A few more Legions Imperialis models from the period between October-December 2025, though they are also the last ones to show for awhile (until I finish another batch). This time we have some Solar Auxilia aka Imperial Guard aka Imperial Army, depending on your own GW vintage & experience. As with the last post, these are 3D prints from some STL files I’ve had for years, and so while they don’t precisely match the new, more “dripping in trim” look that GW has given their LI SA kits, they work well enough for me. These ones are just from a different Forgeworld.

These photos turned out a fair bit more saturated than the models are in hand. I was using Marouda’s new phone camera to see how it goes. They are in fact painted in the same kind of Desert Yellow that my Afrika Korps forces are painted in.

The historically-minded amongst you may have noticed some of the markings look a little familiar. Indeed, the paint scheme of these tanks is a mixture of DAK, 8th Army and “40k/HH”. The desert yellow is, as noted ripped from my DAK scheme. The tank platoon numbers are also from German WWII decal sets.

On the opposite hand, the Platoon markings (Squares, Circles, later on – Triangles and Diamonds) as well as the AOS markings (numbers in squares) and the “Desert Rats” Divisional Insignia. The hull stripes were a marking used by the British Tank Corps during WWI and part of WWII, notably in Operation Crusader in the desert war. It’s a distinguishing mark that GW used as inspiration for their own tank schemes from the early days of their plastic Imperial Guard kits, so it fits both “slots”.

I ummed and ahhhed about adding chipping weathering to these as I do with my WWII tanks. In the end I decided against it for the time being, as there’s going to be a lot of tanks that are a lot smaller then these in the future, and I can always go back and add it to these later on.