First up, my Ministorum-themed army-in-progress. Inspired completely by the various ministorum-themed drawings and paintings that have cropped up over the years (primarily, but not exclusively, in the Sisters of Battle and Witch Hunters army books), its an army that will celebrate all things weird and wonderful about the Imperial Faith.
Codex-wise, my current thinking is to model it on a Witch Hunters army with Imperial guard allies, but the on-table legalities are very much a second runner to devising some suitably, fanatically, flavourful units and characters ready to take the good word to the Emperor.
So, here's where I am today with this project (click the pics to see the whole image):
What we have there (roughly speaking, front to back) are:
- 16 Redemptionist footsoldiers
- 2 x Sister of Battle squads (10 Sisters each)
- Cannonness and Imperial Missionary (Jacobus )
- Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor with retinue
- 8 Sisters Repentia accompanied by Mistress
- Confessor Kyrinov (in blister)
- 2 Seraphim
A closer shot of the Inquisitor and Retinue. Some of these may not make the final cut, while others (the Missionary for example) may be moved into the standard Priest role, but overall I've ended up with a good selection of the more Hereticus-themed henchmen with flames and piousness a-plenty throughout the unit.
All in all there is just about a table legal army there, which is a pleasing place to be able to start from as I can focus on putting together a few thematic special units and models to swell the horde. On the cards are arco-flagellants (possibly converted from some VC ghouls I've got lying around), more Redemptionists (including a special character representing Archdeacon Ludmilla, Matriarch of the Red Redemption from the Dark Heresy background), penitent engines, at least one Preacher-sentinel, some very special Celestine bodyguards for the Cannonness and, all things going well, some sort of big tank centre piece using the massive plague censor from the new Skaven Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace kit.
So for now, watch this space. And stay faithful.
- Anodyr
I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing some progress on this one, sir. I have a whole (I think) Sisters army that I bought off a mate donkeys ago, just begging for some attention.
ReplyDeleteThe use of Redemptionist models is a great idea. As someone said to me "Proceed with yo' bad self" :D
Cheers cha - hopefully your wait won't be overly long before things start happening with this lot. I love everything about the Ministorum/Sisters/Hereticus ranges, and even though the Sisters are getting on a bit, they still look awesome. Be interesting to see if they ever get made in plastic...
ReplyDeleteAs for the Reds, I just think they're great. There's a mix of old and new style in there, and I'm hard pressed to pick a favourite.