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[lamby]

Inquisitor looks great, but I think I'm missing the Inquisitorial icon other than the one on the sword. 

After all, she IS the Inquisition, not a mere operative being handed a weapon from Inquisition's vaults.

 

Keep up the good job!

Thanks Malkhel - I was intending to paint a gold ][ on her torso but in the end went without it

 

This is excellent! It's nice to see a mini that doesn't automatically jump down your throat as a member of the inquisition, if you follow me? Even my own inq28 conversions are more kitted up for war than the clandestine operations they actually undertake! Your witch hunters have that perfect blend of power and subtlety that makes them fit. They seem like a proper guerrilla band.

Thanks Tristan2583 - that was my intention, glad it's come across that way

 

Why is the Inquisitor wearing a collar? Is it an item of jewelry? A bomb collar, which a Lord or Lady Inquisitor put on her when she undertook a vow to clean up her own mess, to punish her if she breaks that vow and prevent her from becoming a radical or rogue? Is she a psyker or a blank, and the collar a means to suppress her powers, so she may conceal her presence from enemy witches?

Thanks Bjorn !

 

All very good questions/ideas and if I was going to write more fluff I might steal some of them - I particularly like the idea of the collar as penitence.

 

Simple answer is: in this instance I needed her head without that giant hair to be removable so I could paint the skin, and the best way to conceal the join was with that collar / armour rim ;)

 

I can't believe I've only just found this thread, the witch-hunters are amazing!

Thanks Viridia!

 

Lamby!, these updates have been fantastic! the level on conversion work and the paint job has produced some drop dead gorgeous minis!

Thanks Hushrong!

 

These are fantastic! The conversions are clever and original and really capture that cyberpunk feel

Thanks Sandalphon!

Edited July 6, 2020 by lamby

[lamby]

+ Assassin-Executioner Shiriku of the Ordo Sicarius +

 

+ Apprenticed to Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus, majored in the weapon-arts kenjutsu 'fencing' and tessenjutsu 'fighting with a fan' +

 

+ Image-capture here shows Shiriku poised in battle, wielding her tessen 'war-fan' and the katana named Tsukiakari o Kiru 'Cutting the Moonlight' +

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction:

 

Link back to the WIP post where I detailed the first section of Shiriku's build: WIP Assassin-Executioner

 

The sharp-eyed reader will note that the original tessenwas kit-bashed from the War Cry Cypher Lords Thrallmaster - but it became clear it was just too big, so I replaced it with the war-fan (and actual right hand) from Yvraine.

 

Then she sat on my building desk for a while, looking cool and all, but I kept hearing the Voice saying "Everyone else has a Knosso model with the same head..." 

And so I took off the front of her mask with a micro-saw, cut and sanded a Melusai head - the Melusai kit being my new go-to kit for female conversion bits! - to fit, glued it in... 

Took it out, sanded and cut some more, glued it back in... repeated this yet again until finally she had her new face!

 

Unfortunately I was seriously in the Zone when I did this, and didn't stop to take pics.

 

Painting:

 

Fresh off the tail end of painting the Witch Hunters - and with my oil experimental phase still in full swing - I tried to paint the Ordo Sicarius trio a little faster, but also wanted to paint the skin - especially the faces and eyes - a bit nicer than previous attempts.

 

To this end, for the face I went with a grey Tamiya primer sprayed 'zenithal' over black, then drybrushed GW Uthulan Grey; then I thinned my old pot of GW Elf Flesh down with Glaze Medium about 50/50, and laid two coats over the drybrushing - the Uthulan Grey has this weird effect where it pushes the glaze away, so already I had a nice skin tone, which was made even better with a pin-wash of 50/50 VJ Purple and Glaze medium into the shadows. I followed this up with some small highlights with mixed Schminke Titanium White and GW Elf Flesh, and in the end it came out pretty well, I think!

 

Did my usual trick of dry-brushing Leadbelcher on the metals, then laid down base coats of VJ Purple, VJ Deep Sea Blue, VJ Armour Brown and VJ Iraqi Sand, then finished off the acrylic stage with VJ Glorious Gold.

