Badab War One-Shot Minis - Dec-24 Update - Silas Alberec

[Halandaar]

An ongoing project to knock up some kitbashed standalone minis from the chapters engaged in the Badab War, because Badab is cool and kitbashing is probably the part of the hobby I enjoy the most.

 

I had intended to start out easy with just my idea of what a standard tactical  marine from each chapter might look like and I did do a few of those already (pics to follow) but a particular combination of parts gave me an idea and so I went with it. Here's my rendition of Old Night himself, Thulsa Kane of the Executioners.

 

 

The basis is Tortuga Bay Studio's Myroslav Kado mini, with arms and axe from their Fortress Destroyer model. The head is from the new GW Terminator Chaplain, tilt shield from Fafnir Rann. There's also a dagger in a skull-encrusted scabbard from one of the GW limited edition webstore minis because "needs more skulls" was a definite consideration i had while assembling him!

Edited December 6 by Halandaar

[Naryn]

Commented on Instagram already, but I can't tell you how excellent this figure is. It really captures the essence of the Executioners and the old-school 40k marines.

[Firedrake Cordova]

I'm not familiar with that character's background, but it does look great - very menacing!  

[SvenIronhand]

Wonderful. I've always loved the Executioner's decorations, but I've always balked at painting their color scheme. 

[Pearson73]

This is spot on, great mix of details and just an overall sense of brutality. Proper Space Marine stuff.

[Halandaar]

9 hours ago, SvenIronhand said:

Wonderful. I've always loved the Executioner's decorations, but I've always balked at painting their color scheme. 

 

I can't even decide exactly what the colour scheme is! In some panels it seems to be a gunmetal sort of colour with blue-grey shoulders, in others it seems to be a much brighter sort of silver, in a painting tutorial video Duncan presented it as a matte blue-grey, and then the accent colours for veterans seem to be either a bold yellow or a brassy sort of colour interchangeably.

[Halandaar]

No kitbashing here, just the rather great rendition of Carab Culln by Tortuga Bay:

 

 

Along with a Red Scorpion tactical marine for him to boss around

 

[Terminatorinhell]

Oh that Culln is so nice looking! I might need to snag one. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Very nice.  As @Terminatorinhell says, that Culln sculpt is very nice  

[Halandaar]

@Terminatorinhell @Firedrake Cordova in case you were wondering how he scales with the new GW Terminators:

 

Edited November 2, 2023 by Halandaar

[Firedrake Cordova]

Oh, he fits in very well with the new Terminator models, doesn't he?  

[Terminatorinhell]

Awesome, definitely need to get one. Maybe some of their other terminators too. 

[Halandaar]

This is one of the first models I build for this project; a basic Tactical Marine built from Tortuga Bay's M4 armour

 

 

After looking back at a bunch of pictures I eventually decided the Executioners colour scheme is metallic blue-grey, so I had a crack at trying to work out how to achieve that. 

 

I started out with a basecoat of Iron Warriors over black, then used Stormfiend Contrast to get the blue tone. That felt too dark, so I then went back over it with a drybrush of 50/50 Iron Warriors and Stormfiend, which gave this look which i think looks alright! Was a challenge to get a half decent photo of it though, it's slightly odd in that from certain angles it reads as a lot more metallic than others.

 

[Halandaar]

Next named character: Harath Shen, Master Apothecary of the Salamanders

 

 

Obviously he requires a Salamanders pad for his left arm and maybe something to cover up the not-entirely-tidy join of the right arm with the torso, but overall pretty satisfied with how he came out.

[Halandaar]

Bonus update; I painted my Thulsa Kane a while back and neglected to post him, so here he is!

 

[Pearson73]

Nice work on Kane, really cool basing too. You've nailed that blue undertone on the metal.

[MithrilForge]

I like the chipping on the feet and shins...

[Halandaar]

After a year in hibernation, we're back with some more Badab characters. This time it's Silas Alberec, Keeper of Vigils, 3rd Captain of the Exorcists

 

 

Aside from removing a few Inquisition symbols and swapping the weapon head for one from the old Deathwing Knight maces, this is pretty much an unedited "Silver Knight Daemonhunter" model from Tortuga Bay Studio, which in turn is based on Grey Knight artwork by Paul Dainton. Obviously there's a superficial link between the Exorcists and Grey Knights in terms of their anti-Daemon outlook, so I figured using a GK-style model as a base worked, especially with the book iconography and parchment which ties in with the Exorcists' bookish nature. It's not quite massive in the way Alberec is described, but it is a Primaris-scale model which will help him stand taller than his Firstborn comrades.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Looks like a nice conversion to me.  

 

Is there a background reason for the =][= icon hanging from his waist? (or just a pain to remove?)

[Halandaar]

48 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Looks like a nice conversion to me.  

 

Is there a background reason for the =][= icon hanging from his waist? (or just a pain to remove?)

 

Not for Silas specifically, but there are definite ties to the Inquisition among the chapter. From Imperial Armour 10:

 

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"The Chapter has long-standing and strong links with the Inquisition, and certain factions within the Ordo Malleus in particular"

 

So I figured leaving the symbol was okay. That said, I am actually considering cutting it back and replacing it with a book instead, because:

 

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"Every Battle Brother, before they can pass into the Chapter and become a fully fledged Exorcist Space Marine, must master the use of all six hundred and sixty six verses of the Ordo Malleus Liber Exorcismus"

 

That might be a better not to the Inquisition link without being quite so overt.

 

 

Edited December 6 by Halandaar

[WAR]

Very nice.  I was wondering how that model looked in person. And can't wait to see him painted up

[Dr_Ruminahui]

That's a very nice miniature and I like the addition of the censor head to his weapon - it adds a lot of character.

 

I have no problem with the inquisitor symbol, but it does seem a lot more generic and is not nearly as cool as your idea with the book.  That said, I wouldn't catch on to the cool background reason for such a conversion if you hadn't stated such.