Great Coat Guard with a difference

[doghouse]

This is the begining of my new guard army that I'm working on.

Basically what I'm doing is elongating the models to give them a better sense of proportion in relation to the size of the head. The models are a combination of Cadian parts and Lt Varren from the old battle of macragge starter set.

WIP Guardsman





I'm also applying the same technique to the regualr cadian to create more specialist roles like the Veteran seen below.
I've cut the sides of the helmet down and will GS to make it look like a german paratrooper or steel legion head.

WIP Veteran



For the stormtroopers I'll be going full on gothic with this guy as the prototype. As I started him before I decided to go bigger he still needs to be made taller as seen above with the regular guardsman.
I'll be adding a hose to the left side of helmet rebreather and gothing up the hellgun.

[doghouse]

Gladiator Siege Tank

Big Guard need big tanks and you don't get much more bigger than the Gladiator Siege Tank! This monster is another proxy model but this time for a Leman Demolisher with extra armour.
When I originally built it the tank was intended for regular guard as you can see in the picture. I now need to go back and clean up the track guards and make the commander bigger. This monster is made from left over parts from other conversions.

[doghouse]

Quick update

WIP Captain

Started to clean up the Captain and begun detail work. Still have to bring the material on the jacket on the torso down to meet the belt though.

[ReWolf]

Welcome to IGMB, doghouse

It's a pleasure ;D

Your stuff is rediculously awesome, as always.

[metcalfedan]

Is this THE Doghouse? The same person who did The CSK(OD) and the Actual scale astartes over on the B&C?

Fantastic Guardsmen there! Cant wait to see more...

[Ymmot (M.I.A)]

Amazing stuff, I am also familiar with your work,
this thread oughta be all kinds of fun to watch.

[Ogryn Crazy!]

Love the tank, got any Ogryns?

[doghouse]

Thanks guys!

Ogryn Crazy!: Not just yet but it's a possibility if I can come up with something interesting.

ymmot : I'm hoping it's interesting enough for people to watch my progress. I've got loads of ideas for this army including a truescale Death Watch marine for use as a proxy with the Colonel Straken rules.

metcalfedan: Yeah that's me. I've been lurking on this site for a while now and figured it was time for me to start posting now that I have a guard army underway. I'm more known form my marine stuff but I've been a guard player since first ed.

ReWolf: Thank you, it's nice to find a great guard site like this.

[Deleted]

that captain is gold!

[Deleted]

These look really awesome.

I'm familiar with your models over on B&C so i have high expectations for these guardsmen.

Cant wait for more!

[inquisitor0sylver]

Wow man, I'm seriously impressed your crazy enough to use as much green stuff on every IG model as I am!

Might I suggest that you use greenstuff to make the overcoats on 1 set of each of the cadian legs then make a resin cast of them so your entire army can have greatcoats? Or was that in line with your plan?

Cheers and welcome to IMGB, here's your uplifting primer and flashlight.

[ElegaicRequiem]

Wow. In that side-by-side to show the difference, you can really see just how much better yours looks. This is amazing. I tip my hat to you.

[kommissar]

very impressive work! reminds me of peoples true scale spacemarine projects

[Deleted]

Yeah, those are some impressive conversions, makes me wanna kitbash my own Gladiator (and cut up all my guardsmen's legs and add greenstuff even though I know I'll fail...)

[doghouse]

Thanks guys!

Axelius: Yeah the Gladiator is a bit of a beast. I'll see if I can put together a quick tutorial at some point on how I make the Guardsmen as it's pretty easy.

kommissar: Yeah I'm the one that started the whole truescale craze, just hope I never run into Jes Goodwin as I hear that's he's not too keen on the idea.
CMDante from Warseer has to take the credit for biggerising guard though with his Blood Pact model he made.
I'd been concidering it for a while but after seeing his model I was sold on the idea.

