Thursday 7 March 2013

Scientist - Talisman Timescape

Hi Folks, ok I lied I was able to do some painting today as the decorators wanted me out of the way so I rustled up a few paints and painted a Talisman Timescape Scientist and started a couple of other things that I will treat you too soon. This miniature makes a great NPC for the Dark Heresy RPG (other rpgs are available of course :D) and also makes a great objective or collateral damge/bystander for Warhammer 40K , I have always believed in adding lots of extra civilian miniatures to a battlefield to give is a bit more character.

Here is the Talisman Timescape range as you can see most of the miniatures are suitable for Rogue Trader games (not quite sure about Indy, Indy the Inquisitor?) and I believe they quite rare now as I have seen them on Ebay for about £15-£20.

Here is my effort, I don't think the photo does him justice but as you know I am rubbish at photography and really need to invest in a better camera, lighting setup and a training course. I wish I knew a technique for painting glass effect for the test tube but I don't so I may go back to him someday after some research. I also tested my new Army Painter Insane Detail Brush and I have to say I am impressed, I think I am going stop painting to wargames standard and invest a more time in my miniatures.

Talisman Timescape Scientist - front

Talisman Timescape Scientist - back

Talisman Timescape Scientist - front

Talisman Timescape Scientist - back


Oh, what else did you do today? I here you ask, well 8am till 9am I dettol stripped 30 citadel Chaos thugs and my rubber gloves fell apart and now my hands hurt :(

Enjoy
J

Wednesday 6 March 2013

Genestealer Patriarch

Hey, apologies for the lack of updates but the house is in a right state as I have decorators in sorting out my new hobby room so painting is out of the question, everything is stored in cupboards and I am confined to the kitchen prepping and stripping miniatures. I can't wait to upload some pictures of the finished room which will be dedicated to miniature painting and other hobby related matters and hopefully I will be able to sneak bucket loads of Rogue Trader/Oldhammer stuff out of the loft and passed the missus.

Today's miniature is a running Genestealer Patriarch that I think was released towards the end of the Rogue trader era, I finished it last month. I am not the biggest fan of this miniature but I never purchased the more favoued Genestealer Patriarch on throne as I think it had sold out at the time, another painted version can be seen here on the Lexicanum site which I highly recommend.

The miniature looks like it was scuplted by Bob Olley to me but I am not 100%.

I painted this one up for our Dark Heresy/Deathwatch campaign but our Games Master went and sourced a more modern Broodlord from Ebay so it is now redundant for a while.

I love the Genestealer cult necklace it wears.

Genestealer Patriarch - front
Genestealer Patriarch - side

And here it is running amok around a Space Hulk.





On another note while painting miniatures is not an option for at least two weeks, I have been prepping Realm of Chaos miniatures hoping that I will be able to take part in the Oldhammer Realm of Chaos day at the Foundry.  Here is a picture of some of the Beastmen and Chaos Thugs I am hoping to choose from.


I have the next two days off work while the decorators are in so I am hoping to spray undercoat these miniatures in the greenhouse and on day two dettol strip another thirty chaos thugs and roughly the same number of chaos dwarves, I am hoping to get a good miniature foundation to choose from when it comes to seriously rolling a chaos champions warband, all drunken warband rolling efforts have been terrible so far so I thought I would sort out the miniature pool to choose from first. See Oldhammer and Orlygg's blog for more inspiration.

Enjoy
J

Monday 25 February 2013

JD11 - Rogue Trooper

Hello, I am bit busy over the coming weeks decorating the house and reclaiming my old hobby room but I have managed to sneak onto the PC and post another classic miniature, today we have Rogue Trooper the GI (Genetic Infantryman), a staple of 2000AD's 1980's comic, I just had to give him a lick of paint.

The original 2000AD licensed range can be seen here: 2000AD Miniatures



I did notice that GW painted several of the Rogue Trooper miniatures as plain old humans in flesh tones in various publications and you can see Major Magnum painted as a human in the picture from the Rogue Trader rulebook in my Old World Jack post.

Here is my interpretation of Rogue.

Rogue - front

Rogue - back

Rogue - front

Rogue - back



Some of you may remember the Rogue Trooper Boardgame made when GW were still cool, I played it back day but have completely forgot how it played and sadly this is one I do not own.

The Rogue game counters, nice sculpts.



