Commissar training squad

One of the cooled things in Rogue Trader era WH40k are commissar training squads. Fanatic young men looking forward to becoming real commissars. The rules for collecting points on the battle field and field promotios are just something you don´t see today.

This has been a longish project as the commissar models are pretty hard to get for reasonable price. The last model to be finished is a banner bearer, a small conversion done by clipping of his chanin sword, repositioning his left hand and modifying a plastic arm so that the model can hold the flagpole.

The nine cadets all have blue details in their uniforms. Leader or trainer wears black cap and

armor. The standard bearer has distinquished himself in the battle and has the honor of carrying

the training squad´s flag. 

For cadets I chose models that carry a las gun and have no decorations on their great coat.

The leader was chosen on the basis of that skull bearing breast plate that appears in

the black and white above.

Immunity to all psychology effects - that´s a good prop.

Inquisitors and else

After those space elves I´m back to paiting IG. Happy to show a couple of not so common character models, an another commissar cadet and a slightly converted sergeant.

Ready for a corona inspection?

RT7 mercenaries series Inquisitor Augustus model. He has a pretty maniacal impression on his face that suits a religious fanatic just fine.

Forces of the Imperium Ordo Malleus Inquisitor with Force sword. I used the blue and white details to set him apart from normal inquisitors as he is a daemon hunter after all.

Didn´t have any beaky marine backpakcs so I just used this one. And that´s my first ever attempt on painting a force weapon.

This is the 3rd model to the upcoming commissar training squad. Ran out of models so it´s off to ebay again.

RTO5 Imperial Army Sergeant Hikks with an added chain sword. RT IG sergeants come with chain swords so I had to give him one. He´ll get a squad to lead eventually.

First commissar cadet

This might get expensive as I´m going to need a grand total of 10 commissar models to complete a RT era IG commissar training squad. For cadets I´m planning to use the models that don´t have medals or other decorations on them. One will be converted to act as a standard bearer. And will we be the leader ofcourse. Color scheme will be the same desert theme as for the rest of my IG force. I´m using blue hat tops and epaulets on cadets to seperate them from normal commissars.

Anyway, here´s the first example.

 Placed him infront of a very wip rhino. Those blue details give him a NKVDish look, don´t they.
I´m off to winter vacation so next update will be in march.

Commander on Bike

Roughly two months ago I finished a commissar on bike model but ran out of Desert Yellow spray I use to prime my IG. Having gotten resupplies recently here´s the guy that the commissar will be following on the field of battle.

 RT era bike body with modern handle bar, headlight and gear shift.

 The driver himself is rough rider legs combined with the torso of a IG commander and plastic arms.

 The dynamic duo.

Very happy with how these two turned out.

My hobby year 2019

Looking back to 2019 I seen Imperial Guard. A suprisingly large force of Imperial Guard. Even as I´ve never been a 40K guy I ended up painting more than 100 IG models.

This is how it all begun. Inspired by a desert themed Only war campaing I was playing with my mates I wanted to try how old plastic guardsmen would look like in desert uniforms.

I was pleased with the speed painting method and soon had my first tactical squad completed.

Then I sort of got carried away by IG and after completing 1st tactical platoon I knew I had to do more.

The next squad finished was these bald gentelemen of the penal battallion. Monopose with plastic arms and las guns. Not much variety there.

And as those penitents have explosive collars I needed someone to rig those. Here´s an adeptus mechanicus with his three servitors. The servitors are Confrontation tech gangers with some modernish Tau parts.

Another model that needs that adeptus mechanicus is this human bomb aka redeemed sinner. Not very politically correct model that one.

For 2nd tactical platoon I wanted some variation for heavy weapons and chose heavy bolters and multi meltas instead of normal grenade launchers and las cannons.

2nd platoon with it´s two squads and the command section.

Some support weapons were painted too:
 

 A tarantula

 Land speeder

 Conqueror robot with it´s squat adeptus mechanicus care taker.

A walking egg

Back to infantry:

Here´s something I´m pretty proud of. A jump pack equipped assault platoon. Well, it´s just a single squad and a command section but still counts as a platoon.

 A trio of officers.

 A commissar

 Sanctioned psyker and a servitor

 A commissar and a penitent

Commissar on a motor cycle

No old school IG force would be complete without some abhumans:

 Ratling snipers

Ogryn squad

The few fantasy models painted last year were mostly green skins:

Snots, goblins, orc

 Some Rugluds´ chaps

 Goblin chariot

Chaos goblin. My Oldhammer forum Legacy 2019 participant.

A nurglesque chaos warrior

I made a few piece of scenery too. That´s something that I haven´t done in years.

I had tha chance to play only a single game of 3rd WFB during 2019. Enjoyed it even though my green skins were soundly beaten by dwarfs.

 Orcs and goblins advance

 Bolt throwers try to provide some support

 Dwarfs in strong position

Gobbos take on hammerers - and eventually lose

These guys were the ones to start 2019. By that time my blog had 50000 hits.

Proto guardian, champion, heavy weapon

When this space elf ended the year there were circa 68000 hits. For a mediocre painter and blogger 18000 hits / year is pretty good imo.

So all together circa 130 models painted, five pieces of scenery done and a single game of WFB played. Not a bad year.

Get your men... er... squad into position sergeant!

So again a month since the previous posting. My rate of painting and blogging has been terribly slow as of lately. Let´s hope that the upcoming Christmas holiday will remedy that.

In any case here´s the Bravo company head commissar model I´ve been working on for some time now. It´s been close to ready for a while but due to post offive workers strike here in Finland some bitz I needed to complete it were stuck some post warehouse for four weeks.

As you can see it´s a bit of a kitbash of oldhammer and more modern parts. The commissar himself has been modified just a little to make it look like he has stopped his bike and is keeping it standing with his left foot. His right hand was bent a bit too.

I got the bike without fairings and gear shift lever. Those were replaced with modern plastics. I even added that single big headlight as someone in Facebook suggested. I´m pretty happy with how the bike look now.

"You heard the commissar! Move it lads!"

I´ll be building and painting another bike soon as that commissar need to be attached to an officer.

Missing a couple of parts but I think you get the idea.