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.

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.