Cheers

CC

[9th Company]

That tank looks great. It matches the troops camo scheme really well. Could you tell me how you painted the tracks though? I love the slightly rusted look to them, thanks.

[Ciaphas Cain]

@9thcompany
Chaos Black- Tin Biz- Boltgun Metal




Cheers

CC

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

the infantry models are looking amazing, the standard bearer is exceptional (is that handpainted with decals added? it looks like it, which makes it all the more amazing), the chimera is sweet. I like the realism you're putting into the models, black gloves, realistic tracks. overall it's a great looking project and it'll be a mark of pride on the tabletop, I'm sure.

my only thought with the chimera, is that the highlights could be a bit bolder. the single tone looks good, but if you went with a camo, I'm confident you could pull that off too - it looks great as is, but would look great patterned as well. I'd leave it till you reach the 'Immuna fiddle with my minis because everything's painted and I'm bored' phase of things.

I'm a big fan of your camouflage technique on the infantrymen.

[Deleted]

in-freakin-credible.

Your camo looks amazing. Keep track of those things, especially when playing a cityfight (I've lost more than one model and my painting isn't half of what yours is, heh heh).

If you don't mind my asking, have you ever experimented with the US army's ACU digital camo pattern?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hey

Thanks for all your kind words'

Turtleboy(AWOL)
I actually am thinking of doing camo for the vehicles, I'm just not too sure what kind. So far I tried the Berlin Brigade urban camo but so far results have been not too convincing at all, so I decided to leave them Battlegrey for the time being..

@mylesproweer
Digital Camo looks so frakking awesome that I obviously had to try. Unfortunatey again without any real success. The digital pattern is way too small for meto imitate. Damn.

Cheers

CC

[Ciaphas Cain]

Just a quick update for you to prove that I'm still working on my Guard for Apocalypse.

A sniper:






Hellhound w.i.p.:



And some other stuff w.i.p.:



And the reason why I'm slightly distracted, my new hobby:



Cheers

CC