Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I managed to grab some rare hobby time this morning and got stuck into painting the my melta toting acolyte. So far I've shaded and highlighted the biggest areas and his face, base coated his weapon and roughed out a possible design for his banner.



As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome and thanks for taking the time to look.

Mate this stuff is sweet! I like the way you've adapted the Warhammer stuff, it's pretty classic but you clearly have an eye for what you are doing. It's healthy that you're taking your time I reckon. It does come across in the details. Nice painting.
Those Elf helmets give a really nice spooky KKK/medieval Spanish feeling to those Inquisitors. Don't forget to update your OP with these pics!

Wow those are some cool conversions, I love simple kitbashes making unique squads.
And nice work on the assassin, the GS hood is pretty superb!

I've been doing some thinking ...

It now feels like everything I have done so far has been practice. I look back at it and I can now see all the things I could have done better. I may be being over critical of my own stuff, but it's in my nature to spot flaws and then see nothing but the flaws ... and no, I'm not fishing for compliments here, you kind people have given me enough of those already. The fact is I've learned a lot in the last few months, been inspired by a lot of the amazing work I've seen online and have been helped greatly by the feedback people have given me.

So far I've been playing around with ideas and techniques with no clear direction. I think it's time I set myself an actual, achievable goal. I'm setting aside most of what I've done so far and will come back to them sometime in the future.

My aim has always been to make a WH40k army with an Inq28 feel to it, so I have to start thinking in terms of squads. I'm going to build on my assassin, which is the miniature I'm most proud of, and make a close combat Inquisitorial squad.

This will consist of a full squad of 12 henchmen with an inquisitor to lead them, broken down as follows;

An Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor equipped for close combat.
5 Death Cult Assassins
2 Arco Flagellants
3 Crusaders
2 Ministorum Priests

The squad will mounted in a Landraider Crusader, which will be an interesting challenge as I've never painted a tank before.

So that's the plan. I want my miniatures to be as interesting a varied as an Inq28 retinue, but still be recognisable as what they are meant to be in 40k.

Yesterday I began work on the first Arco Flaggellant. I have shamelessly stolen the idea for this miniature from Kari Hernesniemi's Arco Eviserators.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/560020-Arco%2C%20Cyber%2C%20Evisorators%2C%20Ghouls%2C%20Spiky%20Rat%20Pack.html

I'm hoping to put enough of my own spin on this minis so that it falls into the realms of "inspired by" rather than "ripped off from". Legs are obviously Dark Eldar. The body was sculpted using the upper torso of a Dark Elf Doomfire Warlock on a greenstuff abdomen. The 'spines' on his back are cut from a Grey Knight backpack. Head is from the Empire Flagellants. This was my first attempt at sculpting fur and now I want to put fur on everything. The mini still needs some Inquisitorial bits and doodads and I want to put some kind of cable/tubing coming from its chainsword to a power cell somewhere.

As always, your advice and feedback is greatly appreciated.

A clear goal is always a fantastic way to focus your mind. I think it is a fantastic idea to try to organize your efforts as well. I long ago stopped doing things without a firm plan behind them, I am too easily distracted.

However, you have far more talent on the modelling front than I do and I am certainly enjoying watching you getting back into the swing of things. So I am hoping you find a plan that will inspire you to produce more for the rest of us to be jealous of.

Keep the stuff coming it is awesome!

I think I'm most looking forward to your crusader conversions

I'm looking forward to all of it!

your start on the AF. looks pretty solid, the space marine chainsword looks a little big, if you've got one I'd say swap it for one of the IG ones.
The flagellent kit comes with a whole host of chains and whips that I'll be using for my Arco Flagellants.

duuuuuude! This blog is getting better and better! I really love the style of your minis!
(and thank you, for posting more pictures of the progress)
The new mini looks great so far!

 OneManNoodles wrote:
I'm looking forward to all of it!

The space marine chainsword looks a little big, if you've got one I'd say swap it for one of the IG ones.
The flagellent kit comes with a whole host of chains and whips that I'll be using for my Arco Flagellants.

I agree with onemannoodles. The chainsword looks really big and massive on the mini...

Mind my asking what bits you used for the Priest? He looks badass enough to be an Inquisitor.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with those who said the chainsword looks too big. I'm not sure what the solution is yet. I may try to find a couple of smaller ones or alternatively use a totally different weapon. Some kind of sword blade perhaps?

