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Howdy folks, as promised, here's that update. It's only a day or so late!

So, on the topic of the hairstyle, I would still love to hear your feedback, I forgot to mention the 4th option was a long braid, ala Rapunzel style. For the sake of conveniancy, I've included the topknot blut tacked onto the miniature to help you visualize it. Anyway, onto the topic at hand!

First things first, I cracked out the paints today and sat down to do some work on getting some of my team up to scratch. Bare metal, or simply undercoated will not do! So I started to get to work on the Henchmen part of the project. These guys and girls are not the heroic characters and personalities you see in the Inquisitors themselves, these are the poor sods whose job is to catch a bullet if it comes to that situation, and for me to get back into the swing of painting after a couple months break. I was fairly rusty when i started, but I quikcly got the knack of it, and even was fairly proud of my freehand attempts. So here is the gang so far:



Front and center we have a lovely Guardswomen, and to her right we have Huss's Feudal warrior. Both have now got the predominant base colours put down on them, and I'm starting on all the little details. Behind them we have (horribly hidden, but don't worry, there's better pictures below!) A pilot, a Veteran and a Skitarii, who I've only really started the basework on now.



As you can see, there's not much to look at at the moment, the pilot is going to have some dirty blue overalls, and the Skitarii is going to have bluey grey pallid skin.




The Feudal World Stormtrooper has the fabric finished, and I'm starting to add edge highlighting to his plate armour. I really am pleased with how he's coming along; he's a unique soldier, but the colours tie him visually in with Huss. My plan is to have black armour and cream clothes running through all his retinue to tie them in together. Whilst fiddling with the miniature, I freehanded some sergeants stripes onto his arm, but otherwise, there is stil lsome way to go before all the visual ties come together. I also want to considerable weather his armour, and dirty up his clothing. The idea behind this soldier is that he doesn't fear bullets, because his feudal world armour protects him adequately (that and probably some medieval indoctrination!), so he callously stands in the path of destruction more often than not. To emulate this I really want the front of his to be heavily scuffed and rusted, whereas his back will be less so.

Oh, and how should I paint his Metal Skull mask? I want it to contrast against the black of his armour, but I don't want to paint it bone.




This is the first time I've freehanded in a long time, and it was quite a big undertaking. However, I think it's turned out pretty well, though obviously it could do with some touch ups. I'm not sure whether I should continue the pattern on the inside of her cloak, or if I should paint it a different colour. What do you think anyway?



I am very bad at keeping my attention on any one model for any fixed period of time. It's a curse, as I have about 7 miniatures in the converting pile already, with maybe two dozen more ideas swimming around my head. So obviously, instead of working on these, I made a new miniature! This is my WIP of a Tau renegade. The way I see it, is that if a Tau abandons the Greater Good, and his allies, or for whatever reason, he gets cut off from resupply, he's going to have to fend for himself, and repair or replace his equipment as best as he can. With this in mind, I gave myself a go at building a Tau warrior, with only the few parts from a horribly mauled firewarrior found in my incursions to the Bits pile! I wanted to try and make it look like he has made do with what he can, trying to maintain his equipment with imperial substitutes.



Imperial issue armour and clothing, with the remnants of his shin armour strapped on, one of the few pieces from his old Fire Warrior Days. He's making home improvements to a headset too, to try and replicate the Tau design.

The miniature itself uses mostly Guard pieces, with the exception of his feet, which I managed to save, and a bit of the thigh. The head is converted from a zombies, and I think it has worked out fairly well. I plan to give him a sort of sash, or poncho, hence the greenstuff blob on his upper torso. I'm also toying with the idea of trying to 'Tau-ize' his armour a bit, but we'll see how that goes.



Heresy! Bastardized Tau Pulse Rifle and Lasgun. I'm planning on replacing the las battery with a plasma nodule or something similar, but I'm pretty happy with how it's going at the moment. Gosh I do like to tinker!




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Continuing onwards, here's how the lady Interrogator is progressing. I've pretty much figured out her loadout now, but her arms are blutacked on presently, for the sake of convenience, whilst I try to finish her corset and hair off.



