The Hydrobian 8th are recruited from the captial hive city of the lanet Arcturus: Hydrobius Altus. A sprawling mountain of metal and stone. A gleaming tower of trade, merchandise and industry yet its underbelly is violent and dangerous place. Every year a lottery is taken selecting young men from the hive to join the 8th. There are no families that can escape this selection, underhive scum are rounded up along with the firstborn of Lords and Barons. Even the Lord Governors family is not safe. Hence the Regiments name ' The Rags and Riches '
Enough background. Here's the WIP!
I'm modelling this army on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games. I really wanted to get the feel of an Imperial Guard army that gives it's soldiers decent weaponry. Also, I HATE HATE HATE the standard lasgun, it's so massive compared to the models. So spent months... yes months, trawling the internett looking for a decent replacement. I settled on HassleFree Miniatures m16 Assault Rifle. When I got them I went.. 'SHIT!' Cos they seemed so small but I continued, Once painted up they actually look great. phew.
1st Squad, 1st Platoon!
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| Autocannon ftw! I really liked the idea of taking a .50 Cal into combat. You can't take stubbers so... Autocannon it is! |
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| I also studied a hell of a lot of military pictures to try and get the poses right. Rreally happy with this one. Using his left arm as a stabiliser. |
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| Dudesmen! Really like the helmets. |
2nd Squad, 1st Platoon!
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| There is an autocannon missing, not painted yet. |
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| Thanks to Rik for the super awesome goggle cadian heads. They seem to fit sooo well with the m16. |
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| Forward! |
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| Ahh, My new passion. Mortars! I'm going run at least 4 squads. I figure, they cost 60 pts. If I have enough of them they will eventually kill something. Plus they look cool! |
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| I used a mix of Catachan bits to represent these guys sweating in the back line, not really needing their armour or try to cool off while they wait for orders. |
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| Two more Autocannon teams to be attached to future Squads. Notice the 40 mm bases? I'm hoping ppl will be OK with that. the 60mm bases are just way too big! |
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| Dakka dakka dakka dakka! |
My allied imperial guard will never leave home without some hard cover. I had half an Aegis line left but needed some more wall. I used the extra flash you get from ForgeWorld models to use as the barriers. They kinda look like motorway concrete separators.
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| Barbed While and Sand bags a plenty! |
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| This is the 'counts as' Quad Cannon Anti Aircraft gun. |
For those of you interested, look up CIWS Goalkeeper system on youtube and you'll know why I wanted to make this!
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| Really happy with it. but it looks nasty, I think it might attract some fire 'in-game' |
Oh, and wee extra thingy, It's 100% complete yet but I'm tired of playing games with crappy objectives. I'm going to make 6 unique objectives on 60 mm bases. This one works well as a Relic. 'An excavation team as dug up an ancient grail.... Claim it! '
