Inquisitor Seldon's acolytes

[judge-minos]

I love how you painted him, great job as usual.

Just a question, do his arm look a little bit short for his size or it is just me ??

[Kaled]

Two things probably contribute to that impression - firstly, it's hard to see in that photo but his arms are bent, and secondly, the crotch of his flight suit is pretty low down.

Both the pilot and the guy in the hat are now painted - pics to follow, possibly this evening.

[Stormgrad]

damn you dave, i now know i have to wait till tomorrow to see more of your fantastic work because your too lazy to post your pictures now, shame on you otherwise i really love with what you have done mostly taking figures from a very well known and well loved IP and making it so that people had to look twice before recognizing them for what they are

[Kaled]

Evening all,

I'm still considering redoing the pilot's visor, but since I've finished the guy in the hat I figured I'd post pics of them both.  First up is the Valkyrie pilot, Markus 'Broom' Korenek - he's much as you saw him before but with his shoulder pads and helmet now painted (looks like I've got a bit of tidying to do with the edge of one of those decals).

Next is Nathanial Mitchum.  After someone remarked earlier about him looking like a 40k private eye I decided to go with a 1940s film-noir inspired monochrome colour scheme.  I'm thinking he was an private investigator before being called to serve the church as a witch-finder and from there coming into the employ of Inquisitor Seldon.

To say these were bought and put together quickly and with little thought compared to some of my other models I'm rather proud of how they've turned out.  Hope you guys like them...

- Dave

[Shannow]

I am LOVING the pinstripes, really good subdued tones on him, fantastic. And the pilot looks great also, I still really like the visor as is tbh.

R

[SpanielBear]

I'm glad the Gumshoe Inquisitor was inspiring  .
The Pinstripes are indeed- as Shannow says- absoluttely fantastic. But then so is all the painting; these models have come out really well, lot's of understated character. I really like them. They'll be fun to play, I'm betting.

[kierkegaard]

Mitchum looks fantastic. Those pinstripes are phenomenally well done. I also like the little add-ons (the skull belt buckle, chest eagle, purity seal.)

I meant to ask you - how did you do the blue-grey on the pilot?

[axiom]

Great looking figures! The Inquisitor is my favourite - it really seems to hang together naturally. Lovely painting too. I've been very inspired by these - so much so that I've gone and bought a couple of Deagostini Star Wars figures for myself!

[Kaled]

I meant to ask you - how did you do the blue-grey on the pilot?

A mix of black, Fortress Grey and Ultramarine Blue (I think).

I bought a couple more of these figures - Grand Moff Tarkin mostly because I wanted his head, but also it should be easy to 40k-ify his uniform to make some sort of Imperial Officer, and Dengar because it seemed an easy way of building a character in carapace armour.  No plans as yet for what to do with them though...

[Molotov]

The Private Eye looks really good, though I wish you'd shortened his hat somewhat. I googled Dengar, and he looks as though he'll make an interesting model.

[Stormgrad]

just to echo everyones previous comments of WOW they look impressive, if you where to say time from start to finish with these models what would you think it was at?

[Kaled]

if you where to say time from start to finish with these models what would you think it was at?

Well, the conversion work for these was pretty simple - maybe just a couple of hours for each one.  Then maybe 6-8 hours to paint each one?  No idea how accurate those figures are as I wasn't really keeping track of time but they're probably in the right ballpark...

[0604854]

Really good comversions I particularly like the private eye, very well done and painted, what are the rules for these guys....

[MarcoSkoll]

Kaled tends not to post the rules for his models. He prefers that other players don't know his model's strengths or weaknesses before the game has even started.

[Kaled]

Really good comversions I particularly like the private eye, very well done and painted, what are the rules for these guys....

Thanks.  No idea about their rules, I haven't written them yet - and as Marco says, even when I do I'm unlikely to post them for a couple of reasons.

Firstly because there's no need for my opponent to see the stats of my characters before he needs to know them  So if you want to know if my Tech-Priest is susceptible to psychic assault (i.e. has a low Wp), try casting a psychic power and you'll find out.  Or if you want to know whether the guy with a fancy sword is actually a swordmaster or is just bluffing, well why not engage him in combat and you'll soon see.

And secondly, unless I want feedback on some new rule or suchlike, then I'm normally pretty confident that I can have a good guess at suitable stats by comparing the new character to existing ones that I'm happy with so there's little to gain by posting them.

However, if you haven't played before then you can get loads of good feedback by posting them on here, but don't expect anything like a consensus to be reached.  And a lot of the time it's not necessary anyway - if you're going to play at a Conclave event (and you'd be more than welcome) then you probably want to make sure that your characters are in the same ballpark as other people's, but if you're playing in your own gaming group then you only need make sure that they're similar to the characters your friends use.  (Although, in general most people on here would tell you that using lower stats than the sample profiles in the rulebook is always a good idea as it makes the game more fun.)