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Author Topic: Jagannath's 28mm Rogue Trader - Noverian Constabulary and Bounty Hunters 20/3/21  (Read 17789 times)

Offline Jagannath

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #90 on: September 25, 2018, 09:19:07 AM »
Ah don't - if only I could win the lottery!

Basically I'd have a whole load of Pulpy-Sci-fi minis - civilians, rogues, pirates etc. Like the original Rogue Trader range. It'd be so good!

Ho hum.

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #91 on: September 25, 2018, 10:12:22 AM »
Thanks matey. I absolutely love Bob Myrch's sculpts - particularly the faces - I wish I could afford to commission him to sculpt a whole range!

I picked up a few recently for use in Into the Odd. I'll be studying your paintjobs carefully for inspiration.

That bundo_kess Twitter feed is superb! I'd seen the blog before, but not the Twitter feed.

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #92 on: September 25, 2018, 10:49:42 AM »
oh cool - looking forward to your take on them.

Yeah his feed is updated more than his blog (I know that feeling!). I've been VERY inspired by Bundo Kess' 'toy' paintjobs - I've got some Pulp weird menace minis on the desk at the mo in that style. I suspect it's divisive but I really like heavily stylised paintjobs providing the whole 'set' (terrain, basing etc.) ties together.

It also seems like a great way of achieving a different style project, and getting bits finished quickly. I reckon this 8 man squad will only have taken 4 hours or so to finish, which is unheard of for me! I'll start a new thread for those though.

Offline DivisMal

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #93 on: September 26, 2018, 04:39:51 AM »
Brilliant painting, old chap!

The archaeologist is great; just the right guy who will excavate a burial ground of the Necron-civilization and wake up a sleeping legion of protector-bots. Tomb of the Cybemen, anyone?

The guy with the space monkey on the other hand...even better. The monkey is a great detail.

I absolutely love that this choice of civilians tunes down the whole setting, i.e. not everone is walking around in Power Armor and armed with a plasma gun. This is the setting where Space Marines do traffic controls and paint "fuk" on their armor. A dusty planet on the outer rim of civilized space.

Great paintjobs, dude!

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Bob Murch is GOD; and if I hadn't already so many painting projects, I would love to collect his minis, just because they embody pulp so much!

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #94 on: September 26, 2018, 08:09:36 AM »
I really like what you're doing with these figures. It's tapping into the best part of RT for me - all of those star-travelling oddballs knocking around dusty backwater planets. Keep it coming!

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #95 on: September 26, 2018, 09:38:50 AM »

I absolutely love that this choice of civilians tunes down the whole setting, i.e. not everone is walking around in Power Armor and armed with a plasma gun. This is the setting where Space Marines do traffic controls and paint "fuk" on their armor. A dusty planet on the outer rim of civilized space.

Great paintjobs, dude!


Thanks matey! That's exactly what I'm going for - that spirit of Rogue Trader, which was really just an amalgam of all the other sci-fi out there. I want to add some power armour, but I imagine them being much closer to an occupying/policing force (like Stormtroopers in Star Wars) then super-gene soldiers. Just bored, well-equipped troopers on a nowhere planet.

I really like what you're doing with these figures. It's tapping into the best part of RT for me - all of those star-travelling oddballs knocking around dusty backwater planets. Keep it coming!

And thank you! I'm clearly ripping off loads of your stuff - your Cthullul40k project is a massive influence, did that get abandoned?

Offline Ockman

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Re: Jagannath's 28mm Pulp/Rogue Trader - Xeno-Archaeologist & Bodyguard 24/9/18
« Reply #96 on: September 26, 2018, 08:09:52 PM »
I like the less epic aspects of sci-fi, the smugglers running contraband (nothing more than space tobacco and space porn), a band of misfits paid by the colony administration to chase away bandits harassing the colonists, exploration of old alien ruins (finding only old alien tobacco and alien porn), cantina brawls between competing crews, returning lost droids to their master...

I find your miniatures very fitting for those kinds of stories.

Offline Jagannath

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I've only gone and finished a few minis!

I'm back in my semi-regular 28mm mode at the moment and have managed to progress a few minis to 'finished' (and LOADS to about 80% done).

The main driver of this was my purchase of a table's worth of Fogou desert buildings, but those aren't quite finished yet so they'll do as backdrop until I get a bit more done.

Here's the group I boxed off this morning



They're not intended as a 'group' - I rarely paint like that - but I like to use occasional colour to tie minis together. That way I can assemble groups and gangs on the fly pretty comfortably.

First up is Bilton Darn



In his youth Bilton lead the a rag tag gang of misfits who terrorised the territories around Traitor's Folly but now he mostly props up the Cantina bars wherever his landhaul work takes him. Still - he's pretty dead-eyed with that blaster, no matter how strong the SynthBourb.

Next: Servitor M40



Servitor M40 worked as a stevedore on the atmospheric landing pads - it's rumoured that (unusually for a Servitor) he has conscious thought, and alleged plans to remove mindclamps and ferment a servitor-worker uprising sent a group of enforcers down to the landers. M40 has not been seen since. If you know of his whereabouts please contact the administratum.

Political Officer Ewpeel Worsch



Worsch was a political officer for 177th Tatooneean during the Chervv uprising. In retirement he seems to have lost faith in the Imperial code, and now bring his political fervour to any topic he decides to rave about. Rarely makes a salient point though.

Solo Garett, Smuggler



Solo is a gifted blockade runner, and hasn't found a sub-Warp lighter that he couldn't pilot yet. Unafraid to shoot first, Solo spends most of his time running between black market crime lords, charming or shooting his way out of trouble.



No creeping up on Solo!

Obvisouly Solo is the star of this little modelling exercise - he's converted from an Artizan cowboy whose legs I tool off below the knee to switch with some plastic GW Genestealer Cultists boots - incidentally I use this conversion technique a lot on plastics, it can really change a model. In my head sci-fi=boots with pants tucked in, which is one of the main challenges with trying to convert pulp or historical models.



He pistol is from the Escher box set, whilst his robot hand is another one of the Forgeworld ones I used on an earlier conversion too. I was a bit stuck for good alternative hands, but now I've got hold of the Frostgrave wizards that's sorted for future conversion.

His hat took the most work, quite a lot of cutting and shaping to stop it looking like a cowboy hat. I think his palette and the cap give him a sort of ex-military look, like he kept his fatigues.

And that's the lot! Like I say, I'm a role at the moment and hopefully I'll be back with the finished Fogou town soon!




Offline zrunelord

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Great work all round mate.
Converting / scratchbuilding minis is really one of the nicer sides to our hobby.

Thanks for sharing.
Z
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Are you using a roller to get that stripe to do that?  On the building?

Beautiful figures, by the way - I should probably acknowledge that too if I'm going to ask questions.  :D
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Offline Jagannath

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Are you using a roller to get that stripe to do that?  On the building?

Beautiful figures, by the way - I should probably acknowledge that too if I'm going to ask questions.  :D

Haha no problem - I masked off them dabbled with sponge. Still need to finish the rusty accessories and dusty them up a bit. Credit due to Axiom, thoroughly knocked from him!

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Sponge? Huh.  That I hadn't expected.  Thanks.

Offline Jagannath

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Yeah - pretty saturated with paint then just one dab per ‘stroke’, so you still get the cracks etc showing through. Makes it realistically patchy.

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Very nice clean painting on the minis!
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Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.

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Thanks very much!

 

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