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The challenge of painting Imperial Fists is, of course,
how to make yellow look cool. I used lots of black, used medium blue
for trim color (instead of red), and use a brown wash to dirty up the yellow.
This scout sergeant is a converted Space Wolf sergeant- I added an auxiliary
grenade launcher onto the bolter. I love the grenade throwing pose
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| This is one of the old metal scouts- similar in style to
the old plastics, but just a little nicer (plus you get some variety in
the pose). I prefer the old style scouts to the new ones only
because they look younger, like raw recruits (okay, the real reason is
that I already had tons of them painted by the time the new scouts came
out, and I'm too lazy to upgrade). |
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My impression of the Imperial Fists is "lots of heavy weapons"
(Milton Bradley's Space Crusade has something to do with that, btw)- so
instead of a stock bolter, I upgraded this Captain model with a heavy stubber.
I spliced a chaos marine bolter belt feed and front end onto the original
bolter, and added a large muzzle brake from an ork shoota. The Power
axe is also a minor conversion. This model had lots of trim
detail to paint, and shows off the color scheme nicely. |
| No real converting here, I was just really happy with the
way this devastator came out. The barrel of the Heavy Plasma Gun
was painted gold, which stands out nicely against the dark grey of the
gun itself. The feet, hands, and kneepads are painted black, forming
a nice contrast with the yellow armor. Since the Imperial Fists shoulder
pads were not available at the time, I used any decals I could find.
This "fist and crossbones) is from the Epic Imperial forces decal set. |
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My shoulder mounted Multimelta, made out of a Space Crusade
Dreadnought weapon. I ground out a slot for the shoulder pad, and
added a grip from the Las Cannon weapon. For it's time, I felt
it was a pretty nifty conversion- of course, now there is an actual Multimelta
available (in the "low slung" style). This model's legs show
off the brown wash nicely. |
| I still love the old "Mk. 6" style plastic missile launcher, and did
not hesitate to use one with the Mk. 7 devastator models. The only
trick is painting up the arm so that it looks more like the modern Mk.
7 arms, rather than the old Mk. 6 arm. Now there's a devastator-sized
weapon! |
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Keeping with the heavy weapon theme, I equipped the Imperial Fists
terminators all with heavy weapons (flamer, assault cannon, etc), including
this... heavy plasma cannon? Yep- I spliced a plasma gun and plasma
pistol front end onto a heavy flamer back end for an all-plastic terminator
conversion. I figure, if the Ultramarines (of 2nd Edition) can take
an artifact along these lines, surely the Imperial Fists could too...
Besides, I wanted lots of variety in the terminator weapons, rather than
just kitting everyone with assault cannons. |
| I really like the new Cyclone missile launcher, though it took some
getting used to it's bulk. In the interests of survivability
in melee, I gave the model a power glove in place of the Storm Bolter.
Where to find a right handed power glove though? I stole this one
from Marneus Calgar after shaving off the built in bolter... |
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