I want to continue the radical/puritan conflict vibe across with her arms, which is why in one hand she is wielding a chainsword, a symbol of purity, and fanaticism, but in her other hand she's wielding witchfire, or chaotic magiks.



Another angle. The chainsword handle needs to be cut down, and a little more work done before I'm happy with it, but I really like her stance she's in currently. She's keeping the blade between her and her opponent, whilst dark energy coils around her fingertips. The way she's hiding it behind her kind of gives the image she's reluctant to use it, which conveys the conflict I'm trying to represent.



A friend pointed out there was nothing to 'power' her power armoured legs, so I added a small boiler/engine on her back, cut from a sentinel feul tank. I think it's small enough to not damage her silhouette, but large enough to satiate my desire for things to look just 'right'.


The topknot is still a maybe, I would love to hear your ideas, but what do you think of it currently? Better or worse than you expected?



On another bizarre update, I found use for the dark elf sorceress I bought a while back, by using her hand for my Interrogator, as their scale was very similar. I'm now left with an armless lass, and I've started to formulate the possibility of using it as a daemonhost? What do you think?



I'm thinking a deathmask or somesuch on her face, and her body covered in chains and purity scroll bindings. I really meant it when I said I had a bunch of miniatures on the go!


Possibly one of the most fiddly updates however, was getting my Inquisitor to sit in his goddamn grav-chair. In the end I had to forsake his upper legs, as there was no real way of getting them to sit, and I had to rebuild them with greenstuff.



Probably even more of a agitating development, I have lost the other shin. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do, but I'm thinking making a greenstuff mould of the other, and trying to print a replacement. It's a real pain though, because the other alternative, giving him a bionic leg or somesuch is really against the background i had in mind. If you have any ideas, I would gladly hear them, I'm a bit stuck.



Another angle. Notice the servo skull hidden laspistol. I like to think if negotiations aren't going to plan, the Inquisitor will shoot for kneecaps. It was extra fiddly getting a little jaw shaped piece of greenstuff around the barrel, but I think it gives it a really sinister vibe. It might be fairly impractical, but what's 40k if not impractical?!



The other Angle. He's leaning on the arm of the chair, a fortuitous conincedence with the positioning of the base model. It also made gluing him to the chair much, much easier. Notice the little parchment coming out of the side of the arm; possibly some readings of power in the chair, or some pointless logistics about grav-stability. Or, as my friend pointed out, bog roll for his floating toilet, which, seeing as this Inquisitor is crippled, and unable to stand by himself, fatefully, my friend might actually be right!

All in all, I hope you've liked my update today, and I eager await your responses on my few queries!

thanks,

Ghosty

I like your Lady Inquisitor there, topknot and everything it suits her pretty well.

Sorry for taking a while to reply, ghosty! I've been visiting a couple of friends over the weekend, so I am only getting around to all kinds of hobby related stuff now

That's quite an update, mate! Great job!

Here's my feedback:

- The left arm on the feral worlder looks quite a bit too long now that there's some paint on him. Sorry, didn't realise it before. I think the easiest way to fix it would be to cut off the arm below the armour plates on the model's left shoulder, then cut out the upper third or so (just above the folds in the fabric) and reattach.

- The rogue Tau is a pretty nifty idea! You did a great job on the face, and the cobbled-together look of the weapon is really cool as well!

- ah, the lady with the hairdo problems again While I think the topknot actually works rather well, my problem with it is that it doesn't make her look like an Interrogator or Inquisitrix, but rather like some kind of Death cult assassin or warrior acolyte. But that's just me. Still, if you wanted to play up the contrast between her puritan and radical tendencies, a more "ladylike" approach could work better. I stay by my earlier assessment that a long braid could work rather nicely. Oh, and don't replace the head with that of that resin miniature. The facial expression doesn't really fit the character as you have described it.

