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2024/08/02 16:48:51
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Fixture of Dakka
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Yes, the little details always make terrain more than just a line of sight blocker.
Cheers,
CB
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2024/08/13 02:49:00
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Very cool, the wallpaper really adds that touch of realism to help suspend disbelief
gobert wrote:They’re funky! Love the wallpaper too
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Amazing!
Or should I say, more than meets the eye!
Captain Brown wrote:Yes, the little details always make terrain more than just a line of sight blocker.
Cheers,
CB
Thank you everyone. I just finished building the second batch of ruined buildings and I'm spray painting them right now.
By tomorrow I'll start the weathering and wallpapering. Maybe by next Monday I will have something to post.
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2024/08/17 04:15:24
Subject: Re:Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Small update; I finished part of the second batch. These are the small buildings.
I haven't kept up with the current rules on terrain. I'm not sure if these count as building ruins or just scatter terrain?
But here they are, four segments, usable as two structures or four smaller ruins.
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2024/09/09 08:36:40
Subject: Re:Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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OK, I did get something done. I made my own Inquisitor Coteaz, because yuck!
I did have his original hammer from a conversion I did years ago, but I could not find the Eagle.
But I did find a very Old Hammer vulture in my bits box. I just thought it would be fun to have a Psyber Vulture.
The next one is a jump chaplain made from bits from four separate editions of 40k and a few 3D parts.
The lower legs are made from chaos parts with Primaris shin guards and green stuff.
Finally I made a paint holder to keep my paints in their bottles and not on my table.
So yeah, progress.
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2024/09/09 18:33:47
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought
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Nice space marine conversions! I like your Coteaz better than the standard model. Great work.
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2024/09/10 16:28:24
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Nice work, that vulture is properly cool! As for Coteaz himself I can kind of see what GW wanted to do, but he just looks a bit derpy with his short fat legs. The Primaris legs work well on yours for sure
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2024/09/11 04:43:43
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Nice space marine conversions! I like your Coteaz better than the standard model. Great work.
Thank you, It would be hard to make a worse one.
gobert wrote:Nice work, that vulture is properly cool! As for Coteaz himself I can kind of see what GW wanted to do, but he just looks a bit derpy with his short fat legs. The Primaris legs work well on yours for sure
Thanks, the vulture was just too funny not to use.
I finished painting two models today!!! Yeah me! I'll post pictures later.
I also spent several hours sorting through all my bit boxes and I found an old bits invoice from GW from 20 years ago in a box full of metal gretchin.
There is enough heavy metal in my house to kill off a decent size city. I found all kinds of things I can't remember where they came from.
There were 40 fully painted Death Guard and an unassembled old version of the Landraider Redeemer with metal parts in it. Boxes of unmade Dark Land Orcs, zombies, Eldar and two boxes full of Armorcast ruined cathedral terrain pieces. I also found a box of rave lights that may explain why I can't remember buying any of it.
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2024/09/11 19:10:48
Subject: Re:Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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OK, here they are. A new chaplain and baby chaplain from Honoured of the Chapter box set.
The Ancient and three Blade Guard are what's left to paint.
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2024/09/11 19:39:54
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar
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Nice work on the chaplain and judicair.
We head-swapped the opposite minis. I left the cyber-skull on my chaplain, as that’s a running theme for them in my collection, but didn’t like the stock helm on mr. Executioner. Like the effect you got on it though.
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2024/09/12 00:33:39
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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The Coteaz custom is quite a step up from the new model. I am digging the Chaplains, too.
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2024/09/14 08:12:09
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Nevelon wrote:Nice work on the chaplain and judicair.
We head-swapped the opposite minis. I left the cyber-skull on my chaplain, as that’s a running theme for them in my collection, but didn’t like the stock helm on mr. Executioner. Like the effect you got on it though.
youwashock wrote:The Coteaz custom is quite a step up from the new model. I am digging the Chaplains, too.
Thank you both. I have a big thing for chaplains.
I've been wanting to do a few statue terrain pieces for a long time and pick up these Army Painter colors to do an old bronze statue.
I haven't picked out a statue yet, but did this as a test. I started with a full coat of Verdigris, then a very heavy dry brushing of Death Metal (You have to love that name) which is a dark dirty looking bronze. Next a light dry brushing of True Copper, followed by a very light highlight of Greedy Gold. It was really fast and simple. Just thought I might share it if anyone who is looking to do weathered copper or bronze.
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2024/09/14 10:48:56
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar
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That’s a really nice result.
Making some SM statues with old 2nd ed push-fits has been on my to-do list forever. I figure a paint job like that, some cake pillars to stand on (and have toppled over with) would be a good use of the ultra-static poses.
