Re: All things Rogue Trader and Warhammer 40K (May 2022: SPACE DWARFS!)

[Lost Egg]

Loving the bomb-bots...they remind me of the green Daleks from Dr Who.

[Dr Mathias]

Very cool

For those looking to get an STL: There are some decent bomb bots out there (https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/bomb-bot) for example.

I'd rather buy these if they're ever put up for sale somewhere.

[Curis]

Thanks for all the comments! 

Yeah Lost Egg, the collar slats and the dome lamps are incredibly Daleky.  I'm glad it's not just me that thinks that – I've seen some people insist they're aerial stubs, but I know they light up.

I've recently drafted a set of barricades for 3D printing.

HOLD THE LINE!

They're available here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/glorious-1990s-barricade-fortifcation-terrain-set

Ninjabread out!

[Lost Egg]

Nice! For a split-second I thought they were a cardboard release from back in 2nd Ed.

[NotifyGrout]

Nice! For a split-second I thought they were a cardboard release from back in 2nd Ed.

Good eye! I think I still have the cardstock barricades from an old issue of White Dwarf somewhere, and they look a lot like these.

[Daeothar]

Nice! For a split-second I thought they were a cardboard release from back in 2nd Ed.

That would be the highest compliment I suppose, since they were clearly created with those in mind.

And they work perfectly too! In combination with those RT and 2nd ed minis, that last picture is like a left hook right in the nostalgia; just beautiful 

Am I correct in assuming that some of the texture work on the barricades was done with splattering paint (toothbrush)? Or was it done by dabbing with foam tear-offs?

[Keith]

I'm just a twisted knot of envy right now - these are superb! 

[Curis]

Thanks for the comments! 

Daeothar – the texture is two rounds of sponging light greys over a blak undercoat (Rakarth Flesh and Terminatus Stone), a quick glaze, some grey fading with a brush, then SPLATTING WITH A TOOTHBRUSH.  Just everything to avoid drybrushing, basically.

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Back at the turn of the millennium, there was a hyper-rare Space Marine that was only available in England if you spent £500 in a Games Workshop during the Skulz programme. On a pocket money budget, it took the co-ordinated efforts of all my friends to get one. And over two decades later, here he is painted.

Well, I say £500 – he cost fifty Skulz, and you got one Skulz for each full £10 you spent, but you got eleven Skulz printed on the Skulz collector’s card so the worked out at £390.

He’s a stellar miniature that was really ahead of his time for a number of reasons. First, he came with a solid metal base (40mm no less, when nothing larger than 25mm for infantry had ever been seen) depicting a fallen Chaos standard – at a time when scenic bases were incredibly rare. Second, he clutches a standard of Ultramar – a sculpted banner at a time when banners were paper affairs you photocopied from White Dwarf or came supplied as self-adhesive labels. Third, he was sculpted by Shane Hoyle, one of my favourite sculptors – and notable as he’s one of the first Imperial Space Marines since 1990 not sculpted by Jes Goodwin.

I like how thin he is turned sideways, like a Paper Mario character.

I wondered back in 1999 if he was Ancient Helveticus – the Ultramarines special character. But Helveticus’ defining feature is the Banner of Macragge, and this sculpted banner didn’t match the design from White Dwarf 195. Plus his wargear didn’t match the 2nd edition Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarines Codex (or the 3rd edition Chapter Approved incarnation). And critically, as you can just about see in the photo above, his left shoulder has a skull marking inside an Ultramarines’ inverted omega sculpted on – meaning his rank is more likely Sergeant than Chapter Ancient.

Another nice touch from the sculptor is the detailing on the pole.

On the subject of shoulder marking – his right pad features a sculpted-on Tactical Squad arrow. This is a source of irritation to me, as I’ve copied the white trims of the original ‘Eavy Metal paintjob. If you’re strict about the Codex Astartes – and Ultramarines are strict – the only two Companies identified with white shoulder pad trims are First and Tenth, and neither has any Tactical Squads. I will conceptualise my version not as a Chapter Ancient (or Company Ancient for that matter), but as a Third Company Sergeant with non-standard trim markings denoting Veteran status (and will back this up by pointing to the Crux Terminatus on his left calf as further proof of Veteran-ness), holding a sacred Ultramarines standard (but not a Company or Chapter banner).

Veteran Sergeant of the Third Company defending the Imperium’s bunkers and concrete barricades against an Ork Waaaagh!.

HIs release through the tertiary channel of exclusive Skulz retail incentives makes him one of the rarest Ultramarines miniatures, except for perhaps the 2004 Black Library Uriel Ventris diorama. So here he is alongside my other limited editions, marching for Macragge.

Left to right: 30th Anniversary Imperial Space Marine, Primaris Lieutenant Calsius, and the Skulz Standard Bearer.

Ninjabread out!


More miniatures at:https://www.ninjabread.co.uk
Painting tutorials at: https://www.patreon.com/ninjabread

[aliensurfer]

Lovely painting.

[swiftnick]

Lovely painting and great backstory!
That primaris bloke is huge!

[Curis]

I know, swiftnick!  Primaris take about three times the time to paint as a Rogue Trader mk6 affair.  They're like Ogres when you're used to the old stuff.

But speaking of old miniatures...



I have poured every ounce of my heart and soul into sculpting a range of 1990s style Space Dwarf miniatures.  I have made the graphics as inhumanely retro as possible.

Sign up for the launch here!

[Dags]

They look ace (and, as expected, sublime PJs)

Sure you won't need it but Best of Luck with the KS

For those like me that don't/won't do Kickstarters (absolutely nothing personal, I just don't do any of them) will they be available, either in resin or as STLs, somewhere afterwards?

[Daeothar]

Those minis are all kinds of nostalgic nice, but that add really takes me back 25 years.

Gave me a good chuckle and brings the message across perfectly; well done

[Curis]

Thanks Dags!  To be honest, I'm well nervous but also excited.  I started sculpting these in April 2021 and there's so many behind-the-scenes things to think ahead of and plan before they can be offered to the public.

If the Kickstarter proves there's a demand for the figures, then I'll put additional castings on sale on an online shop front.   

[Inso]

These are great . I reckon I'll be getting some from the KS .