Showing posts with label Space Marine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Marine. Show all posts

Friday 24 February 2023

Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 4

Hello, welcome to my latest post, this time I am back on my Flesh Tearers Space Marines project, in previous posts I was mainly concentrating on standard bolt gun armed marines with the goal being able to field some traditional looking squads and with that accomplished I went on to pick out a few more interesting marines, the squads need leaders, special and heavy weapons so it seemed the sensible thing to do.  Here my latest 8 Space Marines.


Latest batch of Imperial Space Marines - group 1

Latest batch of Imperial Space Marines - group 2


First up we have the RT6 Marine Heavy Weapon set which was released in 1988, now I have painted this set several times over the years as Crimson Fists, Iron Hands and Space Wolves and still have them in the loft, this time I wanted to do a assembly and paint job, previously this miniature was always wasted, never used as it looked odd in a 2nd/3rd edition squad.  

The marine and Multi Melta on tripod don't fit together great and my originals also looked odd on the Citadel cavalry bases, this time I went for one of the larger Citadel round bases, a photo below shows the massive gap between hand and weapon and I had to insert a small cube of green stuff into the gap and fashion it into a grip to close the gap. I reversed the tripod base as it allow the weapon to be positioned better. I used the Flesh Tearer 3D printed decals from mars_forges on their shoulder pads again.

The paint job followed my Flesh Tearer scheme and I attempted to bring weapon alive with a bit of colour instead of the gun metal blobs of my youth.

RT6 Marine Heavy Weapon - side
 
RT6 Marine Heavy Weapon - back

RT6 Marine Heavy Weapon - front



Multi Melta on stand from the White Dwarf 106 page 68 Crater's article

Multi Melta on tripod Warhammer 40000 Rogue Trader rule book page 86

You can see on the original RT6 advert below, they haven't even tried to line up the marine hand to the grip position slot.
RT6 Marine Heavy Weapon set Rogue Trader flyer Feb 1988

RT6 Marine Heavy Weapon in build phase see the massive gap between hand and weapon, when the blue tack was removed it was even bigger.



Next up we have Brother Longun (1987) later renamed to Brother Anderton (Feb 1988) sculpted by Bob Naismith, this marine carries a heavy Bolter based on the original illustration in the Warhammer 40000 rulebook page 84, he has some interesting cabling feeding out of the bolter into his shoulder which then come out of his backpack mount and into a pouch or box which may be joined to the back of the bolter.

Variants, I think it obvious they are brothers Froth and Sheer, there are some slight differences here and there like where space has been made for the heavy bolter but Froth miniature is clearly in there.

Brother Longun/Anderton  - front

Brother Longun/Anderton  - back

Brother Longun/Anderton  - side

Brother Longun/Anderton  - side


The original Heavy Bolter Warhammer 40000 Rogue Trader rule book page 84

Brothers Froth, Sheer and Longun/Anderton comparison - front

Brothers Froth, Sheer and Longun/Anderton comparison - side



Brother Jacobs (Bolt Pistol) is a marine from the last release of the RT01/RT101 code in White Dwarf 100 1988, hey he is number 18 so I guess he was the last, in the advert he is gloriously painted in the yellow black camouflage of the Badab War Space Sharks.  Variants? well this marine is a bit of a mix of two of the Space Marine Heavy Weapons range with number 01's body and number 05's head with a bolt pistol arm sculpted on however I am not 100% on whether the Space Marine Heavy Weapons were sculpted first as they are quite crude sculpts build upon another marine, brother Jacobs does seem to be a typical Bob chop shop job.

Brother Jacobs - front

Brother Jacobs - back

Marine Heavy Weapons No.1 and Brother Jacobs comparison


Next we have Marine Heavy Weapons No.1 from RT103 Space Marine Heavy Weapons range which appeared in White Dwarf 102 sculpted by either Aly Morrison or Mark Copplestone. I pointed out above that he donated his body to Brother Jacobs.  The miniature is a crude sculpt in a lot of place but there is also loads of lovely detailing around the arm carrying the weapon.  As you can see he has a sculpted backpack like all the marines of the range and they are all individual backpack sculpts although some are very similar.  I went for a grenade launcher heavy weapon as you don't see them much and really went to town on it's paint job.
Marine Heavy Weapons No.1 with Grenade Launcher - front

Marine Heavy Weapons No.1 with Grenade Launcher - back

Marine Heavy Weapons No.1 with Grenade Launcher - side

Marine Heavy Weapons No.1 with Grenade Launcher - centre

They didn't get the grenade launcher mini quite right but the mini does have the dial


Next we have Brother Marine Quiff, later renamed to Brother Lustgarten no idea why they would do this have you seen the hair!! all he needs is a drape and you have space showaddywaddy :D 
Not too much to say about this one which I haven't said about his variant Brother A Skull/Dixon although it does appear that Bob Naismith used the Rogue Trooper Traitor General head again, see Inquisitor Augustus.

