Sisters of Battle Exorcist and the 100th Post

The workshop has reached a mile stone - the 100th post. The blog has been going since November 2007. Another few months and it will have managed 4 years. Considering what to put on this 100th post I wondered about using some of the best viewed images form previous posts, but then while it is interesting at least to the Workshop it may not be to you as you may well have seen them already. The first post actually featured an Immolator that took until August 2008 to finish. Hence in an act of symmetry this 100th will feature an update on the Exorcist that is on the bench at the moment. Work on this mini started in November 2010. To maintain the symmetry I must finish it by August this year. Despite blogging and modelling for 4 years clearly the workshop has not managed to speed up! Unsuprising since the operational parameters of Artificers Workshop are unchanged.

Any way here is where the Exorcist is upto :

 

 And just to finish here is the picture from the last 99 posts that has got the greatest number of hits : - 4535

Sisters of Battle - Heavy Flamer almost complete

Here is a round up of the SoBs work in process. First off with a list. Totalling 1210 points using Army Builder. Also I have just noticed that a multimelta may not yet be a legal option for a squad of Sisters. May change with the upcoming rewrite of the Codex, I hope. The arbitrators joined the list to give the priest someone to attach to. No sense in having a priest filling the SoBs with bolters with so called righteous fury. Does not matter too much with shotguns, and can hold objectives.

The plan is to fill out the points with at least one more Exorcist and a 3rd SoB troops choice. After that if possible a third Exorcist. And then more celestinians and a dominion squad perhaps. Depends on the points values after the rewrite. Below is a glimpse of them all together. Click on the image to obtain the full picture. Must learn more HTML

Sister of Battle Multimelta progress

In the workshop the best part of any project is usually the finishing. The SoBs are getting close to finishing, at least the 2 basic troops choices. Work has focused on the multimeta addition for the first squad and here it is. The is nothing like a close up pic of a mini to show how poorly painted is that mini you thought was superb. Having said that it looks OK in real life. Here is is and at the end how it was last weekend.

Sisters of Batlle some more Progress

Work on the second squad has gone forward fitfully what with this and that requiring my time else where. So here is where it is up to, which is close to finishing but needing some detailing and tidying up in the main.

Also on the table are the spare arbitrators minis are being painted up in similar colours to theme the army and give it a bit of variation.

Elsewhere on the www rumours of a new release of the SOB codex in WD over the summer abound. There are also some images of what appears to be a draft version of the codex incorporating some changes . There is also a rumour that Inquisitor Lord Karamazov (The Pyrophant Judge of Salem Proctor), the second bit of his title has been dropped in the Grey Knights codex, is scheduled to be in the next round of finecast minis, something that here in Artificers Workshop we are all looking forward to.

Thanks to Dark Future Games

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Thanks to HERO's Gaming Blog

The Dark Side

In the news are potential dates for the release of the updates for the Sisters of Battle from GW. While the Sisters and the IG, Steel Legion and abhumans, are my favoured collecting strata in the past I have dabbled with the darker side of the Warp. Here are 2 older minis from those days that might just see some action again with the Sisters of Battle and the Grey Knights.

Steel Legion Platoon Command Squads

There is a limited range of metal Steel Legion minis. Here is progress with the 2 platoon command squads. Perhaps the Steel Legion will reappear as finecast.

Sisters of Battle Round Up

Painting and collecting a variety of 40k Inquisition and abhuman related forces gives a magnificent variety of models and figures to acquire and even to use in apocalyps type battles. But it means each force progresses so so slowly. Here is the sitrep for my Sisters of Battle force that has been in Gestation for 4 years. As you can see below. One HQ, 3 troops choices, one of which is not quite completed, 2 heavy support completed, one fast attack, one elite. It is possible that the whole force organisation will have to change in the face of a new codex come the autumn. Never mind the fun is in the collecting an completing.

Here they are :                                                    HQ

                                                                  Troops Choices

                                                                      Fast Attack

                                                              Heavy Support

                                                                        Elite

Scary ladies. A bit like the lady I chatted with last night.

What next for the Sisters firstly there is an Exorcist on the painting table and after that I like the Inquisitor Karamazov mini as a second HQ choice. Then some more Seraphim. Competition listing has nothing to do with this collection.

Sisters of Battle Again and Steel Legion Commissar from Forgeworld

Painting has been glacial for a few weeks. Dog minding for a friend for a week and sightseeing in Prague for another week. Now its back to the bleak war is all there is 40k Universe and 2 of the on the table projects. The second Sisters squad is beginning to shape up or at least the end is now in sight. Finishing up is one of the pleasure of painting. Doing all those last details and touching up everything and every bit that has accidentally been forgotten. This is more fun that starting on a squad. Anyway here is where the 2nd Sisters Squad is up to at the moment.

Two heavy weapns have also been acquired and started. One for each of the Sisters squads. So only early progress with this one. Base colours are Knarlock green given a green wash to darken and tone. Boltgun metal given a wash with devlan mud to define the metal.

Finally a little bit of work on a Kreig Commissar from Forgeworld.  This is an exquisite mini and the plan is to paint it in with the Steel Legion project. Suprisingly it appears that a company command squad cannot be allocated a Commissar, only platoon command squads. A Lord Commissar as an HQ choce could of course join any squad. Being a Lord Commissar will suit this mini.