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Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/14 13:47:40


Post by: Llamahead


"It is with a very heavy heart I report a rise in cult activity on Ladysmith. I hate these cults since one devestated my homeworld of beloved Aglia and my master Inquisitor Giuseppe Stone declared it Extremis Diablo and delivered it's death sentences. However with the foul mininons portals already active everything I knew had been destroyed. My name is Eron Camer and I have the honour to be the notary for the Conclave of Hrin composing of my master the dire, fell but fair and courteous Inquisitor Giuseppe Stone, the deadly and beautiful Inquisitor Gabrielle Cain and the dreadful manipulator Inquisitor Chirax von Grimme. I will start with a description of the varying agents of the Inquisition here I may as well start with myself. I am fortunate to be gifted with a trusted servitor to hold and carry for me the little thing who I call Gofer is a useful blighter although he appears to be developing intelligence and humour. I should tell my master but can't quite bring myself to as he would probably blame Daemonic corruption or hand Gofer over to the Adeptus Mechanicus and as he's the last Aglian alive along with myself I don't want to lose him. I would say the next most noticeable thing about me is my harpoon, its an old one for Nonopod hunting from my beloved homeworld another lost relic of Aglia. I also keep with me my records of home the last of my world. My master understands this desire and does not correct it even though all records of Aglia were ordered destroyed. He also still has nightmares over it and the guilt still wracks him a rare note of humanity in such a man" Notary Eron Camer 42010.

The model is Orhain the Erudite from Confrontation and will usually be counted as a Sage and Mystic. The head comes form a Cadian Guardsman mainly as I couldn't find his head when I rebased him. Thinking about it I should detail another base for these two for games.
Don't be fooled when dealing with Arbitrator Tremaine and his dog Buster while they may look like backwater yokels who can't grasp modern technology these 2 make a fell and deadly team. Buster seems able to detect the smell of Chaos a mile off and unlike most hounds rather than cowering it just makes him angry. Between them they led my master to the stronghold of the Cult of Flower Voices and survived the fight when countless fell. That was a grim victory where many brave servants of the Imperator lost their lives although the master banished the fiends they summoned by pure force of faith and high explosives. Since their service was so exemplary my master recruited them from Ancelot and they joined his retinue. Notary Eron Camer 42010


The model is the Cadwallon Mastiff handler on an Urban 40k base.

Right an explanation for this project. While I'm not a good painter I've been inspired by both the Inquisimunda stuff and my old backlog of Rackham Confrontation miniatures to create 3 Inquisitorial retinues for 40k. This will mainly involve rebasing and remodelling several models. I'll also put some background up for each model when made.The plan is this background will tie in with the setting of Ladysmith and Sector 7G I'm creating as a writing exercise. Several of these models have already been painted although I may decide to repaint some of them. Here's the brief overview of the warbands.
The Old Man respected trusted and a decisive leader Giuseppe Stone will be a Daemon Hunter Inquisitor Lord with a retinue mostly consisting of Cadwallon, Griffon and GW models.
Gabrielle Cain will lead an all Female warband to have at least some women on the table. Not quite sure how to put that in the fluff (I may make her a member of the Warrior Cults of Artemisia, give her strong Ecclesiarchy links or have it as pure coincidence). I'm thinking she'll be a Daemonhunter with a retinue designed with game effectiveness in mind
Chirax von Grimme will be a Witch Hunter Inquisitor leading a grim dark and gothic band of Dirz models showing of the Inquisitons darker side.....


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I rather enjoyed working on Buster and Tremaine this morning so I decided to produce another 2 minions today.
"Brigdis scares me for some reason. I always feel she can see right through me and detect my darkest secrets. The young child was recruited by Inquisitor Cain from within the Underhive of Orion with her "sister" Methlin although what actual relationship between the two really is I'm not sure they seem to have been allies and compatriots for several years before their encounter with the Inquisitor. Their devotion to each other is actually rather sweet as far as I'm concerned although it's probably heresy to regard any relationship between a mutant and a normal as sweet. Although I have a feeling that Brigdis is actually Psychic which would explain why Inquisitor Cain brought the 2 out of the hive. I have to admit I'm personally unhappy about dragging a child into combat but are duty to the Emperor must come before such petty quibbles.. Notary Eron Camer 42010"

This model is the Rackham Confrontation Cadwallon Orphan of Avagddu, equipped with a TAG Socom pistol and a Cadian belt pack. She will be used as a mystic in the game.

Methlin is a powerful mutant and ferocious in the defense of her "sister" Brigdis. She has her uses but is unintelligent and slow she is almost incapable of speech. However in a fight I suspect she would be quite ferocious and she makes herself useful carrying whatever her "sister" asks of her. I suspect Inquisitor Cain only allowed her to live as she was useful although she is quite affectionate towards the Inquisitor it's most bizarre to watch actually. I'm slightly perturbed by her habit of referring to the Inquisitor as "Auntie" although it seems to amuse some of my compatriots no end!"


This is the Fury of Avagddu in the original version it's mean't to be an alternative profile that the Orphan turns into during the game. Originally I was tempted to paint her as the hulk. I've given her several backpacks and a commlink. She also has a piping conduit on her base. In the game she will represent a Combat Servitor with Power Fist.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/15 12:56:12


Post by: Xanthos


Interesting start. Some of those sprue bits on the bases may still be a bit too recognizable though..

Really like the fluff you´re coming up with, my favorite so far is the arbitrator.

Keep at it, I´d like to see them painted.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/15 16:23:49


Post by: inmygravenimage


Really interesting stuff, I was wondering how to do my inquisitor's retinue and this has given me plenty to chew over. Keep at it!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/15 22:03:21


Post by: Llamahead


To be honest these will probably take a while but as the main aim is to recycle my Rackham models several others which were painted for the game originally will appear on square bases rather soon Xanthos. Actually I reckon using an Inquisitor's retinue as an excuse for recycling old models or buying those you really want from other ranges is the way to do it inmygravenimage. I'd encourage you to have a rummage and see what you find.........


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/15 22:09:23


Post by: inmygravenimage


I'm recycling urban war for much of my cadian force, and =I= and assassin have been made from that range as well, while my hq psyker is a minipainters fig. I'm not shy! (mind you I even made warmachine scrap thralls out of necrons). I might just have to start rummaging around my Dirz box...


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/15 22:47:53


Post by: Llamahead


I have to say as Chirax von Grimme's the Sykho Volerterus model, though I'm not sure quite how I'll tweak it. Him and his warband are going to be dark currently I'm going for a hardline puritan Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor who enjoys his work as do his minions......


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/18 18:41:41


Post by: Llamahead


"Chirax von Grimme has several alien creatures called Risp. They seem intelligent, malevolent and with a nasty sense of humour. I've seen them pester and follow Buster around who hates them with a passion. I'm not sure who'd win between the pack of these and the great mastiff. However as Von Grimme seems to be linked with the little Imps I'd hate to see the consequences. Chirax von Grimme acquired these from the Adeptus Biologis he is popular with them as he's provided many miscreants to the flesh forges to be reborn as servitors. I believe they come from the world of Targen IX a diabolical jungle world in the Candar sector. However Chirax von Grimme seems to object to me chronicling and questioning him so I can not confirm this"


This is just a Pest of Flesh rebased for 40k without any modelling and in my normal Dirz scheme. In the game I plan to use these as Familiars.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/18 19:02:40


Post by: SkeTcHy LaRRy


Looking good so far. Big FAIL for using a warmachine base, but I think Ill let it slide this time


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/18 23:37:48


Post by: Llamahead


Only one I had spare in the size my good sir....


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and actually it's from Malifaux so NEHHH I was using them on square bases for my Beastmen.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/22 21:13:05


Post by: Llamahead


"Solomon Crane was instrumental in the investigation of the Cult of Flower Voices and their fall on Ancelot. A respected Noble and a noted Scholar he was a Judge Civilia Minoris of Parag city. It was he who first raised the alarm and brought my master to the world. It was his recognition and revulsion of the corruption which had lodged within several of his family and many others which led him to raise the alarm. When he realised the depravity his master Hieronomous Fung was committing he decided to go over his head. Thankfully he did and along with my master acted to destroy the cult. Indeed under his leadership the Arbitrators managed to hold back and spoil the aims of the Cultists for the year it took us to arrive and crush them. His assassination of Hieryonymus Fung was indeed a masterful stroke which hurt the cult dearly. My master recognised a latent precognitive power within him which gave him what the layman call a "Witchsniffer nose" the ability to detect the corrupt miasma of the Immaterium." Notary Eron Camer 42010"


He's simply my old Griffon Magistrate rebased. The base uses card to create a planking effect which has been painted in rusted corroded metal to represent the random surfaces and pathways of a forgeworld complex.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/02/25 22:41:29


Post by: Llamahead


I'm not sure what to make of Gwendolyn she's a rather sweet charming young woman, with a gentle temperament. A woman so unsuited to this galaxy and our duty I sometimes can't believe her. She's accompanied by her familiar a Grey Squiggle she calls Trevor. She seems to have several precognitive gifts but more importantly for Inquisitor Cain she can detect hiding for some reason this makes her amazingly useful for ferreting out secrets. For instance I'm fairly sure she knows of Gopher's intelligence although thankfully she hasn't told her mistress. While I consider Inquisitor Cain less malefic than Inquisitor Von Grimme one can never be sure what they take offense to. They are also without fail utterly paranoid about people who keep secrets. Probably the most hypocritical aspect of their calling if you ask me. Gwendolyn comes from the Starship Sapphire Rose originally and on that ship all crew kin tatoo their faces blue. She was recruited by Inquisitor Cain while the Inquisitor was enroute aboard the merchantman between Sphiros and Nago. They apparently met in the ships cocktail bar and Inquisitor Cain immediately recognised her value and recruited the hostess.


She's the Rackham Kelt Shaman rebased for 40k and I'm planning to use her as a Mystic.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/04 21:38:48


Post by: Llamahead


I do not like Father Nathaniel Skinner as he's a bigot and a sensationalist within 5 minutes of anybody disagreeing with them he declares them a heretic. It's really quite trying. Father Nathaniel Skinner was a priest on Baddiel IV who had the shear effrontery to attempt to hunt us down as witches. My master was rather amused and when Skinner and his cronies had us cornered and threatened to dismember us, the master simply turned his electoo on him and smiled saying "Your faith and devotion does you credit however I am not your prey join me and hunt it". He and his followers a rather rag-tag bunch of peasants were mildly useful in the later encounter with a daemon who rode on a hideous daemonic mount (In the hideous pages of the Codex Daemonicus such is referred to as a Bloodcrusher). They distracted it for long enough for us to call in the air strike which killed it. Holding it up for a good twenty minutes while it attempted to hunt them all down. It managed to kll forty one of them however fortunately for Skinner he was the lucky Forty Two blesses of the Emperor and the Marauder came down at that moment. I've never quite understood how he forgave my master for the carnage and technically treachery of that night. When I questioned the master about his actions he simply admitted that there was no way we could face such a force in combat ourselves as the Daemon was of the rank my master called a Herald. Of all the things I regret most about following the master it is this hideous knowledge. I still remember their screams


This model is one of the Daemon Hunters from the Griffin Range for Confrontation. This model has a chainsword as nothing says 40k more than a Chainsword except perhaps a pile of skulls.....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/05 20:38:02


Post by: Llamahead


The Prophet of Angmar, Gerard Schultz was a noted precognisant and part of the court of the Governor of Angmar III where he made predictions which were unerringly accurate. His sword is a traditional Angmar Broadsword while the book he bears the Tome of St Morgoth holds tales of Angmars liberation during the High Crusade. It contains some fascinating discussions of the personality of Fulgrim that might provide us more knowledge of why he betrayed his master. I can remember Grisk asking Schultz why if he knew the Inquisitor was coming to recruit him he stayed at court. Schultz is response was that it was better to live in his service than to be killed by him. Which makes a lot of sense to me.

Gerard Schultz is a Rackham Griffin Exorcist on a 40k base the model is precisely as is.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/09 22:21:18


Post by: Llamahead


Of all Chirax von Grimmes followers Rebus von Freid is certainly the most intelligent and likeable you wouldn't know to look at it but behind his grim battle mask and his great sword there lies an intelligent and charismatic man. Like many worlds Nieu Bogenhafen from which he hails holds several temples of dedicates to the Emperor who serve him in combat theoretically with the enemies of the Imperium but generally in my experience with whoever opposes the power of the temple. He is skilled and deadly with his blade and a credit to the order he serves his temple is known as "The Brothers of the New Dawn" and aims to create a new golden age. Unusually for a such an institution they go about this not by attempting to seize as much power as possible for themselves but by sending out Dawn Templars like Rebus. I have seen him in combat only once but I watched as he hewed an Ork in two a prodigious feat of strength.

Rebus von Freid is a simple Dawn Warrior rebased for 40k
Chirax von Grimme is popular among the Adeptus Biologis for securing many samples. Personally I have heard rumours that he suspects there is a genetic component that makes certain individuals more likely to betray the Imperium than others. I have heard rumours of him gleefully dissecting captured heretics. He has been assigned a noted Secutor of their order as well as a Servitor Assault Section. SAX-09 is one of the simpler Combat Servitors with an Implant Chainsaw and Implant Claw.

I decided to convert up a few Hybrids into an Arco-Flagellant squad. Its a simple hand swap and rebase with the hand swapped for the blade of a Chainsword. I've got another 4 of these waiting for undercoating. There will also be Penitent Engines at some point.......


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/09 22:26:11


Post by: ph34r


On the first model the GW head does not fit that model at all...


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/12 18:35:18


Post by: Llamahead


Originally I'd have said that was the point of it as the high tech gubbins don't fit with the scribe's quill which struck me as very 40k. Then I realised what you actually meant ph34r and decided to do a headswap with a thinner Wargames Factory head with scratchbuilt bionics. I'll share it once its painted.

My master has long been a patron of the monks of the Brotherhood of the Flame of Retribution. The Brotherhood is a cult which dominates one of the Indig tribes of the Flame of Retribution an Emperor Class Battleship assigned to the Ladysmith Patrol Group. The Brotherhood have recently been recruited by the ships Commissariat as elite Enforcers who serve them through out the ship as Spies and Killers. Their faith in the Emperor is huge but it was rather amusing to watch Brother Philemon and Brother Androcles react to the world beyond their craft for the first time. They have a bizarre mix of great technical competence and an utter lack of knowledge about life on planets. Their reaction to the idea of day and night and weather was rather bemusing and in anybody else I'd say touching. They are however both utterly ruthless killers who have no loyalty to anybody save the master. Philemon and Androcles have only recently joined us however several others of there order have served with us before. Most impressive of these was Brother Titus who successfully hacked down a pack of Plaguebearers unfortunately he contracted the Rot and so had to be executed regrettable though that was. The individual shown in the image is Brother Philemon.

This is ta Confrontation Griffin Executioner with a round base


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/19 21:23:27


Post by: Llamahead


I've painted Eron Camer with a redone head. The head comes from the Wargames Factory Ancient Germans and is far more gracile than the blocky square headed Cadian head. The Bionics were scratchbuilt from myself and involve random pieces from plasticard and bits of thin spears and other ephemera. This proves you shouldn't through any modelling stuff away. I have to say he looks far better with the narrower head and while he looks younger than ever I like that as it plays with popular stereotypes.



Oh by the way thank you for everybody who's voting on these images in the gallery!


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Sorry about the poor photos


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/23 19:51:09


Post by: Llamahead


Friar Jan Sybolt is one of the toughest men I have ever met the last monk of the mendicant order of St Colin he was one of only a dozen survivors when the Friary was sacked by Orks. During the attack he was at the forefront of the battle killing a dozen and losing a hand in combat with a brutish leader. He was medevaced by the 756th Naval Support Group to a small settlement called Broomhill, their he claimed his Chain Axe to go with his Shotgun that he'd already looted from the Orks. They healed him and gave him his Bionic Hand. Then the word came that the Friary had fallen and the capital. Later news confirmed the loss of all coherent Imperial Forces on the planet (Fostrad IV). Friar Sybolt eventually became the head of a huge peasant army which defeated and ran out the Orks after a long and arduous struggle. After they'd destroyed the Orks the Imperial Expeditionary Force arrived and inducted him and his men into the Guard. Sybolt was declared a Army Group Chaplain a role usually held by a Bishop. He has joined the Conclave as a seperate member on equal standing as the Inquisitors and his poor appearance belies his huge power.

This model is the Mordheim Warrior Priest with an Ork Nob Chain Axe and a Gorkamorka Shotgun as well as a Space Marine hand as a bionic leg, no sorry hand. He's to be used as a Priest he's assembled based on the Guard Codex even though I'm mainly planning to be using him for Witch Hunters to allow me to use my Arco-Flagellants and Penitent Engines.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/03/31 18:58:22


Post by: Llamahead


Tarah Harding was recruited by Inquisitor Cain during the defense of Sarum's Bridge. The Plasma Gunner from the 48th Willises World PDF acquitted herself with distinction killing several of the enemy and leading her platoon into action when her Lieutenant died. She was recruited for her cool discipliine under fire her bravery and leadership but far more importantly according to Inquisitor Cain her luck. She's also a highly skilled sword fighter and noted for her knife wielding as welll

She's the Warrior Girl model from the Last Chancers with a bodged up Plasma Gun using her Lasgun a Plasma Pistol and some plastic rod. she is natural an IG veteran with Plasma Gun.
STJ-09 is another Combat Servitor assigned to Servito Team 09 in Chirax von Grimme's Servitor Assault Section.

