'Tis a Welsh Regiment, man! - Praetorian XXIV WIP

[Captain Titus]

"'Tis a Welsh regiment, man! Though there are some foreigners from England in it , mind. I am Jones from Bwlchgwyn, he is Jones from Builth Wells, and there are four more Joneses in C Company!"

-Private Robert Jones

 

​Welcome to my Praetorian XXIV WIP thread!

 

​Today I received my box of Praetorians from Perry Miniatures and I've stuck right in with 5 built in the last 20 minutes.

 

(A grey pile of sprue)

 

(Rorke's Drift Heroes box)

 

(Colour Sgt. Bourne)

 

(The first few armless guardsmen)

 

I plan to get the first 5 guardsmen sprayed tonight so that I can begin painting tomorrow.

 

Thanks for reading,

​Captain Titus.

 

[Res Ipsa Loquitur]

Good job, Jones. - Smith

[Kierdale]

But can they sing?

[Ranulf]

Good, I can find work for baritones as well as tenors.

[elmo]

Looking forward to The Men of Harlech :)

[spafe]

Welshmen never yield!

[The Taffster]

I approve of this. 

 

Da iawn Jones.

[Captain Titus]

"If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle."

-Lieutenant John Chard

 

Update on my Praetorians:

 

After 2 hours of work, I have completed my first praetorian model...

 

 

To my surprise, the models are incredibly detailed and definitely worth more than the money. If they were heroic scale I would never buy GW again.

 

(Sorry for the poor quality photos, all I have available is my phone but I will try to take better pics of the finished squad.)

Edited February 15, 2018 by Captain Titus

[Ranulf]

Most of the Perry Miniature range is highly detailed - Alan and Michael sculpted for GW and Foundry for a long, long time - 40K, WHFB & LOTR. Both claim that they prefer sculpting for a realistic scale rather than heroic.

 

Well chin-chin, do carry on with your mud pies.

 

 

 

[Major_Gilbear]

Looks like a good start - I have a huge fondness for the classic Praetorians in 40k, and have a good collection of them myself. :)

 

Do you have any plans to convert the Perry figures at all to make them a bit more "40k"? For example, using lasweapon muzzles on the rifles, or adding grenades and other Imperial Guard details?

 

What about Vox-troopers, special weapons, and officer weapons like chainswords and power swords/fists? I expect the smaller scale of the minis could make these tricky (as the regular 40k weapons are already pretty big for most official Guard models).

 

I look forward to seeing more of your progress!

[Captain Titus]

"Rorke's Drift... It'd take an Irishman to give his name to a rotten stinking middle o' nowhere hole like this"

-Private Hook

 

Update time:

The second guardsman is complete, half an hour faster than the last one.

My progress is slow because I do not like batch painting models as I find it takes the fun out of painting warhamer and until after my exams I wont have much time for any more than one or two models a night.

 

 

 

Major_Gilbear:

I had tried using regular lasguns when I was building the Praetorians but they were far too bulky for the models. I definitely plan on adding some grenades after hoaking through my bitzbox and vox casters will be included soon. I am already looking for string to use as power cables to make swords look more like power swords.

 

 

 

For my bases I was planning on something similar to this:

I have placed an order for some crackle paint and more bases because I only have 20 left.

[elmo]

A 40k esq Command Squad would go a long way towards it

 

You can always use 40K characters and add these helmets from Anvil Industry although the scale may be off

Edited February 17, 2018 by elmo

[Reyner]

Great stuff so far :D I used the heads Elmo posted above and I'm very happy with them just need to paint them!