Sometimes
when you're building a model, especially a conversion, you get a
picture in your head and you won't be happy until its perfect. I had
this idea for a character in my Inquisitorial warband, an Imperial
Strategist called Alvin Callum (a very old character of mine) where
he would be dual wielding a pair of laspistols. I was going to do
this using a pistol from the Cadian Shock Troops box and one from the
Cadian Command Squad...
…
except that I misremembering the laspistol from the
Command Squad being held in the model's left hand so now my cool
gunslinger idea doesn't work. I thought there was an off-hand version
for the standard bearer but clearly I was imagining things. He'd have
been aiming along the Command Squad pistol as he held the Shock
Troops one up against the side of his head. Would have looked great.
So
now I'm going to ridiculous lengths to make this happen. There are
two options: try to shave down a Tempestus Scions hotshot laspistol
(which is left-handed) to look enough like the Guard one or this:
… which
I found on the project log of one Kierdale over at Bolter &Chainsword. Why am I going to all this trouble for a character who
will not be that impressive to look at, won;t be that powerful
in-game and doesn't matter all that much?
Because
this character is actually important to me. He's been a part of the
background for every Imperial army I've had: he started as a
scrivener who fell into the orbit of my Inquisitor, he's worked with
my Space Marines, joined Imperial Strategy and became a regimental
advisor to my Guard. Yet he has never had a model, not in ten years
and I really, really want to get this right.
That
project log also has a great tutorial for making Guard veterans with
shotguns, by the way, and is really worth checking out.
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