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Man I have the EXACT same idea as you got here, that is creating an inquisitorial IG army. However the red I use is much lighter than urs.
I like the termi with a cloak, it makes him look...um...more holy. all ur conversions are quite inspiring to me. Im glad that i saw this thread.

I like it I think it's an awsome idea to do the army. Definatly gives off the feel of the Inquisitor taking over an army for his or her own purpose. Also the paint job makes them look like they are fighting the demonic. Not sure if you were trying to head that route but it worked either or.

Celestine's cloak looks fantastic on your Inquisitor. Also, I LOVE the heavy bolter conversion.

Thanks for all the awesome comments guys, feedback like this keeps me going back to the painting table when there are dozens of unpainted models on it!

@owain - Yeah the Heavy Bolter IST is one of my favs too

Cheers

Great job on the conversion and Telion looks great. have you ever consider an vindicare assassin for your army? he works well in my list. and also, i feel that while your inquisitor looks great, one of the empire warrior priests would fit in to the army better. more... archaic and wizened i guess.

I have a vindicare but he seems expensive for the amount of wounds he can possibly throw out in a game, for the same price I can field a 10 man squad of ISTs that are a scoring unit.

As for the Inquisitor I have Solomon Lok from FW which kind of covers any kind of "old man" type look I want but he just cant carry a psycannon and it seems crazy to run an Inquisitor Lord with such a high BS and only give him a bolt pistol .

I like to think that Inquisitors Lords get to the same ages as space marine lords (hundreds of years old) and end up needing bionics and power armour to keep battling on anyway

cheers

Sorry for the long silence readers, I was preparing for my first tournament which was sprung on me at the last moment. In order to have enough teams for a doubles tournament my club was holding I was roped into playing with a 13 year old kid and between us we managed to feild the most ridiculously expensive and model poor list at the event and collect the least battle points. Despite the asskicking we did average in the painting (his models were halfpainted two colour ultramarines which dropped us a bit) but second in players choice which shows we still had fun despite everyting. The entire thing taught me a lot and look forward to seeing my army change a LOT in the next few months, i.e. smaller units , more mech and probably some pagk for a bit of backbone in my trrops. As well as the inquisition troops my latest aquisition is a leman russ for my inducted imperial guard platoon which i hope to paint up soon

cheers

And I'm back! I have no real excuse for not updating for a so long except my evil friends introduced me to Dungeons and Dragons Online which has swallowed large portions of my life, damn them! Happily i have had a few weeks of holiday over christmas and decided to make a concerted effort to finish my inducted guard platoon and rebuild my army list according to lessons learnt while playing the very few games of 40k I have managed to squeeze in. Once again damn D&D online and all my friends.
Thought I would show some of the painting I have finished to table standard.

first off is my Platoon Command Squad, some of which I have already shown you



My first 10 man squad



and my second squad



the heavy weapons squad attached the platoon



and the armoured sentinel which I am not sure I will use but came in the army box



I also managed to pick up a cheap Leman Russ to add a bit of long range firepower for the platoon and I am finding I am quite jealous of other players laying down pie plates on my troops so I wanted to do the same



I also added some final touches to my Inquisitorial Dreadnaught, mainly the book thing that comes with the space marine librarian in termie armour, I feel it looks more proportionate on a dread anyway



And to finish up I converted my second heavy bolter stormtrooper for my inquisitor squad which has moved from a HQ to an Elites slot due to the limited use I could put the termie innquisitor lord to. He has subsequently morphed from an Inq Lord to a Brother-Captain Hero which joins my GK Termies meaning they are now a 6 man termie squad with two Brother-Captains and three psycannon, very fun.



cheers
BLACKHAND

I have also posted a tutorial on how to convert a stormtrooper to carry a space marine heavy bolter if anyone is interested

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/272951.page

cheers

BLACKHAND

They look awesome. How do they do in normal battles?

I love the Celestine conversion. I my pinch bits of that. For what, I'm not quite sure, but the idea is just far too good to pass up. Maybe with a head swap...

Also loving the wings on the celestine. Just fits with the gothic paint scheme you got goin' on. Looks awesome.

@ cosmic pixie - They have done alright so far in the two games I have played them in. The first match up was against chaos space marines played by a local 40k guru, my lascannons took out all three of his defilers early on but I had no answer for his raging demon prince. Second game was against imperial guard and I managed to win that one as he nothing to stop to my gk terminators in their crusader. Im finding the mix of guard for shootin and gk for misdirection and assaulting is working so far but there is always room for improvement.