In the meantime I've started work on the second flagellant.

Waaaghpower wrote:
Mind my asking what bits you used for the Priest? He looks badass enough to be an Inquisitor.

The priest's body is made from an Empire Flagellant. I cut off the flagellant's feet, which enabled me to pose him more upright on the base and make him some gs shoes. His arms and head are from the Empire Greatswords kit.

Try taking a look at the chain-bayonets for the HH FW marine kits.

Also I have a DKoK chainsword lying aroud that would be the right size from this weapons set A lot of the Death korps parts are more true 28mm so are a lot smaller and more detailed. If you want to see a size comparison just pm me.

The flagellent kit is a great kit, you get so much in it.

Life has been very busy and I've just had no time for hobby. However, it has made me think about what I really want to do and what I can realistically achieve in the very limited time I get for toy soldiers. I think I know where I'm going now, but first I have to relocate to another city. It could be months before things settle down and I can start yo really get to grips with what I want to do.

So here's a sneak peak at a test model I made this weekend. When I return, it may be in a few months and it may be a fresh start. Hope to see you on the other side.

Loving the palette! The purple is fantastic and your skintones are ace I'm also quite enamored with the fur effect and what you've done with the shoulder blades ( ) Really comes together quite well as a model.

I think I speak for all of us when I say best of luck in all your endeavors and we're anxiously awaiting your return

That's disturbing an excellent cross between Micheal Myers and the Joker excellently executed. Good luck with organising the move a word of advice a little hobby time of an evening will do wonders for the stress levels

It's been a long time since I posted. I seem to be having a hard time actually finishing anything, partly because I'm too self critical and partly because I have so little time for hobby. Anyway, searching that interweb recently I came across a discussion about Inquisition Kill Teams in 40k. Great idea, but Kill Teams don't include HQ choices. No HQ means no Inquisitors!

An Inquisition force without Inquisitors doesn't sound right, but take an 40k Inquisitorial henchman squad and put a Ministorum Priest in charge and you have an Ecclesiarchy kill team!

I also wanted to have another stab at warrior acolytes. I was quite happy with my first ones, but I think I could do better now. So, here he is, warrior acolyte number one and Ecclesiarchy foot soldier;





I'm very happy with him, less happy with my crappy iphone photography :(

Here's the Kill Team so far;

Looks awesome as ever, love the combination of parts, and a very cool theme/idea!

Great looking group! New guy is suitably grimdark.

Nifty although in that case my recommendation is cheat.....It's just too fitting to not do it and when I've used them they aren't actually over powered in Kill Team.

@Paradigm Thank you. I'm very happy with how they work together. I'm in danger of actually having a theme going on here

@Moltar Grimdark is exactly what I was aiming for. I do feel like I was struggling to capture that feeling when I first started back in the hobby, so I'm delighted that you think I've now managed it.

@Llamahead The lack of Inquisitors doesn't bother me in Kill Team. I actually like that it's forcing me to try something different. If this force ever gets expanded into a full on detachment, I may use the Inquisitor rules to represent high ranking priests.

Fair enough and if it encourages you to create more pretty models for me to gawp at its good

Nice work! Once again you've done some really neat stuff here. I'm certainly keen to see your Ministorum Priest when you get round to it.
Also, do you plan on using your other acolytes aswell?
I mean, they're still pretty cool too!

@Xendarc Thank you. I don't think I'm going to be using my first batch of acolytes. They were cool at the time, but I think I can do better now.

Death Cult Assassin number 2 for my Kill Team. The aim was to build a model which was obviously related to the other one but had her own character.

I really like the death cult assassin you just made, great use of bits to make a great character.

Really really nice work !!
Big fan !!!

Great base really adds to the dynamism of the model.

@monkeyballistic Fair enough, I get that feeling too about some of the older stuff I've done in the past.
DCA No.2 looking good. I really like the mechanical hook arm/hand.

Great to see you are back! Wow these new minis look great! The conversions look so great and balanced!
A very inspiring blog(and one of my favorites)! Keep up the great work!

Btw:where are the daggers from?

Superb stuff! The death cultist conversion is inspired and well executed - might have to try it myself at some point as those new with elf models really are beautiful sculpts!

Cheers

Dante

This is some impressive kitbashing and greenstuff work.

I'm definatly going to use this as inspiration for my own retinues when I start them.