Crimson Tears, Deathwatch and Inq28 Updated - 05/02/23

[Brother Pheidias]

Went through all of your log, and my word, you've come a long way from the first couple of models.

Really like the inclusion of both Deathwatch and emissaries from the other Successors!

[sockwithaticket]

A break from Black, White and Crimson, I introduce to you Inquisitor Jordaan Constantijn

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Constantijn comes from a long line of merchants on the Reductus Sector world of Esko. He was set to follow in the path of his forebears until his city was all but obliterated by the summoning of a Bloodthirster by Chaos Cultists, the beast rampaged for two whole days before combined Ordo Malleus and Ordo Hereticus forces descended upon the world along with nearby reserves of the Dark Hunters space marines. By this time more warp creatures of the Ruinous Powers had sprung up and the Imperial forces spent almost a year eradicating every trace of the fiends from the planet. In the immediate aftermath of their arrival, Constantijn, half mad with grief he begged several Inquisitors whose audience he sought to join their retinues. Lord Inquisitor Abram Van Lecht saw in Constantijn a raw pain that could quite easily be converted to zeal. With a grim determination born of despair and vengeance he solicited the deadliest warriors Van Lecht had gathered and persuaded them to train him in the arts of war. Such was his perseverance and resolve that his martial proficiency increased exponentially. After seven years Constantijn rose from a lowly acolyte to an Inquisitor, somehow surviving campaigns that dragged him from Esko to the Eye of Terror and myriad other war zones besides. Still fairly young he follows the example of his mentor Van Lecht by maintaining retinues almost the size of Imperial Guard platoons and seeks to use them as such; notable by their vast numbers are Imperial Guard veterans from an array of regiments and notable by their almost total absence are scribes, sages and other non-combatants that permeate other retinues. Such recruitment tendencies are underpinned by a belief that it is the duty of the Inquisition to take the fight to the enemies of the Imperium. He scorns the complex scheming of many of his elders as sedentary and passive, not in keeping with actions of an Inquisitor.

His path has crossed with the Crimson Tears on many occasions, most notably in the Eye of Terror where the chapter have frequently assisted against the periodic Black Crusades. He greatly admires the martial outlook of these astartes and their unwavering pursuit of heretics. Indeed, the Tears' focus often brings them into conflict with agents of Chaos both human and not, which thus makes Constantijn and his well trained cadre of Daemonhunters quite useful to them. The Chapter's company commanders all maintain amicable relations with the Inquisitor who clearly relishes the opportunity to fight alongside them and whose status and connections can prove useful at smoothing ruffled feathers should the Tears intervene unbidden and unannounced as they are wont to do


Cyber Mastiffs (archo-flagellants)
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Constantijn rarely travels without a pack of cyber mastiffs, quite aside from the intimidation factor they convey, the genetically modified, cybernetically augmented beasts do not quail. Constantijn has experienced firsthand how even the most hardened of his retinue may flinch or take a backward step (but only the one) in the face of the enemies he sometimes bring them in to contact with and he values the mastiffs' fearlessness highly as a result, that and their boundless ferocity.

Edited February 22, 2014 by sockwithaticket

[Quixus]

Awesome. The color gradients on the cloak and robe look particularly nice. Is there a reason, why the shell casings look like they are glowing?

[deathspectersgt7]

The Inquisitor looks Great.Like the fluff.Got the helmets on ebay ( Hong Kong)

[sockwithaticket]

Cheers, fella, I moved a little more towards blending than layering and I'm quite happy with the result. The glowing shells were my way of representing psybolts.

[NightHunters]

Glad to have been of assitance chap!

 

And a nice, as far as they can be, inquisitor too!

 

Awesome power weapon? - Check

 

Glowing psybolts? - Check

 

Beautifully blended cloak and fabrics? - Check

 

The only thing that looks a little off may be the face, a little pale, but then he is an inquisitor!

[sockwithaticket]

I have finished the Baal chassis! So much edge highlighting... Now, I get to focus on the (comparatively) fun stuff of turret and sponsons. I'm not too happy with the alignment of the top with with frame, but the super glue dried too quickly for me to make serious adjustments and it's not so bad that I'm willing to jeopardise the paint job. The adornments might not be for everyone, but vehicles on the IA books always seem to be covered in trinkets, sometimes in odd places, and I quite like that. As you might be able to tell I'm struggling to find a way of lighting the darker parts without washing out/getting too much reflection from light parts, particularly the white so the photo of the front has been darkened. Not entirely happy with it, but at least it shows the shading on the white icons.

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Deathspectre - thank you. Hong Kong you say? My bits net shall be cast wider in future.