@morgrim & binky - Yeah the celestine is pretty, its like they made the wings on the wfb carrion just for the conversion. A friend of mine is trying to get me to run it as a deamon prince in a chaos army.

cheers
BLACKHAND

Havn't had a chance to get any painting on my army done this week as I have been painting a space marine army for our local gaming club for use by the one warhammer player we have (we are trying to convert him to 40k)
In the meantime I have been researching ideas for a small roughrider unit and having read and enjoyed the book "leviathan" by scott westerfield I am thinking of using a mech design from the book. The premise of the book is an alternate world war 1 with england, france and russia using massive engineered creatures as warmachines and austria , germany and the ottoman empire using mech walkers in battle. What really brings the book to life is the illustrations which are amazingly detailed and creative. They include a one-man recon vehicle resembling a headless horse which fires phosphorous mortars that nearby artillary use to find targets. I found a pic online here

http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2009/09/500x_levthn.jpg

I'm hoping to model a prototype walker, make a rubber mold and pour resin copies to get a uniform look across the whole unit and end up with a sturdier model then if I build them all out of bitz. Unfortunately I am having trouble sourcing the latex rubber and resin compounds as our local hobby store no longer sells them but I hope to order some online in the next few weeks.

I'll keep you updated on progress and take lots of pics for a tutorial on the mold making and pouring.

cheers
BLACKHAND

Maybe I am crazy, but in an environment that requires Gas Masks, would they not be also wearing some gloves?

Also, I loved "Leviathan", too. That map at the front was crazy stuff and the book wasn't half bad considering it was for young adults.

Good luck with the scout walkers! I will keep an eye on this thread and see how they turn out.

Edit: OOPS, sorry, didn't know that to which you were referring.

@em_en_oh_pee s - I have considered the glove issue but the thought of adding greenstuff to the cuffs of nearly forty guard seems like a mammoth task. That said I wanted to show that my guard could go anywhere and fight in any environment (hence the backpacks full of gear and the gas masks)

What do you think, could I simply paint the hands to identify them as gloves or do I need to go the greenstuff route?

cheers
BLACKHAND

Yea, you could just paint the hands. It would be much as though they were wearing a biohazard suit underneath their uniform, which is pretty realistic.

cool army, can i ask what sneaky war gear your inquisitor has?

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Where did you get those heads. I want to steal them.

pig iron i think it's called they have a hole host of cool looking models

Yea, Pig Iron sells the heads as well as tons of other IG-compatible stuff.

@em-en-oh-pee - I'll have to look at painting the gloves on , will see how black with a drybrush of codex grey though I'm thinking of modelling gloves on hte rough riders im gonna do to see how they come out and if it will be worth doing the whole platoon.

@physcosamatic - To begin with I was running my inq lord with termie armour , psycannon and psycic hood and a group of henchmen. But lately I've found that switching him to a gk brother captain with psycannon and psychic hood costs less and has the ability to assault especially when you add him to a group of gk termies and throw him in a crusader. Inquisitors, even lords just arent tough enough to stand toe to toe with a lot of the things you will run into.

@happygrunt - Yeah they are pig iron heads I really like them though this is one of their simplest designs. I also got a couple of sets of their backpacks which look pretty cool. the problem is the heads come in packs of 10 while the backpacks are in packs of 8 meaning I had to build a few out of bitz and greenstuff

Cheers again for all the comments

BLACKHAND

I'm afraid the work on my roughriders has stalled due to my friend asking me to build him a Tervigon which has been taking all my modelling time so far this week. Happily this gives me an excuse to start a new P&M blog

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/276630.page

cheers
BLACKHAND

Aaaand I'm back! Now that I'm on the closing stretch of Tervigon build I have had the chance to play around with my Inquisitorial army, touching up a few models and making what I think is a cool little conversion inspired by Archibald Jack's fantastic tutorial that you can find here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/280841.page

and you can find my ripoff of his fantastic tutorial here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/282539.page

So onto the pics

First up is an Inquisitor I've been slowly finishing, the last piece I needed was a black templar power sword to replace the one that comes with the figure





Next is my new Commissar for my inducted IG platoon, If you don't know the model you must have been living under a rock for years, what you may not know is that if you drop him from any kind of height his power sword will snap off like it's made of ice :( Hence his new kit out with a powerfist, gotta love that IG command sprue!



And last is my brand new sniper, unusable in my DH list as I don't have an IG regimental command that can take carapace armour but I plan on running him in a Guard list I have been working on.



As usual my pics ( despite using 3 light sources) have messed up the colours and detail of my models but having seen how easy it is to build a lightbox I have decided it is my next projsect.

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Wow i wish i saw this thread sooner. Great work on the inquisitor,and everything else.

good luck.

Wow. With the right colors Stryker looks awesome in an Inquisitor Theme.

The powerfist on the Inquisitor looks also pretty good.

For some reason the Inquisitor reminds me of Devil May Cry. This is not a bad thing.

thought I would post a few pics of a demon prince I painted for a friend of mine, its had it's left hand replaced with a lash and wings from an ice dragon I think. The only reason I painted it for him was that he thrashed me with his chaos marines and at the time the DP was undercoated black with bright baby blue wings...I couldn't take being beaten by such a piss poorly painted model so I took it home and gave it a paint job befitting a Demon Prince of Khorne!!










Cheers

BLACKHAND


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Oh and here is a pic of My Stormtrooper boys facing off a horde of genestealers as well as one of my GK termies about to tear through the remnanats of a thousand sun squad enjoy!

So why didn't you post the pics of Typhus ripping through your GK squad huh huh.....