Still buzzing with Inquisitorial enthusiasm so cracking on with Gideon Lorr. I head off for Italy for 2 weeks at the end of the week so I would very much like to get him and his servo skulls finished by then. Here’s how they are looking at the moment:
After cracking through the Inquisitor commission, and the Eisenhorn/Ravenor books I’ve still got the bug for painting up a few more of these bad boys 🙂
Since I won’t be using them in games I decided to work towards something that I could sell on, once they are done, so went with the current cheese of an Inquisitor and 3 servo skulls!
Gideon Lorr is one of those models I’ve always loved, even if he is just a slightly different sculpt to the witchhunter I’ve just finished, so decided he would be a good place to start 🙂
Added the final few touches to the Inquisitor and he’s now on his way to the customer 🙂
I’m very happy with how he turned out, but I’ll let you judge for yourselves…
I thoroughly enkoyed painting this chap up, and I think I may do a couple of other Inquisitors in the near future 😀
I really don’t know why I’ve never painted this figure before! I’ve always loved the model and I am having a blast getting this one painted up 🙂
I’ve been working through getting the main large areas of colour onto him and here’s how he looks so far…
Just got cracking into a commission for an Inquisitor to represent the clients roleplaying character and it couldn’t of come at a better time 🙂
I’ve just started rereading the Eisenhorn/Ravenor series and every time I do I always want to paint up some inquisition, any inquisition. The job at hand called for some slight conversion to the classic witchhunter model, one that happens to have been sitting in my bits box for a few years. So I got him out and set to it. The client was looking for him to be armed with a power sword and a purgatus crossbow. The sword was fairly easy, just requiring finding one that looked suitably epic and getting it in place, the crossbow was another matter. I tried to find some images for the blighter but only came up with one, luckily it came alongside a description:
“More advanced Crossbows are also utilized by the Inquisitions Ordo Hereticus, and have become a symbol of their order. Known as the Purgatus Crossbow, it is a fusion of a Boltgun and a standard crossbow and is able to fire with more force than a Shotgun blast. However, it is its ammunition that is the true marvel; heavy wood and silver stakes inscribed with wards and runes designed to disrupt a creature’s contact with the Warp, making it an excellent weapon to hunt Psykers“
This gave me a good basis for how to build it; a boltgun fused with a crossbow. Here’s what I came up with…
I think it looks suitably badass 😀
Next up is the painting, with the client supplying an image of the kind of look he would like me to go for…
Can’t wait to get cracking into this bad boy 🙂
Cracked through these guys fairly quickly, as I found they really grabbed my enthusiasm 🙂
Continuing on with the basing experimentation I added some snow (which I’ve done a fair few times before), but decided to add something I’ve never tried; icicles! They were fairly time consuming to get done, but I’m really chuffed with how they turned out…
With having got into a lot of Mantics games I thought I’d have a wee splash into Kings of War. I stopped playing WFB when 8th ed came out, as me and my gaming buddies were not fans of the changes, and I haven’t played a fantasy game since. And since I haven’t been playing a fantasy game, haven’t really painted any fantasy figures. Time to fix that…
After looking through the armies available it was between the Abyssal Dwarves and the Basileans, but the new gargoyles and golems pushed the Abyssal Dwarves into the lead. With an army in mind I picked up the 3 character box from my local retailer(£10 it cost me! £10 for 3 characters!!) and picked these two as the centre of my focus for now 🙂
I’ve decided to experiment a wee bit with some new basing techniques on these and some future models, with the focus being on building up some rock formations with some thin cork I’ve had lying around for a while.
Another cracking model in the Deadzone range, Nastanza, is now finished and ready to blow some heads clean off…
Took a wee bit of time to decide on a scheme for this one. I knew I didn’t want to go with the ‘official’ scheme, but really didn’t have a clue what to do. It was the backpack that did it for me, as it kinda looks like the tail-end of a wasp, I thought yellow and black could look pretty damn good 🙂
Wrath is finished. I thought I was really going to enjoy this one but I have to say I found it pretty tough and I think it shows in the paint job…
I may go back in the future and do a bit more work on this, but for now it’s onto Nastanza 🙂
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