The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Final touches

Spent a little more time cleaning the model up, and I gave him a proper base. I think he's about done, or at least as done as I'm going to paint him.

 

I did the best I could to fix the robes a bit. They're not perfect, but the new washes help a great deal in evening things out.

Colorful character

It probably has to do with the fact that I went to Golden Demon and saw all the magnificently painted miniatures, but I've been feeling the urge to pick up a brush lately and paint some stuff, and this guy was the first thing I spotted on my desk. I figured I'd give it a go, though I didn't have very high hopes for the model as I am not very practiced in painting anything but an ork.

 

He's still a work in progress, as you may be able to guess by the messy base and unfinished rock. That said, I'm pretty happy with how he's looking so far - aside from the fact that I haven't painted in eyes, he's got one of the best faces I've managed to paint on a human mini before. That may not say a lot, but I am still pleased. I tried using some ink washes on the cape - it came out a bit dirtier looking than I was shooting for, but it's passable. I was even feeling a little adventurous, so I gave NMM a try on the details that I wanted to be gold. Obviously, it's not quite right - I don't think I have the colors down properly to pull NMM off, and the shine on the bits I tried it on looks a little weird.

All told, there's some more work to be done to him, but for a gaming standard, I think he's up to par.

Stop! Hammertime!

 

I'll probably add a purity seal or two to the hammer, as I don't see much room for improvement on it without actually remaking the head, which I don't feel interested in doing right now. I've pinned the hand on for the moment, but it's not attached so I can easily paint everything, which I think I'm going to do fairly soon to try out this new gray primer I have.

Anything else I should add to this, aside from a few finishing details? At the moment, I think this model can pretty much represent every piece of potential wargear in the daemonhunters armory. I've gotta make his base still.

Testing the armory

I went for Coteaz's body, as the badassness of his armor finally won me over. I dremeled out his head, and used Marneus Calgar's head instead - I was originally considering using one of the medieval-style marine helmeted heads, but I thought that might generate a bit of confusion when he was near Grey Knights, and felt it best to give him a face with some personality. The gun is actually great - I didn't have to do any real converting to it, and it fit like a glove. It was made for some Dark Angels model, and it's a combiweapon of bolter and plasma gun. However, I figure that it's ambiguous and unique-looking enough that I can realistically pass it off as whatever ranged weapon I want - namely, a Psycannon, which I like to give my inquisitor lord for his shooty retinue.

 

I have a nice collection of possible weapons to use on him that I'm deciding between...

As he's an inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, a hammer would make the most sense, but it'd be the stock hammer that came with Cortez and I don't know how I feel about that. The hammer's advantages, however, is that I would be able to use it to represent a few separate weapons - a normal CCW, a Daemonhammer, or a Thunder Hammer, for example, depending on what I decided upon that game for WYSIWYG rules. I could always just give him a different gun - say, plasma - in that hand, I guess.