The Beard Bunker

Phew, it’s been a while since I posted about the Nightfall 31st, the Eridani Sector’s answer to “What if Gaunt's Ghosts but scummier?” I’ve been painting a hell of a lot of Tyranids recently thanks to Charlie and I getting stuck into our joint army project , and eating so many greens has necessitated some dessert. What better way to beat the monotony of endless contrast and drybrushing than with some detailed cavalry and layering? I’ll also go over how I do the camo for the 31st, since that’s their distinctive thing and there are now... Three? Bunker dwellers who have wanted to do their own, be they for trophies or otherwise (Curse you Tom!). If you want trophies you've got to catch us first! A Note on Lore I’ve wanted some Rough Riders in the 31st for ages, canonically they’ve always had at least one squad per company, they’ve just always been relegated to the background since I’ve not had any miniatures to represent them. Nightfall Outrider squads, therefore, have always had ...

I’ve mentioned a few times in previous posts about being back into the Guard in a big way, and I wasn’t kidding.   To recap, I built my guard army originally as some infantry to accompany my Imperial Knights, back when soup was a thing.   Having a core of three infantry squads and two heavy weapon squads (plus a a few characters) gave a sense of scale to the Knights.  But having done the hard part of making a Guard force (the infantry) it seemed rude not to add a few more things so I could field the Guard on their own.  In came three Leman Russes, three Sentinels, and to try and bulk out the non-vehicle section without painting even more guardsmen, a squad of Bullgryns and a squad of Ratlings.  Suddenly I was sitting on 1,500 points. But now, starting to treat it as its own army project, the main issue was... its relative lack of infantry.  Frankly, this was frustrating given how much effort had gone into painting so many men, but Guard really do ...