The backbone of any good infantry-heavy Imperial Guard list (as all Imperial Guard lists should be in my opinion!) is the humble Chimera – lots of guns that do shockingly little damage, and just few enough wounds and toughness that in my most recent game (a 1v1v1 against Space Wolves and Custodes) they can get 1-shot turn 1…
My two Chimeras are of very different heritages – The first one being a real GW plastic kit that I built very early in to my Warhammer days; painted in the vaguely Tallarn inspired red scheme that I have used for a lot of my armour and finished in what I think is a pretty convincing state of well looked after but heavily worn.
The Chimera on the right, as you can likely guess, was 3D printed on my Bambu Labs A1 – using the 0.4mm nozzle and the built in 0.8mm Extra Quality pre-set. Although the layer lines are not particularly noticeable with those settings, I used two layers of Colour Forge Matte primer to hide some of the more egregious ones, and a pretty thick layer of terrain paste around the tracks and lower armour also helps to hide any printing inconsistencies. I painted the right-hand chimera at the same time as my Krieg proxies (next week’s post!) hence the more traditional colour scheme, but I think that for a 3D printed model, it looks pretty convincing!
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