Warhammer 40k

[slipstream 1985]

Rutter said:

Inspired by these metal guard females I’ve ordered some bits from anvil industries to make a female only guard kill team, looking forward to doing some kitbashing with the scions and cadians, I’ll post some updates of the WIP.

Sisters of battle being called " bolter bhes"
will your female guard me called "lasgun lasses"?

[Sway]

slipstream 1985 said:

Rutter said:

Inspired by these metal guard females I’ve ordered some bits from anvil industries to make a female only guard kill team, looking forward to doing some kitbashing with the scions and cadians, I’ll post some updates of the WIP.

Sisters of battle being called " bolter bhes"
will your female guard me called "lasgun lasses"?

Teased cover of the next Siege Of Terra book shows what appears to be the first truly confirmed female Guard...

[Rick_1138]

Sway said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Rutter said:

Inspired by these metal guard females I’ve ordered some bits from anvil industries to make a female only guard kill team, looking forward to doing some kitbashing with the scions and cadians, I’ll post some updates of the WIP.

Sisters of battle being called " bolter bhes"
will your female guard me called "lasgun lasses"?

Teased cover of the next Siege Of Terra book shows what appears to be the first truly confirmed female Guard...

There have been female guardsmen in the lore for over 20 years, the Gaunts Ghosts novel series has them as characters since the start.

Many online are touting this as "progression" when in fact female members are in almost all the main races bar the space marines (orks are genderless and Nids are technically a matriarchy with the Norn Queens).

[Rutter]

Rick_1138 said:

Sway said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Rutter said:

Inspired by these metal guard females I’ve ordered some bits from anvil industries to make a female only guard kill team, looking forward to doing some kitbashing with the scions and cadians, I’ll post some updates of the WIP.

Sisters of battle being called " bolter bhes"
will your female guard me called "lasgun lasses"?

Teased cover of the next Siege Of Terra book shows what appears to be the first truly confirmed female Guard...

There have been female guardsmen in the lore for over 20 years, the Gaunts Ghosts novel series has them as characters since the start.

Many online are touting this as "progression" when in fact female members are in almost all the main races bar the space marines (orks are genderless and Nids are technically a matriarchy with the Norn Queens).

Yeah i'm not sure I get the "first truly confirmed" when all 5 of the models are already guardsmen, the first and last from shaeffer's last chancers, the second a catachan jungle fighter and 3 & 4 rogue trader era imperial army troopers.

I just thought it would make a different looking kill team is all.

[Rick_1138]

Rutter said:

Rick_1138 said:

Sway said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Rutter said:

Inspired by these metal guard females I’ve ordered some bits from anvil industries to make a female only guard kill team, looking forward to doing some kitbashing with the scions and cadians, I’ll post some updates of the WIP.

Sisters of battle being called " bolter bhes"
will your female guard me called "lasgun lasses"?

Teased cover of the next Siege Of Terra book shows what appears to be the first truly confirmed female Guard...

There have been female guardsmen in the lore for over 20 years, the Gaunts Ghosts novel series has them as characters since the start.

Many online are touting this as "progression" when in fact female members are in almost all the main races bar the space marines (orks are genderless and Nids are technically a matriarchy with the Norn Queens).

Yeah i'm not sure I get the "first truly confirmed" when all 5 of the models are already guardsmen, the first and last from shaeffer's last chancers, the second a catachan jungle fighter and 3 & 4 rogue trader era imperial army troopers.

I just thought it would make a different looking kill team is all.

Rule of cool always wins out

be nice to see them painted up.

[robemcdonald]

I did a little more at lunch.

Needs a little tidying to finish.

[youngsyr]

Awesome work on Bobby G!

As for female guard, they have been around forever in the fluff. They've even been some reasonably central characters in some of the books.

[Sway]

youngsyr said:

Awesome work on Bobby G!

As for female guard, they have been around forever in the fluff. They've even been some reasonably central characters in some of the books.

I'm clearly suffering from age - as soon as you guys pointed out my error I remembered!

[slipstream 1985]

Rick_1138 said:

Sway said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Rutter said:

Inspired by these metal guard females I’ve ordered some bits from anvil industries to make a female only guard kill team, looking forward to doing some kitbashing with the scions and cadians, I’ll post some updates of the WIP.

Sisters of battle being called " bolter bhes"
will your female guard me called "lasgun lasses"?

Teased cover of the next Siege Of Terra book shows what appears to be the first truly confirmed female Guard...

There have been female guardsmen in the lore for over 20 years, the Gaunts Ghosts novel series has them as characters since the start.

Many online are touting this as "progression" when in fact female members are in almost all the main races bar the space marines (orks are genderless and Nids are technically a matriarchy with the Norn Queens).

I always thought the warhammer universe where men are a tool and meat for the grinder that the females of the hive worlds were basicly baby machines. Farmers don't send the female cows to slaughter the males go and the rest are kept for reproduction. Seemed to match the lore of how dark and pointless life in the imperium is?

[robemcdonald]

Well. I can’t guarantee there won’t be any tinkering, but I’m going to say he’s done.







Not too sure what I will do with him now. I’m tempted to put him on eBay.

[youngsyr]

robemcdonald said:

Well. I can’t guarantee there won’t be any tinkering, but I’m going to say he’s done.




Not too sure what I will do with him now. I’m tempted to put him on eBay.

That looks great, well done!

Seems you're a lot like me - like the idea of acquiring, building, painting, but then at a loss as to what to do with the models! I've just sold a model on eBay that I'd only finished painting the week before!

[robemcdonald]

There seems to be plenty up for sale at very unrealistic prices.

[Rutter]

Test fitting a few models, not 100% on the proportions of the arms on the sarge, or the vox on the guardsman bit they are only held on with blue tac.

[Nom de ploom]

is there a market for these painted figures?

ebay or gaming forums etc?

is it worth investing the time and effort?

[Sway]

Nom de ploom said:

is there a market for these painted figures?

ebay or gaming forums etc?

is it worth investing the time and effort?

It's very variable!

GW is fundamentally a models company, that uses the game to drive sales. So you'll find they'll update the rules, and all of a sudden "rubbish" models that no one wanted become worth loads (especially as soon as GW runs out of stock), and "must have" minis suddenly become almost worthless...

If you enjoy building and painting, and aren't looking for actual profits, then you'll cover costs if you're buying cleverly and painting to a decent standard.

Ebay or there's loads of Facebook sales groups.

[youngsyr]

Nom de ploom said:

is there a market for these painted figures?

ebay or gaming forums etc?

is it worth investing the time and effort?

Depends what you mean by "worth it". As Sway says, I wouldn't expect to make much money out of it, if anything at all, but you can cover your costs if you know what you're doing.

[robemcdonald]

Not really 40k, but probably belongs here.

Took 90 minutes start to finish. I’m quite pleased with the result.

[Rutter]

Finally got round to pre assembly for my female guard kill team, now need to get them finally prepped and test out the contrast paints

[youngsyr]

Rutter said:

Finally got round to pre assembly for my female guard kill team, now need to get them finally prepped and test out the contrast paints

Are they an Australian regiment?

[Rutter]

Bah yes I guess they are, any easy way of reformatting that from my phone?

Sorry for your sore necks...