I had this idea in my head for a backstory for this party that centered around the Rogue Trader from the previous update swiping a tome of arcane knowledge, and being pursued across the galaxy by this enforcer. I then had the idea that when she caught up with him, he used the book to corrupt her to his side instead. Originally, that meant making her a mutant, and I slapped the wings from my Empire War Altar on her back to give her a sort of "dark angel" appearance. I quickly decided that that looked completely stupid.
Instead I modelled her as a enforcer-turned-rogue trader, and gave her the same colour scheme to match her fella. The conversion work was really straightforward; just stick on the robe from the Von Castellan model onto the Barbarette model, change out some of the weapons, and use the arms from the Covenant model to give her a bit more of a fancy look.
The robe from the Von Castellan figure meshes quite well with Barbaretta's natural running stance and really gives the impression that this lady is motoring. The only problem is the belt is rather bulky, and around her midsection it looks a bit odd. Still, I prefer her with it than without. Without the robe, she just looks like your vanilla enforcer. With it, she looks much more like Rogue Trader herself.
Except for the face, though. I don't know how it happened, but her face came out looking like she's just been at an all-male beach populated entirely by German tourists in banana hammocks.
Oh, she has reason to run all right...
Next week (and I promise it really will be next week) we cover the first of our gunslinger mercenaries!
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