No one expects the Inquistion! : An Inquisitorial Knights Army..

What can I say?  I’m a huge fan of the Giant Stompy Robots.

I have gradually been building Knight models since the first of them came out, although they never really made it to the tabletop as the whole “army” concept around them was somewhat strained.   I wanted to put together a larger warhound-like titan, and the Dreamforge Leviathan had been on my table for quite some time.  It ended up being the ride I envisioned for the Grand Inquisitor.  When the leaks for the codex came out, I finally finished it and played it as a proxy for a Knight Castellan.

The Crusader Knight is also done up in the glorious Dress-whites of the Inquistion, being the Grand Inquisitor’s companion.  As soon as the Armigers came along, it made sense to round out their small band with a pair of Helverins and a Warglaive bondsmen.    All of the Grand Inquisitor’s primary team are in the pure white paint scheme, with inquisitorial iconography all about.  I did some creative casting to make the leg plates and shoulder icons for the Dreamforge leviathan and Inquisitorial icon on the Crusader’s carapace.

Painting the white was a challenge I gave myself as “white armor” is hard to make work.  I also chose to go with a weathering and painting style more like realistic armored vehicle rather than the highlighting and modulations of traditional GW styles. Using various shades of tans to browns for shading and markings, I’m somewhat content with the outcome.

I did play around with the stance on the Warglaive, just because I wanted something a bit more dynamic.