On a related note, that chainsword looks really awkward: In my opinion, the blade needs to be tilted upwards quite a bit to look natural. As it stands, it looks like the glue you used wasn't strong enough to keep it in place. Come to think about it, maybe you should give her a more slender sword. A shaved down Dark Elf corsair sword or the Baneblade tank commander's power sword might do the trick.

- I think the Dark Elf sorceress makes for a great daemonhost. Why not just use a parchment with an =][= symbol ro cover her face for that extra eerie japanese ghost look? Is her mouth open, btw? In that case, I'd just do something to cover her eyes. Or leave the eyes uncovered and add some vestigial horns to her forehead. In any case, the base model is pure gold for what you have in mind!

- the wheelchair bound Inquisitor has to be my absolute favourite by far! Fantastic job so far! Losing both the upper thighs and left shin are unfortunate, yet they should probably be easy enough to rebuild with a mix of plasticard and greenstuff. I agree that a bionic leg wouldn't work -- if he had augmentic replacements, why would he need a wheelchair in the first place?
In any case, you've got a true winner on your hands with the Inquisitor, and he should look really interesting alongside his more nimble Interrogator...

Anyway, hope this helps! Keep up the great work!

Loving the new figs - the skull-centurion guardsman stands out as my favorite- gotta be the head.

And as for the Lady Inquisitor - damn. Such a great idea, I wish I had the balls to try that out. She looks fantastic, and I'm definitely sold on the final product. Keep going, and definitely looking forward to her paintjob. Any ideas to the colors you're thinking of?

-Remi

Nice work! I'm a fan of the Interrogator lady, though I'm curious how the 'witchfire' is going to look once painted with the rest of the mini. I'm not sure how open the Dark Elf sorceress's mouth is open enough or not, but somehow the idea of it either spewing out more of that ethereal energy already around her, or locked in a scream perhaps, strikes me as appropriate for a daemonhost. Looking forward to seeing the finished product regardless.

Hey Folks! Time for another update today. My Easter break has almost come to an end (how quickly has it sped past!) so I decided I'd focus on trying to finish off as many little projects as I can before I head back to University. So you'll get to finally see some of the long term projects finally come to a finish today. I'm very pleased with how everything has come together. So without further ado, I give you:

High Inquisitor Balthazarr Vorst









Once a prolific and influential member of the Ordo Malleus, High Inquisitor Balthazarr Vorst fell from the high echelons of grace after he successfully managed something in his line of work that few others could boast; he got old. After spending hundreds of years in the service of the Emperor, and fighting the foul denizens of the warp a hundredfold times, what brought him low was the stigma attached to the old. Despite being a powerful Psyker, and once a great warrior, in his advanced age, he was seen unfit for field operations, and it was suggested he retire, something Vorst took as a personal insult. He continued his investigations, much to the chagrin of his younger peers, striving to recreate his glory days as a warrior of the Inquisition, but after each successful mission, he found himself pushed further away from the golden light of the Imperium. Orders from on high were projected out across the Imperium, commanding the Inquisition, the Imperial Guard, even the Astartes to deny any requests Vorst made, whether it resources, soldiers, or ships, in an attempt to annex him into admitting defeat. In turn, this isolation from the Imperium pushed Balthazarr to increasingly radical approaches in order to complete his missions, culminating in an attempt at binding a Daemon to a 'willing' supplicant, on a small Agri World somewhere near the Eastern Fringe. It was a disaster. The Daemon broke free during the binding ritual, destroying the original intended host, and began to wrack absolute chaos across the planet. The Daemon had been much more powerful than Balthazarr had intended, and indeed, in the few short minutes it was free in realspace, it turned the planet into a nightmare. Balthazarr however, was at peace. He found he had an opportunity to relive his glory days, and save a planet from doom and destruction. Following a great battle of wills, Vorst managed to banish the Daemon back to the warp, but not before it wracked Balthazarrs body, and chillingly, stole his shadow. Vorst has never recovered from the battle with the Daemon, his already old body had been withered and ruined, and his mind almost ripped asunder. However, in a terrifying development, several days later, his shadow reappeared. But it was... different. Sometimes in the corner of his eye, he could see it moving independently, long fingers reaching for his throat...
The shadow creature is bound to Vorst, and nothing Vorst can do will remove it. He fled the planet shortly after, leaving it a place of devilish insanity for the Inquisition to mop up. He was unsurprisingly declared heretic, and now has the forces of the Ordo Hereticus in pursuit of him. But Vorst is wily in his age, and has escaped capture several times. He now operates in the furthest reaches of the galaxy, in dodgy backwaters of ill repute, trying to free himself from his damnable shadow, and keeping questionable company.

