What's your favourite way to represent a commissar? In particular when the commissar is attached to something that's commissar model unfriendly such as a bombard or a vulture?

Paint it black!  *laugh*

Or, at least, a black stripe/marking.

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I've seen several people pop commisar models on small coins or other marker and then simply place it next to/on the base of whatever it is the character is being added to.
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Agreed, cut a base in half, stick the Commissar in the centre of 3. Paint up.

Just put him next to the unit in the formation.

A lot easier and cheaper than having spare Guard, Leman Russ, Shadowswords, etc painted in Commissar colours.

I have command stands with and without commissars and a few spare tanks and vehicles with commissars included,but I also have 8 mini round stands of commissars to put on/next to vehicles when I'm at a tournament.

All my tanks are numbered in roman numbers. And my commissars allways join the "I" marked tanks.
And for infantry, I put my commissars in the commander unit.

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Round my way we play with 1 Commissar per 500pts, so you can model your army and plan exactly how many commissars to have, that way Commissars can always be modeled on / the tank painted appropriately.

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We use a stand of 5 Commissars and purchase Commissars based on SM2 ...  And on some Command stands I have a commissar figure. If you paint the figure in ... say a Tan Coat and hat ... he's just a commander ...  

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I prefer the coin method;  here's half my Commissars:

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For infantry I made command stands both with and without Commissars included.  Commissar Leman Russ is black with Commissar in commander's hatch.  The Commissar on seperate coin attached to a particular unit works well too.

For other vechicles if you don't want to paint or model them specifically for the Commissar, it's simple enough to drill a small hole hole in the hull or turret that is just large enough for a straight pin.  Paint up an appropriate Commissariate flag attached to straight pin and mark the vehicle that way.  The flag is removable whan not occupied by a Commissar.

For my infantry I have extra (basic inf) stands with and without Commisars to show them attached to the unit, and I have a Leman Russ modeled up to have a Comissar sticking out of it.

I'll probably mount Commisars to coins or small washers to represent the remaining "floating" commisars however.

For E:A ... I think that's a good solution J9er8.    I guess you could do the same for Chaps, Libs, etc. ...

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I am using the 1/500 pts rule as well. Makes it easy to plan when you start assembling. So far, I have only painted commissars for my companies, which will all have one, but I plan on building small dioramas that can be placed next to artillery or other pieces.

Infantry Company Commander with Commissar:


Leeman Russ with Commissar (tank also painted in black->shadow grey rather than adeptus->stone wall grey):


Plain Guardsman with Commissar (leading the left file):


/Fredmans

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1/500 points for me too.

So Commissar models hanging out of Leman Russ etc similar to above.

Great work on those by the way Fredman

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