Hi, everyone.

I hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been on a bit of a painting spree lately, trying to get many of my minis battle-ready. While I’ve been hopping from faction to faction for the sake of variety and just painting whatever excited me more, I was leaving one such mini until near the end. This is the Sin Eater, one of the mercenaries available to the factions of Hell. She’s a swollen abomination in an iron suit, complete with flowing cloak and a human meat masher, and while the design is quite simple, I was most nervous about painting her up.

I’m not sure of the reason. I think it’s because this miniature shows up a lot in artwork for Trench Crusade, and there are a lot of paintjobs online for this one as well. A lot. I’d even consider Sin Eater to be one of the unofficial mascots of the game, alongside the Shrine Anchorite and Communicant Tank Hunters, appearing in countless painting tutorials, pics, and forums, and occupying several corners of the Internet with her foul presence.

I kept my paint scheme simple: leadbelcher with a brown ink wash, followed by a black ink wash. This makes the armour look worn, old, and a little dirty as well. I wanted to keep the process of painting Sin Eater as easy as possible, before focusing on the tiny details like the dismembered corpse hanging off her back, and her rotten teeth. The legs and feet in the mud before her are spares from a prisoner miniature I recently hacked up while building some Wretched for my Heretic Legion, and the blood was done with Blood for the Blood God, but I tried to use it sparingly.

So here’s Sin Eater with the Black Grail warband, ready to infect the world (and partially eat it). I’ve loved painting these foul masses, from their gibbering hordes to their hulking abominations. Now I can look forward to getting a game with them and seeing how they fare on the tabletop. There’s one more Plague Knight mini I’m looking to customise with some spare parts, but I’ll share this if and when they are complete.

I also mentioned in my last post how I was awaiting the Five Parsecs from Home solo campaign rule book on arriving. Well, it did, and I have been assembling and readying a crew for an adventure. I’m also keen to enter the crew in an upcoming painting contest on social media, which Modiphius are hosting. This includes posting pics of your Five Parsecs crew with their information and backstory, with the deadline being the end of June 2025. I’ll see what I can do on that front, but I have rolled for each of my characters in the meantime and I’m really just working on which minis to use, some old and some new.

Thanks again for reading, and catch you next time.