'The special Blogspot project'

Evening everybody,

as some of you may remember I mentioned a special Blogspot only project and I finally have the time to reveal what I have planned. I'm building a mini-500 points Witch Hunter force centrered around GW's limited edition Inquisitor Gideon Lorr miniature. I have no intention to ever play with these guys, it is mostly just intended to give me a chance to combine some cool conversions and techniques I've been wanting to try out for a while now.


So who is Gideon Lorr?

Lorr is a With Hunter Inquisitor that has been active in the areas surrounding the space lines between Chiros and Macharia. However, he is hardly what one would call a sterotypical Inquisitor. On the one hand he can be considered a puritan, abhoring the Witch to the extreme., but he is certain not a fanatical preacher or zealot. Additionally he has made it a habit to operate alone, using his Inquisitorial mandate to recruite men and materials where needed, rather than relying on the sluggish organization of the Ordos.

Lorr's deep-rooted hatred and persecution of all psychers originates from illfated journey to the Jabin system. The merchantship he was travelling on became stuck in the empyrean and its navigator's soul, mind and body were eventually ravaged by a thousand daemons. Rushing to the bridge Lorr managed to put a plasma bolt through the lost navigator's head second before he would have fully collapsed.

Ever since this incident Gideon Lorr has showed an umcomprimising intolerance for all who display psychic powers, even those that are deemed sanctioned by the Inquisition. To date he has executed over a hundred Astropaths, several of them rumored to have been members of the, normally untouchable Navis Noblitae. Though he has not fully damned all those who have psychic powers, he is certainly not far removed from turning radical (UK WD 304).


What will be in the army?

- An Inquisitor Lord with equipment and retinue to represent Lorr's original rules in WD 304.
- Naturally this means three shotgun-wielding veterans for his retinue, as well as some other cool minis.
- A counts-as-Inquisitor (Elites version) mini to represent a leader from one of the units he has commandered, more on this in a future post.
- Three groups of count-as-Stormtroopers, including my, soon to be updated Afriel Strain troopers:

When will we get some more pics?

Very soon, finishing up a test mini today and I hope to update my Afriels coming week. Everything else in the force is new and half-build, so tons of pics and painted minis coming very soon!

Fine then, perhaps a few, tiny sneak peeks are in order. More on all of these very soon!

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Painting a mini for a challenge

Well I've temporary turned away from my other major projects due to time contraints. The new period of my research master is hitting me quite hard, got to love to pressure and tons of deadlines.

I do have a lil' something new to show though, a mini for a painting challenge over at Astronomican forums. Following Captain Kellen's example, Ive started of the second round of the "Rumble or Stumble"-initiative. Which pretty much comes down to about 10-ish forum members competing in a 2-3 week taking painting challenge. For this we all select a 40K HQ or leader-associated mini, paint it to our best ability and show some of the methods we use to get out final results. Simple, fun and quite informative at the same time, what more can we ask for. For those wanting to have a peek, check out this link! And yes, the wackiness including my daemonic mask, are all just part of the fun.

I've finally settle on my mini, a veteran serving in an Inquisitor's retinue:

For those wondering what in the name of the Emperor he is made of, well the body is one of the new System Troopers from Pig Iron (check them out, they have excellent sets of heads and great service!0 and the helmet is a spare Elysian rebreather I happened to come across on Ebay months ago.

Though certainly not a traditional design I do kind of feel he has an Adeptus Arbites feel about him. Not really in the riot police sense, but there is a certain police-like vibe to him. Not the best picture in the world, but this is where he stands as of now:

A quick overview of how each segment was done, even if not really visible in the pic.
Undersuit
- chaos black undercoat followed by a basecoat of fortress grey
- a very thin wash of brown ink was then applied, just thin enough to bring our the folds, nothing more
- 5-6 subsequent highlight/blend layers followed of fortres grey / skull white, each layer containing a tad more skull white

Leathers:
- started from a chaos black undercoat, followed by a scorched brown basecoat
- 3-4 highlight layers of scorched brown / graveyard earth were added
- this can look rather abrupt, though after applying a later wash of ink things will come together quite nicely
- before this wash I did apply some extreme highlight (most on the sharp edged) of bleached bone though