 

First oil stage was a Black oil wash and an Umber oil wash liberally applied, then dabbed back off with a cue-tip; the Dark Sea Blue areas were then re-washed with Black to gain shadows. Next I laid a thin coat of undiluted Purple oil on all the purple; successive stages were blending Black oil onto the purple areas for shades, and then Faded White for highlights.

 

When the oils were dry enough, gave the model a spray of Tamiya flat clear, then gained back some highlights on the steel and gold areas. Lastly I couldn't resist going back to some areas - the sword and the war-fan, for example - with Purple oil nuances, though I did try and tone it down a little.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

 

[Majkhel]

Nice work on the Shiriku! Both in terms of construction and paintjob.

Personally I hate the original Knosso's mask. While on one hand it does a good job at being disturbing, it's also simply ugly:P Face-swap came out great. I also really like what you did with the base 

[hushrong]

Shiriku looks great!

[lamby]

Nice work on the Shiriku! Both in terms of construction and paintjob.

 

Personally I hate the original Knosso's mask. While on one hand it does a good job at being disturbing, it's also simply ugly:P Face-swap came out great. I also really like what you did with the base 

Thanks Majkhel! - my thoughts exactly on the Knosso mask

 

Shiriku looks great!

Thanks hushrong!

 

 

 

 

+ Assassin-Enforcer Alvya Arianhod of the Ordo Sicarius +

 

+ Apprenticed to Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus, majored in Application of Imperial Law (Arbites Enforcer equivalency) and swordsmanship, sub-specialising in a dual-wield fighting system of unknown origin +

 

+ Image-capture here shows Alvya wielding twin sabres, her preferred weapon system; her blades are neither blessed nor energetic, as she prefers to rely on skill over power - though she wears a personal void-shield, since she is well aware skill won't stop a las-bolt  +

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction:

 

Alvya consists of a repositioned pair of Harlequin legs; icon parts from the Dark Elves (Executioners or maybe Darkshards?) as greaves; a female Harlequin torso; a Dark Elves head with some hair refinement; a Harlequin rear torso and robe part, with added robe edges; an Admech power unit, slightly rearranged; and finally the arms from a Warcry Cypher Lords twin-sword Mirrorblade dude - with one of the swords cut apart and repositioned to match the reversed grip of the other.

 

Yet again, I was in the zone and didn't take any pictures of this build at all.

 

The base was a crazy idea that worked out in the end...

 

Painting:

 

Same recipe as the previous member of the Ordo Sicarius - except for her hair, which was just one GW Hawk Turquiose glaze over the drybrush of GW Uthalan Grey.

 

Painting this base was all kinds of fun, as I was getting into the grim dark swing of things with this second one - though it was a merely a warm-up for the previously sneak-previewed base of Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus!

 

Thanks for looking!

[lamby]

and lastly:

 

+ Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus of the Ordo Sicarius +

 

+ Two centuries ago, Imadeus saw a need to her skills beyond her Ordo's delegated responsibility for monitoring the Ordo Assassinorum, and petitioned to pair with the Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunters to form a specialist team dedicated to the pursuit and termination of rogue Inquisitors +

 

+ Image-capture here shows her in action, armed with the consecrated Relic blade Thirst for the Blood of the Falling +

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction:

 

Link back to the WIP posts where I detailed the construction of Imadeus:

 

A Return

 

The Undecided W][P

 

The only addition beyond these two WIPS was the sculpting of the left breast, and addition of the small reliquary.

 

Painting:

 

By this time I was pretty happy with the Sicarius paint recipe so her painting was pretty fast in comparison to the other two.

 

In fact, the longest part of painting her was the mask as it changed from steel to the bone, and her hair - the two tone-hair was actually a happy accident when I dipped my brush in the wrong pool of paint on my wet palette and without looking ran a big stroke through the lower section of her hair.

 

Thanks for looking!

