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even though i dont know temperature in celsius, the "-" already has me excited!

There's something wrong with you people living in sunshine wishing it was cold

Just got home from work, it's 6 degrees inside and the 'heating' has been on full for the last 48 hours constant. I have no water in the kitchen, cold water only in the bathroom and amazingly, hot water in the shower. That'll all freeze overnight and leave me with nowt in the morning though. And if I put a foot on the floor I can feel the heat getting sucked out of me.

Still, got a cuppa, so all's good

You must be in the wrong part of the state, RW. It's beautiful here.

Yeah if anyone would like to trade some degrees, I would be totally game. Ice on the windows and crappy cottage insulation = hrorrible.



Early days airbrushing done, working down the armor to a much darker shade using wash layers now, this dude is going to be pretty dark overall, with some really rich reds. Space wolves in stage 1 airbrushing which has to dry overnight so it doesn't flake, the shade I use for them is really odd when it comes to drying hard.

Nice! He looks warm. Too bad that he's not exothermic.

EDIT: Arrgh...sleep monster is here.

JB wrote:
Nice! He looks warm. Too bad that he's not exothermic.
EDIT: Arrgh...sleep monster is here.

He was on fireee, but I cooled him down with lots of washes.

Super crap photos, hooooo


JB, I am thinking his cloak should just be black too, would really help set off his reds and skin tones, and the book pages. It's up to you really! I went for the grey fur, thats just the base coat so it should still be nice and dark.


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MMMooooooooooooooarrrrr



Im totally going to have to take some shots of this dude with the black background, the white is washing him out something fierce.

prime12357 wrote:You must be in the wrong part of the state, RW. It's beautiful here.

hey i just moved here from outside Philly, so i for one enjoy the cold.. plus a mixture of my lithuanian paleness, and my irish unable to tanness, i just burn in the sun


But on topic, that =][= looks great Iff, he is up there on my favorites!

He's looking great! Go ahead and make the cloak black. It will make the red of his armor and the color of the book's pages pop.

EDIT: I just read your Tumblr.
I think the book will have to stay family-friendly but your idea would certainly explain why the Inquisition work so hard to find those ancient artifacts.

Rogue Wolves wrote:

prime12357 wrote:You must be in the wrong part of the state, RW. It's beautiful here.

hey i just moved here from outside Philly, so i for one enjoy the cold.. plus a mixture of my lithuanian paleness, and my irish unable to tanness, i just burn in the sun
But on topic, that =][= looks great Iff, he is up there on my favorites!

Totally know what you mean on the sun front. I don't tan, my freckles just merge into one full body freckle that gives the illusion of a tan, then slowly shrinks back to normal size. Its actually horrifying. Anything under factor 50 and I instantly turn into a piece of well fried bacon.

I really like this guy too! But then again airbrushing on armor coats always feels a little like cheating to me, you can get lovely effects so quickly. Most of the time on this guy so far has been spent waiting on washes to dry, haha. It's cool to see how red he was beforehand though, I was hoping to frighten JB with the first shot as he wants him nice and dark ;D Trolololol.

JB wrote:
He's looking great! Go ahead and make the cloak black. It will make the red of his armor and the color of the book's pages pop.

I think he is nice and bright already from the red and the sigils, so the black cape should really set him off.

The only thing I'm left scratching my head over is the odd little sash at his side, as that thing is totally not linked to anything on the rest of the mini. It's like the sculptor threw it in there to fill up some space. I'm really unsure what colour to paint it, it can't really be black as it will be against black, maybe the same colour as his pants will be? Urk. Awkward sculpt is awkward. Do you want the white trim on the cloth like in the pic you sent me? I guess the sash could be white then to tie it all in. But then the tassles.. this is super frustrating :(

JB wrote:
EDIT: I just read your Tumblr.
I think the book will have to stay family-friendly but your idea would certainly explain why the Inquisition work so hard to find those ancient artifacts.

Ahaha, I keep my less SFW artistic ideas for media outside Dakka. Are you sure I can't fit one on? Maybe highly styalized? In reality though, Im thinking just text with a ornamental title to one side, slightly Book of Kells-y but obviously not quite as detailed.