This model uses GW Servitor components combined with a Rackham Hybrid.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/04/15 21:49:39


Post by: Llamahead


Corporal Bruce Stein is a shaky individual noted mainly used for his aptitude with Computers. He's notorious for his way with them a skill which is very useful to the Inquisitor he is also notoriously larcenous and generally lax with his understanding of ownership. I have however been impressed with his agility and skill with entry and stealth. His shakes I believe are due to having come rather to close to a Chaos Marine something which has deeply scarred his psyche. I can understand this as the site of one who has been gifted so much by the Emperor turning to the fallen lords is a horrific chilling concept. Indeed personally I find the idea more abhorrent than any of the Daemonic minions of Chaos which of ocurse were created purely to serve them. I may be being to harsh to the fellow he is actually rather loyal to the master and has always helped us live a more comfortable life with his skills

He's just Brains from the Last Chancers without any fiddling. I'm planning to use him as a Sage in 40k.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/04/17 22:36:16


Post by: Llamahead


This is a swift no model update I'll probably be adding a Rogue Trader party pretty soon.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/04/18 23:28:51


Post by: Archibald Jack


Hey Chief, I noticed rackham has some wicked miniatures, some of which I would love to use the sameway you are right here. But, are they unpainted? or do you need to strip the poxy paint off first?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/04/18 23:36:08


Post by: Llamahead


These are all the old metal ones and were unpainted unfortunately they switched to pre-paints and a different rule scale (Which really annoyed me I was if they kept to the same game style going to do a force for each faction). Several of these I'd already painted but I just minimally repainted them and touched them up. Back on topic the new prepaints can probably just be spray painted over but you'd have to ask somebody else for definite Platuan4 might well know for sure. I've done it fine over D&D prepaints but never on Rackhams or you can hunt the older models down on Ebay, there seems to be plenty. Theres also some absolutely brilliant offers on there webstore as well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/05/30 17:06:24


Post by: Llamahead


Aristedes is a man of mystery I've never heard him say a word or seen his face he always wears his armour and helm. He is a penitent psyker of some sort although Inquisitor Von Grimme is his usual charming loquacious self when I mentioned him....If it were not for my masters seniority in the conclave I'd have been executed which is extreme even for him...

The model is the rackham Confrontation Dirz Neuromancer used as is.
I've also used some Black Scorpion Western models with a few minor conversions to create an Arbitrator fire team I'll discuss in this project as well more about each member when I paint them.....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/07/18 12:16:55


Post by: Llamahead


Grisk was a minor criminal from Rencelind. He is a sarcastic and impertinent rogue who is barely tolerable. He lived within the desert settlements running a thriving smuggling trade. This lasted until he witnessed the rites being undertaken at a small settlement Gryndel's Well. These dark and gruesome rites were also being investigated by my master who was surprised and delighted to see them terminated by a large posse of vengeful locals rather than having to get his hands dirty. My master inducted several of these fighters as Acolytes and arranged pardons for the rest.



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/09/01 21:32:25


Post by: Llamahead


MGM-09 is another of Chirax von Grimmes Servitor Assault Section.

Thaddeus Glee is a Chirugeon of the Adeptus Biologis. He is a kind, gentle man with a good natured young fatherly face which he uses to good effect when working on the wards in hospitals. This is something he does as often as his dutys permits. Quite often he is the most skilled surgeon the sick and injured will ever receive. He personally implanted my eye several months ago and did it with skill and compassion withan exceptional therapeutic matter. It was a huge shock when I saw him don the terrible mask of his orders combat arms and far greater still was my horror at seeing the results of his specialist labours for Van Grimme. He is an interrogator and explicator beyond compare at that grim business. I've viewed one of his interrogations and can't help but hope its the last I see......



I'm rather happly with this model. The painting is some of the more ornate stuff I've done (and been happy with the end result). I'm also delighted with the colour choice the dirty whites and reds imply a twisted Nurses outfit which just works. Making him kind and gently rather than a sadist is because I enjoy messing with preconceptions in my writing.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/09/12 14:54:47


Post by: Llamahead


"Misha is the least alien and sinister looking of Chirax von Grimme's associates however the grizzled old man is a sadistic torturer who takes a positive glee in his work. However the information he has produced has always been of top quality and allowed Chirax to break some of his most famous cases. Misha's most fabled accomplishment was the breaking of T'slen Squi Kee the Hrud assassin who attempted to kill General Yanakov. Applying his skills to the Hrud assassin caused some difficulties due to the perverse nature of the Xeno's sensory apparatus and his fanatic training. However Misha's work caused the Hrud to betray the base of his cell enabling the 213th army group to crush it destroying it utterly and saving the world for the Emperor. In this work the ends do justify the means."


Misha is the Black Scorpion Ship's Doctor. Black Scorpion is a small obscure UK company which produces a lot of wonderfully characterful models like this. They'll be more from them to come on this blog. He was a joy to paint and nice and simple after the ornacy of Thaddeus Glee. They have Cow Boys, some great pirates (including Orcs, Dwarfs and an awesome Giant) take a look at the models here


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/09/19 16:40:48


Post by: Llamahead


Quick question anybody have some idea how to paint Cowboy Enforcers? Black seems certain but anything else?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/12/08 19:03:49


Post by: Llamahead


Haven't really been in the mood to paint lately so I haven't accomplished much.
Horatio Hawkins was the son and heir to James Hawkins a Rogue Trader who aided my master for years until he was caught in flagrant derelicto with the wife of the governor of Spinoza III. His ship managed to escape the wrath of the governor but he wasn't so lucky. Horatio is a plucky young lad who is far to confident for his own good. He is however popular among his crew and given his age it is surprising that he has survived his inheritance. He still acts in support of my Master for the greater good of the Imperium.



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The model is the Black Scorpion Cabin Boy.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2010/12/15 20:44:41


Post by: Llamahead


In battle my master Giuseppe Stone wields a fearsome blade and dagger known as Cy'greddayr's Bane. The pair I'm told are ancient having been forged during the time of the Armageddon War to be the bane of the Daemon Prince Cy'greddayr scourge of Tarsis Hive. Quite how my master gained the weapons he has never told me. It coruscates with power both of the technomagics of the forgepriests and the psionics of my master. His ancient and ornate armour was forged on Ladysmith at the behest of Inquisitor Hsien Anukovashi a famed hunter. My master was presented it for his most fell deed the destruction of my homeworld. I hate it and wish he had refused it. Why they rewarded him for that sin I'll never understand

He's the Griffin Templar Commander Arkhos model with a Magistrates Judgement Blade. Originally intended to represent Inquisitor Taetrius from the Ragnarok box set.He's the first of the 3 Inquisitors. I'm happy with the blade effect which dominates the model. The purple cloak is designed to represent Imperial Authority while the bronze/gold armour is designed to look like an ornate heirloom.
The master recruited Arbitrator Jones along with his squad from Wyomas Minoris during the purging of Los Alamis from the forces of Tziarkis. The magus Tziarkis was an expert at infiltrating cults into loyalist populations and the master ended up entirely focussed on dealing with these cults. This lasted for three years until warriors from the Blood Hawks chapel toppled Los Alamis and killed Tziarkis. The master decided to keep several of the local lawmen who had excelled with him and inducted them into the Adeptus Arbites. Jones is a dour laconic man who rarely speaks save to ask for more whiskey.

This model is one of the Black Scorpion Cowboys with no conversions. I painted him in fairly understated black and browns rather than in a military police uniform as the model represents a local lawman not an Adeptus Arbites.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/01/13 20:49:36


Post by: Llamahead


I've finally painted Brigdis the fluff is at the top of the page.

I'm currently doing a beginning of the year review of my projects. This is the one that will suffer the most this year as with GW's changes to the Induction riules they can only be used in Apocalypse now rather than as allies to my IG. This is a shame as when the 24th Islandlwanda are finished I was considering expanding my Adeptus Mechanicus counts as Witch Hunters into an army however I can't imagine that happening soon anyway. I'll just pootle along with this I'm planning on doing a Tech-Priest next made from Karyl Kartan with several Hybrid Servitor conversions. I'll keep on at this regardless however as it provides me with an excuse to paint something totally different in far more varied colour schemes than my armies.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/01/30 13:44:01


Post by: Llamahead


"Chirax von Grimme has many contacts with the Adeptus Biologis at times of great need when the danger is apparent and there is no other recourse he can summon to his force the colossal power of 37158 THD a Nemesis class Servitor Construct. I have seem this creature rip through the doors of a cult temple and rampage through the heretics within killing them all in a matter of seconds. The brutes hideous strength became most apparent to me on Mydrantis IX when it succeeded in ripping apart the corrupted Astarte who had orchestrated the uprising in several hideous seconds of brutality."


This is the utterly gorgeous Confrontation Nefarius Clone. In my opinion one of the best wargames miniatures ever produced. I'm not hugely ecstatic about this paint job but I'd definitely reached the point where more work would make it look worse not better. The plan is to use this model as a Penitent Engine in 40k and as an end of campaign big boss in Inquisimunda or Dark Heresy. I think it looks intimidating and scary enough to do that job very nicely!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/01/30 14:10:30


Post by: Scarper


I'm a big fan of the fluff you write for all your models, really personalises them. Keep it up


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/01/30 14:20:15


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks a lot Scarper for a project like this it really helps them flow ideally they'll gradually flow into a larger narrative involving the 24th Islandlwanda and Ladysmith the Forge World Its also helped make colour choices and encourage conversion schemes along the way.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/02/03 23:39:26


Post by: Llamahead


For a start I should be getting a game of kill team with some of these guys on Saturday.....
I'll be using Inquisitor Guiseppe Stone (E Inquisitor), Horatio Hawkins (Acolyte), Corporal Bruce Stein (Sage) and Gerald Schultz (Mystic) as well as 5 old Stormtrooper models I painted donkeys years ago.
Arbitrator Smith is another of the Arbitrators recruited during my masters operations against Tziarkis on Wyomas Minoris. He is highly skilled with pistol, shock maul and repression shield and saved my life during a mission in Charanaga City when a cultist bomb went off. I was heavily wounded from shrapnel and bleeding profusely and he thankfully knew enough first aid to staunch the flow of blood and stabilise me until the chirugeons could get to us. He is a dutifully man with the traditional laconicness of his homeworld it does within him however hide a dry piercing wit. He is an intellect and one of the greatest companions I have. Serving the Inquisition as I do there are few men I can trust enough to call friend and he is one.


This model is one of the Black Scorpion Cowboys with a Confrontation Griffin Mace and a Wargames Factory German Shield with various techy bits added to turn it into a suppression shield. The Yellow and Black markings are warning patches inspired by a comment Migsula made in his Legion at Rhisienne blog about warning panels on 40k weapons. It made sense for me on a police shield so I tried it and it looks ok. The scenery is some cheap cheerful buildings I'm making for the local club.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/02/11 20:58:38


Post by: Llamahead


[i]Chirax von Grimmes Servitor Assauit Section are all tireless fighters and a great asset to the force as a whole. This one, COT09, I saw kill a Genestealer Hybrid a prodigious feat of skill. They are especially useful for detecting ambushes although I have the disturbing thought that could well be what Chirax would happily use me for.....Possibly more so as he dislikes my prying as he puts it.

This is another Rackham Hybrid although this one includes actual GW Servitor bits.....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/02/18 17:58:29


Post by: Llamahead


Fist of all heres the nice bit Methlin painted up;


Now heres the whingy Real Life bit. You wait ages for one job then two come along at once. Right I have pending the employers getting in touch with my references (should happen) a job starting in London which I've arranged accomodation and travel for. Currently it's a month and due to the expenses of a 2nd home I'll not be earning much. This might well prevent me completing my new years promises. I also have a job interview with another company for a permament position. This would require moving. If circumstances are right I'll have to seriously consider moving out....This'll be a stressful pain as I really don't want to do it however the job must come first.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/03/27 11:14:37


Post by: Llamahead


Well whingy real-life bit didn't effect this month's pledge I also still have work for another month.....Next month should be easy as theres loads of bank holidays due to Easter and the royal wedding. I'm not going to permamently move to London as the rents too high and the jobs not secure enough. I'll keep it up for as long as I can until more work kicks up closer to home however.
The Grrey Hunters Codex might cause me to expand this list into a Grey Hunter army in the far future. However I need to read the codex first. I'll almost certainly use 37158THD as a Dread Knight......It's not going to effect the general ethos of the project which is about random fun characterful models as opposed to my horde lists rank and file. This week we have another Rackham Hybrid to combat Servitor although this one is earmarked for use as both a Combat Servitor and as a Technical Servitor for a Techpriest when I get round to it. It also uses actual Servitor components I got at random from Ebay.
CAY09 is a Hybrid creation from Hydalberg this combined Combat/Repair model benefits from two types of conditioning and I'm informed by Techpriest Llewelyen that it has two distinct accents and personalities. Its tweeting and chirruping definitely changes in tone when it changes mode.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/04/20 21:22:59


Post by: Llamahead


Well bright side is I won't be moving down side is I don't have a job-the wonderful poliy of last on first off bites me in the arse again. Still as my first reaction was oh if I'd known this I'd have taken the other job I can't complain too much. But enough of my whinginglets listen to Eron Camer whinge instead;
"I can not believe my master allowed this perverse individual to join our band. Prestor Thorn is utterly fascinated by the forces of chaos. While I admit we must study the denizens of the warp to defy them successfully there is more to this in Thorn's study. The man was a noted soap magnate on the world of Thianor 3 who used his resources to create a great library of works on the history of the world. Unfortunately for him he was indiscrete while acquiring several prescribed tomes in particular the war log of a certain General Faran of the 33rd Cohort of the Thianor Guard during the clearance of Hive Segredarsus. This account held one of the few descriptions of the work of a certain Daemon Prince whos actions I don't know nor want too. Suffice to say this information became valuable to the master whos hunt for the tome led him to the mansion of Prestor Thorn. Posing as a scholar my master quickly led Thorn to show him his books one student of the history of conflict against the ruinous powers to another. Apparently at this point the master revealed his identity arrested him and put him to a third level interrogation. The result was he was found too tainted to be allowed to live in normal society and was offered my masters normal sign up or die contract. His knowledge is useful and his records and wealth have greatly boosted my masters resources. His desire to set up a college for warp studies is however too horrific for even me to conteplate."

The model is the Black Scorpion Navigator. I haven't done anything to it and painted it in a style vaguely similiar to my Ratlings. The tattoos are meant to be the results of his third level interrogation. In games he was going to be used as a Sage.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/04/21 06:58:32


Post by: inmygravenimage


I always enjoy your updates, and love for other manufacturers! Your painting's also really improving model-to-model. Good stuff!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/08 19:57:24


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks a lot inmygravenimage. Especially the kind words about the painting. I can't really take much credit for the love of other manufaturers once you start looking at the more esoteric models out there you can always find one or two which will fill a nice hole in your collection. Thats one of the advantages of having a good FLGS and a yearly wargames show in town. The fact that I don't plan to play in GW sponsored tournaments helps and price is a huge factor too. For example a 40 man box of Perry's WoTR mercenaries is £15-£20 a 10 man box of Perry Sculpted (probably) GW State Troops is £15. The maths is fairly simple to me at that point. Admittedly the stuff in here is far more random so price isn't a factor. It also encouraged matters when the Beastman book dosn't have models for half of the big centrepieces.
Heres the substance though it's the Tech Priest I've been promising with his retinue designed to be used with the Guard book.
First of all the Retinue

Then the Techpriest on his own

Background and detail shots for the rest will come once I've painted them.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/09 14:18:13


Post by: inmygravenimage


Nice use of Kayl Kartan! I've farmed off all my dirz to a griend for DE beasts - you could do a seriously impressive army from a scorpion horde. More pics of the rest of the retinue please!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/10 16:43:22


Post by: Llamahead


That'll happen when they get painted I promise. If I ever do an Adeptus Mechanicus army thats the route I'm taking for the more esoteric elements at least. They'd work well as Grotesques and Haemonculi as well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/17 20:05:30


Post by: Llamahead


Ohanzee of Kashtar was rescued by my master several years ago. In his work as a Oracle (a bizarre and heretical idea of the Kashtar apparently they disapprove of secretive behaviour an utterly surreal perversion) he had angered a local proctor. He and his family were captured and put to the torture by the corrupt official who worshipped the foul Prince of Fraudulence. His family eventually perished and his sanity departed. My master decided this berzerker had a use and he volunteered as an assault troop being only too happy to ingest any chemical even Frenzon which might allow him to forget. His unshielded exposure to the warp means my master can't trust him and has attached an explosive collar

He's simply Animal from the Last Chancers. This photograph really shows how unflattering the larger images can be too a model he looks fine in real life. Been thinking a bit about the price hikes and resin lately. At first I thought it was a shame GW was stopping doing metal models. Then I stopped for a moment and thought when was the last time I brought one new? 2004. Just about when I found out about Ebay......I've also acquired an online copy of the Grey Knights codex to celebrate the price hike (if I decide to do the army I'll buy the book). To my surprise theres also a lot of Imperial Armour, WFRP and Dark Heresy material available.


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Just read the GK background; GK are bloody useless just use Exterminatus it's less wasteful. Frankly I suspect they're Khorne worshippers.......


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/18 19:23:27


Post by: Llamahead


I think my suspicions are confirmed the 8 Brotherhoods, 8 Grand Masters & 8 Founders and ridiculous disregard for where the blood comes from makes me even more suspicious. Background is "Interesting". Matt Ward is an unpopular author who I find writes better rules than background as it actually seems quite playable. I also have to admit I could probably do an interesting list with Inquisitor Coteaz at the helm (either my current Inquisitor or my Kelian Durnak model would do well). I'm also quite delighted that Death Cult Asassins have got far better. I own with ease at least a dozen from various Rackham models (I already use Dawn Warriors and Executioners. I also have Thallions (both on foot and mounted), Fianna & Arcanic Thieves, thats 17 without trying). I also have a Techpriest and a Dreadknight. The marine elements however would consist of about a half dozen Terminators from a variety of Chapters fielded as a Paladin Squad. The idea is they'd be seconded to the Inquisition like the Deathwatch. The idea would be to really play with posing the multi-part Terminators. I've also finished the final Servitor STJ09;

Heres the Servitor Assault Section in its finery

I've also taken a group shot of the entire lot, except Aristedes who I've just noticed is missing.

It's a shame I feel I ust take a special character with the Codex and I also feel the retinue has less craziness although more tactical use. But best of all I have an excuse to buy this fella
http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/discworld-miniatures-the-librarian-p-235.html


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Hmm got a cunning plan. I may make retinues to represent various Imperial Institutions i.e. Ecclesiarchy, Mechanicus, Arbites as well. I also may expand a bit on the idea of the Conclave.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/20 19:12:21


Post by: Llamahead


The more I think of the idea of the Conclave as composing of multiple groups the more I like it. The bakground would have the onclave forming to combat/in response to The Age of Apostasy after the realisation of how vullerable the Imperium is. The Conclave's main aim is to keep the Imperium's might aimed at its enemies and to stop it shredding itself to pieces. Another element would be that the varied nature of the Conclave wou;d make it far more useful in investigation. So what would this require?
I'd like at least one representative of each Ordo of the Inquisition; Inquisitor Cortez
Ecclesiarchy; Retinue Arco-Flagellant Crusaders Death Cult Asassins
Arbites; Retinue Guard style
Mechanicus; Techpriest or Retinue
Astartes; Paladin Squad
Guard; Retinue Guard Style
Navy; Retinue uh hmmm.....Stormbrick?
Asassinorum; Assassin
Astra Telapathica; PBS retinue
Navigators; Uhh any ideas?
Administratum Craziness retinue

I'll give you my Cortez conversion to enjoy for now........

