Hey everyone, following the pilgrims for my first Trench Pilgrims force, I wanted to get the "human" elements done before moving on to the more exotic and impressive units, to set the scale.
I've had a pretty good idea of what I wanted for these and had the bits sorted for a while so it was just a matter of sourcing the missing elements and more importantly, the time to assemble and paint them.
Like for the pilgrims, I haven't looked too deep into the rules and weapon options so I've tried to give the nuns a bit of everything since I tend to go with the rule of cool over super meta lists, I do want to play stuff that's WYSIWYG enough for my opponents though.
I based the models on repentia sisters of battle which, although they're far less sexy than the frenetic pin-ups of the original art, are pretty well suited for the purpose and I find their clothing to look like those old underwear or bathing suits so it sort of makes sense in a 1910's setting (to me). I've basically removed any technological bit to replace them with much more primitive weapons and I'm fairly hapy with them !
Now the penal troope... human bom.... Ecclesiastic Prisoners were models I was eager to work on, now although there's a limit of 4 in a band, I've only converted 2 because I'm not a huge fan of sacrificing units in games (whatever the game, I'm too sentimental it seems). I do want to have every entry available though and let''s face it, modelling maniacs with explosives is great fun !
The models have bodies from ancient age irish, arms from flagellant kits or Stargrave sprues and all the explosives I could find in the bits box really
Next entries will be the anti-tank communicants which have been the start of it all and are stunning models, I'm going to give them much love but so far here's a selection of the band members so far, shaping up in a very pleasing way !
Happy painting to you all and keep your eyes open for the upcoming kickstarter launching o nthe 29th of October IIRC.
The prisoners ars exactly how I imagined them. Nuns aren't. And that's what's cool with this game and all the kitbashing it implies. Good luck with the next ones.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on these. They most definitely have that grimdark vibe, yet they don't really look exactly as WH40K troops, and there's the value in your work. Really cool!
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