Tuesday, 10 December 2024

"If It Doesn't Hurt... It Doesn't Count!"

Thus spoke Klovis the Redeemer, a great man of action and faith, etc etc.

The Red Redemption are a funny old lot, a bunch of ultra-zealots even by the standards of the Imperium's unhinged religious fanaticism, the Ecclesiarchy's equivalent of the sort of fundamentalists that we see in groups like Islamic State, the Taliban, the Westboro Baptist Church or Scientologists' Sea Org slave-personnel. But, of course, this is 40K, and the Red Redemption are seen through a skewed mirror, with skulls and fire and cackling incompetence as well as unthinking devotion to their faith and its tenets of burning everything and everyone that doesn't meet their exacting standards of belief (essentially, everyone who isn't in the Redemption or, at the very least, House Cawdor. Those priests of the Ecclesiarchy are on thin ice, honestly). 

Damn fun to paint, though:

Averland Sunset is a brilliant base for yellow

I've blocked out the base colours mostly and am now in the phase of doing the base details - yellow flames on red, black flames on yellow - before hitting everything with Agrax Earthshade, Nuln Oil or Carroburg Crimson and then working back up from there. I think there's going to be some "fun" moments trying to paint the face of the Deacon with the flamethrower, but other than that these goons should be a good laugh to paint up.

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