BOYL exclusive Merc and Necromunda Spyrer Matriarch

So I've started a lot of projects lately and obviously, before starting them I decided to start yet another ! Now in my defense, it was also to close another, which was painting all my BOYL exclusives ! Worth taking the time right ?
And the last model on the list was this fantastic space merc captain by none other than Bob Naismith. And it was in my top tier even before painting it! 

Now I knew from the start I didn't want this guy to be a stand alone and I had greater plans for him. He obviously has everything you want a space pirate to be so I thought I needed a model to be along him in a Captain/First mate relation for Stargrave. Then I saw that old Necromunda Spyrer matriarch and thought they were the perfect macth, both looking old, one burly and the other quite skinny, one sharp and the other blunt, they were perfect.

And like often, some great inspirations came to me building on this strong dynamic duo, and there's a trope I've always loved which is the leading mom at the head of a bunch of idiots :

Disney has the Beagleboys and Ma :

The Dalton brothers in Lucky Luke have their Ma as well :

The sky pirates in H.Miyazaki's Castle in the sky have Dola :

Futurama has Mom :

And Cowboy Bebop has Maria Murdock :

So that really was the plan and that immediately put her in the captain position and him as a first mate.

For their background, i'm seeing kind of a group of former unionists gone space ecoterrorists doing bounty hunting and occasional pillage on the side to survive, I reckon they rebelled againts the big corp that was enslaving them and had to flee.
It's with that in mind I painted them a little more on the cyberpunk side with technical gear rather than giving them a uniform look. I tried to use as little metal as possible to reflect that (in hindsight, I could have painted her blade like his in a NMM style)

I have a whole selection of fat idiots to give them as a crew, from all sorts of places and they'll be a treat to paint I reckon ! You can see a selection of some just here :

Now like I said,  not only is this the start of a new band, It's also the end (so far) of a hobby goal of mine : always having the BOYL exclusives painted. I've had the only fully painted collection for a while and while I might not be the only one now, I'm happy enough to have them all done to celebrate the work of a bunch of fantastic people to make a whole community happy !

 Next stop on this blog is gonna be a whole different scale on many levels !
Happy painting to y'all !