Dr. Ruminahui's assorted conversions

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks @The Pounder and @BadgersinHills.  And BadgerinHills, your protestations seem quite suspect, as they are exactly what one would expect a hill dwelling badger hive mind to say. 

 

I had originally meant to finish these last month (they've sat with the capes does since at least the new year), but got distracted by my knight kitbash.

 

Here's my second squad of tormentors - squad leader has the whip not because I thinks it the best choice (though it was when I built the squad, which was pre-eratta bumping the S on the power sword) but because I don't like to build cookie cutter squads.

 

 

And with my other tormentor squad:

 

 

Seeing the two side by side, I'm really happy with the how the cloaks turned out.  The main purpose of the symbols on the back of the cloaks being different colours is squad differentiation, and I wasn't sure that would be distinct enough with the slannpat.  So I'm really happy that it seems to the 4 colour camo pattern, with 1 colour as base common across both squads, 2 for the slanneshi "blotches" and the 4th for the symbol (which for the other squad would be a blotch colour) seems to have worked well.  Does mean that I can only do one more squad this way before I need to come up with a different slaanpat pattern, but it seems unlikely I would want more than 3 squads, so I'm fine with that.

 

I have also mostly built 2 5-man squads of infractors - I just need to do the greenstuffing for the cloaks.  As that's quite the chore, I think that will wait until I need a break from painting.

Edited Wednesday at 10:37 PM by Dr_Ruminahui

[W.A.Rorie]

They look great!

[Heraclite]

Nice freehand on the symbols. They're well integrated into the camo pattern

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks, @W.A.Rorie and @Heraclite. 

 

Miniature camo is always a bit weird as the point of camo is to break up the lines and details, where for a mini you want it to look like camo without actually doing that.  Here, I'm happy that it looks like camo without actually acting like it, as it in no way would help hide the wearers - I guess its emotional support camo.  

 

Within the camo, I also was struggling with 2 contradictory goals of wanting the pattern with symbol still look like a camouflage pattern but to still have the symbol stand out as a squad identifier.  I think I've largely pulled that off, with the two symbols kind of straddling that line - the darker one on the "more identifiable" side, the light one on the "more camo side". 

Edited Thursday at 01:32 AM by Dr_Ruminahui

[Brother Christopher]

The beige, brown and purple make for a striking combination! 

 

Your work aside, which is great as always, these guys look like really fun models. I mean, I'm still looking for something heretical to buy (i.e. other than loyalist Space Marines) and the EC combat patrol seems very appealing (though it's still power armour). It's a real shame the set doesn't include a bunch of Tormentors, though.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks, @Brother Christopher.

 

They are pretty fun models, though visually I prefer the greater trim of the mainline chaos space marines... though not necessarily painting it.  For those who dislike painting trim, these are likely an improvement over the CSM models - but for those who hate painting trim, its probably best to still stay clear.

 

Esthetically, its an interesting choice by GW, because unlike the new raider CSM models, its not clear why they have less trim.  Arguably, EC should have more trim, given excess being their thing - but that way leads to the heldrake, which is merely busy on a model that scale but would be hell on something infantry sized, so I think we can all be glad they didn't go that way.  Going less trim does give them room for more spikes and such, but they don't have a lot of that either.  That said, I can't say that the EC models do a bad job representing EC, just that they feel slightly off for me - but on my models, my capes pretty much fill that gap.

 

Yeah, its strange that the combat patrol doesn't have any tormentors/infractors, but maybe less so if its intended to be acquired in conjunction with one of their other boxes (either release or christmas).  If you can pick up the X-mas battlebox, that would be the way to go - it has/had 20x tormentors/infractors, 6x noise marines and a demon prince, which are all great models (its essentially the release box with the lord exultant swapped for a demon prince (and maybe fewer noise marines, I can't remember exactly where my 18 all come from) and no codex/cards).  Its the only EC box I didn't pick up, but that's because, with picking up the previous 3, the only thing I really wanted out of it was the demon prince.

Edited Friday at 10:39 PM by Dr_Ruminahui

[BadgersinHills]

@Brother Christopher @Dr_Ruminahui The Emperor's Children Combat Patrol does come with 10 Tormentors/Infractors :)