Something a little different this time, and something not quite so-Old Hammer.
This is a project that I began several years ago but abandoned incomplete. I can't say exactly what caused me to go back and finish it (and dive off down this particular rabbit hole...).
To go back to the very beginning, when the Inquisitor game first came out, I came up with a background idea for a pair of rival Inquisitors, Ankyra and Tamerlane Voth. The basic premise was that Inquisitor Rastaban Tycho (whose name I subsequently borrowed for one of my RT Inquisitors) discovers a twin brother and sister who are unusually both psykers, and both strong enough to not be Astropathed or make a one-way pilgrimage to the Golden Throne.
Tycho took the two into his retinue and eventually both became Interrogators and finally Inquisitors themselves. However, their mentor had always been on the radical side of the coin and finally took a dive off the deep end and was declared a heretic by his peers. The Voths were not directly involved in these events and avoided censure themselves.
However their reactions to these events were dramatically different. Ankyra, always secretive in her actions became even more so. Tamerlane comes to see their mentor's downfall as being inevitable and swings to the Puritan side and becomes suspicious of his sister.
I never actually played Inquisitor and thus nothing every came of it at the time.
Later I started following the Inq28 community and made an attempt to build models for characters I had thought up, which is where this model came in. I didn't have much experience with converting metal models so I stuck to plastic parts.
I cannot claim any originality in this model, being based on a model made by Keravin (that I saw on the old Ammo Bunker forum), based on a Dark Eldar Warrior body with a hooded Wood Elf head.
So this is my homage to that model, Inquisitor Ankyra Voth.
I trimmed down the sharp and spikey bits, like the sides of the knee pads and spikes on the lower leg.
I used a bit of green stuff to fill a gap behind one arm and give her a bit of a neck, as well as covering the pattern on the knife scabbard (although that was ultimately obscured by the sword...).
The original came out long before the appearance of plastic Sisters of Battle so Keravin used a set of metal arms. I originally tried to use the Dark Eldar arms rearmed with Imperial weapons, however I was using a splinter rifle supporting arm and couldn't find anything suitable to put in the open hand. This was the main reason along with failure to find a sword that I liked that I lost interest originally.
After finishing this I went on a bit of spending spree gathering bits for Tamerlane Voth and members of their retinues, I've already built a gunslinger/veteran and an Arco-Flagellant, which will hopefully get painted soon.
Till next time...
Cap'n Smyrk
