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You and Doghouse will be working together? You ordered him for a commission?

Lovely stuff! great conversions. Watching this thread.

I contacted Doghouse with a commission to sculpt me an assassin based on the highly-successful Assassin's Creed series. Here's the fluff I sent him:

An assassin in the employ of Inquisitor Adorno: The order of assassins from which he hails has no name, but likens itself to the Imperial Aquila. Hailing from a remote community upon an arid, rocky planetoid, its operatives are seen as akin to the claws ot the eagle, dispensing swift and violent justice to the Emperor's foes. The order places great emphasis upon remaining undetected until the last possible moment so that death may come to their targets at any time. The assassins are a 'hidden blade' at the throat of the enemy. To prosper, an assassin must blend with crowds, moving swiftly and silently without detection. They must take unexpected routes to their targets and strike without mercy.

Secretive and closed to outsiders, the order has evoked suspicion over the course of its history. At one point, the Black Templars Chapter stood ready to eradicate the assassins, but highly-placed Inquisitors ordered the Space Marines to stand down, reasoning the value of such a brotherhood beholden to the Inquisition.

Since that time, the order has provided assassins to Inquisitors upon request. Adorno's radical views and diabolic practices are of little concern to the order - its masters are well aware that extreme methods must be taken to safeguard the Imperium. It is enough for them that Adorno's authority is derived from that of the Emperor Himself.

The assassin is an intense man, quiet and introspective. Typically, he wears a white cloak, the thick cowl pulled low over his face. He radiates a palpable aura of strength and fortitude. His voice is low and masked with a thick accent, his movements fluid, yet unassuming. Having undergone trials and instruction into the hidden mysteries of the order, he is introverted, devoting himself to the ritual of training, ceaselessly honing his skills. He is in thrall to the tenets of the cult, what he calls 'the creed'.

With the order likening itself to the claw of the Aquila, the assassin carries what is known as a 'talon', a bracer worn on the forearm incorporating a spring-loaded blade mounted above the wrist. A flex of the hand and the mechanism of the blade will trigger, extending it and allowing it to be used to its full, deadly potential.

So smooooth!
Love it.

Awesome work, love every piece!

S_P

So, a long overdue update. The latest model is a Xenos advisor tagging along with Inquisitor Hoth.

He is an excellent sculpt by Eolith Miniatures; An excellent sculpt, and real fun to convert (and for Steve to paint, I hear!) The Hurk model is designed to be a small model at 54mm scale, but at 27mm tall he sits well amongst the other denizens of the dark millennium.




The model is intended to represent a member of the Scythians, a relatively unknown 40k race that have received only a few scattered mentions in the fluff. We wanted him to look deliberately very 'alien', hence the blue skin. I asked Steve to take inspiration from the Poison Dart Frog, hence the spotting on his skin.




I gave some thought as to why the pommel of his dagger had a human skull on it - I came to the idea that it might be a gift from the Inqusitor he works with. As a result, I attached a brass-etch Inquisition symbol to the scabbard of his blade to show that his work is sanctioned by the Inquisitor in question. I think it's come out really well, and serves as a nice little touch that gives him a bit of character.

Wow the painting on that is great. Really nice dramatic shading.
Could we have a size comparison shot of him?

Thanks for the comment! It's amazing how quickly things can slip down the forum page. Here's some size comparisons that should help you somewhat:

Your assassin looks fantastic! I'll be keeping an eye on this blog- good inspirational figures!

A quick and somewhat different post to the last update, here's an Arbites patrol team, converted by me and painted by Darren. If you're at all familiar with these models you'll know how much of a pig they can be, but I'm satisfied that I've managed to make them look somewhat distinct and different. These guys will patrol Nova Castille, and are intended to be quite threatening (hence the proliferation of Power Mauls and Suppression Shields) but not overly so. They should prove an interesting force!

I meant to say the other day but I ran out of time. This is one lovely blog and gets me itching to play a few games of inquisitor (28mm of course) . The blue alien is just great.

The arbites are nicely done too. Keep up the inspiring work and showing the 54mm guys that it can be done well in 28mm.

Cheers

Peter

It's always a bit weird with my desk - some models will sit there for years and suddenly have a bunch of bits added to them. And some of them don't turn out at all how I imagined.

Here's a few interesting things I've been working on today (I've been converting a bunch of Necromunda Orlocks, but those are for later...)



This is Pyremaster Korbin... one of my favourite 40k figures, so I've not converted him. I have, however, added a brass etch =][= to the page of his book (hopefully you should be able to see it...)



A bit of a messier picture, this is Inquisitor Greer. You've seen him before, but the combination of losing certain bits and finding other bits has left him in the state he is at the moment. I can't decide on a head for him at the moment, however. I'm in the midst of trying to give him an armoured breastplate, to which I'm going to add an =][=. After that I'll be green-stuffing his arm.


