League Results, Imperial Guard, and a Massive Photo Dump

Things have been busy as hell as of late with work so I've not posted in weeks, so rather than giving each subject it's own posting I'm just gonna lay it all out in one go.

LEAGUE

  I ended the league 1-4-1 which is a win and a tie better than I expected to do.  It's been so long since I played those game, it wouldn't be fair to try and do battle reports on any of them.  I would mostly be talking out my ass and probably misrepresenting the ass kicking I got, however, here's some photos of my trouncing in action.

SHIELDS UP!

In my last post I showed that I had received my shields.  Well I got them attached and painted.

They deserve some more cleanup and maybe another coat of paint on them, but for the time being, they're on.  

TRIBESMEN(aka Imperial Guard)

I've decided that what my army really needs is some Imperial Guard.  Keeping with the native american theme, I decided to go with figures from Conquest Miniatures.  They're a little cheaper than buying Games Workshop IG troops. (about 40 dollars for 19 guys) whereas if I went with normal IG, I would have to pay 30 bucks for 10 troopers, and then buy heads for them.  The other benefit to using the Conquest minis is that I can make my guard more like savages instead of just another guard army.  

 I started with a box of their Woodland Indian War Party. I wanted to make sure that the scale of the models held up against GW models as well check out the quality of the miniatures in person.  

These did not fail to impress.  Quiet a few different poses in the box, single piece miniatures, took me very little work to make them work for me.  

I'm actually REALLY pleased with how these turned out.  I've since ordered another box of the Woodland War Party(giving me ~40 Infantry), a pack of Commanche Warriors(who will be my PCS) and the Buffalo Hump and His-oo-san-chees pack (Buffalo Hump is either going to be my Primaris Psycher or Guardsman Marbo)

That covers my HQ, and Troop choice for my allied contingent, now comes the fun part.

FIREBIRD / VENDETTA

With the recent release of the new High Elf army, came one of the coolest looking GW models I've seen in a while.  The Phoenix.

This model is a godsend.  It was going to be tough to say that my IG were primitive savages when they had aircraft at their disposal... however, by using the phoenix model I can keep the theme going.