NightHunters - cheers, mate. The face does look  a bit darker in real life, away from my ability to over light my photos and thus get nothing but reflection off pale colours. At the same time, it is a pale face. His name is Dutch and he spends most of his time in space shuttling between war zones, I didn't think he should look like he's just been tanning (sun beds are heresy and prohibited from Inquisitorial vessels!).

[deathspectersgt7]

The hull looks great for some reason I dread the treads.I think the helms are pirated but they look like the real.

[sockwithaticket]

With the grinding of tracks and an aroma of burnt fuel (those Lucifer engines wear hard) the Crimson Tears 2nd Company's first Baal pattern Predator rolls into the vehicle hangar functional if incomplete. In other words, the turret is done!
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Third tactical marine is also complete. The idea behind him was that his bolter has jammed and he's going to have to take his enemies as they get closer with his secondary armaments. Lots of time spent behind that old door for him! His homeworld fell to Chaos worship shortly after his induction to the Crimson Tears and he now seeks constant reassurance from the company Chaplains that he is still pure enough of thought and deed to serve in the Tears' ranks, hence the seals.
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Deathspectre - that is interesting, they're just plain treads after all. But, hey, fear and intimidation are among the astartes tools, so I'll take it!

Edited February 10, 2014 by sockwithaticket

[deathspectersgt7]

The Tank OUTSTANDING!!!! And the Marine Great as always. I dread painting Tanks .

[Kierdale]

Excellent work on both the tank and the marine.

 

One thought: since his shoulders are visible a little from behind that doorway/buttress, how about a little damage to a shoulder pad? As if an enemy round had clipped it?

[Hyaenidae]

Dude, those cyber-mastiffs (doberman's?) are awesome. Where did you pick those up?

[sockwithaticket]

deathspectre -  and mate, I've had the parts for this for at least 18 months, probably longer, dread doesn't even begin to describe how I felt about tanks. However it turns out the only real problems are finding places to grip that won't smudge the paint and keeping certain edge highlights more or less straight (edge is really long, too shallow or whatever to simply use the side of the brush)

Kierdale - cheers, fella. Battle damage?! Never! No, seriously, thing is I like my marines clean and it's how I've been painting them from the get go and I'm loathe to change that up. The idea's a good one and totally makes sense, it's just not for this project. Maybe one day I'll try it, I do have a rather misshapen boarding shield that I carved up to look suitably battered  and thought I might incorporate it into an objective marker at some stage, perhaps a supremely damaged breacher would work


1000Heathens - they are Necrohounds from maxmini. Awesome minis and certainly modelled on doberman's, the photo on the web store shows them painted as such.

[NightHunters]

So those vision blocks, yeah they are pretty damn awesome!

 

Lovely, lovely tank - edge highlights  for the win!!!

[sockwithaticket]

Aaaand done!

My Baal, is done and so is my fear of tanks. Now I'm simply aware that they can be quite time consuming.

So here are some final shots that best display the sponsons, the rest of it is all posted above so I don't see much point in clogging up the thread with repeat pictures.
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I've decided to call it Deliverance as I feel that fits with the vague fluff I've developed regarding the Crimson Tears arriving as unexpected saviours and liberators of beleaguered Imperial forces. Here's a bit of an explanation behind the various decorations:
The Angel of Death on the front is an honorific earned for 50 successful combat missions, it is complemented by the winged sword and skull on the assault cannon mount which is awarded for in excess of 2,000 confirmed kills and is testament to the impeccable and invaluable service rendered by the tank and it's crew during those missions. As a mobile fire base, the firestorm Baal pattern predator (dakka Baal does not go down on official communications) is almost unparalleled and Deliverance's worth to the Crimson Tears 2nd Company is difficult to overstate, devoid as they are of land speeders and given that their tendency towards urban warfare makes precision air support difficult to effect. Each purity seal marks the decontamination and re-consecration of the machine spirit performed after engaging Chaos Daemon forces. Most of these clashes have occurred in the context of the various Black Crusades the Crimson Tears have assisted in repelling. The white winged blood drop on a crimson background mounted on the right hand side of the turret is a campaign badge awarded to vehicles that took part in the Vindicaret campaign carried out against Necrons around the Ultima Segmentum. The chapter plate towards the rear on the left-hand side were awarded for spear heading an assault against traitor guardsmen, on the now dead world of Piety, who had all but encircled the Crimson Tears' 2nd  and 3rd Company's whose presence on the planet was the result of tracking members of the Chaos Space Marine warband The Reborn. For superb synchronisation with jump troops in a number of warzones Deliverance's crew were given the honour of attaching winged skulls to its armour so that all of the chapter might know of their skill.

Hope that was at least a little bit interesting for you to read.

