Floating eerily over the battlefield the Rogue Psykers are another of my favourite models from the Blackstone fortress set. I was a big fan of Forge World’s Rogue Psyker, although perhaps foolishly I never saved up the money and bought one, and as a result was rather disappointed when it was removed from the range last year. For those who don’t know what I’m on about here’s a reminder.
Thankfully he’s now back, although sadly without his tortured victim, joining the Necromunda range as Bounty Hunter Thaetos 23-2. My initial disappointment at the loss of the Forge World psyker however was very much ameliorated by the arrival of Blackstone Fortress and the two Rogue Psykers within, very much the spiritual successors of the aforementioned model, with the added advantages of being produced in a lighter and more flexible material.
Driven insane by the warp-spawned powers crowding their minds and at constant risk of being possessed by daemons, yet equally unwilling to be dragged away onto a Black Ship and used to keep the Emperor alive in a tortuous soul-flaying process, these two gents have instead offered their cruelty and megalomaniacal hatred of mankind to the chaos gods with predictably evil results.
As I was painting them it struck me that one or other would make a fine witch for my nascent Necromunda chaos cult gang (the one that I’m painting at a downright glacial pace!) and, as a witch can be accompanied by a familiar, I dug around in the bits box for something suitable to accompany them into the Underhive. Given the amount of toxic industrial runoff in every body of water on the hive world a mutant fish seemed perfect – and even the most learned of the helots would struggle to recognise the sigil of the god trapping them ever further in damnation…
With these done it’s time to turn my attention to the biggest, baddest villain to haunt the halls of the Blackstone Fortress, Obsidius Mallex himself. Despite my long affiliation with Chaos and my deep and abiding respect for Abaddon (the true Warmaster) this is my first attempt at painting a member of the Black Legion so it’ll be interesting to see how I get on.
August 16th, 2019 at 6:44 am
As always mate I like the figures but that fish is something else and has got my mind ticking over!
August 17th, 2019 at 1:38 pm
Cheers! Yeah, that fish is a weird looking thing isn’t it? It was part of a set of familiars that came with the Silver Tower game a couple of years ago, I have the others kicking around somewhere so I’ll dig them out and get them done sooner or later.
August 16th, 2019 at 7:21 am
Cracking job mate – these guys are creepy as hell! The veins and discolouration you’ve painted on their bulbous heads is spot on – proper body horror stylee! Awesome 🙂
August 17th, 2019 at 1:40 pm
Cheers mate – yeah, having your bonce swell up like that can’t be good for you! 😄
August 16th, 2019 at 9:37 am
Very nice, much better than my own efforts on these miniatures. I think it’s the discolouration that really kicks it up a notch.
August 17th, 2019 at 1:50 pm
No need to be harsh on yourself, just took a look at your psykers and you did a great job on them. 🙂 Must confess though, I’m really pleased with those bloated, discoloured craniums! 😁
August 17th, 2019 at 4:08 pm
I really like that pair.
Cheers,
Pete.
August 17th, 2019 at 9:28 pm
Thanks Pete, I’m really pleased with them 🙂
August 18th, 2019 at 1:03 am
Great stuff once again, Wudu – I love what you’ve done with their disgusting heads. I’ll have to remember that when I eventually get to my own BSF stuff.
August 18th, 2019 at 8:16 pm
Cheers! Those heads really are a bit horrible aren’t they – I felt I had to make a feature of them. Looking forward to seeing what you do with BSF when you get to it, I’m sure it’ll be excellent 🙂
August 18th, 2019 at 8:47 am
Really nice! That fish simply has to be a Mordheim reference…
August 18th, 2019 at 9:21 pm
Cheers! Yeah, I reckon that’s a safe bet, it certainly screams Mordheim to me. I’m doubtful we’ll see Mordheim return any time soon but now it’s 20 years old there will be plenty of people working in the design studio for whom playing it was a formative experience, and I’d be surprised if we don’t see plenty more references to it over the next few years.
August 20th, 2019 at 8:34 am
Bloody brilliant mate, I just love the fish!
August 21st, 2019 at 6:03 pm
Cheers – me too! We need the occasional really surreal miniature in our lives I reckon 😀
August 21st, 2019 at 7:35 pm
I always knew there was something fishy about those guys! 😉
They look great! There’s clearly something very wrong with them, but they’re OK with it because it lets them wreak hideous mayhem.
August 22nd, 2019 at 2:20 pm
Boom boom! 😂
Cheers! That last sentence is probably the best summing up of Chaos I’ve ever read – life with the dark gods in a nutshell!
October 23rd, 2019 at 2:08 am
The rogue psyker has returned as a mercenary for necromunda so you can still get it. Although it doesn’t have the cool back things or the little mind slave type guy
October 23rd, 2019 at 9:58 pm
Yeah, I’m really glad they found a way to keep him in the range. Cheers for the heads-up, I’d spotted he was back and since I wrote this post I finally went ahead and bought him. Now I just need to actually paint him as well… Would be great if they found a way to bring back the Nurgle sorcerers from the old traitor guard range as well, they were awesome (and once again they passed me by – I guess you can’t have everything eh?).