The Roost of Turkadactyl

I took a weekend excursion to Seattle to watch Radiohead and I am still recovering from the weekend.  Radiohead has been at the top of my list for live shows for years and it finally became a reality.  Wow, what a great show.

Well, the show must go on and that means more WIP shots for Inner Circle.  In case you haven’t heard about Inner Circle it is a 40K painting contest that closes on May 13.   Participants can enter up to 18 units/characters and are given bonus points for a theme.  I have chosen to paint units seen in Fall of Cadia when Belsarius Cawl is working on the Cadian Pylon.  Todays installment is Storm Troopers of the Inquisition.

These are the metal Kasrkin models.  I’ve had these for years and have continually put them aside for other projects.  My original plan was to paint the armour navy blue and the cloth grey.  I decided to go with the traditional Inquisition colours of red and black because I don’t have an army with red as a primary or secondary colour.  Also, can’t mess with tradition.

For the red I painted the base Scab Red with a wash of Agrax Earthshade.  Then I highlighted with Red Gore and Blood Red.

The flesh is Dwarf Flesh with Reikland Fleshshade and highlighted with Dward Flesh and Elf Flesh.

I started highlighting the black on a couple of models.  I was able to put the Dark Reaper and Thunderhawk Blue to use and used them for highlights.  I am undecided if I want to use Fenrisian Grey for a final edge highlight.

Most of the highlights are done now with the exception of the gold and power sword.  I’m still on the fence with Fenrisian Grey for the black armour.  I’ll wait and see after I base the model.

It feels good to finally paint Storm Troopers after sitting in a box for ten plus years.  They were fairly easy to paint so it shouldn’t be a problem to finish the twenty-five stored away but that will be a project after Inner Circle.

I am looking for industrial/scrapyard waste for the bases.  If you know of a vendor on the internets please let me know.  Trazyn came in the mail as well so that is a big relief.  Next Inner Circle WIP will be Skitarii Infiltrators and Ruststalkers.

Thanks for reading.