Now this model is an oddity. I bought Gunnery Sergeant Harker because somewhere on the internet I saw a cool conversion of the model for a post-apocalyptic game, giving him a double-handed axe. I fully intended to rip off the conversion. However, playing with the figure today he ended up like this:






I quite like how he's looking at the moment; he needs a certain amount of work, but he looks the part for an Inquisitor's chem-nourished henchman. I imagine him being a hive ganger or ex-Guardsman (or both!). I'll keep you updated as I progress with the conversion.

I like the take on Harker, leaving him with just an autogun as opposed to some big heavy gun. In a way it kinda works for him; not all muscle men need to carry gatling guns around everywhere like Schwarzenegger (huh, seems I got the name right my first go around!). But so, keep up the cool work.
-Kaesar II

this is great work! questions:

1. are those the normal deathwatch shoulder pad you're using for your TS marines?

2. what rules are you using for marines in a munda type rule setting (i have a thread over in skirmish if you care to add to the discussion on this topic)

I like the autogun on Harker looks cool . Instead of the clip though I think maybe a belt of ammo and draped over his left arm would look cool. I think the original conversion you mentioned was done by Catferret (it can be found in this thread http://easternfringe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6904 )

The Harker conversion is really nice and simple. Since he has a normal sized gun it actually makes him actually look chem-nourished.

Good work on the other guys too (as always). Its bugging me... I cannot for the life of my place Greer's robed legs, yet I get a horrible feeling I'll kick myself when you tell me.

Thanks

Peter

Kaesar: Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it. Over on the Conclave they've actually suggest I give him a name that's a thinly-veiled Schwarzenegger reference. I had considered calling him "Banner" as he's a bit of a hulk (hur hur hur...)

Azekio:

This marine:




... actually uses the terminator pad, not the normal power armoured pad. I didn't go down the full terminator armoured route (which is why he still has power-armoured arms) because to me a lot of those style TS marines often look a little bloated, and I didn't think I had the skill to pull it off. (And I was inspired by this model by Shas'el Tael.) Some people say it makes them look like a T-Rex, but I don't think that it's particularly off-putting.

In regards to your second question, I don't play "Inquisimunda". I play "INQ28" - the difference being that I actually use the Inquisitor rules-set but with the distances scaled appropriately, rather than a mishmash of Necromunda and the like. I love Necromunda, and have been involved in campaigns that have run for years at a time, but Inquisitor is a great system that often doesn't get a good enough hit. I often think that if I put "Inquisimunda" in my thread title I'd get ten times the responses instead of just having my thread slide down the forum!

When my Deathwatcher eventually hits the field of battle, I'll probably use Eoin Whelan's evolved rules from Dark Magenta issue 2.

Doom: I considered giving him a drum or a box magazine, but I think he looks cool. He did have a belt of ammo draped over his arm, but I had to cut that away (in the picture up there, the bracer is still blocky and awful, but hopefully you'll see soon that I've repaired it and got it looking a lot better.) You're very right that it was Catferret who inspired me (and whose conversion I was planning to steal) but I'm pleased how mine has accidentally ended up! I remember liking how he'd made the piece of car tire for his shoulder armour. A nice conversion.

PDH: Thanks for the compliments. I do appreciate them. Greer has been a lengthy and time-consuming conversion, but he's based on the Necromunda 'Redeemer' model.

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I've fiddled with him a little more to give him a sling for his autogun:



The sling is taken from the SM Scouts sniper rifles. I tried the Catachan one, but it was too thin and flimsy. I've had to carve it out a little to go around his leg, but it looks pretty neat now and just needs a little bit of repair work. I've managed to get the bracer on his wrist looking a LOT better - after filing away the heavy bolter shells. I've added a few pouches to the back (after removing the grenades).

All in all, he's come together very organically, and I'm very pleased with him. I'm just not sure how to integrate the shoulderpad. Should I sculpt some sort of strap around his arm? If you look at the picture of the back of the model (above), you'll see that might be tricky, but I don't want the pad to just be floating around in mid-air.

ouch...when I kick myself I really should do it a little more gently

Banner looks better with the gun strap. As for the shoulder pad have you thought/is it manageable to have it grafted onto his skin? Other wise I reckon a strap round his arm. I think a strap across his left pectoral linking to the other strap would be too much.

Peter

cool! I love your minis

PDH - Someone suggested a strap across the pectoral linking to the other strap, and I also thought it would be a bit too much. I think I'm going to sculpt a little bit of a strap around his arm, and that'll do. It's just a little detail that should hopefully make the miniature make a little more sense.

Now, one of my favourite Necromunda models is the scummer with two bolt pistols:



Now, I have one of these miniatures, but it's been damaged by somebody attempting in the past to remove the bolt pistols. (Which I didn't have a problem with, as I figured twin bolt pistols was perhaps a bit much in Inquisitor anyway).



So, after rooting around in my bitzbox, I managed to find a pair of matched autopistols which I could use. It took a bit of work to carve out the jacket on the left arm so that it would fit, but it looks a lot better now:

Gorgeous, as always!

