Here's the start to the 501st Legion. Staying away from Galactic Empire or anything name-wise, doesn’t fit 40k to me. Fluff-wise they'll be more like a Renegade Guard Army to a degree, just none of that Chaos God stuff. They believe their Emperor Palpatine of their homeworld Coruscant is the true Emperor or something. Pretty lame I know, but that's all I thought of as I typed.
The Company Commander will be General Veers as seen on the left, nothing more than a Guardsman with a Head swap from some Warhammer Fantasy line, shaved off some Lion logo on its head and attempted to add goggles.
The Probe Droids in the upper right will be Ratling Sniper stand-ins. I figure the 2 Toughness will work for the fluff-wise as their self-destruct mode for being attacked. You may ask yourself, what are those models. Are they awesome conversions so good they actually look like Probe Droids? Are they shitty lego pieces? Nope, they’re from the Micro Machines line in the late 90’s. Won 10 of the bastards for around 8 bucks. I was the 2nd bidder. Could of won them at 5 bucks if some other ass-hat hadn’t bid on them.
And the heart of any true Guard army...the troops. Another attempt at a Snowtrooper. After 4 test schemes I settled on this one. I tried to stay away from all white guys, looks to bland on the table. Like them looking a little dirty. Won a batch of the Wargames Factory Greatcoats on Ebay. Picked 3 boxes of them for roughly $40 (minus shipping). 3 boxes at 18 models each works out to 54 models. Kind of sucks all I’m using at the moment are the bodies! Have enough to do the 2 required platoons. A few left over for the Company Command Squad, but I'm short on any Heavy Weapon support models. Need to Ebay 1 more box. Kept the Guard arms so the models will still have Lasguns, but shorten them to make them look more Blaster Carbines. The helmets are a pain, the face masks look horrible up close, but I can spit out 3 guys from build to paint in about 2 1/2 hours. Not to shabby. As a group, the detail will be lost, so I’m not worried about them looking perfect, just close enough.
Started an AT-ST conversion on the Sentinel last night, really messed up the legs trying to reposition them to look right. I was going to hold off any post until I got that built, but frustration set in and decided to just post this. Plan on retying tonight and see what happens.
Why am I doing this? To recreate the Battle of Hoth of course. What about Dark Eldar you say, yes I still have every intention of doing them, just got bored painting them. Let me think of a few more lame excuses. After seeing those Probe Droids on Ebay while just searching anything Star Wars…it clicked in my head….must create Snowtrooper army again. I love my ability to focus and finish. Hey look a dog is taking a crap on my…
The Company Commander will be General Veers as seen on the left, nothing more than a Guardsman with a Head swap from some Warhammer Fantasy line, shaved off some Lion logo on its head and attempted to add goggles.
The Probe Droids in the upper right will be Ratling Sniper stand-ins. I figure the 2 Toughness will work for the fluff-wise as their self-destruct mode for being attacked. You may ask yourself, what are those models. Are they awesome conversions so good they actually look like Probe Droids? Are they shitty lego pieces? Nope, they’re from the Micro Machines line in the late 90’s. Won 10 of the bastards for around 8 bucks. I was the 2nd bidder. Could of won them at 5 bucks if some other ass-hat hadn’t bid on them.
And the heart of any true Guard army...the troops. Another attempt at a Snowtrooper. After 4 test schemes I settled on this one. I tried to stay away from all white guys, looks to bland on the table. Like them looking a little dirty. Won a batch of the Wargames Factory Greatcoats on Ebay. Picked 3 boxes of them for roughly $40 (minus shipping). 3 boxes at 18 models each works out to 54 models. Kind of sucks all I’m using at the moment are the bodies! Have enough to do the 2 required platoons. A few left over for the Company Command Squad, but I'm short on any Heavy Weapon support models. Need to Ebay 1 more box. Kept the Guard arms so the models will still have Lasguns, but shorten them to make them look more Blaster Carbines. The helmets are a pain, the face masks look horrible up close, but I can spit out 3 guys from build to paint in about 2 1/2 hours. Not to shabby. As a group, the detail will be lost, so I’m not worried about them looking perfect, just close enough.
Started an AT-ST conversion on the Sentinel last night, really messed up the legs trying to reposition them to look right. I was going to hold off any post until I got that built, but frustration set in and decided to just post this. Plan on retying tonight and see what happens.
Why am I doing this? To recreate the Battle of Hoth of course. What about Dark Eldar you say, yes I still have every intention of doing them, just got bored painting them. Let me think of a few more lame excuses. After seeing those Probe Droids on Ebay while just searching anything Star Wars…it clicked in my head….must create Snowtrooper army again. I love my ability to focus and finish. Hey look a dog is taking a crap on my…
WWWWHHHHHOAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is amazing. I looked at it and thought it was going to be an inspiring pic you found. Wow dude... just plain wow! I must post something as well to keep the 40k in me alive.
ReplyDeleteThanks dude. Building AT-ST, got something to work...I think. Already revisted the Snowtrooper helmets, tweaked them so the mask looks more recessed. Shooting to get more posted by Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome!!!! When I saw General Veers I laughed like a giddy 7 year old. This is going to be awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe snowtroopers look good and it has to be a hell of a lot easier to use the wargames factory minis then to greenstuff it on there.
Micromachines! Brilliant, I would not have thought of that. What made you search for that anyway?
Your modeling/painting A.D.D. is exciting and depressing at the same time.
Yeah I hope it's awesome. Good God I need to paint like 55 Snow Troopers. White is going to get old...must focus. Hats off to you Joel for doing your guys. Yes, the Wargames Factory guys help out greatly, I HATE greenstuff. As for finding the Probe Droids, I was actually trying to help you out Joel. I've been researching to help find you a suitable tank substitute. Just did searches on Star Wars models on Ebay, then did toys. Once sorted to cheapest and after like 5 pages, I saw these guys and jumped right on them. Internet research showed they are a little more than 1" tall, perfect! I hate my ADD, damn work causes me to loose focus really. Get bored easy too. Must focus.
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