Penal Battallion Squad

Penal Battallion troops are made up of individuals who have committed crimes punishable By a life sentence. Their head are shaved and they are forced to wear an explosive slave-collar. Their red vest shows their status as dangerous offenders to outsiders.

 

When starting this IG Project I never expected to get myself enough penitents to form a full squad. So when the opportunity came to purchase the baldies I was very happy to take it. I will eventually paint a command section to make penitents a real platoon. And I will need a adeptus mechanicus tech priest to operate their explosive collars.

 

 Black boots, brown gaiters, desert camo pants and shirt.

A red penitents vest, black flak armor underneath and metals for lasgun and belt buckle.

 

I really should try out different skin tones. On ten guys the two tones used get a bit boring.

As does the fact that there is only this one pose for penitents and not that much you can

do with those plastic hands.

 

70 points / squad plus five points for the frenzon dispensers. 

Commissar and a penitent

Due to being ill - first with flu and then with norovirus - both painting and blogging have been on pause for several days. As I´ve been feeling a lot better since yesterday I did some modeling glueing arms and weapons to IG troopers and then base coating roughly 20 models. Eventually I found myself working on these two old sculpts which got finished today.

A commissar is of course a must for any IG force. I gave mine a HUGE power glove

and a las pistol. Penal trooper is armed with just the simple las gun.

I did not want to do a general all Black commissar so I went with the desert theme. Some Black details are there - mainly the hat - to make sure he stands out as a commissar. Penal trooper is recognizeable by his bald head, red vest and explosive collar around his neck.

I have a lot of RT era IG stuff that I´m working on currently: assault paltoon, penal squad, a couple of servitors, another tactical platoon and that thing you can see blurred on the background of these pictures.