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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Ragsta on May 30, 2023, 08:47:21 PM
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Hello everyone
Long time commenter but never actually shared pictures of my own hobby. Finally going to do it, finally going to cast my hobby bottle into the internet sea :P :P
I am currently working on clearing my decks of older projects so I can start playing with new shinies (and so I can start getting into some Stargrave with my friend Scarper). The snag being my older projects are somewhat sizable grim dark armies!
I have recently finished a squadron of 4 Sentinels for my rag tag scumbag Guard, the Flexberg 17th Infantry. A combo of new and evil bay rescues, let's just say I am very relieved to see the finished results!!
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Brill :)
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That's a nice flanking unit and they look great together too! 8)
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They look good!
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Thank you so much guys, really pleased you like them!
One of my other vices is sci fi starships. Here are two of my converted grand cruisers for Battlefleet Gothic. I copied an idea from t’internet and they are some of my favourites.
Heavy cruisers Mythic and Ajax:
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Nice work - particularly like the BFG :)
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Love the sentinels, Ragsta! Would never have guessed they were refurbs if I hadn't already known. Particular highlight is the plasmaglow on the one at the back - that's a nice OSL effect.
They look great as a pack. Worth the burnout!
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Nice work - particularly like the BFG :)
Thank you, Akula! Praise from the praiseworthy. I do love my BFG stuff, there's something about the flexibility of paint jobs and kitbashes that really appeals to me.
Love the sentinels, Ragsta! Would never have guessed they were refurbs if I hadn't already known. Particular highlight is the plasmaglow on the one at the back - that's a nice OSL effect.
They look great as a pack. Worth the burnout!
Really glad you like the lighting, I kept dithering about thhat but glad I stuck with it! I am very pleased with them now, the horror of their WIPness has faded into my subconscious :P
I like to paint up weird and wonderful aliens and monsters as palette cleansers , and I just so happen to have one here!
The miniature came from Pig Iron Miniatures, though for some reason I can't find them on the store right now. They have a strong resemblance to the Skull Crawlers from King Kong's Skull Island. I really enjoyed finishing this beast - it's been lurking in my pile of potential for quite some time...
Creepers. Crawlers. Snakeheads. They're one of the many bogey men out on fringe space. Big, fast and vicious, Creepers can grow to the size of an armoured walker yet possess an unnerving capacity for stealth and ambush. Their long limbs are reminiscent of stick insects or spiders but with the deadly sweeping embrace of a mantis. Colourations are varied and expansive...
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He looks really intimidating! It's such a dynamic, threatening pose, too. One of my favourites in person. I like the splash of 'danger' red on the spike.
I think a lot of hasslefree stuff hasn't been updated once it's sold out lately - a lot of minis I've thought about buying in the past have vanished.
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Really nice stuff!
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Really nice stuff!
Thank you, Mr Elk!
He looks really intimidating! It's such a dynamic, threatening pose, too. One of my favourites in person. I like the splash of 'danger' red on the spike.
I think a lot of hasslefree stuff hasn't been updated once it's sold out lately - a lot of minis I've thought about buying in the past have vanished.
Pig Iron Miniatures, mate, not hasslefree :) But I know what you mean, and thank you!
I have recently found myself playing actual games! :O After what has been genuinely TWO decades I’ve found myself playing games of 10th edition 40K with some guys from work, and I’ve actually had fun!? It has a decent flow but yeah, it still takes hours even using 500pts. I would like to try Grim Dark Future next :)
My Flexberg 17th Infantry linked up with a force of Vostroyans on patrol, only to run into a combined force of Orks and the ever mercurial Dark Angels. Despite some spirited fighting we found ourselves caught in a pincer of frothing green loonies, and enacting a Custer’s Last Stand just before we lost the will to live from exhaustion ;D ;D
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They look great all arrayed out like that! Shoulda got some some shots from the front too though ;D
I like the way you've based your heavy weapon teams - very smart. Did you do that before the new rules, or was that a 10e change?
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Thanks fella. You get better pictures when I get some time for proper group shots! Bloomin whippersnapper…
I based up the weapon teams this way cos I wanted to make micro dioramas out of them, so every team has some crates, sandbags/ barricades and some appropriate posing. I never thought I’d be playing 40K again - the dios were just meant to be a fun part of my collection! Even more fun now I guess ::)
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Love the in-game shots :)
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Glad you like them, they came out remarkably well. Guaranteed as soon as I try to take pics of my grouped projects they will look like they’ve been dunked in cake and sprayed with fog :`
I played my first game of Stargrave with my good friend Scarper and really enjoyed it! Plenty to keep us both engaged and interested, and a joy playing in actual painted terrain (which Scarper should post pictures of in his thread :D :D ).