I've finally finished him! Horrendously, the last bits of making his arm was possibly the most fiddly part of the miniature, but I am glad he is finally complete. He looks a bit angry, doesn't he? Please give me feedback on him, he's been a bit of a mission to finally finish. Now to undercoat, and get him painted up!

Really cool, great pose and character. Is the chair going to be hovering like 90s Xavier or will you put wheels or tracks on it? If hovering I suggest some sort of more obvious propulsion, some crude jets or something maybe.

Really like the fluff as well

 Bruticus wrote:
Really cool, great pose and character. Is the chair going to be hovering like 90s Xavier or will you put wheels or tracks on it? If hovering I suggest some sort of more obvious propulsion, some crude jets or something maybe.

Really like the fluff as well

It is a hover chair! There actually is an anti gravity propulsion pad on the base of the chair, built from the sentinel flood light. I think it looks fairly convincing, especially when it'll be painted all blue and glowey.

Thanks for the compliments! Your blog has been very inspirational; I love todays update with the Arbite!

I really like the wheelchair guy! I would personally would make him look more connected to the veichle, maybe with some kind of life-support device.

Ghosty he is nice. Your GSing is getting better and better all the time. He looks like a right grumpy sod.

If I were to suggest one thing is there are not enough wires connecting him to his chair. Of course I just have a thing for wires in the back of peoples heads!

Hi again guys, really appreciating the feedback, so keep it rolling in!

@PDH/Karrock: I toyed around a bit with wiring earlier in the project. He has a tube running down by his spine feeding into his collar. I'm not sure how much more I want to add to him, for fear it will obscure the back of the seat, which I plan to paint sweat stained. Still, I'll pull up some wiring and see if I cant make it look like he's more attached to the chair. I also planned on having a small oxygen mask and canister built onto his chair, in case he came into a situation where there was low oxygen/ had breathing difficulties. Would that work do you think?

Great great fluff, man. "High Inquisitor Balthazarr Vorst fell from the high echelons of grace after he successfully managed something in his line of work that few others could boast; he got old." Such a wonderful line. Also like how the very Imperium he used to fight for just started to shun him and force him to extremes left on his own.

And crazy how you took the standing model and put him in a wheelchair. Can't wait to see this guy finished and painted.

-Remi

Well, like I said earlier, that Inquisitor is a true standout piece! Fantastic job! I also really like the fluff!

As for the model, I love how you've managed to make the legs look atrophied and useless: The loss of his left leg seems to have been a fortunate development, after all!

While I probably wouldn't add that much cabling to him (I really like how he's leaning forward in the chair!), I think the chair itself could use some more purity seals and other doodads. And maybe a servo skull floating over his left shoulder, attached by its dangling cables to the chair itself?

Anyway, great model! Keep up the great work!

Hello Ghosty

I love the work you've done with the Kroot, those Kroot juves are a really nice compliment to your 'counts as' team. I am hoping to work out some form of counts as Necro team too at some point, so will continue watching this thread for inspiration there.

Your green stuffing has improved throughout your thread, your latest figs are very slick! I have a soft spot for the renegade Tau but that's probably because I dislike goody two shoes Tau ;P

Keep up the good work, looking forward to the continuing painting!

