From DallasE: More Winter Soviets and Cyberskulls! (Heresy) (75 points)

Continuing on with the Winter Soviets theme I'll start the post with one from Warlord Games and two from Bad Squiddo.

This is the "company commander" from Warlord's Winter Soviet support pack. It's an OK model but pretty lightly armed with only a pistol, seems to run counter to the current Bolt Action meta where command squads are used like fighting units and are pretty heavily armed. But I'm not one for "metas" in historical games (or any games really) so it's OK by me. 

(Paul - as a Soviet Officer, he only needs a pistol anyway, a key part of his mandated 'reinforcement by example' leadership style...)

The sculpt is nice but scales somewhat larger than the Warlord plastic infantry. It's no problem if your command squad is all metal, but once you add in the plastics it can get a little weird.

 

Bad Squiddo is of course well-known for their ranges of female figures and they have some cracking Soviets on offer. The last time I was in Fargo I picked up a pack of their excellent Traffic Controllers from FLGS Little Big Wars. LBW carries lots of Annie's stuff but unfortunately they didn't have the winter snipers or Lyudmila Pavlichenko packs in stock. But these are very nice models too.

 

This traffic controller carries a Mosin-Nagant.

Her companion is flagging traffic. These are very well-sculpted models, just full of character. They're somewhat larger than the Warlord plastic infantry too, though.

Anyway she's flagging us on to the Sixth Circle: Heresy.

For that Circle I've painted a group of eight 28mm "not-Cyberskulls" from a 3D printshop. I wanted some more floaty skulls to go into my 40K Sisters of Battle army, and to use in an Inquisitorial gang. And these are pretty nice.

 

I like how the one is sporting a Bishop's mitre, for Pete's sake. That must be heretical on some level...

The others are carrying weapons of various kinds.

The skull on the right is carrying a book. There's purity seals on it so it must be OK.

A couple skully dudes floating along trailing rolls of toilet paper they stepped on in the space-restroom.

The Bishop again. Love this guy.

Anyway, here's the points breakdown:

3x 28mm Winter Soviets: 15 points

8x 28mm floaty cyberskulls: 40 points

Sarah bonus: 20 points (I've clarified this with the Snowlord himself and unfortunately this Bonus is claimed exclusively through the Sarah Serephon/Succubus mechanic transferring you between themes. It can still count toward the Sarah's Challenge though - Paul)

Sixth Circle bonus: 20 points

Total: 95 75 points

Skulls: 8

Cheers!

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Nice Soviets to add to your force Dallas, and I LOVE the Cyberskulls - I'm sure Barks the Skull Lord will be impressed also! 

As you say the one with the mitre is just fab. Clearly he was an Ecclesiarch of some note, though unable to be cannonised because of those incriminating social media posts from the Dark Eldar pleasure palace on Eroticon VI - pity! Perhaps the other skulls are the remnants of his Ministorum crew back in the day too? :-)

- Paul