Captain ‘Treg’ Sutter and the crew of the Kerry Denk made their way into the outskirts of an abandoned settlement looking for easy pickings, only to run into unknowns with a similar agenda. A hasty data hack by Sutter revealed the only other vessel in the vicinity was some pathetic rust bucket called the Fisher King.
Both sides were wary of engaging initially but this did not last. Trooper Kark and the potentially mislabelled bot M1ND-R ultimately claimed several takedowns after an abortive attempt at close combat by the self proclaimed expert Cap’n Treg and his two cronies saw them assertively repulsed by a lone Fisher King crewer!!
I look forward to the next game - all was done and dusted within 2.5 hours including set up and post game.
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Nice pictures, man! You've got some great atmospheric ones in there. I particularly love the shot of your bastard trooper one-shotting my poor innocent chiseller.
I still reckon 2 and a half hours for a learning game is a great start! It'll be quicker now we've got the basics down.
You decided what to do with the gear you stole yet?
EDIT: Oop, turned the page. Here's your pictures again, for anyone looking:
Glad you like them, they came out remarkably well. Guaranteed as soon as I try to take pics of my grouped projects they will look like they’ve been dunked in cake and sprayed with fog :`
I played my first game of Stargrave with my good friend Scarper and really enjoyed it! Plenty to keep us both engaged and interested, and a joy playing in actual painted terrain (which Scarper should post pictures of in his thread :D :D ).
Captain ‘Treg’ Sutter and the crew of the Kerry Denk made their way into the outskirts of an abandoned settlement looking for easy pickings, only to run into unknowns with a similar agenda. A hasty data hack by Sutter revealed the only other vessel in the vicinity was some pathetic rust bucket called the Fisher King.
Both sides were wary of engaging initially but this did not last. Trooper Kark and the potentially mislabelled bot M1ND-R ultimately claimed several takedowns after an abortive attempt at close combat by the self proclaimed expert Cap’n Treg and his two cronies saw them assertively repulsed by a lone Fisher King crewer!!
I look forward to the next game - all was done and dusted within 2.5 hours including set up and post game.
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Hellooo!
@Scarper I may or may not have invested in some better gear for the crew, pending our next meeting... ;)
Hello everyone!
It's been some time since I posted. I have had a bumpy 16 months. I got a new job that I thought was the culmination of much graft and effort on my part, but it turned out to be a toxic cesspool for my mental health. I've never felt that unwell in my 42 shiny years. I ended up getting fired (they were looking for an excuse, and because I was with them less than 2 years I couldn't lodge unfair dismissal). I am much happier now and my enthusiasm for the hobby is reignited. Ha!!
I would like to share some more of my Battlefleet Gothic ships with you. If you've seen pictures of them before then apologies. I have recently found my love for this game returned with vigor - I just love tinkering with wee space ships!
Here is the flagship for my Ork Reaver fleet, the Carnage. I was tinkering with this model for literally years, slowly adding more and more junk to the hulk until I was happy enough to paint it. Painting was primarily several different spray cans, some metal drybrushing then numerous weathering powders.
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2021/6/27/1110107_mb-Da%20Carnage%202.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1110107-Da%20Carnage%202.html)(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2021/6/27/1110108_sm-Da%20Carnage%203.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1110108-Da%20Carnage%203.html)(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2021/6/27/1110106_sm-Da%20Carnage%201.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1110106-Da%20Carnage%201.html)(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2021/6/27/1110109_sm-Da%20Carnage%204.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1110109-Da%20Carnage%204.html)
That is a 60mm flying stand. I will get more pictures up as a scale reference with her sister ships.
Parts used were plasticard, pen lids, the IMEX Chemical Plant set from years ago (LOVED that set - the bulk of my Ork fleet cruisers are built from it!), multiple guns from GW and old kits.
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That Is a beautiful ship you've bashed together there. Really puts me in the mind of a 40k version of Sean Patten's (Necromundicon) Starcrashers ships, and that's a very good thing.
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It reminds me a bit of the Red Dwarf, from the series of the same name - a very cool model cobbled together from… stuff. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the fleet!
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Eilif - Thanks so much, mate. The mighty Eilif complimenting one of my scratchbuilds? :o I am a big fan of all of Sean Patten's stuff! He built some pirate ships with skull heads that partly inspired my Ork stuff. Man has a brilliant eye for bits.