I really really like that Harker conversion.

Might cheekily steal it!

I love the harker conversion....

"Get to tha choppa"

Thanks for the comments guys! Lots of people seem to be making Schwarzenegger links with that model. I didn't think Harker was meant to be an Arnie! (Though obviously Sly Marbo is a Stallone...)

I just figured that I would take advantage of the Showcase section to put up a Completed Models thread, which will also include fluff for the models that I put up. I hope you'll enjoy it!

I've got that scummer and I've attempted to paint him three times..each time its just not turned out right. Admittedly the last time I tired was about 5 years ago.

I don't think I could desecrate such a gorgeous model by cutting his hands off...he is perfect even with Bolt Pistols. Though seeing what you've done had given me hope

Are the pistols from Nercromunda?

Peter

Well, in truth he was already desecrated - so I was left with the choice of trying to convert him, or throwing him away.

The pistols are Necromundan - they're newer-style Orlock autopistols. There were a couple of differently-styled pistols, and I deliberately wanted to have a pair that matched, so I ended up taking one from a weapons sprue, and one from an Orlock ganger. Whilst not a flawless conversion, it does at least allow an old model to see the light of day once more!

I love giving necromunda models new weps - its what they were made for -- plus ones with missing guns go real cheap online

Great conversion mate, like your range of models, and your township is looking good.

Thanks for the comments - they are appreciated.


Today I've mostly been clearing my desk (gasp!) I'm attempting to sell off or trade away things I don't need, and condense my hobby/collection down to only the things that I'm going to use.

First up, here's a Dark Scribe. This character wouldn't really fit in to Adorno's retinue as I envisage it, but I see him as someone who works for a radical Inquisitor and who has hoarded all the dark knowledge he can.

The model is Malakev, from the double-set with the Redeemer. I don't like how the arms are on the original model, so I've rotated the axe arm so it is trailing as he runs, firing wildly with his pistol.







As you can see, he carries the blasphemous tome with him, afraid to let it out of his sight. I want to reinforce the idea that it's a forbidden tome (and also his affiliation with the Inquisition) so I want to sculpt a clasp holding the book closed, and to use one of these:



These padlocks, from the Cherubael model, will fit perfectly and should be a nice visual touch.

I've also been working on my female Tech-Priest, who I found again.







Clearly, this model requires some work to smooth the green-stuff on her lower robes. But today I removed her left hand, replacing it with a heresy pistol hand and a forgeworld laspistol. I am currently looking for inspiration - how to tie her definitely to the Adeptus Mechanicus? I know some of that will come in the painting, but I'm currently looking at the Techpriest Enginseer models for inspiration.

I also dug this guy out:



I see him as a Guardsman blinded in a daemonic attack - but gifted with a "warpsight", an ability to sense daemons. A useful tool for a radical Inquisitor, he could operate almost as a 'sniffer dog' for them. I'm currently waiting on some parts to finish him off.

I've been hard at work this evening using a servo-arm from Forgeworld's titan Tech Priest to try to bash together something that'll work for this Tech-priestess. I'm working on trying to give her an AdMech symbol somewhere, though her robes will likely incorporate a cog-tooth pattern when they're painted:

The Christmas holiday has seen a frenzied orgy of activity as I've returned to my models and to INQ28. I have to admit that I've found it very enjoyable.

An order from Forgeworld arrived on Christmas Eve. To begin with, my progress was negligible, and the pictures I'd taken were of such poor quality that I didn't bother putting them up. Now though, I've managed to take a few better ones, so here you go.

This first model represents Captain Le Kard, a Rogue Trader and former officer of His Majesty's Imperial Navy. Now he heads his own dynasty, and sets his own destiny.







The model is made from the Death Korps of Krieg Commissar with a head taken from the Cadian Infantry Squad Upgrade Pack. Taking inspiration from a member of the Conclave, this Captain is based around Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard. And what did you expect from a bald starship Captain?

Another Forgeworld head let me give a face to Interrogator Bastian Grimm, assigned to the retinue of Inquisitor Balthier by Lord Dire, the master of the Dalthan Ordo Hereticus and a powerful figure in the Conclave. Grimm is an enthusiastic member of the Janus Cabal, and his motives are not as pure as they might seem...




The next model might be a little difficult to make out, but I've taken the previous "Cardinal" figure, and given him the head and hand from an older Imperial Missionary figure. Holding the Ecclesairchal symbol really gives him a "The power of the Emperor COMPELS YOU!" look, which is entirely fitting. I've given him the name "Deacon Gallowglass", and he seems to be keen to burn down everything around him.



Lastly for today, I have another model that formed quite organically. He's been a total pain to photograph, though. Based on the Eversor assassin, I made an Inquisitorial operative. Not quite finished yet, but hopefully you can get the gist:




On Tuesday, we played two games of INQ28, and I did take pictures, so hopefully I can put some of those up later today, as well!