Anyone who doesn’t like chaplains is probably a heretic and needs to be purged. I don’t have the same level of overindulgence with them as I do with captains, but do have a larger portion of the chaplency then is sensible.
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2024/09/14 22:12:53
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Nevelon wrote:That’s a really nice result.
Making some SM statues with old 2nd ed push-fits has been on my to-do list forever. I figure a paint job like that, some cake pillars to stand on (and have toppled over with) would be a good use of the ultra-static poses.
Anyone who doesn’t like chaplains is probably a heretic and needs to be purged. I don’t have the same level of overindulgence with them as I do with captains, but do have a larger portion of the chaplency then is sensible.
I was thinking something similar as I have a bunch of unassembled or old eBay models to work with. I did just ordered this Warhammer style priest in 75mm to make into a statue last night.
He could be some noble or an Inquisitor. I can make a plinth for him and an Inquisitorial symbol are easy to make from scratch. In fact I just remembered I have a big resin one from Forge World.
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2024/09/15 14:06:10
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant
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Statues with older minis is a great way to use them effectively while also not letting them rot away in a box of 'old things' Loving the work and the building floors - anything that breaks up the 'all grey all the time' ruins.
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2024/09/17 22:09:32
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Fixture of Dakka
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Tommygun1918,
Good work on the Chaplain and the Judicair.
Cheers,
CB
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2024/09/19 21:54:10
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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blockade23 wrote:Statues with older minis is a great way to use them effectively while also not letting them rot away in a box of 'old things' Loving the work and the building floors - anything that breaks up the 'all grey all the time' ruins.
Captain Brown wrote:Tommygun1918,
Good work on the Chaplain and the Judicair.
Cheers,
CB
Thank you both. The 75mm mini is on it's way and I'm sorting through my old first born for statue possibilities.
I painted up Father Feirros as a red tech marine as I picked him up in a box set. It is a small experiment as I painted him almost completely with speed paints. It came out OK, but it won't be replacing my regular paint. I do have a bunch of orks I need to paint and I think speed paints would work for them, just not space marines.
Up next in the painting queue Jump Chaplain.
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2024/09/19 22:07:55
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought
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Feirros looks good as an ultramarine techmarine.
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2024/09/19 22:16:59
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Nobody's messing with that mechanic. I look forward to the results of the =][= statue.
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2024/09/20 06:52:00
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Feirros looks good as an ultramarine techmarine.
youwashock wrote:Nobody's messing with that mechanic. I look forward to the results of the =][= statue.
Thanks, I do have one more regular Primaris Techmarine to do and I'm may also do him in speed paint so they match.
The Jump Chaplain is done now. I tried something a bit different with him. He's more de-saturated than my other chaplains.
I almost did source lighting with those candles, but decided he's not really posed right to get a good effect with that. He has a simple look and I like him.
Best of all he's a Franken-mini made completely from random leftover bits, so he was free.
So, I spent another day with my indoor archaeology project searching through sealed ancient repositories of Dark Age items.
I came across a 4th ED starter box with my Aquila lander, so more finished stuff for terrain, yeah!
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2024/09/21 17:13:54
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Fixture of Dakka
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Tommygun1918.
Very much like Father Feirros.
Franken-mini is such a good description.
Cheers,
CB
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2024/09/24 08:15:47
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Captain Brown wrote:Tommygun1918.
Very much like Father Feirros.
Franken-mini is such a good description.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks Captain, I have several bins of bits at this stage in my hobby building.
Just never enough legs and torsos.
OK, Inquisitor Coteaz and Wilbur are done.
Gold armor on plain panels is hard to do. I chose the undecorated armor as the new coteaz's armor is also a bit plain and I wanted him to be recognizable. So the best I could do was put a base coat of gold, then a sepia wash, followed by dry brushing with brighter gold and then finally a high light of silver. The next hardest part was photographing it, as my camera changes the light and color values all over the place. Someone needs to invent an idiot proof camera.
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2024/09/28 07:40:28
Subject: Re:Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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I made some progress on that old Land Raider kit that appeared out from nowhere a weeks or so back.
Way back in the 20th century game makers made their minis out of large part count metal constructions. The Hurricane Bolters are nine pieces each.
Also back then, we built them, because we were idiots and didn't know any better. We pinned them, we glued them and braced them with anything we could grab at arms length.
We held them as they dried. We screamed and cried as they fell apart in front of our eyes. Cursing out all the injustices in the world as they did so. When finally finished, we placed them on the gaming table only to watch them come apart half way through the game. Followed by much awkward silence and a single tear.
