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Bottle - Thanks. Me too. I'm on a deadline of the 14th Jan!

evildcheese - Cheers.

tipios - I just like looking at the doodads in the John Blanche sketches. But in this case I am most please with the chaotic psychic hood and going to the effort of adding the tiny wires to the back.

Manus - The base mini is a Dark Eldar Lhamaean with the head, arms and backpack removed.

I see - thanks

Beregus ran, Inquisitorix Kovettell had ordered it, down stark corridors back towards the gun cutter. The Inquisitorix had the information from the Astropath and now she needed to escape this place, unhindered. A bolt shell detonated into the wall behind him, shrapnel rained down on his armour. Avianna was ahead of him, hugging the poppet to her chest, and she turned the final corner. Beregus made it to the corner and felt the impact of a shell hitting his armoured void suit. He was hurled through the air smashing into the wall bruising his face. Momentarily stunned after landing he realised that he was alive. Shaking off the fog he picked himself up and felt pain from an injury to his back, thank god the bolt shell hadn’t penetrated before detonation. He hobbled toward the blast doors of the hangar bay. Avianna stood in the doorway next to the controls “Hurry up!” she snapped. From behind its golden skull the poppet giddily called out to him “Come on Rynt, we’ve not finished playing yet!” It was the first time he’d heard it speak; he wanted to vomit as its voice was that of a child. Holding back the nausea he made it through the blast door before she closed it.







He was halfway across the deck when autogun bullets started spraying again. He risked a look back and saw the black clad Inquisitor and her troopers spill onto the hangar deck. His view was interrupted as autocannon shells detonated into the deck between him and the pursuers, smoke rippled up from the puncture wounds in the void station’s floor. Turning and running, with the last of his reserves, he made it to the Inquisitorix’s gunship as autocannon shells continued to rain down behind him. Running past the flight deck he saw the pilot give him a thumbs up. He collapsed onto the cargo bay floor as the embarkation ramp slammed shut and the vessel took flight.

Inquisitorix Kovettell was loudly berating the pilot over a voxhorn. She was telling him to stop wasting time with covering fire and to abandon Tumulus Gate and evade any pursuers. He grunted for knew he was expendable. Bergus pulled off the extra armour and the top of his void suit, feeling the hard muscle of his back where he’d taken the glancing shot. He’d survive, and so he’d survived his first mission for the Inquisition. He looked at the Inquisitorix and she smiled at him before leaving the chamber with her sister. The smile did nothing to reassure him.







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Astropath Borleen screamed, as the pain probe was extracted. She was again blinded by null wards, tears wept from her useless eyes. She believed that the death torment Inquisitor Lazaros had spoken of would be worse than the tortures bestowed upon her body by Lord Inquisitor Helk. How she despised the Captain-Inquisitor. She beseeched the Inquisitor’s acolytes for mercy and that she could not speak the Lazaros Cipher. The torture continued, unabated for days, but still she could not speak.

Lord Inquisitor Helk ventured into the extraction chamber. Borleen only knew this from the confident voice but took the words to be true. “As you know I am Inquisitor Lord Helk. My acolytes, who have taken confession from the most blighted of heretics, but here have failed to get a loyal subject to save the Emperor. The information you hold is vital to the Imperium. However, my psykers have probed you and they have decided that you’ll never be able to speak the cipher. Though with considerable effort they have removed a layer of encryption; it is now safe for you to tell me what happened the day Inquisitor Lazaros visited and ruined you. You’ll be happy to know a vague destination to Lazaros’ journey was provided by Inquisitor Walsynhymme’s tarot reader. Like your mind my agents will scour the Veiled Region.”

Borleen thought and felt relief; a weight had been taken from her mind. Pain laced her entire being but now she could reveal the only thing that needed to be told. “All I can speak of is barbed daemons and the location of the thorn moons.” Borleen detailed what she knew, banks of scribes wrote her every utterance, vox thieves recorded her every breath. For a day she told and retold her tale. Finally Borleen felt the Emperor’s Mercy, a stiletto blade directly to her heart.

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Love your modelling and fluff-writing not much more that I can say but I've been lurking for a while and thought you should get the credit you deserve! Really great work can't wait for the next installment

Ynneadwraith - Thank you for coming out and letting me know. Much appreciated,

Awesome minis and fluff. Avianna is brilliant, very creepy.

