Less than a week to go...

...until Chicago Games Day.

My wife has been incredibly generous. I'm allowed to go to the show, even though I was gone Friday and Saturday this weekend at Historicon (for work, lots of photographs taken). She certainly is an incredibly patient woman. Thank you Julie!

So, on to some of the finished pieces.

Here's Pater Sin. The nemesis of Colonel Colm Corbec, torturing him in Honour Guard, and being responsible for his murder in Sabbat Martyr.

In the descriptions of Pater Sin he has some pretty elaborate tattoos (including a tatt of the Emporer on his left chest). In miniature form it can be very tough to make this sort of thing look good, so I opted for some more vicious looking tribal tatts.

So, Pater Sin will join his mutant psychic choir for my 40K squad entry.

And then there's my entry for the Large Scale Model category, Cherubael! I'm very happy with how the skin worked out on this guy. Dheneb Stone is fast becoming one of my favorite colors.

And a "thank you" to Bob for giving me the Chaos star bit I used on the base. It has worked out very well, adding - I think - to Cherubael's dynamic posing.

More pics to follow later in the week.

Cheers

Dave

Pater Sin and his brood of Psykers

As most may know, I like to take little snippets of background text (from Codexes or novels) and turn the characters therein into units for my armies. Sometimes it is a faithful rendering, sometimes it includes a fair amount of reinterpretation. I'll let you decide which way I went for this modeling project.

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So as you can see from the picture above, I'm about half way through the construction of my Psyker Battle Squad, led by Pater Sin. Originally I thought the psykers Pater Sin carried with him in Sabbat Martyr were children. When I re-read their description it seemed more like they were mewling runts, somewhat mutated by the powers of the Warp their psychic talents have attracted. Because of this description I've gone with a slighty more 1950's inspired look to these spawn of the Ruinous Powers.

This guy is the first (and only) one finished. Many of the others just need their ears added, and a few need to have their robes finished off and hands sculpted. Lots of fun to be had. The most work needs to be done on Pater Sin himself. I still have to sculpt the second psyker he will be holding in his left arm.

Cheers

Dave