Arrows of fortune...

 Greetings once again Oldhammers...

I have managed to squeeze a few more minis before the turn of the year.

This time they are a deliberate group, a new mini-faction for my Euphoria setting. Although they use many of the same colours on the models I haven't used a particular colour scheme for them. Instead tying them together with an Arrow emblem that all of them have in several places.

So I present the Broad Arrow Gang, a small mercenary outfit in the lawless badlands of Euphoria, hiring themselves out to carry out a variety of jobs for anyone who needs some discreet muscle for any purpose.

First up the gang's leader, Simeon Kolchak.

His arrowhead symbol was source of the gang's emblem.

Although generally known as "Colonel Kolchak" or just "the Colonel" there is currently no substantiated evidence to prove that he has ever held that rank either in the Imperial Army or any Planetary Defence Forces.

 

Kolchak formed the Broad Arrow Gang gathering various often disparate associates and welding them together through force of personality.

Next we have Pirosteq Balveda, one of the first recruits to the gang.

She has a tiny arrow on her eyepatch, and a white one just visible on her gasmask...

Balveda lived a rough life as a scavenger in the Euphorian badlands prior to being recruited by the Colonel. She is renowned for her almost miraculous skills as a healer and for her uncanny ability to not be where you thought she was a minute ago...

 

Next up is Lancelot Ponsonby-Wilberforce (some may recognise this model since I actually painted him a while ago but decided to add him to the Broad Arrow Gang and gave him some arrow symbols).

An eccentric individual known for his singular attire who has wandered the badlands for years, how the Colonel convinced him to join up is unknown. If you are looking for information then Ponsonby-Wilberforce is your best source, there is seemingly nothing happening on Euphoria that he doesn't somehow find out about.

Then we have Amos "Breakout" Conrad.

 

 

"Breakout" Conrad is an individual infamous in the Euphorian underworld for his ability to inevitably escape custody no matter how securely he is imprisoned. Having recently escaped from a cell within the Euphorian Arbite Precinct itself he appears to have signed on with the Broad Arrows.

 

Tried to make it look like the arrow was made of metal studs.

Hiro Gishima is the next member of the gang.

 

Attempted a different method of painting skin on this one.

 This muscle-bound brawler is much more sophisticated than his primitive attire and attitude would suggest, speaking a number of alien languages and knowledgeable about variety of obscure subjects. Rumour says the gang found him wandering half-mad in strange ruins out in the badlands, however no such ruins are recorded in any official records, so this is almost certainly an urban legend.

The final member of the gang is Skabbers, the Ratling.

Originally he only had the arrow on his cap but I decided he needed one visible from the front.

A highly successful handler of illicit goods moving on and off world the diminutive Skabbers was "recruited" by Kolchak after attempting to scam the good Colonel over a shipment of fake Charadonian Fungus Beer. His natural talent for marksmanship has lead to him providing covering fire for the rest of the gang.

Have started work on a few more Colony 87 models I got from Crooked Dice.

Till next time.

Cap'n Smyrk

Planetary immolation...

Greetings fellow Oldhammerers, hopefully you have all had a good [seasonal holiday of choice].

Due to the current moratorium on the traditional seasonal visits to sundry family members I have actually been painting some more miniatures.

I have several in progress forming a new mini-faction or gang but I also painted up another of the old mercenary/adventurer ranges that I wasn't including in the new group who I have managed to get finished.

The ever popular (and overly dramatically named...) Worldburner. This time I decided to try and replicate the scheme he is wearing in one of his two artistic appearances in the original Rogue Trader rulebook (on page 172).

Some artistic license was required as only part of his top half is actually in the picture.

I'm pretty happy with how he's turned out and how close I managed to get to the base picture.

Still working on the others but might get them done before the end of the year, we'll have to see.

Anyways a Happy New Year (preferably better than this one anyway) to you all.

Till next time.

Cap'n Smyrk