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I totally forgot to comment about your tentacled base...

Pink horror and rat tail?

One of the best scratchbuilt base I've seen. Consider this idea stolen!

Lol... Please don't be in such a hurry, (nor in such a praising mood), it's just tile plasticard, and the 2 bits you mentioned...

"Nothing to whip a cat about!" (Sorry, French expression meaning "there's nothing much impressive about it!")

And I'm sure you'll turn it into something even better!

A praising mood? I wouldn't say that. (I have a tendency to be polite and kind when I'm tired - but that's ok, tomorrow I'll re-write my post in a less praising way )

Of course it's just a start, but I like the concept of this base, and the dynamic movement of the tentacle is something I wouldn't have worked if I had not seen this.

Seriously, I consider it's a good job.

Like the scarf Yggs, looks suitably enigmatic, kind of reminds me of The Shadow.

Love the idea for the base, definitely stick with that vision.

I think the base looks great, are they bits from the spawn kit?

I wasn't teasing about the tyre I was just trying to learn some french

@ Hyenajoe : Ok, we're tomorrow already, I'm waiting!

@ monkeytroll : Thank you, but... who is the Shadow?

@ tipios : Nope, as Hyenajoe mentioned, there's a Skaven tail & a Pink Horror... Crest? Tentacle? Ponytail?
No worries about the tyre thing... I was just keeing the "joke" up!

the base looks great, but If you are going for an Ork theme throughout the bases it seems like there should be some ork rubble or some such.

Well, I did think about adding Ork-y bits, but decided against it for I thought it would probably clutter up the base!

I don't want to add to much to the Inquisitor, the model is "busy" enough already!! But thanks for the reminder, I could've missed it!

(back 14 hours ago)

I totally forgot to comment about your tentacled base...and that was probably better this way...

Pink horror and rat tail?

Meh, that's too easy, even for you.

Perhaps some day, when I'll feel lazy I might give it a try, but, obviously, I'd make it far better than you could.

(I think that's enough; It should balance the original post! )

Ok, I like that lol...

You actually managed to make me laugh

(At first, I just thought : why is he rewriting his previous mail without quoting? )

Yggdrasil wrote:
Kudos to you, good Sire... Actually that's what I had in mind : I want the "audience" to wonder about whether he's summoning a Daemon to his side ( Heretic!!! ) or uttering words of power to ward it off!!!

So... Am I on the right track?

Most definitely. You will need to put writing on the inside of the scroll though so it looks like the Inquisitor is reading from it, rather than showing it to someone

the other option is that you face the inquisitor away from the tentacles and have him/her/it being ambushed

endtransmission wrote:Most definitely. You will need to put writing on the inside of the scroll though so it looks like the Inquisitor is reading from it, rather than showing it to someone

the other option is that you face the inquisitor away from the tentacles and have him/her/it being ambushed

Ambush option isn't what I'd have in mind... But I really like the idea of writing something towards him!

There could be an Imperial litany on the front, while he's muttering some dark incantation he'd be reading from the other side!

Pretty ambiguous, thanks!!!

[edit : I had almost forgotten I had come here for the update !

For those who wanted to see the Inquisitor on his base, here's a shot (no, he's not levitating, just not glued yet) :



And some progress on the base :



Off to BBQ, and then bed!

Cheers! ]

That Inquisitor looks really nice.

I love the base - very cthulhu!

What's he pointing the gun at?

At a terrified janitor in the corner of the room, just to stop him from whimpering too loudly


"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows" Hahahahahahahaha



The Shadow was a pulp radio hero from the 30's who moved into books, comics and film (including one with one of the Baldwins in). A mysterious character with a scarf concealing his face. Plus a cool cape, a trenchcoat, a slouch hat and a pair of .45 automatics .


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Sweet Yggs! Really digging the head-mods, really took care of the 'oh, it's a servo skull' feeling!

Now, as much as I love your conversions, put the putty down and slap some paint on something, I miss the Yggsie paintjobs!

I'm definately a fan of the conversion work. Cheers Yggs.

n0t_u wrote:That Inquisitor looks really nice.

Hey, thanks!

inmygravenimage wrote:I love the base - very cthulhu!

That was not the aim, but yeah!

Gitsplitta wrote:What's he pointing the gun at?

At the ground... The gun is pointing downside, while he's listing the charges against his quarry, but still visible so that his prey knows any wrong movement will result in instant, explosive death!

monkeytroll wrote:At a terrified janitor in the corner of the room, just to stop him from whimpering too loudly


"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows" Hahahahahahahaha

The Shadow was a pulp radio hero from the 30's who moved into books, comics and film (including one with one of the Baldwins in). A mysterious character with a scarf concealing his face. Plus a cool cape, a trenchcoat, a slouch hat and a pair of .45 automatics .


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A scarf & a pair of .45 are all it takes to turn anyone into a bada** hero, uh?