Rather imposing I'm sure you'll agree. All I did was add a Bretonnian Hawk (after filing the hand off), Grenades and a Bolt Pistol to this lovely sculpt.


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Just considered something really want the Marines to stand out so might try truescaleing anybody know how to True Scale Terminators?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/20 20:50:52


Post by: inmygravenimage


Check out hits the spot's work; chapterhouse selling stuff soon. Like the Corteaz, I'll need to get mine up on my blog soon!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/20 22:17:26


Post by: Llamahead


Looking forward to it! Cheers for the tip he done Terminators?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/22 21:37:55


Post by: Llamahead


"Brother Androcles is another of the Brothers of the Flame of Retribution. Like his Brother Philemon he excelled as an enforcer for the Commissariat before he was seconded to the master. Him and Philemon was seleted as the best of their order after a series of trials. They apparently mainly focused on acrobatics and skill. According to him the hardest trial was the Bay Run crossing the Hangar Bay when the Magcon field was open as it was the first time he'd ever seen an outside. Its hard to credit how naive these men are they have rudimentary knowledge of most things you'd take for granted. It brings a smile even to Jones face when we remember what happened when we explained to them where milk comes from...."

And a shot of the Brothers together

I'll swear this shot was in focus when I took it......
This is my post number 1500. So I'm hoping to make it a good one. As you can see I have Philemon and Androcles done. I also have some more fun for you this is Inquisitor Valeria

She's the Sienna model from Rackham's Cadwallon range with her Handbag filed off and replaced by a Slinter Pistol holster sanctified by a holy relic (an Eagle relic of some sort) to represent the Conversion Beamer. It was Triples this weekend and as well as getting more Kindred for the 24th I picked up some rather nice Steam Punk models from Lead Adventure Miniatures.

Today was a miss as far as photography went....sorry. I've got 6 in this style and I'm planning to use them to form a Special Investigation Team of the Administratum (with a few other reprobates). The steam punk imagery is fairly prevalent with them anyway. It will be an Inquisitorial Retinue in this style. The idea is that these are the guys who investigate corruption, expense fiddling and tax dodges both internally and externally. This is rather dangerous even if the problem isn't serious, imagine asking an unhappy Marine about ammo expenditure (So Mr Calgar the excessive Bolter Rounds the Ultramarines used last month were for? Ah a Tyranid invasion of Macragge? Thats all right then.....). Big archaic plans make it so muh easier to get answers you see.....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/27 18:18:19


Post by: Llamahead


Logistar Primaris Cuthbert Rex the 49th of House Rex. In charge of Investigation and Audit Services within the Ladysmith Sector the Logistar Primaris is arguably the most powerful member of the Conclave. People see the Might of the Guard and the Glory of the Astartes but forget that more often than not it's the Pens of the unnoticed Scribes who bring the wrath down in the first place. The mission of the Conclave is as often as not to get the Logistar Primaris access to the records. This sounds easy but can often involve asassination attempts and skullduggery as the wrong doers attempt to escape the Conclave

Just a Cadwallon Undertaker from Rackham with a rebase. I really like the understated creepiness of this model. To be honest the Administratum Hit Squad is probably the idea most unique to the Conclave. He's got the Victorian vibe I'm going for with the squad and didn't need anything really. Currently the squad has 9 men earmarked for it. The 6 Lead Adventurers Steam Punk blokes, Cuthbert and 2 Cadwe Asassins. I might add my Khaurik's Trigger to the group as well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/27 22:30:40


Post by: neil101


Nice collection of minis here Llamahead, that guy is rather creepy


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/27 23:49:13


Post by: Llamahead


Yeah reminds me off the Child Snatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Thanks a lot neil101


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/28 07:41:54


Post by: Hyenajoe


Great ideas here! I like the Hybrids to servitors conversions.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/05/30 19:15:21


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers mate it's a nice simple way to get great models back into use.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/06/08 21:50:12


Post by: Llamahead


"Willard Bromhead is an expert hunter assigned to the Conclave by the Ordo Xenos he is an expert at the dangerous task of procuring live specimens. It is rumoured that he has been involved in many of the more murky and clandestine operations of the Ordo Xenos. As he puts it "I capture the nasty buggers, what they do with them later ain't up ter me". A native of Witham he is an expert at living on the land and surviving in the bush. When challenged about his bright colours and immaculate grooming by Grisk he replied "Most of the buggers don't see in the true light anyway so why bother camouflaging myself to a sense they don't use". It's to be noted that five days later he used Grisk as bait for a trap for an Umhockha. Before joining the Ordo he apparently ran safari's until unfortunately for him he was captured by a Khorne cult who were after what they claimed was the most dangerous game. I'm doubtful about this as surely it would be some kind of Tyranid?"

He's the Bromhead model from Black Scorpion. I'm still unsure how I'll use him in games. Maybe as an Inquisitor or as an IG Commissar Lord. The colours are naturally enough based on Redcoats.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/06/09 07:48:34


Post by: Malika2


Digging them a lot. However, as for the paintjobs, maybe try to keep it down with the ink a bit?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/06/09 22:47:32


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks a lot Malika its a challenge to find that happy medium between shading a model and dominating it....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/06/11 21:00:54


Post by: Llamahead


Astropath Klorsman is a native of Dresden a planet noted for its high proportion of psychic mutants up to as much as one in a thousand this has led to a high degree of inquisitorial scrutiny. All Black Ships entering the sector now routinely head to Dresden and there is some talk of basing a full Adeptus Astra Telepathica facility there. Currently there are two major factions debating whether to use Dresden as a resource or purge it. It is to be noted that Dresden has a high loyalty index rating and has produced many capable Imperial Servants. Like most Dresdener's who have undergone Soul Binding Klorsman received a familiar a small black Athena bird called Amalda who has been his cnstant companion ever since. He also received his Bindmetelschwert (Soul binder Sword) He has spent most of his time since in the service of the Munitorium entering service to House Rex several years ago. He has since risen due to his skill at his talents to the personal astropath of the Logistar Primaris.

A straight use of the Oracle f Danu from Rackham's Kelt range. He might als be used as an Astropath in a Guard army.

Sir Tain the Grim is a fore of nature. I have seen him fight without fear in the face of horrors which terrified my master let alone me. He is a grim man who I have never seen smile. He is impossible to get to talk about his path but his dedication to the Ecclesiarchy is huge. He is the personal agent of Cardinal Stearn and has been assigned by him to Confessor Tamerlan the Ecclesiarchy's man on the conclave. This is as in recent years Cardinal Stearn has became far more concerned with the greater picture than the normal peccadillos and squabbles among the church. After the destruction of Aglia it has become apparent that the sector is at a crossroads between damnation, destruction and a Golden Age if Octavia falls and we survive. He believes the conclave are the people most likely to effect the result other than the Emperor himself.

The brilliant Kyrus the Sombre model from Rackham's Griffin range given a TAG Socom pistol. I went with a very limite palette of Black, White & Metal. Unfortunately it didn't photo well But it has ensured the focus is on the model not the painting. Always a good thing with my skills and Rackham's.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/06/15 20:36:56


Post by: Llamahead


"Techpriest Edward Ludd swears by his Welder Servo-Skull Santos. It's excellent at getting into the difficult places ad provides an exceptional fifth arm for him While it is not particularly fearsome looking it mounts a feroiously hot plasma arc welder. I have seen Ludd and him repair a bridge stanchion in the middle of a gale a hundred feet up during a firefight. Ever since I have had a huge respect for man and machine."

I'm really happy with this critter. Bodged together from a Beastman banner, searchlight back, triggers, flamer igniter, auspex handle and sprue this guy was great fun to make. I'm happy with the paint job which I think looks like a well used well looked after tool. The idea is it's a great honour for the Mechanicus to become a machine even after death. I also like the welder idea as the ability to get one to a precise position is vital at times for maintenance. Hope you like him.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/01 20:27:09


Post by: Llamahead


"Old Joe is another of the Enforcers recruited from Wyomas Minoris. He was a pleasant affable farmer owning a prosperous piece of land before he decided to join the "Posse" as the local volunteers who act in support of the Enforcers are called. His skill and accuracy during the firefight's was noticed and Pastor Mc Kinley encouraged him to remain with the squad through out the fight against Tziarkis. After the disaster of the rift spasm and the final battle he had to be retained by the master or eliminated. This has hurt him badly and he deeply regrets the loss of his family he left behind. However he has accepted that he's fighting to protect his family and countless more like them. It is from sacrifice's like his that humanity is defended".

"Pastor Mc Kinley was a village priest on Wyomas Minoris reruited by the master during the fighting there. His true faith and fierce knowledge of the devotion due to Him On Earth led him to being a great ally for my master on that unlucky world. Indeed without his faith and courage I truly doubt that my master could have beheaded Tziarkis even with Cy'greddayr's Bane without him. His holiness seemed to manage to keep the lesser minions of Tziarkis away even at the height of the Warp Spasm. I can think of many great Ecclesiarch's who wouldn't show a micron of this simple priests faith and courage. Sometimes I think the greater a priests faith with the Imperator and the truer his calling the lower down the pecking order you will find him."

Both of these guys are Black Scorpion Cowboys with no adjustments. The priest guy was what drew me to the set and I still like the starkness of him wielding his relic rather than his Shotgun presumably in the knowledge that his faith is his greatest weapon against the fiends of the night.....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/09 11:08:56


Post by: Llamahead


Great news Rackhams getting a re-release http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/6194-confrontation-announcement. This is a huge boost for my interest in painting and modelling although I might have a problem that all my old models are nw on round bases for the game. Frankly if people restart playing locally I'll worry about it.....and it means I can get a few mdels I need to flesh out the force as well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/12 17:16:04


Post by: Llamahead


Skalk in his excellent 40k Cultists blog (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/364272.page) put up a 40k scale Chrono-Gladiator recently. This sparked within me the desire to make one of my own and after a quick rummage through the bitz box and I'd located a pair of Ork Power Claws and a Dirz Cypher Lurkhan model. A bit of glue later and I had this model ready William Walker the Terrible Claw. One of the simplest conversions I've done in ages and probably about the most effective!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/13 08:16:35


Post by: inmygravenimage


Comedy gold! Love him. I've started recycling various Griffon figs into my =][= retinue, so cheers for the inspiration!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/13 22:40:31


Post by: Llamahead


No trouble glad to help. Always great to know somebodies listening.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/14 07:33:04


Post by: neil101


Excellent chrono gladiator , simple and effective as you say.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/14 17:57:41


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Cheers Neil delighted that you like him. I did a rather lazy job updating an old job on a Fianna (Rackham Kelt Model). The Ink acted funny when you look at it close up but at about a foot it looks fine.

Cordelia and her sisters are members of a little known Imperial Sect on the world of Knocknarea IV. The Sword Brides of Knocknarea are nted for their deft handling of the great blades. They are notoriously skilled body guards and work as mercenaries around the quadrant. Most peple don't know of the group and it often leads them to underestimate them as guards. Mistaking them as a courtesan is the last mistake of many an assassin. They are popular due to their loyalty to the protectee and decorative nature. Cordelia is the most skilled of her sisters I have met and I have seen her preparations thwart two assassination attepts. Not through her blade however but through her knowledge of the lost arts of Electronic Surveillance. In fact Gabrielle's main use of Cordelia is to provide this surveillance during investigations.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/21 18:00:16


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Happy enough with this guy. I like the Urban Camo cloak inspired by all those versions of German camo I've seen on Dakka and adapted to this guy to give him that 40k ancient and modern juxtaposition.

Jacques the Knife history before he joined the Administratum's Black Scribes is brutal. A youth in the Stacks of the Hive of Artoyer he was hired as a mercenary by Administrator Heron. While Heron died on this missionhis forces managed to retrieve the files from the bowels of the stacks fighting of the various indigent gangs. The vital information an "Anaytic Consideration of the Ceramic resources of Beaka IX with Special Consideration of Decorative Finishes and Analysis of the Local Beliefs and other Contributing Factors" turned out to be utterly useless as sadly the required cultural analysis was for Beka IX. Jacques skills hwever were noted and he eventually gained the attention of the Logistar Primaris. He is noted for his skill with poisons and generally prefers to avoid combat considering it a failure if he is spotted.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/22 18:21:19


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I reckon I should start considering what I need to add to make the army fieldable. The problem is I don't particularly want to use Grey Knights as we have 2 players in my society which means we've got far too many locally anyway (and we've already wiped out the entirety of the Purifiers in the Galaxy). Therefore I've been considering how to get around this. I've already decided to have a Chapter Conclave of Terminators representing aout a dozen chapters. These mighty champions would be represented by Paladins and modelled using a mix of kits (and preferably if I can get my grubby mits on them the Space Hulk Terminators). A basic strike squad can be represented by Deathwatch fairly simply. The idea I'm most ecited about however is the Interceptor Squad. I really fancy the idea of using the Legion of the Damned. It fit's the theme and it's a hugely narrative unit. I've always liked the fluff for these heroes of the Imperium and it's a great excuse to own some awesome models. How does this reasoning sound to people?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/23 11:17:43


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Been reviewing what comes to mind about each entry in the Grey Knight's Codex and Brainstorming ideas. These are utterly random and have very little relevance to what I'll do. Just thought they might amuse people here's the batch for HQ. If you've got anymore to suggest for these or feel the need to discuss any of them please do.
Draigo
•God Mode
•I wanna play Space Marinez
•Fluff of a 2 yr old Awe Bless
•Boring Invincible Hero
•Supes
•He’s Not the Messiah He’s a Very Naughty Boy
•Ultimate Super Dupey Team Power Up
•Super Fweinds
Mordrak
•Ghost Knights
•Whoo
•Spooky
•Meh
•Legion of the Damned far cooler
•Fire Wraiths
•Wights
Stern
•Old School
•Rooky
•Aspirant
•Meh
Crowe
•Scrowe
•This Army is Reversing
•Cheese
•Net Lister Awesome
•How many Purifiers
•All Dead Now
•There Dead Crowe, Everybdy’s Dead Crowe
Grand Master
•Choppy
•Glory
•Honour Above Reason
•Honour Beyond Reason
Brother Captain
•Mildly Less Choppy
•Rooky
•Bodyguard
•Veteran Sergeant
Champion
•Tee Hee Sniper
•Knightly
•Paladin
•Brawn over Brain
•Executioner
•Code Duello
•Formal
•Honour Above Reason
Librarian
•Books
•Zappy
•Scholar
•Mind
•Intelligentsia
•Strength Through Will
•Reason above Honour
•Ends & Means
•Practicality
Inquisitor Coteaz
•Fun
•Proper Force
•Cool
•Creepy Old Guy
•Watchy
•Sneaky
•Pervy
•Voyeur
Inquisitor Karamazov
•Crazy
•Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
•Compensating for Something
•Burny Burny
•Hellfire & Brimstone
•Mad Preacher
•Southern Baptist
•Rhetoric
•Crazed Ranting
Inquisitor Valeria
•Tomb Raider
•Spaghetti Western
•Cutesy Name
•Grey
•Morally Ambivalent
•Techno-Freak
•All Gear No Idea
•Techy
•Brainy
•Science above Faith
•Science beyond Reason
•Magic Tech
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor
•Daemon Hunter
•Only 1 Need Moar
•Chosen One
•Questor
•Champion
•Support Dude
•Ends & Means
•Walls of Hell
•He who hunts Monsters
Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor
•She’s a Witch! May we Burn Her?
•Crazed Peasantry
•Medieavel
•Snazzy Hat
•Hellfire
•Mindless
•Stake
•Shadow War
•Actually it’s true
•Shadow War
•Faith above Reason
Ordo Zenos Inquisitor
•Oh Shiny!
•Tech Happy
•Nice Toys
•Yeek Bugs!!!
•Hero of another Film
•Shadow War
•Only You Can Save Mankind....



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/23 12:48:05


Post by: inmygravenimage


You know that could just be a list of Culture Ships


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/23 15:47:18


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I haven't actually read any of Iain Banks stuff.....Is it any good? It's the kind of thing thats far more fun to write than read, but if I put it here I've got it somewhere I can't loose it. I also feel it might give other people some ideas. I find it useful to make these scribbly sheets with creative projects. I'll bung some more up here soon! I've alos done this for various Imperial Factions and I'll probably do it for the Dark Heresy/Inquisitor Character Archetypes as well.


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Here's the Elites. Feel free to ignore this or to discuss any specific entries and what I mean by them in more detail.

Techmarine
• Scotty
• Brains not Brawn
• Can’t Break the Laws of Theology Captain
• Tech Gods
• Toys
• Gizmo’s
• Go Go Mechanicus Grapple Hook
• Techno-Babble
• Techno-Sorcery
Purifier
• Bestest Ever
• Boring Invincible Hero
Venerable Dreadnaught
• Shooty
• Smashy
• Revered Old One
• Bjorn (seen the Primarchs etc)
• Seen it All
• Old Vet
• Old Guard
• Tradition
• Holy
• Combat Pragmatist
Paladins
• Glory
• Honour
• Truth
• Freedom
• Faith
• In the Presence of Light the Darkness Flees
• Light
• Beacon
• Aragorn Elendil the Flame of the West
• Soulfire
• In his Name
• Men in Black Galay Defenders....
Callidus
• Hot Chick
• Sneaky
• Spy
• Cloak & Dagger
• Kinky
• Brains not Brawn
• Stiletto not a Battle Axe
Eversor
• Choppy
• Rippy
• Hacky
• Slashy
• Memento Mori
• Don’t Fear the Reaper
• Psycho
• Brainwash i.e. Shiny Happy People Holding Hands.....
Culexus
• Aieee!!!
• Abomination
• What measure a None Human?
• No Hope
• Despair
• Powered by a Forsaken Child
Vindicare
• Shooty
• Cold Sniper
• Cold Blooded Killer
• Cynic
• Dry Wit
• Sneaky
• Subtle
• Who’s the Master?
• Stealth
• Most Human of the 4 Temples.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/24 15:26:05


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Continuing through the Grey Knight Codex I've came to my favourite and currently only unit. Henchmen! These are worth splitting down further into the original types but I'll stop the wall of text by adding pictures of my own models here.

