From Curt: 40K Inquisitorial Retinue (Part II) Adeptus Arbites Hunter/Seeker Team - Kane Corso and 'Daisy' (10 Points)

I regret to say that I've been struggling to get any traction this Challenge. Work, life and general winter malaise have all conspired to dampen my productivity, making it very difficult to stay on task. Nonetheless, I've been trying to put in a few hours each week to maintain momentum, and while I have several projects in mid-stream, I do have a small submission to offer today. 

This time I've returned to my 40K Inquisitorial retinue.

This is Kane Corso and 'Daisy'. They are an Arbitrator K9C Hunter/Seeker team originally part of the Adeptus Abites police force (think of a grittier version of Judge Dredd), but are now valued members of Inquisitor Rochel-Perez's retinue of espionage operatives, detectives and combat specialists.

This set of miniatures was released (I believe) as part of a Forge World special event several years ago. As can be imagined, they are quite hard to come by these days unless you know the right, ahem, contacts. In this case the source is a company named, quite appropriately, Black Market Miniatures. Anyway, I made a cautiously small order and was pleasantly surprised to receive my figures promptly, wonderfully packaged and beautifully cast in near-faultless resin.

I've painted Kane in dark green half armour, carrying a stun baton and a K9C sensory readout that is wirelessly linked to to his Cyber-Mastiff 'Daisy'.

He is festooned with purity seals indicating that he's been anointed by a priest of the Imperial cult, marking him as a man who has seen, or is about to see, some nasty, nasty things.

'Daisy' is a heavily augmented Mastiff. I was going to suggest she may be a Cane Corso (dog breed), but thought that would make a better name for her handler. :)  She's obviously seen better days, what with all her pragmatically installed battle augmetics and heavy burn scaring along her side. 

A good portion of her skeleton and musculature has been replaced with a reinforced chassis, cybernetics, along with neural injectors for pain-suppression, heightened senses and adrenaline boosting. Yes, it seems that the SPCA is sadly absent in the 41st millennium.

She's seen here going 'walkies' with her owner. I wonder if Kane cares about 'Imperial on-leash ordinances' and the fact that he's neglected to bring along any poo-bags? Somehow I suspect not.   

Thanks to Byron and the Wednesday crew for letting me horn in on their Wednesday party! 

Kane and Daisy should give me an eye-watering 10 points to add to my total. Nevertheless, onwards and upwards!

ByronM: Welcome oh fearless leader to the Wednesday crew, and thank you for pitching in today with some content as it seems you are not alone in suffering a winter malaise and entries are slow today.  

These two figures make a very nice entry. I especially like the face and skin tones on the Arbite, right down to the stubble tone on his face.  I still struggle with skin tones more often than not, so it's nice to see them done well.   The dark overall palette also works well, especially for something as dark and shadowy as an Inquisitorial Retinue.

As for the figures, they are lovely, and isn't is sad that lately the black market / grey market seems to put out better quality and customer service than the original source... that more than anything else drives home the fact that "some large un-named organization" has lost its way.  Of course that organization is also (quite appropriately here) very good at sending out the Inquisition on a witch hunt to find those shadow organizations!

Anyway, very nice work Curt.  I find that working on cool and characterful single figures like these is a great way to keep motivated, so just stick with stuff like this, it looks great.