You've seen the Girls...Now the Boys

OK, OK. Here is my inducted Imperial Guard. This setup can also provide an excellent core Troop selection for a stand-alone I-Guard Army (or an IG Army with Sisters/Grey Knights allied).

The Commisars. Gives the assigned unit Stubborn and a second chance on failed Morale Checks (summary execution). In addition he provides an extra Close Combat model in the event of assaults. Rather than assign them to a 5 man Platoon Command Squad I put them in each platoons number 1 squad. This way if you want to do a combined squad (to reduce you number of Kill Points available to the enemy say) then the whole mash of 20-50 guys ends up Stubborn. The models are made from Command Squad bits with bolt pistols in place of Las-pistols. The heads from the IG vehicle accessory sprue. The peaked tank commander caps match prety well with the Commisars cap.

A simple conversion for a Plasma Gunner. Take an arm with a Lasgun and cut the gun off. Trim off the trigger and handle from the Space Marine Plasma gun. Trim the guns shoulder stock to fit (or just cut it off). Glue the gun to the top of the hand where the Lasgun was. Add the opposite arm bit to match.

Now if we can just do something about that "gets hot" thing.

My heavy weapons. Autocannons in this case. The trick here is swappable weapons. Rather than using the tripod I took a 3/8" styrene tube (Evergreen at most hobby stores) cut 1/4" long. Cap off the end with a bit of card. Let dry completely!!! Now, place a small rare earth magnet on the center of the 60mm base. Glue the capped section of tube over the magnet (I place another magnet on the top of the tube to pull the covered one away from the glue). Add whatever scenery bits you desire to the base. Once dry, prime, add the gunners, paint, and flock.

Now the gun. Cut the small nub off the bottom that attaches the gun to the tripod. imbed a small rare earth magnet in green stuff and mold it to the base where the nub was. Prime and paint. Now all you need to do is set the gun on top of the tube with the lose magnet trapped inside. The magnetic force will clamp the gun right onto the top of the tube.

If you want Lascannons or bolters you need only swap the gun out rather than buying and building an entire new model.

THE BOYS!

2 Platoons. 2 Command squads. 3 infantry squads in platoon 1, 2 squads in platoon 2. Seven (!) Autocannons (otherwise known as "get out of your wrecked transport and start walkin").

THE GIRLS!

Canoness. 3 Celestian squads with Immolators. 2 girl squads with Rhinos. 3 Exorcists. The things on the end are miniature cherub Christmas ornaments attached to flying bases. I use them as markers for Faith Points. A visual reminder of how many I have, and to show squads currently Faithful.

The whole Army.