I hope you enjoy
J

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Astropath Yerl - RT601 - Adventurers


Hi, my miniature for today is Astropath Yerl another miniature from RT601 Adventurers set, you can see this miniature depicted in one of the illustrations for the Imperial Bodyguard miniature, see post below.  If you look at some of the more modern citadel/gw scupts i.e Imperial Guard Regimental Advisors you will notice that the newer Astropaths haven't really strayed away from the original concept unlike nearly all the other W40K designs.

My painted version .


Astropath Yerl - front

Astropath Yerl - back

Astropath Yerl onboard a mysterious space hulk searching for arcane psychic artifacts.







Hope you like
J

Saturday 16 February 2013

Rogue Trader - Genestealer Magus

Hello friends of the blog, Today's miniature is a Genestealer Magus, see the Genestealer guide over on Collecting Citadel Minatures wiki, now I have got to admit White Dwarf magazines 114-116 sent me Genestealer mental, the illustrations, background and painted cult army were the coolest thing going at the time, I had to have them so I purchased loads of them, built a cult army added Cultist Imperial Guard, Chaos Beastmen and I even converted Genestealers holding Daemon weapons.  A few months ago I got ten Genestealer Hybrid miniatures out the loft stripped with Dettol not my usual method but I am not using Nitromors in my lovely new sink, prepped and had a go at painting them, here is the first one. I have loads finshed to show you soon but I am hoping to do a whole blog post on these guy's.

Genestealer Magus

Genestealer Magus

I managed to knock a few more out.

Genestealer Hybrids

Genestealer Hybrids
Genestealer Hybrid

Genestealer Hybrid
Genestealer Magus

Genestealer Magus
Genestealer Hybrid

Genestealer Hybrid



Here is one of my Hybrid/traitor guard conversions to wet your appetite.

Genestealer Hybrid Cultist conversion

I hope you like
J

Space Amazon - RT601 - Adventurers

Hey, I am slowly updating the photos of some of my older posts and here is the first updated post, I hope you enjoy.

Here is today's first miniature from the RT601 - Adventurers range, a Space Amazon, see here also Rogue Trader Adventurers, Mercenaries, Pirates - Collectors Guide.

Space Amazon - front

Space Amazon - back

I am sure this model was based on John Blanche's 'Amazon' painting, my picture is taken from my Ratspike book.

John Blanche's 'Amazon'

She makes a great addition to an Inquisitorial warband and reminds me of characters from the Eisenhorn and Ravenor novels.  She is available to use whenever we play the W40K RPG Dark Heresy.

Another similar miniature is the LE15 - Chaos Amazon model another miniature based on another one of John Blanche's paintings, this time 'Amazon Gothique' which was featured on the front cover of White Dwarf 79, it was a limited edition miniature and shared it's blister pack with 'The Warlock' from the cover of the Fighting Fantasy magazine 10.

And here is my painted version of Amazon Gothique or Chaos Amazon (LE15).

LE15 Chaos Amazon - front

LE15 Chaos Amazon - back


John Blanche's 'Amazon Gothique'

Amazons from Ratspike and White Dwarf 82

The evolution of the Amazon miniature produced by Citadel Miniatures and as you can see below the Realm of Chaos era Champion of Slannesh shares many attributes of the original Amazon.

Amazons over the years

** Update September 2017 **

A nice new version of Amazon Gothique for a Necromunda 2017 advert, just artwork at the moment, shame if it ever comes out it will be made in plastic :(


Amazon Gothique for the new age
** Update April 2018 **


And here with have it the new Necromunda Amazon

** Update January 2019 ** my version of Belladonna - Noble Bounty Huntress


Belladonna - Noble Bounty Huntress



This next miniature is also worth a special mention, available at Hasslefree Miniatures sculpted by Kev White, she named 'Jenova' and as you see below definately draws influence from Amazon Gothique.



Last one for now, another Amazon Gothique tribute by Geoff Solomon-Sims of Oakbound Studios.


Other Amazons spotted



Apparently she was coming to AoS once upon a time



There are a couple more painted versions of this miniature here and here.

If you enjoyed this post, get following :)
J

Thursday 14 February 2013

Pilot Lorgar - RT601 - Adventurers

Another miniature from the RT601 - Adventurers collection (my favourite set), Pilot Lorgar and again the original advert can be seen here solegends, this chap reminds me of someone from Dune, maybe a House Atreides ornithopter pilot.

Pilot Lorgar - front

Pilot Lorgar - back

As you can as a theme is developing, I delved into my massive Rogue trader collection when we started playing Dark Heresy RPG a couple of years ago and found so many suitable miniatures, the words 'space opera' jump out at me when sift through my old RT miniatures.