Civs 40k Narrative Collection

Speed freaks got done. managed 5 bases of bikes and 5 war buggies.

Bases again are still to do but was another set i was glad to have got done as my 28mm orks have some warbuggies and will get a few bikes. It took a while to work out what the detail on these models actually were, it always amazes me the amount of details they put onto models this small!

I actually enjoyed painting these guys up, i think i should have gone darker for initial skin colour so you can pick out the details on the face from a distance but for models this small itll do.

Luckily these are quite easy to paint up as im pretty sure for a whole mob ive got to paint hundreds of the little buggers.

I’ll need to take a picture of all the bases together as ive lost track of how many i actually did in the end. I guess the main point of this is not to necessarily have a working army but something that looks good and feels ‘right’ when i look at it.

Okay i’ll be honest, i’ve not finished the basing on the Orks yet and the guard bases could use some tidying up.

But here is the guard commander and the Ork warboss. The Orks are the original epic minis as they have a certain charm, the guard aren’t as i couldn’t get hold of any so are all 3d prints.

I still need to come up with some back story for these guys but for now whilst im enjoying painting the minis im going to keep going.

So this is my epic guard army which kicked off the whole thing. As mentioned on other posts i never really saw 40k as a 28mm game. After reading the books and getting a feel for the massive battlefields of the 41st millennium epic scale was the only scale that looked right for me. Its also the only scale that i felt made sense in having artillery pieces and whole companies of battle tanks.

These are pretty much all 3d prints, given the height and overall small size it is really easy to print a lot off in very few batches. Especially on an Elegoo Saturn.

Tanks are mostly from the talented MKHand

https://cults3d.com/en/users/Mkhand_Industries/3d-models

The infantry are from Miffles_Makes

https://cults3d.com/en/users/Miffles_Makes/3d-models

Woddish also does a load of great epic tanks, some of mine may have come from him also:

https://cults3d.com/@woddish

Given how few recommendations i had on this project i was very pleasantly surprised it had been noticed for a golden button.

I had better upload some more project pics and progress to show what ive been up to!

A bit of work in progress on these guys.

Faces are done, need to sort the hair and get the robes down, guy on the rights robes are mostly done going to see how I get on doing the other one.

Painted up some command support to aid this guard company in its heroic actions against the greenskin foes.

Ive always liked this psyker model and have always wondered if the headache is fr the power of the warp or the constant preaching of the local commissar. Either way he fits my image of a dishevelled guard psyker basically being used as a weapon and barely tolerated as a member of the company.

The commissar is another favourite but let’s be honest all the commissar models are top notch. Again im not sure how much use the power fist is ever going to get but it was fun to paint up. If im honest I still need to paint a little more of this one and tidy him up but he is passable for now.