Brother Marine Quiff/Lustgarten - front

Brother Marine Quiff/Lustgarten - back

Brother Marines Quiff/Lustgarten and A Skull/Dixon - Comparison


Following on we have Brother Napier, I love this marine with his pony tail, chin beard and studded power fist, he screams White Scars captain to me. He appears to be armed with a cutdown copy of Chainsaw Warriors Blaster as a Bolt Pistol and might even be a Chainsaw Warrior head swap with some additional putty.

Brother Napier - front

Brother Napier - back

Next we have Brother Repp, dynamically posed aiming his Melta-gun, the first special weapon marine painted for my squads, I've painted his one before and didn't remember it being so hard to prep and paint, especially the mould lines over the hard to reach eyes, it was a nightmare.  I loved this release of Space Marines in White Dwarf 99 by Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone as the marines started to get some nice details like vents under the shoulder pads which we saw on later plastics. A bit of sepia and black on the Melta-gun to give it a scorched effect.
Brother Repp - front

Brother Repp - side

Brother Repp - back

Last in this post we have Brother Holt, a cool looking marine with one arm and shoulder stripped of power armour to show chain bracelet, tube/cable shunts and scars, I couldn't find the golden angle when photographing this miniature.  What I also find interesting about this miniature is it is the only Rogue Trader metal marine armed with a Flamer (hand flamer not included) especially when the Flamer was considered the default marine special weapon.
Brother Holt - front

Brother Holt - front "trying again"

Brother Holt - back



Previous project posts:
Flesh Tearers part 2
Flesh Tearer Jet Bike

Thanks for dropping in, these have been a nice diversion but I must get back to my bolter only marines asap.
cheers
J

Sunday 18 September 2022

Confrontation 40K Diorama & Scavvies - Fan Sculpt

Hello, in today's Oldhammer post I show you my completed diorama based on the 'Confrontation 40K' painting by Les Edwards. You may remember I completed the Necromunda Blood Drinker Space Marine back in March 2021 and since then the accompanying Scavvy gangers have been sitting around my workbench getting the odd flick of paint here and there.

The Scavvy gang miniatures were again sculpted by Drew Day Williams of Satyr Art Studio, please visit the website for some great limited edition Oldhammer inspired miniatures. 

As you might remember from my previous post on this subject, I planned to build a diorama of the painting and faithfully recreate the paint schemes of the characters involved on the miniatures, well today the gangers are finished and I knocked up a quick diorama based out of plumbing supplies, I feel the base is a little small but that was the only piece of mdf I could find lying around the house, my original plan was to integrate the bases in drilled recesses but I ended up just placing the miniatures on it, time is always my enemy.

Anyway here's the photos, they quite didn't come out as I wished but hey ho, enjoy.

My take on Confrontation 40K
From above
"kill him you scavvies!"
Scavvy Gang line up

Scavvy Gang line other angles
Enemies of the Imperium receive swift justice

Here's a couple of shots of the original painting for reference.

Confrontation 40K - Les Edwards

Confrontation 40K image from the 1989 Blood and Iron book


Thanks for visiting, I will be back soon with something cool
J

Tuesday 5 July 2022

Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 3

Welcome to my latest post continuing the Oldhammer Flesh Tearers Space Marines project I started back in November 2018, previous posts can be seen here Part 1, Part 2.  I now have enough bolter armed marines to play a scenario like the Battle at the Farm and for part 4 I plan to move on to more exotic marines with special and heavy weapons. In this post you will also see that my marines get a reinforcement, a fan sculpt Colossus Imperial Robot.


Latest batch of Imperial Space Marines with robot support.


Another 6 Flesh Tearer Space Marines finished

First up we have Brother Slater, I spotted the original Brother Slater on my first visit to Warhammer World, a well known painted version as an Emperor's Children Marine from around the launch of Space Marine Epic 1st edition used for scale against a Star Wars Scout Walker Titan conversion in White Dwarf 120 (see below). 

As with all the marines in this post I continued to use the Flesh Tearer 3D printed decals from mars_forges on their shoulder pads.  As this marine holds a technical device he might make a good controller for the Imperial  robot.

