My Little Guardspony: Friendship is Grimdark

[TenthSpeedWriter]

And not the sad, scary kind of grimdark; the gritty, retro-sci-fi, incurably badflank kind.

An idea struck me while looking at models the other day for the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40k. I wanted to make a squad of Rough Riders -- mounted dragoon style cavalry. (Yes, in the 41st millennium. Cavalry in space, shu'up.) Unfortunately, the riders and mounts together were heinously priced; so, I thought...

Who needs Rough Riders, when you have a posse of badflank ponies bringing the friendship and/or fury of the God-Empress? >

It turns out, your average pony figure fits just right on a Games Workshop cavalry base. I also happened to have a nauseating amount of hobby paints and 40k bits laying around...

Thus, an abomination of a project was born.

[TenthSpeedWriter]

We start with APPLEJACK!

My first endeavor shall be to gird dear Applejack in the wargear of the legendary Cadian infantry. The theme is khaki with olive armor plating.

Here she is dressed in the aforementioned khaki. You may notice that she doesn't have a hat. It didn't occur to me until I had left the store that she didn't come with one, and that makes me unhappy. AJ without a hat is sad AJ in any millennium.

AJ after her last coat of khaki and some gentle highlights, along with my trusty hobby knife and some select, primer-coated bits.

And here she is put together. This is her mean side, you see.

And, of course, her "soft" side. Soft being a relative term.

http://www.canterlot.com/uploads/gallery/album_177/gallery_774_177_83062.jpg

Ta-da!

Now with camo markings and a chainsword.

She just needs her hair done and a cutie mark stand-in.