Just a quick one this week; my Regimental Enginseer for my Imperial Guard army. This was probably the second or third character that I ever put together and painted, mainly because I was running a very Lehman Russ heavy list and wanted to try and keep my tanks on the table for longer than a single turn.
My Guard army is loosely Tallarn Desert Raiders themed, so I inverted the colour scheme of the regular admech to make this lad fit in a little better with the rest of my army. The base is something I am not overly happy with if I am honest – I do quite like the mechanical gubbins that I put down there (extra cables and bits left over from the Heavy Ordinance Battery sprue) but I do wish I’d put down the terrain paste before I’d primed him so I could have painted it a bit more of a “desert-y” scheme than just leaving it it’s natural muddy brown.
In game this lad usually hides behind my Lehman Russ or Rogal Dorn tanks, buffing them every turn and trying desperately to stay out of line of site. Not long after I picked him up I also got some old fine cast servitors as at the time he was allowed a small retinue to keep him protected, but, of course, these were removed from the codex literally the week after I picked them up and I believe aren’t even in legends, so they’ll eventually find home alongside my 2nd Ed. Tech Marine if I ever get around to actually building and painting my 2nd Ed. box!
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