Thursday, January 17, 2019

First Model of 2019: Inquisitor Daemon Huntress

Over the summer, Mordian7th suffered some unfortunate house damage due to frankly ludicrous weather, and raised some cash to help cover the repairs by putting a few things up on eBay. His misfortune was my second chance to get a couple of the minis from the regrettably short-lived 54mm Inquisitor game GW came out with back shortly after the turn of the century.

Of the two I got, the first I've finished is the Daemon Huntress. It was a little odd working at a different scale like this, but I've painted enough monsters and Dreads and such that it wasn't a huge shift. Honestly, I was kind of disappointed by the sculpt. Some of it, I was able to fix (nipple armour is no better a look for her than for George Clooney), but other stuff, like the ridiculous high heels, I just couldn't manage the work necessary on such a large metal Model. And then some of it is just plain sloppy work. A lot of the skulls and purity seals and such are really poorly done compared to those on many 28mm metal Models I have from the same era, or even substantially earlier.

All that said, tho, I'm pretty happy with how she turned out in the end. It was definitely cool to get to work on one of these Models that I've wanted for so long, and to get a bit of variety from working in a different scale.

The layering on the blended parts didn't come out as well as I'd wanted. With so much more space to cover on that blade and horn, my usual methods left each colour having too big of a chunk.

It took a lot of google image searching to figure out what's in her backpack there. It's a tiny little reliquary-type thing, but with a statue of an armed and armoured warrior instead of just a little piece of a saint.

She's technically not quite in the subject matter of Azazel's January Challenge, but I'm going to count her anyhow, since the amount of work involved and her stature are on par with the sorts of things that would qualify as centerpiece Models. I've been plugging away at some more of Rogue Trader and the start of Blackstone Fortress as well, along with some Terrain for variety, so hopefully I'll be able to get some of the finished, photographed, written up, and posted soon. Until then, y'all have a good one, y'hear!

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  1. Nice!

    Whilst I never bought any of the Inquisitor-scale minis, a few of my friends did, and the sculpting was a real let down for most of them. One had the space marine whose torso (when assembled) had a large and noticeably elliptical gap between both front and back halves. You couldn't just see thru it, you could stick a toothpick thru it too!

    Very poor quality for a mini of such size and expense.

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    1. Thanks! Glad it's not just me who had issues with the sculpting. I wonder if it was mostly an issue of adapting to the new scale, or if they had less experienced people working on it because it was a side project, or what.

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  2. Looking great, man! I'll agree that it's interesting to discover how techniques that work on 28mm models don't translate directly to 54mm models, but I think you've done a cracking job on her - Good stuff!

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    1. Thanks! On the other, I'm actually keeping a fair amount of your paint job, mostly just touching stuff up because there are way better golds available these days and things like that. The only real change is that I switched all the glow effect areas from green to blue.

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  3. Very cool! I owned a few of the old inq models back in the day, and have a fond memory of them (never noticed any dodgy sculpting though, but back then I wouldn’t have appreciated such things as I do now.
    Not seen that sculpt before though. You’ve done a nice job on her. Blending colours on a larger model is always a lot more of a challenge I find,l. It really does require much more effort and subtler blends to make things work as well as in a smaller scaled model

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    1. Thanks! Yeah, it was definitely a nice bit of something else.

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  4. If you're interested in acquiring some more Inquisitor models, my local store has a load of them up for sale right now.

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    1. I think I'm good. The other I got was the one I really wanted, and they're just for display, so it's not like I need a particular combo or anything. Thanks, tho!

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    2. No worries. Might pick up a few for myself. The only one I have currently is the arco-flagellant.

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  5. Very nice work on her (and her friend)! As I said in the round-up, I've not ever seen this model before you showed off the finished product.

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    1. Thanks! I'm pretty sure she was one of the first few Models released, but, well, that was more than 15 years ago, and my memory ain't that great even for stuff from 15 days ago.

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