Warhammer: Wrath & Glory, The March of Chaos - The Rogue Trader

 

And on to the Rogue Trader

After being pretty satisfied with Gryf and Sister Claudia it was time for my character’s miniature -

NIKITA of HOUSE DREIOX – Rogue Trader played by me

OK, there was a bit of a genesis and evolution of this character and model.  Nikita was originally Nikodemus.  And I had a mini picked out to use (a model actually from Infinity by Corvus Belli).  During character creation I had the option to pick two really nice pieces of equipment…..one being a plasma pistol.  And during the Session Zero play-test that plasma pistol cut through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter.  MW was vexed.  And we really weren’t sure if maybe we were doing something wrong (in future games he realized he needed to use Mobs against use, which would make the fights more challenging).  I could tell MW really wanted to nerf either me or the pistol. And I, after a year of struggling to GM unbalanced, over powerful 5e player characters, chose to just redo my character to have a power sword instead of the plasma pistol (which was still quite powerful for a starting character). 

But that meant I needed a new mini, with a power sword…so Nik was lost in the void leaving his daughter Nikita his sword and Void Ship.

I was pretty happy actually to build and paint one of the Eschers I’ve had for a very long time.  But I felt like she needed a different looking power sword…and luckily found one from my Krieg Kill Team in my bits box.  And I had already written a bit of a backstory for Nik that he owned a sword that was a gift from a Krieg officer.

 

 

Ended up being a pretty standard Escher color scheme.  I pictured the garment around her waist as being the tattered remains of her lost father's field jacket.  I gave her a pouch and second pistol from my bits box (pistol required quite a bit of cutting down actually, you can just see the grip on the right picture).  I also gave her some tattoos using tiny transfers, only one visible here, left upper arm).

I said in my previous post that I paint most things to a table top plus standard, but I got a bit carried away on this one I think.

This image was created with the Adobe Generative AI for the background.

Two more to go.....