[hushrong]

Awesome work on the assassins! The paint jobs are just spot on and really show off your sweet conversion work on the minis. And I love Imadeus. Do an assassin she just has this great flair to her, especially with the long gown.

[lamby]

Awesome work on the assassins! The paint jobs are just spot on and really show off your sweet conversion work on the minis. And I love Imadeus. Do an assassin she just has this great flair to her, especially with the long gown.

Thanks so much, hushrong.

 

 

So my old Wretched Sons B&C page has been archived it's been so long, so I'm dropping this here:

 

Operational Pause... and a new Wretched Son!

 

Almost immediately after finishing the Ordo Sicarius trio I found out I was being deployed down range for an extended period.

 

Thus my output slowed almost to a standstill - now I’m on the way I’ll post some WIPS of the little work I did before departing home.

 

Here’s the first of them - as a bit of a change from Inq28 stuff I went back to my homegrown Truescale Chaos war band, the Wretched Sons.

 

 

Bits: an old Nurgle Lord body with GS-smoothed skin; the hood and head from the Arch Lord Discordant rider; the old Chaos Knights banner with a partial corpse from the Corpse Cart kit skewered on top; some Grey Knight Terminator arms; some Stormcast Eternal arms which I didn't end up using; and a tilt shield from one of the Space Hulk Blood Angels.  

 

Not shown here was an Astartes powerpack I used after discarding the Discordant one; switched out the shield for a Grey Knight terminator forearm-mounted Stormbolter; added an old Empire sheathed sword as his blade (real warriors always carry a blade); and I switched out the Space Hulk tilt-shield for a couple of standard Terminator ones.

 

End result was this Banner Bearer:

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

[hushrong]

That's a big boy! Very cool mix of bits to make that banner bearer, Lamby!

[lamby]

That's a big boy! Very cool mix of bits to make that banner bearer, Lamby!

Thanks hushrong! yes, he is big even for a true-scale marine.

 

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Night W][tches: Daemons - The Hoplite

 

Been mashing this first member of my dark Inq28 warband Night Witches: Daemons together for while - okay, nearly 6 months - the main effort of conversion was making the spear - which I showed back here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/289365-inqusitor/?p=5404080  - and the shield arm, so here's some WIPS of that...

 

Took this Witch Elf arm and shield, and cut the shield down to just a rectangular nubbin (no pic):

 

Cut this plastic disc off an egg carrier thingy from a Dollar store: 

 

Smeared it in Milliput paste... 

 

And more milliput paste and Mr Surfacer 500 until it looked like this:

 

Then glued a rod to the back and stuck it in the Dremel, spun it and smoothed it with sandpaper:

 

Then I added a wet layer of GS/milliput mix to the back of it and pressed the Witch Elf arm with nubbin-of-shield into it, added good old Kroot shoulder armour to the shield arm to hide the crappy join, added a short-sword and some butt-armour made from chopping down Melusai waist-armour, finally scribed a rim into the shield and after a lot more sanding and scraping here she is, ready for paint:

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

Edited July 2, 2020 by lamby

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Is the Hoplite a cyborg with an augmetic tail replacing her legs, mutant, a xeno, a Daemon or Daemonhost?

[lamby]

Is the Hoplite a cyborg with an augmetic tail replacing her legs, mutant, a xeno, a Daemon or Daemonhost?

Still working on the fluff but she's most likely a daemonhost - human possessed by a minor daemon.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Is the Daemon sworn to Slaanesh, Nurgle, Khorne, Tzeentch, Malal/Malice, or Chaos Undivided?

[lamby]

Is the Daemon sworn to Slaanesh, Nurgle, Khorne, Tzeentch, Malal/Malice, or Chaos Undivided?

Not really sure, I don't think these things through I just build what looks cool and then retro the fluff write-ups.

 

Never heard of Malice tho - is that new GW fluff? 

[Quixus]

Never heard of Malice tho - is that new GW fluff?

The exact opposite. It is really old fluff Malal/Malice has been removed from canon quite a while ago.

