Infantry Gallery
Infantry
Imperial Guard 24th Praetorian regiment
Imperial Guard 78th Praetorian regiment
Imperial Guard 5th Praetorian regiment
Imperial Guard 1st Sigmar regiment
Dark Eldar
Orks
Dark Angels
I made the Primarch of the Dark Angels using limbs from terminator marines with a regular marine torso. the body was bulked out using belt pouches. The pre-Heresey boltgun comes from RTB01 - the first plastic boxed set of marines from the 1980's!
Obviously this has since been superceded by both resin and plastic models from Games Workshop.
24th Praetorian Regiment
I began collecting Imperial Guard when the 24th Praetorian platoon boxed set was released. Since then Games Workshop have discontinued this line of figures and these are intended as a alternative means of collecting them. They use plastic Cadian figures with resin heads from Anvil Industries.
This is a basic infantry squad with grenade launcher and las cannon.
I decided that the spotters for this sniper squad should also have the benefit of the camouflaged cloaks worn by the snipers themselves. As well as swapping heads, I aslo swapped the weapons of the spotters for regular las guns.
78th Praetorian Regiment
The look of this Imperial Guard regiment was inspired by images of WWII British and Commonwealth troops. The look was achieved using metal heads intended for a WWII era wargame by West Wind Games mounted on plastic Cadians.
The company command unit, including a pair of bodyguards for the officer.
A platoon level command squad
A regular infantry squad.
Two heavy weapons teams. The prone autocannon crew were created using running figures lay down.
A special weapons team with flamers.
A veterans squad. These figures use metal kasrkin
5th Praetorian Regiment
As with the 78th Regiment above I exchanged the heads of cadians (or space marine scouts forunits equipped with carapace armour instead of flak) for some produced by another company to produce this one. In this case I used near future heads from Pig Iron Productions. I also added as many different bits of equipment as I could.
This company command squad makes use of space marine scouts with Imperial guard weapons and equipment.
The standard infantry squad uses cadian bodies and the Pig Iron near future heads. Note that I've not inclluded a heavy weapon team in the squad. For this regiment I've concentrated the heavy weapons in specialist squads.
One of the heavy weapon squads. Again this uses cadian bodies and near future heads.
My veteran squad is another that uses space marine scouts instead of cadian bodies. In this case it not only allows me to create a squad with carapace armour, but also to arm them with shotguns without needing further conversion.
1st Sigmar Regiment
This regiment uses Age of Sigmar human figures for its base, modified with parts from Imperial Guard kits to produce an Imperial Guard force that looks like it has been recruited from one of the Imperium's more primitive worlds.
The command squad uses Freeguild Guard as the squad members and a Freeguild General as its officer. The meltagun gunner uses a crossbow arm with a meltagun stuck to it and the drummer has a handgun slung over his back modified in the same way as the infantry squad below. The las pistols are made by replacing the muzzles of pistols with those from 40k laspistols.
These alternate officers were made from witch hunter figures with their weapons swapped for a plasma pistol and bolt pistol.
The basic infantry squad was made from a unit of Freeguild Hangunners. Their handguns were modified by adding a las gun power pack and replacing the muzzle with one from a las gun as well.
The heavy bolter is mounted on a taller stand made from a mortar to take into account the gunner standing rather than kneeling and the grenade launcher is made using the handgunners' volley gun.
These ogryn and bullgyrn units have been made by adding Imperial Guard weapons to Age of Sigmar Ogors.
This tech priestess was converted from a Mordheim amazon leader with the addition of a space marine backpack. Her headdress was replaced by Battlefleet Gothic antennae while her mechandrite tail was built from electronic component spacers over a length of wire and tipped with another antenna.
The trio of servitors were all built from different figures. From left to right:
- A fantasy Empire flagelant with the head from an Imperial Guard tank commander.
- A valkyrie door gunner with a chaos marien head.
- A terminator front torso, marien arms and the arms of a tau battlesuit for legs.
Inquisition
Being individual charcaters, Imperial Inquisitors and their henchmen offer excellent opportunity for converting.
From left to right:
- An inquistor converted from the marine captain in the Assault on Black Reach boxed set. Used as the special character Hector Rex.
- Inquisitor in terminator armour. Made from an Assault on Balck Reach terminator marine with a thunderhammer from the terminator assault squad set and psycannon from a Grey Knight terminator.
- Inquisitor made from a Space Marine scout torso and Imperial Guard tank commander legs.
- A sinister looking witch hunter using torso and legs from the tank accessory sprue. His cape is from the Cadian command sprue and his cowled head is from the Dark Angels veterans sprue.
- A gun servitor henchman. It uses feet from a tau battlesuit, its legs are from sentinel chainblades and the gun is a plasma cannon from a Leman Russ kit.
Dark Eldar
These figures are from the original Dark Eldar figure range. Recently a new range of models has been released by Games Workshop. The army I am building now uses a radically different colour scheme.
A pair of archons built from the old plastic dark eldar warriors set and an assortment of spare parts from my bits box.
This incubi lord is made from one of the bodyguards in the old Asdrubael Vect vehicle kit. The slave he has on a leash is also taken from that kit.
Orks
Wanting a warboss in mega armour that was not the special character Ghazghkull Thraka I built this suit of mega armour mainly out of parts from Leman Russ kits. He literally is a walking tank!
This Goff clan warboss uses the plastic warboss from the Assault on Black Reach set and swaps the head for the top of a fantasy Orc banner to give him a crude helmet.
Another clan specific warboss, this Blood Axe is based on the idea that his clan would adopt a lot of Imperial style equipment. To reflect this the body of the warboss is taken from the Ogryn kit with an Ork head and arms added. His personal banner waver has a commissar's hat taken from the Ogryn kit speaker.
The rider from the Age of Sigmar Maw Krusha was used to create this Snake Bite feral Ork warboss. Rocks were added to the base to offset the tilt that the figure needed to ride on the monster it came with.
This Goff ork 'ard nob is built from an ork nob from the nobs boxed set. The pistol was removed and replaced by a shield made from half of one of the side panels of an ork trukk.
The feral Snake Bites shown in the following images were made using Warhammer Fantasy savage orks and swapping their weapons for 40k ork ones.
Ork boys
Burnas
Tankbustas
Nobs. These used armoured Orruk Brutes.
These character models used a variety of Orruk figures. From left t right the two weirdboys are based on a Weirdnob Shaman and a Wurrgog Prophet that needed very little converting, they could have been fielded as they were. The Waaargh banner waver was made from a Warchanter and finally the pigdok is made from a Wardokk with an added powerclaw.
The Orc boys available for the Old World fantasy game are fully compatable with those for 40k. These Ork boys have been made by adding the 40k weapons to the bodies from the fantasy Orcs.
This is a unit of specialist Tyranid hunters. A Gretchin SWAT team if you will.
A step up from the SWAT team is this elite chemical warfare unit. The spray can is actually made from the lids of three cans wrapped in thin plasticard while the nozzle is a spray can nozzle taken from a used can.
This traktor cannon is built from various spare parts and pieces of plasticard to fiull in gaps. The crew are an asortment of Gretchin crew.
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