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Greetings Terrans, been quite a while since I last posted, but I have been busy building tanks for 1st Platoon to tool around in… They took bloody ages, but are now primed and ready to paint up – more on them in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, I have also been working on some OG AdMech and the Servitors that allow Rogue Trader IG armies to access all the toys…
First up, two of Bob Olley’s Adeptus Mechanicus tech priests, dating back to 1989:
As with all Olley sculpts, these guys are very wibbly and fun to paint – just look at that robed guy!! I probably didn’t do them justice really, opting for a quick paint job rather than picking out all the detail & fancy highlighing, but still pretty effective I think.
Next we have five Stargrave ‘Automatons’ – a very nice plastic kit available by the sprue for a very reasonable amount. These make for great Servitors & are really nice minis in and of themselves! Plenty of spares as well, so I have a nice windfall of bionics added to the bitz-box.
I painted these to look well used & a bit ramshackle… While the 7th Mordion might be newly raised, their AdMech contingent is anything but!
And here they are together – funny how the new and the old work so well together:
Anyway, that’s it for now folks – time to get focused on some tanks!!
Fantastic work Alex, the armoured Ad Mech was always my favourite at the time of release, and the servitors fit perfectly with them, might need to have a look at that set myself.
Cheers mate, yeah, I love all the AdMech art in Rogue Trader book – properly weird!
Very nice indeed – that robed guy especially is proper Rogue Trader craziness. Hadn’t seen the automatons before, those are very, very interesting *strokes chin in the manner of one about to spend not very much money to get his hands on some disreputable servitor-types*.
Cheers mate & treat yourself – works out like £1 per mini or something daft like that. You get a nice selection of gun arms as well 😉
LOVE LOVE those Olley Admech priests! Never owned any and I regret failing to do so. The dirty looking robes on the right-hand feller are a perfect look for a battlefield mechanic.
Those Servitors have a “Borg” look to them I think. Perfect for their roles though. Their paint jobs are excellent.
Looking forward to seeing what you’ve come up with for your vehicle pool mate.
Cheers dude, they are fun 😊
Spot on with the Automatons – easily work as borg, space zombies, pit slaves or similar… a gem of a kit really!
Bloody brilliant sir. This vintage admechs are lovely sculpts. I look forward to seeing the tanks mate
Cheers dude – me too! They’ve taken bloody ages so far!
Nice work – love the old Admech guys.
Cheers mate – classics eh?
Beautiful work, and sculpts! Those servitors especially are incredibly dark
Cheers mate, they do look pretty unhealthy 😁
Lovely as always! In the robed Olley sculpt, you can see the genesis of basically all of the later Adeptus Mechanicus art. I’m less of a fan of the power armour sculpt in so far as she puts me more in mind of a Space Marine (and I guess they weren’t really separate things back in those days) but your painting does really bring it all to post-human life.
Cheers mate, I’m with you on the robed one being my fave 😊