EDC

Great colour work, especially the black cloaks

Those as so gorgeous and characterful models. You never disappoint PDH !

evildrcheese - Before the Sisters of Silence came out the Avianna model was originally going to be the Inquisitor. I think she works so much better as a creepy witch (not that the Inquisitorix isn't a creepy witch)

nathanie1 - Migs converted me to oil washes. I think it adds to the depth of the black. The robes are all darker shades of grey, highlighed etc. Wash of really thinned black oil paint. Give it 20 mins and then with only thinner on the brush wipe off/thin the highest areas even more. While its a good effect I wouldn't want to use it on everything.

KernelTerror - Thank you very much

You have finished them off nicely. I love the red armour.

Magnificent finish for these.

Fantastic stuff dude

Very inspiring, beautiful and full of personality characters!

Miniatures in great atmosphere. Really like it, from where You draw inspiration?

Tipios - Cheers

youwashock - Thanks

JoeRugby -

b-tone - Its the only way I can keep interested if they are all characters.

Rotten_Factory - This group have been mainly been influenced by Voodoo Forest, a book of illustrations by John Blanche. I draw my inspirations from a lot of sources including my hobby friends, GW art, The Inquisitor Rulebook, Mordheim, Dark Heresy books, other peoples conversions and painting. Though I often find the best inspiration is finding a really cool bit in a bits box and thinking about what I could use it for. In Beregus' case I found the chaos warrior legs by accident and thought they looked imposing. The Inquisitor was inspired by the Sisters of Silence release and wanting to convert one asap.

Beautiful work as always Peter, especially on the depth of the blacks. I'll be honest - I wasn't too sold on the concept of Avianna and the poppet when I saw the greens only, but your paintwork has absolutely brought the two of them together. Is there a tale behind the poppet's origins, or would that ruin the mystery?
I'd love a run down on how you've achieved that horrible sickly skin tone for Kovetell if you have the time please? Really characterful - can imagine an aura of unease around her...

Scarper - Thanks bud, sorry for the massively late reply. I have no idea of the poppets origins....I guess its a minor daemon possessing an infant. As for the sickly skin tone... It was done using GW rakarth flesh and pallid wych skin with some ghost grey added. Then washed with very thin red, purple mixed. Highlights as before adding more ghost grey. Maybe a thin blue wash. Red glaze round the eyes and mouth. More highlighting.

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Well I tried AoS but it sucked all my motivation out of me, felt like I was cheating on the Warhammer World. But AoS and GW have inspired me with sky dwarves who will be turned into a veteran squad of squats asap....so I decided to finish off my mercs before moving onto squats. So they are finally finished after two or three years lol. But now I've decided it was time to build them there ride too. Pictures of the finished squad when the Taurox is finished.

Thanks Neil for the broken Taurox kit. Thanks Tears of Envy for the front tracks and the idea of improving the ugly Taurox.

Does anyone else think the front of the Taurox looks like the face of the Warhound Titan?

Warhoundy McWarhound Face

All of your INQ28 stuff is fantastic.
May I ask where you got Beregus' shotgun from?

DaemonJellybaby - Thank you. Beregus' shotgun is from the best source of shotguns.....the genestealer hybrids.

Really looking forward to seeing the full squad of mercs, they look like they'd be perfect for Shadow War Armageddon
Could I ask where this fellow's head is from?

RTmis1 - the head is from a high elf shadow warrior.

I was thinking that these chaps would be good for Shadow War too. But intrigued by 8th edition.

The front of a taurox certainly has a slight resemblance to a warhound Titan face.

EDC

Loving the John Blanche vibe you have going!

Oh wow, you sir are a genius!

Now I should have written some background. Its in my head.... a report written by an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor's Interrogator....judging and inducting them into the Inquisitor's personal Army to fight in the Dalthus Sector against the Ork menace. Oh well never mind.

The Merc Squad is finally finished! Hallelujah! I had so much fun with these guys and their ride but its a relief to move on....oh to the merc sniper and orgyns, Doh!.









While you might not need an air brush to paint a tank you do need spray paint and varnish.

Now that is a beautiful bit of machinery - those new tracks make all the difference.

Sweet! They look fantastic all together

Has the Tarox been officially named Warhound McWarhoundyface?

The orange trim really pulls everything together. A good choice

Can we expect some sky pirates later in the week?

Great looking crew, and one helluva ride

- Salvage

That's a damn fine looking Squad and ride man! Love the Dwarf!