Welcome back, friends, to the Collardhammer Special! Apologies that the blog is once again delayed by a day, Sundays do seem to have an unfortunate habit of running away from me a little. This week, I was inspired by the gameday the previous week to paint up my inquisitorial retinue unit, consisting of the six people and their tome-skull. This was mainly because the servitor rolled snake eyes to hit with multi-melta on consecutive turns, before they were unceremoniously blended by Sanguinary Guard. I am generally not a superstitious person, but one of my main reasons for getting this painting done is the curse of unpainted minis. They also help me feel better when I have to pick them up and remove them from the table.
I got the inquisitorial agents finished on Saturday morning, freeing up some time to get started on preparing skeleton warriors.
Here is what my Trello board looks like:
I am going to take this opportunity to talk about basing. While this is undeniably quite a dull part of the hobby, when I was still getting started with Warhammer (some 17 years ago, yikes!), it was often said that faces and bases make a model. Look at pretty much any competition winning paint jobs and these two aspects are often what is most innovative or interesting about them. While I am obviously not a great painter on the whole, and won’t be entering Golden Demon any time soon, these are two areas of my hobby that could definitely stand to improve. For my Flesh Eater courts, one of my favourite hobby aspects is the prevalence of blood splattered around the otherwise pale white and blue bases, coupled with the blood around the mouths of the minis and their glowing red eyes, really tying a lot of disparate elements together. For my Tomb Kings, the basing scheme is more like a classic desert/wasteland, littered with broken weapons, skulls and tufts of arid static grass. While this is less visually interesting than the FEC bases, I think it ties the army together nicely to look like they’re marching implacably on in a windswept wasteland of a battlefield, while the sun beats down from above. It is definitely a bit of a pain though, requiring sticking down skulls and battlefield debris, followed by Ardcoat and a mixture of crackle and sand texture effects. At 5 points per model, this is a lot of work for skeleton warriors.
Moving on to something altogether more fun, here are the inquisitorial agents I painted this week:
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| I didn't expect the kind of Imperial inquisition... |
Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!!! I couldn’t resist painting them up red robed, in the style of Monty Python, particularly after they pulled such a hilariously bad performance last week. I also think that since my inquisitor is one of the most serious characters in our campaign, a psychopathic control freak of the Ordo Hereticus, having her agents be a little more on the silly side of the setting will provide a natural vehicle for the narrative. In terms of painting them, it was mostly slapchop, with Blood Angels Red over the white undercoat, with flat areas smoothed out by Evil Sunz Scarlet and highlighted by Wild Rider Red. The blue is Ultramarines blue, followed by a drybrush of Imrik Blue, while the skin is Guilliman Flesh, smoothed out and highlighted with Kislev Flesh. Overall, these were a super fun mini project, and quite different from the rest of my recent painting. The results look good enough, and they go surprisingly well with the breachers from the previous two weeks, which is relevant for Kill Team.
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| Our weapon is fear! Fear and surprise! Our two weapons... |
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| Fetch! THE COMFY CHAIR!!!!! |
Moving on to more general hobby stuff, as teased at the end of the last post, I was lucky to get a copy of the Champions of Slaanesh box and will be starting Emperor’s Children when it releases. In 17 years of the hobby, I haven’t played a chaos faction outside of the heresy (which I don’t think really counts), so I am really looking forward to getting started. In terms of a colour scheme, I am thinking of going with the classic pattern, with bright pink and black armour, and white weapon casings to add some more contrast. I’ve particularly seen online that people have been painting cloaks and tabards as exotic animal furs, which I would really like to try out. Getting the texture right is going to be a challenge, but it should be achievable with practice and patience. List wise, it’s looking like it’ll be two lots of 5 Tormentors, a unit of 10 Infractors, the two units of 6 Noise Marines and the Lord Exultant kitted out to join the Infractors. The detachment I am leaning towards is Coterie of the Conceited, as it seems fun and thematic, and offers escalating buffs to the whole army.
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| Now, unrighteous creature, how do you plead!? Where's everybody gone? |
I think I am going to leave it there for this week. Over the coming week, I have multiple games of 40k lined up within the narrative crusade and will probably play Imperial Agents for one and Sisters for the other. Hobby wise, having prepped the next big unit of skeleton warriors, I am aiming to finish the first batch of 8 of them. At this point, I am mostly hoping to clear my desk as much as possible to make way for the Emperor’s Children drop. I may also begin testing out colours for EC on some of the spare Sisters I have sitting around. Until next week, have a great week of your own gaming, hobby and life!
Ben
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