Bloodbath reporting as ordered Sir.

[elmo]

 

1.is there a good place online to buy paint? I prefer vallejo, as they can freeze without ill effect and will work for the airbrush I am getting soon. but, will use P3 and Citadel as well.

 

Try a web search or alternatively here is the link for the Vallejo distributors in USA

 

 

 

2. I need bits, like crazy stupid lots of bits. where can I go for these. I am going to do something not usually seen in the guard. and I need to get bits to do this.

 mainly equipment type stuff like grenades pouches, magazines, knives, canteens and the like.  you know GRUNT STUFF. 

 

You can usually find quite a few bits suppliers on eBay. Also Tamiya do a wide collection of infantry accessories but you will need to experiment with the scale. 1:35 could a little large.

 

http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/plastic-model-series-20/1-48-scale-military-miniatures-10500/jerry-can-set-32510

 

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=32508

 

http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/plastic-model-series-20/1-35-scale-accessories-12400/modern-us-military-equipment-35266

 

http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/plastic-model-series-20/1-35-scale-accessories-12400/allied-vehicles-accessory-set-35229

 

http://www.tamiyausa.com/items/plastic-model-series-20/1-35-scale-accessories-12400/us-infantry-equipment-set-35206

[Nicodemus Doloroso]

 

2. I need bits, like crazy stupid lots of bits. where can I go for these. I am going to do something not usually seen in the guard. and I need to get bits to do this.

 mainly equipment type stuff like grenades pouches, magazines, knives, canteens and the like.  you know GRUNT STUFF. 

 

Well, there is always eBay and the bitz dealers like The Bitz Barn or you can look at third party conversion bitz, for example, Anvil industries has an equipment pack that might suit: http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/The-Armoury/Ammo/Exo-Lord-Equipment-Pack

[Adeptus-Alaska]

whew! just got done looking at all the bitsy goodness on the recommended sites! wow, my wallet is screaming already.

 

 

 

 

anyone wanna buy a Kidney?

 

 

just kidding. maybe. nope, I have 2.

 

so yeah. I'm scrapping my Original plan for the Time Being. the multi-faction army is out. I am all Guard for now. It's just too gripping to not get all over it to the exclusion of all else....for now.

 

so yeah, Cadians. I am really happy with this. it's been a while. Astartes started to stale out for me anyways. 

 

this next question is for the Commissars. can I do the faction painting challenges and still get the cool sig stuff if I follow the rules of the challenges? it'll be a while, but when I get this train rolling, I wanna rep my new faction!

[WarriorFish]

Great! :tu: We look forward to seeing your Guard army take form! :D

 

As for the challenges I assume you're talking about Regiments of the B&C? If so you'll need to wait until after the ETL for the final challenge to run. There's always the ETL for getting some models done for the cause too ;)

[Adeptus-Alaska]

I would LOVE to march on the Eye of Terror for ETL, but I am under orders from my Commissar wife to not go over board and buy a bunch of stuff to paint, buy too much and get overwhelmed and not paint anything! which is what I do.

 

My wife told me I could get whatever I want, but I get has to be put together, based and painted before I get something else.

 

she's been married to a nerd for a long time if she knows the 3 components to plastic soldier hobby stuff.

 

so now the three components of my force.

 

417^th Cadian, "Hellbringers". after being almost whiped out during by orks at Serperus Prime (Dawn of War) they have been refitted into a mechanized Infantry regiment too great success.

 

71^st Cadian Armoured "Hellhounds" the current armoured regiment to draw the attention of Knight Commander Pask.

 

23^rd Cadian Artillery "Hellhammers"

 

There's a theme there if you look closely.

 

Tremble enemies of manking, Hell is coming...

[WarriorFish]

Hmm. They all have "II" in, so something about 2 right? Two legs? Two fingers perhaps? Help us out here, we need more clues...

 

Your plans keep sounding great, can I hope to see plenty of Hellhounds appearing and maybe even a Hellhammer? ;)

[Adeptus-Alaska]

oh yes, there will be hell hounds! those are probably perfect for urban warfare.

 

and the Hell hammer, heh, I forgot about those when I named my Field Artillery Regiment.

 

oh well the name stays and the Tank is in.

[Nicodemus Doloroso]

I would LOVE to march on the Eye of Terror for ETL, but I am under orders from my Commissar wife to not go over board and buy a bunch of stuff to paint, buy too much and get overwhelmed and not paint anything! which is what I do.

 

My wife told me I could get whatever I want, but I get has to be put together, based and painted before I get something else.

 

she's been married to a nerd for a long time if she knows the 3 components to plastic soldier hobby stuff.

 

so now the three components of my force.

 

417^th Cadian, "Hellbringers". after being almost whiped out during by orks at Serperus Prime (Dawn of War) they have been refitted into a mechanized Infantry regiment too great success.

 

71^st Cadian Armoured "Hellhounds" the current armoured regiment to draw the attention of Knight Commander Pask.

 

23^rd Cadian Artillery "Hellhammers"

 

There's a theme there if you look closely.

 

Tremble enemies of manking, Hell is coming...

