Confrontation Blood Angel

 

So you know sometimes some great things happen. You might have noticed I'm a huge confrontation fan, you know, confrontation, Necromunda's ancestor from 1991 ? Well you can read a lot about it if you follow the confrontation tag HERE and amongst the many things that have had a huge impact on my hobby tastes, Les Edwards's incredible artwork is definitely up there !

Just look at this :

Picture taken from the Artist's site HERE

Now I've wanted to recreate that guy for ages but I unfortunately lack the sculpting skills to sculpt the shoulder pad despite several tries and trying to get help. Good news being that 5 years ater my initial attempt, Drew Williams did sculpt a version of him for us all to paint and throw scavvies at !

Since I've been meaning to paint him for some time it made sense to stick as closely as possible to the original but I've had to makes some minor changes to make it work. The arm is an unified gold instead of the greenish forearm displayed in the drawing, I never fully understood that bit, I also blocked a cable and backpack ribs in black to break the monotony but all in all I think it's close enough !
I did fill the left shoulder too since we can't know what's on it anyways, thought a BA symbol would break the full red aspect.

Oh and I did try to write "Necromunda" on the scroll but there isn't much space in there !

The model scales extremely well with RTB01's (I guess that's intentional) and the styles are extremely similar (I could have used some sharp edges on those legs but that's how they came to begin with !).

Now the main thing will be to find the right occasion and mean to use him in a game I guess ( damn I want to have a good gaming WE with friends !)

For now, I'll just hae to play pretend confrontation I guess !

Oh and once again, just look how the Necromunda team is nice with us ;)

 I just love these little nuggets of old lore into the new version.

 

If you haven't seen it yet, check out my man Grove's version HERE, he gets credits for having the first painted and it motivated greatly !