Hi folks,

For a while now I have pledged to myself a kind of oath of honor: I will not buy any model that is (too) obviously deemed to be shelved out a short/medium range. It looks like I have failed with the pledge and betrayed that oath. Indeed, I have just acquired a box of Navy Breachers. And a set a characters from various GW settings in order to gather my very own custom made Rogue Trader Entourage.

But I am not playing GSC, even if, as you will see, some or even most of the model could be aligned within my not GSC very-long-term-committed-but-very-slowly-progressing-project.

Where all of this comes from? Well from a new hobby symptom I hadn’t suffered from up to recently: I have started buying models just because I like them and not because I do plan playing with them. As my skills are limited in terms of painting, I will not use the words “showcasing models”. It is just a stressed rule of cool syndrome. Among the models I have bought in this dynamic are Lady Credo, the Heretek, the Infotek and an Infocyte. And while trying to figure out what I could do with these I ended up with the idea to build some patchworked teams eventually usable as RT entourage and/or an Inquisitorial Retinue. But while I wasn’t initially planning to get them playable, I ended identifying the gaps that were in need of being filled-up to make them playable. I am under a spell of pure witchcraft I my opinion.

So what is missing? For the Inquisitorial retinue, a gun servitor, but I have a kitbashed Seer with mining laser that might be used as a proxy. I have then plenty of old/isolated models that can be used together to figure a retinue. So, done, even if the counts require adding at least the Infotek to the fray.

But for the RT Entourage, I need stuff to be aligned along Credo (the RT) and the Heretek (the Techy): a Medic/Rejuvenat Adept and a Death Cult Assassin. But what has all of this to do with NOTGSC?

Well, even if I am NOT playing GSC, I went to incorporating a Biophagus and a Sanctus as base models to be adapted to their new roles and responsabilities within the RT Entourage. So these will need some kit bash to be "deGSCfied". The idea is simple head swaps, removal of the GSC symbols and probably a weapon swap using Sicarian phase sword or knife. It will allow me completing a nice proxy Entourage to be used, for example, with my AM to be uses on purpose of redeployment of Battleline units. The same with my AdMech. And may be with my SW. But the dirtiest trick will be for the option of redeployment offered by the Entourage would be to use it for my 3 (newly bought) Moirax (restricted to friendly games under Legends) but that still do have the Battleline keyword. Which opens interesting possibilities for my small Imperial Knight army (currently 1 Styrix and 3 Moirax)… Providing my gaming partner understand and agree that I will go for the fun way and probably unbalanced way.

And, if, one day, I accidentaly end up playing GSC anyway, these 2 models will still be perfect models to be used for what they are...

How does it looks like afetr a small cutting and glueing session? Let's see:

The Rejuvenat is of course based on the Biophagus. Here I removed the medallion of its GSC cult and swapped his head with a spare one from a Datasmith. Simple.

The Assassin is based on the Sanctus model. It was a atd more complex. First its scenic base make difficult to set it on a 25 mm base. It will stick to its larger base therefore. The head swap is based on the Sicarian Ruststalker Princeps, which fits perfectly. The blade was first tested with a phase sword but it looked odd. So I have changed for a phase knife. Looks OK.

The second arm was first thought to be changed with an augmetic and Chord Claws. But it was not that easy to do at past midnight and I was partly convinced I would massacre the statuary of the scenic base. So I gave up. Result? Here it is, before final cleaning:

And a familly portrait of these 2 kit bashes.

Next step will be assembly of Lafy Credo and the Hertek. And the Entourage will be done. In the mean time, Familliar will be stored with my spare Acolyte hybrids to be eventually used latter or traded.

See you.