 

Sounds great.

 

Your wife is very wise. Unfortunately my wife does not understand my nerdish hobbies at all, so does not impose such restrictions. Although what we do is we each have a monthly allowance of money we can do whatever we want with, without having to answer to the other. So this keeps me somewhat in check although I admit I have way too much unpainted stuff having done exactly what you describe more than once (getting excited, buying a tonne of stuff after saving several months' allowance, and being overloaded then not getting as much done).

[Ulrik_Ironfist]

At least my stuff is all primed...(Mostly...)

[Adeptus-Alaska]

At least you have stuff!

 

so I've been thinking. my plans are evolving a bit. I had originally planned on magnetizing everything.

 

but then, I thought better of it. my plan is to have vehicles that are every bit as much characters as the Soldiers them selves. I ain't magnetizing a darn thing. If I want a new type of Russ, I'll buy one. Each Vehicle will have a name, a history, and It's own battle honors recorded on it's hide.

 

I also have plans for my Troops. I hate how GW doesn't believe in Battle ready soldiers/marines/etc. where the hell is all the gear in the 41^st millennium?

 

so, my troops will look like SOLDIERS and not some guys in a cosplay group. their load outs will be a lot more like the picture on the news with US Soldiers having mags, grenades and other gear everywhere they have open MOLLE space!

 

and It will also represent the Sweet IG artwork out there representing soldiers prepared for a war and not guard shift at the barracks!

 

so Every trooper will be altered in some ways. I am not building an army, I'm building heroes.

 

I just want these guys to look like warfighters, not PR soldiers.

 

again. I'm pulling from self experiance. when I rolled out of the wire, I had about 60-90 pounds of gear on me depending on the mission. and when I was Air Assault, I weighed in at around340 pounds. when I jumped out of planes and landed, I left craters! 

[Father Mehman]

For a second I thought you said "show some open MOLLE space"! My response was simple: there shouldn't be. Then I put on my glasses ! I like the idea of Battle-ready guardsmen but I don't think it fits in all cases. In some regiments I could see them carrying everything they own in rucks strapped all across themselves because the individual guardsman matters. In the 41st Millennium, they probably have enough kit to kill the average enemy in trench warfare and then return to base as reinforcements arrive to leapfrog the killing. That way, you can rest your troops, make them move their gear to the next post, have them fight, return to the post, rearm and rest, etc.

I wholeheartedly agree that every piece of armour or support vehicle should have its own story. Magnetize a Knight? How dare you?! Those weapons don't change on a whim! Or, you know, change a turret on a Leman Russ. Yeah. Pass that by a Tech-priest.

[WarriorFish]

I think we can agree magnetising is done purely for out of universe reasons :lol: I like that you're going to go to such lengths for the character of your army, and if that also happens to mean you need to get more tanks... well I suppose sacrifices must me made ;)

[Ulrik_Ironfist]

I wanted to do the Battle ready thing, and I still want to, I'm going to green stuff some mag pouches, and attach some other gear to the belts, right now it's really boiling down to my motivation to that aesthetic. Some of the infantry models I have don't need all that extra work, but most do. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. 

 

I agree with your reasons bloodbath, I would hazard I had about 10-20 lbs more in kit than you did (Standard infantryman's kit) and I'm not a small dude, so I'd say I was bout 350-360lbs in full kit with AASLT pack, so if I had to carry all of that crap, why wouldn't a guardsman. That was just my AASLT kit, not even going to mention what ,y ruck weighed in at... It makes sense that soldiers should have reloads handy for their weapons.

 

I tend to see my units as being a shade on the heretical side, doing things because they're expedient, and doing what it takes to get the job done for the protection of humanity. If that means minor heresies towards the machine spirits, or full blown disobedience in the face of unjust orders, or capping an uppity commissar for being a suicidal wackadoodle, and fighting smart (In my fluff, the Commissars are battle hardened commanders that inspire loyalty through through compassion and courage, their unwavering sense of duty and an iron will...). The Imperial truth has not been corrupted or co-opted by the ecclesiarchy on my worlds...

[Adeptus-Alaska]

yeah, what they make you "Gun Bunnies" (11B) carry is insane! We too the plates and Kevlar out of our OITV, and just used it as a MOLLE vest. sometimes when the brass was around we'd have it all dress-right-dress, but we'd be shaven too. 

 

 One of the ideas I am playing around with now is drop down leg pouches. those are something you don't see in the 40K-verse. I must make them.

 

Why, because the rule of cool demands it.

 

and I haven't got too much hands on time with the guard, do they all come with rucksacks? or am I gonna have to bit hunt.

[Father Mehman]

The Heavy Weapons Squads Kit comes with some. You're best off looking for tutorials on how to Green Stuff rucks. They're out there I just don't have a link handy.

[Ulrik_Ironfist]

yeah, what they make you "Gun Bunnies" (11B) carry is insane! We too the plates and Kevlar out of our OITV, and just used it as a MOLLE vest. sometimes when the brass was around we'd have it all dress-right-dress, but we'd be shaven too. 

 

 One of the ideas I am playing around with now is drop down leg pouches. those are something you don't see in the 40K-verse. I must make them.

 

Why, because the rule of cool demands it.

 

and I haven't got too much hands on time with the guard, do they all come with rucksacks? or am I gonna have to bit hunt.

I got issued the Infantryman's kit, because they didn't know what to issue me (I was an Air Force Battlefield Weather Forecaster, I didn't mean to imply I was an 11B, I had most of the same training, but it wasn't my day to day job), but I do remember the stuff was heavy, and I stripped it down as far as I could (I basically just used the vest and plates, and my TAP)..

 

The drop leg idea is brilliant, I think I'm going to do that too. My gear lab was the airsoft field, I'd get a piece of gear, take it out to play and see how it felt, if I liked it, I kept it, if not, I ditched it, and I'd take it out on FTX's. Sadly I never deployed, or I'd have taken my kit with me. 

 

As for rucks, it doesn't seem like they'd be that hard to do.

[Vel'Cona]

Wow, I thought it was only my wife that stuck to the "assembled, based and painted" rule!  It's been great for me though, because I really do finish projects in a way that I never did in the past.

 

I'm fairly positive you could get rucksacks from a third party plastic soldier manufacturer, and at very fair prices.  Don't have time to look one up at the moment, but maybe look at Warlord Games (since they do 40k scale WWII models)?

[WarriorFish]

We all should stick to getting models only when we're finished with what we've got, but we can't because we're all mad :P

 

Rucksacks come with the HWTs, you can also get them as part of some of the cool FW upgrade kits :)

[Nicodemus Doloroso]

Wow, I thought it was only my wife that stuck to the "assembled, based and painted" rule!  It's been great for me though, because I really do finish projects in a way that I never did in the past.

 

Frankly, I wish my wife imposed such a rule on me, because you really need an outsider to keep you honest. I just don't have the discipline to stick to it myself and I bet I would actually have more stuff finished and painted if I didn't buy more until what I had was all done. As it stands, I have a lot of grey stuff sitting around.

 

yeah, what they make you "Gun Bunnies" (11B) carry is insane! We too the plates and Kevlar out of our OITV, and just used it as a MOLLE vest. sometimes when the brass was around we'd have it all dress-right-dress, but we'd be shaven too. 

 

 One of the ideas I am playing around with now is drop down leg pouches. those are something you don't see in the 40K-verse. I must make them.

 

Why, because the rule of cool demands it.

 

and I haven't got too much hands on time with the guard, do they all come with rucksacks? or am I gonna have to bit hunt.

 

Not all soldiers who fought in real combat were so loaded down as modern American troops. If you look at pictures of WWII, troops travelled quite light back then and I think Cadians and Valhallans are more based off a WWII aesthetic. Going further back to Napoleonic era (Mordians) those guys carried next to nothing with them into combat, mostly because they didn't operate very far at all from their supply trains.

 

The main thing is to go with what you think will look cool.

[Chefzilla]

I love listening to squishies talk about how much weight that have to carry. It makes me giggle. Try humping a 95 pound sabot round in a space a hobbit would have trouble working in and repeat that process every 4 seconds. Then the joy of having to break track out in the damned mud somewhere.

 

 

I won't even go into humping a Ma Duece, A M240 and my gear the half mile from the armory to the track park....

 

I love you guys.  ;)

[Ulrik_Ironfist]

I don't want to hear it... half a mile is nothing, go 12 miles with a full AASLT kit at a 5 mph pace. Then you'll understand... That's why I always say, never run when you can walk, never walk when you can ride...

Same goes for my guardsmen...

[Adeptus-Alaska]

Oh, you two!

 

I pulled some time with "Old Ironsides" I remember  helping fixing track.......that stuff sucks.....so damn heavy.

 

I remember one as disciplinary action, my PL made a track section my battle buddy.....I had to carry that damn thing around for a week. I even had to take it to chow.

 

I think I'm going to represent how superstitious soldiers can be. things like relics, off hand weapons and such,

 

I've also been kicking around the Idea of going with the standard Cadian color scheme, I actually like it.

[Chefzilla]

Bloodbath, I've actually done stuff like that. My Punisher is an homage to my Abrams.

[elmo]

Gents. Please stay on topic ie 40k related.

 

Although the AM forum has a significant group of serving and ex-serving soldiers this is not the place to discuss real life topics.

 

If you wish to discuss real life soldiering then you can do this via pm.

[Toxichobbit]

another couple questions....

is there any resources for FEMALE guard bits? well, serious ones anyways, not into the whole bikinis in space thing.

I've been working on female Guard myself, as I don't like the offerings from 3rd party companies. Trousers too tight, hips and breasts too obvious or outright cheesecake etc. I want my ladies to look like the gents, buried in fatigues, armour and gear, with just a few subtle hints that they are female. I also wan them to look Cadian, not just generic sci-fi that's close to Cadian. I'm planning on doing a tutorial on how I go about building them,

This is the prototype conversion

And more importantly, a size comparison next to a male colleague.

Hope that helps. Let me know if your interested in the tutorial and I'll try to get it sorted a bit sooner than I originally planned.