tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63417045475369709032026-08-24T09:44:01.519-07:00Converting and painting Warhammer 40000 Imperial Guard (aka Astra Militarum) miniatures: Catachan Jungle Fighters, Tallarn Desert Raiders, Stormtroopers, Aircraft and battle scene. Renovating old miniatures too.Andarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04046795668288193231noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6341704547536970903.post-83407636770813089332026-07-25T04:43:05.191-07:002026-07-25T14:17:43.465-07:00

Dusk Raiders or Space Wolves? Good question, I don't like the grey-blue livery of the 40K Space Wolves. Horus Heresy Wolves are darker, so I choose a warmer grey and then nobody identify them as Wolves, but rather as Sons of Horus or Dusk Raiders... It's wrong, Horus' Wolves are green! Instead Dusk Raiders fit together perfectly (it's good, loyalist Death Guard is something I love.) I've

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Stormtroopers' Chimera (codename Neropardus) looks like not complete, so I restore lasguns and add a dozer blade, which I get from... the wings of the Light Attack Craft Erithacus (don't worry, Erithacus has new operational wings). Restoring the dozer blade:I get lasguns from the Chimera assigned to Catachan Jungle Fighters. These ones have more recent type of lasguns, so their Chimera must

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Solar Auxilia Tercios and Veletaris Storm Sections, the finest infantry in the galaxy. I have achieved this solid mass of armoured infantrymen, full helmeted troopers (I think it's a virtue of Legions Imperialis that there are no bare-headed models on the battlefield).I try to take picture of every small conversion, like the remembrancer of the Horus Heresy. So, let the pictures speak for

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My female Imperial Guard conversion sacrifices herself to let me build two different female miniatures: one captive by a longing Fimir in Heroquest dungeons and the other one enlisted in Tanith Ghosts recon squads.I've to admit, it was a weird conversion that didn't fit the Warhammer standards, so I decided to revalue her in this way.First of all the Fimir who has just captured this poor thief

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Task 1: all Solar Auxilia Command Squads troopers must wear black coatsTask 2: and they must be equipped with the legit weaponsFor the first and the second Solar Auxilia Command Squads (blue and red flags, two Sub-Cohort HQs) I achieve the goal: volkite chargers for the Legate Commander's troopers, lasrifles for the Auxilia Tactical Command.  For Pioneer Company Command Squads (green flags,

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Legions Imperialis deserves my hobby efforts. I've always wished Epic scale miniatures, I've always wished to deploy squadrons of tanks, squadrons of Sentinels, superheavy tanks, squadrons of Arvus...! Solar Auxilia is my first choice alongside Knights Questoris, they look  great together. Solar Auxilia indeed looks like Mechanicus infantry that could support Knights and Titans.I don't

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Saving Sir Ragnar. A brave Empire Hunter escorts to safety the rescued prisoner (I've changed Sir Ragnar face, now he has a mustache). Two Heroes ready but not yet anyone of the original four ones... The starting miniature was a very old Elf, from the box Fantasy Regiments. I replaced his head with the Advanced HeroQuest Warrior's helmet and I sculpted the face with green stuff. I replaced his

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This Dwarf Lord is my tribute to the epic Adrian Smith's artwork.   My original plan was to gather a Mordheim band, but now I can deploy a little Warhammer Fantasy army to garrison a keep in the Underway. It's fault of Warhammer Total War of course and the Kraka Drak mod, much more than Warhammer The Old World announcement.Sixth edition plastic Dwarfs let me set up four type of

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The Shield Captain retinue becomes bigger, I split the Squires in Armoury Thralls and Terran elìte Troopers:Custodes' weapons are too heavy for common humans, I need Armoury Thralls with arms aided by exoskeleton armour, cables to supply power and so on.Servo-skulls become helmets and I carved the Troopers faces in the dry resin:Terran troopers need weapons, so I build first a shot-grenade

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I come back into the Heroquest dungeons to complete Sir Ragnar, Ulag and an old Goblin Archer miniature. I've been there a few months, as usual I enjoy starting conversions, but it takes a lot of time to complete and paint them. It is no coincidence that the first hero Iive completed is Sir Ragnar, in that one quest he has to make his way, unarmed and battered, in the midst of a horde of orcs

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As the title suggests, More feline furs, I really have a predilection for warriors in fur.After I don't know how many eons I finished the painting of Ulfhdhnar the Destroyer (restoration& conversion) (I believe this old Citadel Fighter is the best Chaos Warrior, he is an improved Heroquest Chaos Warrior):In practice he had been lying in the drawer for months, almost painted, but on two