Space Marine Brother Slater - front

Space Marine Brother Slater - side

Space Marine Brother Slater - back


Brother Slater - White Dwarf 120
The original Brother Slater from WD120 at WHW



Next we have Brother A Skull or renamed later as Brother Dixon, his interesting helmet gives rise to his name and he appears to been awarded the iron cross before the days of Terminator honours, he is armed with a bolter and power glove,  I've seen this odd looking marine used several times as an Inquisitor back in the day. As variants go Brother Marine Quiff from the same range shares all but the head.

Space Marine Brother A Skull - front

Space Marine Brother A Skull - another angle

Space Marine Brother A Skull - back

Brother A Skull

Brother A Skull conversion from back in the day

Following on we have Battle Brother Dedmole later renamed to Brother Taylor, who knows why was he the only marine named 'Battle Brother'?  In original advert he had a different backpack which I go into further on down, this marine is quite different compared to most of the marines of the range, armour pieces and helm are smaller, eyes more together, I feel he fits in with the marines of Rogue Trader rulebook illustrations much better.

Space Marine Battle Brother Dedmole - front

Space Marine Battle Brother Dedmole - side

Space Marine Battle Brother Dedmole - back

Space Marine Battle Brother Dedmole - side

I'm a big fan of painting Space Marine backpacks and when I used to pore over the original Space Marine adverts I spotted a strange looking backpack on Brother Dedmole in White Dwarf 93 it really excited me as it was clearly different to the backpacks on all others, I had to know more.

Brother Dedmole, what strange backpack is this?

Analysing the few photos of Dedmole that existed I was convinced that it wasn't a conversion and some lost backpack exists and after a lot of research I identified the backpack as the one included with the Rogue Trader unreleased metal multi part marine, which I'll probably never own as the price tag would be way too high to reunite it with Brother Dedmole.  I am also starting to think that other pieces of this multi part kit were used when sculpting Dedmole.

Rogue Trader unreleased metal multi part Imperial Space Marine


Next Brother Meredith, I have painted this marine so many times over the years and still have them in the loft but I had another go for this project, originally I was going to include him in my medics post but he is walking wounded so I didn't as he still has some fight in him, I painted him as if he had taken a blast on the one side, the sooty face might appear a bit comedic but it can really happen like this.  He'll need some serious work when he gets back to the tech adepts in the chapter monastery.

Space Marine Brother Meredith - front

Space Marine Brother Meredith - side

Space Marine Brother Meredith - back

In part 2 of this project I painted Brother Sheer and mentioned that he was a variant of the first wave of Imperial Space Marines Brother Froth who we have below, I always like to point out variants and the variation in Brother Sheer is so subtle the uninformed may trade him off thinking him a double (I've done similar, a costly mistake :D).  In the last post I suspected that the gap between bolter and shoulder pad was filled with a gun light due to problems with the casting process with the Brother Froth miniature and hence Sheer was born.

Space Marine Brother Froth - front

Space Marine Brother Froth - side

Space Marine Brother Froth - back

Space Marine Brother Froth vs Brother Sheer - 1

Space Marine Brother Froth vs Brother Sheer - 2

Space Marine Brother Froth vs Brother Sheer - 3

Space Marine Brother Froth vs Brother Sheer - 4

Next we have Brother Harris, I love this marine, the facial scars and metal plates holding his head together, he looks like he has been through the wars. His armour has some extra armour plates and his bolter has a different configuration to others, it's longer with an extended back and barrel and he appears to be either opening the top of it to clear a jam or have a custom grip on the top, it also has a vicious looking combat blade, this is my ideal boarding marine.

Space Marine Brother Harris - front

Space Marine Brother Harris - side

Space Marine Brother Harris - back


Lastly we have a fan sculpt Colossus Imperial Robot, this miniature is huge and I feel a great improvement on the original, it was available at TrollSoup for a very short period of time and I managed to snap them all up before being discontinued. It was sculpted by Drew over at Satyr Art Studio. It has the classic configuration of Bolter, Melta and Siege Hammer.  I used the Mighty Brush decals on this one, they are out of this world!!.

Fan Sculpt - Imperial Colossus Robot - front

Fan Sculpt - Imperial Colossus Robot - side

Fan Sculpt - Imperial Colossus Robot - back

Fan Sculpt - Imperial Colossus Robot - side

Fan Sculpt - Imperial Colossus Robot - side


I just have to share the great packaging art

Robots packaging art


Comparison shot with the originals


Anyway I think I have rambled on long enough in that way I do but i hope you enjoyed the post and will be back for more in the near future, get following this blog and on twitter: @fuljason

Cheers

J