Modelling News - Guard Weapons Questions & Bases update!

A fellow guardsman struggling with his weapons choices!

Well folks more progress today and a step backwards I'm afraid!

First up the step forward, today I finally took the step to order my bases for the force. I headed over to Secret Weapon Minis earlier and not only picked up a set of the Urban Beveled bases but decided to grab some of the small metal shell casings they sell. So I'm keeping an eye out for those and hope that once they arrive you guys don't mind a little review of all the bits I've ordered.
To check out their products head over here: Secret Weapon Miniatures

Now for the step backwards, I'm just placing an order on the old Forgeworld site for some of the Cadian Special Weapons Teams and it struck me I have no idea what weapons fits work in "todays" Guard Army. So folks I'm turning to you for advice on what works in what situation. To give you a bit more feedback locally I will mainly be facing Space Marines (of all flavours, both Imp and Chaos), Tau, Eldar and Orks, though obviously there are others out there. So my questions are what weapons fits are the best all rounders, both in general and for the following units:

• Command Squad
• Platton Command Squads
• Heavy Weapons Teams
• Guard Squads

In the case of all these I'd also really like to know do heavy weapons work in these squads or is it best just to run them light and just have special weapons?
Any advice on weapons fits would be appreciated as this one really has me stumped.
Thanks in advance!

Imperial Guard updates - Poll Results

Hi folks, its 4.40 am UK time and I'm now over the first hour at work and its not looking like its going to end anytime soon. So whilst the other teams are doing their testing for me I thought now was a great time to update you all on the Imperial Guard vote on the two test models. I promised once the polls closed to reveal all so here goes!

In the polls I asked you which of the following two models was best and which I painted, so as a quick refresher here are the models once again:

I didn't receive too many votes (only five on each poll) but for those of you that voted a big thank you for taking the time, so here are the results of those votes:

So dealing with the first question first, I can reveal that 60% of you thought model 2 was best. so thanks for your honest voting and any feedback on your votes would be great.

The second question asked you which of the two I painted and which of the two the staffer painted, I can now reveal that an amazing 40% of you were right! I painted model 1, the worst of the two models - unfortunately - however I am pleased with the results considering my previous painting 7+ years ago only ever got as far as thick colours and no inks, washes or highlighting.

All in all though I'm happy with the voting results and I'm happy that people did seem to like my work, it can only get better and I can now work with the scheme I have to improve it. Some of the plans for the future involve possibly lightening the grey a tad as at the minute unless the model is in bright light it looks very dark, I also plan at looking on how to tie the vehicles to the force using similar colours and patterns.

Finally any suggestions or assistance on drafting a 1500 point list that could combat Marines, Tau or Eldar would be much appreciated, then I can tailor it to deal with kroot mercs later on

Enjoy folks and hope to have the first completed "teether" squad up soon.

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UPDATE:

A few folks have emailed me direct or PM'd me on some of the forums I'm on asking about lightening up the fatigues on these guys and why it needs it. Below to help answer that is a picture of the two models taken without a flash and just using the ambient light from a 40w (my arse is it!) energy saver bulb and as you can see the models love extrememly dark:

To me they seem very dark, almost black in this light! I would keep the armour the same shade but would probably like to lighten the fatigues up at least a touch. Any thoughts on that suggestion?

Blog News - Happy 100th Post!!

Well folks its here!
The day I did not envisage is here, the blog has finally hit 100 posts! so in celebration here are some stats from the last 6 months or so! Since I implemented the resurrection of the blog and the counter in May, they say on the blog we have had:

• 14000+ hits
• Visitors from 59 countries worldwide to date
• 33 Followers, plus an unknown number of RSS subscribers (if anyone knows how to find out let me know)
• 100 posts including the celebratory one!
• 50 comments!
• an average page time of 4+ minutes!
• the five biggest visitors are USA, UK, Canada, Germany and Australia, with the USA leading the way with a clear 743 visits this month alone!

All I can say is WOW to you all! I never knew my random thoughts were so interesting and I hope over the next few posts to see the blog grow, people contributing or asking for articles and most importantly to give you guys what you want, when you want it!

It seems as well that news has reached higher realms and we are now famous:

OK, bad and cheesy I know, However I'm extremely pleased everyone enjoys the blog so much. So please keep reading and enjoying and most importantly for being loyal and coming back I want to wish you all a big:

THANK YOU!!! 

Blog News - The Big 10,000!!!

TIME FOR SOME AMAZING CELEBRATIONS!!!

All I can say is just WOW, since reopening the blog and installing the counter on the 15.05.10 I have accumulated a massive 10,000 hits from around the world!

All I can say to you for the 10,000 hits in just under 5 months, and to the 25 dedicated followers is a massive:

Thank you all!!

To me it is truly amazing that so many of you would not only read my blog but would be that interested in it you would come back time and time again. In celebration of your dedication and persistence I will have a beer or several in your honour and as a thank you to you all!

 Looking at the world map that spins slowly away below my counter show how truly worldwide my readers are and I'm pleased to be of interest to so many of you. So thank you all and I hope the content not only stays good but gets better and more enjoyable for you.

Thanks again folks