The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

The Holy Hand Grenade (launcher)

Every so often the mood strikes me that I should field an Inquisitor in my Daemonhunter army as more than an excuse to bring an assassin into play. I did a bit of research, and figured out my ideal setup - two heavy bolter 'servitors', one plasma cannon 'servitor', two 'sages', one 'familiar', and the Inquisitor himself armed with a Psycannon. It's a wonderfully shooty setup that I think plays to the Inquisitor retinue's strengths - the Sages allow one reroll per turn, so I usually reserve it for the Plasma Cannon guy in the event of an unlucky roll, and they also boost the Inquisitor's BS up a point, so that Psycannon becomes even more dangerous. The familiar is there to basically eat a wound, as I almost never use psychic powers.

In a Grey Knight army, with such nice models, I really am loathe to use those silly-looking servitor models. It just didn't seem to fit my Inquisitor's style - they're supposed to hang around with elite and hardened guys, not fleshy meatbags with gears and guns attached. Add onto that the fact that they're considerably difficult in obtaining, and I quickly found myself considering alternative models I could use to represent the Inquisitor's henchmen.

I decided to go with the plastic devastators kit. It seemed a decent fit - it comes with all sorts of interesting weapons already, and even includes a couple servo skulls that I could use for Inquisitorial purposes. It fit well in a very marine-themed army, anyway. The only downside to this plan was that the 'servitors' that carry the heavy weapons have a 4+ save, while devastators wear power armor, which implies a 3+ save. I thought I might put the Devastator torsos on scout legs to make up for that, but that looked really silly, so I just figured my opponent would have to deal with it. Most of the games I play are pretty relaxed, anyway. The heads are from Catachans - I originally put them there just to have the model assembled, and didn't plan on actually using them... it was just as a replacement, because I don't have any marine heads lying around that I liked. However, I might actually just leave them on there - they make the weapons look a big bigger and more intimidating, and they have a fair bit of hardened character in themselves.

Here are some individual model pictures...

 

And lastly, a whole retinue shot: