I'm putting together a Sisters of Battle force for EA and wanted to share my assembly and painting progress in a thread!
I'm using mainly Vanguard Novan Convent miniatures and my order arrived a few weeks ago. Here's everything all laid out when I first took it out of the box:
All told it's roughly 3,500 points worth of miniatures so I have some wiggle room when it comes to list building for 2,000 and 3,000 point games. It helps that I accidentally ordered twice as many Redeemers (Penitent Engine proxies) than I actually needed!
I haven't had much free time recently, so over the past couple weeks I've been slowly cleaning flash and mold lines and washing the miniatures in warm soapy water to prep them for painting. This past weekend I managed to finish cleaning and assembling my armored contingent!
Rhinos and Exorcists and Repressors, oh my!
The only things that aren't glued down yet are the dozer blades on the Pacifiers (Repressor proxies) in the front row for ease of painting and the turrets on the three Sky Shield AA tanks (Hunter proxies). I'm planning to magnetize those three so I can swap their turrets for more Organ mortars (Exorcist proxies) if I'm facing an opponent without any air assets.
I'm really impressed with the level of detail on these miniatures!
There are two issues still up in the air though. For one thing, I'm not 100% settled on a painting scheme yet. I'm thinking either Order of the Bloody Rose (red armor with black robes on the infantry) or Order of the Sacred Rose (white armor with black robes on the infantry). Personally I prefer red, but I think if I painted them primarily white they'd look really striking, especially if I make the bases mud or dark earth.
The second issue is a question I'd like to pose: should I base the vehicles? Looking at pictures it seems like folks here are 50/50. I'm looking at 25mm x 40mm plywood bases from Litko if I do decide to base them. It seems like it's a lot of extra hassle, but in my head I like the image of having the whole army tied together with the bases.