Hmm...maybe leave the cloth black because the gray highlights/shading look better on a full surface rather than one truncated by a white trim?
It would also keep the focus on the upper half of the figure.

As for the sash and tassles, here's a crazy idea. Perhaps a dark purple color with some gold thread mixed in on the tassles.

Book of Kells-esque pages would be fantastic. One or two large letters, some scribbles for the rest of the text and then some Kell-esque knot patterns? Or is that too much?

Or I guess if you really want to try the highly stylized idea, put a pic on the left page of a Imperial Hive Spire with a few bits of letters and text. The Spire could be ambiguous as long as it will not get me tossed out of the FLGS.

JB wrote:
Hmm...maybe leave the cloth black because the gray highlights/shading look better on a full surface rather than one truncated by a white trim?
It would also keep the focus on the upper half of the figure.
As for the sash and tassles, here's a crazy idea. Perhaps a dark purple color with some gold thread mixed in on the tassles.

OK I am loving the purple idea, its not too far from red to clash horrifically, and it will help slightly tie in the blue sigils. Lets do it! Gold tassles eh? This guy has style.

JB wrote:
Book of Kells-esque pages would be fantastic. One or two large letters, some scribbles for the rest of the text and then some Kell-esque knot patterns? Or is that too much?
Or I guess if you really want to try the highly stylized idea, put a pic on the left page of a Imperial Hive Spire with a few bits of letters and text. The Spire could be ambiguous as long as it will not get me tossed out of the FLGS.

Ahaha, I dont think I would be able to paint small enough to make the spire look like a spire and not a very sickly mountain, some page decoration will likely be the way to go, especially as I am going to age the crap out of the paper and it will have a nice effect on whats painted on it.

It's time to get this guy onto my blu-tac topped paint pot to hold, I don't want to chip off anything while moving him around at this stage. Chipping off aribrushed paint is a nightmare, because trying to repaint it with a brush never blends in right D:

That sounds good to me. I'm curious to see how you age the pages.

I use my skills of an artist.


(I build up wash layers and speckle on dirt colours and then act like I am super cool. GW washes are the best thing to ever happen to me paintwise.)

Drunken goblin looks spot on, Ifalna, though I'm still holding out hope for the Disgruntled Horse scale shot ;0

The Inquisitor is coming along nicely - JB, didn't the helmeted sculpt come with a sword originally, while the bare-headed one had the book?

Dysartes wrote:Drunken goblin looks spot on, Ifalna, though I'm still holding out hope for the Disgruntled Horse scale shot ;0

The Inquisitor is coming along nicely - JB, didn't the helmeted sculpt come with a sword originally, while the bare-headed one had the book?

I also wonder what Disgruntled Horse is up to now.

Dysartes, AFAIK both the helmet and bare head versions can come with either the sword or the book. Edit: Ok, looks like the GW website has them just as you described. I can only say that my helmet head guy came with the book but it was a used mini that I bought from a guy on Bartertown so maybe he made a swap??

You have to pin the book or sword hand onto the figure as they are separate bits.




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Ifalna wrote:I use my skills of an artist.


(I build up wash layers and speckle on dirt colours and then act like I am super cool. GW washes are the best thing to ever happen to me paintwise.)

I wasn't able to read this until I clicked the quote button and saw the text in the reply window. This reminds me of the old Meme for "Ancient Chinese Secret" for getting clothes so white in the wash.

That inquisitor figure has to be one of my favorites of all time!

I like the way that book is coming out, and I agree that maybe a black background may give you more of a pop on the model!

Eldrad40k wrote:That inquisitor figure has to be one of my favorites of all time!

I like most of the Inquisitor figures and henchmen that GW has released.

But now every time I think of Inquisitors, instead of Gregor Eisenhorn or Gideon Ravenor, my mind always pictures this:


I may have to pick up a Callidus Assassin, an Escher Juve, a servo skull, and convert figs for the rest of the merry band.

I like the way that Inquisitor is turning out he looks cool so far! One of my favourite models too.

Dysartes wrote:Drunken goblin looks spot on, Ifalna, though I'm still holding out hope for the Disgruntled Horse scale shot ;0

JB wrote:
I also wonder what Disgruntled Horse is up to now.

