Greetings Terrans, and wonder of wonders – a second post from me in less than a week! Last time I mentioned that there were a couple of models missing from 1 Platoon – a Commissar and a Sanctioned Psyker. Well, I had some models in mind, so I got on with prepping and painting them on Sunday:

The Commissar is a 1989 sculpt by Mark Copplestone – I stuck a magazine on to his lasgun and modified the barrel to look more like a Bolter, and I added the sheathed sword to match the list. The painting was pretty straight forward, being mostly black (with a light drybrush of grey for highlights). I painted the trousers tan just to break up the mini a bit, and to reference the Blanche artwork I have been using as inspiration.

The Psyker is also from 1989, sculpted by Alan Perry. This guy was designed to have separate plastic IG arms back in the day, but I used some trimmed down spare arms from the OohRah set for continuity, with the addition of a pistol & sword. I went for green on this guy, mainly because we haven’t had much green so far in this project and I fancied a pop of colour, (plus green just seems right for these 40k psychic types). I had fun with the skin tone, making him look just a little bit unusual – appropriate for a sanctioned mutant.

Here’s a few more pics:

And here is the whole Platoon packed in their tray, ready for battle on the weekend :-)

That’s all for now folks, onwards and upwards!