Quilty, The Vampire Hunter

 This is Quilty. He fights the undead.

 He might look somewhat underequipped for the task at hand. That is the idea. It is both a constraint of his nonexistent resources and a tactic to trick creatures of the night into a sense of security. Not a false sense, but even the slightest bit of overconfidence helps. He might show up in the depth of a hive or in the dungeons of a castle. Quilty is quite a wandering soul.

 Quilty's body is from a Necromunda hive scum, with the sci-fi kneepads sanded off. The lantern is from a Black Templars kit, the hand from a zombie. The dagger is of Tempestus Scion make and his head and arms come from the Empire Handgunners kit. I removed his original chin and sculpted a new one. Quilty does not scream like his original head implied, he only whimpers a little. I built him in a very cautious pose. His lantern is held out in front of him, and he is taking great pains to conceal a dagger behind his back. The base he stands on is my first attempt at both stone and sculpting brickwork. I had fun doing it, but in the future I think I will use a different material. Greenstuff does not take kindly to becoming a base.

 He is my first attempt at a checkerboard pattern and at painting yellow. I think I came out of the affair better than expected, though the greenstuff seams of his arms could have done with some sculpting touch-ups. The lantern especially was a great challenge to work with. I started with the darker colours and then painted lighter ones in the bottom sections. I tried to make it so that the change in colour didn't always happen between the lantern slats to give it a more organic look, but the iron coating of the lantern covered much of that effort up.

Behind the scenes I have been continuing with the Afghans, I managed nine in only eleven days recently. I had hoped to get out another October themed figure for him to do battle with before Halloween. Perhaps I still shall, or at least finish and prime an assembly. After all, Quilty the Vampire Hunter needs vampires to hunt, or be hunted by.