Mordian Iron Guard and my return to 40K

[Guard_of_Iron]

I used to play Imperial Guard starting in 2003 and ending around the dawn of 5th edition. Ever since I laid eyes on the beautiful pictures in the 3rd edition rulebook of the mordians in their immaculate dress uniforms (it was the epaulets that really did it) I was smitten with those models. sadly it was not to come to pass, and my IG soldiered on in standard cadian outfits just like most other regiments, though they eventually became mechanized. then I drifted into FOW and gave up 40k, until now. I managed to score a ton of mordians on ebay, and quickly had the army of my dreams materialize after 13 years of waiting.

here's what I have to paint
27 heavy weapons teams
6 squads of 10
3 command squads
3 commissars
3 leman russes (the other lure that got me into the IG and 40k in general)

I have already started, and completed 10 men, so to recap what has already happened:
here's my initial test model:


I tried an experimental guy with a white jacket as a command squad scheme, but that didn't work out (colour combo looked wrong), so now they're all going to be traditional mordians, but the command squads will have nice white gloves to stand out.

here's the first batch of 10



right now, I have a squad that is almost done with blues besides the final highlight of the pants and cartridge boxes (for lack of a better term) which are a lighter blue, and I am waiting on 3 kits which I plan to steal bits from to customize my leman russes (WWI tank kits, more on that when they show up, hopefully this week). I hope to update this log regularly as I progress.

main text images fixed, thumbnails are a mess, gotta love ipad to windows compatability