Warhammer: Wrath & Glory, The March of Chaos – The Crew, Part 2

 The final two characters of the crew were Otto-uitroff and Simsel Simselson.

One of the very first things Warhammer I ever painted was the Start Collecting Adeptus Mechanicus box, so I had plenty of Skitarii to chose from.  I also took the bits left over from that box and mixed them with a Necromunda Cawdor gang box and came up with a very cool squad of what I called Dark Mechanicus techno-raiders (that probably needs a posts someday).  

But, I wanted something custom and unique for BCamp and remembered that I had a torso from the Blackstone Fortress character Daedalosus.  And with a few bits here and there came up with this gentlemech…..

OTTO-UITROFF - played by BCamp

 

                                                                                                  

Otto started with a standard Galvanic Rifle but at some point pick up a flamer and I used what I think is a Meltagun from my Krigers with a small canister attached to the side.

I used a standard Skitarii backpack and let the player choose from an assortment of heads.  This was the hardest part of the kit bash, as I had to cut off, shorten and then reattach the breathing hoses that came around the shoulders.

I actually hate painting red.  Hate.  Never can get the highlights right.  However, I recently started using AK Iterative paints, and their reds are fantastic!  I got there red color set on sale somewhere and for the first time really enjoyed painted red....huzzah!

Side-note: I actually had this model's torso because I had ordered the Blackstone Fortress expansion Escalation with the game itself (I had really wanted to play Neyam Shai Murad).  Many months later and during the middle of COVID I decided to paint the rest of the explorers and found that Daedalosus was missing his head.  I contacted Games-Workshop and the customer service was pretty outstanding.  They literally sent me an entire new expansion box to compensate (pretty sure COVID protocols had a hand in this also).  I used his backpack on the aforementioned Dark Mechanicus I had built and was very pleased to use this torso here!

SIMSEL SIMSELSON - Played by SH

While digging through that box I realized I had an actual sanctioned Pysker model for Simsel, equipped exactly as his was....but with the wrong head (very androgynous bald egg of a head).  After a very short haircut the head was replaced with a head from the Navy Breachers and I have to say, I really like this model.  Standard color schemed I gleaned from google searches of Astra Militarum Psykers.

This was a mini that I originally never had a desire to paint, but it was a joy to paint.  And I even got fancy and painted the inside of the cloak red with the awesome AK reds.

And here is the whole crew, ready to burn the heretics!

Follow their story on my Wrath & Glory page (work in progress).