500pt Army

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’ve been working on a Chimera transport, and so I thought I would get a photograph of it now that’s been varnished.

I might add a few more decals to it later on, but for now I’m probably going to call it finished.

So here’s a list that I’ve made to make the most of the miniatures I have painted thus far. I’ll probably tinker with it a bit now and again by swapping out mini’s here and there (like including the plastic officer I posted in the previous entry) …but now that the Chimera is done this is what I can field right now.

HQ CHOICE
- command platoon –
Junior Officer (with bolt pistol)
2 guardsmen with lasguns
2 guards in a mortar team

1st TROOPS CHOICE
- infantry platoon –
…command squad
Junior Officer (with bolt pistol and scanner)
2 guardsmen with lasguns
2 guards in a mortar team

…infantry squad 1
sergeant with laspistol & close-combat weapon
6 guardsmen with lasguns
1 guardsman with a grenade launcher
2 guardsmen in a heavy bolter team

…infantry squad 2
sergeant with laspistol & close-combat weapon
7 guardsmen with lasguns
2 guardsmen in a lascannon team

2nd TROOPS CHOICE
- armoured fist squad –
veteran sergeant with plasma pistol & close-combat weapon
8 guardsmen with lasguns
1 guardsman with a plasma gun
chimera transport with a turret multi-laser, hull heavy bolter, pintle heavy stubber, and extra armour

FAST ATTACK
Sentinel with multi-laser

I'm Back

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog (or even worked on any more imperial guard miniatures) as I kinda decided to put things off until 5th edition came out.

Well, I still haven’t got hold of the new rules (or even played a game of 4th edition for that matter), but I thought I would get back to work and paint a few of the models I purchased earlier in the year …and at least complete a small 500pt army.

So the first thing I needed to get finished was the Chimera. I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t much enjoy assembling this vehicle - and getting the tracks to look somewhere near right was just plain frustrating. In the end I’ve had to put the track guards on the vehicle just to cover a gap where the tracks do not meet.

Anyway, while working on the Chimera I’ve also painted up a few more troops (basically adding what I needed to fill out the ranks of my new 500pt list) and I've been working on a few more conversions just for the hell of it.

Here’s a quick pic of two of them:

I was actually quite surprised to see that there are no miniatures currently available to represent the basic officer (i.e. with no upgrades). So, as you can see, I have attempted to make my own by using a spare set of cadian legs and hands (the hands were cut from the sergeant’s arms), the head and torso from the tank commander parts, and the arms from the really old plastic guardsmen miniatures from back when I was a kid.

The guy standing next to him is another trooper to add to my veterans squad (though most of those mini’s will be used as regular toopers for my armoured fist squad in the 500pt list). He’s made predominantly from catachan pieces (head, body, and legs), but i’ll admit that I really don’t like the proportions of the catachan miniatures - and so I’ve elongated the body just a little to make the mini look a little less squat. The arms are basic cadian arms that I have cut/filed the armour off in order to make the waistcoat look more like a jacket. He’s also got a few packs and a cadian helmet on his belt too.