Hello chaps, I’ve finished off a handful of oldschool Guardsmen to act as a general purpose mook squad in games of Rogue Trader. ‘Spaced-dout Sam’ is joined by ‘Faststar John’ and ‘Abbadon’(?!?) from the RT7 Mercenaries range, and Troopers Vaskez (sic) and Brough from the RT05 Imperial Army range. I really like this little unit, it contains a nice selection of minis that are varied but that still look cohesive – you can see that the designers at the time were busy experimenting and figuring out how the Imperium should look. For example, it only occurred to me during painting that the old IG helmet (as worn by Brough) is very close to the MkVI Beaky helmet, (minus the beak of course). Sure, some of the sculpts are a bit dodgy – Vaskez’s face is really soft, and Abbadon is a bit of a mess too, but these Cadian ancestors certainly have charm:

Paint-wise, I followed my test piece quite closely – Blue overalls, grey armour, and a red/white cheque motif with bits of freehand as and when and a bit of weathering for good measure. They all have elements of my Rogue Trader’s heraldry on them somewhere so they can easily fit in with him, or they can work equally well as their own thing.

Anyway, that’s it for now, I hope you like these – I’ll certainly be adding to this group as time goes by, but for now I’m feeling the urge to chop some stuff up… I have an ambitious little conversion in mind… As a little teaser, I’ll ask a simple question – Who holds the true power within the Imperium?

Hello chaps, I managed to clear the last of my RT civvies from the painting station – another C87 porter and two Rogue Trader era scribes that were unreleased at the time, but that have been produced by the wonderful people at Foundry produced from the original moulds. (These gems are available for sale here).

The C87 porter has been left untouched, but I just had to make some alterations to the scribes… the original has a ridiculous disco left arm thing going on, and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to live with it… One had a food repositioned and a mechanical arm added, while the other got an arm and a few bits from the Flagellans kit and a Skitarii backpack. All were painted quite quickly, without a huge amount of effort applied – they’re ok for the tabletop in my opinion. Here’s the three latest together:

And all the retainer types:

And all the Administratum types:

So that concludes my current batch of RT civvies! I may revisit this in the coming months – it’s been great fun to do and very satisfying, but life is getting a little bit too hectic at the moment, so I’m going to ease back on the hobby front. I do have 2 models undercoated that didn’t make the cut for my Rogue Quest party (a Paladin and a Fighter), and I have some scenic bits to work through on the Christmas break, but there is definitely going to be a change of pace for the next few weeks. I hope you’ll bear with me, and hopefully I’ll have some goodies to share in the new year :-)

Happy Monday chaps, another quick post from me this morning – I got a few more civilians completed and ready to share with you. Firstly, we have my OSL experiment – he got tweaked slightly and had his base finished off, but otherwise the same details as last week.

Secondly, we have another Colony87 icon bearer – I went ahead and did a bit of converting on this model, seeing as he was a duplicate. His staff head is from the Scions kit, and the head was replaced with the top dome of an AdMech Ruststalker. I like how it turned out – there’s quite a cool, generic sci-fi vibe going on here… a little bit R2D2, a little bit Dalek… strangely, also reminds me of Princes Leia when she’s disguised as the bounty hunter in Jaba’s palace… maybe that’s just me, but anyway, she’s is now a she in my mind :-)

Finally, we have the last Colony87 miniature from the set. I reverted to my House Malocchio colour scheme for this guy, and, as with all the range so far, he was a joy to paint. I started to think of him as an apothecary of some sort some way through the painting, so he’s now serving as the family doctor. Here’s some pics:

The three new additions together

The Colony87 set together (Slann painted for my RogueQuest party)

Imperial Scribey types chillin’ in the hood, reading and ting

Hraxi Jonas and Short-Round meet with a mysterious outlander…

So, that’s it for now chaps, I have a few more civvies on the paint station, and then I’ll be moving on to something else… not sure what yet!