Henchmen
• Blank Slate
• Rag Tag band of Misfits
• Heroes of another Story
• Mad Bad Dangerous to Know
• Wrong Place Right Time
• Humanity
• Civvvies
• Conscripts
• Volunteers

Arco-Flagellants

• Choppy
• Happy Time
• Psycho
• Axe Crazy
• Servitor
• Blood what Blood
• Rules for Familiars
Reading the Codex entry it became obvious that Arco-Flagellants with just a close combat weapon my heavier duty Arco-Flagellants were better of as Servitors it also struck me as a good category for my Familiars as it was the only one without a gun or Power Weapon

Banishers

• Priest
• Cultist
• Nutter
• Holy
• Crazed
• Axe for some help
• He made a light....
• Relic
• Chicken Bones
• Divine Transcendence

Crusader

• Vet
• Campaigner
• Holy Cynic
• Kung Fu
• Paladin
• Templar
These guys really require a Shield to work meaning several of the models I've described as acting like this fit better as Banishers or Death Cult Assassins. It'll just make life easier during games

Daemonhost
This model was created entirely due to me doing this.

• Betrayal
• Tragedy
• Caged
• Who Suffers?
• Suffer Not the Heretic
• Ends & Means
• Unholy
• Radical
• Shell
• Gribbly
• Beastly
• Who’s the greater Monster, the Daemon, the Host or the Creator?

Death Cult Assassin

• Trickster
• Holy Merc
• Saint or Sinner?
• Prophet or Profit?
• Blade
• Bomb
• Venom
• Sniper
• Hit & Run
• Sneaky
• Stealthy
• Stabby
• Hidden in Plain Sight
• Cold Blooded or Axe Crazy?

Servitor

• Butt Monkey
• Mecha Man
• Heavy Shooty
• More Dakka
• Soulless
• Brainless
• Spiritless
• Man or Machine?
• Man or Monster?
• Big Beasty?
• What measure a none Human?

Jokaero
• Alien Merc’s
• Librarian
• Not a Monkey
• Tech Junkie
• Techno-Arcana
• Heretek
• Crazy Awesome
• Deus ex Machina
• Bodgit & Scarper
• Gifted Ignoramus
• What does that button do?
• Meddling Fools
• Techno-Babble

Mystic

• Psychic
• Hippy
• Blindfolded
• Oracle
• Destiny
• All Bollocks
• Sybil Trelawney
• Freak
• Scholar
• Booky
• Herald
• Storm Crow I name You
• Don’t Shoot the Messenger
• Nervous
• Psychedelia

Psyker

• Gifted Idjit
• Hogwarts
• Witch Craft
• Wizardry
• Shaman
• Scholar
• Booky
• Hellfire
• Damnation
• Elements
• Scribes
• Idiosyncrasy
• Mad
• Scary
• Freaky

Warrior

• Joe Bloggs
• Guardsman
• Generic
• Mercenary
• Fill in Gap
• Jack of all Trades
• Jack
• Dull
• Most Useful
• Blank Slate


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/24 18:56:19


Post by: inmygravenimage


Love the imperial chain axe on the leftmost banisher. Daemonhost is pretty sweet too!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/07/27 20:40:14


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The last bit of the Grey Knights Brainstorm. Oh and if your good and read to the end the latest models are at the bottom.

Grey Knight Terminators
• Ghostbusters
• Wall of Hell
• What Daemon’s Fear
• Hell’s Knightmare
Thawn
• Vampire
• Of Course He’s not Posessed he just acts like an axe crazy maniac
• Grand Admiral Thrawn (Star Wars)
• Magnificent Bastard
• Art Psychology
Grey Knight Strike Squad
• Cool
• Heroes kit Basic Marine
• Death Watch
• Where Heroes begin
• Squires
• Unheralded
• Forgotten
• Hopes Shield
• We protect them and they never know about it.
Rhino
• Ubiquitious
• Dull
• Useful
• Workhorse
• Not Guard
• For almost everybody else though
• Every Day ride
• Every Day sight (well in the centres of Imperial Power)
Razorback
• Gunfighter
• Serious Business
• Less Common
• Grim Necessity
• Crossed Line from Unrest to War Zone
• Facing Fire
Chimera
• Workhorse
• Of the IG
• Military vehicle
• Ubiquitious
• Front Line
• Seen the Wars
• Veteran
• Not a Relic
Storm Raven
• Herald
• Gun Ship
• Valkyries
• Wagner
• Navy
• Cavalry
• Dakka
• Ground Attack
• Aquila
Grey Knight Interceptors
• Warp Spiders
• Legion of the Damned
• Cool
• Hero
• Lightning from an unexpected quarter. Thunder from a clear sky.
• Glory in Death
• Unexpected Rescue
• Guardian Angel
• As if by Magic
Purgation Squad
• Dakka Dakka
• Holy Relics
• First Book of Armaments
• Cheating
• Devestator Squad
Dreadnaught
• Revered Old One
• Dakka
• Hallowed
• Honoured
• Technological Relic
• Adeptus Mechanicus
Nemesis Dread Knight
• Killer Baby Bouncer
• Cool
• Awesome
• Monster
• Ancient A-M
• Techno-Arkana
• Relic of Yore
Land Raider
• Statement of Power
• Old Style
• Pimp Mobile
• Hallowed Relic
• Deus Ex Machina
• Adeptus Mechanicus
Land Raider Crusader
• More Dakka
• Gatling Good
• Holy Hailfire
Land Raider Redeemer
• Hell Fire
• Holy
• Ecclesiarchy
• Flames of Redemption

It is the greatest priviledge of the Lords of the Conclave to have access to the best the Imperium can offer. My masters and others can call upon regiments of Imperial Guard, the resources of Temple, Shrine and Adeptus. They can even call upon the very paladins of the Adeptus Astartes themselves. But some would argue that their greatest political weapon are the Six members of the Daggers of the Conclave these six represent the Temples of the Assassins. The difference in skill between one of these agents and those of our homegrown cults is like the difference between an Astartes and a Guardsmen. Both have valour and bravery but one is far and away more lethal. Agent Tell is the Vindicare representative. He is actually the most human of the six and I have spoke to him on several occasions. He is a grim, fell man with a morose snse of human and cold calculating eyes.

Simply did it. I had to fix the gun with a bit of plastruct as it had been broken before I got the model from Ebay. The Bone is going to be my way of unifying the six. I kept the scheme simple and traditional - and yes I gave him silver bullets for Werewolves!

Scrivenor Archibald is one of Logistar Cuthberts chief aides he is noted for his prodigious numeracy and skill at the algebraic arts. When he and his fellows are attacked he carries a venerable old gatling autogun with a great weight of fire. Sadly enough he is a notoriously bad shot and the safest place to be when he opens fire is right in front of him. Personally I hope the Logistar confiscates that cannon from him. Or better yet encourages him to exchange it for a more accurate less deadly gun.

This guy is one of the Lead Adventurer Stea Punk sculpts. I saw them and knew they were perfect for the Black Scribes. I kept him less ornate than his fellows as befits his lower status. In game terms he counts as a Warrior Henchman with a Storm Bolter as I feel it represents the gn he's holding best.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/08/03 16:46:03


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Sorry my camera has suddenly started to refuse to speak to my computer. I've replaced the cord but don't know whats causing the problem. Do's anybody know of a good place to get advice on an old Fuji Finepix A204? This means the blog is probably on hiaitus until I can get the problem fixed at least October and more likely Christmas unless somebody knows where I can find out how to fix the problem.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/08/09 18:44:55


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Got the camera problem sorted by buying a memory card reader.
Well I've got two new fellers for you today;
William Walker the Terrible Claw is one of Aeneas Maximus's Gladiatorial performers. He was apparently a Guard officer who fell afoul of a pimp when drunk and ended up abducted and transformed into the fighting abomination you see before you. Aeneas Maximus is an old friend of my masters and him and his gladiatorial retinue can get heavily armed and highly equipped fighters within the houses of the powerful. The Terrible Claw is most noted for his performance at the banquet of the Governor of Arkensas III who was rumoured to be consorting with the diabolical Tau. During the performance he and his commpatriot suddenly turned on the baying onlookers and he himself ripped the foul individual in twain showering his prestigious guests with the offal. Arkensas III is now noted to regularly exceed its tithes.

Simple model simple scheme. Hopefully it shows enough of the Luchadore inspiration I had while painting him. I also think Aeneas Maximus and his gladiators will have to be produced.....The idea appeals to me far too much and I feel they would be great for Skirmish games and roleplay use. There are also some beautiful Sci-Fi gladiator models out there as well.
Elijah is one of the cultists of the Redeeming Fire Order these warrior monks are a regular source of mercenaries for the regimes around Felixis IV. They are noted for their determination and predilection for fiery weapons. They are apparently related to the Redemptionist brotherhoods of Necromunda. I doubt they would have attracted the interests of so many of the Conclave if it were not for their access to so many ferocious weapons. Most of the cultists carry carry rare and specialist weapons which make them highly sought after for mercenaries.

He's a simple Cawdor Juve converte to carry a Flamer. To ake a henchman list work I need far more of these and I feel claiming they're mercenaries allow them to work with any of the bands. Hope you like them!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/08/13 19:52:40


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"Q is a useful asset. He is an observer skull trained to scout and observe enemy positions without being noticed. He can then be used as a beacon for unlucky unfortunates to be teleported in. It's a hideous experience teleportation and one I recommend to avoid. Originally Q was apparently a great servant of the Omnissiah until an unfortunate incident involving an exploding chronograph, a gaunt suit and a floor buffer resulted in his untimely demise."

I want to make a few more of these. He was originally to be used as a regular repair servitor to go with my tech priest but as the Grey Knight book needs a fair few he'll probably be used as one for an Inquisitor.

"Jefferson the Subduer was another of the Enforcers the Master recruited on Wyomas Minoris. He is noted for his skill at capturing the foe. He is one of the few men accreditted with the live capture of a Genestealer Hybrid on Cobris Minor. His ability to capture live prey is very much valued by my Master but even more so by Inquisitor Cain who often requests his assistance.


He's another of the Black Scorpion Cowboys. He got a Wargames Factory German shield techied up a bit to make it a suppression shield and a Rackham Griffin Mace as a power maul.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/06 10:03:08


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Just a quick note to tell people I'm back after 3 months without the internet while working I've got a good bit of painting done for these guys however.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/07 19:50:18


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I've been quickly basing some of the models I did in Scotland up. I've also grabbed a photograph of the shale site I was using on as an ash waste background. What do people think about it?

GLEN-143 Is a useful asset to any of the forces despatched by the conclave. A Hydalberg HB-290 series Servitor the type is known for its accuracy and heavy firepower. It has however got rather large problems with Ammunition storage. GLEN-143 was requisitioned by the master after its notable performance during the defense of a pumping station in the recent unpleasantness with a splinter fleet. It was accredited with several large beast kills including that of a Harpy during the fighting.

Simply did it. This is just a Dirz Clone with a Servitor heavy Bolter I got in a large bits batch on ebay. The painting is traditional A-M Scab Red with a Camo Green wash effect on the skin.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/08 19:18:35


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Horatio Hawkins wouldn't have survived long if it wasn't for the guile, determination and above all loyalty of this man First Mate Jean d'Lame Argent. His chief retainer and the chief mate of the Ultramar Queen. He has been a feudal retainer of the family for many years and is noted for his dour sardonic humour, skill and courage. He would far rather be in the stars than on dock and is obviously severely frightened of weather. His agoraphobia is also intense. The man shows less fear facing an Ork in cobat inside than he shows on a walk in the gardens of the Conclave. His cutlass is the ceremonial weapon of his clan and the delicate powered blade is wielded with a speed that is surprising for such a stout man.
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This man is the Black Scorpion Governor given a power blade with the simple addition of some wire and plastic rod. I'm happy with the colour choice the bright green wig seemed very 40k although I'm glad the inking dulled it down!

Oh and don't forget todays the first Compleat Llamahead post ever that means I have something new going up on all 4 blogs.
Check out my Orky Scratchbuilds (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/356363.page), the 24th Islandlwanda (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/252579.page) and the Nurgle Beastmen (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/231101.page) for more.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/09 18:23:27


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"Adept Maxwell is of the Ancient and Sacred Order of the Silver Spanner. These dedicated and elite servants of the Machine God are dedicated to the remonstrance of recalcitrant machine spirits in the most subtle and dignified fashion. The traditional rites of this the absolution of percussive maintenance are held to be particularly useful when machines may be corrupted. This makes those of his order highly prized when the Imperium faces those of Chaos. They are also noted for their dedication to the maintenance of the more banal and practical aspects of the Omnissiah. They are however poorly regarded by many other factions within the Mechanicus their focus on getting a machine to work properly is seen as countering the spirits will. The idea of punishing a recalcitrant machine spirit also offends many factions. Their practicality is especially prized by the Rogue Traders and Adept Maxwell is a much valued member of the lighter maintenance crew aboard the Ultramar Queen. His presence on the bay deck is slightly vexing to him as it means he has often been called up to provide aid in spiritual matters when young Horatio decides to head off ship.

Apologies for the photograph. The colours are scab red with a large obvious silver sanner. The model is from Lead Adventurers Steam Punk range. I like this less sinister look for a Tech Priest myself. What do other people think?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/10 21:21:38


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Hubert Freidrak is another member of the Dawn Templars their courage and skill as well as the dedication to the cause make them popular recruits to the Imperial cause. They are foten found in the retinues of Inquisitors or serving as bodyguards to members of the Ecclesiarchy. Several have also served high houses or rogue traders when the temple has decreed their cause righteous. Hubert Friedrak has been in the service of my master for most of the past decade. He is in many ways my masters most trusted acolyte. He is ruthless and amoral but not immoral. I have seen him selflessly take on a combat servitor in the defence of a mother and his child. Many in the service of my master would have left them to their fate. His greatest hour came with his killing of Simeon a rogue Astartes who had fallen prey to the ruinous powers and had led a small feral tribe to worship him and his deity. It was one of the greatest fights it has been my priviledge to witness. Speed and precision where matched against strength and brutality. I still can not comprehend quite how he managed to deliver the lethal thrust through the neck joint of the armour.



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/11 23:28:19


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Davan is a mercenary. A native of the hives of Hrin he is a young member of the Gyrison Trade House. The House was lucky it was punished for starting a bloody trade war in Landing Hive. This ended up killing over ten thousand people and worse imperilling a tithe payment. Both houses involved were forced to pay huge damages quadrupling their tithe commitment for the year. As well as that 85% of bth houses were tithed into the Imperial Guard and despatched to the Ladysmith War Zone. Davan and several of his fellows came to the notice of my master after they were sentenced to death for shooting a Commissar. While the Commissar was implanted with a Genestealer this was fealt not to mitigate the crime. My master however decided these men could be useful and requisitioned the group into the penal legion. Since then they have served my master and many of the other Conclave members as weapons specialists.

Chipped nose glares out, bugger. The model is a Van Saar Juve with a Ladysmith pattern Meltagun (see my 24th Islandlwanda blog for a tutorial) He's part of my desire to move the force into a Corteaz list. There is going to be several of these generic mercenary groups who can be assigned to any of the bands. The Dawn Templars are one, as are the Cult of Redeeming Fire and Sword Brides. I can also assign the Servitors about. I'm also wondering how little I can get away with too claim that the Griffin Fusiliers I own are Specialists as well....
Oh and todays a Compleat Llamahead so check out the rest of my blogs.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/13 18:38:09


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Techpriest llewellyen is a dour grizzled ancient. Unlike many Adepts there are no visible signs of bionic augmentation. He is far more subtly augmented being an auto-savant. He is also particularly noted for his skill and flair in the control and maintenance of Servitors. He is arguably the closest man alive to Chirax von Grimme as well and may even hard to believe serve as his confidant. His laser Rifle is of a superior design and make and it is capable of horrific damage.

He counts as a Warrior with Hot-Shot Lasgun. After reading this in the codex I suddenly realised I don't have to muck about with my Fusiliers.......He's the Venerable Ambrosius mdel given an adeptus Mechanicus Red/Scab Red scheme.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/14 21:35:29


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I've just finished up painting Buster & Tremaine the models which I started this project with last year. I've also got the pair of hounds which go with him. I'm happy with his scheme which makes him look futuristic enough for 40k without any conversion work. It's inspired by the classic Arbitrator scheme and definitely works well. Hope you like him.






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Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/15 20:43:22


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"Abbot Mortimer assigned himself to aid the Conclave after having been involved in the Secultis Rebellion. He was the head of a large monastery on Secultis "The Church of the Imperator Resplendent". When the world rebelled against it's lawful Governor he naturally assisted loyalist forces and helped crush the rebellion. Not however before it required the despatching of an Imperial Army Goup to quell the indignant proles. When Inquisitor Cain investigated the cause of rebellion Abbot Mortimer pledged his services to her and the Conclave as an act of penitence for allowing the seed of rebellion and treachery to blossom on his world."

He's a Black Scorpion model.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/16 20:17:12


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Adept Snee is one of the most skilled of the Logistar Primaris followers. Quite how and why an administrator developed such a fascination with fire and explosives baffles me. He claims to have enjoyed playing with them from childhood and takes a positively gleeful delight in using them. The Logistar Primaris was gifted his services after these skills became apparent during an attack on the administratum offices in Hibranmouth on Secultis he gleefully began rigging things to explode with household items and cleaning equipment holding of the rioters for a quarter of an hour before the Arbitrators could arrive. He is also a crackshot with his Quad Stub Gun.

He's a Lead Adventurers Steam Punk model. I'm not quite sure what to do with him can Henchmen take Demo Charges or Melta Bombs?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/17 18:34:39


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Boris the Blade is a master of Stealth. He is the quiet expert who the Logistar Primaris uses when he needs to access forbidden records and hidden tomes. He has an unerring instinct for the truth and is one of the greatest spys in the Conclave if you need intelligence he can acquire it. Originally sentenced to Servitorhood for the burglary of a noble household on Hrin the Logitar decided to acquire his services and obtained him a pardon. For that he got a totally loyal utterly amoral servant.

