My 54mm Inquisitor Collection - All For Sale

**EDIT: Everything here has been sold! That is a new PVP record. Should anything fall through for any reason I'll reopen the sale. Otherwise, enjoy the pretty pictures!**

Hi folks, today I am putting up pictures of what was a big chunk of my gaming life but has since rather withered on the vine. Inquisitor when it came out was a revalation to me and the large scale 54mm miniatures were a lot of fun to paint. Sadly, I think I am done with it. These days I'm more likely to go 28mm scale and adapt the rules. So I am selling everything, priced more than fairly.

You'll notice some of them are a tad battered, some in distinct state of disrepair. There's a story to that. I took them into the Oxford shop one day (where I worked) because we were doing a specialist games weekend and I said I'd show them off. One of the lads, excited, asked if he could pick one up for a closer look. "Sure!" said I. Bless him, when he got it to eye level it slipped and smashed down right into the gang. I don't think anything survived unscathed. I had to go and have a quiet moment to myself as the kid looked so sick with shame and fear that I think he would have committed seppuku with a craft knife if I had handed him one. I had a moment, forgave him and then figured out some new conversions and poses with the most broken figures. Not all are finished. Those are priced accordingly. So, without further ado: How this works. There is a price under every model in the captions. Everything sold as seen. First come (by email time stamp) first served. Note that under the Royal Mail's pricing policy all small parcels cost about the same so there is a flat £3 p&p in the UK no matter how many you buy. Contact me with the "contact us" bar above.

There is also the option to just buy everything. This will be £300 saving £37 on buying individually. I'll adjust those numbers if things sell.

I want 'em gone to good homes folks. Adopt an inquisitor today:

#001 Space Marine - £20

#002 Converted Pilot - £18

#003 Converted Inquisitor - £18

#004 Veteran - £18

#005 Converted Priest - £18

#006 Reposed Redemptionist - £18

#007 Converted Assassin - £18

#008 The Biggie: Converted Chaos Space Marine, lots of work in this - £40

#009 Converted, unpainted Inquisitor - £15

#010 Half Painted Tech-Priest - £15

#011 Converted Sniper, rifle was destroyed in The Incident - £12

#012 Unpainted Archoflagellant - £12

#013 Unpainted Chaos Magus conversion - £15

#014 Reconverted, unpainted Priest - £15

#015 Cyber Mastiff - £8

#016 Archao-flagellant 1 - £12

#017 Archaoflagellent 2 - £12

#018 Witch Hunter Tyrus - £12

#019 Eisenhorn bits - £8

#020 Sister assassins with - for some reason - extra legs - £18

#021 BITZ! - £15

Paint a Ninja (how to paint black!)

Greetings all, today I've got something a little different to my normal work. This is a Pegaso models 54mm ninja (54mm is roughly double the normal height of my normal 28mm models). This was a pressie from Charlie of the Beard Bunker and represented a pallete cleansing afternoon of painting in the middle of other projects.

He has formed a nice study of how I paint areas of adjacent black as a ninja is nothing but adjacent black tones! There is always a problem with capturing these subtle differences in tone on camera but you can clearly see each element of clothing. That would not be the case with using one colour. On this model there are an absolute ton of different colours used, the next image shows where:

Each of those colours were mixed with a little black for the basecoat. A Badab Black wash was then used to darken all of the shades and to provide the deep shading. Using one colour for the shades also helps to unify the shades across the model. You'll also note that I've made extensive use of foundation colours. This is deliberate as the less saturated colours give a more natural feel to the cloth. The exception is the saya (sheath) of the ninjato (sword) and the silk bindings on the hilt. These have been painted with what is now called a layer paint. Fully saturated and making a contrast between the hard saya and the soft cloth. Once the shading wash had dried I went in and highlighted the raised area with the original colour. On a 28mm miniature I would have used a second highlight with a little bone added for more kick. This is not needed on a 54mm as the light does a lot of the work for you. Much of the extreme highlighting you see on 28mm miniatures is there to simulate the light's effect.

One of the things I love about Pegaso are their posing and casting. Absolutely brilliant. He came with that scenic base too.

I've been painting a fair amount of oriental models lately and have settled on an oriental skin tone that I am happy with. It starts with a 3:2 mix of Tallarn Flesh and Vallejo Bronze Fleshtone. My usual shading of Ogryn Flesh is followed up with the original mixture as highlighting and then further highlights of the mix with increasing amounts of bone. The eyes were painted a mix of bone and white as pure white looks unrealistic on a larger scale miniature. Rather than just dotting in a pupil I first painted a larger brown iris and put the pupil in the centre. Seriously, don't try this on 28mm minis, your own eyes will bleed.

This shot shows how the adjacent blacks work, take a look at the sandle straps. You can clearly see them but they don't stand out. Now, while the base was nice I felt it needed a little more interest. Thus I glued tufts of static grass in the vertices of the cracks between stones and scattered some Antenoceti's Workshop leaves around to give it a more natural feel. That's all for now folks.

TTFN