91st Steel Legion "Desert Vultures" Ready for Battle

I am the proud owner of a fully painted Steel Legion army. With a little help from my friend I have 78 Steel Legion troops painted. I am overwhelmed with joy. The models are beautifully painted to high standard and I just need to gloss and dullcote them. They will look amazing on the table. I need to buy a few more Steel Legion troops to round out my 91st Desert Vultures, brave defenders of Helsreach during the Third War for Armageddon. I was thinking that my Steel Legion list would have no veterans. It will probably come out at 2500 points of:

CCS with plasma guns in chimeras Platoons in chimeras Stormtrooper squad Psyker battle squad Basilisks Ogryns with commissar

At least some flavorful like that. There's more though! I need more plasmagun steel legion troops for that added boom. I will probably convert some vox and flamer steel legion at some point. This is not an immediate concern yet. I will be converting some plastic warhammer fantasy ogres into Ogryns and empire flagellants into pysker battle squads. It'll will bring a whole new feel to my imperial guard inventory. In due time though.

Now concerning my 506th Elysian Drop Troop Regiment I have some serious thinking to due. I painted them so lazy. It is a tragedy in creativity. I will remedy this by building on what I have done with the color scheme and having my friend help me fix the colors to be sharper. I am thinking a tad more camo browns and greens. This will kill the underwhelming grey some of my Elysians suffer on their armor. My best conversion idea yet is to use space marine scout bikes with Elysian troops to be my rough riders as I am not crazy about the rough rider model selection so far. This will look awesome and it will allow me to run an Elysian army on a tournament table top.

I am excited to finish painting my inventory of Imperial Guard. I have 36 Elysians to build before I can finish them. I might re-paint my chimeras and other tanks at some point. I want to simplify the tanks' colors to help represent dirt and grime better. So many ideas, so little time and money! Pictures of the 91st Steel Legion "Desert Vultures" coming soon.