It's blurry and ridiculous but here.
HERE.
IS YOUR HORSE WANT APPEASED?



As you can see, teeny gobbo is teeny. Or perhaps giant horse is giant? This is a mystery for another time. I think the height of the goblin isint as impressive as how narrow he is, but the detail. My god.. the detail.. /shiver

JB wrote:
I wasn't able to read this until I clicked the quote button and saw the text in the reply window. This reminds me of the old Meme for "Ancient Chinese Secret" for getting clothes so white in the wash.

I think I know where this is going. And it is wonderful.

Eldrad40k wrote:That inquisitor figure has to be one of my favorites of all time!

He is a super cool guy, I really like the mini itself. Very solid, nice amount of detailing, but not horribly crowded.

Cutthroatcure wrote:I like the way that book is coming out, and I agree that maybe a black background may give you more of a pop on the model!

The book is now looking way book..ier. The black background did indeed make a huge difference, He's not dark enough to vanish in the black so Ill keep it instead.

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:I like the way that Inquisitor is turning out he looks cool so far! One of my favourite models too.

You can give kudos to JB for the updated colour scheme, I think he looks pretty cooly as well, its a super win mini.

So here is where he is now -



second shot is a bit blurry but gives an idea of what the book looks like. It has a calligraphic I in 3 shades of green and some margin colours. The I is for Inquisitor, and in no way for Ifalna. That was a happy coincidence. Yep. He is in the final stretch now so his proper final shots shouldn't be too much longer. The black cape really tied him together. Very happy with it.

What type of stuff do you use to stick your model to the top of your pot like that?

Oh thats just regular old Blutac, any kind of putty works just fine. Mine just looks insane at this point as I use it for priming metal mini's too, haha.

Disgruntled Horse fans the world over rise up in elation as their favourite equine pours disdain upoun a tiny drunken gobbo.

Iff-quisitor looking real sharp there

Three cheers for Disgruntled Horse!!!

The Inquisitor looks FANTASTIC!

If you haven't gotten to his base yet, could you do him a bit different? Given his color scheme, I think he'd look better with a base scheme more like you used on your Dark Eldar Wyches with black edges instead of my Mechrite Red scheme. And the ground scheme you used for the Dark Eldar was great except that I don't really need the green flock. He's going to be walking through a ruined city full of grey dust and ash. There won't be many plants there (unfortunately). So to summarize, something like your Wyches bases except no vegetation (or very sparse) and with more dark grey and less brown.

Is that reasonable?

That won't be a problem at all JB! My black ink does most of the work, capillary action is a very nice thing when it comes to colouring sand ;D

I agree that a dark base will help him out, I'm poking the final bits on him now, so he should be done shortly.

Damn, that inquistor looks GREAT. You know how I love dark models like that

The Coatez is also nice, I don't really care for the pilgrim inquisitor or the bride of Frankenstein one either.

Its good to see the Disgruntled horse again Iffy

The Inquisitor is looking excellent love the deep red and black cloak. The book looks very well done as well, is that a picture of one of your cats in it?.

When you finish can we have a shot from behind as well?

Yeah I like the color scheme on the model, it gives it a sinister look

GiraffeX wrote:Its good to see the Disgruntled horse again Iffy

The Inquisitor is looking excellent love the deep red and black cloak. The book looks very well done as well, is that a picture of one of your cats in it?.

When you finish can we have a shot from behind as well?

Haha its clearly a learn to spell book for Inquisitors. C for cat! I will get some back shots too, the cape is the same colour on the back as the front, its quite subtle but nice.


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Annnnd he is done! Black background did a lovely job of properly showing off his reds, but has downplayed his nice grey shading. I CAN'T WIN.

Oh well, I think he turned out quite nice. I especially like the book, that fancy I is the smallest detail I think I have ever painted. Quite purty. The dark base totally set him off, really glad JB went with it

Huuuge image and you are getting it full size because DETAIL.



I totally need to find my nice black velvet again, so the backdrop shows no cloth detail. Oh for a permanent photo station... fingers crossed that after this last bloody house move I will have the room to set one up properly.