Marshal Argos and Body Guards

 

Here's my IG General "Marshal Argos" and his bodyguard.  In game terms he counts as Creed and the two bodyguards are... well bodyguards.  He's been shown here before so the focus isn't really on him, but the guy on the right.  He's finally finished, after 2 years and umpteen different weapon arms he is finally staying exactly as you see him below.

  

He's depicted the carrying the combat banner for Battle Group 82, newly formed under the command of Marshal Argos.  Eventually I want to do up a spiffier one looking more like a display banner but that will probably be done after another year or two of kicking around ideas in my head.

Templar Tuesday's Crusader Squad

I suppose it's about time to show my 3rd Crusader squad.  I have total of 3 squads armed for assault and 2 for support.  Each of the 3 squads armed for CC are equipped with a meltagun, just in case, and a PW.  The support squads have either Plasma/Melta guns and HB's.  Again as you see in the pic I wanted to try and make each Templar individual so the back banners are always different as each has different markings.  Like the fluff for the BT goes I really wanted them to look like they were brothers who came together to fight out of comradeship and not because the good book (Codex Astartes) says so. 

Oh, and I promise that after today's crappy pic I will re-shoot (until they're good) them before posting.  I just couldn't seem to get the picture taking mojo working last night and gave up.

Removable Titan Weapons (pt. 6)

Don't you just hate weapons that are stuck in place?  So do I, so I wanted something different for my Warhound. What I decided on was use using 4 magnets and 1 ping pong ball for each arm.   I cut the ball in half, and sealed 2 magnets inside and glued it to the arm.  Now these 2 magnets inside are free, meaning they are not glued in place, you can hear them rattle around in the ball.  
The 2nd two magnets are glued on the outside part of the other half of the ball, and then mounted under the shoulder on the Warhound.  Outside is important because you want the two halves of the ball to be able to rotate inside of each other.

 

 By not gluing the 2 magnets inside the arm, it allows the arm to rotate, as the magnets always pull together you can position the arm anyway you want: up, down, left or right.  Above you can see how the other half is mounted inside the shoulder.   The next photos are of both weapons arms mounted and then a 2nd shot with all the pieces separated. 

 So for any of you how there who are thinking about building one of these I hope this can be useful to you!

Heads up Display (Warhound pt. 5)

 

While discussing this project on the "Boot Camp" Imperial Guard Forum one of the members said I should make a HUD for my Warhound.   These are the only pictures from the 30 or so that I took that are presentable enough to be shown here.

 

It's not exactly the best photograph, it also isn't exactly my best work, but it get's the point across pretty good.  I mounted it on the roof of the head so that it's still removable to look inside the cockpit itself.   Next up is going to be the weapon arms,  I was able mount them so that they are not only removable but also so that they rotate and elevate!