Inquisitorial Krieg anyone!

[KayvaanShrike]

Hey there, just today I recieved my Death Korps Grenadiers from the postie. I am not intenting to do an army of these guys, no way near enough money, but I got them to just make and paint. But then I had the idea I could use them as Inq Stormtroopers for my Inquisitor.

I intend to paint them with black fatigues, dark gunmetal armour, and deep red greatcoats, I don't know how this will look since all the DK on here seem to be grey or green or brown.

Sorry not pics yet, mainly because they are lying in bits on my desk, but I will take the obligatory pic of my workspace and them made up later tonight, and put them here.

Any ideas on how to make them look more Inqisitorial without too much converting, feel free to say.

Pics later, I promise!!!

[Destris]

Awesomeness. These will look good done right .

Thought of GSing an =I= onto their flat breastplates? That would be a cool way of making them look Inquisitorial .

Looking forward to pics.
Steve

[schoolcormorant]

sweet, i'll follow this, guarenteed some nice work if it's not for a full army.

SC

[KayvaanShrike]

Yeh GS =I= would look cool, but I am not very good with GS, specially not small fiddly things like that, maybe if I cut them out of plasticard may work, I have some fairly thin plasticard.

[OrlyggJafnakol]

Your miniatures sound very promising, and like everyone else, I too would like to see the pictures.

On making them more inquisitorial, hexagrammic wards to protect against daemons? Which ordo are you going to base them on? If its malleus then definately. Xenos, a few alien trophies I suppose. Hereticus? No ideas.

[KayvaanShrike]

Well I have the Lok model who is Xenos, but I don't know really, may just keep them generic so they can be whatever, e.g add Deathwatch to them when they come out etc, or use them with Grey Knights or Sisters, whatever I want lol.

Just uploading some pics to photbucket the now.

[Arhalien]

Sounds like a very nice idea, I await the pics with baited breath (what are the chances of this being posted just as you post the pics? edit: not very high it seems )

[KayvaanShrike]

A, your not far from it Arhalian! Here are some pics.


Here are the bases they will be on (WIP) they will be painted grey, they are COD style bases.


Work space, is bigger than it looks, thats just my modelling and painting area.


And finally for now, the guy these DK will be following around.

[Arhalien]

Nice work on Lok there Shryke. I;ll be very interested to see how this looks, as I;ve said it;s a great idea and those DKOK grenadiers are excellent models.

I'll definitely be watching this

[OrlyggJafnakol]

The forge world inquisitor is impressive, as is his servo skull. I like the white armour with the blue shading. As are your bases, a nice urban feel to minis is something that I like adding to my models as well.

A lot of stuff at the workstation, including a Chris Ryan book! Hmmm... SAS style IG? Such gents would undoubtably be in the service of the inquisition.

Looking forward to seeing how DKs come togther.

[KayvaanShrike]

Not just one, I have all his books, well all his fiction ones anyway, and all but one of Andy McNabs ones! Bit of an SAS junkie lol.

Was contemplating white armour on my DK as well, but I don't think it would go to well with the red coats. I don't want them to be very bright you see, quite dark and "hard" is what I would like.

[OrlyggJafnakol]

You could take elements from the waffen SS uniforms of WWII. The DK after all are modelled on WWI german soldiers after all.

A quick trawl on the internet might come up with some other WWI uniforms.

[KayvaanShrike]

yeah, my flatmate immedietly said Waffen SS! as soon as I told him what I was buying.

There may be pics of models awaiting paint later this evening, though I feel sure you all know what they look like, but I would feel better posting a pic relevant to what I am doing lol!!!!

[Wolf Scout Ewan]

I really like your INQ m8! The white armour looks good!

[konrad]

sounds like a good plan. On a funny note my friends and i have noticed that loks servo skull looks like he's holding toilet roll :P

[KayvaanShrike]

Yeh everyone says that, a GW staff guy the other day was calling him Andrex lol. Konrad, do you ever go into GW Edinburgh?

On an update note, I am currently painting the Sgt, so hopefully get some pics up tomorrow at somepoint, so keep an eye out for that. There isn't much point in showing him just now, as hes only red and black and silver at the moment. But tomorrow!! If anyone has done any sort of Inq Stormtroopers before, please feel free to give any tips on certain things they should definetly have etc.

Cheers

[sheep]

Awesome idea, and one i would be sorely tempted to copy if i had the funds.

Things you need on INQ stormies:
- White Inq symbols
- Purity seals
- FLAMERS!!!!

I'm sure others will be able to tell you more.

Look forward to progress.

Cheers

Sheep

[srsmith]

That is a seet idea. I can just picture the DK guys all robed in red throwing down some inquisitorial justice.

[Commissar Molotov]

I'm very interested in this thread; I've recently gotten a pack of the Grenadiers, and I'm also looking to use them as Storm Troopers. Someone suggested a dark red for their greatcoats, but I wasn't sure. I'm very interested in seeing how you make them look.

[KayvaanShrike]

Sorry for the delay, but here is an update!

Have made a start on the Sgt and his base.

@Sheep, the squad has a flamer in it anyway, so will use that and the grenade launcher, just because its soo cool, very like the old M79 the US army used before it introduced the M203. I am just going to freehand Inq symbols, my GS skills are not very good and I can't make small enough ones out of plasticard, I tried!!
Onto the pics!


Sgt front

Sgt back

Base

C&C is welcome, though bear in mind these are WIP and nothing is quite finished yet, evn the coat.