D Company, 7th Mordion Regiment pt.6

02 Sunday Aug 2026

Posted by Alex in 7th Mordion, D Company, OldHammer

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40k, Oldhammer, Painting, Rogue Trader, warhammer-40k

Greetings Terrans, I hope you are all well. I’m happy to get this post out because it means that I have finished up the Command Section for my 1st Platoon & can therefore get them on the table! Good timing because next weekend is an old-hammer gaming event for a buddy’s birthday, so I get to put 1st Platoon straight into the meat grinder :-)

Here is said Command Section – Medic, Orderly, Las Cannon, Sergeant, 2nd Las Cannon:

They are pretty much the same as the rest of the platoon, (apart from a bit of difference on the Medic), but I did put some extra effort into the Company banner:

(Obviously inspired by this from the late John Blanche):

I also painted up the Platoon Captain – as with the rest of the Platoon, he’s pretty basic, but at least has a bit of a glow up on his plasma pistol & a touch of gold here and there, plus he gets a tactical rock to stand on:

So, at last, I can put the whole Platoon out!

Not the greatest models or individual paintjobs in the world, but they do have a quality of their own when assembled en masse like this, and certainly not bad for £2.15 per mini!

So what next for this project? Well, firstly I need to add two more models to 1st Platoon to be list-perfect – a Commissar and a Sanctioned Psyker (named as ‘Morin Dannel’ in the fluff in the top panel of the Knifton artwork). I have both built & will try to get them painted up for the weekend.

I also want to have this Platoon mechanised, and will be using some M113 APCs as the basis for 5 counts-as rhinos. The reason for doing it this way is that I can’t afford authentic period Rhinos and using new ones doesn’t feel right, but kit-bashing proxies from a contemporaneous kit feels very Rogue Trader to me. Per the list, I’ll also need either a Servitor or an AdMech tech adept for each APC, so a bit more shopping & some work to do there.

Anyway, that’s all for now – more to follow!

Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt3

22 Monday Dec 2025

Posted by Alex in Eldar, OldHammer

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games-workshop, miniatures, Oldhammer, Painting, Rogue Trader, warhammer, warhammer-40k

Greetings Terrans, time for another wee dip of the toe into my latest project – a proper old school Eldar army. Not gonna lie, progress has been very slow since my last post – I have been chipping away at the lead pile and got seven old RT04 models base coated, but they were taking ages so I decided to push 2 through to completion prior to Christmas. Now, a bit of history for you. the RT04 range go all the way back to 1988, and were part of an initial run of 12 of ‘Space Elf’ models designed by Jes Goodwin. They are very much the blueprint for all the amazing Eldar that Jes worked on in the years that followed, but without the clean refinement that quickly came to typify the range. As such, the RT04 minis are a bit… well, wibbly for Eldar… Also, back in those days, (because of the low model count), every mini was named – the guy with the Melta gun is ‘Capt. Aetolia Lightfoot’, while the lasgun dude is ‘Irbic Trueshot’. Here they are:

When these came out, Space Elves were pretty much space pirates known for their funky insectoid armour, exotic weaponry, and alien helmet stripes. I always envisage using the RT04s as Corsairs in my own project, and I wanted them to be true to the period rather than have them look like super-clean Craftworlders. Ultimately, while this army will become a rag-tag group of Craftworlders, Corsairs, Aspect Warriors and Harlequins as it grows, I do want the Corsairs to look at least affiliated with the Craftworld… with that in mind, I tested out a darker purple for the main armour and included the weird striping on the yellow areas. While the blending on the dark purple could’ve been better, I’m actually pretty happy with how they turned out. Here they are with a Craftworlder to show the similarity:

Anyway, that’s it for this post – I’ll be getting some time to paint over the Christmas break, and I’m aiming to get the rest of my Corsairs done & maybe get started on some Aspect Warriors!

Have a great Christmas & roll on 2026.

Eldar Army pt1

13 Thursday Nov 2025

Posted by Alex in OldHammer

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40k, Eldar, Oldhammer, Painting, Rogue Trader, warhammer, warhammer-40k

Greetings Terrans, I hope you are well. A few weeks ago I shared my test model for a new army project – scratching a 35-year old itch to build and paint the OldHammer Eldar army of my teenage dreams. Well, finishing my Tzeentch warband gave me the perfect opportunity to kick that project off in earnest & get some more minis painted. However, before I share the photos, I want to set out a few ‘ground rules’ for the project:

1: I’m going with a Homebrew Craftworld rather than one of the established ones – I’ve settled on a purple/yellow colour scheme for Guardians from my (still) unnamed craft world. I’ll use purple as the main colour, and yellow on helmets and key armour pads, but I also had the idea of some Guardians being ex-Aspect Warriors & maybe carrying colours over from their former shrines, (just as a bit of fun & to add some variety).

2: Initially, I will focus on the minis I have stored in my lead pile – no new purchases until they are painted!

3: This includes my ASPECT WARRIORS!!! Including a homebrew shrine of Predator-esque warriors suitable for a possible ‘Tyrannid-Pyramid’ game next summer.

4: Once the lead pile is processed, I will add minis and attempt to round out collections – e.g. RT04/RT401 Space Elves, RT402 Space Elf Command, the RTB6 Harlequins, and so on. Looking forward to this!

5: Other ‘Elves in Space’ to be added as the fancy takes me – e.g. OG Dark Eldar, Ghost Warriors, Harlequins, and so on. Basically a mix and match approach to building out an eclectic combined Eldar force.

6: Old lead minis only, (obvs), but maybe some plastic vehicles as well – the current Wave Serpent/Falcon kit is pretty much unchanged since 1997 and would fit in nicely for example.

So that’s the loose framework for the project – now to some minis!

Firstly, just a re-show of the Craftworld Autarch – I’ve already shared this mini, but I reworked some of the details so I thought it worth reposting. I used Teal as the spot colour, and combined with the wings, this strongly ties this Autarch back to the Swooping hawk shrine, (but also hints of Dire Avenger and Howling Banshee in there with the weapon choice as well):

Next up, a flag waverer – a neat little conversion if I do say so myself. I’ve also used a dark blue spot colour here to suggest this Guardian is a former Dire Avenger:

Next we have a musician – Kelos Longfinger. This is actually a strip & repaint of a mini I first painted back in 2015(!!). I’ve used bone and white to tie this Guardian back to the Howling Banshee shrine – which also ties in with the idea of using sonics as a weapon:

Another strip & repaint, this champion – Cdr (demoted) ‘Avele Swifteye’ from back in 2016. This guy gets orange pads to link back to the Fire Dragons – I thought the armour and the mask details had vague dragon vibes as well, so I’m happy with this:

Finally, we have a heavy weapon platform and crew – I think the weapon & grav platform are from around1990, but the crew are a little older, (slight hand swap conversion on the dude with the hairdo). I’ve used a very darker purple here, tying these two back to the Dark Reaper shrine: