Sisters of Battle Canoness variations?

[Captain Artemis]

Ok, I'm not sure if this has been posted before, as I used the search tool but I couldn't find anything.

Also, I have no idea if this is the right section, Emperor forgive me if it is the wrong section...

 

So my question is:

Does the Sisters of Battle Canoness come with a choice of Wargear?

I know I have seen pictures of Canonesses with the same body and pose but with diffrent wargear.

 

Thank you.

[Inquisitor Fox]

Short answer: Yes.

 

Long answer: The Daemon Hunters and Witch Hunters Codices are still of the old variety where you are told that you "may be given any equipment allowed from the (Witch Hunters) Armoury." This means your Cannoness comes nekkid with just power armor, and everything else is purchased a la carte. Thus, there is some degree of variation in Cannoness loadout.

 

With Codex: Daemon Hunters going to Codex: Grey Knights in April (Yay!), Witch Hunters will soon be the last Imperial Codex on this old system that I am aware of.

 

Edit: The current figure has either an Eviscerator or Blessed Weapon, a book or scroll thingie, and a bolt pistol or inferno pistol if I recall correctly.

 

That being said, there aren't too many real options or various builds. Most focus either on a melee Cannoness with a Blessed Weapon or Eviscerator, and a plasma or inferno pistol, or a shooting Cannoness with a combi-bolter/flamer, or a brazier of holy fire. They tend to either run solo with a jump pack (or join a unit of Seraphim), or go on foot with a Celestian bodyguard, often mounted in an Immolator.

 

Myself, I have a jump pack Cannoness with a Blessed Weapon and bolt pistol (ran outta points in the staff Arena of Death, so couldn't afford the Inferno Pistol and I don't want to go back and remodel her), with various upgrades such as a Cloak of St Aspira, Mantle of Ophelia, Rosarius, etc. I also modeled her off of the St. Celestine figure.

 

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Palatine Kristina of the Order of the Sacred Rose: Blessed Weapon, Bolt Pistol, Book of St Lucius, Cloak of St Aspira, Frag Grenades, Krak Grenades, Mantle of Ophelia, Rosarius

[Captain Artemis]

Okey.

Yeah, I read about the new Gray Knights, hope they make a new cool plastic Grey Knights Captain.

 

Also, are saying if I buy a Canoness, I get an Eviscerator and a Blessed Weapon(looks like a power sword)? And some for pistol weapons? When Asemblin her that is?

Because I want to try some of my painting skills for a Female Power Armoured warrior.

 

EDIT: Nice model. :D

[Inquisitor Fox]

Thanks ;) She did relatively well, going toe to toe with a relic blade/storm shield Captain and holding her own. Good signs for us, eh?

 

I believe there is an eviscerator, blessed weapon, book, and scroll for the right hand, and then a bolt pistol and inferno pistol for the left hand. Also there are two variations of backpack, though I'm not sure if you get just one or both (they have torches on them). Ironically I don't own the normal modern Cannoness model :mellow:

[Captain Artemis]

Awesome. :3

 

Ah, I see...

So, the 'modern' canoness, is it the 2009 model?

As I have been thinking to buy one myself, and paint her in my Space Marine chapter colours. And NO, this is not an attempt for a FEMALE Space Marine, lol!

[Zujara]

Put one together a few months ago, what I remember it coming with was:

 

Right Hand: Book, Eviscerator, Blessed Weapon

Left Hand: Scroll, Bolt Pistol, Inferno Pistol

 

Only got one backpack in my blister, so I think they are random if there is variations in them.

[Captain Artemis]

Okey.

I checked a toy store some days ago, they have some very OLD supliments of warhammer 40k.

And the canoness was a pretty old model I guess...

In the right hand she had the =I= symbol and a combi-flamer in the other...

So I guess I will go for the 2009 model.

[Fredegar Kadere]

The canoness with the Ecclesiarch symbol? I am jealous. That one and the Hospitaler Sister figure are the only two I am aware of that I lack for my collection.

 

I would pick it up for posterity/collectors sake . If anything you could probably make a couple dollars extra off of it on ebay.

[Inquisitor Fox]

I have the Canoness with the symbol, though I swapped the symbol for a power maul (from some sort of chaos power axe) and plan on using her as a Celestian Sister Superior :D Always a way to work the models in the collection!

[Nias Wolf]

I can answer this one definitively. I was looking at my own earlier today.

 

The Cannoness model currently sold by Games Workshop comes with;

 

Right Hand:

Power Sword (can be blessed weapon)

Chainsword (double sided, so can be eviscerator)

Book

Scroll (some confusion, as the fit is poor and the thumb is tiny)

 

Left Hand:

Bolt Pistol

Inferno Pistol (looks like a melta gun, but smaller)

 

The back has a mantle and cape (perfect for the mantle wargear) and comes with a unique backpack. The backpack either has 1 large torch, or 2 smaller ones. It's random.

