-Crisp & Grey- A NZ blog (May Update - I painted a Dragon!)

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**Knightley**

Update: So over the last 6 or so months I've been assembling a bunch of models I could use in an Inquisition force. I wanted some non-standard looking models, such as an Ork Mekboy as a counts as Jokaero, Kroot with whipcoils counts as Arco Flagellants, Dark Eldar Wyches as counts as Deathcult assassins, the list goes on, so this is a group shot of everything before I whittle them down into squads.

Four Inquisitors, Kit bashed Coteaz, kit bashed Valeria, two legit forgeworld Inquisitors as well

Henchmen

Transports - Originally I had only intended for 3 groups of inquisitors however discovering a bunch of guys from Graven and another tank means things got expanded, the 3 tank conversions are from Machinator and are amazing!

**bigfish**

The new Force is looking great knightley, looking forward to seeing them get painted

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(also liking the mek boyz as Jokaero idea, very cool)

**KernelTerror**

Very interesting project, looking forward to see how they go !

**Spacewolverine**

Agreed, excited to see them painted up Knightley. Looks like a fun and interesting concept for an Army so far!

**Knightley**

@Bigfish - Thanks mate, having an eclectic mix of guys is really what I wanted

@KernelTerror - Welcome aboard, stay tuned as I go through the muster and painting

@SW - Cheers buddy, as an addon force for the Grey Knights from 6th edition I'm a touch behind on building/painting

Update: So I realised I ended up with a few to many henchmen per inquisitor (about 10 over) so I had to make the hard call to cull the numbers, so arranged them into 'squads'
Each should have a preist or psyker, every unit will have a jokaero or counts as Jokaero, each will have a special weapon (flamer, melta, nade launcher or Plasma gun, each will have either a arco-flagellant or Crusader and filled out with lasgun/helgun acolytes

**inmygravenimage**

Busy busy boy!

**Knightley**

Oh yes, I did some re-jigging last night, changed out the turret on the fourth Chimera as I didn't feel it sat right with the unit.

Rex with his squad

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Coteaz with his squad

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Valeria with her squad

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Lok with his squad

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**Gitsplitta**

Wow... the blog is lousy with Inquisitors!!

**Warboss_Waaazag**

It's an Inquisition storm! Cool conversions. Looking forward to seeing them with paint on.

**Spacewolverine**

I concur, I cannot wait till we see paint on them!

**KernelTerror**

Should have asked last time, do you plan on attributing them to different Ordos ? And convert the rides accordingly ?
Keep it up !

**Knightley**

@Gits - Best I get the bug bomb out eh? can't have these pesky inquisitors start to lay eggs, they'll never die out, only way to be sure would be nuke them from orbit

@Warboss_Waaazag - Cheers, at my current painting speed either you wont have to wait long, or I'll blow out and never get them done

@SW - Stay tuned, I'll try get through them as quickly as I can!

@KernelTerror - I hadn't though to do that, its a good idea! Where were you when I was doing my planning months ago

I think for now I might just have the Chimera's be painted the same (tie all the shadowy stuff the Inquisitors get up to) and just have different squad markings on them, thoughts on that?

Update: Typically what happens is I leave all the pain in the butt to paint stuff for last, however this time I figured I would get on to painting those items first! so on to the tanks...
While the lighting doesn't show it, they all had a blast of chaos black, followed up by some dark grey highlights over raised edges. got some red and silver started as well.

**evildrcheese**

Awww yes. I do love some inquisition. Can't wait to see more.

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**KernelTerror**

Knightley wrote:

@KernelTerror - I hadn't though to do that, its a good idea! Where were you when I was doing my planning months ago I think for now I might just have the Chimera's be painted the same (tie all the shadowy stuff the Inquisitors get up to) and just have different squad markings on them, thoughts on that?

Makes sense, an inquisitor would probably want to avoid advertising "The guys in here will burn you for heresy" until it is too late ! But I'd say that if you have already decided some binding colors for the members of each warband, it is definitely not to late to integrate those to the tanks. In a discreet manner of course, would not want to scare off the heretics.

**Knightley**

@EDC - Who doesn't love the inquisition? Probably heretics and xenos right?

@KT - I hadn't put much thought into the unifying colours at this stage, I wan't to be able to mix and match the teams, like put 4 Jokaero into a squad etc. but the majority of the team is white armour and black cloth, perhaps green blades, not sure what do do to tie them together, open for ideas?

Update: All base colours done now

**KernelTerror**

Oh, of course if you want them to be able to switch teams, no reason to opt for basically different color schemes. Although, you have 4 different red and white patterns on each tank (That are coming along nicely BTW), that could be reused to identify a warband from another without being visually aggressive.
Anyway, you know best, keep it up !

**Knightley**

@KT - That is a good thought, I'll see if I can incorporate it as a link for the units

Update: Browns and some blocking in of more of the basecolours

**evildrcheese**

Looking good. I like the use of slightly different heraldry on the side of each of them.

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**Mad..**

That Chimera group is looking great.

**Knightley**

@EDC - Thanks, I had to make the tanks unique in a small way, I'm glad you approve

@Mad - Cheers mate!

Update: more highlighting started

**Gitsplitta**

Coming along beautifully Knightley!

**Spacewolverine**

They are very crisp Knightley! Are you going to weather them at all? As they are now they look great!

**Knightley**

@Gits - Cheers bud

@SW - Wanting to keep them in line with my Grey Knights and Gray Nights, these will be left Crisp and Black, Perhaps in 5 years I might come back and weather the entire force to make it look better, but who knows.

Update: just silvers and bronze left to do (and of course, squiggles)

**Warboss_Waaazag**

I really like those custom turrets.

**Knightley**

Cheers WW (typing out Warboss_Waaazag and getting the right amount of A's became to much, so I'm shortening it) The whole kit is sick, Machinator did a really amazing job with them.

Update: Picture bomb incoming!

Individual tanks front and rear

And now the group shots

**ZergSmasher**

Those are amazing! What's next in your painting lineup?

**Januine**

Dude - those chims are gorgeous. really lovely work

**Spacewolverine**

Knightley, those are top notch! They look very clean and the free hand is awesome.

**moonpie**

How do you do it?

Well done.

**KernelTerror**

That is a majestic view, very well done. The finished paintjob really binds them to the inquisition, they are not simple IG transports anymore.
Hopefully we'll see the passengers soon !