A big WIP i'm very proud of the progress on, another Necromunda kitbash for my extended Ogryn Gang. This is a Onmyodo Coven, the little free delegation of fighters you get for allying with the noble House Ty, consisting of a trained Telepath Psyker and their paired psychic blank that serves to limit their power.
House Ty doesn't have much lore beyond that they're a relatively young noble house that claims descent from old earth japenese nobility and emulates everything known about japanese culture in the 41st millenium, probably entierly to give themselves some Old Money street cred that they don't actually have, but they're also the sneaky shadowbrokers of the noble houses of Necromunda.
The art for the Onmyodo Coven depicts them with kind of a geisha aesthetic that I didn't feel confident in being able to source parts to emulate (and sort of implies their social status within the noble house via that association), so my pair are decked out in more traditional western noble attire, I guess they're more on the down-low for this outing and blending in with the rest of the schmucks.
I like the idea of the telepath being a House Ty noble herself, an elderly branch of the family tree following her own whims and desires out into the underhive and given a little more length to her leash as long as she continues to service the interests of the greater house. I originally intended to swap out her arms for something else while keeping the lacy sleeves, but once i saw them on the model I liked the idea she was a little lanky and strange from the rejuvinat treatments that got her to this advanced age (and that maybe they're an indication that she's at the limit of those youth treatments available to her, some of the length to her leash being that she's finally on her way out), so this younger psychic blank as her bodyguard/limiter would be maybe her third or fourth partner over her lifetime and firmly in the subservient role (though perhaps with a little grandmotherly care to her treatment). I like the idea of the Ty noblewoman supporting the Ogryn gang partly out of pragmatism (it helps to have some muscle to direct around, and they have a
lot of muscle) but also because she finds the idea of Ogryn psykers with dreams to be a sanctioned house of their own to be so novel and charming that she's simply
got to find out how this will all play out, and is willing to aid them for as long as it keeps being so charming and novel.
For the parts they're made of: The core of the telepath is from Malifaux's widow weaver model, with all the spider parts cut away and the parasol intertwined with a grey knights warding stave to represent the model's shock stave weapon (though i will be shortening it down a whole lot, probably cutting away the entire center of the staff when it gets attached to the widow weaver hand). Both of them have harlequin torso that better proportion them with GW scale bits, while the blank is otherwise entierly made of bits from a genestealer magus (except the fan hand, which is from Yvraine and probably getting re-posed before its stuck on).
I'm not entierly sure of the heads I want to use yet, though. I like the idea of something mysterious and masked like the cypher-lords, though I think they might be too bulky. The coven throne vampire head would work well for an old lady, but something like the blood bowl wood elf team (maybe blood bowl amazons?) might give me masked female heads that work better
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