The Nihilus Crusade - Vindicator Heresy

[Brother Carpenter]

Really?

It's the background on my work tablet. Tomorrow I'll definitely be checking that out!

And a pc apothecary. Why not. With the plastic dev's you might just pull that off.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

Some slow progress on my Indomitus box, the Bladeguard are almost done, (Just two highlights, basing and transfers) but I took this afternoon to push the Castellan who was being batch paintd with them through to the end, (just to have a cheeky little win and a dopamine hit!)

Here he is:

This is a great model, and a really easy one to Templar up. Because the Sword and shield are so easy to swap out. I'm also experimenting with making my highlights almost deliberately less neat, which has the weird impact of making them look, IMO, better.

Edited September 15, 2020 by Brother Adelard

[Brother Carpenter]

I like him!

I think the less neat highlights give a more battle scarred and grimy apperance.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Castellan.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I knew from the moment I saw the Judiciar that the head needed to go. I just can't stand it. After a lot of discussion, pondering and searching, the ideal replacement to me was the head of the Interrogator Chaplain, it leans into the whole executioner thing much more than the silly face mask.

Then yesterday, when I pulled out all of the sub-assemblies for the Judiciar, which I had put together on release day, I realised that I had accidentally used his backpack on the Lieutenant. So I decided to kitbash a new one, using some parts from the various interrogator chaplains I had bought for their heads. I used the incense burner from Seraphicus, and the skull vents from the standard interrogator chaplain.
In addition, I had seen a cool conversion someone else did with a servo-skull holding the Tempormortis, I wanted to do something similar, and well, here is the result:

And the backpack rear:

Yes, it's magnetised. I have no clue how I would transport him otherwise!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Putting the tempormortis in the cyber-cherub's hand is a brilliant idea. What will you put in the Judiciar's hand, now that he no longer needs to hold the tempormortis? A severed head- maybe Abbadon's own, hanging from the traitor's topknot? A second sword? A pistol held sideways? Leave it empty, but modify the hand so the Judiciar is pointing a finger at the next sinner to taste his blade?

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I wanted a pointing hand, and I had one in my bits box. But it was a right...

 

Now he's just sort of beckoning sinners to him. "Come to me children, and taste of the Emperor's Mercy."

[JAG Templar]

Very nice conversion on the Judicar. Looks great!

[Marshal Wolfhart]

That is a very awesome conversion, i love it!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

I wanted a pointing hand, and I had one in my bits box. But it was a right...

 

Now he's just sort of beckoning sinners to him. "Come to me children, and taste of the Emperor's Mercy."

I want to suggest you assemble a model of an enemy of the Emperor- Traitor Marine, Chaos Daemon, foul xeno, or an effigy of Matt Ward- but drill a hole through its torso, so you can pose the Judiciar with his fist punching straight through this enemy like a Mortal Kombat character performing a Fatality. That will require a LOT of time, effort, and money to do competently, though.

[Jukkiz]

nice use of Dark vengeance chaplain powerpack

[Sword Brother Adelard]

 

I wanted a pointing hand, and I had one in my bits box. But it was a right...

 

Now he's just sort of beckoning sinners to him. "Come to me children, and taste of the Emperor's Mercy."

I want to suggest you assemble a model of an enemy of the Emperor- Traitor Marine, Chaos Daemon, foul xeno, or an effigy of Matt Ward- but drill a hole through its torso, so you can pose the Judiciar with his fist punching straight through this enemy like a Mortal Kombat character performing a Fatality. That will require a LOT of time, effort, and money to do competently, though.

Yeah... Or maybe not?

[Sword Brother Adelard]

nice use of Dark vengeance chaplain powerpack

When I saw that Indomitus had two chaplains, one with no helmet. (Not in MY crusade) and that monstrosity on the Judiciar, hunting down interrogator chaplain bits became quite a mission in itself.

[Jukkiz]

it´s quite dated kit (by internet time) and wanted for that limited edition chaplain model

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I have an LGS with a large stock of dodgy second hand models. Fortunately, he was in there, with some damage, but the head and backpack whole. Only £6 too

[phoenix01]

The hand of that judiciar is crying out for the holy orb of Antioch...

[Sword Brother Adelard]

That is an idea...

Kind of wish I hadn't put it on the chains now!

[Medjugorje]

And the backpack rear:

wonderful, amazing. This guy look so much more fearsome then the original one.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I got bored a while back and painted a thing for my Templars, while avoiding it being plain black, because I've been doing too much of that lately. I give you my Laser Destroyer!

[Sword Brother Adelard]

Oh, and I wrote some fluff to justify the heresy:

 

'Tacet Venandi'

 

"As the Nephilim Crusade's assault on Argolish ground  to a halt against the Necron invaders. Marshal Meinhard reluctantly had to consolidate his forces and take a more defensive posture in order to draw the Xenos forces into an ambush. As the urban warfare became more protracted Meinhard ordered the Crusade's anti-armour vehicles; primarily Predator Annihilators, Gladiator Lancers and Repulsor Executioners to take hull down positions within ruins and punish any Necron constructs who braved the columns of fire.
Forgemaster Ulrich, custodian of the Crusade's relic Deimos Vindicator Laser Destroyer, had it repainted in a novel disruptive pattern, to further disrupt the Necron's visual sensors while Ulrich deployed other counter measures to prevent detection.
The scheme proved very successful, as did the change in tactics. As the Necrons' assault faltered within the ruins of Argolish's capitol. Meinhard was able to redeploy his infantry by thunderhawk and drop pod, and mount a successful counter attack."

[Brother Kraskor]

Ruthless prosecution of war against the Emperor's foes is not heresy, brother.  Nice Vindicator! Lovely crisp lines.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

Thanks! I have one more to paint, which will be this tank before/after the contingency pattern. (FW sent my mum the first tank with two left side panels and no right. They then replaced it with a whole new tank! I then managed to convert the spare left panel into a right using the plastic side panels that are spare in the kit.)

 

I now have three with my Mars pattern conversion!

Edited March 12, 2021 by Brother Adelard

[Brother Kraskor]

Laser Destroyer squadron. That's got to hurt on the table!

[Brother Christopher]

Excellent paintjob on an amazing model. You also got quite lucky with how FW handled the complaint - it's definitely a win for you! Amazing stuff. Can't wait to see the entire squadron.

[Urkh]

Your fluff is so ridiculous it sounds like something I would write! (And I've written about a dreadnought who (might have?) thought he was an ork!). Using a paint different paint scheme just to confuse the necrons is brilliant. Thank you.