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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: stone-cold-lead on 21 February 2014, 06:58:15 PM

Title: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: stone-cold-lead on 21 February 2014, 06:58:15 PM
A commission job here. A box of mean zeds to repaint. Here are the first 10 models (almost finished).

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/DSCN6361.JPG)

I'll do better photo's later. My dodgy lighting and haste to take a pic has washed out the girl's nose.

Just as a comparison, here's what some of the models looked like originally.

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/DSCN6340.JPG)

I've got a bunch of weapon guys like the green zed to do and there are also a few bigger battlesuit types.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Chambersofminiatures on 21 February 2014, 07:43:28 PM
Outstanding! I have the Oni army box and every once in a while think about getting read of it. I think I will hold on a little while longer.

Great paint job!
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Grimmnar on 22 February 2014, 09:40:14 AM
Outstanding! I have the Oni army box and every once in a while think about getting read of it. I think I will hold on a little while longer.

Great paint job!
You should start thinking about painting them instead. :-)

Grimm
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Agis on 22 February 2014, 09:55:57 AM
Great work, have to dig out mine...
 ;)
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: joroas on 22 February 2014, 11:50:35 AM
They are very valuable, my set went for over £200 last month. ;D
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: dwartist on 22 February 2014, 12:09:10 PM
ooh, lovely work on those!
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: stone-cold-lead on 03 March 2014, 10:02:58 PM
Still working my way through these deaders. I think the big guy is a great model.

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/DSCN6372.JPG)

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/DSCN6374.JPG)

Just a few more to do now.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Achilles on 04 March 2014, 12:35:34 AM
I really wish I'd picked these up when I had a chance! Fatastic paints. :)
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: warburton on 04 March 2014, 12:44:40 AM
I don't like the models, but that is some excellent painting!
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: blackstone on 04 March 2014, 12:48:37 AM
Superb painting!!  :)
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Elbows on 04 March 2014, 04:39:16 AM
I've always wondered why Rackham made such great miniatures and continues to flop on every game setting they try...AT43 had some brilliant models.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Agis on 04 March 2014, 07:10:11 AM
Very nice work again! Big motivation boost for me to get mine out!

I've always wondered why Rackham made such great miniatures and continues to flop on every game setting they try...AT43 had some brilliant models.
IMO the whole pre-painted thing kept many away.
Maybe at some day someone buys the range and brings them out unpainted...
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: stone-cold-lead on 04 March 2014, 08:58:13 AM
I've always wondered why Rackham made such great miniatures and continues to flop on every game setting they try...AT43 had some brilliant models.

I think AT-43 was a quite successful although expensive venture but it was taking Confrontation into PPP that screwed Rackham totally. Again an expensive project but also perhaps a bit of backlash from a customer base that was founded on painting and modelling their metals and some retailers felt shafted apparently and refused to stock the PPP game. I ordered some left over Rackham stuff from a retailer a couple of years ago and their web page still had the explanation posted as to why they would not be stocking 4th edition Confrontation. They felt Rackham had killed their old product lines over night and left them with a lot of stock they'd just bought that was not going to sell.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Elbows on 04 March 2014, 09:00:14 AM
Shame, regardless.  I really liked the old Rackham metals I had back in the day...should have kept some.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: PF on 04 March 2014, 10:41:20 AM
Top stuff as usual.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: aliensurfer on 04 March 2014, 01:57:46 PM
£20 odd for 6 plastic human figures (albeit pre-painted) probably didnt help much either, the AT43 stuff was priced too high for what it was for a large chunk of the range.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Dentatus on 04 March 2014, 03:10:17 PM
Very nice brushwork. For the life of me, I can't capture that subtle palette, those matte/luminous color schemes.

I enjoyed my AT-43 figs but do miss my metal Wolfen. Easy come, easy go. Life goes on.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: hubbabubba on 04 March 2014, 04:34:26 PM
 :-* :-* :-*

Bernard Says beautiful
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Talarius on 07 March 2014, 04:36:49 PM
Maybe at some day someone buys the range and brings them out unpainted...

I remember reading a quote from Paolo Parente in a Dust e-zine that the master molds for AT-43 were at risk of being destroyed for lack of any potential buyer and the space they take up in the Chinese manufacturing building. The company that manufacturers the Dust figures previously produced AT-43.  If the molds have been, or will be destroyed I don't think AT-43 will rise from the grave, which would be a shame.  I liked them enough to buy 5 different armies... although I missed out on ONI!   :'(
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Grimmnar on 08 March 2014, 02:17:00 AM
I remember reading a quote from Paolo Parente in a Dust e-zine that the master molds for AT-43 were at risk of being destroyed for lack of any potential buyer and the space they take up in the Chinese manufacturing building. The company that manufacturers the Dust figures previously produced AT-43.  If the molds have been, or will be destroyed I don't think AT-43 will rise from the grave, which would be a shame.  I liked them enough to buy 5 different armies... although I missed out on ONI!   :'(
Not really why i have trouble believing a Chinese company would throw out molds instead of using them and repopulating the market under Made in China label. I know a few Chinese knockoffs that are out there.

Grimm
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: nic-e on 08 March 2014, 09:27:16 PM
Not really why i have trouble believing a Chinese company would throw out molds instead of using them and repopulating the market under Made in China label. I know a few Chinese knockoffs that are out there.

Grimm

I contacted the company that currently holds the right to at-43.they gave me a stock response that they'd been giving everyone for the past few years.AT-43 is never coming back in afraid, at least not using the same moulds and not until someone buys it.
It's basically just something that got lumped in with the rights to confrontation to make some last money for the poor chaps at rackham.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: obsidian3d on 10 March 2014, 06:00:55 PM
I only recently found about about AT-43 through some friends. The ONI would definitely have been my army of choice, but being the last release before Rackham crashed, the figures are expensive and nigh-impossible to find. I'll likely have to build my own (some day).

In the meantime, I can enjoy looking at great work like this. They paint you've done on these figures really makes them look top-notch!
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: stone-cold-lead on 10 March 2014, 08:15:10 PM
Looks like I'm just in time with this lot then!

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/photos/undefined/oni%20group%202%20small.JPG)

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/photos/undefined/oni%20leader%20montage.JPG)

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/photos/undefined/oni%20big%20guys%20montage.JPG)

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/photos/undefined/oni%20gun%20guys%20montage.JPG)

(http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/photos/undefined/oni%20detonators%20montage.JPG)

It's taken a while to get them all done and I'm hoping I don't have to paint anything grey for a bit.  ;)
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: hubbabubba on 10 March 2014, 09:17:30 PM
Gert Lush. :-* :-* :-*

If I could afford you, you'd be my painting whore of choice, alas, I am but a poor wastrel who'll have to be content with the mini-porn you post on these hallowed pages. lol

Top Job, love your greys and blacks.
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: Achilles on 11 March 2014, 07:58:59 AM
Great job. :)
Title: Re: AT-43 Oni Mercs
Post by: dwartist on 11 March 2014, 09:36:18 AM
"If I could afford you, you'd be my painting whore of choice..."
My sentiments exactly!