Truthfully I never really got around to writing any background stuff for her, so keep watching this space as I may update it in the future!
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Sunday, 20 March 2016
Sister Gertrude of the Iron Maidens
Sister Gertrude rounds off Svetlana's warband and I think was the last miniature I made for 2014 (I think I finished her in November before I got distracted by a wholly new and different sculpting project based on the Japanese manga style). She was built using the ubiquitous Nurgle Lord as a frame and was certainly the most ambitious miniature I sculpted to date.
Truthfully I never really got around to writing any background stuff for her, so keep watching this space as I may update it in the future!
Truthfully I never really got around to writing any background stuff for her, so keep watching this space as I may update it in the future!
Saturday, 19 March 2016
Maxine Kharybdis and Wyrdfisch
Maxine was one of the last miniatures I made in 2014 and she was only narrowly finished before Sister Gertrude (photos soon), and she was largely based on the 2nd Edition Warhammer 40K psykers sculpted by Jes Goodwin. The Wyrdfisch actually went through a lot of redesigns before I was satisfied with it.
Maxine Kharybdis was born in the foetid biomechanical slums of Necromunda where she was destined like countless others to live an utterly unassuming life, until when she entered into her teenage years (a rarity in itself upon a hiveworld) and her latent psychic powers began to develop at a rapid pace. Many of her later years of adolescence saw her ruthlessly hunted and shunned by many of the hive dwelling communities, leading her to develop a very tough exterior. Lost and alone in the bowels of the hive city, her psychic keening was heard by all manner of beasts, including the thoroughly bizarre creature she ended up dubbing as Wyrdfische. This grotesque 'pet' became something of a guard dog, protecting Maxine from a variety of threats (both human and not). When she entered her early adulthood, she began to hire out her psychic services in the underhive, but it was later that her path crossed with Svetlana and Zonya and occasionally aided their hunts for their more elusive targets. When Svetlana was called back to duty, Maxine and her Wyrdfisch were also invited.
Maxine Kharybdis was born in the foetid biomechanical slums of Necromunda where she was destined like countless others to live an utterly unassuming life, until when she entered into her teenage years (a rarity in itself upon a hiveworld) and her latent psychic powers began to develop at a rapid pace. Many of her later years of adolescence saw her ruthlessly hunted and shunned by many of the hive dwelling communities, leading her to develop a very tough exterior. Lost and alone in the bowels of the hive city, her psychic keening was heard by all manner of beasts, including the thoroughly bizarre creature she ended up dubbing as Wyrdfische. This grotesque 'pet' became something of a guard dog, protecting Maxine from a variety of threats (both human and not). When she entered her early adulthood, she began to hire out her psychic services in the underhive, but it was later that her path crossed with Svetlana and Zonya and occasionally aided their hunts for their more elusive targets. When Svetlana was called back to duty, Maxine and her Wyrdfisch were also invited.
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Monday, 14 March 2016
Ganger Zonya 'Redd' Kalashnikov
Truthfully, this version of Zonya looks nothing like her 54mm counterpart (who very much looks like the John Blanche painting she was based on), but at that time in 2014, I was still a little unsure about my abilities to sculpt in 28mm, so I approached her cautiously. I may end up remaking her entirely someday now I am a little more confident.
Zonya 'Redd' Kalashnikov was one of the downtrodden denizen-scum of Necromunda when she first crossed paths with Svetlana. Originally she ran with the notorious spook-cartel gang Pandemonium Riot before striking it out alone as a gun for hire. Svetlana was hiding incognito on Necromunda following the failed Lighthouse Stratagem when Zonya found her eking out a meagre existence as though punishing herself in an act of atonement. Zonya and her newfound comrade in arms began a joint venture as huntresses for hire, all the while growing closer together as an amorous couple. When Sister Rebekah and Interrogator Klondike had final tracked down the whereabouts of Inquisitrix Odesskr and implored her to return to her duty, Zonya followed her beloved to the stars without a single thought.
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Interrogator Konstantin Klondike
This is actually the second variation of Klondike I made in 2014 as I was never truly happy with the original and he looks much like his 54mm counterpart now. He was designed to look like the tarot card The Hanged Man, but inverted.
Konstantin Klondike was born in the slums of a nameless world upon the far fringes of Imperial space, whose extremes of climate resulted in its ghetto-cities to be islands surrounded by a desert of snow in the summer and a desert of sand in the winter: a haven for those void treading merchants of ill repute. As a child, he’d been privy to that most rare of human experiences; a performance by the enigmatic caste of the eldar – the Harlequins. Fate had changed him that day, awe and obsession had inspired, some would say driven, him as a young man into the arms of his worlds’ black market cartels. Klondike became a name synonymous on his planet with the race he so beloved, collecting artifacts and trinkets of the eldar from traders who’d harvested them from the surface of a hundred alien worlds. When the Inquisition came to his world, Klondike was one of the first to be captured in their purges and incarcerated in the dungeons of the Ordo Xenos, his crime and sentence already decided: death as a xenophile and trafficking in forbidden materials. Upon the morning of his execution, the Inquisition found his cell empty, unbeknownst to them, he had already been recruited by another member of their own institution.