ElegaicRequiem: It makes all the difference doesn't it. The regualr stuff is portionately a big squashed but they have gone some way to correct this by making the newer Cadian bare heads smaller now.
I want to do Guardsman Marbo like this as I think it'd be really cool.

inquisitor0sylver: Thanks for the warm welcome mate. I have concidered casting bits in the past but I'm big believer in the IP rights of GW. It's quite a bit of work as well and I really enjoy cutting up plastic minis so it's not a problem to build an army especially as it only takes about ten minutes to make each one.

I'll update asap with some more work I've done on the command squad.

[Mabus]

Some truely lovelly work here, I'm a stealing that Tank idea whether you like it or not.

[tankshock]

I think I have seen your guardsmen on WIP, but not the tank, that is slick! Welcome to IGMB by the way

[ElegaicRequiem]

You could just cast the legs and torso if you've changed them. It would end-up saving money too, as resin is so cheap. I'm going to sculpt a greatcoat that's open like the commissar's, but is flowing behind the guardsmen like there's a wind. That wouldn't be GW's IP.

[aeonian]

Resin...is cheap?

I hate Forge World -_-

[doghouse]

Thanks guys!

Mabus: Be my guest!

tankshock: Thank you, it's a great forum you guys have here.

ElegaicRequiem: That sounds really cool. I am going to be making some great coats for Troll Forged Miniatures but this army is for pure GW play so I want to keep it as legal as possible in regards to parts.
Pm a link if you get some pictures up of your sculpts, I'd really like to see them.

More pictures asap...

[ElegaicRequiem]

@ Aeon: Yes, resin you buy in the store is cheap -- I'd guess around 6 - 8 drops of each part will make a regular sized mini. Maybe ten of each... somewhere around 3/16 fluid oz. A pack with two 28 fl oz bottles costs ~$30 at hobbytown. Think about how cheap* that can be. I'll never use it all...
* They get you with the mold silicone. Use GS to make the mold, it's harder and more dangerous to the sculpt, but it saves another ~$30.

@ Doghouse: One day, when life doesn't suck so much, I'll have it done. When I do, I'll post pics.

[Deleted]

nice.

[commissarbob]

First off, welcome to the IGMB, I am familiar with your work, particularly with the marine conversions using the Chaos warrior legs. I have a Nurgle themed traitor guard / Lost and the Damned army idea on the backburners where the traitor marines are to be true scaled using that technique. They should look impressive next to the traitor guard and zombies...

Anyways on to the guard, I am very excited to see your finished guard models, I have great expectations!

[doghouse]

Cheers guys!

I've begun work on the Colonel Straken proxy Death Watch marine which will probably be a Black Consul.
I'm playing around with brown stuff this time to see what I can do with the stuff.
I've just started the legs and torso and will be adding a shotgun and plasma pistol probably along with some bionics.

[doghouse]

Been a while since I got some work on these guys done but I've revised the theme of the army.
I'm now making them a Great Crusade era Imperial Army force led by a Terran Space Wolf.
The idea is that he has been struggling to come to terms with the intregration of the Fenrisians since the discovery of Russ and has been assigned as a liason to an Army element of the Expedition.
I've got a short bit of background story to flesh it out a little:



Commander Lucien Enoch

The idea behind this guy is that he is a proxy for Colonel Straken. but needless to say Straken has a profile that is very close to a marine.
To me one of the most interesting aspects of the Legions is the Terran marines and how they would react to the recruits from their new homeworlds. Personally I can see some clashes occuring as old traditions are thrown out in place of new and I figured this would be the ideal opportunity to address one such clash of ideals.
So to sum the character up I've wacked together a brief intro:

The servos in Captain Enoch's bionic arm whined audibly in protest as he lightly keyed the door access panel to admit him enterance to his private quarters.
It had been ten long years since he'd lost the limb fighting greenskin boarding parties whilst commanding the Restitution during their exploration of the area of space known as the Wheel of Fire.
Despite the artificers request to replace the out dated augmentation he had always refused the upgrade. To him it was in memory of the lives lost during the pacification of the system, a grim reminder that no matter how many victories the Space Wolves won in the Emperor's name the Astartes were mortal and could be brought to their knees just as any other man might.

