Cadian IG work log (pic heavy)

[MunDMC]

Not to bore people with yet more imperial guard, i figured to keep my creative juices going i'd document my 1st voyage into imperial guard. Apologies that the pics are mediocre at best.

For starters, i wanted to do a basic transport to wet my appetite for IG armor. I chose a chimera for starters. I'm using a variation of "CADMAT" the canadian variant of digital camoflauge. The stencils were bought from a pretty useful site: [URL="http://tacticalcamo.com/MARPAT/digi.php"]http://tacticalcamo.com/MARPAT/digi.php[/URL]



Next, being a Daemonhunters player in search of a more helpful codex, i fleshed out my inquisitorial storm troopers, which are kasrkin that work as veterans:



This brings me up to about week 3 of my endeavors. Being a former eldar player, the valkyries were what really sold me on the new guard codex. My inspiration for them was from an outstanding tutorial from: [URL="http://akaranseth.over-blog.com/pages/Step_by_Step_Valkyrie_Imperial_Guard-1335315.html"]http://akaranseth.over-blog.com/pages/Step_by_Step_Valkyrie_Imperial_Guard-1335315.html[/URL]. From this tutorial i was introduced to the wonderful world of OIL PAINTS! Incredibly easy ways to weather vehicles. Below is one valkyrie with the panels half-shaded, and one finished one:



More to come given the pic-cap per post.

[MunDMC]

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Now it was time to paint many, many guardsmen. I actually played with miniwax polyshades dipping for the first time here, and it made the project quite speedy. Each guardsman is base coated by airbrush with GW Kemri Brown foundation paint. Then catachan green, boltgun metal, and flesh foundation paint is applied. The models are dipped in miniwax polyshades "Bombay Satin" before transfers are applied with Microsol. After this the decals are given a coat of 'ard coat equivalent, and sprayed with Testor's dullcoat to get rid of that miniwax shine:



Last, i needed a cool command squad, and a break from vehicles and hordes. I moved on to the CCS advisors, two commissars, and Creed/ Kell.



So that's everything up to present. If this thread generates any interest, i'll post my LRBT and demolisher kit. They're almost assembled, and ready to get their digital camo applied.

Sorry for such a lengthy post!

[oni]

Lookin' good.

[Lord Azaghul]

Very nice - its always insiring to see the hammer of the imperium is full battle regale!

[twomas_rox]

I like how it is coming along. I myself am in process of painting up my Guard/Daemonhunter force.

I like your work, and once i get further along with my Force.. i will definatley post up to share with others.

[Ferro]

These guys look fantastic, a really nice job sir. Thank you for the WIP of that Valkerie--the pre-shading of the different panels is brilliant. Keep us posted...

[ColCorbane]

They'e really nice mate, any more pics of the valk?

[ggg]

Very successful results, and I am particularly impressed by the use of digital camo on the tank. I've been looking at 'digital thunder' camo patterns which is being flogged to Jordainian forces and popular with the Canadian forces but I simply am not brave enough to tackle it myself. Great to see pics of theory put into practice. Bring on the heavy support tanks!

[MunDMC]

I did a little project log on the forum on the painting of the tanks below. I now finally have some heavy armour for my guardsmen:

[Hephesto]

Now that is a ton of minis, to some up some of my comments:

- Fantastic to see those Inquisitorial stormtroopers put to good use, but be a huge shame if they'd be left on the sideline!
- The Astropath's colours are great, very bright and contrasting with the outerwise somewhat baldn Cadian.
- How did you go about applying the camo scheme on your vehicles? I'd imagine that doing that all by hand would take ages.