My 40k Rogue Trader Crew

[HRE Joseph III]

Hello All.

I have been lurking here for a little while an thought it high time to post some of my own stuff.

There has been a 500 point 40K campaign going on at my FLGS. Here are a few pictures of my army. I'm using the witch hunter Codex to model a rogue trader landing party.

I apologize for my photography in advance.

Here is the captain converted from an old Vampire Wars figure.




the first mate, a slightly modified GW figure




the tech priest, heavily converted on from a reaper cleric model.




the navigator, the only unconverted figure in the army.




Some select crew members


















My Xeno Askaris. I'm using these as impressed Imperial Guardsmen. They were converted by giving plastic Lizardmen skinks Kroot arms and cutting down the guns.






A special mention goes out to my character model in Dark Heresy. I converted him from the Catachan command sprue. The guns are from Heresy Miniatures.



In our last session, my character's arm was forcibly removed by a Dark Eldar destructor. So I painted another character model. This time he's a little older and a little wiser.



Finally, here is the heavy equipment for the army. The first is the Mule. It is converted from a Chimera, but counts as a Rhino.




 
And here are the Sentinels, which I imagine are power lifters with guns bolted on.





All comments welcome, especially ones to help improve my photography.

-Joe


 

[Hauptgefreiter]

Welcome aboard! The pictures aren't bad at all 

[Hawkeye]

Nice figs! I really like the Sentinels - nicely converted! - and the Skinks look great too.

Oh, and welcome to the forum!

[gamer Mac]

Some very original and very nice conversions.
Nothing wrong with the pics either.

[JollyBob]

A proper motley crew, very impressive. I like the skink conversions, they look great!

[dijit]

They look really great, and well done for using unusual parts of an unusual codex to create a colourful army, if only more 40K players would do the same the game wouldn't be as monochrome as it is at the moment. Any chance of a full army shot?

[TheMightyFlip]

Really great stuff, keep it up.

[Verderer]

Great stuff, Joe! I get lot of ideas from these pics for my own Dark Heresy project! Thanks for posting. 

[Pil]

Very nice! Lovely conversions and paintjobs, very characterful

[Luthaaren Von Tegale]

Great stuff - love the skinks, great idea.

What edition of 40K are you using? These take me back the old Rogue Trader days before army lists and point values replaced players imaginations.

vT

[Braxandur]

Very nice conversions and paint jobs. The have lots of character and even while some have a completly different look, it still looks like a team. Nice job!

[HRE Joseph III]

Thanks for the comments, guys. I am using the current 5th edition rules. The Witch Hunter codex is a relic from 3rd edition. It's great for creating armies based around a powerful character. I hope they redo it and bring it more in line with current power levels. I really like this army. Unfortunately, it is not very effective on the table top.

I'll try to get a whole army shot when I play on Sunday.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Excellent. They all look very rogue trader'ish.

An army pic would be excellent.

Your space crew look like the 'confrontation' miniatures GW did before Necromunda came out, you know, their brats, techs and scavvies. 

[commissarmoody]

Oh vary sweet crew you have set up, seems like I know have some thing to do with the tons of bits i have lying about

[Bako]

Excellent stuff.

I miss the Imperial beast men...