IG Light Indantry, Part 2, The Infantry

First, I'm being late with this. Second, I'm in charge here, so it's not a problem.Actually I wanted a Drookian Fenguard army. After asking help from Ron ((FTW)Big thanks again for the help!) I pretty much abandoned this idea quickly and went with what you see now.

Look out wall of text. Pictures at the bottom. And the base aren't done, still need to paint the rims...



The army, or where does it come from

No big surprise that I have another guard army. It's a bigger question why would someone have 2, why not another race completely. This is a hard and an easy question at the same time. I don't like other armys, although I tried to build a few, but always got side tracked, or got bored halfway (Hi my Deathwing, really sorry for you) and found out that only the guard and the knights are for me. The second part is that I'm lazy, and I don't want to repaint my old guard, so why not build another until I can and not regret it that I haven't done it when I can't?

The Idea for a second guard army came at the near end of my current GK force (that still needs bases) but before re reading some books. Namely the Gaunt's books, and that set me in the mood for a light infantry force, so why not I taught.

Why not building actual ghosts? Well, for starters, it's done, by a countless time, that's not a negative thing for anyone building one, it's just a negative for me. And secondly I wanted my guard to be part of the current 40k time line, and not fight in the Sabbat crusade. So I used the Ghosts as template, cause you know, stealing from right places isn't a crime... I just lack imagination.

The bits, or the things that make this work

So after figuring out what I wanted, it was time to find out how I can make it. I needed backpacks and head variations. I think I went overboard with this, as it doesn't look like a disciplined regiment, more like marauders, but well, I can live with this, and at least they have more character this way.

After some searching in my LHS/GS (local hobby shop/ game store) I found a some boxes in a corner. Looking into it, I found bits.
Now for a reason I can't name all the bits, lets just say some of them comes from 4th party people (think a guy who makes cast of bits, and then sells them for dirt cheap (after asking araound, they can't order in the bits from the original source)). The ones I can name however came from Micro Art Studios, namely the female heads, and the ones with the barrets.

The original ones for the casts, can be found over at Dave Taylors blog, as I think he used the same bits, but from the original source. And with much better success.

Painting, what makes it look good

After building them there comes the big question, how should I paint them? I opted to stea... "take" ideas from Dave Taylor, and Mr. Abnett so I went with a dark uniform. Now just to don't "use" other peoples ideas completely, I went with green backpacks, you know, to have some originality in there.

I went with an assembly line style, and did the same thing on every figure. The stages are as follows. Primer, which is the uniform and armor color, than the bags, than the metal parts, than priming the faces. After that a good wash of Gryphone Sepia, and going back for detail work and basing.

I opted for a really pale skin tone, indicating the years on a star ship aboard from battlefield to battlefield with no sunlight or similar.

The downside of this kind of painting is that, some figures will turn out pretty good, but some of them will be ugly, you can of course go back and redo them, but as I said, I'm lazy.

For closing a little look at what I painted up...