Inq28 Character profile 1

Introducing former Arbetus investigator Sasha Diessen.

After 8 years service with Inquisitor DeKalb in and around the Stalichian sector and it's client subsectors and worlds. Diessens has proven a valuble member of DeKalbs team. Sasha first came to inquisitorial notice when stationd on Addassia a hive world in the Stalichian system, she began to exibit precognative powers in her work. When she became aware that she had begun to manifest a warptaint she immidiatly handed herself into the nearerst astropathic temple to await the next black ships with the other pore unfortunates. Being an officer of good standing within the Arbitus her situation was reported to Lord Inquisitor Stuyvesant of the Stilichian Ordo Xenos by her commander and Stuyvesant directed Inquisitor DeKalb to take charge of her case and decide if she would be of use to his group or if she was destined to join the legions of other psychics on the black ships.

 Fortunatly for Diessens DeKalb spotted the worth of her Arbitus training immidiatly and by saving her from the holding cells a certain commitment to his team would be infered. DeKalb has since been developing Sasha's precog skills and since training at the subsectors main Ordos HQ she has displayed a talent for telekenisis too.

 She uses a custom Funk and Wesseley heavy pistol thats a favored  hand weapon of Stalichian officers. This coupled with her TK and precog skills means she handels herself well in any combat situations the Inquisitor and his team come across. With her Arbitus background Sasha is often involved in investigating leads provided by DeKalbs wider network of informants and spearheading the teams initial investigations on making planet fall.

Since joining DeKalb Diessen has tried to look less like an Arbitus in civvies and more like an ordinery citizen of the Empirium to help her in her investigations. Letting her hair grow long and ditching her uniform for what ever the current style is, has allowed Diessen to develope as a top investigator and DeKalb consideres her a good prospect for more intensive inquisitor trainning in the future.

Diessen is totally loyal to DeKalb and the Imperium, being a pyschic herself she has an intrest in persuing those that are at risk of warp possesion or are using there powers to disrupt, manipulate or distroy the Imperium. Dekalb considers Sasha his defacto second and she has led many missions and raids on Xenos nests and rogue psychic cells operating in the subsector, she is totally ruthless in her persuit of these threats and instills this hard line in the other members of the team. Another side affect of her Arbitus days.

I'll try to get DeKalb done before the weeks end and his profile/fluff. Sasha's profile may get updated as i refine other characters in the team ad it affects her own profile, this was on the fly done from some random notes and a couple of short sentances in my INQ note book.
So what do you think good! bad! indiff!
PS dont forget to check out the comp in the prev post from Sunday.
Thanks
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The Labs first comp

 To celebrate the fact that my Hammerstine Build got onto not one but two weekly lists of well stuff other bloggers found to there liking i'm having a little comp. My thanks to Ricalopia for including Hammerstine on his Sat7 http://ricalopia.blogspot.com/2011/10/sat-7-number-nine.html and also Santa Cruz Warhammer's Honor roll. Check the big banner on the right if you havn't already. I do like to check out these round ups of the week as they are a great souce of blogs that are so easely missid in other peoples blog rolls without these shout outs.

 So on to the comp, see this guy on the left yep the big dude with the even bigger weapon. He's going to be joining my Inquisitors warband when he's finished but he needs a back story. Something to give him character and history and above all motivation. Whys he with the =I= and how'd he get involved, Whats that mega weapon all about (plasma, thermal, industrial las cutter?) Is he ex millitery or a gifted amature with skills the =I= needed at the time and has stuck around. You decide by writing a short background piece about him.
Name, where's he from why he's with an =I= warband if you have an inquisitor rule book then feel free to include some stats. No more than say 300 to 500 words please ok afew more if the muse takes you lol.
Email them to me at lunohoco33(at)yahoo.co.ukblahhblahh you get the idea :) Onto the prize and as this is a writing comp of sorts it's a book, not the book in the background i'm afraid but i'd recommend that book highly. You never know when driving a tank could be useful :)

No it's The First Heretic by ADB, i went out today and perchased a second copy as i dont think you 'd wont my grubby copy and i'm only a couple o chapters in but loving it so far. I'll send it anywhere so no restrictions to UK only. If you already have this then enter anyway and if you win pass it onto someone that's never read a 40K novel or HH novel or ADB novel for that matter lol.