[Evil Eye]

Superb stuff as always. The Hoplite is looking like she'll come out looking fantastic, and Shiriku is quite spectacular! As a side note, I've dipped my toe into oils recently, and I love them; my use for them has been restricted to weathering on tanks thus far, though.

[lamby]

 

Never heard of Malice tho - is that new GW fluff?

The exact opposite. It is really old fluff Malal/Malice has been removed from canon quite a while ago.

 

Cheers Quixus - Thanks for the retrograde info update! 

 

Superb stuff as always. The Hoplite is looking like she'll come out looking fantastic, and Shiriku is quite spectacular! As a side note, I've dipped my toe into oils recently, and I love them; my use for them has been restricted to weathering on tanks thus far, though.

Thanks Evil Eye!

Oils can be a god-send or a curse... the best thing is you can usually recover a mistake but swabbing the oils away and going at it again.

[Majkhel]

Excellent work on both the Hoplite and the Wretched Sons' banner-bearer.

 

Melusai kit is fantastic

Edited July 18, 2020 by Majkhel

[lamby]

Excellent work on both the Hoplite and the Wretched Sons' banner-bearer.

 

Melusai kit is fantastic

 Thanks Majkhel!

 

 

 

 

... In an instant I beheld uprisen

At once three hellish furies stain'd with blood:

in limb and motion feminine they seem'd;

Around them greenest hydras twisting roll'd

Their volumes; adders and cerastes crept

Instead of hair, and their fierce temples bound...

 

...Turn thyself round, and keep

Thy count'nance hid; for if the Gorgon dire

Be shown, and thou shouldst view it, thy return

Upwards would be for ever lost.

 

Dante's Inferno: Canto 9

 

 

 

 

Started the Medusa build in June 2016 apparently: Something Wicked This Way Comes...

 

She lingered in the 'to-do' pile for many, many months, occasionally having a bit added here and there, or a bit removed, or something sculpted - then torn off and redone.

 

I will give her this - she's persistent; when I started her I really had no idea where she was going to fit into my convoluted fluff.

 

Then this image came along:

Medusa - Unknown Artist

 

Add to this the emerging concept of the Night Witches and a way ahead for her construction revealed itself, and - just as important - a place for her in my story line.

 

And so here's Medusa:

Her torso, head, left arm, shoulder armour and most of her right arm are from the Bloodwrack Medusa.

 

 

I repositioned some of the smaller snakes, and then added the larger serpents that were cut from the Bloodwrack Medusa's weird snake-body and over many attempts were pinned, glued, re-glued, broken off, cursed at - one was even eaten by my cat! - re-pinned, re-glued and finally smoother over with milliput paste to get them to stay in position.

 

 

The legs are from either Dark Elf Witches or Dark Eldar, can't remember - probably one from each! The armoured waistband is from the ubiquitous donor Melusai kit - love that kit!

 

The skirt tails are two ribbon-thingys cut from Harlequin dancer legs, pinned and glued in under the waist armour

 

 

The right hand is again from a Dark Eldar or Dark Elf kit, with a brass wrist guard to hide and strengthen the join under it - original intention was to sculpt a copy of the Bloodwrack vambraces but in the spirit of  my new 'get on with it' modelling philosophy, I'll just leave it as is... probably.

 

The lower half of the spear is from probably an old Dark Elf kit and the lower bit being from the Skitarii kit - another stellar donor kit! The upper staff is brass tube, with a pin glued into the spear head from the ancient High Elf Prince and Noble kit - hopefully it helps sell the Greek mythology vibe these Night Witches seem to have going, anyway.

 

Thanks for looking!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Your Medusa looks promising.

[Majkhel]

Fantastic work! I like her pose: I would say it's a classic pose for the gorgon Medusa - emerging from a hole in a ground and posing to release the full power of her deadly stare.

Really great job on the snakes!

[Evil Eye]

I'm loving the Medusa! Excellent conversion work, I shudder to think what a pain blending those snakes in must have been.

[lamby]

Your Medusa looks promising.

Thanks Bjorn!