Hey folks, sorry for not an immediate update, I've been bereft of all motivation to work on my miniatures, let alone post. My personal life has got a bit hectic again, and I might not be able to post with such frequency I would like to. on top of this, I have University starting up in again in a few days, and it's exam season, so any and all posts will be few and far between sadly. Still, let's not go out without a bang, eh? I present to you:

Interrogator Caitlyn 'Benedice'

Who started as this:



And ended up as this:







Under the sway of the Imperiums great reach, there are thousands of planets that have been industrialized, and of these, there are hundreds which the 'marvels' of the Imperiums technology have not yet reached. Indeed, on such planets, there is little civilization past the token garrison in the planets main, or only city. But despite such backwards lifestyles, it cannot be denied that those who live in these worlds are far from disorganized. Some planets work on a feudal basis, not unlike ancient Terras origins, others are little more than nomadic tribes vying to survive, following great herds of wild cattle across epic continental grasslands, or fish at the coasts. Such planets normally raise hardy men and natural warriors, the best of whom are taken in yearly conscriptions for the Imperial Guard, or rarely, few are chosen for the great honor of becoming a sky-warrior.

One such planet, a backwater near the tau/imperium conflict zone on the Eastern Fringe, Caitlyn was born into the world by her tribes Witch Doctor. At birth, it was already noted that she was...special. A natural born Psyker, Caitlyn quickly learnt to use her powers freely, without the constraints of the Imperiums interference. Such was the way of life on her planet, and under the tutelage of the tribes elders, she honed her skills. It was then that the Imperium arrived in force. Her Planet was decided to be of major tactical importance as a bulwark against the foul xenos incursions. In a few short years, the great open plains were turned to a network of trench systems and bunkers, mountains became bastions, and the seas were laced with mines. The lifestyles of her people were forever changed. That planets populace was quickly conscripted into arms, whilst the young were forcibly taught the light of the imperium, and their 'superstitious nonsense' was beaten out of them in hastily erected monasteries overseen by the strict guidance of the Adeptus Sororitas.

It's all I've got for the moment. I'm gonig to try and work out the kinks a bit more with her background and her look, and hopefully get her undercoated before I leave. What do you think?

Here's the progress of the Nurgle Lord. I want him to look nice and unhealthy, without going into the 'Nurgles Rot' spectrum, so I've washed him with a pale blue, and a red; he looks nice and gross! Also, now he's got some paint on him, you can see more of the detail and work that's gone into this miniature! I hope you like him! And a question for you guys: Do you think he should have some form of Tattooing? I'm a little nervous I admit to try and paint freehand, especially onto his skin, which the recipe was a nightmare to produce, but I think he could look really nice, and it'd break up an otherwise large area of skin. I was thinking either some Imperial style tattoo, or maybe a tribal design?



Little has changed to my Feudal Trooper, other than I'm reworking what I want him to be wielding; I felt currently the retinue he is part of is a bit limited to short ranged weaponry, so I've decided to swap his shotgun out to a longer ranged weapon. He's got his metal painted now, and then it'll be onto the finishing touches!






(Apologies for the hair) She's also looking like she'll be finished this weekend, I'm just considering what colour I will paint her trousers? She has no affiliation to a warband (being just an NPC) so she can have just standard camo? I'm not sure, I'd love some advice!


Here comes my Skitarii! He's a developed conversion, here he is prepaint, and then, here's the progress I've made. I've largely been tinkering only with his skin, I was torn between lifeless skin, and a more healthy colour. In the end, the Ogryn Flesh wash made my mind up for me, but I'm happy with how it came out. It makes the rends in his skin pop more.






Finally, here's my Pilot. He's nothing special, and currently is in Limbo between being just an NPC, and a memeber of a retinue. He's fairly boring, so I don't think he should stay in center of the limelight. Also, white, is horrible to paint.




I hope you've enjoyed my little post on my progress. This is largely for PDH, who I'm sure has lost sleep over how reluctant I am to pick up a paintbrush Anyway, once this batch is finished, I'll move onto the next group, who'll likely include my Interrogator, and the Wheelchair Inquisitor! Until next time, feedback will be greatly appreciated!

I enjoyed it

Nice paintjobs. I like the skitarii, and the nurgle lord. His skin is done really well, since you've chosen not to go with nurgle's rotten skin.

