Nelo Akuma Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Hello my fellow Inquisitors. Over a rather long time now I have been thinking about adding an Inquisitress and Retinue to my up to now pure SoB army. seeing as my army is heavily lacking any Close Combat ability I wanted to make a CC oriented Inquisitress; I know that they normally do not earn back their points but it's something I want to use simply for fun. Now, GW's Inquisitoress models don't really appeal to me in any way and me wanting to keep the army 100% female I also don't want to use the Crusader model, even if I like it. Taking into consideration the planned outfitting (Inquisitress with two CCW, usual Crusader Shield/Sword, one CCW and Carapace Armor on the Acolytes) I have been looking mostly into the Reaper range of models with a focus on near-medieval clothing and apparel. I have found a good number of possible models but T also want to know if there is any other range of models besides Reaper, PrivateerPress and GW that fit the profile. Seeing as I am living in Germany I would prefer model manufacturers that have an online shop or are available on sites like amazon, etc. Thank you all in advance, Nelo Akuma Edit: changed to Inquisitress-spelling Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Orlock Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 GW's Inquisitoress models don't really appeal to me in any way and me wanting to keep the army 100% female I also don't want to use the Crusader model, even if I like it. What marks a model as 'Female'? Lavish breast endowment? Massive hips? Over the years I've seen a lot of women with decidedly boyish figures, thus, given the fully enclosed nature of the crusaders armour, its entirely possible for them to be female. I'm also not a fan of your construction of the word 'Inquisitoress'. While English has gendered occupational nouns that may be used to describe exclusively female groups these are normally to be constructed by removing the male/neuter suffix, in this case 'or' and replacing it with 'ress'. A common example of this would be the words 'Actor' and 'Actress'. Depending on the word, it may be appropriate to use the suffix 'trix', but in recent years its acquired some dodgy connotations. Regardless, these indicate that proper constructions for the term would likely be either 'Inquisitress' or 'Inquisitrix' Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
number6 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 You could do worse than to check out Doctor Thunder's work here on the B&C. He's engendered (pun intended) a considerable amount of controversy by creating an entire chapter of all-female space marines. And he's even converted female versions of all the archetypal GW Marine chapters, too. As EO noted, if real-world physics were to be taken into account, armour -- especially really BIG armour like power armour or terminator armour -- wouldn't have any outward appearance that would imply the gender of the armour's occupant. Heck, on average, men have bigger chests than women! (I don't mean bigger breasts, obviously, just the fact that if you measure around a man's chest you will, on average, get a bigger number than if you measured around a woman's chest, breasts included.) So how you want to indicate the femininity of your models should only depend on how far you want to exaggerate things (e.g., Sisters of Battle power armour). Doctor Thunder indicated gender primarily by using heads from GW Wood Elf range, which have a significant number of female-looking heads. (Though with elves, it's pretty difficult to tell. :)) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nias Wolf Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 I've been looking for the same things for a few days now. I have a thread on PCA questions called "Female Heads" that people have posted a lot of links on. These are some of my favorites: http://www.arcaneminiatures.co.uk/index.asp This site has a HUGE range. Be sure to look at all of the different companies. The Anima models are some of my favorites. http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/index.html This one might be a little to fantasy for you, but its worth a look. http://www.shadowforge.com.au/ This australian site specializes in female miniatures. They arn't the higest quality in my opinion, but still interesting. http://hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/index.php These are ok too, but seem a bit nudity heavy for my tastes. All in all, I think Reaper is probably your best bet. The female wood elf heads are great, but there is very little to choose from. Be sure to look at the Necromunda and Mordheim ranges of GW too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelo Akuma Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 to Eddie Orlock: I am not looking for models with hips wide as Rhino doors or breasts that could count as Powerfists; I am simply trying to find models with a female build that fits into the general style of an SoB army and people shouldn't need to ask to see, preferable due to the more slim than standard body, that the army is all female. just something 'exotic' so to speak in an area where over 90% play 'simple' Marines. to number6: I have seen some of the works of Doctor Thunder but I have to admit that my modeling skills are not enough to pull off that kind of work. It's enough for head/arm swaps but anything beyond that is pushing it by a large. also time and money is rather tight atm but this idea has been nagging me for too long to ignore anymore. to Nias Wolf: wow, loads of cool and potential stuff to find in those links. I will most likely spend days browsing and considering. really helps me out but will definitely dent my wallet....... All considered I think i will end up with more than just one Inquisitress, probably will have enough to field a few HQ slots in the end. Again thanks for the comments and help. Nelo Akuma Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminatorinhell Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 i would recommend anima tactics minis and one specific model from Freebooter Minis, the Female Assassin a very nice model if you need an assassin style character. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlauG Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 My GF's WH army occasionally uses Mad Donna Yulanti and Escher gangers as an Inquisitor and retinue, or ISTs respectively. :cuss Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nias Wolf Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 I know that you're trying to find an inquisitor, and this model may be more of a cannoness, but... http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/fema...il/14212_Kristy I think its perfect! I'm going to get one myself. Switch the two sords out for a more ornate blade and a stormbloter. It looks almost exactly like SoB power armor. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2085631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelo Akuma Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 Thanks for all the input. Over the day I have narrowed it down to a few choices in each category (Inquisitress, Crusader, Acolyte). I would like your comments on some of my choices: Inquisitress: http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/14212_Kristy.jpg Nias Wolf already pointed it out that this model is more of a Cannoness but I like the idea of it as an Inquisitress in a dark armor, opposed to my bright colored Sisters. http://www.arcaneminiatures.co.uk/images/avatars-of-war/AOW18.jpg The second option what would feel more like a radical Inquisitress but i think with a bit of filing and a few patches of GreenStuff it could work pretty well. Crusader: http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/14093_Finarifront_lt.jpg http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/03364_3364_isabeauf_ds_1.jpg http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/03004_G.jpg Mostly the usual sword and shield carrying Paladins but I think they would work well as slightly fanatic defenders of their Faith, or in this case Inquisitress. Acolyte: http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/14204_Lady_Acacia_Sgt.jpg http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/03311_g_1.jpg http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/02725_Alaine_jh.jpg http://www.arcaneminiatures.co.uk/images/freebooter-miniatures/SOL005.jpg and finally the Acolytes; I was trying for the lean duelist look mostly. There are several other models that caught my eye, mostly in the Freebooter line, but skin is something I still need to get the hang on how to paint at least half way decent; I will keep those in the back of my mind though. I plan to get my hands on the brass etch by FW to further strengthen the look of the group being part of the Inquisition. any thoughts you wish to share about my current choices or other things you wish to point out to me? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2086493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schertenleib Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Nice choices. Could you list where you found them, please? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2086514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nias Wolf Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 How funny, those models look all to familiar! :P I'm woried that the first acolyte looks to much like a boy. I really want to know more about your last crusader. I had a hard time cutting that model from my list. If you get it, I want to see pictures of everything! I don't know what you are going to outfit them with, but this model would look amazing with an eviscerator instead of a spear (I'm thinking of getting it myself). http://www.thewarstore.com/product39166.html @Schertenleib: Most of those models are from reapermini. The last one if from freebooter. The dark elf witch is avaliable on another website (one of the ones listed above), but I can't remeber which one. You can still find it at this website. http://arena-deathmatch.com/onlineshop/onlineshop.php Edit: @ Nelo Akuma: If you order the dark elf witch directly from the site above, there are several options for customization. She can be given a shield that would make her into a dynamicly posed Crusader. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2086547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelo Akuma Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 Just placed my online order for the Inquisitress and her full Retinue and i hope to get them within the next 3 weeks. Inquisitress: http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/14212_af.jpg This one was pretty much a given after i first laid eyes on her and i know she will be the first model to be assembled and painted when they come in. http://arena-deathmatch.com/images/aow18_blister_qss.jpg She will be my choice when i fell like fielding an Inquisitress that truly looks out of place in the usual Sister army. http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/wm1004.jpg Her i found by chance and i had the sudden urge to get her just for kicks. (also i am someone who likes to have choices in what models to use.) Crusader: http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/3004.jpg http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/rea03364.jpg http://arena-deathmatch.com/images/aow18_blister_qqh.jpg Thanks to Nias Wolf I found out the possible customizations the base model has and i am getting the last model twice. I would field the 'Twins' together as a sisterly duo bringing the divine wrath of their Ordo down on the pitiful Heretics. ^_^ Acolyte: http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/2725_jenniferhaley.jpg http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/frbo_sol005.jpg http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/cs1014.jpg The last one is a new addition to the batch, one that hit me with the force of a Lance Strike when my eyes fell on her. I am not entirely sure why but something about her speaks to me. In terms of outfitting them i am thinking about the Inquisitress with a Master Crafted Energy Weapon and a CCW (that still gives me a bonus attack with the E-Weapon property, right?), a Psychic Hood, a Rosarius and if i have the points to spare Scourging. Her Retinue will consist of the following: 3 Crusaders, 2 Medici, 1 Familiar and 3 Acolytes with Carapace Armor and Energy Weapon. if possible i want to mount them in either a Chimera or a Land Raider for transportation. True, this places the group at ~300 points without transporter but i like the image in my mind: the Inquisitress and her Retinue charging the corrupted Psyker while the faithful Sisters provide cover fire and slaying his/her minions. borderline scary if you imagine yourself in the position of the psyker. Some may wonder why i don't give my Inquisitress the Eviscerator but i am not friend of Power Fists and similar weapons (except for Thunder Hammers) and rather have my Inquisitress deal with strategically important pieces and leave the heavy stuff (Greater Daemons, MC and high Toughness models in general) to my Melta-Sisters and Exorcists or Inferno-Seraphim. Fluff question for those in the know: anyone can name a far off ice world that so far has not been the place of a mayor event (read: appeared in a novel)? i can always think up my own for the fluff of my Sisters and the Inquisitress but i am as lazy as they come when coming up with names and places. ;) to Nias Wolf: i will (hopefully) provide the requested pics as soon as i get the model as well as in its pre-assembled and assembled state. And i also plan to post pics of the whole group as soon as there are interesting things to see. Edit: to Terminatorinhell: http://www.arcaneminiatures.co.uk/wyrd-min...s.asp?offset=60 it's the third model down on the site. