hey guys Jay here welcome to eons of battle today I want to talk a little bit about storytelling in
40K or really storytelling with Miniatures because recently I've completed a project that is really
scratched an itch or scratched a spot that I haven't scratched in a long time about like making
Miniatures that tell a story or I had a story in mind when I created these models this is a kill
team I love the game kill team and this might be I was on 15 and then I painted the Tau that
would have been 16 is this my 17th completed kill team it might be I think it's my 17th completed
kill team but these are the tempestus Scions out of the compendium book normal Guardsmen you can
take either Canadian Guardsmen or you can take tempestus Scions tempestas ions are better in
every way but you don't get to take as many you can take 14 regular Guardsmen or you can take 10
to pesticions and the topest Scions they don't really look like army soldiers they look a lot
more like like a medieval knights I really like their armor the games are shop has been teasing
new kazerkin and kazer can look like soldiers whereas these guys look more like security or
I guess like some sort of a uh a medieval police a medieval sci-fi police but that got me thinking
that they would be perfect for an inquisition force and so I thought that these guys would
make great Inquisitor helpers and that is exactly what I've made also I was super inspired I was in
I was not in a painting slump but I had painted like 10 projects exactly the same way and then I
was watching uh some videos from Macro for Sony hello guys and welcome back to not just Mecca I
I love his painting so much it's amazing what he can do and the video that I watched he was
using the airbrush and he was using the airbrush for everything for base coating for highlighting
for blending for glazing and he was holding that airbrush millimeters from the model and I thought
well I should try that and so I tried that on this team and it was super effective I really
had a good time I should keep going with that I think after that I painted another kill team in
a similar style but not the exact same way but I really really enjoyed it and they turned out
so good and they turned out grim and dark and that Grim Darkness works perfectly for my idea
that these are helpers of the Inquisition because the Inquisition although their goals are very high
and mighty they're they're the uh the peacekeepers of of like freedom in the Galaxy sort of it's it's
very it's very awful where like you know they'll silence people who have different opinions to how
the Imperium currently operates which is horribly but it makes sense that an Inquisitor would have
kind of spooky scary retinue soldier guys and so I decided for my tempester the sergeant of the
Scions I would actually use a visitor model and so I use the model of kyria draxus and I painted
this model up on stream actually I painted all of these guys up on stream by the way I live stream
every weekday from 9 to 10 pm Central come hang out I named this character what did I name it
may tandor this is Inquisitor May tandor built off of Kyrie addresses I head swapped so it's
different completely different now head swap I used a stormcast imperial stormcast Imperial
stormcast Eternal head as the swap for this model and I really really like how she turned out and I
like how she is very clean and her armor is shiny and Polished but her retinue is just super beat up
and grim and just dark and miserable and so kyria draxus gave me the perfect idea because she's a
little bit of a of a not a rogue Inquisitor but definitely a slightly heretical Inquisitor she's
carrying a um an Eldar Shirk and catapult and she has the Psychic Dragon on her arm and so
I thought she's a bit of a radical Inquisitor so maybe she has created herself some minions
to do her bidding that are also heretical so in 40K there's a thing called A servitor and
A servitor is a person who has been turned into a sort of a machine computer that can
do a task and usually those are very simple tasks opening and closing doors dragging around a Gun
and shooting it in a in a certain direction with a horrible ballistic skill servators
suck but I am saying that these are serviters and may has actually used some xenos technology
to make servators that are really good that are proper soldiers you know a little a little DNA
cloning Shenanigans she has the perfect servators but she can't let anybody ever find out what she's
done so she has made all of her servators unable to speak oh and on These Guys these are not the
normal tempesta Scions I've head swapped them with these katari Vanguard models I really like that
bell-shaped helmet they have and it goes along really well with the tempestas armor and so their
faces are hidden they just have one glowing green eye and so they are unable to speak and they're
unable to give up May and tell anybody about her heretical ways that did cause some problems though
when it came to this model this is the Vox guy and the original model he was actually speaking
into a telephone but obviously my guy couldn't be speaking into a telephone if he can't speak
so I turned his telephone into a little computer screen and I gave him a lot more antennas so he
can perhaps psychically communicate with all of his Brethren because I think that little oh oh
Aunt May over here she actually used some Eldar either some Eldar DNA or some Eldar machinations
to create her super soldier servators and so yeah also I just love this model but I took the chain
sword hand and then I glued this computer bit on top of it and so he's actually kind of got
like a knife computer like it looks like he's holding a knife and then on top of the knife as
a computer I just I just think it's fun but yeah ah I absolutely love this Forest it's got I it's
just made so much creativity happen for me and I'm super excited to play it in the game because the
tempesta Scions are bad ass they're they've got some great rules they don't get as many models as
the normal Imperial Guard and they don't have all the shenanigans that the veteran Guardsmen have
the ones that came in the octerus box but they can do some really cool stuff that guy was just
showing off the Vox guy he can hand out action points to anybody on the board he can do that
twice a turn if he uses both of his actions and so like if if I need to grab an objective I can I can
do a full move I can do a dash and then I can I can hand that model another action point so that
he can claim the objective that is a super super great rule to have in a clutch and kyria so I
wanted to equip my sergeant my tempestor sergeant with a power fist although I think I might
just say she has a power weapon because she's physically has a power fist but the Power Fist is
