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Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Friday, 10 May 2013
INQ28: A wonderful distraction
Though the tireless war machine that is the Vlka Fenryka grinds ever on, even they have to be put to rest occasionally. When I tire of painting the Space Wolves, I have a little side project that I like to work on, namely a small warband of models for INQ28. For those of you unfamiliar with INQ28, it is basically a scaled down version of the Inquisitor game that you can find in the specialist games section of the GW website. Rather than using the large, 54mm scale miniatures to represent your characters in this narrative skirmish game, some clever chap came up with the idea of using 28mm scale figures (the same size as 40k). This allows you to use the multitude of plastic and resin kits from both the Warhammer 40k and fantasy ranges to convert almost anything you can dream of, rather than being confined to the limited range of metal characters that GW are probably going to discontinue anyway. Because of the growing support for this idea, and the endless stream of inspiration that comes out of the Blanchitsu article every month in White Dwarf, I decided to start my own collection of untrustworthy pirates, renegades and mutants.
So here they are all together. Yeah, only four I know, but a few more are on the way later. The idea of my warband is that they are a group of hired guns and slaves who have flocked to the banner of a disgraced pirate who is trying to repair his shattered reputation by performing daring raids on the Imperium to steal sacred artifacts and important information, as well as assassinating low level officials and other individuals who are causing problems for the resident scum of the under-hive.
This is the leader of my warband, the pirate I was talking about a minute ago. I still haven't decided on a name for him yet. I was inspired by a model I found on the INQ28 blog to base my leader on the vampire counts wight king model, and while he is a far cry from that original inspiration, I am very pleased with the way he came out. Converting the wight king was not as simple as I first thought, as the shield he carries is molded into his back and most of his left arm.
I used Dark Eldar parts to bring this model back from the grave and into the 41st millennium. I like the curved, vicious power sword, it looks far more evil than the blade supplied with the model. I also added a servo skull, no doubt stolen from an unfortunate victim. When painting, I went for very dark, muted tones except on the cloth where I used a bright red. There is still work to do but he is very nearly complete.
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This next guy was obviously made from the Nurgle Chaos Lord, but I used green stuff to fill the gap where his intestines used to spill out, removed all the horns, and replaced his rotting scythe with a plasma pistol and a shotgun. Getting the shotgun was more challenging than I anticipated, however, as I took it from the DV Cultist Champion, who has his entire arm stretched over the stock. I had to hack away with clipper and file until I had a smooth surface, and then put it into a Space Marine hand that used to support a bolter.
I call this one 'The Assassin', as it adds to the already mysterious air that surrounds this figure. The conversion work went little further than swapping the head of a sniper scout for a Dark Eldar one and removing the imperial symbols, but I am still happy with him and can't wait to start work on his camo cloak.
This is where things get really interesting. It's a Skaven, with a Heavy Stubber! The funny thing is that when I selected the pack master from the Island of Blood boxed game I actually intended to modify his prod and turn it into a plasma thingy. However, I got frustrated with the tiny part when I tried to replace the crystal with a fuel canister, and cut the prod from his arms. That was when I saw the Heavy Stubber cultist standing on my paint station... And 30 minutes later, with some green stuff and effort, subject 430 was born!
If you enjoyed this post and like my conversions, please tell me in the comments section and make me feel good about myself. Alternatively, you can hurl abuse at me for not choosing INQ54, or criticize my green stuff capabilities, thus helping me improve my work.
So here they are all together. Yeah, only four I know, but a few more are on the way later. The idea of my warband is that they are a group of hired guns and slaves who have flocked to the banner of a disgraced pirate who is trying to repair his shattered reputation by performing daring raids on the Imperium to steal sacred artifacts and important information, as well as assassinating low level officials and other individuals who are causing problems for the resident scum of the under-hive.
This is the leader of my warband, the pirate I was talking about a minute ago. I still haven't decided on a name for him yet. I was inspired by a model I found on the INQ28 blog to base my leader on the vampire counts wight king model, and while he is a far cry from that original inspiration, I am very pleased with the way he came out. Converting the wight king was not as simple as I first thought, as the shield he carries is molded into his back and most of his left arm.
I used Dark Eldar parts to bring this model back from the grave and into the 41st millennium. I like the curved, vicious power sword, it looks far more evil than the blade supplied with the model. I also added a servo skull, no doubt stolen from an unfortunate victim. When painting, I went for very dark, muted tones except on the cloth where I used a bright red. There is still work to do but he is very nearly complete.
.JPG)
This next guy was obviously made from the Nurgle Chaos Lord, but I used green stuff to fill the gap where his intestines used to spill out, removed all the horns, and replaced his rotting scythe with a plasma pistol and a shotgun. Getting the shotgun was more challenging than I anticipated, however, as I took it from the DV Cultist Champion, who has his entire arm stretched over the stock. I had to hack away with clipper and file until I had a smooth surface, and then put it into a Space Marine hand that used to support a bolter.
I call this one 'The Assassin', as it adds to the already mysterious air that surrounds this figure. The conversion work went little further than swapping the head of a sniper scout for a Dark Eldar one and removing the imperial symbols, but I am still happy with him and can't wait to start work on his camo cloak.
If you enjoyed this post and like my conversions, please tell me in the comments section and make me feel good about myself. Alternatively, you can hurl abuse at me for not choosing INQ54, or criticize my green stuff capabilities, thus helping me improve my work.
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