The Oppo: Bonehead's Lost, Damned and in all likelihood Disappointed

[Bonehead]

Both good plans- in the end I liked the megaphone one better, just a little, but ended up much closer to the whip.

This is the original model, the from-the-box redemptionist leader, next to his banner waving flunky:

The meltagun had to go. It's just too fighty and not preachy enough.

But of judicious chopping, sawing and filing gets him here:

And then I had another check through my Anvil parts and general cult bits box, and by crikey I was right. Literally every single hand holding a cultish-looking accessory that came from Anvil and from all my other bits was a left hand. Absolute pain in the neck. The one thing I knew was pretty much unmovable about the brief was that he couldn't be waving a weapon; he's a cult ringleader, he should look it. The dude's been reading forbidden texts and consorting with the unsavoury powers of the warp, not going to boot camp.

I did work something out in the end. There were several scrolls and books- all of which infuriatingly unusable- but also a couple of censors. And those look very occult, very suitable for a self-aggrandising fool playing dress-up with fancy robes and messing with things he doesn't understand. So I hollowed out the hand that was formerly holding the pistol grip, trimmed a censor of the maddening left hand that was holding its chains, and shoved the two together. Hopefully a success:

Now he's up to his neck in a ritual, as opposed to burning a hole in the ceiling while he speechifies.

Version with flash:

He's been joined in his new endeavours by a bunch of newly built Mari gaurdsmonsters:

Had a big wash of building inspiration and put together a fair few new men for the Mari Landsnechts. Just need two loaders for the heavy bolter teams and that's two entire squads ready built.

I've done the sergeant's pose before on a Yantar guardsman- he is my avatar picture- but I like it so much I just did it again for the baddies. I'm also really pleased with the heavy gunner and the meltagunner. Their poses just sort of hit me this morning and they came out pretty nicely. The kneeling trooper was supposed to be a loader but I forgot to give him any HB ammunition boxes or one of the torsos with an ammo bandolier, so he's just an ordinary grunt now. There's a fair few left-handers now. I think I'll probably not need to do many more in this army- you only need a few to really add a lot of variety to the available poses and make for much better photo potential and that's a good thing because they take bloody ages to make.

Here's a closer view of some of my favourites:

Cheers!

 

Edited November 14 by Bonehead

[Gnasher]

Those cult leaders look good, how you gonna paint the banner?

[Bonehead]

Good question. So far I'm thinking the classic black with a chaos star- and maybe some good old latin gibberish. Possibly some kind of heart motif because they're called immortals?

Ideas welcome!

[Tallarn Commander]

Excellent conversions as always!  The sergeant conversion is very dynamic.

 

But Trooper Sek of the Nostroman 9th disagrees with your argument that a meltagun makes him less of a preacher.  

 

 

Keep up the great work!