Act of Kindness

Earlier last year I got a message from one of my colleges in the museum I work at in Nottingham. I’m the head of historical interpretation and costume so when a designer from GW popped in asking for help he was thrown my way. He was working on a mini which he couldn’t tell me about but he needed to look at coats from ww1. We dont have any in our collection but we do have trench coats from that time period and I happen to have an army coat from the 50’s that I let him have a look at and a navy officers coat. From this I deduced it would be a guard character of some sort and being a Kreig player I was hoping it would be that. Many months later the female commissar is released and I get a message of thanks for the help and the promise of a free mini. When I heard the miniature had sold out I thought I’d not see my free figure but true to his word one was dropped off at my work place. I’ll put up images of the coats that helped in the design later.

I dont collect much GW stuff these days and the last time I approached a Bloodbowl team it was like putting a jigsaw together. I must admit I found her a bit fiddly ironic with the coat tails but she looks good.

Here are the three coats looked at for inspiration for the Commissars jacket. One is a Gurkha’s trench coat from the 1950’s one is a Royal Navy Officers coat with the shiny buttons. The Prison Wardens coat was the most useful for the miniature. The coat belt acts as a good break in the miniature parts and hides the fix.

I’m given a free mini but a trip to salute has given me a back log of figures to paint. I picked up all the paints listed on the back of the box so I’ll slowly work on this figure.