Inquisitor Trinity's Retinue - Storm Trooper Company - 6/2/2024

[Inquisitor Trinity]

After starting them in April my Inquisition Storm Trooper company is finally ready to spray paint. All 70 of them! I did have a provisional name for them as the endless but I've gone off that name. Unsure what to call them. As you can see there is somewhat of a diverse range of models, however, I've added little details to each so that there is something to link them all together. I've tried to make it look like they've gotten their arms and armour from the same armoury. If you want to see more check out my instagram! https://www.instagram.com/inquisitor_trinity/

 

 

 

These are my counts as crusaders from my Inquisition stormtroopers. As several others have done I've used the subjugators and their massive shields as the base but I've also added what a lot of other people have used which is skitarii heads. Not seen the two together so far. I've also used deathwatch power swords, kasrkin shoulders and sculpted a lot of details. The subjugators are quite a popular choice for plastic crusader conversions, as are the skitarii heads. I don't think anyone has altered them to this level though. I wanted a more militaristic and techy feel to them instead of the religious overtones in the original Inquisition crusaders. I think they're looking pretty awesome!

 

 

I hadn't initially planned to include arbites in my Inquisition stormtrooper company but after seeing them I just had to have them. That happened a lot 

I have made a lot of effort to bring their look closer to the other models, particularly the kasrkin who are the base template if you will. This includes:
- sculpted kasrkin style tunic and armour plates
- kasrkin gas mask
- kasrkin helmet light
- sculpted navy breachers helmet crest

I've also removed any arbites iconography as they aren't arbites in my lore, just differently armed storm troopers which I've decided to call, seekers. Hopefully the green stuff doesn't look too bad! The arbites are probably the squad I made the most alterations to. As you can probably tell. Unfortunately I won't be able to use them in game because the minimum squad size is 10 and you can't mix shields and shotguns. Even in the exaction squad which is really annoying. At least they look cool, that's the important thing.

 

 

Unfortunately these assault Kasrkin will probably never see the game board as there is nothing that I could approximate them to. Not only is there no astra militarum assault unit there isn't a jump unit either. The closest approximation would be the sororitas jump infantry I guess? Still a fun unit to make though. It combines cadian chainswords and las pistols with kasrkin and orlock jet packs. I've made the usual green stuff alterations as well. For a relatively simple kitbash I'm very pleased with these jet troopers. All it took was to add some orlock wrecker jet packs to kasrkin and grab some chainswords and las pistols from the cadian sprues. I did consider doing hot shot laspistols but I thought they'd be too unwieldy.

 

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The navy breachers are another squad that wasn't planned initially for my stormtrooper company but I couldn't resist! In order to bring them in closer to the rest of the company I added kasrkin style armour plates. I always thought they looked a bit underarmoured and I think I've rectified that quite well. I've also added arbites elbow pads, arbites shotguns, chest targeter and a kasrkin helmet light. You can also see ive removed all the navy iconography and added an Inquisition symbol. Enjoy! I always thought they were under armoured given that they're supposed to be wearing vacuum sealed suits, so I gave them some extra armour using press moulds from the kasrkin. 

 

 

 

I've always been very keen on the kasrkin style, even back when it was a choice between the metal ones and the regular stormtroopers I'd choose kasrkin. Once I saw they were coming out in plastic I had to get some. I'm justifying the deviation from deathwatch as they're Inquisition stormtroopers not technically another faction aha.

They're the base template for the company at large. I've added the navy breachers helmet crest and arbites elbow pads and chest targeter in addition to the Inquisition symbol. I've also tried to mix up the poses as there's a lot of them I wasn't that keen on. You might be able to tell that they've all got some form of close combat weapon as well!

 

 

This is the other stormtrooper kasrkin squad. Much the same as the other one just with different poses. I've armed them more or less the same as both squads have two volleyguns, a melta, plasma and sniper. Each squad also has a vox and a medic for flair. I'm very keen on the bayonets that's for sure

 

 

This is by far the squad I'm most proud of they're a combination of cawdor ridge walkers, kasrkin for the pilots and rough rider lances. I had to really carve up the legs and green stuff them so they'd fit which was a pain but had come off pretty well! (Looks pretty natural after I've spray painted them at least)

You can see I've also green stuffed some other details including:
- arbites elbow pads and chest targeter
- navy breachers helmet crest
- Inquisition symbol on chest

These are details I've tried to include across all my storm troopers to tie them together. I think weirdly the bases I made for them are one of my favourite bits. As there's not any sculpted oval based for this scale I made some industrial ones using necromunda bits and the void war bases parts. I've been sure to include all the weapon options for rough riders. They've got the lance, holstered pistol and you can see a lasgun on the front of the walker so they've got access to all the weapons. Reposing the walkers so they didn't all look the same whilst standardising them so that they all look like the same vehicle was a tricky balance. Most of the poses look good but a few are a bit iffy. What do you think of my Inquisition stormtroopers cavalry?

 

 

I've been working on the organisation of my Inquisition army. Inquisitor Trinity has a much larger retinue than most, the size of a small army or astra militarum platoon. This is very apt as they are far more militaristic than most Inquisitors, even of the ordo xenos, and believe in applying ever whelming force. Some of the roles here are obvious and some are troops that I am converting and are essentially Inquisition stormtroopers. I will be building ALL of them at some point and some are already built (look back over my posts) any guesses what's what?

[ThePenitentOne]

This is awesome.

 

This is a full-on Order of Battle. I hope GW gives you an Inquisition detachment that can use this force, though your count-as strategy will certainly be okay with any opponent worth playing. I love your cavalry! 

 

I also love the fact that you've got a full-fledged Chamber Militant army to back these guys up.  I checked your Insta as much as I could before it started pestering me to create an account.

 

Do you Crusade, or are you a stand-alone gamer? This army and their Chamber Militant allies were made to Crusade. Unfortunately, detachment and bespoke Crusade support are weak right now, but your Chamber should make out okay.

[WAR]

Really like where you are going with this and can't wait to see more. 

[Inquisitor Trinity]

On 2/8/2024 at 3:20 AM, ThePenitentOne said:

This is awesome.

 

This is a full-on Order of Battle. I hope GW gives you an Inquisition detachment that can use this force, though your count-as strategy will certainly be okay with any opponent worth playing. I love your cavalry! 

 

I also love the fact that you've got a full-fledged Chamber Militant army to back these guys up.  I checked your Insta as much as I could before it started pestering me to create an account.

 

Do you Crusade, or are you a stand-alone gamer? This army and their Chamber Militant allies were made to Crusade. Unfortunately, detachment and bespoke Crusade support are weak right now, but your Chamber should make out okay.

 

Fingers crossed they'll give the inquisition some love! Though I do sadly doubt it. Yeah the counts as would be find in casual games so i could soup from multiple armies. it's not like the inquisition is competitive enough to play in tournaments anyway. 

 

Yep, Inquisitor Trinity is based out of Watch Fortress Furor Shield as it's inquisitorial representative. They've got plenty of space for barracks aha.

 

I don't really game all that much, mostly I just build and paint. I kinda want to do a full 10 squads so i'm trying to think of other 10man units i could do a counts as conversion that would work. Something human sized with reasonably heavy armour and on the imperial side. I suppose I could get a second arbites squad so I can actually field a 10 man shields/mauls and a 10 man shotgun squad. Though ideally I'd like to do more with the kasrkin as a base so it looks like the crusaders, breachers and arbites are unique specialist squads.