 

Fantastic work! I like her pose: I would say it's a classic pose for the gorgon Medusa - emerging from a hole in a ground and posing to release the full power of her deadly stare.

Really great job on the snakes!

Thanks Majkhel - reworking the snakes was very tedious but I think the effort was ultimately worth it.

 

I'm loving the Medusa! Excellent conversion work, I shudder to think what a pain blending those snakes in must have been.

Thanks Evil Eye!

 

I really didn't like original Bloodwrack Medusa pose and her snake-body was awful - but those extra snake heads certainly helped achieve the vision!

 

 

 

[hushrong]

That Medusa is WICKED!

[lamby]

Yah - it's been a while...

 

Home (into quarantine for 14 days) from 7 months deployment, and into

 

W][P - Wurmspat 2 

(There's a small part 1 on my blog Rust + Ru][n, but tbh, it's not that interesting...  )

 

Quarantine - so plenty of time for (re)learning how to sculpt!

 

Decided these three deserve to be a solo project, not part of any of my pre-existng warbands. 

 

Set some build parameters - can only do the conversion work with what I have with me.

Which is: greenstuff, milliput and Apoxie Sculpt; some paperclips; and no bits to kitbash with! 

(Caveat - may have to use brass tube for the weapon hafts when I get them home.)

 

First up, Stabby: 

 

Filled in the belly symbol, cleaned up the legs where I scraped away fat rolls.

Sculpted the 'shark-fin' ridge on the armour (any ideas what that's called?)

It's still wet in this pic, and too fat, and too high - needs to be refined by much sanding and scraping. 

Sculpting medium was a 50/50 GS and milliput mix:

  

 

Next two pics show the sculpted skirt to cover the haemorrhoid surgery previously done. 

Two sculpting sessions, the first being straight GS to build the underlying 'scaffold'.

Which then allowed me to sculpt the ragged detail in using GS/milliput without it collapsing. 

 

 

Needs a decent sandpaper/file to even out the rougher parts.

That's why I use the GS/milliput mix, as it dries hard instead of rubbery-hard like straight GS:

 

 

And so, onto Bob.

 

Originally, Bob was just going to get slimmed down a little, but he kind of got away from me... 

Filled in the gut(s) and third eye hole with milliput (smoothed with water it leaves no tide marks).

Enhanced the vambraces (you can see the right one here) with GS/milliput.

Added the start of the plume to the helmet using cut-n-carved sprue:

 

 

Added another ridge to the shoulder armour.

Not sure if I'm going to add the 'stop-the-axe-sliding-off-the-armour-into-my-neck' bit...

(Seriously, that part must have a name, right?) 

Went over the arm-band that had been damaged by exuberant knifing during his weight-loss session... 

The more I look at it, the more I think that might get re-sculpted into more of a metal torc:

 

 

Removed the head-with-worms that was sitting on top of that lower skull.

Re-sculpted the skirt section - there's a plan in play for how that skull hangs...

 

 

And so, onto Margo. Yes, she will have a head...

First thing was to get her on a bit of a fitness regime to lose the gut.

She also had a bit of a boob-reduction, especially under the right arm where it looked like she had a third boob.

(Did she have a third boob?)

Re-sculpted the front of the skirt - unfortunately, I did this with straight GS.

Started to add to the shawl, using GS/milliput rolled flat onto foil strips (cut from Chobani yoghurt lids!):

 

 

Cut the tentacle off before I broke it, in case you were wondering... 

Went a bit over the top on the shawl - the black stuff is BSI CA glue. 

The curled shawl 'tail' hanging over the shoulder-sack will haunt me for the rest of my days...

 

 

Last two sections of shawl tails done.

Actually, the darker green on the right of image is the first section I did after the front skirt, in GS only.

The section coming from under the pauldron had to be curved just so, to fit the little karambit knife she carries into its original nodes:

 

 

Getting down to finer and finer details on all three now.

Next up, sculpting chains, more armour detailing, maybe some fur, and possibly even a skull!

 

Thanks for looking!