Nice work all around.  I really like your idea of unit sized and labled boxes.  

And now for some

Imperial Guard

I love the IG, but that's probably because I was a grunt myself, once upon a time.   I also love the many different flavors that IG regiments come in.  Tallarn, for that Lawrence of Arabia feel;  Mordian Iron Guard;  Praetorian XXV ('cause Zulu-style combat seems to fit the 40K mold);  Cadians;  Catachans;  Elysians;  I love them all.  Except those goofy Nutcracker Suite Vostroyans.  I shudder at the thought.

For my Guard, I wanted to go with a WWII Soviet-style theme;  green uniforms and red stars everywhere.  Sadly, a lot of the IG equipment lacks flat surfaces on which to put red star decals, but I did my best.  The decals I used, by the way, were from I-94 Enterprises.

My forces are from the Karelian VIII Corps.  Karelia is a world of vodka, borscht, strong women with hot accents, and black-coated political officers shooting everyone suspected of even being able to spell the word "heresy".  In short, a typical dysfunctional 40K dystopia.

I whipped up some graphics in Photoshop to use as banners and whatnot.

       

I like banners.  I need to get better at putting them on stands and tanks, though.  I normally print them on regular printer paper, but I'd like to find, I don't know, silk or something which would make a nice draped flag.


Leman Russ Companies

I swung a deal with a guy on TMP and scored 42 Leman Russ tanks for items in trade.  8 of them have broken lascannons, but they just look like heavy bolters now.

Stored in the Snapware containers:


Here's one company.  Three companies of the tanks are the slightly older Mk.III's, while one company is the newer Mk.III's with the track guards.


Ah, the heroic banner carriers.


I was going to try to put red star decals on these tanks, but there's so little flat surface area!  I think I prefer the old Mk.II tanks.  Or the Forgeworld versions, which are beautiful despite being sponsonedly-challenged.


I haven't made up any grab-and-go boxes for my IG yet, but I'll get there eventually.  I'm not going to make any for the Leman Russes, though;  too heavy for the cardstock.  They'll just have to travel in the Snapware.


Superheavies

Part of another package trade deal.  These four old Baneblades make up the extent of my superheavy capacity.


Luckily, four Baneblades can inflict significant pain on the bad guys, so my Guardsmen are glad to have these along.

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Gorgons

Ah, Gorgons.  A combat engineer vehicle if ever I saw one.  I got these twelve as part of a trade on Bartertown for some 28mm sci-fi resin.

I don't have any Chimeras, so if my Guardsmen want to ride, then these are their hoopties.




I'm still working out the math on these.  Technically, an IG infantry company could fit in three Gorgons, except for the commander.  So, I need to get at least a couple Chimeras for the commanders to ride in.  Otherwise, it's a fourth Gorgon for them.  That wouldn't work out too badly, though, as I could also fit in a robot with the commander.



Stormtroopers

I have the old IG assault troopers, jet pack and all, so those have naturally become my Stormtroopers.  


As I've said before, being infamously thrifty, I have yet to shell out any bucks for Valkyries.  Instead, I'm using Reaper CAV Fenri dropships.  However, I only have two right now, and I need two more, so some CAV Ghasts will be playing the part of the Fenri for tonight's production.  It's a proxy-squared, or something;  a proxy of a proxy.  Yeah.





Robots

Say what you will, I like the IG robots.  I plan on using them under the collector's models rules, and chance the consequences!



Sentinels

And of course we have the famous Eggs on Legs.  But they came with the boxed set, and I'd rather use them than go buy new ones from GW.



Fire Support

I live for the "Counts as..." rule.  Yes, these aren't autocannons, but I like 'em just the same.  The Thudd guns came already glued down, with Squat gunners next to most of them.  I also never really cared for "mole mortars", so I turned mine around and made them into conventional mortars.  Yeah, I'm pretty original that way.

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That is one shed load of Leman Russ. I like the colour scheme, Soviet WWII very nice.

