Heralds of Ruin Inquisition Kill Team w/Pig Iron Productions

I've been playing Warhammer 40k Kill Teams lately using the Heralds of Ruin rules.  It's been a lot of fun.  I've mainly just been using the models I have available and painted.  My experience thus far is that this doesn't make for very effective teams.

I'm seriously considering putting together an Inquisition Kill Team.  The Heralds of Ruin people put out specific lists, so the options vary a bit from the Codex choices.  My thought is to go with the following list...

The idea is to have a relatively basic Inquisitor with 20 Warrior Acolytes broken into four 5-man units.  The Warrior Acolytes will be supported by two Medics and three Death Cult Assassins.  My idea was to go Ordo Hereticus and have the Inquisitor "under cover" posing as a group of cultists to infiltrate an existing cult in the underbelly of a hive world.  In that sense, no Inquisitional logos or polished armor is allowed.  Everything needs to be filthy and covered in rags and rebreathers.

I'm thinking about using these models from the Pig Iron Productions Kolony Ferals line...

The guy with the staff thing would be the Inquisitor.  He's obviously the cult leader.  He's amazing.  I've seen this sculpt before and totally love it.  Two of the other guys will get light conversion work...  probably a backpack...  to become Medics.

These guys will be the basic troopers.  I know this picture isn't as great, but they totally fit with the command guys.  I'd need four blocks of these.

Last up are the melee guys.  Three of these would end up as Death Cult Assassins.  Some of the heads look a little rough, but for an extra couple of bucks, I can get ten extra of the head sprue that has the hooded, masked guys.  I prefer those anyways.

All told, it would cost 60 GBP plus shipping to order directly from Pig Iron.  TheWarStore used to stock them and still have an area in their web store, but it's empty.  I'm trying to find a US distributor.  It would almost certainly be cheaper.  60 GBP is a little rich for my blood right before Christmas.  They do accept PayPal.  Maybe if I sell some crap I don't need, I can just PayPal this stuff and get it for "free".

Another Quick Land Raider Update

I did a little more work.  More base coat work.  This thing is going to take forever.  I've always just sort of drybrushed my models before.  The hazard stripes still need to be highlighted, but I'm liking how they're turning out.

I'm not sure what color to do the doors.  I might go with a cream color, or maybe just go crazy and attempt some freehand work.  I'll have to give it some serious thought.

Inquisitorial Land Raider Painting Update

I was motivated this past weekend and did a little additional work on my Inquisitorial Land Raider.

I did a fair amount of the silver base coat as well as did more work on smoothing out the red.  I am more or less finished with the Assault Cannon (just needs highlights on the metal), other than a bit of Squig Orange line highlights.  The plan is to do a 50/50 Squig/Mephiston line followed by pure Squig.  I've done that before for reds and it looks nice.

I put the yellow base coat down on the left set of frag launchers.  I still need to base coat the right side and then add some brighter highlights.  I'm finding that I get bored with large sections of single colors, so I keep moving around a little.

Without further ado, here are a couple of work in progress shots.

Ordo Xenos Inquisitor's Dedicated Transport

My Ordo Xenos Inquisitor, which you may have seen in a recent post, is going to need a pimpin' ride.  I decided to go with a Land Raider Crusader since it has 16 seats and this will let me field a large Inquisitorial Death Star.

I thought it would be nice to give the Land Raider some various xenos trophies.  The Assault Cannon has a little extra Tyranid Armour.  The boarding ramp has been upgraded with an Ork ram.  The Multi-melta must have malfunctioned at some point, because it's been replaced by a jazzed up Tau Fusion Blaster array.  Lastly, the Machine Spirit has been upgraded with an Eldar Spirit Stone array.  You should be able to pick the various upgrades out in the below pictures.

I also started base coating the armour.  I'm going to pain the armour in the vivid Blood Angel style red.  Currently, I've been able to put most of the base coat Khorne Red down.  Mephiston will go on top with a line highlight of Squig Orange.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do for the other areas, but I'm currently thinking of doing a medium grey and then ivory doors.  That way, the transport will match the Inquisitor's color palette.

This is going to take forever, because I want to make this look really nice.  The plan is to make this into my "showcase" army.  My Tau army gets a lot of positive feedback, but it's a very quick and easy paint scheme.  I want this army to really push my skills and patience.

Tyranid Extra Armour

Quick Shot of what will be red

Ork Ramming Speed!!!

Tau Fusion Blaster Array and Eldar Spirit Stones

Inquisitorial Abhuman Henchmen

I decided that I wanted something a little different for my Inquisitor's Henchmen Squad.  I decided that this Inquisitor would go with abhuman henchmen for whatever reason.  I'm starting out with Beastmen and might end up adding some Squats/Ratlings to be shooters.

Here are a couple of quick photos.

The ones with two hand weapons will be Death Cult Assassins and the ones with shields are Crusaders.  The standard bearer guy is a Ministorum Preacher.  I added Ravenwing Shoulderpads that will all be the same Red and Ivory as the Inquisitor's robes.  I happened to have a ton of these shoulderpads laying around, so I decided these Beastmen could be from a "Winged Blade" tribe or something.  I also added a bunch of little pouches and grenades, etc. to make them look a little more grimdark.

Group Shot

Group Shot Showing Shoulderpads

The Lead Crusader

For Color Comparison

The Four Crusaders - The Skull Pad is the Crusaders' Leader