New Codex?

It's been a while since I've done anything with my imperial guard, though I have recently taken a look at the new codex - and it seems that my old 750 point(ish) army now comes in at around 600 points.

While this is good for the battlefield (i.e. 150 points worth of 'more stuff' to throw at the enemy can't be a bad thing), I can see how many folks might think that it's not so great on the wallet.

Fortunately, I still have a number of unpainted guards lying around (and also another sentinel still on the sprue), so I don't really need to buy any more miniatures for a while - but those figures were supposed to get my 750pt army closer to 1000pts - but now that looks very unlikely.

Anyway, regardless of all that, I really like the idea of the new Master of Ordnance advisor in the new codex, though I really don't want to spend almost £10 on a pack of miniatures to get him.

So, since I have a lot of bits and pieces lying around, I figured I would have a go at making my own plastic version …and here's the result:

The body, legs, left hand, and backpack are all from the regular Cadian guardsmen sprue, and the right hand (shown here pressing a button) was from the heavy weapon sprue (which was originally on an arm that was supposed to be pointing out in the direction of the enemy).

The head is that of a space marine scout, and the arms are some really old guardsmen arms I've had lying around for quite some time.

The small scanner/radio thing in his hand is a space marine auspex (I think that's what it's called) with some of the top pointy things removed - and the centre one replaced with the aerial from the catachan radio backpack.

I know it doesn't look exactly like the Master of Ordnance miniature, but I think I will be good enough proxy in most games.