Ordo Malleus Terminator (Part 3)

Lord Inquisitor Hiser the Hisarion. 

After a grueling 12 days straight working approximately 90 hours, I was finally able to get back to this guy.

The psychic rod was based using an Ral Partha Bronze paint. After twenty years that paint is still one of my favorite paints to break out for under coating golds .

I used Agrax Earhshade wash all over the reds to tone it down before painting over that with Mephiston Red.

Go Fasta Red was the primary highlight color on the armor with the original Blood Angel Orange (yes, Blood Angels used to highligbted with orange 30 years ago) as the final highlight.

In a mad frenzy I jammed out the rest of this model to a level where I could declare him to be done!

I drew the 'I' on his cowel and the word 'ORDO' on his right shoulder using a Micron. The first attempt of the 'I' turned out crooked (above pic) so I fixed that. 

I notice the big horned skulls  have a leering expression that reminds me a bit of the early Eddie artwork featured on the '80's era Iron Maiden LPs. The GW design studio in the later years of the Ansel era  had a real metal vibe going on and it often crossed over into the miniatures. They even had a gun totting skeleton that was clearly inspired by a Megadeth album cover.

The right shoulder has clearly been left blank so that a badge, icon or art could be put there but I am stumped on what to do there. I like it as is so for now that's how it shall remain.

And he is done, and ready to join his fellows at this year's Conclave. I even came up with a name for this model, Hiser the Hisarion, a homage to an old friend from around that time. I don't have a snazzy back story at this time, but maybe one will evolve in time.

But before I conclude this, I wanted to share sn example of the size-creep that has occurred with the terminator miniatures over the past 30 years. The design hasn't changed much, but the scale has for sure!

"What I lack in height I make up in power!"

Remember, I need your final Inquisitor pics and links Sunday evening (my time, which is Eastern Standard Time) if you want them to be featured  in the final Conclave post next week. Send them to neverness92@gmail.com. 

Ordo Malleus Terminator (Part 2)

Work in progress.

Progress from part-1 has been slow, but there has been progress nevertheless!

First off, I got the model primed last week. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but the overly wet season, here in the mountains, has made finding the optimal conditions for priming a bit challenging.

Primed! 

I found a very inspiring pic online of a WIP of a Blood Angel Executioner that I feel in love with, so I went with those colors. I posted that inspiring pic on the Neverness Hobbies Facebook Group but decided not to post it here as I don't know who to properly credit. Regardless of all that, red is the color I am running with.

Basecoats.

The base coat for this red is Khorne Red. My thinking for the next stage is to wash the reds in a thinned Brown or Chestnut Ink, then reapply Khorne Red and build up the colors from there.

Dude, just ignore those guys in the background, they're jerks!

So, yeah, not much progress, but progress all the same!

Those of you participating in the challenge, please send me your updates when you can. Thanks again!

Ordo Malleus Terminator (Part 1)

For my "Paint An Inquisitor in August Challenge" (a.k.a. The 2020 Inquisitional Conclave) I decided to just go with my oldest Inquisitor. I wrote a bit about this chap back in July of 2020 along with my other Inquisitor models. It's been three decades and finally his wait is over.

Disarmed. 

The first thing to do was retire his old base and move up to 40mm one. The superglue bonding him together was about 25 years old now and brittle so it took hardly any effort to disassemble him.

Disassembled.

After a few minutes I was able to hack a slot into a 40mm base. He not only fit fine, but already this old terminator model looks so much better on the bigger base. It's almost like maybe GW should have always had these bigger bases.

The bigger base.

I added a Plaguebarer skull to the base. After all he is a daemon hunter, perhaps he's on the prowl for more to incinerate?

Plaguebearer skull in the grit.

I used the old slotta tab from one of the old plague marines* in the background along with the piece I sliced out of the 40mm base when I made the slot, to make some rubble. Crude but effective. After those were glued down I added the grit using Elmer's glue thinned with water.

Rubble rubble.

That's it for now. It's been way too humid outside from all the storms and rain to even try to prime this model right now, so I will have to wait for the right opportunity. Until then, up he goes to some place secure, as this is a lead miniature and I can't have it where little hands might grab it...

* That's a post I have yet to finish writing, but soon enough...