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2087036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminatorinhell Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 can you give me the link to that wyrd miniatures character please? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2087054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nias Wolf Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Lovely! ;) As a note, if you ever switched one to the cannoness role, giving them the cloak of St. Aspira would be really easy! Great choices all around in my opinion. Hope they work out for you. Oh... and pictures! ^_^ Edit: Now... if I could only find a good looking female priest. Would it be to corny to use a Reaper Nun model? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2087069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heru Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 http://www.battlefield-berlin.de/shop/Media/Shop/wm1004.jpgHer i found by chance and i had the sudden urge to get her just for kicks. (also i am someone who likes to have choices in what models to use.) LOL So it seems someone finally used Blizzard-art's (not related to the Blizzard computer game company) old swordswoman artwork. A long time ago I was going to comission someone to make that for me in the Inquisitor game scale as a special swordswoman for my Inquisitor's group. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2087128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister Kyrie Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Edit: Now... if I could only find a good looking female priest. Would it be to corny to use a Reaper Nun model? Check out the Bretonian damsel. She even has a fluer de leis! http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod780911 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2090252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nias Wolf Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Check out the Bretonian damsel. She even has a fluer de leis! http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod780911 That could be just the ticket! Looks perfect for a priestess with no flourishes. Thank you. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2090293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Orlock Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Check out the Bretonian damsel. She even has a fluer de leis!She already part times with my Inquisitor. Pictured below are those elements I've pulled off the shelf as 'female', excluding the sextet of Callidus on the shelf below with the handful of battle sisters, and anything else I may have overlooked.A Dozen unique Figures I just enough to make a full shop-legal retinue of girls Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2090683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister Rosette Soulknyt Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Well i just had to follow your link, and loved the female miniature you showed in blue asa crusader, and ordered two. I always wanted a female crusader now thanks to you i can have them. Thanks. BTw, i like your choices for your Inquisitoress :D Well i just had to follow your link, and loved the female miniature you showed in blue asa crusader, and ordered two. I always wanted a female crusader now thanks to you i can have them. Thanks. BTw, i like your choices for your Inquisitoress :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2090770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellbreaker Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Which size are the wyrd miniatures compared to the regular GW ones? I found some really nice ones in the link posted before... I want them... Sooo badly... But if they're not the right size... And my budget is killing me as is anyway. :P As for your models up there, some of those I've considered myself, and I am getting some of them sometime... Good choice of picking. :tu: ~EDIT: For the English language! Cheers! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2091058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelo Akuma Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 i am not sure if the Wyrd models are in scale but i plan to post pics of each one with a standard Adepta Sororita as a size comparison. besides the Avatars of War models everything should come by by the end of the week or early next week. as soon as i can get my hands on a camera i will post the pics. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2091138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peredyne Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 The wyrd minis are in scale to GW figs. I have more than a few of them in my collection and they fit in just fine. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2091425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
- 7eAL - Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 The wyrd minis are in scale to GW figs. I have more than a few of them in my collection and they fit in just fine. I find everything is either too skinny or too short, or both. The Wyrd minis are too skinny. So are Anima Tactics minis. Hasslefree minis are a little short. Privateer Press minis are a little short considering the thickness of their boot soles, and a little too skinny considering the bulk of their armour. In the end they're easier to fix than the others, however. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2091463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellbreaker Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 -7eAL- Everything is too short for you. :) Thanks for clarifying for me though. Looking forward to your pics Nelo Akuma. Cheers! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2091532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
- 7eAL - Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 -7eAL-Everything is too short for you. <_< Too true! I have but one thing to say in my defense: it's not my fault that everything looks small next to my Ezekiel-Inquisitor! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/176394-alternative-inquisitoress-and-acolytescrusaders/#findComment-2091811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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