Although white is hard to paint, I think you've done a great job on the pilot. Especially his helmet is done good IMO

Hi everyone, so after a bit of an extended hiatus, I've found time to return to the hobby, at least for a bit. I also have high hopes to potentially continue this blog into my 3rd year, but we will have to wait and see. For those of you who've kept up with my endeavors so far will be acutely aware of how sporadic I am at posting, due to a dreadful combination of a high workload in term times, and the infrequency of the motivation I need to continue. Anyway, I am rambling on about this and that when I'm sure you have come to see pretty pictures. And, for once, I think I can deliver!

You see, whilst I've not posted for a while, I have when the mood has stricken me, picked up the paintbrush or the sculpting tools, and tinkered. Before I quite realized it, it has occurred to me that I have quite a lot to show you. So, let's get to it!



Let's start off simple. Remember this guy? He was the founder of my little Inq28 hobby, the first one I made, and by far my favorite piece. I'm thinking of changing up his storyline perhaps; maybe not his overall goals, but definitely his backstory. Anyway, I snapped a new photo of him for your pleasure, but there's nothing new here. Moving on!



Remember where we started?





How far we've progressed! the paintjob is still in progress, but I definitely think she's coming close to being finished. Whereas Huss (my first guy up top) was my first serious foray into sculpting, Caitlyn here is a showcase of my current skills. I'm very happy with her, and I'm trying to do her justice with a nice paintjob. I feel the subtleties of her face have been lost in a poor photo, but Ive taken care to not give her hard highlights, and have instead gone with a softer approach of careful blending. I then gave her eyebrows and a soft pink shad for her lips, and I think it's come out to a degree of success. There's still some work to go; I need to paint up her mini reactor for her power armored leggings, and her corset needs a lot of work, but I'm pretty excited with how she's coming along. Moving on!





Two minor NPCs are looking to be pretty much finished. The Pilots skin needs to be finished, but i cant imagine that will take long, and the vet. will need his binoculars painted, but that is for another day. The Pilot (boy in blue) is really not that interesting, and I cant see him ever being so, but I took the time to spice him up with a little wing motif on his back, to associate him with his occupation. It's a little rough and ready, but he's only a minor npc. The Veteran, who I'm sure you will agree looks pretty unhinged was great fun to paint. I think the warpaint really gave this guy his backstory. I imagine he was saved, or witnessed some great feat from a Space Marine of the Legion of the Damned, and decided to emulate them as best he could. I'm pleased with how these two both turned out, and I hope you like them! Moving on!





The Tech-boxer is now in his final stages too. I need to paint his steel stomach on his back, but I've not decided quite how I want to do it yet. Ideally I'll pick up some new paints, and have some fun with him. The only other thing I want to do to him is give him a big tattoo on his shoulder, but I'm too chicken to give it a go just yet. I might try a transfer, what do you guys think? I'd also like to write something on the metal bar across his left gauntlet, but I have come up with no ideas yet. If you have one, feel free to let me know! Something short, but preferably not cliche is best. Moving on!





Do you remember this fellow? Well, he's gotten a bit more attention.





He is almost finished. The metal needs a final highlight, and the black needs a sharp highlight across the board. I also need to repeat the checkered pattern across his hood. Joyous days. He's part of a mechanicus sub faction, hence the weird, non red robing, but I think it looks really striking. Armor will be a dark red (similar to her Jerkin) and the checker pattern is dependent on standing within the faction. As we can see with this one.





Similar style, red armor, white and black half and half. He is one of the lowest ranking members, as can be seen by his lack of tech. and the solid white, as opposed to a checker. He's attached to a retinue as the executioner, hence the huge scalloped axe, for those moments where the Inquisitor has no time to dish out obscure and elaborate punishments. I really enjoyed the bestial skull face, and I'm proud to say I stole the idea from members of this forum! I think it gives him a real lack of humanity, which aids him in seeming sinister, despite his size. If I hadn't previously mentioned, he's quite short! Moving on, slowly and surely.



