Retro Caidans
When I first started collecting my IG army started with some of the plastic guys and after building them and giving them thier base coat I got a great deal on some metal cadians. Well I liked these guys a lot so I decided to sale off my plastics and get a whole army worth of the little metal guys.
After a bunch of ebaying and tradeing locally I ended up with several hundred of the little guys. Well it quickly became apparent to me that I had to figure out a way to seperate these guys in to platoons/squads. My first idea was to simply have a seperate group for each squad but that got out of hand quickly.
So about a month a go I had the idea of just breaking them down into 4 platoons which would take care of 2 troop choices for 2 FOC's than I had to decide on how many Infantry Squads I needed. Than it occured to me that I needed to account for if I didnt want to run platoons and wanted to run.
So after much reflection here is the scheme I came up with.
Basicly I came up with the following
4 Company Command Squads (Gold Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 10 models painted
Company Commander
4 vets with Plasmaguns
Eventually I plan to paint up some standard bears, advisors, vox-casters, medics and the like.
4 Platoon Command Squads (Silver Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 36 models painted
Platoon Commander
4 Basic Infantry Men
as an alternative choice I have
3 Flamers & 1 Heavy Flamer painted up for 2 sqauds
4 Melta Guns painted up for the other 2 sqauds
Eventually I plan to paint up some snipers and maybe a vox-caster, maybe some other options but not sure yet.
For the Platoons I decided to go with 3 infantry Squads for each. I also decided that these squads will also double for Vet Squads. This meant that I need to make a bunch of extra special weapon guys for them. I will have 4 color schemes and for each I will use a light, mid range and a dark tone for the colors.
First Platoon (Green Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 45 models painted
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a flamer or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra flamers including a catachan heavy flamer. Some day I hope to get some snipers or grenade launcher guys to use as alternatives.
Second Platoon (Brown Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 51 models painted
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra plasma and melta guns.
Third Platoon (Blue Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 42 models
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra plasma guns I started to run out of models at this point also didnt thing I would need more than this.
Fourth Platoon (White/Grey/Black Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 42 models
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra melta guns I started to run out of models at this point also didnt thing I would need more than this.
I also have a painted up Marbo.
To finish off the infantry portion of this army I also have 60-70 Heavy Weapon teams which I still need to color cordinate with these 4 platoons so I can mix them in if I watned to.
I haven't even reached my tanks. Frist goal is to paint up the infatry guys than tanks than specil squads like storm troopers, psyckesand the like.
Pictures will follow. Each command squad, platoon and any special characters will get thier own posting with pics. This is just a general break down.
So after much reflection here is the scheme I came up with.
Basicly I came up with the following
4 Company Command Squads (Gold Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 10 models painted
Company Commander
4 vets with Plasmaguns
Eventually I plan to paint up some standard bears, advisors, vox-casters, medics and the like.
4 Platoon Command Squads (Silver Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 36 models painted
Platoon Commander
4 Basic Infantry Men
as an alternative choice I have
3 Flamers & 1 Heavy Flamer painted up for 2 sqauds
4 Melta Guns painted up for the other 2 sqauds
Eventually I plan to paint up some snipers and maybe a vox-caster, maybe some other options but not sure yet.
For the Platoons I decided to go with 3 infantry Squads for each. I also decided that these squads will also double for Vet Squads. This meant that I need to make a bunch of extra special weapon guys for them. I will have 4 color schemes and for each I will use a light, mid range and a dark tone for the colors.
First Platoon (Green Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 45 models painted
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a flamer or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra flamers including a catachan heavy flamer. Some day I hope to get some snipers or grenade launcher guys to use as alternatives.
Second Platoon (Brown Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 51 models painted
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra plasma and melta guns.
Third Platoon (Blue Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 42 models
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra plasma guns I started to run out of models at this point also didnt thing I would need more than this.
Fourth Platoon (White/Grey/Black Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 42 models
Each squad consits of the following:
1 Seargent
8 Basic Infantry Men
1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra melta guns I started to run out of models at this point also didnt thing I would need more than this.
I also have a painted up Marbo.
To finish off the infantry portion of this army I also have 60-70 Heavy Weapon teams which I still need to color cordinate with these 4 platoons so I can mix them in if I watned to.
I haven't even reached my tanks. Frist goal is to paint up the infatry guys than tanks than specil squads like storm troopers, psyckesand the like.
Pictures will follow. Each command squad, platoon and any special characters will get thier own posting with pics. This is just a general break down.
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