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Finally, after few years, the Squali Terrae Catachan Company have some operative officers: one Colonel e two Lieutenants (deployed as Veteran Sergeants with the new codex):  The following collage help to explain the genesys (it's better write evolution) of these Catachan conversion. Yeah, it's fault of Games-Workshop rumour engines! Where Cadian plate armours go? It's an Adeputs

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I've restored all the Heroquest Greenskins I have: one Fimir, three Orks and four Goblins. I've also update the weaponry (I think these Goblins have stolen the Skeletons' scythes...) Fimir looks like a lizardman with all that gold he carries, I could consider him the champion of Greenskins: Orcs and Goblins have a variety of melee and shooting weapons. Scythes cripple Heroes legs,

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After more than two years, I've completed these two selfmade Ghosts of Tanith: Scout Sergeant Mkoll and Major Rawne. With the Phantine Paratrooper they are the core of my Shadow Wars Armageddon team. Then I find out that Major Rawne has a sharpened face and my officer hasn't (anyway, this Missionary head is the one I prefer). I also realize that Rawne miniature already exists, he's the Tanith

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I don't love Astra Militarum Scions as much as I love Imperial Guard Stormtroopers, but I need two Squires for my Custodes Shield Captain. I don't love Scions for the new lore (they are lobotomized) and for the armour, better for fantasy conversions but that's fine with Custodes' armour. They look like small Custodes. First try: Mine are more Squires than Armoury Thralls (I've found a

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Perilous encounter in Mordheim. A Tilean band face a brass-armoured Chaos Warrior: His name is Raoul, I was inspired by the famous one... The helms and the faces are pretty the same. On the wake of Warhammer The Old World announcement, I purchase one of these marching warriors (more iconic than the Stormcasts I think), giving to him some humanity. Maybe he comes from those regions of Norsca

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I would introduce this update with a tribute of the magnificent pc game made by Lurchbrick, Isometric HeroQuest: It's free, it's absolutely the same of the tabletop game, there are the mythical combat dice that rolls, two expansions are included, it's a .exe software that you can run everywhere... You can download it from the author website. FiInally I want to share my small steps

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Nearly a year ago I needed a Reaver Titan to deploy a Venator Light Maniple, then I started to build one. Now I'm listening Mechanicum audiobook and I must finish the model, the loyal Legio Tempestus is heroic (and Taranis Knights too). In the photo the latest update. In the begininning I've started with pieces from 1:72 tanks, helicopter and guns (and a skeleton of wire): If without

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Finally, after so many years, I've painted a pair of Bretonnian miniatures, the Questing Knight on foot and his equerry from Quenneles: I keep the Knight's original name, Sigismund the Braveheart and he's older than the famous movie with Mel Gibson. I see a very strange coincidence: there is a unicorn on his helm, the Scotland national animal, he helds a two-handed sword like William Wallace,

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Leopold's Leopard Company comes from Canada and now settles in Mordheim ruins...  I love these models, in particular the champion and the standard bearer, so I start from them: I buy five Leopards to give them a second chance. Leopold's right arm was missing and the standard bearer was badly converted in a pikeman. I planned to give a two-handed sword to the last one, but then I

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From photo-box battle scene to Mordheim ruins. Yeah, the following was the 40k battle scene I took to Italian Golden Demon, judged and discarded by Alan Merrett... It was a good photo box but useless for gaming; it was a fantasy enviroment, it had to be exploited for a fantasy game and nothing is better than Mordheim. Now I have two distinct ruined buildings: Before painting: I

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Made by plastic sprue. Renovating my metal Chaos Marauders, I have five Hunting Lances and no more horsemen. After discarding a conversion of Empire Pistoliers, I've remembered Epic Imperial Robots that support Imperial Guard. So I create a new pattern of Imperial Battle-Automata that runs fast. Let's start with the first prototype:  It's equipped with a shield because I need some

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Warhounds are ready to war. They are not yet completed, this last task will take much more time, but now I can play Titanicus with four Titans and six Knights. I've made the shoulders, then the hollow where I've inserted the heads: The selfmade torso is more difficult, because it has to hold the rear radiators: It's time to add all the details. Be patient... PART 1 - PROJECT

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My small/big effort to draw the Stormcast Eternals during the Endtimes, a sort of alternative ending: Title: Warunicorns Translation: The Empireus had given life to the world with darts of the purest energy. Now It is about to end life in the same way. At least this is the well-founded impression of the astonished mortals who dared to challenge It. I am not against Age of Sigmar

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Titanicus Warhounds kit is marvellous because you can build two more Titans! Doubling Warhounds will be my new heat: I have to build legs and torsos with some scratchbuilding and plastic from the sprue. Now legs are almost done, but before I was not so sure to complete the task... I've started carving plates and two Warhound's greaves (two ones are available): Then I've build hips and legs

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