Who's in charge here?

The Mordian 19th is such a large regiment (or at least it will be once painted) that they warrant a sizeable command staff as well as a host of advisors, retainers and attendants. Today I thought I would feature both the Captain and the Colonel (under various editions of codices they are both senior officers, company commanders or as I have chosen to maintain: the Captain and the Colonel)
Both are conversions of my own design, and they were done quite some time ago, so both are showing their age and could use some touch-ups. I will detail them individually and in a later post delve more deeply into their own unique fluff backgrounds.

First we have the Colonel, the most senior officer of the Mordian 19th that will ever likely see on the battlefield (I have toyed with the idea of creating a "General" to oversee apocalypse level games, but until I find both the miniature and inspiration the Colonel is the ranking officer on the field)

   So as you can see the model is based on Commissar Yarrick. Complete head swap for a lieutenant's head, removing the trademark eye and saving the hat. The overall effect is good, a little bit of paint touch-up would blend the disparate head and bodies together better. Yarrick's battle claw was removed, and a right handed power fist was installed. The Colonel was created in an era when Games Workshop still had a bits ordering system and the right handed power fist was the only one available and attributable to a non chaos model at the time (it came from a metal Space Wolf mini as I recall). Since then many, many, more sculpts of right handed power fists have emerged, especially Cadians both metal and plastic. The decal is off of either a tank sprue or an Epic vehicle sprue and is appropriately labeled Mordian/Mordia. The only issue with this mini is, based on the current (5th edition) codex, the model is armed with a stormbolter, which is and invalidated wargear choice. Most opponents have no problem with it being a master-crafted boltpistol/bolter. In a future post I will try and get improved pictures.

The Captain is also based around Yarrick but using the earlier model (old lobster-claw) he is showing his age too and could use some TLC brush attention.

So this Yarrick also received a head swap, but this time the original hat was not salvageable as I was still learning (as a teenager) to use a metal cutoff wheel and jewelers saw from my father. The sword should be fairly recognizable, its Azrael's, The old combi-bolter has been cut off and replace with a generation 2 plasma pistol, I kept the ammunition feed and endeavoured to make it look like a power supply (think hot-shot plasma pistol). This was one of the first conversions I ever did for my Mordians and is still one of my favorites.

Stood next to each other, the uninformed may have trouble differentiating between who outranks whom between the two miniatures. The answer is simple: to Colonel has a bigger hat, therefore he is in command.
Thanks for reading, up next is the advisors and command staff.
-MedicMike