Just a quick look in here. My Imperial Operative is very WIP. I'm just trying to sort out the plain black areas on him before moving on with new colours. Not too exciting, so let's move on.




Who remembers this guy?! The concept was great; I really love it, and I've not given up on him yet, but I decided I wanted a different base model for him. So what could I do with the remaining parts? the answer, of course, is to build a big bounty hunter.







All attitude, no nonsense. Still an early PIP, but I'm excited with where he's going. I'm thinking his skull mask with be red, but chipped all to hell. Added bonuses include a mohawk, a chest mounted light, and a custom bolter built from a vindicare rifle. As for his backstory, I have none, except that I think he might be a former miner, to explain his chestlight and the various canisters on his back. If you have any ideas, feel free to throw them my way! Moving onwards.



Wrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy!





I present an update to my Eversor Assassin. I know many people are not a fan of the concept of an Eversor in Inquisitor, due to their menacing 'kill everything and everyone' attitude towards life, but I just couldn't resist. He's a very late stage WIP, but he's not made it to basecoat yet due to his incredible ability to fall apart (those fingers are very brittle) in the slightest breeze. I really need to reinvest in a Pinvice drill, though that would not cure the fingers! As for a backstory, I think he's possibly a very, very knackered Eversor. Afterall, all four limbs are at least partially replaced with Bionics, and his chest is very lean. What do you guys think?

I have two more pieces to show, my basically finished Daemonhost, and a Naval Commissar, but I'll snap some better photos of them tomorrow. I hope you have enjoyed reading through, and I eagerly await feedback!

Hi everyone, I promised I'd follow up today, and if I'm anything, it's consistent... ah, who am I kidding, ON TO THE PICTURES.



He's trying to get 'ahead' of the competition heh heh heh. Sorry. So this headless fellow has been an absolute nightmare to make from the get-go. My original intention was to simply to remove the arms from the old metal Commissar, and give him a shotgun. What quickly transpired was that I am terrible at sawing, and that it's oh to easy to ruin a miniature. It was a damn shame as well, whilst the base model wasn't the prettiest ever, he served my old Imperial Guard army as it's leader for a long time, and leaving him broken and bent seemed a poor end. So, I gave another bash at him.





He is obviously in a WIP stage still, but I think he's shaping up well. Let's do an in depth look at the bits. He has old Commissar legs, I do believe it's circa rogue trader era (or thereabouts) Imperial Guard Torso, renegade Enforcer arms, and a chaos knight fist. He's still waiting on his head, but I haven't found one I'm satisfied with. I feel he has to have a commissar one to tie him together visually.

The concept is he is, or used to be a Naval Commissar, whose duties were to patrol the densely packed Bowels of the Starships ensuring that all the Crew kept in line. I also, though I cannot recall where I read about it, remember reading about how Priests would work their way through the ship during Warp Travel giving comfort to the crew, but also keeping an eye out for Daemonic Possession. It was a very cool theme, and one that has stuck with me. I like to think that whilst the crew obviously hate and fear him, they are also glad of his presence when Jenkins starts to twitch.

I really wanted him to be heavily armored, akin to a voidborn, and I think that's really worked out. Lots of plate to protect him, and a huge shotgun to give as good as he gets.

I hope you like him, we shall see the Daemonhost this afternoon perhaps!

Anyway, let's show you a little bit of what I've been working on recently, as it's come to my attention that I think I've just crossed the threshhold of having more figures painted (or at least basecoated) than i do in the modelling phase.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is my Daemonhost.













Sorry for a little bit of a picture spam. My idea is she'll be something akin to a battle sister, or a female of a similar position, that my Radical Inquisitor has used as a host for his Daemon, in the hopes that her Holy soul would go some way towards aiding him in controlling the beast within. It's obviously worked too effectively, as the Daemon cannot stand to be in her, but cannot leave due to the binding. It has become a fearsome aura of darkness that coils around her, desperately trying to corrupt her soul to allow itself purchase within. To this end, the hose has been blinded in an attempt to alleviate her from the evils darting before her eyes at least.