Pattus Magnus - Thank you so much, I take the Red Dwarf comparison as a big compliment.
Here's some pics of lighter cruisers Vampire and Goblin (lol). Vampire is built out of two BFG Chaos cruiser bellies slapped together. Goblin more IMEX, bits and pen lids.
The name plates on my ships come from a company called Versatile Terrain. They do fun stuff with name plates for miniature bases.
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2021/5/4/1104467_sm-Reaver%20light%20cruisers%201A.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1104467-Reaver%20light%20cruisers%201A.html)(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2021/5/4/1104466_sm-Reaver%20light%20cruisers%201.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1104466-Reaver%20light%20cruisers%201.html)
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More excellent builds! I especially like the goblin ship.
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Thank you Pattus 🙂
I took a semi decent in-progress picture of some recent escort sized ships for BFG/ Full Thrust. The armed freighter is from Brigade Models and it’s a lovely lump of metal. She is the home of my Stargrave crew, the much maligned Kerry Denk.
The two escorts are Soryllian frigates from Firestorm Armada that have been kitbashed with parts from Imperial and Chaos ships plus parts from Vanguard Miniatures. I wanted to represent two old hulls that have been hastily rearmed to provide protection on convoys.
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Hello everyone. I thought it would be fun if I showcased my zombie horde, albeit one day late for Halloween. I started building this when I discovered the rules for All Things Zombie. Heck, I even had a blast with a solo campaign years ago, and tried to recreate my neighbourhood using cardboard houses and toy cars :) These little gribblies have been many years in the making. Always fun to paint some zombies as a palette cleanser!
The models come from Mantic Games, Wargames Factory, Heresy Miniatures, Cold War Miniatures, Checkpoint Miniatures, Studio Miniatures and some kitbashed nonsense using the old GW models. Oh yes, there's a Gollum in there too cos he came with a bunch of other stuff and needed a home :P They are magnetised - I found a wooden box which I glued some ferrous sheeting into to store them all!
Roughly 160 Zeds:
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Thank you everyone for looking at my pile of junk :)
Ragsta
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Your horde trounces mine -- I have only 74. My friend, who I got interested in playing Zombie RV with his kids, is adding to his force. When he exceeds 74, he will take the Zombie Lord title from me. However, we bow down to your overlordship...! lol
Mike Demana
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Well now, that is a HORDE! I love the variety in your collection.
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Great shamblers, all those dfferent shades of rotting flesh look good, in a putrid kind of way.
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Wow, now that is a huge horde of zombies!
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Well now, that is a HORDE! I love the variety in your collection.
Thanks so much. I am very fond of my little shamblers.
Great shamblers, all those dfferent shades of rotting flesh look good, in a putrid kind of way.
Haha yes they do - I ended up going for a variety of different greens, browns and greys then a drybrush of tan/ cream followed by a wash. Everything worked because of the gribbly nature of the Zs. It was also a good way to experiment with different base colours and washes for other projects.
Wow, now that is a huge horde of zombies!
Thank you!
Your horde trounces mine -- I have only 74. My friend, who I got interested in playing Zombie RV with his kids, is adding to his force. When he exceeds 74, he will take the Zombie Lord title from me. However, we bow down to your overlordship...! lol
Mike Demana
Nevar! We are all equal in Undeath. I need to get these guys out for gaming again. I vaguely remember one solo game with an absolute mob around a lorry trailer - we took them out with an anti tank rocket aimed at the fuel tank o_o
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I was talking to Daeothar about Tyranid Xenomorphs the other day and his own project inspired me to share mine. This year I have painted 80 Gaunts with ‘Lurker’ heads from Heresy Miniatures. I managed to add 9 swarms of Rippers and 10 Spore Mines.
I currently don't have any larger gribblies to lead them. I am thinking about getting some models that have similar head styling and it's proving difficult to find anything. 3D printing has an odd shortage of Xenomorph heads!
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I also have three pseudo dreadnoughts that deserved some air time. The meaty boy is a model from Khurusan Miniatures. I am a fan of Robocop 2, just saying. I built two Tau bots with some minor limb tweaks and the same paintscheme - I don't do Tau but I like mecha so they can all hang out together thank you very much.
