Hello Friends and Followers, today is a great day as I
pleased to announce that my Rogue Trader Adventurers project is complete, all
32 miniatures in the range are now painted to a decent standard and displayed on this blog
for collector reference. I originally painted most of these back in the late 1980's and after stripping all that dreadful enamel paint off them I started again, I managed to track down the missing miniatures and that was really good fun, I mean everyone loves an Eldar Trader for a dollar right? The project took 3 years to complete but having a baby and getting distracted by other Oldhammer
miniatures really does throw your painting schedule out. I will be adding them to my Rogue Trader Gallery asap.
It has been a delightful project to work on the miniatures are so characterful and hark back to a bygone age when the world was a lot simpler and designers still had an imagination, the miniatures were sculpted by Bob Naismith, Trish & Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone. I was a child of the 2000 AD comic and I bet the sculptors were too as they scream 2000 AD at me and you can see the comics influence in the Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader rulebook and miniature ranges.
I can now move onto to completed my Rogue Trader Mercenary
project which you may have already noticed that I have completed Old World Jack
and Inquisitor Augustus for.
Anyway enough waffling on lets move onto the miniatures.
Space Pirate, this one should have been called Space Trapper
in my opinion, the character is covered in fur pelts and tails, maybe Jokaero
or Gyrinx who knows, although a meltagun may be a bit overkill for a Space fur trapping but then again good for dealing with hostile indigenies, watch The Revenant an you will see what I mean. You can see that he was either the base miniature or influence for the Talisman Timescape Space Pirate miniature, I am not sure which you decide.
Space Pirate - front |
Space Pirate - back |
Imperial Scout, now I like to imagine him a pseudo muslim Freman from Dune (the film being another major influence on the Warhammer 40,000 universe, you know God Emperor and all that) or from The Chronicles Of Riddick, he may even be from the planet Tallarn, he wears an arab type scarf which JB over on Leadplague has talked about and he is armed a Hand Flamer and Shuriken Pistol. I have to mention Axiom's version is really nice too.
Imperial Scout - front |
Ships Officer, I love this miniature and for a universe set in the 41st Millennium
since it’s conception has largely lacked Sci-Fi minatures for space ship crew,
space battles, space/void suits for Imperial Guard, this guy could even pass as a Star Wars rebel ships security from the opening scenes of Star Wars IV - A New Hope. I can't find any other painted example of this miniature so unfortunately I can't share anyone elses goodness.
When I was cleaning up this miniature I noticed some lead oxidation or dodgy moulding/sculpting and one of the eyes had a box type structure, there were no examples available to get a closer look so i carved the eye out and painted it as a bionic eye, it works for me and reminds me of Commander Makara from the superb 1980's TV show Star Fleet.
Ships Officer - front |
Ships Officer - back |
Old Pirate, Punk Bondage trousers, this miniature must have
shared the same sculpting dolly as the Ships officer, the pose is the same so
is his weapon, armed with an early hand flamer (I read in a citadel catalogue somewhere). Again I can't find any other painted example of this miniature out on the web so I can't point you to the any of the other superb Oldhammer blogs out there.
Old Pirate - side |
Next up is the Official, some sort of Imperial civil servant maybe? I originally paint this one back in 1987 in military green humbrol enamels and stuck a RTB01 Space Marine back pack on him, it looked pretty good but I stripped it for this project.
Official - front |
Official - back |
Hope you enjoyed this post, now get following if your not, lots of good stuff to come
thanks
J