Just a side note that the model is from Studio McVey http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/ and it's not finished yet. Apart from the back story i need to do something to get that 40k =I= feel going with him. Added the hose on his legs and at his right sholder but thats all so far! soooooooo any suggestions on what conversions could improve him are very much welcome (sorry no prize for that lol)

So get thinking and send me your entrys, I'll run it for 2 weeks and the best one will get posted here in 3 or 4 weeks as the winner. Unless i get a shed load of entrys and i can't decide then may go to public vote. Hay it's my first comp so it's going to be a play it by ear sort of affair. Only cert is someone will get a copy of The First Heretic to read/ prop up coffey table/ replace for a bible in there local church. That's it for now i'll blog again tommorow as i've been very organised and got mondays after work jobs done today yay. 

Blitz 

Finished Hammerstine

Hammerstine done and packed away till needed to clense Mars or the Termite empire lol.

As he had a bum eye on the cast i did it as a well bum eye with oil staines over his face to suggest hard combat. This last pic is my fave ;)

Just another quick link some may be intrested in that was posted today on SFM;UK

http://www.instructables.com/id/Warmachine-Gaming-Table-for-Penny-Arcade/?ALLSTEPS

It may well be on another blog but i've not seen a link posted to the instructables site and thought it may be of intrest to any budding uber terrain builders :0

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Brampton Model show 2011

clicky for bigger piccy.

Here's some quick pics of the sfm table at the Brampton Model show i attended today.

The ma.k table mostly Aluns and Erics excellent work with a couple of my builds in there to pad it out lol.



Pete's latest build and most impresive in the flesh, pics dont do it justice.



Hammerstine finished and on display, just!

Ian's moon bus dio was a star attraction.

Mangamaxs cratch built space ship, i was most impressed by this.

Hope you like um and a bit different form all the GD pics we are going to be assulted with over the next few days lol.
Blitz

Hammerstine close ups

 Ok so first up is a warning when using these pop up photo tents. Do Not Open anywhere nere your models as it springs open sending your model flying and i do mean FLYING GRRRRRRRRRR. Only damage was his right arm fell of but will attempt some franken-surgery(TM) tommorow.

 Just the face to detail and some bits and bobs to touch up and i can call him finished BUT do you the blogosphere think his BFG needs to be grungier to match the rest of him?

 Bear in mind that i'm trying to emulate the artistic style of the Biz the 2000ad artist that in my opinion rendered the ABC's in there most raw and visceral incarnation. So it's gotta be grungy but not messy and i dont know if i've got that to come across in my attempt.

I'm happy over all with him as long as i get the face right and it pops when finished and on display at Brampton next Sunday. Fingers crossed :)

New photographic tent and inq28 conversions

Tent in all it's glory

Here's the new photo tent and some shots using the different backgrounds. Not overly impressed with my first attempts, i dont think the light was strong enough or maybe another one at the side.

Also need to play with the cameras settings and maybe get advise from the guys at sfm some are excellent photographers so will have to pick there brains but any suggestions in the comments would be more than welcome.

Its ment to fit in that black bag, not gonna happen.

  It packs down very small but thats a job for the wife i'm rubbish at that.


Below are the 4 different backgrounds that come supplied with the tent with a quicky convertion for my Inq28 warband more on her later.

red background supposedly :)





Black background



Blue background

White background

Just a quick note about followers, firstly welcome along to my 2 new followers and secondly it seems i've no way of knowing who my followers are anymore. It seems to have been disabeled on other peoples blogs also. Any ideas when /if they are coming back? i do like to visit the blogs of those who follow me and leave the odd comment from time to time so this is a bit annoying.

Blitz

Quik hobby update before tea

Well life has been unbelevable busy at the moment, Wedding season is eating up all my free time at the weekends but hopefully this will settle down soon (tho it dose supply me with more Champagne corks than i know what to do with lol.

On the hobby front the Inq28 project is plodding along nicely I've become a nomadic modeller again as i can't get at my desk at the moment. The piles of assorted crud littering my desk and around my desk has finally defeated me and a major autumn clean is requierd and i've no time to do this.

We also got a photo tent from evilbay for a tenner and very impressed we are too (that me and the wife, she intends to use it for her craft thingys also) it comes with no less than 4 different backgrounds and a side zip for getting pics of glass and other shiney things. I'll do a proper review some time soon-ish.

Also in the post an order from Let The Dice Decide an online bits shop. Ordererd late wednesday night and arrived Sat morning, well packerged in bubble wrap and everything accounted for yum, i do love the little bits that can turn a bleh model into something cool. Funny thing is i've probably been workinhg within 30 mins drive from where thay are based these last 6 months lol.

It's also 2 weeks till the Brampton model show and its full steam ahead finishing off variouse builds but after that i'm going to consentrate on inq28 and the post apoc comp build. Going with Baron Radhoffens post apocaliptic flying circus first. :)

And finally it's Talk like a Pirate day on 19th Sept so i exspect some arrrges and avasts and ye scurvy dogs from the blogworld.