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After finally having cleared my Painting table. I'm starting on a complete reboot of my SoB army. They began in '97 as a Valorous Heart army that I played well into 4ed before getting out of 40k until the last year of 5ed. All of the old models will be getting redone as an Argent Shroud army. I intend to build units in excess of a tourney sized army. Allowing me to play much bigger games and have a large selection of units to pick from for smaller tourney sized forces.

I'm starting with my priest contingent, headed up by a Uriah Jacobson "counts as" model and five ministorum priests built from the GW Hospitaller model. These are basically just cut and pinned so far. Still have some filling to do as well as some sculpts to flesh out the fabric where it was cut and add in some fluer-de-lys where needed or where the existing ones were removed to allow repositioning of the priests arms. Still considering some head repositioning on some of the poses to make them more dynamic. The power mauls were kit bashed from dialogus models and the mauls taken from the sister superior equipped with one. All of these models will be combined with the two flame Canoness SoB backpack after painting.

Any thoughts on which ones could stand to be reworked, or what might be added are appreciated. Thx.

Uriah Jacobson "counts as"


Ministorum Priest #1


Ministorum Priest #2


Ministorum Priest #3


Ministorum Priest #4


Ministorum Priest #5

Alot of nice sublt and clean converstions.

Thank you, that's what I'm hoping to be able to carry through with this army. Nothing too risky, just some subtle changes here and there to update them a bit.

Got some more work done on my Priest models, filled in all the joints, few fluer here and there. Added some bits. They're currently primed waiting for me to get time to put some paint on them.

Did get some work done on my Living Saint model. I'm not liking the bird in her left hand, thinking of trading it out for a hand flamer, or a horn (musical type, straight bugle type thing). Didn't like the hair on the model so I added some pretty happy with the result. Currently leaning more toward the hand flamer.

Went with the wings off of Astorath, chopped them onto a SoB backpack. The Living Saint is primed as well, may be the first model I put paint too, looking forward to getting started, need a reward before I start assembling rhino/immo/exo's.

Thoughts + Comments appreciated.

Got some work done on my Living Saint, not done yet, still several layers of highlights to go, detail work and such. Haven't gotten started on the weapon, bird or base. Still considering swapping out the bird in her left hand for something else. Starting to see where its headed though. Thoughts and Comments appreciated.

Subscribed... beautiful work. Do you have something special in mind for more detail of the wings? I like the dark color as it frames her nicely.

Very, very nice. Keep us posted.

Wow shes looking very nice, makes me want to get back into finishing off my SoB.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Subscribed... beautiful work. Do you have something special in mind for more detail of the wings? I like the dark color as it frames her nicely.

Thanks! I want to keep the wings dark, but would love to have some shading effect that brightens them up a bit near the top to frame her face. They just have an eshin gray drybrush with a wash of nuln oil over them currently. Not sure if I should build the highlights up to the top lightening towards white or something else? Hoping to have the wings somehow be able to "reflect" an aura frame behind her head. A halo effect without the halo if thats possible. Going to have to do some research I think, and some tinkering.

 MWHistorian wrote:
Very, very nice. Keep us posted.

Will have some time off coming up, hopefully can devote a good deal of time into the army. After the HQ and Priests, have a bunch of vehicles to assemble, then I intend to work on a squad at a time while I try to get games in.

 GiraffeX wrote:
Wow shes looking very nice, makes me want to get back into finishing off my SoB.

Thanks! Been wanting to get back into mine for a long time, had a huge stack on my painting table when the WD Dex dropped, finally getting it clear enough to start. Good luck on your own!

This is looking very promising. Excited to see where you take it. Subbed.

Great work thanks for sharing

Did some scroll work beneath her feet, then started work on her weapon. Tried for a glow effect around a line of thorns down both sides of the blade. Not sure if I like it. Any thoughts?

Still not entirely sure about the sword, happier with this than the earlier version. May come back to her later on once I get more elements done in the army and decide what way I want to go with the power weapon effects. Still have to get to work assembling Rhino/Immo's and work on Uriah and my Priests. Completed Living Saint, thoughts and recommendations appreciated.