I've planned this conversion for a while and here he is the Dirz Standard Bearer Tech Priest with Servo-Harness. Hope you like him.




Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/18 06:45:10


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I do love your demented imagination! Great conversions. Only thing I would say is that some of the paintwork looks at bit blobby; maybe try thinning your paints a little?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/18 20:39:53


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Actually it might be solved by going back to the blue background all the recent shots are slightly out of focus........Yep back to the blue backgrund and see whether its improved


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/19 20:43:20


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Well it must be me not trying often enough with the photographs because this shot is actually (gasp) in focus.
Malkin the Cook is a strong tough garulous man who for some reason I haven't yet fathomed is usually dragged on away missions with his Young Master. Most of the psychics of the party absolutely detest the man and will all hide far from him. He is the only man I've ever seen to make a Risp cower

Just the Black Scorpion cook with a baggage backpack. Probably get used as a Warrior as it's a useful catch-all category.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/20 15:47:02


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Operative PM 5 is one of the most terrible weapons in the Conclave's arsenal. He excels at ripping through installations. He is used when collateral damage dosn't matter and subtlety is not required. Their are times when the use of shck and brutality is an excellent thing to insure the fealty of the Emperor's subjects. I can happily say I've never seen the carnage when he is fielded and frankly I pray I never will.

It's a day for Asassin's today. I've won a Callidus and Culexus on Ebay completing the one's GW produces I want to do the other 2 temples but I haven't decided what to do yet. I've also assembled 2 ancient GW Ninjas to use as Death Clt Assassin's (their the same age as me). Anybody got any advice on painting Asian skintones?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/21 19:00:22


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Many people find the varied cloaks of the Dawn Templars surprising. Most Death Cults where one uniform. Apparently according to Erik Durkheim the cloaks are selected by themselves and their masters at their final indction into the cults mysteries. Quite what these entail he never did explain but he did tell me that his was chosen due to his service in the Neu Bogenhafen PDF's elite Jaeger regiment before he joined the cult. He is an expert woodsman and is an exceptional tracker. This has led to him being preferred for solo missions and the elimination of threats. It took all of my master's clout to get him assigned to him.

What can I say I like the Dawn Warrior models and have several. Their nice and simple to paint as well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/22 15:34:59


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Great fig. I almost regret selling all my dirz to hungry DE players...


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/22 18:04:31


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Heh at one point I actually regretted buying my Dirz. I picked them and my Cadwallon up right at the end of 3.5 after i'd been working away and had saved up a good bit of money.....Just before I'd realised that everybody had stopped playing. I continued painting them for a bit but moved onto other things rather regretfully as 3.5 was my favourite ruleset. Then I realised they'd be excellent for a few Inquisitor Warbands and this grew from it as a reason to paint these wonderful models.

Shirriff Thaddeus Constantine led his squad well through the hell of the Wyomas uprising. Loyal and steady he personally managed to destroy a daemon during the last deadly confrontation with the cult. During the Warp Rift he and my master fought back to back until my master beheaded Tziarkis. His dedicated service and investigation skill was also vital to our actions upon that world. It was him who managed to discover the corruption within Los Alamis City and provide the evidence for my master to call the Blood Hawks in. Without the knowledge he'd have uncovered we'd have attacked without their support and been killed.

He's the Black Scorpion Sherriff model with a Wargames Factory Suppression Shield and a Griffin Power Maul.
With him done the Special Investigation Team is complete and here they are.

In gameplay it would work as an Inquisitors Retinue consisting of
3 Arco-Flagellants (Hounds)
Banisher (Pastor Mc Kinley)
2 Warrior Acolytes with Boltguns (not Shotguns can't have them for some reason or basic Lasguns for that matter........)
4 Crusaders (Tremaine, the Shirriff and the 2 guys with Shields)

Actually fairly good in an assault but probably more a thematic than a game winning unit.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/11/30 21:33:49


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"Adept Aaron Boston was a man driven near insane by the seccession wars on Secultris. He served for three years in the Topeka Loyalist Front an Imperial Allied Guerilla cell as their logistic officer. After they were betrayed by an informant Adept Boston was the only survivor. He spent the next three days tracking down the informant and then tortured him to death. After that he left Topeka and headed to the capital hunting and killing as he went. A crack shot with his gun and skilled at knife work he is one of the fearsome Black Clerks sent on the toughest investigations by the administration."

Lead Adventurers Sculpt. No conversion (none of these guys needed it). Resembles Abraham Lincoln a lot more when in focus.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/05 21:50:09


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"Chaplain Francis Mac Abel has served many regiments since volunteering as a regimental chaplain for the Gresondheim Crusade. He fought at the forefront of the battle and survived the disbanding of nine regiments due to battle losses. He is a veteran fighter and wields both axe and censor with passion and power fervently praising the Imperator. Eventually his exploits drew the attention of his superiors in the Ecclesiarchy. He outright refused a role outside of combat and tried to avoid leaving the Guard, however eventually a compromise was reached and he was assigned by the synod to the Conclave. He has been at the forefront of our battles ever since. I first met him fighting at my masters side on Aglia and it was he who inducted me into many of the dark secrets and correct forms of shriving and penance to deal with the forbidden lore I now know."

Unusually for me a photograph in focus. I really want a better camera. I'm happy with the blued armour effect just made by a blue wash over the gunmetal armour. I didn't even soak the entire model in brown ink, just applying it to a few places to make the blue sheen more obvious. Photoshops exaggerated it a fair bit in person its more subtle.



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/06 20:29:18


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Found this browsing the internet and thought it might appeal to a lot of people on here http://kuksi.com/. Lots of surreal baroque modernist sculptures and stuff.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/07 22:33:00


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"Del & Trig have an almost symbiotic relationship. The rnutish mutant known as Del is the brains of the pair and a devilishly keen mind with a rascally sense of business acumen. He always seems to gt himself tied into the local bruiser. Trig the Ogryn is a brutish gentle giant who leaves all the abstract thinking and reasoning to his little brother. How the pair met I have no idea but they provide the Logistar with a seful combination of criminal contacts and brute force. Most people who wouldn't think twice about intimidating a bureaucratic won't argue much at all with his Ogryn bodyguard."


The models a Confrontation Khauriks Trigger with no modification. I painted him up in the Hochland scheme to see whether I liked it. With a simple rebase he'd be perfect as filler in an Empire army which I'm promising for next years big new project. If my finances ever improve. He was a pig to paint and needed several lots of touch ups and I've still missed some places. Not sure how to use him in 40k but in regular Inqisimunda he'll provide a useful dollop of brute force to the Logistar.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/08 18:42:43


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"Dorothea is another of the Sword Brides of Knocknarea,as such she is a skilled bodyguard and capable with her greatsword. She had been serving a noble on the hiveworld of Orion until her sister Cordelia contacted her and requested her assistance. An argument other the terms of her contract led to it and the noble being terminated and rather than deal with the trouble she left with the Inquisitor who she has served loyally ever since. She is far quieter and softer spoken than her sisters in the order."

Poor photo. The bright pink hair is to put more of the cyberpunk aspects into the force.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/09 19:21:48


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Like it; your painting's really coming on!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/11 18:12:00


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Todays a Compleat Llamahead post ever that means I have something new going up on all 4 blogs.
Check out my Orky Scratchbuilds (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/356363.page), the 24th Islandlwanda (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/252579.page) and the Nurgle Beastmen (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/231101.page) for more.

"Frater Sexaginta Novem is one of the secretive Brothers of the Floating Butterfly. They are an order of assassins devoted to the Imperial creed. They are particularly known to oppose corruption in the Ecclesiarchy and many a priest has been found dead his guts splayed on his altar and evidence of his sins displayed before all. They have only survived for two reasons the support of the Ordo Hereticus and the fact that nobody knows the location of their temple. It has many rumoured locations from the peaks of the hives of Hrin to an asteroid in Ladysmith. The brothers all forgo their names and accept a number presumably to prevent reprisals and make their temple harder to track."

The models an ancient (1985 predating 40k) GW Ninja. I got him in a bulk lot along with some old skaven and releassed he'd suit the crazed random nature of this project. I've also got some more Dirz of Ebay one of the elements is 7 Jadharis clones the more ornate Dirz warriors with Halberds about midway between the basi Halberdiers and the Keratis. I'm planning to convert these into Grey Knight Skitari and i'm wondering whether Mechachendrites or Servo-Skulls would look better holding the guns. Currently I'm leaning towards Servo-Sklls anybody else have any ideas?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/14 20:36:18


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"Fluffy the Doom Kitty is the result when you allow a ten year old to name new species. Sadly enough that is the one priviledge Jean Argent always lets him do himself and he rather enjoys it. Fluffy is a well fed and looked after pet who has adopted and guards young Horatio well. His protectiveness is one of the main reasons nobody has attempted a coup to take over his ship. Between his ferocity and Jean's skill there wuld be little left of the perpetrators."

Rackham Tiger of Dirz with a 40k style base.
Another member of the 419th Hrin's World (The Gyrisian Grenadiers) Gravan was inducted into imperial service at the same time as Davan. He has acted in support of a number of agents of the Conclave since being inducted. Skilled Guardsmen are a useful resource as few men know and understand the rites of maintenance for such deadly weapons as Meltaguns"

He's a Van Saar juve given a head and weapon swap. I went with a Zulu head to create a more multiracial look than is often found in Imperial organisations, I'm trying to create a more diverse looking force and this seemed a reasonable way to do it.

The last thing is this. I've decided to go with adding servo-skulls to my Jadharis Clones and Keratis warriors to provide guns so I can use them for Grey Knights. Which do you feel looks better? The smaller, basic style or the bigger servo-skull gunship?




Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/16 22:12:14


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This bloke will be used as a counts as Grey Knight with Psycannon.

The cannon itself is based on a Autocannon (the lng one from the heavy weapon squad along with my old stand by a Rawl Plug. I've got to strip the Jadharis, Keratis and Skorize Clones. I'm currently planning on using the larger gunship style servo-skulls.....


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2011/12/18 18:59:12


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It's about the end of the year and I thought I could review what I've done and where I'm going for each of my Blogs (Next week i'm back home for Christmas and New Years and this way the update will have substance). This years been tough financially due to lack of work and the decline in cnstruction. However the works been fun and varied when I've had it. The lack of funds haven't really affected this project that much as this project has focused on models I already had and Ebay pick ups primarily. It's a kitchen sink project with a little bit of everything and thats good. It's gained a bit of focus with the release of the Grey Knights book but that has been at the expense of allies which was the original reason for the models. Hmmph. I've added to the project fairly regularly keeping at it when I was on my away job. It was there that the advantage of painting them as individuals shone through giving me far more variety and painting than if I'd brought squads up.
The idea of using this project to represent the breadth of the Imperium has taken a hit recently my acquisition of a lot of Dirz models has allowed me to use them for regular Grey Knight units. This'll put the Paladin and Legion of the Damned idea on definite backburner. However the fact I don't need an Inqisitor for each retinue has encouraged me to start on Ecclesiarchy and Ministorum forces (The Steam Punk inspired Black Clerks are a definite favourite of mine). I've still continued to potter with random models and could possibly do with focusing more using an army list. The mercenary idea will also definitely help boosting the combat power and effectiveness of several units.
Painting wise I'm definitely playing more and trying new things. Inspired mainly by Neil101's excellent blog I've been trying to introduce more RT/ pure 40k elements. This is admittedly mainly the brightening up of my palette and the use of day-glo hair. I'm also producing a higher standard of minature. Modelling has always been what I'm best at and the recent Servitor with Psycannon and the earlier Chrono-Gldiator are arguably my best individual models. Wtih the Chrono-Gladiator arguably my favourite in both painting and background. Improving my photography has got to be a focus for next year.
What does the future hold? Well the Dirz clones for Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii/Praetorians are a definite fixture. I'd like to add some armour and get a reasonable battle ready 1500 point list. The armour will consist of a Land Raider Crusader I brought six years ago painted up in an Ad-Mech livery. As well as this I'd like to add some more heavy hitters using some giant robots if I can find some in a style I like. I also may well use some of the designs from http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/index.html. Thinking about that a few Old Crow pieces might well do the trick as well. Converting my Centurus Clones into Paladins is a definite idea. I'm also after some of the Redemptionists from necromunda as more devout nutcases. However this is still on the slow and steady, low priority pint each model as an individual pace as it's going to remain my fun project.
Oh and heres the Rogue Trader Party..........

Oh and I could still do with some opinions on the Servitor Skull designs if you would be so kind!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/06 19:50:56


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Here's a quick story for you. Nothing special.

It was a cold drizzly day in Trydle City. The grey brick structures provided a bit of shelter for the Provost and the grim moustachioed man beside him. They were watching the road waiting for a specific car that the Watch Master himself had sent out a Bolo for. They’d desultorily chattered for a bit but the cold and boredom had led to them failing into a watchful relaxation and observation. It was then that the ground car rounded the bend. It was a simple normal small white van without any distinguishing features. Swiftly Provost Jenson nodded to the archaic looking Arbitrator and with a flick of a switch activated the Slasher which deployed its spikes. The driver of the van didn’t notice driving over them and bringing it to a swift juddery stop. Quickly the Arbitrator moved into action grabbing the door of the ram and with one tap of his mace smashing the lock and opening the door. Jenson could see the driver was in a bad state but that didn’t stop the Arbitrator rapping her head again applying the Shock Mace to the sweet spot where several hours of unconsciousness would be certain but death was unlikely. Jenson frowned it seemed overkill to use that level of force on an unconscious subject. But he then heard a sound a thrashing noise from the back followed by some muffled sobs. He left his place by the door and went round to the rear door where he was jerked up short by the Arbitrator. “Let me lead it might not be pretty and they might not be human”.
Jenson shrugged, “I’ll smash the latch in you cover with shield and mace” he suggested.
The Arbitrator nodded “On Three”.
Jenson shrugged reached the position and started counting down with his fingers. As the third dropped down he smashed the latch and inside he saw a bound young couple. Obviously they were no threat. The Arbitrator relaxed and took a Comm Unit out of his pocket “Master we’ve caught her and a pair of victims. What do you want done?”
A momentary pause and then “Yes Sir will do”.
Jenson had clambered in and was about to release the first prisoner a young man when he received a sharp tap on his shoulder. “Don’t the bonds are evidence my master will need to see everything. They’ll also help when he gets here”.
Jenson glared at the Arbitrator but nodded. He couldn’t quite understand but nobody with any sense argued with the Arbites let alone the Inquisition. “The Masters sending along a van, it’ll be here in moments. You’ve done well and don’t worry about the victims if they are innocent they’ll be released but they must be checked for signs of corruption”.
The eyes suddenly turned grim “Believe me you don’t want to know what’s at stake here”.
The prisoner awoke handcuffed to a grim pitiless cold steel table. She was a pretty woman probably older than she first appeared with long blond hair. The black cloaked figure looked at her dispassionately, “You are known to have been involved in the kidnap and butchery of four couples you were captured with the fifth in your van”.
She glowered at him her eyes showing no remorse and no denial. He paid her no attention not even looking at her. “While being prepared for interrogation certain blemishes were found on your body, your life is forfeit just as you have forfeited your soul”.
She still didn’t react. “If you will divulge details of your compatriots their names and goals I may show some mercy, or I shall be forced to use other means”.
She snorted and grinned with maniacal glee she tittered “I look forward to it Corpse fondler, the pain will be a blessing”.
“Pain you mistake me, I know the pleasure your sick kind take in sensation revelling in all its lurid excesses”.
“So you know I’ll never talk”.
“Oh but you will I understand you and know how to break your foul kind”.
“You fool you can never break us, the taste of your tongs will be a faint tickle compare to the torments the prince will put us through if you betray him”.
“Maybe Mischa prepare the chamber, you see you witch I’m not going to give you any sensation whatsoever I’m going to deprive you of all of them”

The new guy is a Catachan Sniper on an Urban base

"Sniper Ross was specifically requested by Inquisitor von Grimme along with his platoon from the XXVII Catachan "The Striking Serpents" after they became embroiled in a firefight with a Category D abomination. They naturally couldn't be returned to their regiment to retell what they had seen and brainwiping was impractical. Even von Grimme baulked at the idea of eecuting such useful soldiers and instead seconded the platoon into his service and that of the Conclave. There are now less than a dozen survivors",


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/08 19:24:11


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This is the first Compleat Llamahead of the year.
I've got Logistar Cuthbert's Black Scribes on show here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/279068.page
Two new Escort Squadrons here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/356363.page
The first rebased Platoon for my 24th Islandlwanda here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/240/252579.page
And finally a new group of minions for my Forces of Nurgle (and above a new BSB) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/231101.page

Here are the Black Scribes of Logistar Cuthbert completed.

The fluff unit without any mercenaries consists of from Left to Right
Adept Snee - Warrior with Laspistol/Lead Adventurer Steam Punk model
Del & Trig - Servitor with Power Fist AND Servito with Heavy bolter/Rackham Khaurik's Trigger
Logistar Cuthbert - Warrior with Laspistol/Rackham Cadwallon Undertaker
Jacques the Knife (Hiding at the back) - Death Cult Asassin/Rackham Cadwallon Assassin
Adept Frobisher - Warrior with Laspistol/Lead Adventurer Steam Punk model
Boris the Blade (Hiding at the back, what is it with Assassins and lurking out of sight) - Death Cult Asassin/Rackham Cadwallon Assassin
Astropath Klorsman-Mystic/Rackham Oracle of Danu
Adept Boston- Warrior with Storm Bolter/ Lead Adventurer Steam Punk Model
Scrivenor Archibald- Warrior with Storm Bolter/ Lead Adventurer Steam Punk Model

About a 100pts of cowering on an objective. With a bit of firepower and some CC kick.

The new guy is Adept Frobisher as I've said sadly he has to be used as a warrior with Laspistol their isn't a Plasma Pistol or Bolt Pistol even option for Henchmen.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/313780-Adept%20Frobisher.html?m=2
"Adept Frobisher is a gifted Forensic Accountant he is highly skilled at prizing eactly where money has gone. This is especially useful when Heretics and Rebels accounts are impounded and reclaimed for better uses by the Imperium."


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/13 22:25:24


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Here he is my painted Adeptus - Mechanicus Elit Skitarri with Daemon-Hammer. Happy with the colour schemes and he looks quite nice if I say so myself.

