State Of The Union: The Forces of the Imperium

Positioned somewhere between my Orks and Iron Warriors in terms of numbers of models still to finish are Imperial forces, mostly represented by my guard. Most of my 7th edition games were with these guys. I've got a decent core of an army. Or at least I did since I'm sure what might have changed in the move to 8th edition. My hit list for these guys include more regular soldiers and more Leman Russ tanks

Anyway, the pics...

The fam

The core. The footsloggers

Heavy weapon teams

Techpriest and servitors

Ratling snipers

Assassins

Armoured sentinel

Psychers

Master of artillery dude

Priests

Commissars. Two of my favourite models

My Creed conversion

Command chaps

Special weapons dudes

Hostile Environment Special Weapons Squad

Inquisitor Gryson and Friends

The armour

The support armour

The big dog

Not pictured are the deathwatch dudes from that box set a while ago, and the primaris marines from that other more recent box set. And 2 or 3 Valkyries.

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Vindicare

So this guy has not been promoted to my favourite assassin. I have used him the battle report that I posted earlier and he underperformed a bit, so I'm basing this on looks and overall satisfaction. The brown and blue were adapted from the Culexis, but I think the green worked really well.

Here is my previous post.

It would be right about here that I would add a team assassin photo but I never took one. Naughty me.

Models painted... 43

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Culexis

Moderately happy with this guy The blue and browns work quite well, but I think he looks the least 'assassiny' of my merry group of murderous nut jobs. I think that I may do a version 2 of this guy in the future.

Here is the previous article on him.

Models painted... 42

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Eversor

Previously I thought that this was my favourite of my assassins, but now he has fallen out of favour slightly for some reason. I think that his gun is making him look far too unbalanced. I may opt for corrective surgery later, but I'll leave it for now.

Models painted... 41

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Callidus

Yup, Started on the assassins with my Callidus / Death Cult interpretation. I'm totally hammering the painting things black at the moment. The commander, both commissars and now this gal use the same black with purple highlights. Looks good!

Although to be honest I am now sick of painting black using this particular technique. I chose the pink hair to give it a bit of an anime-esque spin

The original article on the assassin is here.

Models painted... 40

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A Stabbin

Continuing my Assassin building I have a Callidus assassin. This based on a hasslefree miniture, some Lara Croft -esque type person. I added a massive sword and generally made her look more 40k ish. I was going to add a bunch of inquisition symbols and trinkets but I thought that it looked better without all those extra bits...

Quite a cool and elegant mini I think. She can also double up as a death cult assassin for that inquisitorial warband that I will get round to one day.

Although looking at her again I'm thinking that her gun needs to be beefed up.

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