Even in the darkness of the room his heightened senses easily picked out the familiar form of Gravele.

"What's this, they finally sent someone to deal with the old man once and for all?" He snorted with contempt as he passed his hand over the rooms illumination controls.

"And it's a pleasure to see you again old friend!" Gravele laughed as he rose to his feet from behind the old wooden desk that stood with it's back to the cabins starboard viewport.

"What do you want Gravele? I have no time for your games boy." Enoch unbuckled his sword belt and placed it on the arming rack that held his old mark one thunder armour before unbuttoning the neck of his tunic.
Out of habit he ran his hand across the surface of the suit's carapace, his fingers brushing across the oiled surface of the thunderbolt icon embossed apon it's battered chest.
Each pit and bullet mark bringing back memories of battles fought and victories hard won.

"Why do you revere that old armour so much Lucien? It's little more than an outdated relic of a forgotten time, why do you insist on clinging to the past?" Gravele smiled to himself as he poured a second glass of Merican Almac and offered it to the Captain.

"Tradition, should we forget the deeds of the past then we are doomed to repeat our mistakes and pay for them in blood." Enoch said solumly as he took the drinking flute by it's long slender neck "The Regiment was built on honour and duty something that seems to have been forgotten in recent times."

"You speak of the Fenrisians?" Gravele read between the lines.

"They are little more than barbarians, they howl and bray like wild dogs. They know nothing of martial discipline." Enoch walked across the room to look out the view port as he sipped the Almac.

"You live in the past old friend, you should be more careful of what you say about the Primarch's people, they are our brothers now. There are those that say that you are losing sight of the objective of the expedition, there are whispers that you have out lived your usefulness." The concern in Gravele's voice was evident.

Enoch laughed gruffly.

"And what would you know of tradition boy? You joined the Regiment as we left Terra for the stars, you never fought in the Unification Wars..."

"For the grace of Terra Lucien!" Gravele snarled "This isn't the Regiment anymore, those times have long since passed, we are the Legion now!"

"And what has it got us?" Enoch barked in reply "Look at yourself Gravele, you hang wolf pelts from your belt like those Fenrisian animals. The crusade has always been about the pursuit of truth yet you embrace their feral practices as if they were your own." He slammed his fist in anger cracking the surface of the ornate desk as one of it's legs gave way sending it crashing to the floor.
"These barbarians embrace the flaws of our gene-seed, gathering these freaks together in the thirteenth Great Company! In my day we put them out of their misery, they are no better than those genetically mutated monstrosities used by the tyrants we fought in the Merican wars!"

"Ah but that's the point brother," Gravele spoke softly "those tyrants have long since been vanquished. The ghosts of the past should be lain to rest brother and we should embrace the future of our Legion."

He placed the papers he had bought with him on the small round table that stood beside the arming rack.

"These are your new orders, I am to replace you as Captain of the Fifth and you are to report to the Terran 12th/32nd as liason to the Legion. The Primarch may come from a barbaric race as you put it but he understands the value of comradeship. He felt it better that it come from a friend rather than a superior. I think that you sorely under estimate the Fenrisians brother."

And with that he turned and left to resume his duties leaving the old man to his thoughts.

So in short Enoch is having trouble adjusting to the newer ways of the Fenrisians and is being seen as something of a risk to the stability of the Space Wolves.
Out of respect he has been granted a position of liason to an Imperial Army regiment acting as part of the expedition.

I've started on Enoch who will be using the Colonel Straken rules as you can see below.

I've begun cleaning up the model a bit. He's still pretty messy for the time being from the leg straightening but he's coming along nicely.
I've still got to clean up the feet as they are pretty mcuh gs place holders for now so that I can get the portions right. I 've also filled the gap in the shoulder pad with GS and just need to tidy it up a bit.
Once the model has been give the once over and cleaned up I'll add the back pack, plasma pistol, start the bionic arm and add a few pouches and grenades.
I'm itching to get started on the paintjob now.