Been going more than a month....

I have been working on this army for about 2 months now but then i have a very short amount of time to get it all done before i go back to work at the end of February so i decided to give myself a bit of a head start due to the much closer deadline i am working too.

I had been wanting to do an imperial guard army for ages with a box of cadians sat under my bed for years, when i say a box it was actually 70 guardsmen on sprue from the eye of terror campaign many moons ago. I kept getting drawn back to the renegades on forge world's website so i have to find a way to fund this project while unemployed so i sold my Fantasy chaos army to get all the bits i needed to do what i thought was a characterful Guard/ demon army.

With the launch of the new 40k box set i had the models i wanted for my penal legion these were the first models i painted for the army doing some head and gun swaps where needed to make them look a bit different from the cultists, I love how characterful this unit is every one is an individual.

The priest was up next he wasn't planned to go with the penal legion from the start but this is now where he takes his place on the battle field offering a bit of punch to the unit as well as allowing the degenerates of the penal legion to reroll hits in combat lets hope for extra attacks and rending for them lads!

With the arrival of the first of the orders from forge world the first unit of guardsmen was painted up, swapping the back pack on one model for the voxcaster and using allot of green stuff to make the lasguns fit the models properly, this wasn't really a problem it allowed me to position them  in allot more ways than normal.

To keep it a bit varied i painted the first of my tanks next a demolisher adding the banner top from the chaos maruader horsemen sprue to the turret to bring a bit of the chaos feel to the tank after i had removed all of the imperial eagles from the model.

while i continued to paint the mass of guardsmen i added other units so that i didn't get bored after finishing the second 10 man squad, i added the first off the 2 hell hounds to the painting desk and played around with ways to make the end of the gun look over heated and charred. This was done by doing a blend from mithril silver through to shining gold then adding glazes of abaddon black to the end of the gun to show smoke damage.

After playing a few games with the army heavy weapon teams were added to the 30 man blob squad and an additional unit of 3 auto canons was added to the platoon so these had to be painted up.

After painting all this red and black a change would be nice so the bloodletters were brought out, oh no more red and black! i had seen the alternate colour scheme for the forge world bloodthirster so got to highlight to white from black my god that takes a while but i found with some practise it wasn't to bad.

With the new year i wanted to finish off the first platoon so got the green stuff out to convert up my commissar then set to work painting him up in the same colour pallet as the rest of the army but swapped the colours about a bit to make him stand out not that he needed much help wielding that small sword of his.

The platoon command would be next to be attacked by the paint on my brush. with the addition of some copper wire to make the arms on the heavy flamer fit on the model they were finished in just under 2 days.

This command squad along with the last few men meant i had finished the platoon so that's 3 troops (1 of them allies) a non HQ, HQ choice, 1 fast attack and one heavy support done.

The company command took a bit longer to paint a whole week was spent on these with a couple of different ways of painting the banner tried out and changed.

I spent most of that time painting the Commander himself now known as Commander Parov, its ok that only the commanding officers don't have gas masks on right?....

The aegis defence line took a bit of work to get how i wanted it to look and i found a pot of terracotta paint that needed to be used( why did they stop this colour). I had been waiting for the spikey bits sprue to turn up to do this but once it had skulls and spikes were added and it was painted up.

The lateest addition tot he army is my second Leman Russ this time an exterminator a few spikes were added along with a helmet from Dave Plamer's Brazenclaw army....

That's me all up to date with what i have painted not got a huge amount more to go but the rest of it does need quite a bit of work to finish.