Finished Praetorian Commissar

Greetings all! 

Firstly, thanks for the comments on the army list in the previous post. The deadline for early submission is this weekend so I will be sending it in any day now. I don't expect to do great in the games but I hope to have lots of fun with a list that should surprise a fair few people in terms of the units taken.

As previously mentioned there have been a fair few models that I've painted this year. One of the more fun to paint additions was the plastic commissar. 

Scroll down, have a look and let me know what you think. Next time there will be Bullgryns for you...

The conversion work for this was very straightforward. The face of the commissar is actually a separate piece to the cap on the sprue. It was very easy to replace with the empty pith helmet that you get with the Victoria Lamb heads. The eagle is actually from the original cap and I simply added it to the helmet. Only a little green stuff was needed to fill a few gaps around the back of the head. 

Colourwise he follows the Commissar Lord and the general palette of the army. The only way in which this guy differs is that he has a lot more purple and its a bit more of a 'genestealer cult' purple.

This guy is one of the few characters with no facial hair but I decided to give him a little stubble to stop him looking too baby face. I kinda think he looks like Patrick Stewart now... 

As previously mentioned next time, Bullgryns! Thanks for having a look!

Just a little bit more...

Thanks for all the comments on the last post, very much appreciated! I'll make it another quick post and show you a couple more projects that are bubbling away...

The Baneblade is the standard configuration, but I couldn't let the opportunity pass without another characterful tank commander! 

Keen to have Nork in my army (even if not to use him in games except apocalypse games), I only wanted a minor conversion so gave the skull speaker a hat swap because my commissars still wear pith helmets!

Sorry sadly a blurry! Unfortunately this commissar model hasn't had a lot of love from the wider community. I'll do my best to rectify that! 

Also I have question regarding the rules for bullgryns. Do they all have to have the same weapons? i.e. shield and maul or slab and grenade launcher. I see nothing in the rules that precludes you having a mixture in your squad and a mixture is what I went for! 2 slabshields to give me that 3+ save as I advance and then the power mauls to really smash things up! 

Thanks for stopping by!