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Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor

As part of my Daemonhunters army I am using a Repressor as a transport for my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers. Overall the model has being coming together really well, though the fit of some of the resin parts did leave a lot to be desired.

After some thought I decided to use some Inquisitor Rhino doors from Forge World to enhance the model.

I am quite pleased with them, they are well sculptured and fit in really well style wise. Unlike some other resin parts from Forge World, these fitted into the door gaps really well.

I wish I had used the front plate instead of the suppplied plastic one, but it would be of little use, as the front plate is hidden by the huge dozer blade, so maybe not such a good idea.

The next stage is to add some more Inquisitorial type paraphernalia to the model. You can see the full workbench feature on my Repressor.

Painting Tanks

I have been giving quite a bit of thought on how best to paint the Grey Knights’ tanks I have for my Daemonhunters army.

The obvious option is to paint them as Grey Knights style vehicles as I have done with my Land Speeder.

However two things came to mind, first my Repressor transport is for my Stormtroopers and therefore is not a “true” Grey Knights vehicle and I really wanted to have some consistency across the army. I didn’t want my Razorback to be too different to the Repressor. Secondly though I like the look of Grey Knights I wanted to do something slightly different.

My first idea was to do a white undercoat, do a basecoat of something like Kommando Khaki (a light brown) and then wash with a Chestnut Ink and paint wash. The metal parts I would paint black and then drybush with Boltgun Metal.

So it seemed quite simple and then… I read the following article on the Games Workshop website on painting tanks.

Painting vehicles, especially those with brightly coloured paint schemes, has always been something of a challenge. Large, flat plates like those on vehicles usually required many layers to achieve the opacity needed, even over a white undercoat. When you factor in the size of some vehicles (e.g., Land Raiders), you could burn through a ton of paint on just one tank.

All of that has changed with the arrival of the new Citadel Foundation Paints. Now, regardless of the colour of the undercoat, your basecoat goes on in one layer, not five.

So now I am in a bit of quandary.

I am now thinking that maybe I should give my tanks a black undercoat and then use something like Tausept Ochre from the Foundation Paints range for the base coat. I would follow this with a wash (as above) and then highight with a lighter brown, before weathering the tanks.

Still thinking about which will be the better option.

Inquisitorial Rhino Doors

One of the other things I recently purchased from Forgeworld were some Inquisitorial Rhino doors.

I will be using the side doors either on my Mk IIb Land Raider or the Repressor and the front on the Razorback.

Purity Seals

I recently ordered some more Purity Seals from Forgeworld.

What I do like is the act that they are easy to cut out and use. I know it is possible to make your own using paper and Green Stuff, but for quality and ease of use, these Forgeworld ones are a winner for me. Oh and you get the skulls as well.

Filling the gaps

I used some Green Stuff to fill the gaps in my Repressor’s ill fitting top.

Need to tidy up the filling a little bit.

Grey Knights Purity Seals

I have been painting the purity seals on my Grey Knights.

I used a light brown foundation paint for the paper of the seals and the red for the wax and then highlighted with normal Citadel colour.

I also took the opportunity to add some “burn” weathering to the flamer.

I have also been tidying up the armour connectors and painting them in Chaos Black over the drybrushed Boltgun Metal in order to make the armour look a little smarter and neater.

Grey Knights Landspeeder – progress report

It’s getting there, but I better get the crew done soon.

I am making some progress on my Grey Knights Landspeeder. Having done the purity seals I painted the skulls with a light brown foundation paint, I will be highlighting these with bleached bones.

Another view.

it’s getting there, but I better get the crew done soon.

Writing the Purity Seals on my Grey Knights Landspeeder

Having finished off the red wax on my Grey Knights Landspeeder I set about adding writing to the paper parts of the purity seals.

I used a watered down Chaos Black for the writing.

I am okay with the end result, but would have liked to have done some finer writing, so I may try again.

I also took the opportunity to paint the Inquisitorial book on the front with a red foundation paint.

This needs some tidying up as well.

Inquisitor Acolyte – more progress

My Daemonhunters Inquisitor is going to have an entourage, one of whom will be an Inquisitor Acolyte. I started this model sometime ago, but have (as with all my Daemonhunters models) been revisting them in mind to get them finished.

At this stage I had done some work.

I painted the parchment and books with Bleached Bone and highlighted with Skull White.

This is the rear view.

I did start to highlight the cloak, but this didn’t work out too well so the paint was quickly removed, it looked too pink!

Red Wax on my purity seals

Having painted the paper parts of the purity seals on my Grey Knights Landspeeder I highlighted the seals with Bleached Bone and Skull White.

I then painted the wax seals. I used the red foundation paint for this (as I had used a black undercoat). I then highlighted the seals with normal Citadel Colour, Blood Red.

I will need to do the writing next.