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FrostTrader warband update

21 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by Alex in OldHammer, Side projects

≈ 19 Comments

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Conversion, Frostgrave, Oldhammer

Happy Monday chaps and chapettes, it has been a while but I have some updates for you :-)  I have been busily basecoating and shading my Frostgrave warband since my last post – I was racing to get them somewhat ready for the table-top, but I had nothing complete to share with you as a result. Happily, that process was finished on Friday, and I got a couple of minis properly finished over the weekend.

First up is my Shaman apprentice – Cadillac (again, the name is ‘borrowed’ from the Amtrak Wars series):

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I have to say, Caddy is one of my favourite conversions – the composition is very pleasing, and I’m really chuffed with how he turned out. I used the same colours for his warpaint as I did for his teacher Mr Snow.

Secondly we have my Barbarian – Steel-Eye:

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I’m less pleased with this guy if I’m honest – the pose isn’t quite ‘there’ in my opinion, but he’ll do the job. I introduced some blue into Steel-Eye’s warpaint… in fact, I am thinking of using the colour to identify the different classes… As the preeminent warrior, this guy got some fairly extensive warpaint, but the thugs will probably be lower key. Plenty of blood spatter going on here as well – I reckon that huge chainsword would make quite a mess… ;-)

Oh, and here’s a group shot to date:

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…and that’s as much as I have managed to do so far – comments and feedback are always welcome and gratefully received :-)  The rest of the warband just need highlights and detail, so I should be getting through them at a fairly rapid pace from here on in… I’ll keep you posted!

New squad

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

Posted by Alex in OldHammer, Side projects

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Oldhammer, Rogue Trader

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:

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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?

Test piece for a new unit

11 Monday Jan 2016

Posted by Alex in OldHammer

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Oldhammer, Rogue Trader

Hello chaps, just a quick post from me, as I am a happy chap today – I managed to get back on to figures following my recent exertions on various items of scenery! I have a selection of minis set aside to act as a Planetary Defence/local constabulary/Imperial Guard squad. They are quite an eclectic bunch that cover a range of collections, including Mercs, Adventurers, Paranoia and Chainsaw Warrior, so I need to make sure I tie them together with a strong colour scheme. With that in mind, I quickly painted up a test piece yesterday and posted it on the OldHammer Facebook group for feedback. Happily, the feedback was positive, so this is the scheme I will be taking forward:

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The mini is ‘Spaced-dout Sam’ from the ’87 RT Flyer – I think the sculptor was Naismith but might have been the Perry Twins, (please comment below if you know for sure!). This dude also appeared as ‘Imperial Heavy Infantry’ and ‘Imp Guard w. Autogun’, so he’s quite a flexible chap. He was a joy to paint – a nice clean sculpt with loads of surface area for RT-esque detailing… Lovely.

I’m going to crack on with the rest of his team over the next couple of weeks before I take on something a little bit special… more on that later in the month ;-)

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