Connie and Blyde - Adventurers on the run

After getting Kaleb and the chaos androids done, I've kept on ending those half finished paintjobs that have been giving me weird looks for some time...

The 2 adventurers above were first meant to join the crew of Lucas Stern my sensei hero but for some reason they didn't make it into the final list.

They could still be added to the group as you  can notice their colours are the same. I actually left them aside only after I had painted the base colours and skin which makes them really close style wise. The models didn't fit in though for some reason.



Those 2 adventurers are of course some of Colonel Schaeffer last chancers :

Still available HERE

They are some of the very good (imo) releases of the early 2000's and god knows there were not many good ones (still imo) and I find every one of them (but Shaeffer) has its own charm and appeal and could very well be the main character in a good scenario (that makes them really good for Rogue trader games to me). For some reason I grabbed the opportunity to get the amazon and the nerd but the native american, penal trroper and Cossack would all be welcomed in my collection really.

Connie Tyler was born on the 3rd moon of Gynos IV, a planet on which the imperial authority has only been affirmed recently like the Logan System. The Gynos system has been known to host a population whose system is inherently based on equality between genders, ethnies and belief. Lord Verax who has been entitled to "imperialise" the Gynos system has failed to apprehend this very particular mindset. Instead of using it as an advantage thanks to the fact people were mostly good willed and very little keen on violence, he enforced the imperial credo and administrative system with the bluntest of manners. A real pity he did so and a real pity he didn't understand earlier that the Gynos system owed its peaceful position in the galaxy more to the value of its fighters than to the lack of interest of aliens around...

Many of Gynos' finest have been sent to imperial prisons for "reconditioning", their fighting prowess too valuable for a mere execution and their crime far too horrible to deserve death. Connie is one of the girls that were taken. Her adaptability to any situation and her ability to make any weapon or gear found hers is equal to none...

Douglas Blyde (aka, Doogie) has been a very nice man for most his life. His worst sin until he got sent to imperial prison was lying to his mother about who had broken that jar of astromilk. That and being born in an ethny that worshiped the emperor differently, just slightly differently... just slightly differently enough to make Inquisitor Martillo call for a mass deportation and ethnic cleansing on a whole system...

Doogie had been a very good student during all his young years and he came out with an Engineer diploma with no effort, his passion for undesrtanding how things work and how to fix them had always fueled his mind. It didn't take him long to understand how things ran in the prison and how to "fix" this situation..

Connie and Blyde have found a common cause. They promptly escaped from the maximum security stockade to the Underhive  undergrounds. Today, still wanted by the imperium,  they survive as soldiers of fortune. The sabotage and rebellions ignited here and there are often just decoys or ways to say "we live" to the imperium. What some fools with power can rob, some women and men with a brave heart can just take back

So here we are, as you can see, these 2 are not the finest of paintjobs as you can expect of a pair of models painted over a year and a half. If I were to paint them now I'd choose another set of colours as those were good to blend in the Sensei group but less fitting for stand alones like them bu still it works for me and I like to have a couple of modesl tha tare a little less "eye-catching".

While I'm at it I wanted to show you my current painting table. Nothing really sexy really but I've found a way to have a painting range and a photography range both at once. I'll just need to print a fresh backdrop and find something more suitable that this silly cardbox but I like the setting as is, just need to find some proper decoration now.

Oh and I got interviewed by the very kind and excellent Dr Half on his blog (in french but you can translate it). It feels a little weird being interviewed and reading someone else's view on your own hobby but it's fun and it is an honour condidering the people interviewd before me ^^'. 

Merci à toi Dr Half !