I'm going to leave background for these guys until I've worked it out for myself. Anybody know of a good Adeptus-Mechanicus fluff site? I'd also like to know of the origin of the term Hypaspist and see if I can find some similiar ones to use.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/14 17:11:15


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[i]Frater Nonaginta Tres like Frater Sexaginta Novem is a member of the Order of the Floating Butterfly. Their members are all highly capable martial artists and unlike most organisations value skill in unarmed combat rate above the use of weaponry. I suspect this is partly due to their targets as while corrupt priests may be protected by watchful bodyguards and high-tech security systems they usually can't put up much of a fight. Quietly throttling or gutting them is far less likely to raise the alarm. I believe that Frater Nonaginta Tres is some form of apprentice to Frater Seaginta Novem although both are reluctant to discuss the orders practises to a none adherent.

Another of the Eighties GW Ninja's.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/16 19:53:38


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Slightly blurry but not bad. Should have something eciting fr you tomorrow.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/17 22:22:35


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Thanks a lot mate. There won't be any fluff for this lot either I've got to work out how to integrate these guys into the story line. We'll start with the Inquisitor. Unusually I'm happy with the painting the colour choices work and it's neat. The entire thing is a nice characterful Inquisitor piece. This guys my count as Coteaz and I hope he looks the part.

I've also got the Adeptus Mechanicus Strike Team and a Praetorian Servitor done. Eventually I'll have 4 of these to use. Rather than Servo Skulls I've used Styrene Rod to add MIU Storm Bolters on some of the models

From Left to Right
Jadharis Clone (Regular GK)
Clone (Psycannon)
Vicar of Dirz (Justicar)
Centurus (Praetorian/Paladin)
Jadharis (Regular GK)
Keratis Warrior (GK with Daeon Hammer)
If I can source more Jadharis I might reform the Keratis into a Grey Knight Terminator Squad. I reckon its pretty self explanatory don't you?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/18 22:39:11


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Inquisitor Solomon Cortez is the current holder of the title Champion of the Conclave. When the Conclave declares all out war and musters it's forces against the foe it is the Champion who has over all control. The selection is grim and arduous and many great champions from all arenas of the Imperium compete. Cortez defeated several other Inquisitors, a Rogue Trader, two Confessors of the Ecclesiarchy, several colonels of the guard and two Astartes champions to take the title. The challenge is competed with three tests those of Wisdom, Will and Worth these are set by the preceding Champion and are not revealed until the succession challenge has been answered. The judgement upon victory is pronounced by the high council of the Conclave. It is worth noting that the position is believed to be accursed with the incumbent always dieing on the ninth anniversary of their ascension. Whether nine days, years or in one case (the defenestration of Colonel Grislock) minutes. This is rumoured to be due to the fall of Inquisitor Brindin to Tzeentch and his execution after his mark was discovered during the test of Worth in 39855. Both his Hammer and his Eaglan Loki were his long before his ascension. He has proven himself a skilled leader and while he has still to prove himself in a great battle his leadership through several smaller skirmishes has been successful. A veteran member of the Ordo Xenos his involvement in the Rourke's Drip incident on Ladysmith brought him great favour among the Adeptus Mechanicus who willingly aid him for the provision of captured heretek for safe disposal.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/21 19:34:22


Post by: Llamahead


Heres another Heavy Bolter Servitor I'm going to leave of the fluff for these guys and g to town on that for the Tech-Priests. Happy with the paint job and conversion using Servitor bits made it nice and simple.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/23 21:18:58


Post by: Llamahead


Just finished detailing a Mayate kit from http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/index.html To use as a Razorback counts as. I've added a lot of details as the origial kit is fairly 2D and with exquisite printed on detail which I'm going to crudely daub paint over. These include a new Turret inspired by the Hydra/Manticore 1 and entirely my own design. I also added vents made with cable ties (a nice simple technique) to the Hovercrafty bits. As well as hatches and a bit of 3d Detail to the skirt. I'm quite happy with the model and it should fit the force well. It could be neater but it couldn't be cheaper! Seriously I'd like 4 Razorbacks/Rhinos which is £80 and while I'll probably go with Old Crow Glaives and Gladius instead it'll still be an investment. I also felt like something simple before I got stuck back into the Chimeras and the more complex 8x8's




Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/23 21:31:20


Post by: Scarper


Nice work llamahead! The paintjob on both your recent servitors is really good - nice choice of parts too! What's the original model for your most recent one? I don't think I recognise it.

Eclectic choices as always - keep up the awesome work!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/23 22:17:46


Post by: Llamahead


It's another Rackham Dirz Clone. They are brilliant for this kind of thing. Unfortunately since Rackham's been out of business Ebay's your best bet.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/25 23:47:37


Post by: Llamahead


"The forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus are as varied as that of the Guard if anything even more so. Savants fight alongside indless Sevitor. Tiny organisms and Great Titans are mustered. They have all the same requirements as well. That's where the Exploratus Speculor come in. Skitarii trained as Scouts they are far more independently minded than most lay brothers of the Omnissiah. Lightly armed and equipped usually with powerful and ornate Hell Rifles the Exploratus Speculor are all reasonable marksmen. Outside of battle they are often tasked to work idependently and are a common sight in many Underhives hunting for Archaeotech earning their way with useful repairs and fighting their way out when it's required. Exploratus Speculor Xerxes has also received secondary training as a spotter for the great guns of the Omnissiah's faithful intrusted with a powerful Linkscope he can broadcast imagery from it to the supporting artillery.

The model is a Rackham Fusilier I'm pretty happy with the freehand on the scarf.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/27 19:39:09


Post by: Llamahead


Here's the next Fire Team.

From Left to Right we have;
Dirz Clone with Rawl Plug Psycannon
Jadharis Clone
Skorize Clone (Secutor fire-team leader Justicar)
Jadharis Clone
Keratis Warrior with Gun-blade Halberd (Daemon-hammer)
All are Rackham Dirz models. I switched the plastic styrene stuff for Florist's wire which give's these a bit of variety and a lot more flexibility with their Storm Bolters. Hope you like them. This gives me a full tactical squad of ten as well. Should get the guys undercoated pretty soon and then onto paint.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/30 19:50:23


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Got a couple of models painted for you. Ones a Risp as I felt like doing something different

The others my second Multi-Melta Servitor

I've also won some bits and bobs on Ebay. A copy of the Cadwallon players book, a chaos dwarf gunner earmarked for the Hellcannon and a set of Mordheim Pit Slaves which have been earmarked to join William Walker I might acquire an old Romanesque model to represent his trainer as well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/01/30 19:53:10


Post by: inmygravenimage


That's a mighty big gun. Sits very nicely on the hybrid's shoulder


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/07 19:33:36


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers inmygravenimage. I'm very happy with the pose it just works rather nicely. I think the gun and chainsaw arms angle reflecting each other emphasises itself well.
These are what I'm showing off however these Gladiators are to go with William Walker. They are the Mordheim pit slaves on round bases with the chapion given a space marine helm. This I want to make look a fake reproduction. I now need to find and 40k up an elderly roman to represent the Gladiator trainer.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/08 07:51:28


Post by: inmygravenimage


Take a look at some of the figs for urban war - scifi gladiators...


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/08 20:33:42


Post by: Llamahead


I've seen them on the web I will consider picking some up at some point certainly!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/09 18:44:30


Post by: Llamahead


Got a nice shoe box of interesting bitz coming up it's a junk lot from ebay land scenery and a few sprues of RTB01 marines. Legion of the Damned I think!


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Oh and the Cadwallon book is gorgeous and being sold insanely cheap I picked mine up for £3 I've happily paid that for beer........


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/12 19:37:01


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Painted up my first Asthetaroi named Hanralk. What I'll do with fluff for these guys is write up each squad as one piece. The model is a Rackham Dirz Jadharis Clone with a nice stout Mind Impulse Unit Storm Bolter attached to his backpack using styrene rod. Styrene rod is one of those things I do recommend getting the proper stuff for as it will be far easier to glue and work with.

Sorry for the photograph my camera is really playing up today.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/19 23:38:33


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First the bad news I misread the description on the old RTB01 marines I bid on so that design of Interceptor squad won't happen. However the good news is that he Urban War Interceptor's I've acquired in a trade with inmygravenimage will allow me to fill up my strike squads with them and use my Keratis for Terminator's which will give me a larger more flexible force. Centurus will always remain Paladins . I'm willing to neglect TLOS for Rule of Cool. Best news of all Kassalis Venin the Dirz Cadwallon special hero will be winging his way towards me supplying me with the Venenum assassin. I'm still looking for inspiration for the Vanus assassin who I want to look techy but not Mechanicus.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/02/24 19:25:52


Post by: Llamahead


I've won a job lot of Keratis which will give me roughly a 10 man Terminator Squad and another Cypher Lurkhan for a Grand Master/Librarian


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/06 21:20:01


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Here's the next Asthetaroi painted up. There will be a psycannon servitor following soon.

I've also got some Void models traded from inmygravenimage converted up these will replace the Keratis in my Strike Squad giving me some regular Terminators.

The toy llama was found in the street and I've adopted him as a luck piece.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/08 21:32:55


Post by: Llamahead


Here's my Psycannon for the Strike Squad or Peltast as I've decided to refer to them.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/20 22:44:04


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Here's the squad leader in the five man version a Vicar of Dirz converted into a Adeptus Mechanicus Magos


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/21 16:13:35


Post by: inmygravenimage


Nice, elegant conversion. Love the robes; your painting's fair come along mate!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/25 16:59:45


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks a lot mate.

Well todays a Compleat Llamahead so theres something everywhere
My Orky Scratchbuilds have more new ships and I'm detouring into Epic (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/356363.page), the 24th Islandlwanda with the complete infantry rebased and painted thats well over 150 models.... (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/252579.page) and the Forces of Nurgle (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/231101.page) for more.

I am still horrified by the fate of Corporal Forester who joined us during the suppression of the Harbingers of Rass. He and his squad aided the master in an assault on a malefic shrine during a ritual in which the followers of this foul daemon attempted to summon one of his lesser minions with a sacrifice. We put to the sword and las-bolt these foul cultists but as Corporal Forester reached to retrieve the child the minion grabbed his soul and posessed him. I am not sure whether my master could have driven the daemon out then but instead he decided to bind the daemon within the Corporal. He has used his foul knowledge and prescience to bust open many fou cults and prevent many manifestations. I can understand the fact that the ends justify the means but I can't help but mourn the destruction of this good man's soul and wonder what my complicity to it's fate will do to my own


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/28 20:32:56


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Got the first five man basic strike squad done rather pleased with these guys even if I do say so myself.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/29 07:11:28


Post by: inmygravenimage


Good job. Impressively strong yellow on those hazard stripes!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/03/29 08:51:35


Post by: Llamahead


Tan (Bubonic Brown) undercoat does the job great it's also how I paint skin....


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It's a Vallejo yellow as well and I've generally had good results with it.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/04/01 11:29:16


Post by: Llamahead


"Enginseer Llewellyen is one of the most devoted servants of the Omnissiah I know brave and fearless his tender care for all of the Omnissiah's creations is a true example to all. He is highly skilled at the techno-divinitic arts of machine whispering and an exceptional intuitive investigator. He is considered one of the most trustworthy and useful of the Conclave's field agents and unbeknown to him is being considered for induction into the inner circle. His work on the Velocipede an adrift vessel recovered recently in Hyondai orbit is currently being considered for incorporation in the great library of Mars itself. A truly prodigious feat for such a young and low ranking priest."




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Explorator Speculor Danzig is a highly experienced scout and one of the few survivors of Magos Dimitri Sullivan's fourth expedition. This expedition suffered hideous luck and constant bandit trouble. During an attack by mutants the primary water cleanser was lost and the resulting epidemic of mutations killed and drove insane most of the survivors. Danzig managed to leave a half dozen lay brothers back to the templum on floor 47X after this he returned with a team of Skitarii to secure and recover any survivors. It turned out that the damage had been total and very little of the expedition was recovered. However the resulting scouging has reduced the occurrence of mutation in the 56th Quadrant by 95% a phenomenal success and evidence if more proof were needed of the infectious nature of the unclean.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/04/03 19:45:02


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[i]"The Hive World of Klimt had been cut off in a warp eddy for two and a half thousand years. During this time all records of the destruction of the Hives and the radical transformation of society that followed were lost. It appears that the one bastion of order and stability was an order known as the Servants of the Emperor this itinerant order of travelling priests helped protect the scattered communities of emperor worshipping servants from the mutants surrounding them and gradually they began to reclaim the world. By the time of recontact the Reconquista was practically complete with the Inquisitorial and Ministorum investigation team willing to reaccept the world without major purges. Klimt is now known as a world of lost treasures and hidden reaches. This has the unfortunate affect of catching many unsavoury types who attempt to prey upon the populace. The Servants of the Emperor fight to protect his temples from these looters and any others. They still act as wandering preachers and law bringers dealing with the problems of their world.

Rider Utheldred is one of several riders who have joined my master who was involved in the capture and execution of a Rogue Trader Maximillian Fontescue, who had been trafficing heretical artefacts from one of the ruins. Several dozen was involved in the ferocious fighting which managed to unleash a Daemon bound within by a psychic member of the Servants generations ago. My master led the charge and personally disembowelled the fool Fontescue as well as decapitating the Daemon with Cy'greddawr's bane. Unfortunately my master was left with a stark choice execution of the surviving Servants or recruitment. Thankfully he chose recruitment (possibly as his retainers were still outnumbered badly by the remaining Servants). Since then they have served him well and my master has kept his contacts with the order. One of the reasons for this is the many well trained psychic warriors they produce possibly a legacy of the carnage of the fall.

Utheldred himself is no psyker but his skill with his Lawkeeper pistols is impressive as well as his knowledge and ability with horses he has ended up acting as my masters chief hostler dealing with whatever mounts we may require. He has shown a great deal of skill over the years in adopting his techniques to the mounts of many worlds."


This is a Griffin Thallion Rider without conversion. I painted this bloke because I'd just seen Neil101's awesome mounted Inquisitor again and wanted to create something similiar. I still have no idea how to integrate him into the army......
Any Suggestions?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/04/17 17:46:02


Post by: Llamahead


Hector is an Orkustilo a gladiator who fights in the style of an Ork. One of Aeneas Maximuses prize fighters he entered the ring after arriving from the invaded agriworld of Tyronis. One of thousands of refugees swept up in the Ork Waagh he eventually fell into one of the criminal gangs where he served as a brutal enforcer preferring to use an axe. Eventually however he saw the adverts for recruits to the arena and the prospect of fame in front of the baying crowd lured him to enter the group. He is a surly grunting man but skilled with an axe.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/04/19 17:26:58


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Anothe A-M counts as Grey Knight based upon the Urban Wars Interceptors Graven traded me.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/04/20 16:17:35


Post by: inmygravenimage


Nice depth of tone on the red there the paint on the face seems a little thick though, maybe add some thinning medium?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/04/20 19:00:46


Post by: Llamahead


Yep should do. Here's a new Praetorian who will count as a Grey Knight Terminator. All Keratis will count as Terminators all none Keratis will count as Power Armour. The Centurus will represent Paladins.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/03 18:49:44


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Got the second Psycannon done

Sorry about the shot my camera is feeling it's age. Heres another guy

Penitent Rasimir has been with von Grimme for years. A gift from one of his colleagues upon the black ships Rasimir is a highly skilled psyker specialising mostly in Biomancy. Unfortunately for him Von Grimme is not the most kindly of masters with those he fears and his paranoia about Psykers means Rasimir is kept as little more than a slave.

This is the metal Kheris model from the Dirz warstaff without the second pair of arms.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/06 12:05:23


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Got two more members of the basic squad done


There is only the Justicar/leader Skorize model to go. For vehicles for this force I'm planning to go Old Crow as soon as I'm able. They'll give a good sci-fi feel. I'm also planning to use the Dust Tactics walkers as Dreadnaughts. This is entirely dependent on funds. I'm nearing enough for a game however the problem with using the GK book is that I'll get complaints about it regardless of how powerful the list I take is so I may as well take a powerful list which requires vehicles dosn't it......


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/07 20:00:07


Post by: inmygravenimage


I love how you fuse random parts. Any plans to drill out barrels?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/07 21:02:03


Post by: Llamahead


No is the honest answer my excuse is two parts 1 a lot of the guns on the Rackham models are too delicate for this 2 its a lot of work and I forgot to do it before I painted them oops.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/08 20:06:50


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Here is the full ten man squad

Rather vicious looking and I doubt i'll have too many Wysiwyg problems its all fairly obvious. On to the Keratis and the next Strike Squad.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/18 15:17:24


Post by: inmygravenimage


Oh my! That's very cool indeed.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/05/18 18:01:28


Post by: Llamahead


Yep Lt Ed and probably going to be slightly pricy but I've got a new contract which should last me a while.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/07/27 17:26:59


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Well I haven't been posting for ages as I'm working at my parents and didn't bring my paints down. I'm also starting another away job (in either Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire or Cornwall I find out on Monday when I turn up to the office. Archaeology is fun like that) So I won't be painting regularly for ages. However I have been able to indulge myself slightly and I've got that Sherlock Holmes model. They've also got a lovely John Watson in the same style. This will be my first boutique Resin miniature and I'm rather excited.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/08/27 19:15:13


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The model was waiting for me last friday swiftly dispatched and I really should get round to photographing what comes in the package.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/09/06 16:51:55


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Here it is Nifty.

Exactly what I want for my Vanus assassin


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/09/08 09:45:25


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Finally got another finished model for this lot. It's a Praetorian that's been on my desk for a couple of months now.

I've also won some Rackham Griffin Duellists giving me some more awesome Death Cult asassins. Considering adding the vehicles to this army. I'm almost certainly going to go down the Old Crow route and there are some Void figures which will do well. I'm also tempted by the thought of a 15mm Dreamforge Leviathon as a Dread Knight.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/09/09 17:17:55


Post by: inmygravenimage


The old void vehicles - ronin - would do your needs well as chimeras, and the tiger apc as a land raider.


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In fact there's a Korvus walker on eBay just now. Be good for a =][= admechy rhino.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/09/09 20:37:24


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My eyes are actually on some of the walkers as Psycannon Dreads. The Ronin's certainly an interesting option though. Keep meaning to go on the Dreamforge Games Kickstarter to pre-order a Leviathon as well.
You should recognise this guy Graven. Have to admit he was in my Beastmen painting pile for a while but I had an idea for a story and so rebased him to join the forces of order.



