Looking positively dashing in his ascendance day finery, Rauss Arnatt, neophyte of the Kabeiri, raises his icon for his brethren to cheer and whoop at. Arnatt is feeling good, and he's sure the magus gave him a little wink earlier.
A neophyte icon bearer is a super useful addition to my cult, usable in Warhammer 40k, Necromunda and Kill Team.
These days there is a huge store of bits available for the genestealer cult fan. Once, arming up the old Bob Olley hybrids might have been a chore, but no longer. They fit suspiciously well on most of the vintage boys. This particular, rather beefy 4th generation hybrid is one I think well suited to hefting a big heavy cult icon, and I've wanted to paint this one for a while. After some consideration I gave him a nice big phosphor blast pistol, which also fits neatly with the adeptus mechanicus flavour of the Kabeiri. He should be carrying an autogun or shotgun, but rule of cool won out.
It took a fair bit of sanding and cutting down on the arms to allow for his unusually wide shoulders. Even so, he's still very broad. I'm okay with that as he's meant to be a bit beefcake. As with many Olley sculpts, his face was a delight to paint. I do love painting faces.
With Arnatt done, I have two more minis to paint to finish my Kill Team squad. A purestrain, which is halfway there, and a neophyte with a heavy stubber. The heavy stubber can also go toward getting my neophyte squad up to ten models. Utility!
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| Rauss shows off his shiny charge to his mates. Everyone is impressed. |
A Cult have more character with an icon, this ine is perfect. Bravo 😄
ReplyDeleteThey are a nice focal point for a squad. Thanks Nico!
DeleteThose look brill!
ReplyDeleteCheers Riot!
DeleteThat's a treat! I love how he looks and how everything blends in perfectly. Sweet!
ReplyDeleteThanks Suber. It's very gratifying getting some arms and paint on those old Olley hybrids.
DeleteLooking great glad to see the new parts work well with the Olley sculpts I should be working on mine soon - well this year - probably!
ReplyDeleteThanks Inchmurrin. They really do work well, those old hybrids are spoiled for choice now
DeleteI love this guy - he's one of my favourite Olley hybrids mated with lovely new plastic arms and painted in your delicious painting style! Seeing all the different hybrids together in that group shot just shows how careful figure selection and a consistent paint scheme can bring them all together.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Axiom! He is one of the nicest hybrid sculpts I think. I'm more spoiled these days with cult figure options, it's a magical time.
DeleteThat fig does have a good face, funnily enough a little more human looking that some of other Olley 40k miniatures who are actually humans.
ReplyDeleteGreat job, he looks the part.
That gave me a lol. He's almost handsome, for a Bob.
DeleteCheers Cheetor!