Axiom's Miscellaneous Rogue Trader Selection (p156: Olley space pirates & alien)

[Legionnaire]

I have just stumbled across this thread and crikey  ... where do I begin???

As a 'no-40K interest whatsoever' person, I still can enjoy they clean crisp wonderful paint jobs, the smart smooth conversions and the wealth of eyecandy that exists here!!!!

Thank you for showing your treasured minis!!!

[axiom]

@Legionnaire - thank you very much! I check out the Pulp and Old West forums for exactly the same reason - I love to see nicely painted and modelled stuff. Glad you like my figures!

[axiom]

I picked up a cheap solitary barracks building from Micro Art Studio's hardfoam barracks a while back. I've given it a quick and dirty paint job so it can be used as a small industrial unit / hab / bunker / cargo lockup or whatever!

[Mason]

That has tarted up really well.
If you can say that about a rusty and rundown pile of crap.
Tis a very well turned out pile of crap though, sir.
 

You are really enjoying weathering stuff, aren't you?
 

[axiom]

Thanks Mason

Weathering is a perfect approach to painting big stuff - it's quick, it's easy, and the results look pretty decent. What's not to like

[War In 15MM]

The joy of it all!  This is just the place I need to visit to keep the juices following as I work on my project.  Love it.

[axiom]

A couple of freshly painted things to add to the collection.

First up, I painted some of Warsenal's pallets:





I think I want at least double the amount - they're great!

I also painted up one of the figures from my Colony 87 range - a human trader, beautifully sculpted for me by Michael Anderson:

[manic _miner]

 Great work on painting the miniature.The pallets are nice additions to the terrain collection too.The Warsenal range is great.Where did you pick yours up from?

[axiom]

I forget where I bought these from if I'm honest, but I think there are a couple of UK stockists.

[Jagannath]

Another absolute beut - I live the trader. How do you manage to maintain such a narrow pallet (no pun intended!) and still make everything look so varied?

[War In 15MM]

Love the Trader... the truth is I love the whole Colony 87 collection.

[axiom]

How do you manage to maintain such a narrow pallet (no pun intended!) and still make everything look so varied?

On this figure, or across my figures in general? I have some paints I tend to use extremely regularly - I'm fond of a particular blue, and an orange, and a light brown for example. On the trader, all 3 are present, although the predominant scheme is pretty naturalistic tones with the brown and cream. I do try and apply colour theory (colours from opposite sides of the colour wheel, off-setting a cool colour with a warm colour). It's mostly playing around to see what works - I regularly have to paint over parts of a mini when the colour is wrong!

Thanks War In 15MM - that's nice to hear!

[Mason]

Nice work on the pallets.
The extra flashes of colour really work well.
 

That merchant is wonderful.
I really want to paint my own one soon as I intend to get a whole series of trader types done at some point  including a certain resin fella.
 

[Suber]

I believe the palette here is a winner. It's surprising how these desert colours work so greatly in here. Wonderful.

[axiom]

@Scurv - the space pirate with the goitre is one of my favourites too. He's not new, but I like to get him out every so often!

My latest figure is from the Scale Creep blog I contribute to - a topical GW Cadian figure (if you're not following GW lore, the planet Cadia has just been destroyed). I had an old metal Cadian trooper that had been knocked about a bit:



So I reworked him as an injured soldier, evacuated from the frontline just before the destruction of Cadia:







The locals on the R&R planet aren't too keen on wounded veterans.

Take a look at the Scale Creep blog for other fun stuff