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D Company, 7th Mordion Regiment pt.2

16 Saturday May 2026

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Greetings Terrans, happy to share the first minis painted for my Mordion project – 1st squad of 1 Platoon. I shared details of the build & where I sourced all the bits in the last post so I won’t repeat myself, but TLDR, this is going to be a horde army on a budget so the paint job needs to be quick and easy. For inspiration, I really didn’t need to look much further than this piece by John Blanche – that also graced the cover of the RTB7 box:

And this is what I ended up with:

I went with the grey/black scheme, but also picked out the webbing pouches in green for a bit of variety. All basecoating was done with Contrast paints, and most highlighting was done quickly with a drybrush. The exception is the flesh, (which had a single ‘proper’ highlight & shade, but I skipped the eyes), and the lenses. The camo stripes & helmet detail went on last & took the longest to do, but all in all I think I did these in a week over 3 sessions. Not too bad at all! Here’s a closeup of the Sgt, lascannon & grenade launcher, showing the bits from Anvil Industries:

And one final shot of the whole squad:

Now I just need to repeat this for the remaining 3 squads plus command!

Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt7

03 Tuesday Feb 2026

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Greetings Terrans, and Happy February! I’ve got a bunch of Eldar goodies to share today, starting with Thatcher’s least favorite Aspect, the Striking Scorpions:

These guys were really nice to paint with a pretty classic colour scheme looking as fresh now as it did in the 90s.

I also painted this conversion:

This is a solitary member of a homebrew Aspect shrine, the ‘Silent Headsmen’ or Shaedra-Torrith. I envisage this shrine as being a rare offshoot of the Striking Scorpions that revel in the hunt and the claiming of trophy skulls… Painted in gritty tones, with an attempt at some OSL, this guy is intended to be used as a Predator analogue in a planned ‘Tyranid Pyramid’ game in the summer – basically Aliens v Predator v Colonial Marines in 40k. Should be amazeballs if it happens!

Finally, I have a couple of Howling Banshees – I love these minis, and I think adding purple to the colour scheme works particularly well. One of them had her hand butchered by a younger me, so a bit of surgery and a weapon swap was required:

So, that’s me halfway through my stash of Aspect Warriors – time for a group shot?

Lovely :-)

Anyhoo, that’s all for this post, I hope you’ve enjoyed this wee update. Hawks on the table next – the Aspect that are most intimidating from a painting perspective… Wish me luck!

Stargrave Warband – part 2

16 Thursday Mar 2023

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Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you well. I have some updates to share on my Stargrave crew – full disclosure, I’ve actually completed the crew, but I’m spreading them over a few posts for the sake of content :-)

So, last time I introduced Capt. Zebulon Scoville in his Combat (i.e. Power) Armour. Problem is, in the Stargrave rules, you need to pay a fee to use Combat Armour… I’ve played enough of Joseph McCullough’s games to know that D20s absolutely hate me & that there will certainly be times where I don’t have the credits for this, so I wanted to do a version of Zebulon in heavy armour & packing a shotgun. This gave me a great opportunity to use one of my absolute favourite Olley minis:

I gave Zeb a holstered pistol, but otherwise this mini is unconverted. Paint job is as for the Power Armoured version – Mantis Warrior Green contrast paint & Red & Cream cheque detail.

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Next I put together a 1st Mate for the crew – a combat Cyborg called ‘Borgan Freedman’. I imagine Borgan is an old combat servitor dating back to the Olleyan Expansionist Wars, and that he was found & freed by Zebulon before becoming his loyal and capable Number 2:

Borgan is big fella, and is packing an oversized ‘Rapid Fire’ weapon arm conversion from one of the AdMech kits, the size of which probably explains his phenomenal quads! This is another superb model, and I wanted to really lean in to all the gribbly bits on this sculpt & I picked out as many of the little wires and doodabs as I could find. I went with a dark skin tone for some variety,, but otherwise he was painted in the same palette as Zebulon.

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Next up is BB-Q, a Burner Droid with code that is so corrupted that it actually seems to enjoy what it does:

BB has a simple conversion on the weapon to make it look more like a flame thrower / burner type weapon, but is otherwise unchanged. Nothing much else to add here, it’s a goofy sculpt but good fun, and looks decent in the crew colour scheme.

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Last one for today is ‘Doc’ Legg:

Doc had some conversion work to give him a syringe-gun thingy in his right hand, but otherwise he’s a standard Olley Squat from back in the day. The palette is also consistent, but with a bit more white & a medic cross on the shoulder guard for easy gameplay.

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And that’s all I want to share for now – more to come I promise :-)