The Grenadiers are formed

Even after spending most of my free time this weekend working on one of my commissions I still managed to start work on my Grenadier squad (Stormtroopers/Veterens). I've been looking forward to starting these guys ever since I saw the max mini great coat legs. I wanted to make them stand out from the rank and file whilst staying within the theme of the army. Therefore I went with the decision to make them Guardsmen+, essentially the same as the rest of my guys but with extra/better equipment. The base was, of course, the max mini greatcoat legs. To this I added a standard Cadian torso and arms. Instead of the basic west wind production head I went for the more techy looking Kromlech ones. I also added a pipe from the lasgun to the backpack. I finished off with some greenstuff cuffs to complete the great coat look and to add extra shoulder plates. Here are the first two guys, a sergeant and normal grenadier. I'm looking forward to completing the squad.

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Continuing the first squad.

After completing my Descendants of Decay I returned to working on my Imperial Guard. With my Kolony Command heads arriving from Pig Iron Productions I was able to complete the second half of my infantry squad.

I created the squad much in the same way as before by trimming lasguns and adding foot wraps. However, as this half of the squad contained the sergeant and the vox caster I tackled these a little differently.

The sergeant makes use of one of the new heads, I thought the cap would help him to stand out from the rest of the squad.

I also made a slight conversion to the Vox Caster, I t thought that the vox pack looked a little too techy for the look I was going for. Instead I clipped a couple of aerials from the vox pack and glued them to a Kromlech backpack. This allowed it to remain identifiable as having comms equipment whilst retaining that low tech feel.

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First 5 WW1 themed Imperial Guard

My current project is a WW1 Era British army themed imperial guard. These are the first five guardsmen.

The tommy helmeted heads are from West Wind Productions whereas the backpacks are from Kromlech. Apart from the extra components they have only required some minor conversion work. The lasguns have had the forward sites shaved off and green stuff shin wraps have been added. In terms of painting I have tried to keep the colour schemes as historically accurate as possible by only using muted colours.

Overall I'm very happy with how these have turned out and look forward to doing some more.

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