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Now these dudes are cool and were also very cheap. £10 each rather than £40 for one, hence why i got 3 of them.

Building them was again a bit of a faff but not hard really, i just had to hold stuff whilst the glue became tacky enough to hold the weight and the pose. Faffy and annoying but not hard (gigitty).

With regards to the weapons, i thin they can have doubles on things, the WWW said they could so i went with the bright lances to make sure everything big is dead and then the multilaser which in my mind sounds very anti infantry which is also good. Will i ever play a game, no. Do i care, not really!

when it came to painting these boys got a bit of highlighting on the blue as well as the normal yellow and grey highlights, lucky them! I used thousand sons blue and temple guard blue.

Here are two models that are exactly the same.

I did no converting or anything fancy, for one i followed the building instructions and for the other i simply twisted the head a wrist joint as they were.

no cuts, no pinning, no putty.

Im quite pleased that the exact same pose has two very different silhouettes and thus makes two very different models. well done GW, I’m sure you planned that. maybe.

I pumped out a second squad of guardians (got double the magazines!)

No idea what the heavy weapon does but it kinda looked a bit plasma’y so i assume it melted people including those in power armour.

What i didn’t mention before is that i think the kit is an absolute ball ache to build. in fact most of the eldar kits seem to be a ballache to make. I dont plan to make anymore guardians now though so the pain is done.

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Thanks for the award! it is nice and does spur me along to continue with this monster project!

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So the paint scheme for these was heavily inspired by grantinvanman’s Craftworld Iyanden commission project.

I used colour forge desert sand spray,

iyandan yellow, talassar blue, blood angels red and black templar contrast paints

averland sunset and light grey to highlight.

Basing is the same as all the others. mix of white and german grey with glass shards and a geek gaming scenics base ready

I splashed out on a desert spray for this guy. then slapped on contrast paint, finally minimal highlights, just to look like some effort went into it.

been a while but check this guy out!

i played around with a white oil pin wash for this guy and then dyed the white with baharoth blue edge paint

it came out great and he really does pop when stood next to his terminator support squad.

He’ll take the pain the enemies of the emperor without a doubt and do it in style. Chuffed with how he turned out.

Here I have doubled the flamer boys to a squad of 10 + the special character. I understand they’ll ruin things the drop pod deepstrike onto.

I also completed the company champion model too, I think he was a Brucey Bonus magazine issue.

I quite like that the more powerful the model the bigger the base size is, I hadn’t really noticed that in 40k previously with the exception of monstrous creatures and flyers.