Full Footguard Regiment

Here are a couple pics of the King's Footguard. The new shotte sleeve is equipped with firelocks. I was going to post some pictures of the firelocks on their own, but turns out they need some additional washes and touching up. They're good enough to participate in a group shot though...

More from the 41st Millenium (sort of)

For reference, a few additional Imperial Guard historical mash-ups. On the left is a Warlord Games ECW firelock, in the middle is a Perry Zouave, and on the right is a Perry Medieval Mercenary. All guns and arms are Cadian.

And some orks, painting in progress. Yes, I will be drilling out the gun barrels before they're done.

New Direction; or, the Accidental Tallarn

Happy belated New Year everybody!

I spent some time back in IL, and various friends and relations have convinced me to return to Warhammer 40k. I have nearly 3000 points of Orks that need little more than paint and a few superficial repairs to return to the tabletop. And perhaps some reorganization to work well with the current goofy edition.

I will still be working on "finishing up" my historical armies, and making/acquiring terrain, but be prepared to see a lot of comically bloody-minded greenskinned hooligans on these pages as well.

So, to ease the transition from historical focus to sci-fi focus, here is an Imperial Guardsman converted from the nigh-ubiquitous Wargames Factory Persian Infantry kit. I have a bunch of IG arms left over from a batch of rough riders I converted for my brother, and they fit perfectly with the Persian's rather heroic scaling. I stuck them together pretty much on a whim (apparently 6e encourages allies?), and was pleasantly surprised to see how Tallarny he ended up looking.

Footguard Flag

Not the best freehand in the world, but I wouldn't want my banners to be higher quality than the minis themselves...

Generic German Colors

Or "colours" if you prefer. The flag was a basic raguly pattern from google image search, printed and then painted over. The colors are based on a flag in an Osprey book, as are most of the others you'll be seeing here in the next few days.

Pancerni officer

Not too long ago, while making my pancerni cavalry, I converted a GW Rohan figure into an officer. Over the weekend, I re-equipped him with some TAG accessories and painted him. Here he is.

penultimate German-style musketeers

I've resolved to paint the final "wings" of musketeers I need to field proper pike & shotte regiments. Here are 12 raggedy Germans:

And here they are mixed with some previously painted infantry to form a full regiment.