Reaper CAV Fenri dropships

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By the way, if you can see the round bases of my individual troopers, it's because they're based on Litko Aero .8mm plywood bases.  I didn't have any of the Epic 10x40 bases, so I ordered a bunch from Litko.  


Ogryns

I need to add a red dot to these guys' hats or something, to keep with that Soviet theme.  


I love the generous detail on the Ogryns;  it really picks up a wash well, even for a non-painting no-talent hack such as myself.


Artillery

These came to me through a swap on RPG.net.  I like the old-style Bombards, although I think my favorite IG artillery piece is the Griffin.


And for all your Gargant-killing needs, consider our top of the line Deathstrike missiles.  I would have preferred the buzzbomb-style ones, but hey -- cheapskates can't be choosy.



Hellhounds

Yep -- old school again.  I hadn't planned on painting or using these, but I got bored one day, and, well...


The nice thing about these is that the detail is nice and deep and takes a wash really well.



Commissars

Okay, now, the thing with Commissars is:  you need up to 12 of them, in case your IG player gets lucky with his 2d6 roll.  Now, I don't have two dozen stands' worth of spare IG infantry, so instead I based these guys individually.  They're kind of like 3D specialist markers, to let you know that a formation has a Commissar attached.



If you look really closely, you'll see that the third guy in from the left has "Ã

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Awesome looking armies man.

These four old Baneblades make up the extent of my superheavy capacity

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Oh, right, sorry!  I've been treating them as Baneblade proxies for a while now and have come to think of them as "my Baneblades".  But they are indeed Stormhammers.

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After looking through that great collection I think this statement 'even for a non-painting no-talent hack such as myself' doesn't seem to ring true  

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That is a great idea using a clicky base as a blast marker tracker. Very smarts!

D.

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I'm sorry to hear about your bout with depression. Good to see you back, Jav.

Impressive work on all the minis. I really like your Soviet themed IG. What a great idea for storing minis.

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Great looking Stuff J ! I use I-94 Decals too !    I'm a fan of banners also. And I understand about depression - I go to the VA for PTSD or something like that !   Better living thru chemicals !  Painting minis is a great thing to keep busy. I do it all the time.  

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Back again.  What a week!  Glad to have the chance to sit down and paint some minis.

Manticores

I made a trade (I think on Bartertown) that included a bunch of FW stuff.  I love FW's stuff;  it's so much cleaner and more finely detailed than the GW minis.  




Hydras

More Forgeworld goodness.  These Hydras were actually of the towed-implacement variety, and, in a brilliant flash of luck, the trade also included four Trojan prime movers.  I removed the detail from the top of the Trojans with my trusty vorpal Xacto knife and drilled in a slight depression for the nub on the bottom of the Hydra cupola.  Worked out just fine, even if they do ride a wee bit higher than the standard self-propelled Hydra.




Leviathan

Ah... landed this baby for $10 just a couple of weeks ago.  Always nice to have a mobile command post handy, especially one that mounts a cannon which can fire a bloody Volkswagen across the battlefield.



The difficult decision with this one was how to paint all the beautiful detail but still stay true to my drab Sovietesque theme.  So, I gave it a coat of solid OD green and put my faith in a heavy black wash to pick out the details.  I think it turned out pretty well, considering.  




I've been working on flocking the hundred-plus stands of Ork infantry sitting on my workbench, so once those are done, I'll start posting some pics of them, including my Warbosses.

Remember...

In Karelia, the MINIS paint YOU.

I'm not sure what that means, really.  But it's the best I could come up with on a Friday night.

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Hi Jav,

Sorry you had a tough week but good choice of relaxation mate.

Really nice work on the Russian camo Leviathan. I can almost hear the heavy beats of a Shostakovich Symphony playing in the background... oops, left the media player on.

In Karelia, the MINIS paint YOU.

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Nice stuff man! Keep it up; i've long wanted to see some Russian 'esque guard; a friend of mine is doing some german russian front themed guardsmen at the moment; if it wasn't for the atlantic ocean you two should meet up!
Yrs,
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impressive work, jav.

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