Vastarian: "Civilian" Cultists

Bathe in the glow of sunlight's beating rays.

 

Before it descended into chaos after the “Emergence of Saints,” Vastarian was on a well-traveled route to holy Terra. As such, it was a holy world beyond compare, filled with massive houses of worship, an expanse of stained glass and minarets, labyrinthian catacombs revering the hallowed dead, and cavernous libraries and repositories of holy texts and religious scholarship. It also welcomed thousands of disparate orthodoxies and splinters of the Imperial Creed, where they all lived in relative harmony together. With the opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum, a psychic awakening swept over Vastarian and caused the planet to collapse into bedlam, and with it millions of lives were upended.

To truly convey Vastarian on the tabletop, particularly for the upcoming event in November, we knew we needed to have some generic cultist models, representing some of the regular “civilians” of the planet. To our surprise and delight, Marcello Rizza (@uollas_uolsh) recently contacted us and offered to send a few copies of an amazing cultist model he sculpted by hand and cast in resin, for use with Vastarian. The diminutive robed figures seemed ideal for Vastarian civilians, and I quickly painted four of them!

Being one piece models, the cultist models were quite quick to paint, using drybrushes to stipple on different reds (Vallejo Model Air Hull Red and Model Color Black Red, Pro-Acryl Burnt Red and Bold Pyrole Red).

After drybrushing, I applied a light coat of Pro-Acryl Brown Wash and then an oil wash using 502 Abteilung Raw Umber.

One of the cultists next to a shrine to the navigators of Vastarian.

The four cultists painted!

On the Road to Ravachol.

- Eric Wier