Rogue Trader Imperial Guard Project – More Pictures of 1989th

Humans, Ogryns, Warhammer 40K

This is just a quick round up of the project.

Painted squads first:

 

Comm Link and Sargent

Catachan Pattern Comm Link and Sargent

Flamer and "Corporal" in center (for splitting the squad)

“Corporal” in center (for splitting the squad), also Flamer Guy toting a Cadian pattern flamer

 

Command Squad: 13th Company 3rd Platoon

Command Squad: 13th Company 3rd Platoon

Ogryn with Ogryn Badass

Ogryn with Ogryn Badass

 

Works in progress.  These are pretty much test models for squads I am planning on adding to the force:

WIP Rough Rider - Front

WIP Rough Rider – Front Left

 

WIP Rough Rider Sargent Front Right

WIP Rough Rider Sargent Front Right

WIP Rough Rider - Rear

WIP Rough Rider – Rear

 

Necromunadan Grenadier - Front

WIP Necromunadan Grenadier – Front

Necromunadan Grenadier - Rear

WIP Necromunadan Grenadier – Rear

 

Jump Pack Assault Sargent  with Plasma Pistols - Front

WIP Jump Pack Assault Sargent with Plasma Pistols – Front

WIP Jump Pack Assault Sargent  with Plasma Pistols - Rear

WIP Jump Pack Assault Sargent with Plasma Pistols – Rear

 

5 thoughts on “Rogue Trader Imperial Guard Project – More Pictures of 1989th

    1. Jetpack, or is it a rocket based version of a grav chute?

      Thanks for the feedback cheerfulmeerkat. I will do up a 10 man squad of these jet packers soon.

      They guy with the jetpack is based off:

      So we see here what appears to be a marine backpack used as a jump pack. Note that in the early days most every marine could get a jump pack in the army lists, so most people just assumed that they were jump packs which they probably were not. According to the 1st Edition RT book diagramm the marine backpack housed the temperature regulator, air purificator, and reserve air tanks. The bottom set of vents seem to be listed as exhaust pipes and the top two are listed as stabalising jets.

      Personally I think it more likely that the backpack was supposed to provide thrust for zero gravity operations, it is clearly designed to jet gas from a variety of vent ports from the back. Note the design similarity of the bottom vents to the vents in the most famous (and Brittish) vectored air vehicle of the era, the Harrier:

      So we have two big jets for thrust and lots of small vents for vectored thrust which sounds plausible enough for a sci-fi figure design.

      So one can imagine that this Imp Guard version of a jump pack could well be an STC variant of the marine backpack zero gravity thruster system.

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