Tom's Sisters of Battle: Month Five - Troopers

A pict showing the Sisters purging the foul Ork.

Well, MAY. A month of finishing off the Sisters sculpts and roundly ignoring any Militia models... 

I did, as penance though, paint this biker which I am really very pleased with! Especially the rams head on the shoulder pad. I'd love to paint up the two others that I have, but this one was a chore, so we'll see what the final month (a Wildcard - where anything goes) can rustle up....

I think maybe I should dirty down those yellow exhausts a bit more, and I could maybe paint a fleur de lis on the real mudguard... But these things are more likely for the next model :)

I have tried to upgrade my photographing game, by borrowing some Big Lights, and then playing around with some free Android apps - namely BackgroundEraser which has enabled an automatic cut out of the model from the background which I can then place on a stock white background and hence eliminate shadows and have all the pictures with a standard background. 

I ummed and ahhed over the cost of these next two models, but in the end I bit the bullet and brought them (thanks to some overtime at work). I've erased the cost, due to shame, but in the interest of disclosure they worked out to be £50 for the pair... I was so enthused to get started on them that I neglected to take a proper timestamp for them, so I hope these ebay screenshots will suffice....

And here they are! I'm very pleased with both of them :)

Sister Jayne 👇

Sister Gabbs 👇

Here's a photo of how they look both together with my regular pict set-up. You can really see what I mean about standardising the background!

And a nice shot to compare the old (1988) minis next to their modern Satyr Studio (2022) counterparts, and some just about out-of-production GW models

Another duplicate sculpt, this time of Sister Heidi. I  really like how her hair came out, and it kinda makes me wish I'd painted them all with white hair...

Sister Ray 👇

Sister Morphine 👇

Up next, this Witch Hunter Acolyte 👇I wanted the cheques to tie him into the Sisters a bit more, but maybe I should have painted the green robe white like the Preacher from previous months instead. Anyway, I think it looks a bit more heat resistant in green 🙃

Finally, flagellant militia. I did do a push to at least get some of them painted!👇

I think I wanted the blue hair to be reminiscent of woad dye. I was also toying with the idea of some holy warpaint, but the motivations for this unit are super low so it was a case of keeping it simple. There's a LOT of duplicate sculpts, but that is to be embraced! Hopefully I can paint a few more in June...

The second 👇 In hindsight maybe the strap round the mouth should be a different colour - probably black or a dark red...

The third👇

The fourth 👇

And finally, an impeachable Inquisitor! 👇

Here's a pic of my new photo set up. The lights I have borrowed from a friend (who is a ceramicist, and needs to take good photos for his online shop ), and the tripod I've borrowed from my partner...

In it you can see all the terrain I was painting last month, almost all specifically for these pics, although I didn't really have an idea of how I wanted them to be set up. 

I kinda wish I'd painted another set of stairs so I could join the two and have gangways between them, and so a larger display area. Maybe for the army shot in July eh?

And now the resulting cropped image, with the shadows and black point deepened a little bit (all done on the phone with the stock Google Images app) 👇

This is all of the Drew Day Williams sculpts together.

And now the links back through the Challenge, and this months figure breakdown:

Intro: Army list - link

Month one: Leaders - link - 227 points

Month two: Troopers - link - 280 points

Month three: Troopers - link - 290 points

Month four: Troopers - link - 224 points

Month five: Troopers - 281 points

48...Sister on attack bike (points are for a regular Sister with heavy flamer)

140...Sister Jayne

.........Sister Gabbs

.........Sister Heidi

.........Sister Ray

.........Sister Morphine 

4...Militia

4...Militia 

4...Militia 

4...Militia 

23...Acolyte (points are for a Missionary Champion) 

54...Inquisitor (points are for a Confessor)

TOTAL: 281 

  

This puts my Sisters force at a comfortable 1302 points, so the last month of the Challenge is a no pressure month. I have been slowly painting militia taken from the hive world of Necromunda to assist the Sisters (as part of another challenge), but I will show these next month along with an insidious threat which you can peek at below :)

I'm aiming to paint the rest of the flagellants and hopefully another bike, but I may get carried away with the xenos 😬. Either way, it's definitely non committal 😂 , but there will be Things to See!

Cheers!

A xenos infestation is uncovered!