Although now in the 21st century, we can look back with educated hindsight and see them for what they were. They are physical manifestations of evil incarnate. The designers of which and their descendants need to be hunted down and removed from the gene pool.
So I got this evil machination together by pinning it with steel pins and super glue. Followed by re-enforcing it with UV hardening resin. If I had the money, I would weld it together with a resistance welder and braze it with some molten bronze solder. By the way, does anyone know if the UV light for the resin is strong enough to cause cataracts?
The kit didn't come with a flamer, so I converted the laser into one. That part was fun and I liked how it came out. I'll magnetize them next, although finding a small 20lb magnet for that Hurricane Bolter won't be easy.
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2024/09/28 11:06:43
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar
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Ahh, metal/plastic hybrid kits. So many bad memories. I think the one that scarred me the most was the 3rd ed devastators. Those needed like 3 hands to hold everything in place aligned just right while the glue dried. I never had a LRC/LRR back in the day, but their reputation was legendary.
Great work on the flamestorm cannons!
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2024/09/28 12:50:01
Subject: Re:Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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"Way back in the 20th century game makers made their minis out of large part count metal constructions. The Hurricane Bolters are nine pieces each.
Also back then, we built them, because we were idiots and didn't know any better. We pinned them, we glued them and braced them with anything we could grab at arms length.
We held them as they dried. We screamed and cried as they fell apart in front of our eyes. Cursing out all the injustices in the world as they did so. When finally finished, we placed them on the gaming table only to watch them come apart half way through the game. Followed by much awkward silence and a single tear.
Although now in the 21st century, we can look back with educated hindsight and see them for what they were. They are physical manifestations of evil incarnate. The designers of which and their descendants need to be hunted down and removed from the gene pool."
SING IT BROTHER!
The patience of saints and the fortitude of Job is what a modeler needed then (and needs today). But I think those old hybrid kits taught me to accept the fact that everything eventually falls apart and to just suck it up!
(Never have accepted that premise, still try to glue things today with every increasingly complicated concoctions.)
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"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."
Montrose Toast
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2024/09/28 20:46:08
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought
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All of this. Metal/plastic kits are a blight on human progress. Plastic everything is king.
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2024/09/30 09:50:46
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Nevelon wrote:Ahh, metal/plastic hybrid kits. So many bad memories. I think the one that scarred me the most was the 3rd ed devastators. Those needed like 3 hands to hold everything in place aligned just right while the glue dried. I never had a LRC/LRR back in the day, but their reputation was legendary.
Great work on the flamestorm cannons!
Meer_Cat wrote:
SING IT BROTHER!
The patience of saints and the fortitude of Job is what a modeler needed then (and needs today). But I think those old hybrid kits taught me to accept the fact that everything eventually falls apart and to just suck it up!
(Never have accepted that premise, still try to glue things today with every increasingly complicated concoctions.)
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:All of this. Metal/plastic kits are a blight on human progress. Plastic everything is king.
Thanks everyone, I could tell the tell of an old metal Grenadier Skeletal Dragon, but it's too hard without beer in me.
I received the 75mm mini yesterday and put together a quick test statue to see how things might look.
The Verdigris paint has some fine grit in it and I have decided after seeing the test model, that I don't want to use it on the big mini.
Army Painter does have another color very similar to Verdigris called Amulet Aqua without grit in it, so I ordered that to use instead.
The Verdigris effect paint is good on larger items or something you want to look really beat up, but it's not for everything.
The plinth for the big miniature will have a similar shape, but I haven't fully finalized it in my head yet, but I may start it tomorrow.
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2024/09/30 12:13:24
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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That is an awesome effect!
And i completely missed a lot of amazing updates... darn.
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https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page
A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units."
Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?"
Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?"
GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!"
Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH. |
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2024/09/30 13:10:06
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Been Around the Block
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Them some clean troops. My neighbor bought the leviathan and I painted so many for him. I'll have to find them
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2024/09/30 15:00:53
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Otiose in a Niche
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Love the statue marines!
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2024/10/01 21:51:45
Subject: Tommygun's mini Ironworks
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Not Online!!! wrote:That is an awesome effect!
And i completely missed a lot of amazing updates... darn.
Gost_engineer wrote:Them some clean troops. My neighbor bought the leviathan and I painted so many for him. I'll have to find them
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Love the statue marines!
Thank you guys.
The second plinth is finished. I made it large enough to be usable for blocking lines of sight in smaller games. I decided not to use the Inquisitorial symbol as it is a bit big for that statue's base. I'm probably over thinking it too, but I just don't imagine a city erecting statues for their favorite Inquisitor. As I wait for the new paint, I'm not sure were my attention will fall next.
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