Konstantin Klondike was born in the slums of a nameless world upon the far fringes of Imperial space, whose extremes of climate resulted in its ghetto-cities to be islands surrounded by a desert of snow in the summer and a desert of sand in the winter: a haven for those void treading merchants of ill repute. As a child, he’d been privy to that most rare of human experiences; a performance by the enigmatic caste of the eldar – the Harlequins. Fate had changed him that day, awe and obsession had inspired, some would say driven, him as a young man into the arms of his worlds’ black market cartels. Klondike became a name synonymous on his planet with the race he so beloved, collecting artifacts and trinkets of the eldar from traders who’d harvested them from the surface of a hundred alien worlds. When the Inquisition came to his world, Klondike was one of the first to be captured in their purges and incarcerated in the dungeons of the Ordo Xenos, his crime and sentence already decided: death as a xenophile and trafficking in forbidden materials. Upon the morning of his execution, the Inquisition found his cell empty, unbeknownst to them, he had already been recruited by another member of their own institution.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
Order Diagolous Sister Rebekah
Sister Rebekah was the second character I built for my Inquisition warband in 2014 and is almost an exact duplicate of Svetlana's 54mm morally ambiguous sidekick on a smaller scale. Looking at her now, I would be very tempted to resculpt parts of her (such as her hair and fur collar), but I couldn't do so without taking her apart. One day I may remake her entirely.
Sister Rebekah is something of a rebel, her age giving way to cynicism and a propensity to blaspheme, means that she is not well thought off within the convents of the sisterhood. Because of this she has led the nomadic existence of a wandering pilgrim, furthering her studies in arcane and extinct languages (both human and xenos). Exactly when she crossed paths with Inquisitrix Odesskr is unclear, but the two have been virtually inseparable since. Indeed, it was Sister Rebekah that tracked the Inquisitrix down after she fled into hiding following the failed Lighthouse Stratagem.
Sister Rebekah is something of a rebel, her age giving way to cynicism and a propensity to blaspheme, means that she is not well thought off within the convents of the sisterhood. Because of this she has led the nomadic existence of a wandering pilgrim, furthering her studies in arcane and extinct languages (both human and xenos). Exactly when she crossed paths with Inquisitrix Odesskr is unclear, but the two have been virtually inseparable since. Indeed, it was Sister Rebekah that tracked the Inquisitrix down after she fled into hiding following the failed Lighthouse Stratagem.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Inquisitrix Svetlana Odesskr
Inquisitrix Svetlana Odesskr is my long suffering main PC from my time playing Inquisitor at 54mm scale (one day I will dig her and her warband out for photos). Once I finished off my Rogue Trader warband, I wanted to move onto something more challenging to build and with the general interest in Inquisitor moving away from 54mm to 28mm scales, I decided to build Svetlana and her warband in 2014 so I could continue her story. Some of you good with anagrams may notice her name is remixed from the Realm Of Chaos subtitle; Slave to Darkness.
I did plan to write out the whole backstory for her here, but it got really convoluted and confusing.....and long (for a brief blurb). She is a former Cipher of the Administratum whose life has been the scene of physical and psychological torture. She remains cold, calculating and a little bit twisted. Armed with a macuahuitl that was a holy relic for the people of Michhuàquê, she entered into a profane pact with the monochrome spirit of vengeance Xipe Totec and corrupted that once sacred blade.
One day I will actually include her full story on here because it's quite harrowing and involves torture, regression, fractured psyches, delving in occultism, human sacrifice and much much more. This iteration of Svetlana (as opposed to her 54mm counterpart) is actually her post-Lighthouse chapter (which is a separate story entirely).
I did plan to write out the whole backstory for her here, but it got really convoluted and confusing.....and long (for a brief blurb). She is a former Cipher of the Administratum whose life has been the scene of physical and psychological torture. She remains cold, calculating and a little bit twisted. Armed with a macuahuitl that was a holy relic for the people of Michhuàquê, she entered into a profane pact with the monochrome spirit of vengeance Xipe Totec and corrupted that once sacred blade.
One day I will actually include her full story on here because it's quite harrowing and involves torture, regression, fractured psyches, delving in occultism, human sacrifice and much much more. This iteration of Svetlana (as opposed to her 54mm counterpart) is actually her post-Lighthouse chapter (which is a separate story entirely).
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Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Rogue Trader - The Cabin Boy
This little guy was made as an afterthought really in 2013, something of a familiar for Shipmaster Everett made from spare parts I found in my box. He's a basic kitbash carrying the Shipmaster's sextant and hat.
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