Divine Twilight - Cawdor Gang Proxy

 Well, it's better late then never. 

Here for your viewing pleasure is my Cawdor Gang, I bought the minis from Mirliton. It's based out of Italy and they do some really good metal miniatures for sci-fi and fantasy. They also do some smaller 15mm scale sculpts if you are into that as well.

The Divine Twilight

When I ordered this back in March, while I was still riding off the Necromunda high after playing it at Toon Con, I was a bit nervous about getting anything shipped from Italy at the time, but with how long they actually took to show up. I figured 2 months on a boat was probably enough self isolation for the models.

The Divine Twilight, the religious gang is on the lips of thousands of hivers. Be it a whisper of members disappearing ("relocating" to spread the word of her coming) or devote followers let go abruptly after several years of service. All civilians have been in some way impacted by the organization or had known someone who is a follower. 

Preachers seek out weak spirited individuals among the hive, blessing them with words of faith. Reminding them that there is a way out of their poor, starving laboring lives, and it's through Him that they will find peace and tranquility. It is told that she will come again, appearing in visions of a majestic purple light in the dreams of those deemed worth of his visage. Once these misguided miscreants are recruited into the fold, they are privileged to come to ceremonies at the church after proving their worth. Followers are tasked with recruiting others to the church, where they worship, recite ancient text that time has forgotten, Each member striving to be more, desiring perfection in their work

Once a devotee has turned 19, they are now ready to take a pilgrimage out into the world, or the Sacred Mission. This holy rite of passage is how you get to see inside the Temples of Desire, where deprived screams of pleasure and pain echo throughout it's halls, fueling the imagination of the weak minded. On your pilgrimage, you will be moved off planet to ones that the High Chancellor would deem as having a "crisis of faith".

Sebastian & Mordecai

Sebastian and Mordecai have been on many missions together, despite a large number of them being on hostile planet. . Some of the other gang members often call them over achievers (which is saying a lot for a Cult of Slaanesh) as they are always sharing the same story, about how they were able to convert a Kroot. Qriaww, wasn't satisfied with the gene traits of one species, it desired more variety. A great hunger stirred in the great warrior, savaging fellow kroot and enemy a like, becoming a ravenous beast. Sebastian challenged the Kroot to a unarmed combat, and won. Sebastian promised that every enemy of the Divine Twilight were just as powerful as them, that combat would be exhilarating performance of art against those that were bred from the harshest environments. Qriaww would agree to follow the Divine Twilight as long as this was true.

Porter & Corvus

Corvus and Porter both are juves of the gang, joining the fight for a better life then hard honest work. Hoping to score big on a quick job.

Kalum & Klaudius

Kalum and Klaudius brothers that have been surviving on their own for years, the comfort of the gang life made it easier on their daily lives. Kalum was grievously wounded in battle, which forced him to wear a respirator. He hopes to acquire enough money to fix his wound with augmentations. Both believe in sharpening their own skills and one day commanding the gang themselves.

Cassius & Petro

Cassius and Petro, once enforcers that worked deep within the underhive, they now plan to secure supplies to the Divine Twilight from their connections within the force.

It might be fun to do a Kroot as one of their hangers on, but the size difference between the models would be pretty wild. So this is what I have as a list instead.

Sebastian - Leader - Krak Grenade, Fighting Knife, Sawn-off Shotgun - 195 Credits

Mordecai - Champion - Krak Grenade, Fighting Knife, Flamer - 300 Credits

Cassius - Ganger - Emperor's Wrath rounds, Polearm/Blunderbuss - 120 credits

Petro- Ganger - Frag Grenade, Photo-goggles, fighting knife, Reclaimed Autogun - 150 credits

Klaudius - Ganger - Stub gun  Dumdum Rounds, stub gun - 85 credits

Kalum - Ganger - Respirator, Sawn-off Shotgun - 75 credits

Porter - Juve - Reclaimed autopistol - 35 credits

Corvus - Juve - axe, Stub gun - 40 credits

Total 1000 credits

Next on the Hobby Desk

I will be going through my hobby resolutions for 2020, what has changed since the pandemic and what are my plans for 2021? Probably painting goals for now, till this pandemic thing cools down.

Minivember Challenge

November has come and gone. Somehow simultaneously moving at a snail's pace and also rocketing us quickly to the end of the year. I was able to get 20/30 of the miniatures done for #minivember. The one of the goals for this project was to finish off units for Warhammer 40k that originally were painted up just for Kill Team (ie groups of two instead whole units of 5). The primary goal was to get more of the Adeptus Mechanicus finished to be able to play painted robots for Crusade. I am pretty happy with the results, I'll probably finish off the rest throughout December, I do know that Rachel wants to pick up Warhammer Underworld Direchasm next weekend, so that might jump ahead in the painting queue.

I painted up the Wave Serpent with Blight Lances, not glued on so I can swap them out for something a bit less heavy. Ran out of basing, I'll finish them of once I resupply, then I can take pictures of the whole army.

Kastelon Robots and Cybernetica Datasmith from the Apocalypse box (still have another two Robots, two more Datasmiths and a Dominus from that box to paint up). The Kataphron Destroyers were from a lot, as well as Belisarius Cawl both assembled. The Destroyers were interesting to paint up, can't imagine Cawl with all his mechatendrils being much easier to get on the table. That said, Skitarii are fast becoming one of my favourite armies to paint up, great sculpts, and lots of options for magnetizing.

Kastelon Robot want hug from Datasmith!

One of the odd one out in this painting challenge, the Dewback Rider. I equipped him with a flame thrower (instead of a melee weapon or sniper rifle) as cavalry that can melt your face off is much cooler. Gotta get the Rebellion side started one of these days, I find my biggest hurdle with them is finding a colour scheme.

Used one of the Which elves? Witch Aelves! Right the copyrightable name for them, yes! I used this one as test to figured out what colours I'd like to make the WarCry Warband. Still working on a basing for them though.

 

The remaining 10 miniatures were a bit of a hodge-podge of models, the Daughters of Khaine to finish off the WarCry Warband. Truth be told, I am a bit nervous touching the Khinerai (the fragile looking winged witches), with the only contact point to the base being a slender tail, I figured one rough brush stroke and they would snap off their base. Jain Zar to lead the Howling Banshees, once again some creative block with how to tackle her base. I had a few one armed metal Dark Eldar Wyches, so one of them will be a corpse for the base. She is also pinned to a piece of ruins to add a bit of a dynamic posing to the older model. Out of print metal daemon prince that will be doing double duty as a Daemon Prince and Be'lakor for my Slaves to Darkness Army. Last but not least, Gutrot Spume, figured I could get a few more Leaders done for Age of Sigmar, as I usually start with troops and leave the Leaders for last. 

Next on the Hobby Desk

Will be working on the Daughters of Khaine Warband as it's getting close to done. Who knows what else I might get up to at this point.