Where does the time go eh? I meant to get this uploaded ages ago but the start of April coincided with the Easter holidays and our two little rascals were home from nursery and in need of entertainment/general looking after, which ate up what little free time I had left over after work. Anyway, it’s time for me to take a look at where I’ve managed to get to with my Imperial Guard army project. Way, way back in a time now lost to history (November) my blog brother IRO and I each declared that we’d get an Imperial Guard army painted up by the end of March. He achieved it long ago of course, and now its time for me to hold my brush aloft and declare victory.
Is the army finished? Hell no – for one thing no army is ever finished and for another my eyes are notoriously bigger than my stomach when it comes to painting miniatures. Still, I’ve achieved pretty much everything I intended to so I’m happy to call this project a success. Let’s take a look at the latest recruits shall we?
First things first I knew this army needed a leader, a general fit for the worst battlefields the 41st Millennium has to offer, ready and willing to sacrifice the lives of his men for the Emperor. This guy, I thought, was just perfect for the job. Enter General Marius Gaius Valerius IV.
I wasn’t entirely happy with his hand, close up it looks like a glove (which is what I was going for) but when you step back to “table-top distance” it just looks unpainted so I went back and painted it flesh-coloured. Couldn’t be arsed to rephotograph it though!
For those not already familiar with him he’s a House Greim Krieg Mester from Necromunda. House Greim are one of the noble houses of Necromunda, and usually spend their days sipping the finest of wines and haw-hawing with their peers in the spire, far, far above the grime and gang-warfare for which the planet is notorious. However the gentlemen of House Greim also fancy themselves as military types and, for a fee, will descend from on-high to offer their proxies – particularly among House Goliath – a few pointers as they battle it out in the Underhive. As soon as I saw this model I thought he’d be perfect as a pompous oaf to command my poor, downtrodden Guardsmen (although I’m sure he’ll manage to do double-duty by appearing in Necromunda from time to time too).
Next up we need some muscle! Enter my squad of Ogryns; Odo, Gump and Bern – collectively known as the Bruise Brothers.
And whilst these lumbering abhumans stomp around bringing brute force and ignorance wherever it’s needed, their smaller colleagues the Ratlings scurry along in the shadows, picking off targets with their sniper rifles and helping themselves to the contents of your wallet, your rations and the fillings from your teeth…
Then we have the heavy-weapon team of Privates Fabian and Stone, to lay down some covering fire.
Next up we have a servitor. I quite like the idea of having a small squad of these in the army but as yet that hasn’t happened. A project for the future though, as I said this army will probably never be completely “done”.
Another thing I hoped to add if time allowed – and in the end it didn’t – was a squad of Imperial Navy Voidsmen. I did manage this test model however and he was pretty quick and straightforward to paint so there may well be more of them in the near-ish future.
I do have one more thing to add here but as I sat down to assemble this post I discovered that I’d not actually taken any photos of it. However as this is quite long already, and well overdue to boot, I’ll save it for tomorrow…
Convert or Die 