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/10/19 19:01:07


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Cheers Graven.
Faulker the Defiled was a young exuberant priest of the Emperor until he came into contact with Chirax. Von Grimme required a man with a pure soul to undertake some research for him in the forbidden vault at St Gortymudes. Unknown to Faulker the rites to enter included a binding oath of silence placed upon him by a Psyker. He was allowed to recover certain tomes for Von Grimme but only he is allowed to read these volumes and he must carry them at all times. A hideous burden for such a young man.

Grigor is a foolish young man utterly obsessed with fame and fortune he entered the Arenas of Hrin. The brutish son of a second class vending machine mechanic he has gradually found notoriety in the ring. His brutal sickle and claw have caused the defeat of many foes. When his master entered the Inquisitions service he brought him along. However he finds the lack of rewards and recognition of his services disconcerting and depressing.
I've found some old Cawdor gangers who will make great mooks for Inquisimunda as well as brought the Flagellant box set. The bodies for it might well find themselves in here and some of the parts definitely will.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/10/30 20:05:14


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Another of the survivors fron the XXVII Catachan Sniper Henderson has been seconded to Inquisitor Coteaz for five years now. He's gradually becoming more bitter about the fate of his comrades as he sees more and more of the corruption of the system they were sacrificed for. However his faith in the Emperor is still strong even as his faith in the Imperium declines. There is a difference between the two.

I've got the last Terminator counts as about too be based. I've got enough for a 1500 pt list on saturday. All infantry grey knights from a brand new army using an edition I've never played before what could go wrong!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/11/12 18:25:45


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Still haven't got a game in. I've managed to acquire some Pit Slaves which are currently getting bodged into crusaders.
Heres the last Praetorian

As well as the full squad

And here's something else. It's an Empire handgunner with a minimal bodge on his blunderbuss to turn it into a special weapon (I'm currently planning to claim Plasma)

Ballasteer Llantyr was seconded to Inquisitor Vespasian from the 6th Silurian Regiment after the Monthax incident. The Radical Vespasian uses the jaded guardsman to interact with areas of Imperial Society who will not accept his more esoteric minions. Grim and grizzled this man is a born survivor with a notorious ruthless streak. His ornate Plasma Gun was created in the Forges of Siluria and is relatively normal for their weaponry.



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/11/20 20:51:58


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Trenton Peak is one of the cultists of the Redeeming Fire unlike many of the cultists all he wields is a simple autogun. However a bit more muscle and fanatically loyal muscle at that is always handy. Trenton Peak however is notoriously neither a cowardly snivelling man whos usually response to a loud noise is to flee or open up with a torrent of fire. He does however have one useful talent he tends to survive and therefore has often provided a useful witness to events.

Grisk is a mutant a useful sinner his appearance has allowed him to infiltrate many foul covens of the ruinous powers for the master. Loyalist to the emperor it was his actions as an informant that allowed my master to break the back of the Brotherhood of Zod on Gethen III. For his loyalty my master rewarded him with a pardon for his sins and kept him and his clan safe from the purging. He knows if he ever fails the master his clan will pay the price. I still don't understand how my master can stomach this abomination regardless of his successes.

The Cultist is just a Cawdor ganger (I found a bunch I've had for years and decided they'd fit this well). The other is based on the Flagellant kit with Plaguebearer arms. Both of these are ideal fodder characters for skirmishes and Dark Heresy Sessions. I've been feeling like painting something less intense and not Epic for a while now.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/12/03 21:51:18


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A grizzled veteran of the Imperial forces horribly scarred by enemy fire during an evacuation mission on Tintheldras VIII Pilot Jackarn still managed to land and evacuate civilians while his face was being hideously burnt by bio acid. As tough as they come he was requested by Solomon Cortez to act as his personal pilot after impressing him with his many acts of selfless bravery during that hideous campaign.

This model came entirely from a trade with inmygravenimage. It's a pig iron head on an unknown model.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/12/03 22:40:39


Post by: inmygravenimage


I *think* it's a void figure for the body, though I could be wrong...


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2012/12/14 17:14:25


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I'd guessed so. Fits nicely for a pilot whatever though.
Here's another Skitarii based upon a Dirz Halberdier with a bodged Halberd gun from sprue and plasticard.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/02/04 22:07:19


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Wait ages for a model here then three come along at once.

"Jebediah is an insane lunatic who rushes right in and blasts things with his Shotgun. The only survivor of a Zenos attack on a moon he joined the Cult of Redeeming fire he has a bizarre fondness for shooting barrels and tends to yell gibberish strings of letters like IDDQD and IDKFA out loud. He is however a courageous warrior with a fanatic belief in the Imperator."

Speaking of a fanatic belief in the Emperor Praetor Laris is a priest of the church of the Imperator Resplendent the dominant cult on Grenadyin IV. My master investigated the cult for heretic leanings at the behest of Confessor Trintal. They came out pure which was more than could be said for the corrupt glutton of a Confessor. The investigation ended with my master leading the cult against the Ecclesiarchy after the Confessors relationship with the whores from a Slaaneshi cultists brothel came to light. This did not put him into the best odour with the Ecclesiarchy, although he is a hard man for them to get to with his links to the Mechanicus and personal power.

Miss Felicity Beadle is one of the Ancient Order of Black Librarians who work at the Inquisition's library on Hrin. These ladies are skilled assassins who specialise in the recovery of valuable books and their scholoarship as well.

Didn't get the editing quite right on these shots. Jebediah is a regular Cawdor ganger and Miss Felicity Beadle is a stock Rackham Griffin Duellist. Praetor Laris is based on the Severian model from the Rackham Griffin Templar Warstaff. However I gave him a GW head from the hairy head sprue and a Rogue Trader Bolt Pistol. The sword came from the Tzeentch Sorceror I used for the Pimp my Wizard competition. The original intent as to paint him as a radical Inquisitor but as I began to paint him I realised I wanted to try a fire effect on the sword and the Solar priest from the John Blanche art work seemed to justify that.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/02/06 02:45:24


Post by: kestral


I like your choice of models. I think using lighter colors before washes might be good though.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/02/13 20:03:01


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks Kestral choice of models is the main fun of this. It's became about painting random awesome models as my interest in playing 40k wains with my rising obsession for Net Epic.

Henson is another of the Gladiators a skilled /retiarius he now specialises in the capture of dangerous subjects for interrogation. An invaluable skill for which the master pays a bonus. His most famous capture was that of the infamous Slaaneshi worshipper Misspiggi of Holy Wood. She was tried and exeuted for her many and manifold crimes. Her punishment was a rather bizarre one being fed to the giant green man eating frogs of the jungles of Holy Wood. In recognition of this kill his master purchased a helm for him resembling one of those monsters

Mordheim Pit Fighter with nothing changed


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/03/01 23:23:07


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"Tritial'yrac'nyet is an odd creature he handles chaos artefacts within the Conlaves stores quite who he serves and what he is I have no idea. Perhaps he is a mutant Ratling corrupted by the things he bears"
Cheers Graven for the familiar.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/03/03 12:57:48


Post by: Llamahead


The light blue is my own blend Vallejo Game Colour Ultramarine Blue with some skull white added. So sadly I won't be able to necessarily get the same shade again. It's the nice thing about these guys though any real attempt at a unified force went out the window so I can just pick colours I feel like painting. Although it might appear on a few Tzeentch Daemons for Epic.

Might have to look for a better scab red replacement the coverage on the Vallejo equivalent is nowhere near as good. The Zulu head on the Interceptor suit is because I can and don't particularly see populous 40k planets being the single race mono-cultures they're often portrayed as. Planets are big places and will often have distinct populations.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/04/01 21:21:32


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"Theosophilus Benet was an Enginseer assigned to the 56th Arigytian until they went heretic one of the few who stayed loyal him and a dozen others managed to raise the alarm and alert other forces to the threat before the planned rebellion and breaking of an Imperial Defense Line against the Tau could go ahead. Apparently the Tau had bribed the Arigytian commanders with others of techno-arcana and immense wealth. Naturally no true son of the Adepts Mechanicus could countenance such actions. The regiment was purged, sadly during the carnage a Tau assault did breach the line but fortunately an alert Imperial Armoured Brigade quickly counter attacked and restored the defenses. The bloody stalemate on Tyros continues to this day.

Lead Adventurers Steam Punk model. The last of these lads. An attempt at a field rather than temple Enginseer.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/04/01 21:30:17


Post by: inmygravenimage


Good to see you back and creative as ever!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/05/14 19:31:14


Post by: Llamahead



It was what this time two years ago I decided to do the Imperial Assassins wasn't it! Hmmmph. unsure about the dodging pose to be honest it was a twisted repair and part of me rather likes the look.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/05/15 21:01:36


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Thought I'd share this can anybody guess where I got the spell effect from?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/05/22 21:17:58


Post by: Llamahead


Dryastilo Des Durden is another of the Gladiator band. The Dryastilo fight with two swords and represent the Eldar in the games. Durden is swift and graceful with his blades born into slavery he has known no life by the pit until the band was hired by the master. His is a life dedicated to the blade.

Sorry for the picture quality. He's just one of the Mordheim pit fighters done as is. Colours were designed to represent Iyanden as it's the nearest Craftworld to the Eastern Fringe.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/05/30 18:27:09


Post by: Llamahead



Another AM heavy Praetorian (counts as GK Terminator)


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/06/01 16:08:01


Post by: Llamahead


Decided to do a mid year review on all my active blogs with this one the aim is to play some games. I've now got a fun and interesting Ad-Mech Iquisitorial force to play with along side my Imperial Guard. I need to start biting the bullet and playing 6th which I've played only three games of on one day with Orks uhh Epic Addiction.....Nuff said. Another possibility is challenging people at the society to play a few skirmish games as I have several nice warbands in this eclectic force. I particularly like the idea of playing games with the Dark Scribe style force. Modelling wise I've been playing with several things including some old Necromunda models, a Flagellant box (excellent for Inquisimunda stuff) and some Griffin Duellists the first of which I've shown. Hot Ninja Librarians make me happy. This force will do quite well out of a new job as once I'm paid I'll be allowing myself back on Ebay as well as that I'll be away working and while I will bring paints and models with me taking Epic Miniatures with me seems likely to lead to lost models (and I paint them to fast so I'll need to bring too many to be viable). These models are nice indulgences rather than a serious project so it'll probably continue. Vaguely crazy plans include Inquisitorial Stormtroopers based on either the Eisenkern or Wargames Factory models and a Knight based on the Leviathon Mortis as I want one I do's. Another odd twist would be using Enforcer based Skitarii, Forge Father Allies and possible some of the Deadzone critters might make some fun skirmish warbands as well. I could also do with some mutant antagonists as the best use I can see for a lot of these models is one of the Dark Heresy games.


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Just realised these plans don't include the obvious thing to make this an effective army transport vehicles. This is also what plagued the 24th Islandlwanda and means they're not finished. The problem I have is I like variety and making new stuff repeating the same thing again and again while it makes for good list design is less exciting to me. The other problem is cost I can't quite justify buying three or four Chimeras or Razorbacks at once. The other factor is that for Imperials rebuilding Ebay write offs is far more tricky than for chaos and Orks and I don't particularly enjoy it.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/06/22 21:05:41


Post by: Llamahead



Astheratoroi Ruprecht.
The force is probably of playable size it's just I can't justify playing a bad Grey Knights list. Actually it might be more fun to use the ally rules and play IG with A-M support.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/06/23 21:37:39


Post by: Llamahead




Happy with the Cawdor the flamer and cleaver combine to produce a rather crazed look which I like. I'll work out some background another time.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/06/30 20:25:58


Post by: Llamahead



Frater Jacobim is one of the Cultists of St Gandore the Wise. This cult is an infamous group of Psyker Priests who believe that Psychic Powers are gifts of the Emperor and their foul magicks to be used in his service. This cult has caused nasty faction fighting within the Conlave for many years now with many Puritans wishing to destroy this band while those of a more radical bent wish to make use of this powerful resource. Frater Jacobim is a notorious rabble rouser sworn to the service of Inquisitor Cortez. He uses his powerful ability to sway crowds into believing that the Emperors support is tangibly perceivably with him using flashy tricks and then leads the mob into supporting his masters will. He is selfless but ruthless willing to sacrifice those under sway for the good of the Imperium. His abilities are flashy with powerful fireballs at his command. I am told he has a lot of raw flash and power but very little educated delicate skill in its use. A brash loud man of the people he is a valuable tool for the Inquisitor.

It's the Redemptionist Ganger conversion I bunged up a while back still interested to see whether anyone can guess the spell effect. Incidentally I consider him a perfect PC character for Dark Heresy after all Psykers always want to have fireball don't they?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/07/14 21:18:55


Post by: Llamahead



The Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Thaddeus Oak looks like a deranged mad man. This is due to an hideous incident while killing a Genestealer Patriarch when his Plasma Pistol overheated while manipulating a band of Blood Axes into cleansing a space hulk which he then directed straight at ZonohosIV a Tau colony under attack by an hive fleet. The Warlord handed the Inquisitor over to the Mad Dok who actually managed to save the Inquisitors life giving him a bionic jaw and his crude chain fist arm which he refuses to have replaced. This is mostly as Warlord Zogskull was most impressed by his endurance and toughness for a pinky accepting him as his closest advisor. The Inquisitor since then has manipulated him into using his Warband for the Imperiums good leading him in to attacking the Hive Fleet, other greenskins and rebel worlds. This marks the Inquisitor out as a notorious radical by the standards of the Conclave, He is the foremost expert among the Greenskins in the Conclave. While a good shot with his crude shotgun a "gift" from one of Zogskulls Nobz who challenged him into a pit fight (a concealed digital needler easily felled the beast) and also a prodigious expert in the use of his crude prosthetic, living in the company of the greenskin providing plentiful practise it is actually his precognitive powers which are his greatest tool in the service of the Emperor. These have been magnified hugely by his crude Ork implants and brain surgery.
Gorkamorka Digga Nob with Stompa Arm and Shotgun.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/07/20 18:56:33


Post by: Llamahead



[i]Frater Penryk is one of the Storm Cult of Haron VII a Water world in the Caryldon sub sector. These men venerate the destructive Booltyer Storms of Haron as a sign of the Imperator's wrath and seen him sending the storms as a judgement upon humanity. He decides who the winds and waves will slaughter and who will be spared some receive the bounty of the storm when it beaches the mighty pearlwhales or drives theminto their hunting grounds while others receive its wrath. He was recruited after annoying an Ecclesiarchy Deacon decrying his corruption while acting as a Chaplain to the 21st Caryldon Amphibious Brigade. He was arrested and while subsequent events proved the truth of his words and he was spared he was still compelled to serve the Conclave for disobedience to his superiors. He is a skilled Investigator but not the best combatant.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/07/28 19:32:40


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A skilled Armsman and bodyguard Sargent Cunningham has been serving as one of the Hawkins Fleet security detail for most of a decade. His face was hideously disfigured by an exploding console while hunting a murderous passenger. It was however his bravery in continuing the fight which allowed the scum to be brought to justice and attracted the notice of Jean Argent who regularly uses him as his personal enforcer and messenger throughout the fleet.


Taront is a Demolitions expert this skilled service with the 29th Betalgoose Irregulars during the Fryshem campaign attracted the attentions of the master who had need of a skilled professional for a covert mission. His skill and ruthless dedication has made him a most trusted service of the master ever since.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/08/04 18:50:27


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A grim man and a brave one Titus Bane is an orthodox Malleus Inquisitor with just one great quirk an absolute hatred f the ideology of Xanthism. He sees it as an absolute betrayal of the Imperium's ideals and a hideous cancer within the brain of the Imperium. This is as a direct result of using two of his fellow acolytes and his master to the corrupting whispers of the Chaos Gods.

Classic Space Marine Librarian possibly the Rogue Trader one. The smaller stature is perfect for human sized Power Armour.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/08/04 18:53:33


Post by: inmygravenimage


Looking good my friend. Now get your a$$ over to the Bloggit and join the Great Repurposing [/shamelessselfpromotion]


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/08/11 20:46:50


Post by: Llamahead



Another Rank and File Ad Mech Terminator.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/09/02 19:08:26


Post by: Llamahead



Father Samson is a preacher from the depths of Hrin hive he came to Titus Banes attention while he was hunting a Wyrd. Very few priests have Samson's pure faith and honesty which aided him greatly in tracking and killing the Wyrd while Samson has remained in his parish he is now regularly called upon by Titus as a fighter.
Orlock with Flagellant torch and Stompa Chainsword. For some reason brandishing torches speaks of 40k and the Ecclesiarchy in particular to me


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/10/12 12:12:49


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Just a Cawdor Juve no conversion for some cannon fodder


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2013/11/08 18:27:25


Post by: Llamahead


Apologies for the Photograph

Heretek Foryst was captured by Enforcers on Hrin for utilisation of proscribed technology under section d/445 of the Hrin code of laws. He procured maintained and produced Plasma weapons for several years in the Underhive. He also made many cybernetic modifications to himself and others. Gradually news of this was disovered by the Explorator Speculor. He was subdued and brought in front of the court where he was sentenced to termination. A decision was made to profit more by him and he was sold into the fighting pits. Foryst skills were valued by his new owners a slave skilled in cybernetic implants could maintain others and his owner made the decision to utilise him as a Pistolero in the beast fights fighting large beasts with guns and slaughtering fearsome opponents. He even received one of his beloved Plasma weapons back. The master naturally recruited him along with the rest of the pit fighters and his technical knowledge is especially prized by the master when there is the need to keep the Mechanicus unaware of his discoveries.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/01/04 13:13:46


Post by: Llamahead


Plan for the year. Actually play a game. I'll probably use these as allies with the 24th but I've been lacking enthusiasm for 28mm models for a while and this army has always been a painting rather than playing project. Equally with the society having a room on Tuesday night people are looking at skirmish games which means I'll get to use these guys. I'd like to add a few more civilian and random models to the collection but I'm not planning on buying anything new.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/01/04 17:07:39


Post by: Scrazza


I like the conversions as well


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/01/05 12:32:17


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks a lot it's the great attraction to this sort of thing for me.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/02/02 18:47:50


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Tannicus is a native of Hrin the ganger was recruited by Titus Bane after he brought in a dead Wyrd for the bounty since then he has been used a s a mercenary and hired gun. The skull dangling from his gun is that of his brother which he claims looks after him. The Wyrd flayed his brother with Wychfire and that was all that remained of him.

