Cripsin's Army Overhaul Projects.

Ok so brown dettol works perfectly, models stripping down as I type. Thanks once again.

I am intending to push ahead with the begininings of my inquisitorial force in the next few days, but have still not decided upon a list to use for it. My three choices are as follows:

1: GK codex. This is what I SHOULD use, and would create the least problems with other gamers, it would also however be fairly boring and not very competative as I have no intention of using either GK's or transports....

2: Demons. Massive bonus of irony, fairly competative, could make for some interesting conversions, army would consist of horrors (henchmen with rapid fire weapons, likely converted from lasguns or bolters), plaguebearers for objective claiming, (augmented henchmen, possibly bionics), Chariots of tzeentch (no idea as of yet).

3: Dark Eldar. Again Irony bonus, and this is looking like my favourite, fairly competative (an all infantry webway portal list), saves and stats similar to humans, albeit well-trained ones (perfect really), power through pain represented similar to WH faith rules, warriors (henchmen), Grotesques (advanced combat servitors), I'm thinking reavers (small imperial jetbikes), incubi (inquisitors personel guard), harli's (death cult assassination team), and talos/chronos, (similar to a penitent engine or GK dreadknight). They also have some anti-psyker rules, and poisened weps fit well with ordo xenos.

I'll post models in a couple of days when I get round to it. Alas dissertation and bar work takes up most of my free time.

Any thoughts?

I am by no means intending to convert guardsmen into DE (pretty sure I'll go with this list now), and to be honest until the bits I've ordered arrive I'm not entirely sure myself.

I'm aiming to achieve a decadent guardsmen kind of look by kitbashing cadian and empire mini's together, I'm thinking of using cadian bodies (makes sense for kabalite armour's 5+ save), with feathery empire heads, and puffy sleeved arms. Esentially guardsmen drawn into the service of an inquisitor and given extra training (to represent the improved stats). And the best equipment available, (weaponry and the more affluent look I aim to achieve)The main reason I'm thinking DE is that the phsyical stats (S and T) remain the same as humans, so there woun't be any problems there.

I'm knocking together some tests now with the pieces I have but am unsure what to do about weapons atm. My two WIP's are either bolters, (splinter rifles are statistically bad hellfire round bolters from the SM codex), or heavily modified lasguns 9the one i'm working with is a lasgun, avenger shuriken catapult hybrid atm), I'll try and post pics later but alas they will be taken by my HTC....

The other issue I will have is none kabalite warrior models. I'll steer clear of anything too impossible... I'm currently thinking of representing heamonculi as indentured techpriests. Fluff wise this works quite well I feel and allows me to swap the rationale of genetic tom-foolery (for wrack and grotesques and the like) for mechanical augmentation.

Harlequins will potentially be (fluff wise) a squad of death-cult assassins, serving under my Inq. Not sure on models as of yet. I'll think of a cadian way to do it lol. No point letting them go to waste.

I'm also working on some guard-ridden Imperial jetbikes for reavers, and guardsmen jet-pack equipped scourges. progress on the bikes is slow but steady....

I was thinking of including a chronos, and fluff wise I see this functioning similarly to a penitent engine, with the conversion perhaps based upon either this, perhaps a sentinel, or the new GK knight model.

Vehicles will be avoided, while I think I can justify small scale implementation of anti-grav tech (i.e. reavers), I'm not so keen to attempt to justify a 'raider' mounted force.

My only real problem is how to justify the Web-way portal that the army will tactically rely upon.... An advanced inquisition teleport homer? Any ideas?

EDIT; Turns out I had more modelling ideas than I thought lol. Apologies for the essay.

To be honest with you guys the stripping is more of a symbolic thing than for practicality, The level of detail on cadians is not really such that they need to be stripped to be re-painted, I just wanted to do it in order to have a 'clean start'. Also, I find when converting that if i use a mixture of clean and painted parts that it throws off my image of what the model should look like. I don't think I explained myself too well here but hopefully you get the picture.

My force will be loyalist, the rules change is simply to make fielding the army a bit more charecterfull and hopefully (with the webway list) more enjoyable and challenging to play.

Thanks for the suggestions peeps, as I said earlier, I will attempt to get some (albeit bad) pics of my WIPS up later on. MUST DO DISSERTATION....

Edit: WIP's;

A guardsman I knocked up in the astral Claws Colour scheme:




an example of my old colour scheme:




And on a command Squad model (company banner):


A marine squad I converted and painted on impulse a few days ago, I know I said I was going to do astral claws but what can I say.... I get easily distracted....
Sergeant:






Random Squad member:


Whole Squad:


And now some rough conversions for my Inquisition army, first up a weapon conversion for a henchman:




A guardsman with bolter:




Weapon Servitors:




Lantern Man?!?


And two terrible pictures (allready painted black which has worsened the quality), 2 Ideas for Imperial Guard Jet-packs, 1 sensible, 1 a tad ostentatious...





Any thought's comments or suggestions welcome peeps, especially on the inq conversions. And sorry for the terrible quality photo's, taken from my phone.

Ok, so a couple of WIP's here for you.

My 3 (so far) Henchman, (counts as kabalite warriors)






And My counts as scourge with shardcarbine.







The painting on all four models is still very much a work in progress, it's merely progressed to the stage where you can see the basic scheme, but what do you think of the conversions? On the right track? Any comments and criticism welcome.

Do you guys see any problems with me represening splinter rifles with bolters? As I have mentioned before, rifle stats are effectively the same as bad hellfire round bolters, so I Can't see this being too much of an issue, but just to make sure (before I order a load of bolters in fact lol).

Conversion Ideas in progress atm:

Scourges: As seen above, not sure on heat lances yet, (or blasters for that matter), was going to base them on melta's, may extend the barrel for lances and shorten it for blasters maybe.

Warriors: As seen above, what do you think of using the HB weapon servitors from earlier as splinter cannons? Or should I convert a new wep for them? Maybe modify the bolters but keep the model?

Wracks: Suggestions welcome. 2 Combat weapons won't be a problem, but how do I represent the increased toughness? I was thinking bionics, but can't easily think of a way of converting this in plastic, ideas?

Trueborn: Same as warriors but more ornate, and I will be using the weapons I converted for the scourges (carbines).

Incubi: I'm considering using greatswords as a base for these guys, but am not sure the armour even here is heavy enough to be considered a 3+... Maybe give them halberds (or another polearm) and shields on cadian bodies and armoured helmets? Shields to represent the extra armour?

Jetbikes: I will manage this, it just requires more time than I currently have lol. I have 6 partly desecrated SM bikes waiting to go when I get the time.

Heamonculus: As I'm thinking of using bionics and servitors to represent the 'circus of flesh' models I want to convert a tech priest to serve here, just need to decide on weapons loadout before going ahead. Currently thinking of agoniser (plus webway portal).

Will keep you posted.