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To keep these bots company I thought I should share an ooold project of mine. Er I think I've had this build for nearly 20 years now?? It's a Spider Tank built from Bionicle parts, a turret from Blood and Skulls and the body from GZG Games. They don't do them anymore but I think a company called Demonscape does. The railgun is actually a lamp post from some Mantic terrain pieces - I used it because rule of cool. This big chonkus would benefit from an updated paintjob with some grimy weathering and maybe one day I'll do that. I did add some highlighting to the turret lenses after this pic was taken :) The Raptor is there purely for scale, maybe one day my forces of Anarchy will get some coverage..
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Lovely work. That is some very old-school GZG at the center of that quad walker there.
Can't believe I never saw those BFG ships up-thread. Those ork scows are excellent.
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That swarm/horde is looking mighty impressive! The glossy black especially turns them in Xenomorphs immediately. 8)
Glad to inspire, even though I was in turn inspired by McFonz and his alien horde; credit where it's due.
And the three of us probably increased sales of that particular sprue for Andy by a factor or two :D
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That swarm/horde is looking mighty impressive! The glossy black especially turns them in Xenomorphs immediately. 8)
Glad to inspire, even though I was in turn inspired by McFonz and his alien horde; credit where it's due.
And the three of us probably increased sales of that particular sprue for Andy by a factor or two :D
I somehow missed this but yes, it's all for the greater goo... hive mind!
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I somehow missed this but yes, it's all for the greater goo... hive mind!
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Ohh I like these immensely and I had something similar in mind for mine but not with the brownish highlights etc, mine are currently dry-brushed blue/silver over black but however please consider the idea stolen homaged for my Nids, my xenomorphs and my Kryomek ;) :D
Excellent stuff
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Those are wickedly well done.
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Guys, thank you so much for your kind comments. I am really pleased you like the Ork Scows (man I LOVE that descriptor!) and the Xeno Nids. Also, thank you to McFonz and Daeothar for the original inspiration behind those!
Hello everyone
I have been lamenting an old project. My first ever 'finished' project was many years ago and it was a Company of Space Marines I named the Brazen Guard. I sold them around 2012 I think, at a time when I thought I was leaving the hobby. Ha!! Such naievty!! What I do know is a dad bought them for his kid. If anyone has seen them since then do let me know :P
The paint scheme was appallingly straightforward. White spray, then painted silver and washed with several siennas. Done! I built them up from rescued models and salvaged parts. 3rd party heads and pads were also used. The basing was delightfully retro in hindsight - Woodland Scenics flock then my first use of static grass. I was happy. That was a good project. I hope they are okay out there.
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A long time ago I was gifted some free Orruk Brutes my friend found hiding in their new place. Similarly I received a subscription from my pal that got me the limited edition Orruk model. Sooo I removed the most obvious Orky gubbinz and gave them Fantasy Ogre heads to create some brutal looking Ogryn Auxilia. I painted them close to the armour plated Trolls that storm Minas Tirith's gates in Return of the King. Like that scene, these boys do not muck about!
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2025/3/17/1210974_sm-Ogryns%2C%20BruteGryn.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1210974-Ogryns%2C%20BruteGryn.html)
Forguff is a bleak moonlet covered in the ruined shell of some forgotten mega structure. The atmosphere is barely breathable and it's gravity brutally high for a standard baseline human. By the time it was rediscovered in the Great Crusade its human population could only be classified as Ogryn- small clans roaming the multiple layers of decaying steel and rock and fighting over the scant remaining resources. Only the strongest survive, clad in scavenged iron and armed with the crudest of melee weapons. The Munitorum employs them as brute shock troops, their feral aggression and direct nature making them perfect in this role. Even Ripper guns are considered too complicated for the Forguff Ogryn- their preferred weapons are large polearms that they gleefully use like demented hockey sticks, whooping with unbridled joy.
These are 5 'BruteGryn' of Forguff acting as auxilia for Flexberg forces fighting on Gethrika Prime.
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that font colour hurts
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Thank you for your constructive feedback on my toy soldiers, you vile giraffa. I have changed the colour of the font.
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They look great as a pack, mate. Really sinister! I also respect the hell out of repurposing minis that fall into your hands. I find it much more satisfying than buying specific things for a project. I hadn't actually thought of the Minas Tirith guards when I saw them before, but you're absolutely right that that's the vibe they're giving off. I reckon you'd benefit from a higher res picture - the OSL on the leader looks great in person, and you can't quite make it out on these guys.
Forguff sounds like a shite place to live. Still, can you imagine growing up in really high grav then fighting in a normal world? It'd be like fighting on a bouncy castle! No wonder they're gleeful lol
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Thanks so much buddy. Photography continues to test me o_o
Now you make me want write more about Forguff haha! Very pleased with these dudes.
