5th Ogryn Cadre

A stand of Ogryn. As before the old style Ogryn are one of my favourite minis. I have gradually accumulated them over the years with the last 4 coming from ebay during the last 12 months. Parking the Exorcist on the painting table the ogryn have been finished. The paint schemes date from the 2nd or 3rd edition of 40k. Some of the older minis have been over painted over the years to modernise their colours. Bases have been replaced as well as the original Ogryns came with square bases like WFB bases. Finally having a total of 10  here they are together. A Stand of Ogryn.

Abhumans

Just finished 3 more Ogryn for the Lord Commisar Belisimites personal crusade. Old style acquired form ebay. These I feel are more characterful than the new style GW Ogryn.

There is one more to do which will take my Ogryn Cadre to 10 in total once finished.

Lord Commisar Erik Von Belisimar

Commander of the Belisimite IG personal army. This mercenary force dependent on abhumans, penal legionnaires and chemically impressed citizens is used by the imperium for its most underhand and marginal internal agent provocateur military activities and also to support field armies when lives are consumed as the currency of time. What Erik Von Belisimar uses in his rebreather system is unknown but rumours suggest that the chemicals he uses are mixed to boost his physical strength and augment his intellect while erasing his conscience. Other stories suggest that his breather system is a sham covering a system of consuming blood syphoned from humans and abhumans of his forces and his enemies.

As a leader with victories over Chaos as well as rebellious Imperial planetary governors Erik Von Belisimar is tolerated rather than trusted.








The leaders of the units of his force are below.

Imperial Guard Platoon or Lord Commisar Belisimite's Personal Army

This is a personal project that has been progressing since the previous Imperial Guard codex. The idea of chem dogs, imperial guard troopers imprisoned, disciplined and given courage through the involuntary utilisation chem inhalers seemed to be the ethos of the dark millenium of 40k.The Imperium having unwittingly unleashed and then at the last gasp opposed the powers of Chaos sways on the edge separating stasis and slow entropy from a precipitously inevitable descent into disaster, obliteration and assimilation. In this ethos the end justifies the means on most occasions. Parts of the Imperial forces therefore themselves teeter on the edge of disaster. They may fight for the dead god emperor or for the forces opposed, depending on circumstances. Here lies the origin of the Belisimite personal army for Lord Commissar Vlod Belisimite.

There is still a bit to do :::

The command squad :-

Yes that's a meltagun next to the officer and the grenade launcher will also be metlagun in the near future.

Squad #1 - Sergeant with demolition charge, missile launcher and grenade launcher, shortly to be a meltagun.

Squad#2 - Missile launcher and grenade launcher, soon to be a meltagun.

Squad#3 - Heavy Bolter, and flamer.

Squad #4 - Heavy Bolter and flamer.


Evey mini in this platoon is a conversion as are all the minis in the next troop choices.

Second Troop Choice - Penal Legion Squad #1 -

Third Troop Choice - Penal Legion Squad #2 -

Finally the conscripts -

It is a dirty and dark millenium and Lord Commissar Vlod Belisimite needs a mini to encourage his personal redemption.

There is a bit to go with this one but hopefully it will be completed extra soon.

The 40k Universe is a Horrible Place or the Belisimite Dogs

The 40k future where there is only war to sustain humanity is a bleak and vile anti utopia, an idea germinated from the black future visions of the 1970s when it seemed that the world would shortly end in a nuclear holocaust. Yet when getting down to construct an army for the board killer lists abound with space marines, or chaos space marines or mechanised IG battle forces. The dark elements of the 40k Universe are sanitized out of the picture with the squeaky clean elite units of the Imperium. Yet billions of unknown souls toil hopelessly living in polluted hive cities to serve vast planet spanning industrial factories. The IG is essentially an infantry army using hordes of poorly equipped and trained guardsmen thrown into battle unprepared in the face of unpredictable threats as the elite forces of the imperium are stretched to respond to recognized attacks.

Hence one of my battle forces is the IG Belismite Dogs. Work started on this with the previous IG codex. I am slow I know . But today I feel it is getting close to shaping up. Here is a first picture of the grimy fluff.

There are 3 troop choices, and 2 elite choices, one HQ