Inquistion - Karamazov - All Inquisiton Released up to 5/23/2023

This post is the culmination of a three and a half year project- to paint every 28mm Inquisitor Games Workshop has produced to date. Since starting the project in January 2020, I tried to paint one Inquisitor per month, switching back and forth from the earliest release to the most recent.

Today, I finished Inquisitor Karamazov!

 

I ran into a few pitfalls along the way. Games Workshop released two Inquisitors (Draxus and Cartavolnus) while I was on the project. More problematic, I discovered I had forgotten about the Black Library limited edition Eisenhorn- it took a full year to track down a set and came down to “I know a guy who knows a guy”.

 

 

Lastly, I thought I had purchased Karamazov and had him stored, but it seems I was wrong about that, so I had to track down his metal version too. 

In the meantime, I nabbed loose Eisenhorn and Silas Hand minis from eBay, so I have a single of them along with them placed in their dioramas.

The real kicker is I can only say I have painted all the GW 28mm Inquisition for about three days, since they are officially releasing more in the new Kill Team box this Saturday... needless to say I am chagrined!!!

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inquistion and Servo-Skulls - Inq28th and ServoskullSaturdays

I've not been diligent at uploading to the blog this year, and taking a look through my entries revealed that I neglected to post a lot of entries.

Here's a collection of Inquisition and Servo-Skulls that I've completed in the last few months. I've been pretty much on track completing one servo-skull per month for #servoskullsaturday, and one Inquisitor a month for "Inq28th". I got off track in November-December due to time constraints and the fact that I didn't actually have one of the Inquisition I thought I had purchased, Karamazov on his Throne of Judgement.

 

Silas Hand,  from the Black Library Daemonifuge diorama. I'll probably add him to the base at some point.

 

Ordo Malleus Daemonhunter 

Yithians in the wrong place at the wrong time...

 Ordo Malleus Daemonhunter

 

Inquisitor Lord Coteaz

 

 

Ordo Hereticus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Converted Ork Servo-Skull, based on a plastic skull from the Skulls kit.

 

 

 

 Lastly, here's a group shot of the completed set of metal servo-skulls that GW produced for the Inquisition ranges.

Rogue Trader Inquisitors - Group

Here's a group shot of all the Rogue Trader era Inquisition, done in the style of an old White Dwarf advertisement. I may redo this with their names- a lot of the old ads named all the miniatures :)

Rogue Trader Ordo Malleus Inquisitors

I recently finished the third figure that came in the old Rogue Trader Ordo Malleus Inquisitors blister pack. I went with a Moebius inspiration again, since I did that with the other two. This guy has always been one of my favorite Inquisitor miniatures, and this is my second time painting him (the last time was around 1992).

  

 

Rogue Trader Ordo Malleus and Adeptus Arbites

Here's my latest entry for my Inquisitor project, an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor and some followers.
  

The Inquisitor is from the old Rogue Trader Ordo Malleus blister pack. The two followers are "Mourning Wolves' Warzone/Mutant Chronicles miniatures. They seem to fit very well with this guy. Along with my other Rogue Trader projects, I based the oddball color scheme on a Moebius concept illustration.

Grey Knights were one of my favorite armies back in the olden days, and one of their unit types in Slaves to Darkness was an Arbites squad. I was always a little resentful that GW didn't make any Arbites for the Grey Knights list. These versions were released right as 2nd Edition was dropping, and were  replaced not long after by another variation.

I've been collecting Arbites for a long time, and it seemed like another case of 'now or never', so I decided to make a street-legal Arbites squad according the the list in Slaves to Darkness to guard the Inquisitor. A couple years ago I decided I needed a grenade launcher for my RT Arbites, and sculpted one that looked like the ones used by the Imperial Guard, I also sculpted a web gun, since they were stock on the Arbites list. I cast a bunch of them in resin.

Rogue Trader Ordo Malleus Inquisitor and Acolyte

Continuing my quest to paint the GW Inquisition miniatures, this month I selected an Ordo Malleus figure from the olden days of Rogue Trader 40K. I never really cared for this guy, but I like him quite a bit now!

I was a huge fan of the Grey Knights army found in Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, and had painted this fellow up before, around 1992. When I picked him to repaint this time around, I was struck by his "Moebius" style- I wasn't really aware of the artist back then. Since I've been on a Moebius kick lately anyway I picked an Illustration of Arzach to provide color inspiration.

I also painted up an acolyte/henchman from the early 2000s Witch Hunters range.

 An Inquisitorial Acolyte reads from the Litany of Incineration

The Portal Companion Cube is from Shapeways.