Monday, February 5, 2024

2 PHIG missile teams and a Psyker are complete!

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Sorcery-in-progress!

This week I have an update on the slow progress of my Pointy Helmeted Imperial Guardsmen (PHIGs). I painted up a pysker, and finally finished two of the three missile teams for the heavy weapons squad (I can only do two at a time as I'm limited to just four of the tiny bases I temporarily glue them too). 

First up, the Psyker.

Feel the Force flow thr-oh wait, wrong genre. 

Note the runes on his/her kit. 

The witchery does not extend to the back of the hand...

Rune inscribed Force Hatchet.

As always there a pistol for shooting in close combat. 

This mini will serve as a Primaris Psyker. As I'm really limited on sculpts with this bunch, I just did a hand swap on a superfluous standard bearer. To help him stand out from the rest of the oh so similar infantry, I added a witchfire-esque glow to both his/her (like you can tell under all of that gear) hand and emanating from the grill of the helm. 

I rather like the effect. His/her kit is also inscribed with several runes of...warding? He/she is also equipped with a rune inscribed force hatchet.

The team's gunner is prepped to fire with the loaders each carrying a spare launcher.

This will be the red squad which seems like an appropriate color for fire support. 

The Ammo Crates hold spare rounds, presumably enough to carry them thru a standard 5-turn game.

I got a little ahead of myself on these guys and forgot to add any unit decals. I'll likely carry this omission on to the last team as well. 

Next up are two of the heavy weapons squad's missile teams. These missile teams are the only option that these minis come with in regards of heavy weaponry. That said these look good and luckily missile launchers are good against both armor and light infantry hordes. I also like the 50mm weapon team bases over the prior 60mm bases which seemed like a bit much for an Iggy weapon team.

Target acquired, fire on my mark!

Next up for this army will be to finish the last weapon team and maybe the final four grunts in my first infantry squad. After that, perhaps a 2nd tank will be in order.


6 comments:

  1. Those are looking really sweet! Is it the 25mm bases you need more of? I can definitely help with that if so.

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  2. Oh no, I have plenty of thoses. I was putting the Heavy Weapons guys on some 20mm bases that I have from...something. I guess I could've put em on 25mm bases, but on well.

    Thanks!

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  3. It's nice to see the Primarilly Newton the PHiG Psycher coming along nice.

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  4. lol, despite my love of cheesy puns I am NOT calling him that!!

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  5. Oh, I love the whole vibe of these guys. Cool paintjob too, I'll have to take a long peek to your blog!

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  6. Thanks Suber! Do have a look around, though I hope you do have some time to spare as this ol' blog is a bit long in the tooth.

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