I think it's an Orlock torso on Catachan legs I quite like the skull trophy. He'll be useful random meat for skirmishes.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/02/28 22:15:27


Post by: Llamahead


Managed to get in a few skirmish games in just using kill team rules it's been good fun but as my opponents mostly have Imperial forces something more chaotic might be in order so I'm wondering vaguely in the grim darkness of the future about putting together a few chaos cults. I've rather enjoyed this project but I'm running out of Imperial bands to do. I've also been drooling over the knights kits and while tempting I'm not quite that interested.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/02 19:47:24


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As you may know I have Ork, Beastman and Imperial Guard armies as well from some random parts in my bitz box I have been able to assemble this band of reprobates to start asa few random chaos followers. These Twists are planned to be part of a mercenary terrorist group known as Slagrar's Slaughterers. Basically they do precision attacks against vital infrastructure to cause civilisation to fragment into anarchy.

Currently we have two basic twists


A Twist with Flamer who I imagine is snidely referred to as Manfondler by his peers due to his fairly complete uniform. He's also considered perverse because of his preference for cooked meat.


A Sniper. I see these chappies as hunters and trackers rather than blood crazed maniacs. Blood Pact style.


Demo specialist seen happily legging it from his latest toy


The twists are mainly using Gorkamorka bodies and Ungor heads heavily inspired by Krautscientists work. The Demo Specialist is a Mantic ghoul with a Reaper robot arm and a GW zombie head.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/04 21:26:11


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Been continuing playing with these guys and they've been growing fast. I consider this group either figures for archetypes to be used at random as I feel like it or a professional group of twist mercenaries sneaking around the rim of the Imperium attacking them where there vulnerable to promote chaos.

For a start here's the leader the mighty Slagrar

Current Ork legs, old chaos warrior torso. Spawn head, Chaos Knight axe and shoulder pads and a Bolter. The idea was to create a big brutal leader figure. The Bolter is the ultimate status symbol for a 40k outlaw and his equipment is designed to be relatively fancy but still practical. I see him as a brutal but capable commander.

Next we've got a Shaman


Ripper Swarm head on a flagellant body with Plaguebearer arms. Yes Khorne frowns on psykers but I still wanted to mae one as it's a common archetype among Chaos forces

Heres a Heavy

Ork torso on Catachan legs with a Heavy stubber. I reckon these would make a fun Necromunda gang and a heavy Stubber is the archetypical Necromunda weapon so they had to have one.

This Pistolero is inspired by Schlock Mercenary and Rastar Prince of Sherdan

Four armed Mutant Pistoleer

These are my CCW grunts

Gnoblar with Wargames Factory head and Goliath with Beastman head. The plastic Goliaths work better as Beastmen than they do as Humans go figure

Gun Grunts

The metal guns are from Wargames Foundry. These are random thingies in my Bitz box.

More will be coming..............

Middle distance plans are some Wargames Factory Armed Civilians and Zombies to provide some Grunts. Current thoughts are a guard army with Daemon allies. Oops. Chaos Army by accident I've done this before.





Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/04 21:45:04


Post by: monkeytroll


Why did I not know you had this thread

Obviously just the kind of thing I like to look at And plenty of rawl plugs to boot.

Like the ripper-headed shaman for sure.

Nice to see the Rackham stuff too, always had a soft spot for some of their sculpts, and there's a few I'll be using in my chaos guys.

And interesting to see how long ago you picked up that Holmes figure, I recently picked up Watson and somehow got the impression they were fairly new sculpts.

Right, well I'm onto you now, so keep rocking those rawls......


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/04 23:31:40


Post by: Llamahead


About the Holmes Yeah it's sort of embarrassing actually I tend to try not to have models on ice for years on end. This thread hasn't seen that much activity recently and I've only just remembered to add Llamahead to the thread title


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/06 22:33:39


Post by: monkeytroll


Nothing wrong with keeping minis hanging around for a while...they sometimes find a better home that way - that's what I tell myself anyway I was just commenting on the fact that the sculpts had been around for longer than I thought. And now, having seen the pieces you get for Holmes I'm thinking I should have gone for him rather than Watson...guess I'll have to pick up a Sherlock at some point


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/07 11:29:12


Post by: Llamahead


Definitely he's a brilliant figure. I'm planning to use him as a Vanus assassin. Yes they've been around a while I picked him up in 2012. Nice little company good service. The company I was working for at the time has since gone bust no loss there.


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More Grunts coming out



Cadian bits and 2nd Ed Ork plastics mostly. The Shaman is a random D&D model with a head swap and weapon. I'm ruminating about turning this into a proper army. Guard or Orks with Daemon allies probably. Also considering what sprues would be most useful my tentative conclusion is that these would be of use although I'm not currently planning on actually buying any.

GW
Ghouls, Gnoblars, Guardsmen, Cultists, Kroot, Spawn, Forsaken, Marauders
Mantic
Vermin, Ghouls, Zombies, Corporation, Rebels
Wargames Factory
Zombies
Armed Civilians
Orcs

Currently however I'm using this to clear out some space in my Bitz box and play properly with 28mm models something I haven't done for a while.



Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/03/30 19:15:21


Post by: Llamahead


The Abomination of San Antoine is the most mystical and mysterious of the Daggers of the Conclave. I have never seen him in action nor heard discussions of his use. All I know is even the master fears him."

Here are the complete GW Daggers of the Conclave.

I've also been thinking about what I want to do with the Cults and while a full 40k army is far more possible with the new job franly I just don't particularly want one in the main I think I'll just use these to skirmish with and have fun with modelling.


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Oh the Taurox is probably based on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_C8 which looks far better with wheels


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/06 21:36:06


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First of the Cultists. Simple basic job so he looks like a regular twist. He's painted to resemble my mates guard army who's gear he's nicked.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/07 02:15:33


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 Llamahead wrote:

Thought I'd share this can anybody guess where I got the spell effect from?


Dark elder hair?

Fun stuff, like the use of rackham minis!


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Haha, woops, not replying to the latest page!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/07 16:29:29


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks a lot fun is the aim of the game after all!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/07 18:35:59


Post by: monkeytroll


Good simple and effective paint job on the cultist


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/18 20:48:57


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers Monkeytroll it owes a lot to a mates guard scheme as presumably that's where it was nicked from.

Jimmy is the next guy Beastman head on a plastic Goliath body funny thing is I actually prefer the plastic Goliaths for 40k Beastmen


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/21 21:29:25


Post by: Llamahead


2 new guys.


Really happy with the 2nd like the early Chaos Warriors just moving the head makes the base model (an ork wartrak gunner) far better.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/27 17:56:47


Post by: Llamahead


Thumper's here

A Gnoblar with a Wargames Factory head based on PDH's great Ghoul Grots

As well as him I've got Giles the Shaman done Ripper Sqarm head Plaguebearer Arms and Flagellant body.

Colours are designed to give him a vaguely priestly vibe


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/27 19:49:21


Post by: monkeytroll


I like Giles

Think he could do with having his teeth picked out more though - show that grin.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/04/27 20:33:17


Post by: Llamahead


Hmm yes I'll consider that brighter white maybe


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/10 20:10:42


Post by: Llamahead



Clast is rather underplayed simply a Beastman head used on a basic Cadian with flamer the Mantic Ghoul bag as a dinner implies he's a renegade or serving in an unsavoury regiment. He could technically be Loyalist which will make him useful.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/10 20:19:31


Post by: inmygravenimage


Love the simplicity of that conversion


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/11 22:10:11


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks Graven often the conversions that work best are simplest I find.

I've been thinking about 7th Edition. I haven't played much 6th for five reasons and I'll be interested to see if any get solved-
Flying Monstrous Creatures-Rules for them seem silly don't like flyers much on a 40k size board and these seem far too exploitative.
Challenges-Guh losing the attacks with my character because somebody yells at him also makes some charaters really hard to kill.
Wound Allocation-I wan't Sergeants to look cool and not to have to stress about precise positions of individual figures its what I disliked about 4th Edition.
Cost-Won't be but a factor £30 for an Army Book is something I have a hard time justifying to myself and you seem to require far more books to play now.
Other Interests-I've got into Epic and 6mm in a big way and I've also beome more interested in playing the various Specialist Games as well than 2000pts too many models for a 6ft x 4ft table shooting galleries 40k's become

Equally 6th will be my best result in 40k statistically I won two thirds of my full games equally I only played 3 games on one Saturday so ahh well.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/25 21:42:58


Post by: Llamahead



Gimlet Gorkamorka Ork with Ungor head


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/25 22:26:48


Post by: monkeytroll


Keep with the two-thirds won rather than the actual number

Simple but very effective head swap there, looks great. And is that a rawl-plug I spy ?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/26 06:55:17


Post by: Llamahead


Of course one has a reputation to keep..........


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/26 08:58:23


Post by: inmygravenimage


I really do like your abhumans, must get me some ungor/bestigor bits...


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/05/27 18:02:35


Post by: Llamahead


Glad you like him Graven. Beastmen are great fun to play with.

Dunkreuz

He had been hunting the mutants for days. Sent to the Underhive for a routine purge he had pursued this group for days now killing as he went. Purging the scum with an accurate bullet or a well place las-shot. He had run out of supplies but was still hunting his foe the chief had a price on his head he meant to claim. He had settled for a rest and went to sleep. Sentry wires set and traps to protect himself he had been safe and sound. He gradually skilfully disarmed his trps and prepared to break camp. Then he caught a chance glimpse something was wrong somewhere. He went up to the puddle and checked much to his horror he saw the stigmata upon him his hair was pink! He ran out screaming gradualyy becoming what he hunted. He barely even noticed the second set of arms.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/01 20:31:38


Post by: Llamahead



Goliath with Beastman Head and Grot Revolver.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/01 21:27:57


Post by: squall018


Really like Dunkreuz. Also, that beastmem kit makes some pretty sweet conversions. May have to give it a try myself. Keep up the good work!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/01 21:43:57


Post by: monkeytroll


Nice idea with Dunkreuz

Ahhh...plastic necromunda kits....nostalgic


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/02 16:40:07


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers Squall they're good solid kits with great heads and nie barbaric weapons.

Never really got into Necromunda with my group it was Mordheim we really got into. These were scrounged and traded for and this just seemed the best place to use them they have a great techno-barbarian feel to them


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/24 19:32:16


Post by: Llamahead



Pi running away from his handiwork. Deranged fellow made with Mantic Ghoul legs and torso and a GW zombie head the bonic arm is from something Monkeytroll swapped me with and is as I an't imagine Chaos bomb makers to be very safe or sane


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/24 19:37:25


Post by: monkeytroll


Certainly doesn't look very sane Captured the vibe of a deranged, cackling maniac nicely


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/06/25 16:31:35


Post by: Llamahead


Thanks I just knew what I wanted with this nutjob and pretty much caught it. A cackling madman running away from the mayhem he's just caused


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/07/26 20:08:15


Post by: Llamahead



Boris tracker can also be used with Imperial parties if I really want to.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/09/08 17:39:27


Post by: Llamahead



Mutant with Rat face. The Cadian Helmet fitting makes this model work could have done with more contrast in the painting


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/09/08 19:16:43


Post by: monkeytroll


Good one - although for some reason, with the helmet in place it makes me think more of a dog-face than rat.

Still, a mutie's a mutie


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/09/09 13:38:36


Post by: Llamahead


Definitely maybe it's the lack of ears.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2014/11/26 21:50:43


Post by: monkeytroll


Him from Melmac? He's changed from how I remember him


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/03/14 10:55:21


Post by: Llamahead


No not that sinister..........

I managed to spend £50 in my new favouritest and bestest charity shop in the whole wide world on an away job in Oxford this week.

How you may ask I mean your a tight git who wont pay full GW prices anymore..........

This is how

Only 15 of the Gnolls were within and they'll add variety to my Beastmen within however there is more than that.

Basically the shop regularly receives donations from somebody who worked in GW in Croydon during the early nineties this is just the tip of the iceberg of Ral Partha, Grenadier and GW goodies from within.


At the top is two wraiths for my 6mm Undead
Next rung is a Rogue Trader Inquisitor, Judge Dread Perp and a pair of Space Adventurers probably heading to the Cults of Hrin.
Then an Alternate Armies model and a pair of pre-40k GW troopers as well as a Rogue Trader Marine.
Below that are 3 Arbitrators and an Astropath.

The awesome continues.

Imperial Guard Bikers are something I've always thought should be part of 40k and now I own one in 28mm along with my horde of Epic Bikers.

This however is the crème de la crème.


Yes that's the Commissar on Jetbike. Mwee hee heee mine mine mine!

He and the biker were mint in box. That lasted approximately 30 seconds after getting back to the B&B. They are mine and I'm going to make and paint them and play with them......


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/03/14 12:22:10


Post by: monkeytroll


Nice haul! Some classic stuff in there, I'm particularly fond of the space-pirate adventurer and the early marine myself.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/03/28 10:12:15


Post by: Llamahead


There was another big batch of miniatures in the bestest charity shop in the world this week and I splurged another £80 bringing my total up to £130 oops maybe not heading to Salute this year after all......

That's the total for this haul. I'll go over it in vague categories.

The big guys first

2 awesome full plate armoured Ral Partha Centaurs, 4 Minotaurs including one Grenadier beast and a stange Undead Troll thing.

Slaaneshi Loot

Rather a nice warband here with a Moorcock cover art champion, 4 old Daemonettes and an excellent Chaos Sorceror, probably end up based for 40k.

More Chaos next

3 Tzeentch Champions
Bloodbowl Mutant, 2 Chaos Warriors & a Nurgle Sorceror
A Wraith, a witch, a Frankenstein Monster holding his head and 2 weird mutants

Empire Loot

Awesome foot knights, cool wizard and a Lute Hero (which I reckon would make an excellent mod for Guitar Hero). Irritatingly the guy with a hammer would make such an awesome general I might have t start that Perry/Warlord Empire army I've been wittering on about since joining.......

Halfling Loot

These and the Ogres will mae an excellent Halfling Warband for Mordheim along with my Hot Pot crew and some Archers I picked up for my Brettonians

Finally the doggy bag

Warhounds are just generally useful and the 3 Grenadier sculpts are still available

All in all enough to keep me painting and rejuvenate my interest in 28mm fantasy.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/03/28 11:07:27


Post by: inmygravenimage



BTW I took your advice and am ordering Dark Realm stuff for Dune for my mate. Is their rules set any good, or can you recommend another good generic 6mm scifi?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/03/28 11:28:41


Post by: Llamahead


Apparently they received a donation of about 1500 figures. This was the tip of the iceberg it really was lots of historical's as well. Guess the guy who donated them was a staff member during the buy by weight period. Delightfully to me it was also a Barnado's charity shop and an organisation I'm delighted to support.
Can't really recommend a rule set best bet is to pop along to Tactical Command and see what people suggest for the 6mm rules. When I'm gaming I use NetEpic which is a small tweak of the Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marine rules.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/04/05 20:23:00


Post by: Llamahead



This Zenonian trooper is my monthly painting challenge entry veteran's the them and a 30yr old model qualifys in my book.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/04/09 22:23:02


Post by: Vomikron Noxis


I'm so jealous of your haul! So much beautiful old lead!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/04/26 21:09:33


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers Vomikron here's Turlon Geth painted. I got it in but it's not my best sadly



At Salute I picked up something that is going to be great for this project but is probably the anti-Inquisimunda. That was 7TV light and airy fluffy narrative gaming excellent fun as well


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/05/17 20:47:21


Post by: KernelTerror


Nice stuff in here, very colorful and digging the attention to miniature selection. Keep em coming !


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/05/24 07:47:39


Post by: Llamahead


Compleat Llamahead day today that means there's new stuff on all my active blogs;
The Forces of Nurgle http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/270/231101.page#7764195
The Rawl Plug Sheanigans and Specialist Games Hijinks http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/540/356363.page

Bella 80's Daemonette.
Aimed to emphasis her alienness as an excellent "Mutant from Dimension X" for 7TV


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/09/27 15:26:36


Post by: Llamahead


Been a while.

I like to use models this is a repainted D&D prepaint I got with the Beholder I wanted donkeys years ago. The Eldar Guardian head works and the Mantic Ghoul claw gives it a sinister vibe.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/09/27 17:04:23


Post by: KernelTerror


It indeed has been a while ^^ !
Yeah the eldar head truly has an arrogant look that is wasted on the guardians, well done.
What is hanging from his belt ?


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/09/27 17:48:40


Post by: Llamahead


A generic totem think it's from the Warhammer regiment standard sprue. Just felt right for the shaman style of the model.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/09/27 21:58:03


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers coursework deadlines and looking for a house to buy take up a ridiculous amount of thinky time. Coursework went crazy which didn't help. I was meant to record a building and chose a former railway goods shed some friends own I hadn't quite worked out it had been fully converted into a factory so was far more complex than I planned. Fun though. Never want to work in graphics getting computers to eat drawings is difficult...........


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/11/28 21:46:32


Post by: Llamahead



"Philomenas has never been seen without his mask. This old and grizzled Astropath is one of the greatest assets my master has. Skilled at passing a message on time and on target to almost any node in the sector"
Rogue Trader Astropath one of the original sculpts for 40k hope you like him!


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/11/29 00:29:54


Post by: KernelTerror


Nice find, the almost skeletal hands are a good idea !


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/12/02 19:57:07


Post by: Llamahead


Heh tip of the iceberg. Like the title said I paid a £130 in that shop. Highlight was possibly the Commissar on Jetbike. It's on the previous page if you want to cast your envious eyes on the mother lode. Two more of the loot have been painted recently. But first.

Gormless Mutie minion. Based on Ork vehicle crew.

Delilah Daemonette Champion one of my Slaaneshi band.

Finally

Coryalson is one of the most dour humourless Inquisition agents I have ever met quite what encouraged the master to send him on an infiltration mission among the Joy Mills of Gylastor I do not know.


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2015/12/04 21:26:20


Post by: KernelTerror


Aaah yeah I admire your restraint regarding the comissar, he is hoing to be brilliant to paint.
Nice update, liking the post apo look of the daemonette !


Llamahead's The Conclave of Hrin; A Confession 2; How I managed to spend £130 in a Charity Shop @ 2016/05/25 19:43:19


Post by: Llamahead


Cheers KernelTerror. Randomly done another Beastman based on the Goliaths.