MajorTom11 wrote:Sweet Yggs! Really digging the head-mods, really took care of the 'oh, it's a servo skull' feeling!

Now, as much as I love your conversions, put the putty down and slap some paint on something, I miss the Yggsie paintjobs!

Thanks... I'll try painting a bit next week... But I have to admit the lack of spray undercoat is somewhat deterring me from getting to it... As I know the first thing I'll have to do is that boring white undercoat!

Empchild wrote:I'm definately a fan of the conversion work. Cheers Yggs.

Honestly, I think having to work within a defined perimeter forces you to be creative & resourceful! That's why I joined the Pimp My Wizard contest, because I knew that people would go to great lengths to turn those only 4 base models into scores of different yet great minis! And I'm glad I did lol, for I pretty like it too

His quarry the squid?

No... Well, yes...

Maybe?

Perhaps, he's trying to banish the squid tentacles...

Perhaps, he's trying to banish the large daemon who's in front of him, the only part of it that we can see being some underground tentacles trying to reach the Inquisitor from below, but being warded off by his psychic powers...

Perhaps, it's just the Chaos influence in this foul place that has horrid tentacles sprouting from the tainted soil...

Perhaps, it's his using of forbidden words of power that induce psychic & daemonic phenomena...

Or, perhaps... he's caught in the process of summoning a Daemon, and the "squid" is only the tip of the iceberg of what is being conjured to face his foe...

That's up to your interpretations, folks !

I really dig the =][=. He has a very renegade/rogue/bandit look about him.

Thanks G_D!!

There's something I forgot to ask yesterday...

Do you think I should leave the front tiles (where the tentacles are) square, or file them to match the "roundness" of the base?
Knowing that I'll leave them square on the "back" of the base...

I hope I am making myself understandable...

Thanks in advance!

Perhaps... he's afraid of rats and one just scuttled across the floor so he's going to blast it with his bolter?

i'm a fan of breaking up shapes like that. I wouldn't go so far as to file them to roughly round, but possibly going with a basing mentality that Migsula tends to use in that using irregular shapes to help create a dynamic look.

Psychic squid (from Outer Space!) summoned? Who questions the Inquisition?

Some nice conversion work as always. Kaesar II

Gitsplitta wrote:Perhaps... he's afraid of rats and one just scuttled across the floor so he's going to blast it with his bolter?

No, he's got his first retainer for that (see update below - I am Machiavel's hidden grand-grand-son Mwahahahahahaha). Well, hum.

grey_death wrote:i'm a fan of breaking up shapes like that. I wouldn't go so far as to file them to roughly round, but possibly going with a basing mentality that Migsula tends to use in that using irregular shapes to help create a dynamic look.

You're not helping me much here g_d... Do I round the tiles or not? A quick drawing from above, maybe?

Lord Kaesar II wrote:Psychic squid (from Outer Space!) summoned? Who questions the Inquisition?

Some nice conversion work as always. Kaesar II

Thanks!!!

So, in advance I must say sorry for those who expected some paint... Tom, I swear I had planned to at least begin the undercoat, and then when looking for something in my (small) disposable & issued "wardrobe", I just noticed the Bretonnian Men-at-Arms, that Jin had sent me as part of a trade... and, one of them did match a cut-out Scout shotgun, whose arm I had used for my other scouts...

So I spend this weekend's free time in a feverish state, clipping, kitbashing, burrowing through my small bitz box, gluing, cutting (even my finger remembers that last part), and GSing....

Here's yesterday's result, the first retainer of my yet-to-be-painted Inquisitor!





Ok, at first I had planned to leave his face as is, then I thought it would be funnier if he had night-vision goggles... Then, even funnier if he was heavily augmented with a respirator unit... These two details really turn it into a different mini, but I like it!

What do you think?

Ok, I'll try & post some better songs next time!

Oh, and I'm still after some advice for the Inquisitor base (see previous update), thanks!

[edit : I trust tipios' advice on the song (connection is too slow in here to see videos, so I just link at them hoping they're good) so here's another one (beware, old school French punk) : Bérurier Noir, Vietnam Laos Cambodge ]

I like the retainer alot. Did you steal the wire from someones guitar out there

song - not clear enough to like or dislike

base - I think it would look better rounded off front and back, but if you need it square at the back, I would still round off the front.

Wow how have I missed this thread? Love what you've been doing Yggdrasil! You've got my head whirling about ideas on how to pose some Scouts for my KoB AND even thinking about making a random Inquisitor just for fun! I have to say, that Inquisitor is just all kinds of awesomeness. It just screams secretive agent to me. Cannot wait to see more. And stay safe!

I love that man of arms, the face is great!

My only issue is that he looks more like an acoyle or henchman than a full blown inqiisitor. I feel like a flowing cape or some such thing would make him more regal and match the powerful look of the other inquisitor. Right now he just looks like one bada** awesome henchmen.

Make any sense?