Knosso Prond

It's Knosso Prond - again! All set to join her fellow Elucidian Starstriders.

Wow! A second post in a week! Let's keep the momentum rolling!

Not a whole lot to share here - meet Knosso Prond. She is a "Death Cult Assassin", which is a job you can totally have in GW's Warhammer 40k setting. Seems like a rewarding occupation - why look, she gets to carry a trophy around with her!

"Anyone looking for an orc head? Because I found one..."

These cult-assassin types are often found in the employ of specialist Imperial officials such as members of the Inquisition, but in this case, Knosso here is a member of the "Elucidian Starstriders". Her skills were used in support of a Rogue Trader Elucia Vhane and the ill-fated crew of the New Dawn. This is a set of 28mm plastic figures GW released several years ago in support of its 40k small-skirmish game "Kill Team". The Starstriders are a wonderful set of character-type figures for the 40k setting, so I tracked down a box circa 2021. I was initially drawn to the Rogue Trader figure from the box, and not so much the supporting members, so I ended painting the Knosso Prond figure as a "Curtgeld" for the 2021 edition of Curt's Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. 

But the Starstriders as a set are actually all very cool models and I ended up painting the lot of them in the summer of 2022. So I had the whole set...but no longer a Knosso Prond...

This is a plastic 28mm figure from GW, lots of detail.

It started to nag at me that I had every single member of that team other than Knosso Prond...and my mind is the sort of mind that can be hung up on such a thing. It will be a distant, but still noticeable, voice in my hobby brain bugging me, steadily increasing in tone by tiny increments over time, until I finally snap and decide I "need" to address it. 

Used a few "Contrast" paints here and there, but in the end I found myself resorting to the boring old acrylics...

"Snapping" in this instance occurred in March of this year, when I finally tracked down a spare copy of the figure, and I painted her up later in the spring. My set of Elucidian Starstriders is thus complete, and that particular portion of the buzzing in my hobby brain has now stopped (leaving room for the buzzing of other hobby matters to take over, but alas, that is features as much as it is a bug - at least, that is what I tell myself). 

What are the uses of this figure, beyond looking cool in my cabinet with the rest of the "Starstriders"? Probably not much beyond isolated applications of characters or extras needed as objectives or special figures in games of 30k or 40k. But "looking cool in my cabinet" is still a fine thing as far as I'm concerned. so I'm glad to have settled this one little "buzzing voice" in my hobby brain. On to the next one...