Civs 40k Narrative Collection

These are my 10 veterans, they’re from the newer guard kit so have a bit more character in them. The hair on a few aren’t yet done, I was thinking of making them quite brightly coloured but haven’t quite settled on that yet as it would draw attention away from the fairly muted other colours. I didn’t really want the focal point of the model to end up being their hair.

I used to love these command figures when they first came out, so one definitely had to be in the army.

Not quite sure how practical the power fist will be on a squishy human but it looks cool so thats going in the army.

I gave his squad some veteran looking support and there is also a platoon standard as well but I’ve yet to paint that up so no picture at the moment.

I have a few power swords I need to work on, across my collection, now I’ve painted one that im happy with I can start copying this across my other ones.

Ive always love sentinels, these are just two that I had unpainted, one is the older armoured one with metal parts whilst the other is a newer plastic one.

I painted up the pilots before dropping them in and gluing in place so you can see their grumpy faces through the vision suits.

I’ll probably paint up a scout sentinel as well once the infantry are done because sentinels.

Edit: I magnetised the weapons so they have a choice of all the weapons they came with, gives me loads of flexibility when list building.

The idea is to have 4 squads in this platoon led by our heroic lieutenant, 3 squads of normal guardsmen and 1 of veterans.

Each will have a special weapon in, mostly flamer and grenade launcher, trying to lean into the ‘nothing overly special’ element of the company im building.

I happen to have a plasma gunner kicking around and im trying to paint up as much unpainted stuff as possible so in he went.

I managed to get hold of some Kasrkin and quite liked the poses and the idea of having some hit squads in my force.

Ive been trying to improve my face painting process and starting with a purple base and been really enjoying the results.

Tried more with the sword on this guy as well and again am happy with the results, need to find premixed colours to make it more consistent and find a better white as the one i had ended up clumping together which for blending purposes was less than ideal.

Other than this guy i’ve got about 15 more painted up and i am thoroughly fed up with painting white.

Next up i’m painting the ecclesiarchy, going for the red and white classic look.

Got a selection of priests and missionary’s to paint up to bolster the spirits of my cadians for the war against the greenskins.

These are just WIP pictures at the moment, ive been tryign to put more effort into the faces as this is generally the focus point, meaning i can put less effort in elsewhere. This is keeping with my overall approach to this force, focus on painting what matters and  the rest i can rely on the zenithal to cover off or just oil wash.

The yellow chainswords are a bit to distracting at the moment so im minded to put some hazard stripes on to tone them down a bit. Then ive got to work out how i want to dot he robes. Do i leave some as just grey cloth in line with the troopers or do i go for rich greens/reds? Choices choices.

I decided my Cadians would be very light on vehicles, this means for me nothing heavier than a chimera APC.

Someone still needs to keep these lighter vehicles and guns going though so i painted up two enginseers.

These guys i used the oil wash approach again, put down the base colours, adding a variety of metallics in to give it some variation and then washed in oil and wiped off the next day.

The only bit i didn’t use the oil on was the faces as i wanted these to pop a bit more.

To differentiate the two a bit i painted a white pattern onto one of the cowls. Was a bit torn about doing it as the red and white did make it look a bit like father Christmas but i am hoping the squares are enough to make it look more mechanicus than Christmas.