Modern Demon Hunters 1

I've just finished some new modern Demon hunters, so in anticipation of those (photographs next week), I present some of my older figures in this category.

As mentioned a long time ago in my Grey Knights post, one of the periods I play is a modern post apocalypse setting, where humanity is fighting against Vampires and Demons (and anything else I find in the cupboard).

When I started collecting these, there weren't that many suitable figures available, so I ended up having to convert those I bought to some degree. The underlying ranges are mostly Foundry Street Violence, Copplestone, I-Kore, West Wind and Citadel.

As Buffy the Vampire Slayer was still on the television, this did influence my figure choice quite a bit :-) It was only recently, when selecting figures for a game, that I realised I'd only painted a handful of male fighters. Additionally, there were no magic users, and no modern priest types, a situation I've only just remedied.

I decided that firearms would be of limited use against supernatural enemies, so most of these figures are armed with swords, bows etc. I do have quite a few post apocalypse Mad Max type figures, so I can always bring in some guns if required.

The figure on the left was, if memory serves, completely unclothed when I bought it. I sculpted on trousers and an attempt at a chainmail shirt (not entirely successful). I do regret not swapping the shield with a modern police type one.

The figure on the right is Reaper (again, memory dependant), no conversions involved. The figure was sold as a fantasy fighter, but fits into a modern setting without too much trouble.

A group of Foundry, Hasslefree and a very old Citadel "Man with No Name" figure.

In addition to swords and bows, I have some flame thrower/holy water thrower figures. The first and third are conversions, the other two are straight out the blister.

These were all converted to some degree. The first figure had her gun replaced with a bow. She also has a quiver, although it doesn't show up well in the picture.

I sculpted replacement arms on the second figure. They were meant to be the same length, so that the axe would be horizontal, but my sculpting's not that good. I think it actually looks better this way, as it gives the axe a bit of weight. The axe head was from the bits box, and I made the haft from a bit of brass rod. The "cloth" wrapping was greenstuff and there are a couple of bits of plasticard in there as well.

The third figure had a sword added and her pistol replaced with a pistol crossbow. A lot of the conversions were pistol to pistol crossbow, a process which involved cutting a channel in the top of the gun, then drilling a hole through the end of the barrel and inserting a piece of curved brass rod.

The final figure had a sub machine gun and skateboard removed and replaced with a sword and axe.

More of the same, you get the idea by now :-)

I counted over sixty demon hunters in the drawer - I really didn't think I had painted that many, but obviously I had. There are still a few in the lead pile, so it looks like there will be some reinforcements for the forces of light at some point.