 

Note: If you're feeling really clever (like me!) you can drill holes into the elbow areas (where the options attach) on both pieces, and glue a cut paper clip or pin into the hand section. If you do this, you can swap out the options on the fly by sliding them in. Make sure you drill the holes on the torso section at a sharp downward angle, and then bend the pin so that the arms don't slide out. You could also magnetize... but the hands are on the heavy side so it might not work.

 

If you're feeling REALLY clever, cut the backpack attachment nob off, buy a seraphim, and pin the backpack and seraphim's jump pack on too! You have to cut the nob off, because it is to big for the jump pack.

 

P.S. Inquisitor Nicole, I was JUST looking at the deathwatch bolters and thinking about using one on my cannoness by cutting up the inferno pistol. I feel like you retroactively stole my idea.

 

Long post, but I'm feeling good because I finished painting my first Sister today (took like 5 hours)

[Captain Artemis]

That sounds really good.

Though I am not much of a hobby pro when it comes to doing that kind of stuff.

Sure, I can make unique Space Marines using diffrent kits, but that is way out of my hands.

Cheers for the good answers. :lol:

[Voldrak]

Honestly, if you can get the old Canoness model, grab it. It's discontinued so your only other venue would be eBay.

 

They make great sister superior models armed with combi-flamers.

 

Heck, give me the number and/or location of that store and I might just call them to see if I could purchase / have them shipped to me. I have three now and looking to get another 2 or 3 more.

[Captain Artemis]

Wow. I dun see what so cool about this '97 model, maybe 'cuz I'm not much of a collector, though it is fun painting and asembling.

I bought it today, because I wanted to give something for my girlfriend, so I thought I'd paint a Canoness.

And' I have to say, that Combi-flamer looks cool. :]

 

Sorry man. I dun think the store owner will do that.

As it is a TOY STORE...

And the blisters are old too, dated back to '90 I think.

[Eddie Orlock]

Myself, I have a jump pack Cannoness with a Blessed Weapon and bolt pistol (ran outta points in the staff Arena of Death, so couldn't afford the Inferno Pistol and I don't want to go back and remodel her), with various upgrades such as a Cloak of St Aspira, Mantle of Ophelia, Rosarius, etc. I also modeled her off of the St. Celestine figure.

Well, seeing that made me slightly less ashamed of my own mediocre painting standards. I grew weary of the PC&A forum, it gradually got taken over by high-end, perhap professional artists, and as someone who only manages to putter with the paints a few hours a week I felt increasingly out of place until I just stopped showing up. I had nothing to offer in the pigment department and found so many of the techniques advotcated so prohibitively time consuming as to be impractical for the projects I was/am embarked upon.

 

So often I see people get caught in the cult of perfect paint. They field gray plastic armies with one or two superlatively painted guys. They inquire how I found the time to paint all mine for it took them months to paint their two dudes and I tell them to look closer at the quality. They don't need to be studio masterpieces when your glancing at them from several feet away across the table. Peoples imaginations and perception tricks will fill the details in for them if you only suggest them.

 

Some times I get acused of advocating poor painting. No, I advocate swift painting and knowing when you're done.

 

Seems I got side-tracked, I started off the post with the intent of discovering where you got the goggles.

 

Few months ago I ran across some of the old standard bearers in a hobby shop, so I bought them. If they're in the new codex they may get paint then.

[Inquisitor Fox]

@Eddie: Thanks! It's nice to know I can help other people who are 'average to okay' painters feel better about ourselves *grins* I go for a clean job, usually no more than two or three colors in layers straight from the pot (I think the red here is either scab red -> red gore -> blood red, or mechrite red -> blood red, I can't remember) and to keep it simple. I have never gotten washes to do what I want them to so I avoid them whenever possible, going instead for drybrushing. The only exception really is my beloved Chestnut Ink (OOP) (I've got the one bottle I'm working through as I do leather bits.. I love chestnut ink over snakebite leather). I use straight from the pot so I can replicate and match colors over an entire army or multiple armies and have the pallette look consistant.

 

My Bretonnian army is much the same. Careful painting, simple colors in two layers or so, white primer, and you get a wonderful looking army without five bazillion hours per figure. Remember you can always go back over something to correct your mistakes and just be patient. Crisp and clean gets you easily to tabletop standard without having a bazillion special effects per model.

 

The goggles are actually from the Space Marine Sniper Scout kit, I'm really growing to love them. I also used a pair on my Ordo Malleus Inquisitor, although his has a green stuff strap as he didn't have the same hair as the Celestine model. Granted he's also got a green stuff ponytail modeled after myself, so it works out. The Scout kit has 5 pairs of night vision goggles and heads. I've been using some with plastic Catachans to make a light infantry Cadian Infantry for my Guard allies/inductees, and a few select uses elsewhere like on Sister Kristina here.