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

[OSHIROmodels]

Grand work, love the colour pallet, it really ties them together 

cheers

James

[Admiral Benbow]

That pet dealer - fantastic idea and very inspirational!
 

[axiom]

Thanks for the feedback everyone

hubbabubba - I know what you mean about John Blanche. I confess I really like some of his work and not others. His early non-GW stuff is great, and I like his black and white illustrations from the early days of Wahammer. His mid 1990s stuff doesn't do it for me, but I quite like a lot of the Inquisitor related illustrations. I am a huge fan of his miniatures though - the selection of parts and imaginative results is staggering. I've actually got a small number of his 25mm Minifigs sci fi miniatures from the 1970s. His painting technique is very cleverly economical - unimportant areas barely get more than a base coat, but faces and other important stuff gets lavished with ink and detailing!

[Grimmnar]

Here's Wyrm with his fellow cultists:

Wyrm is damn impressive. But my fave is still the MooCow with the rearranged face. A great thought process for the mutation.
But Wyrm looks so simple but complicated. Though i wonder how he wipes his ass when needed. :-)

Grimm

[axiom]

Latest off the painting conveyor is a squad of Arbites for a game in a few weeks time (they'll be standing off against some genestealer cultists):





No converting or fancy paint schemes - just something functional and eye-catching (not that unlike the Arbites themselves I guess!). I'm pretty pleased with how well the two eras of models work together - they look like different specialists perhaps.

More photos and words in the blog.

[cheetor]

Thats a really nice scheme on those

[warburton]

Nice work on the arbites. They certainly have a police-y look to them!

[axiom]

Thanks guys.

Scurv - they might well be flatter than the other figures - is it the paint job or just overall look? If it's the former then it might be down to a quicker paint job with less highlighting, plus my front light in my photography set up broke, so they only have lighting from behind.

[Dr Mathias]

Well the Arbites are 'flatter' in general, they don't have the skin wrinkles and random spotting and flecks of the chaos creatures.

I think they look good, but then again I paint pretty flat myself.

[axiom]

A current project is to make some stalls for a market on some Imperial backwater world. In progress is a Xenos Pet Trader - last night I painted up a selection of his stock:





More pictures up on the blog.

[Comsquare]

Nice 
Where are those small "Minions" from, the once in the middle?

[axiom]

They're 15mm aliens by SHM ('Little Krators'). I got mine from www.15mm.co.uk

[Comsquare]

They're 15mm aliens by SHM ('Little Krators'). I got mine from www.15mm.co.uk

Thanks, will have a look 

[pocoloco]

So cool! 

Will you make the fence electrified with a power generator plugged in or something similar?

[sundayhero]

The chaotic squad is really great : a nice mix of classic scifi, cthulu and demoniac flavour !

The arbites, with their white helmet just appears as they should : some kind of autoritary hard boiled scifi police  

really interesting topic !