so bad if you equip a sergeant with a power weapon they hit on twos in close combat if you equip a
power fist they hit on fours so you go from an almost certainty to like a 50 50. like worse
it's it's super bad so maybe I'll just call that a power weapon that looks fisty as opposed to a
proper power fist but I am super super jazzed with this kill team this isn't the first time that I've
done some some creativeness with my armies but this is probably I mean certain certainly it's the
most resonance maybe one of the more fleshed out but when I was putting together my black Templars
my black Templars are not they're pretty close they're pretty lore accurate but I've done a few
little Shenanigans here and there mostly because I have my idea for them is that they are on in a
crusade against this group of Orcs who are blue which are actually Nick's Orcs he paints all of
his Works blue and so my Templar have been warring for hundreds of years against Nick's Orcs And so
I have a little shield and this little Shield that I painted on a bunch of their legs it's
just a super simple little thing but that makes them my crusade and I remember way back in high
school when I was putting together my very very first necron Army when I finally decided to paint
them white because originally I painted them like the the box art and it was a disaster and so I
repainted them all white with blue accents and my idea was that they were growing up on not growing
up their necrons they're Eternal but they were living on an ice planet and so their white their
white armor skin and their glowing blue glowing light blue weapons were actually camouflaging
them against the whites the white landscape that they lived on that ended up being a little bit of
a mistake because I had white necrons with light blue guns on Snowy bases and so it's like a it's
like a polar bear and a blizzard you can't see you couldn't really see anything when I had everything
all set up it just kind of looked like a mess so I've actually gone back and I've changed them
from white with blue accents to white with orange accents and that orange really hits a lot harder
I don't have a good lore idea of why they're orange but but that's it's fun things to think
about and that's how this team kind of came about is I had ideas and I had things I wanted to do
and I had inspiration from Marco for Sony of of techniques I wanted to try and it all kind of
acted as a stepladder to create something really cool you don't have to have everything thought up
ahead of time you don't really ever have to have anything thought up but I think it's a really
cool idea to insert some lore and some character and some fiction into your Miniatures war games
are perfect for that there are some games like like an infinity or malifo where like you kind
of are playing I guess Marvel crisis protocol is the big one where you are playing real fake
folks and they should probably be painted the way that they are less so malfo and infinity more so
Marvel prizes protocol I mean it's that's the Hulk he's just the Hulk and he has you know Decades of
lore surrounding him but I think it's really fun especially for like um Games Workshop games or
Mantic Games to just really make the models your own and I don't I think I don't know if there's
I don't think there's a system in place I think you just have to have an inkling you just have
to have an inkling of something in your head and then you have to chase it and kind of just follow
it wherever it leads you whether it leads you to some marker for Sony tutorials or it leads
you to uh Inquisitor model that would that's about the right size to be a tempesta Scion or
into your bits bin for some skittari heads it all just leads to some really cool stuff and
I totally feel a lot more invested in this kill team than in my six towel stealth suits I like
my six towel cell suits they painted up really nice but they're just guys they're just fellas
whereas These Guys these are Xeno enhanced serviters who are who are Shackled to an
Inquisitor and unable to disobey orders and unable to tell anybody about the evils of May
I don't know if I'm completely sold on the name uh May Tandoor if anybody has some better ideas
please post them in the comments below I I really like um going online and looking up
like 40K name generators because you get some really fun stuff but half the time you just end
up with like real names from the books because that's where they pull all the names from and
so it's like oh that's a cool name oh it's the this this character from the eisenhorn trilogy
quadrilogy how many eyes and Horn books are there I'm including ravenor and the beckwinds books in
it's all part of the eisenhorn series which is fine I I like eisenhorn enough I've read
the three books and they're fine the first one's pretty good uh the second and third one anyway I
really I really am getting a kick out of this kill team and I'm excited to try out more of
I don't know I guess just being creative with my kill teams because you know this is this is I have
a lot of kill teams on my belt but I've still got plenty to Go Games Workshop just showed off some
breachers coming in that new big kill Team box on a space Hulk and man I don't know maybe I'll take
those breachers and I'll incorporate them into this like kyria has some tempesta Scions and some
Imperial breachers like some deck troopers from a spaceship that would actually make a lot of sense
ah it would look so good to have more tempesta Scions and then the breachers and then maybe a
couple of vendettas decked out in inquisitorial symbols ah but that's that's the sort of stuff
that happens those ideas happen when you put that thought into your models because there's not there
I'm not using a lot of brain power on those Tau guys painted them red put them on the Shelf but
these guys have really got me thinking about different things I can do and different Avenues
I can go down and collecting and painting so yeah if if anybody has any have if you have gone
down this same rabbit hole that I have and you have a force that you've created and you've got
some cool lore and some ideas and some kit bashes please just write me a whole story and post it in
the comments below because I would love to read it that'll probably give me more ideas for kill teams
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merch Link in the description I hope you guys enjoyed I really did I love these guys and also
they took me a while to finish I painted eight of them and then I sat on them forever because
I wasn't sure if I mean I was gonna make this video but I wasn't sure how I was gonna make
this video and so I ended up just being like eh I'm just gonna go ahead and paint them and
it was great because it turned into kyria and the remaining tempesta so thanks for watching