in 1987.
I recently spotted that the base miniature for this minotaur sculpt is the C Series - C25 Minotaur - 'Big Mac Gore Blade' (see image below).
He is equipped with a Cyborg head with targeter and sensory array eye, mounted Imperial Army Autogun and a human sized Bolter with a massive grip, probably left over from the original axe Big Mac held, he also appears to wearing flak/mesh armour.
As usual lots of photos from all angles to show you parts of the miniature you never get to see.
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur - front |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur - back |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur - side |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur - front |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur - front |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur - front |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur |
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| Warhammer 40000 Minotaur (last one) |
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| Big Mac Gore Blade - first Minotaur on the left |
I bet you are thinking of his stats in Warhammer 40000, I would go with a Beastman Minor Hero or a Ogryn Champion, see stats below.
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| Beastmen - Page 174 Rogue Trader Rulebook |
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| Ogryns - Page 175 Rogue Trader Rulebook |
Those who took part in the Space Raiders kickstarter might remember the Space Minotaur I painted up when I received my miniatures, you can read the post here.
There are 3 Space Minotaurs available at Knightmare miniatures here.
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| Space Minotaur by Knightmare Miniatures |
I hope you enjoyed, follow if you want to see more.
J
Fantastic! I don't think I'd realised he had an eye patch. That's the beauty of seeing them painted. Does he have a group of RT beastmen to hand around with?
ReplyDeleteHi Mate, yeah it's kind an knobbly eye patch or bionic eye, reminded me of Corum's jeweled eye, I only have a couple of painted Beastmen, I did convert lots of Jes Doodwin RoC ones for my GeneStealer cult about 1990 but have since stripped them and repaired the damage, I may have to dig out a photo of my old cult, its as crazy as the White Dwarf one.
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J
That's quite a nice treasure, and beautifully painted!
ReplyDeletethank you very much mate, are your blog images not *.jpg's? as my work filter still blocks them but not other peoples??
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Damn, J, this is a compelling paintjob ! I have the Knightmare ones and RT ones and your paintjobs just shows how it's meant to be !
ReplyDeleteEarthly tones like that on a very fantasy model could have been risky but it just works with the gear being very hard sci-fi, making the creature plausible. I really like that.
thanks JB, I have seen your lovely beauties, If I'd had more time I would have remembered and linked them, I love all the earthy Vallejo model colours so matt and dull, I struggle with bright colours unless I have a comic reference like Judge Dredd.
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Beautiful panting on a fantastic old model. It's too bad GW didn't come out with more alien models during the RT period.
ReplyDeletecheers mate, I think they were expecting us to make our own, imagine if they did the xenos empires might be looking very different today :)
DeleteI didn't know he was just a resculpt of a fantasy version! Corr, that means that he's slightly less desirable as we can instead convert our own version by sticking tiny guns on standard Warhammer minos.
ReplyDeleteI like your scheme for the shoulder pad – it gives him a military vibe that gets him that little bit further away from the fantasy genre.
Ha! I love your exclaimations, it's a crazy miniature mate, clumsily exectured and crude i am sure you could do much better. Vallejo model colour has top shades for hard military sci-fi.
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