I'm very happy with her, and I cant wait to get down to painting. What do you think?

Oh, and I mentioned earlier today that I was trying to work on a pure villain, for despite the intensely radical nature of my wheelchair Inquisitor, he still believes he is working towards good. Plus, I wanted some kind of Super Villain/common enemy all my Inquisitors would face.



He/it is very WIP, as I'm trying to find a way to convey how I imagine him. I want him to be very mechanical in nature, whilst trying to pull away from the Necron base miniatures look. I'll see what you guys say before I do anymore to him, but I am excited to see how he comes together.

Thanks for looking guys, I hope to hear some lovely feedback!

Nice work throughout Ghosty! I really like the villain guy- has a bit of a General Grievous look at the moment. That's the old Necron Pariah mini as the base, right?

Edit- Also cool to see the before/after with Caitlyn. Always fun to see the evolution of the mini/character over time.

Thanks! Yes it is based on the Pariah; I really loved those miniatures, but only ever picked up the one before they were discontinued.

Grievous eh? My next update will definitely help that likeness. It's funny though, over on AmmoBunker, everyone thinks he looks like Dr Doom.

I'm okay with both likenesses.

Definitely Doctor Doom with the green hood and silver face. The new bounty hunter and eversor are looking great.

Hi everyone! It's been a hectic week or two, and I haven't had much time to make some meaningful progress on anything yet. Instead I'm going to pick your brains a little bit for some ideas for my villain.So, I've made a little progress on Dr Doom (The nickname seems to be sticking) but I want to wait until he's put together to show him off. The biggest issue at the moment is trying to make him look less like a Necron. What I enjoy the most about the Pariah miniature is that it has it's own distinct flavour on the Necron theme, but it still ties in visually. This however, has become a bit of a pain when it comes to making my Dr Doom seem unique.

The Answer I'm coming up with currently is bare arms showing off musculature, and perhaps a pair of small horns. Afterall, horns shouldn't just be restricted to the followers of Chaos. As for what he is; I want it to be deliberately ambiguous (part of the reason behind the cyborg body) but if he ever was a human, he left that behind a long time ago. There's definitely going to be hints of him being possibly Eldar, certain visual cues, but it's not going to be easy to ascertain whether or not he was once a space elf, or whether he simply has an interest in their trinkets.

As for background, I still haven't come up with a good name for him yet, and it's very shaky, but the idea is that he's like a local scourge of a collection of planets, but due to him keeping a low profile, he has largely escaped the retribution of an organized authority. No one, apart from himself, seems to know what his ultimate goal seems to be, as he seemingly acts in a random and chaotic manner; on one planet he may be instigating a small scale revolt in a mining town over the wages paid, and on another he may be carefully micromanaging a small tradepost to become a large and profitable organization. Some planets he may introduce a large and dangerous creature to the ecosystem, just to see what would occur, and on others he will simply raid and pillage, taking slaves and butchering livestock. It is due to this random anarchy that he has managed to avoid a large-scale investigation on him, as his actions seem to be those of a madman, not a mastermind. It is only Inquisitor Huss and Inquisitrix Caitlyn who believe otherwise, seeing these random acts as part of an intricate web with an ultimate goal in mind, and in a rare occurrence of co-operation, these two young agents of the Imperium have pooled their resources to try and prevent it coming to fruition.

He's not aligned with chaos, so it'll be unlikely you'll ever see him summoning in a daemon of chaos, but he will have a considerable amount of bad guys at his disposal. I'm currently trying to work out how to make a Loxatl.

Anyway, I'd love for you all to give me some feedback on a name for him, background ideas/alterations and maybe some ideas to help me change him convincingly away from the Necron Aesthetic.

Also, as a last tidbit, I was trawling the itnernet today, and I came across someone familiar...

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/406379566349537741/

Someone has pinned one of my miniatures! Which is lovely to see, of course, and hopefully people'll take more interest in my thread! Thanks guys!