Wow. Very nice!

I really like her drac... she just jumps beautifully. Really looks like there's a light shining down from heaven on her.

She's looking really nice, the metal effect on the armour is spot on, really shines with the red behind.

Stunning work

Started working on my "counts as" Uriah Jacobson. Still trying to come up with an idea to model "her" banner for WYSIWYG purposes. This is the only model I have that isn't a GW sculpt. Had to add some Fluer to bring her into the look of a Sororitas army. Think the actual figure has a flame emblem here and there that I used as a base for the green stuff Fluer. They may not be as pronounced as I'd hoped but after several attempts that were way to big, I'm pretty happy with these. Was pretty happy with how the eyes came out, used an orb of ulthuan gray, bisected it with a line of enchanted blue, then framed it in with the flesh color to avoid the "buggy" eye look. Can't see it in the pictures I guess. Will try and get a better one up. Plan on using the same technique for the entire army. So if it looks bad, let me know! A couple of WIP shots with a few of the completed model, thoughts and criticisms appreciated.

Now I need to decide whether or not to work on my Priests or start assembling vehicles.

looks good, i like the posing with the shotgun, it just works

Love the jacobus. That's a reaper paladin, isn't it?

 pretre wrote:
Love the jacobus. That's a reaper paladin, isn't it?

I believe so. Was given to me by a player who was replacing it in his collection. I'm pretty happy with how she came out.

Got some work done on my first Ministorum Priest. Still have some work to do on the armor shading and highlights, some brightening of the red and what not. I'm wondering if the hood could use a bit of red around the outside of the cowl? Seems flat to me, could use some input.

I love those priestesses.

Love the colours.

Work on the silver armor is outstanding.

Finished up my #1 Priest. Opted not to change anything on her cowl, still not entirely convinced it doesn't need something.





Got started on the #2 Priest. Just block work so far, will try and get some more work in before the holiday festivities begin.

Survived the holidays, got back to painting this morning. Priest #2 is done. Pictures don't have her dull-coted yet, so the ink on the purple purity seals and page holder will be deeper, and not nearly so shiny. Pretty happy with how she turned out, especially the book. Had originally thought that I might swap out all the heads on my Priests for hooded ones. This model makes me glad that I didn't. Thinking I'll be moving on to assembling my Rhino/immo's next. Though if I get the urge, I'll move on to Priest #3. Thoughts and comments appreciated!

More beautiful work...

Your Sisters are lovely, the new Priest is spot on. Makes me feel like stripping mine and starting again as I know I could improve on them a second time round..

Thanks for the comments guys. Wanted to get an update in after spending most of the week assembling and cleaning vehicles. Did get a chance to do the armor, block painting and some of the washes on Priest #3. Can finally start getting in some games with the army once I get the new Sisters pinned and based. Exorcists aren't as frustrating to assemble as drop pods, but they're close.

Three Exorcists, 5 Rhino/Immolators and the 20ish Sisters needed to fill my squads out to get to 1850 points for some games. I have all the SoB icons for the vehicles cleaned up, wasn't entirely sure how I wanted to assign those, random or in some form of pattern, but the vehicles will be getting them once I decide.

Just started following this, love where its going

the avenger has an avenger bolt gun, 2 lascannon and a defensive heavy stubber. It can also take 6 tactical bombs, 2 hellstrike missiles, 2 hellfury missiles, 2 missile launchers, 2 autocannons or two multilasers

 Hive Fleet Lazarus wrote:
Just started following this, love where its going

the avenger has an avenger bolt gun, 2 lascannon and a defensive heavy stubber. It can also take 6 tactical bombs, 2 hellstrike missiles, 2 hellfury missiles, 2 missile launchers, 2 autocannons or two multilasers

Thx much, will have to sort out the bits to make it happen, looks like the Nephilim is a perfect kit for that loadout though.