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Guys, thank you so much for your kind comments. I am really pleased you like the Ork Scows (man I LOVE that descriptor!) and the Xeno Nids. Also, thank you to McFonz and Daeothar for the original inspiration behind those!
Hello everyone
I have been lamenting an old project. My first ever 'finished' project was many years ago and it was a Company of Space Marines I named the Brazen Guard. I sold them around 2012 I think, at a time when I thought I was leaving the hobby. Ha!! Such naievty!! What I do know is a dad bought them for his kid. If anyone has seen them since then do let me know :P
The paint scheme was appallingly straightforward. White spray, then painted silver and washed with several siennas. Done! I built them up from rescued models and salvaged parts. 3rd party heads and pads were also used. The basing was delightfully retro in hindsight - Woodland Scenics flock then my first use of static grass. I was happy. That was a good project. I hope they are okay out there.
These are ace. I have been deliberating getting shot of my old Dark Angels... I think I might have to revisit them instead - I haven't played with them in probably 15yrs! I had started a Dark Angel Primaris army, but the first born I could use with Grim Dark maybe? Hmmm.
Lovely stuff, the paint is very nice.
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These are ace. I have been deliberating getting shot of my old Dark Angels... I think I might have to revisit them instead - I haven't played with them in probably 15yrs! I had started a Dark Angel Primaris army, but the first born I could use with Grim Dark maybe? Hmmm.
Lovely stuff, the paint is very nice.
Thanks, mate, I appreciate your dropping in! I will admit since posting about my old army I may have bought some new (old) First Born for a future project... o_o Grim Dark Future is definitely something I want to try out. I actually recently picked up 40K 3rd edition in a fit of nostalgia too. Maybe one day.
I wanted to share my Stargrave crew. I need to get playing with them again- they have had their fair (unfair) share of getting blasted by steam vents, shredded by lasers and mauled by beasties.
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2025/4/29/1213857-Stargrave%20Crew.jpeg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1213857-Stargrave%20Crew.html)
Cpt. Tregari Sutter likes to describe himself as an appreciator of fine arts, technological antiquities and data stacks. He is the Captain of the Fast Packet 'Kerry Denk'.
'Treg' has a fondness for robotics and unisphere networks in particular. In his youth his family’s wealth meant he was able to enjoy these pastimes with little actual labour.
Their dwindling fortunes during the Last War saw Sutter eventually conscripted into military service as a ‘technical specialist’. He’s never been able to explain what that really is to his crew on the rare occasion someone has asked. It’s possible this is the primary reason he has survived tothis point.
Childhood nostalgia for tech has been soured by the grim reality of an independent’s life in this galaxy. Treg Sutter is able to recognise the value in abandoned machinery and data hubs that others could miss. He has the technical savvy to dismantle and utilise archeotech to make best use of them without a middleman. He’s been able to ensure his survival to this point by cynical exploitation of such opportunities.
A network of buyers and informants has developed from the outcome of Sutter’s exploits. However, instead of getting Treg the wealth and fortune he wistfully remembers his antics have only dragged him deeper into a bad situation.
The Kerry Denk is not actually his - Treg ‘liberated’ the vessel during the final collapse of his commander's task force thanks to his hacking skills and perhaps the last scraps of his luck. He paid little thought to the original crew during those fiery last hours of service.
The Kerry Denk has been refitted with a pair of twin rail guns. Sutter has taken on several mercenaries. Where other outfits can be seen to be trying to make the best of a bad situation the crew of the Kerry Denk seek to enrich themselves and at others expense if necessary.
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Cool looking crew.
What's the big thing in the vaguely Chris Foss scheme, back right, a jet bike of sorts?
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Thanks mate. That is a robot mule type thing that provides much of the hauling and engineering duties. It's more like a utility sled than anything else.
I repainted a Phantom Menace Multi-Troop Transport thingy. It was bloomin tiny- that's a 40mm base its on. I think they were made by AMT? And I am very happy you compared the scheme to Chris Foss lol
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2025/4/29/1213858_sm-Stargrave%20Mule.JPG) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1213858-Stargrave%20Mule.html)
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Nice crew, I did not even notice the robot being a tiny SW tank.
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I like it.
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I love the little blue k9 type robot
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Thanks so much, guys! The K9 Robot comes from Heresy Miniatures as does the flamboyant looking Captain (complete with sonic screwdriver...).