The New Year

With a few games now under my belt and using some models as stand ins i think i have a list i am happy with!
My forge world and Games workshop orders turned up so i was able to finish off the rest of platoon, this included a commissar i had been playing about with for a bit. I liked the idea of including one of these as for a khorne army he represents an agitator pushing his men forward or not letting them retreat. i wanted something a bit different for this and had looked at using allot of different models but my mind  kept going back to the witch hunter from the sisters of battle range. This would mean quite a bit of heavy converting but with the new fine cast being so easy to use that wouldn't be a problem. the main things were to remove all of the inquisition symbols and do a hat and gun swap. The idea of using one of the bloodletter swords had also been playing on my mind so i went about it shortening the sword a bit so it didn't dwarf the model.

so after the converting work was done i went onto the painting. I wanted him to stand out from the rest of the army but still match in with the whole feel of it so kept my pallet the same just moving the colours around on the model a bit.

His under coat was painted in the same way as the heads on the renegades and there is allot less red on the model just the sword and the band on his hat.the face on this model was a bit of a challange to paint as its sort of tucked away behind the large collar of his undercoat and this took me a couple of goes to get right.

Next up would be finishing the rest of the platoon. The new bits were here so i could get to work on the command squad and the remaining 4 men of the blob squad and then the 3 more auto cannons i had added.
The command squad needed to look like the rest but stand out so i painted one of their shoulders a different colour (dark red). This worked well and makes them stand out.

There's a little bit of converting going on in this unit but nothing crazy a head swap on the officer and a new flamer hose on the heavy to make the arms fit. This along with the last few men and 3 more weapons teams finishes the platoon off!

Next up is the company command so that i have a legal army done.....