Vaults of Terra

On this 6th year of celebrating being a father I have found myself feeling somewhat productive. I've ran, I've hobbied (a bit) and taken care of my chores and so have decided to take advantage of the morning while it is still quiet. 

While I was going through my photos yesterday during the creation of my modular board blog I rediscovered some models I built last year and wanted to talk a bit about them and their inspiration.

lexicanum

I've always had a mixed love affair with warhammer fiction. There are some absolutely amazing stories out there however I have always been drawn to the books which take look at the world which has been built and developed over the last almost 40 years as a microcosm(just realised rogue trader came out in 1987!).

Fortunately there are some realy great ranges of books out there which add a lot of lore and flavor to the 40k world. The Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Shira Calpurnia books focus on specific individuals. All of the Necromunda books are gold mines as are the crime (dredge runners) and horror (Dark Harvest - Warhammer) ranges. The Rogue Trader Omnibus especially stands out to me with it's character Lucian Gerrit.

This brings me to one trilogy that stood out to me so much it inspired me to kitbash (not very well I might add) my interpretation of the characters. The vaults of terra (written by Chris Wraight) in my opinion is one of the best sets of fiction written in the 40k world. It treads a beautiful balance of grandiose purpose and the mundane. I won't go into a synopsis here as there are much better reviews to be found however I will say if you haven't read the three books you're missing out. 

Errasmus Crowl, Luce Spinoza, Niir Khazad, Maldo Revus and Gorgias all play pivotal roles within the story as does Navradaran the custodes. Admittedly you could argue my project is incomplete as I never actually got round to building Navradaran. I think I was mainly focussed on building out what I considered as Crowl's retinue.

The first law trilogy is another series by Joe Abercrombie which has really got under my skin, I haven't built models for the characters which touched me from the stories yet, but I will.

Have you ever been inspired to build a model based on a chracter from a story? Let me know if you have (absolutely also send images!)