The deepest blues are black - Inquisition hunter force

Proper zenithal underlit and desaturated group pic

So here we are, end of yet another project (so far at least). After starting painting one model at a time and then painting two at once, I've upped the game and made it to 3 models at a time !

That's probably due to the project in itself being far more fun than I expected to be...

By more fun I don't mean I didn't expect a group project with cool guys and nice model to be fun, it's just I do know my reluctance and unease with painting plastic models and I have to say these probably were the practice I needed to warm up to the exercise. There are still things about it that don't fit with my painting style but I did learn how to take a few shortcuts and avoid some boring parts while keeping a decent result.

The last 3 models were the big guys:

First one is actually the very last model I built (2 months after building the first 6 and realising I didn't want a unit with an even number of characters) and one I quickly had the vision of when I found the iconic imperial standard.

I would have loved to give him a true nemesis halberd with integrated bolter but in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't as it would have broken the balance.

Kudos to Pestilus for kindly giving me the pieces I needed along a few others !

I could or should have gone overboard with mecha dendrites coming from the robes but I wanted to keep a certain balance with the others. You might have noticed the conversion are a little more sober than what you'd find on the Grimdark scene but that's just how I roll.

Amongst the boxes we shared with the others contestants was the ogryn box and I kind of liked the idea of having a big bloke in the middle, a little dry fit test and I found the perfect head for him and an old Inquisitor scale (54mm) book was the perfect missing bit to help him drive the emperor's word into his opponent's head. Literally.

 The last model is probably the most lazy conversion of the lot since it's basicaly just a sicarian ruststalker with just an aletrnative weapon but I really liked to have a hunter running after heretics and witches with the word of the Emperor, driving them mad.

After getting critically injured, Inquisitor greyfax's will didn't let her rest... 

After getting a flask of holy water implanted into her wound on the head, she knew that to fight the perils Mankind has to face, only those with the determination to face death and come back to tell the tale could be of use to her. 

That's how she gathered all those that had looked death in the eyes and come back to serve the Emperor again. Fighting evil and death is not enough, only victory matters.

pushing it to 11

So here's the group how it started a while in early febuary :

And how it is now.

You can notice Sister Smierc had a little face skin removal in the process and that a strange Servo-cherub has appeared but the group is basically just as I imagined it. 

I had set myself the challenge to make it look grimdark enough but with a alternative touch. I'm guilty as the other guy of using red, black and cream colour scheme associated with checkers and other tropes deriving from John Blanche' style but I wanted to incorporate a colour I like and you don't see that often : blue, associated with something graphical.

I did alter my painting habits to some extent but I kept some elements I feel comfortable just to have some coherence with my other models. As much as I can enjoy looking at some of the most gritty painting styles, it's not something I'm willing to replicate myself.

I still have in the back of my head the idea to add a final guy but as said above, I don't want to end up with an even number of models in the band... (I'd remove the sword of course and tweak a few things)

What happens next is a mystery to me though !