I'm also continuing to trudge on with the tactical squad and here's the melta gunner almost done:
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Having finished Inquisitor Constantjin I decided to swell the ranks of his retinue a little with a couple more warrior acolytes (still very WIP):
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Enjoy!



NightHunters - what a timely post from you! Edge highlights for the win, indeed, clean marines forever. (That said, I cannot count the number of times I wished for an airbrush so I didn't have to spend yet another half hour tidying up 'straight' lines).

[deathspectersgt7]

The helmet on the meltagun Marine is Awesome!!!.

[Forté]

That is one seriously clean, crisp, and consistent style you have there. Nice :tu:

[Combat_Vet]

I agree with Forte. That white is nicely done. They are all well done, however that white really pops. Great work!

[NightHunters]

Yup, I want me an airbrush too brother!

 

Loving the acolytes very much, same armament as the last?

[sockwithaticket]

Hey, look at this, it's the last couple of guys for my five man tactical squad:
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Group shot:
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Here's a mostly finished objective I started, too, an ad hoc Imperial Guard command post scratched out of the ruins and rubble of a besieged imperial city. It needs the skull doing and to have the lone Guardsman sentry added on, but it came together pretty quickly. I tried weathering the scanner a bit with sponge chipping, for a first effort I don't think it's come out too badly.
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I'm also making some progress on another breacher. I used one of the chain axes from the Phobos pistol and axe set for this guy and it's come out looking more like a chain hatchet as, unlike the normal axes that I fit around a fist, it came already inside a fist which deprives it of some length. Still it doesn't look too out of place and I like how the pose is shaping up.
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deathspecter - thanks bud, probably one of my favourite additions to the new tactical squad sprue are that helmet and the studded mk. 6 legs. Studs make everything look better and foir this guy it makes what was already the angriest mk. 7 helmet look somewhat more so.

forte - holy crap, praise from one of the board's masters is high indeed, thanks!

200Plus - thank you very much. Ah yes, the white, such a pain, but so rewarding when complete!

Hunters - even if I could afford one I don't have the space to use it, which sucks, so line highlighting vehicles by hand seems to be the way forward for now. As for the acolytes, yep, same armament as the last one, but I did just buy the Death Korps special weapons pack so I can arm some differently in the future (along with some new dreads, so 0watch out for those).

[deathspectersgt7]

     Thats it.

[NightHunters]

Lovely work brother, I actually really like the chain hatchet, looks nicely balanced!

 

And dreads, why yes that sounds charming!

[sockwithaticket]

Hello again, everyone, a mixed bag today as I attempt to clear the workbench. Every now and then it's nice to wipe the slate clean before covering it in half finished projects.

To that end here we have 'Hatchet Hal', the 7th Breacher (only 3 left to do)
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He is followed up by the completed henchmen.
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Now, I know henchmen don't have squad leaders per se, but the fluff I wrote for Inquisitor Constantjin indicated that he predominantly uses guardsmen in much the same way as in their home regiments and so I've modelled one using  one of the Puppets War variant heads I that features a skull along with a scope and a relic to denote a marksman/sergeant. The last shot shows them with the test model for these guys. You might noice a smoother transition on the uniforms as well as keeping them darker, different cuffs, skin instead of gloves on the hands, brighter metallics on the helmet and face mask in addition to variant symbols on their weapons.

Lastly we have a slight rejuvenation of the Crimson Tears' first dreadnought Venerable Uriel. A few weeks ago he took a tumble and broke in half. I stuck him back together again and left it there. Then, the other day I was moving a few things around on my shelves and I noticed some paint chips here and there so started to fix them up. It also struck me: why the frack did I build him with a twin-linked lascannon and a dreadnought close combat weapon with heavy flamer?! Mistake duly rectified he's now a hellfire pattern dread with TLLC and missile launcher (frag and krak missiles painted as such), all the better to destroy the enemy from afar.  He'd also lost the brass etch from the right hand side of the sarcophagus (annoying as it was one of my favourite bits from the sheet and you only get 2), so that's been replaced by a terminator crux.
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When I finish the objective the desk will be clear and I will start my next Furioso, last 3 Breachers and my own Tycho.



deathspecter - I'll take it!

Night Hunters - it's been growing on me the more I've worked on the model and it doesn't look out of place next to the regular sized ones in the squad. Yep, the first one's primed and ready to start now, the spruce up on Uriel was sort of a prelim to get me back to the undying legends of the chapter. I have far too many unbuilt dreads at this point... (5!)

[deathspectersgt7]

TYCHO!!!did you say TYCHO!!!!!?.  Cool hear you on clearing the paint station. Can't wait to see your take on Him.

[Razblood]

Busy busy busy :tu:

 

You're stuff just seems to get better and better, look forward to Tycho :)