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Offline voltan

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Imperial guard armour: now with extra imperial-ness
« on: August 07, 2017, 07:36:57 PM »
Decided to repaint my old armour company and this is the beginning, well two of these I built 15, or more, years ago and only just got round to painting them. This could take a while as there's a lot more stuff than I remember.
I've also learnt I can't remember how my camera works :P
« Last Edit: January 24, 2018, 07:24:24 PM by voltan »
Yvan eht nioj!

Offline JoeRugby

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2017, 10:13:31 PM »
Lovely stuff dude jealous of your forgeworld hydra :)

Offline Ragsta

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2017, 06:06:31 AM »
Niiice, good combo of colours and I like the use of an old barricade for the Leman Russ 'ram'.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2017, 07:35:21 AM »
Nice painting.

So what has prompted the repaints?

Offline voltan

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2017, 08:23:55 AM »
Cheers for the compliments chaps.



So what has prompted the repaints?
Strangely, I was looking for my dark angels librarian Ezekiel figure, who can only be found when you don't want him for any reason what so ever, when I was looking through the boxes of guard tanks and steel legion and thought I keep meaning to get on with these, five minutes later I'd taken the top two off a shelf, started painting and it's kinda snowballed from there. I'm not even sure how much I've got to do, at least another 11 Russ hulls and 6-ish chimera, it also doesn't help that a few of them are old conversions so I've been going back tidying up some of the work, making it look a bit neater, missing some bits completely like the back of the Russ till it's too late for me to be bothered to go back and fix it.  :D 

Offline Curis

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2017, 10:04:03 AM »
Like the bocage-clearing device welded to the front of the Russ!  Very WW2!

Offline voltan

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2017, 07:00:14 PM »
Well a couple more have made it through, a standard Russ and a heavily modified Exterminator.

And though I don't regret painting the company markings on all of them, I do both rue and lament it.
I think the photos are getting worse.

Offline tomrommel1

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 06:40:58 AM »
good start
In hoc signo vinces

Have a look at www.wargamesgazette.com

Offline dijit

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2017, 08:08:27 AM »
I really like the modified exterminator. Looks really cool as a command vehicle.

I played against an armoured company a long time ago, when they were still a citadel journal army list. The club I went to was reluctant to let anyone use a non'official' army list, so I never got to play my harlequins. So the guy with the armoured company and I decided we'd pit our 'nonofficial' armies against each other, the results were one of the most memorable games I've ever had. The game closed with me having a single harlequin with haywire grenades in one corner and him having a single basilisk in the opposite corner. Could my harlequin make it across before a flying dustbin landed on his head?

Offline voltan

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2017, 08:26:52 AM »
I had similar once, except my basilisk had no weapons left and was trying to run everyone over before it got destroyed. :D

I always thought of the exterminator as the Commissars tank, i've actually got another two with extended hulls that are in the queue for repaint.

Offline Corso

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2017, 08:45:15 AM »
Looks cool :)

Offline fitterpete

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2017, 02:15:13 AM »
Whats the 3rd tank in the first set of pics called?
Pete

Offline voltan

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2017, 09:48:33 AM »
It's a Leman Russ Destroyer a forgeworld conversion kit, it doesn't seem to be available at the moment.

Offline fitterpete

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2017, 11:32:47 PM »
Thanks. I checked on Forgeworld  to try and find out , that's why I asked.Isn't it a pretty old kit, like one of the first they did? Maybe its getting redone.
Thanks again,Pete

Offline voltan

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Re: Imperial guard armour
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2017, 09:22:15 AM »
yeah, I bought it soon after it came out, along with the hydra kit, so pretty quick progress from me for painting them.  ;)

 

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