Two bald outcats

Just a quick posting to close the week. Here are two misfit individual who more or less reluctantly serve the Emperor in the ranks of Imperial Guard. For the psyker the other options are to be killed or shipped to Terra for absorbtion by the Emperor. The servitor on the other hand is a criminal who redeems his sins being turned into something closer to a machine than a human.

This sanctined psyker is a Bob Olley sculpt. The pose is pretty rigid and I

would have preferred on of the Perry psykers but they are hard to get.

The servitor is an old Confrontation Tech ganger who has been updated with

some modern parts. 

I have given both these individuals some red details to their clothing.

Like penitents both psykers and servitors are seen by the commissars as

a possible threat to common troopers´ faith and morale and are therefore

required to wear ´warning colors´. 

On the back this servitors head a dataport can be seen. With

his cybernetic arms he/it can manipulate equipment more efficiently 

than normal troopers. 

How I speed paint my IG

Being a very mediocre painter myself I haven´t dared to do any painting guides. Not before this. I felt that this way of speed painting desert themed Imperial guard deserves to be shared.

After assembling the model I spray it with Army Painter Desert Yellow for base coating.

If the spray doesn´t reach every spot I fix those places with a brush.

Gaiters, belt pouches and other leathery equipment are painted brown

with Citadel Mournfang Brown.

Boots and flak vest are painted black. Face and hands get treated

with Cadian Fleshstone.

Leadbelcher for lasgun, helmet and bayonet/knife.

Everything is shaded with Agrax Earthshade and when it´s dried

I use Armageddon Dunes texture for the base.

Finishing touches include highlighting black parts with Eshin Grey.

Camo suit is highlighted with Kislev Flesh. I´ve been using Air version of that

as it´s thin enought to be used straight out of bottle. Goggles are given a

touch of Tin Bitz to make then stand out a bit.

Quick and dirty - not anything fancy as you can see but does the trick. Excluding drying time I think it takes me something like 30min to paint a single trooper like this.

Feel free to try it out! And please share your way of painting Old IG.

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.