Mister Rab in spaaaaaaace! (Phagons 11/03)

[Mister Rab]

Over the last few months I've picked up a few of the Spacelords figures that Doug has been rereleasing. Now, finally, my painting enthusiasm has returned and I've got the first of them done. The intention is to use them as a sort of Rogue Trader and his crew for early edition 40K skirmish gaming.

First up, a redshirt wearing orange:



Still to come are another half a dozen troopers, a squad of phagon beastmen, a cyborg, a lone eldar, and the trader himself. They're all prepped and undercoated, so I should be able to plough through them fairly quickly (as in, this year!). I hope...

[von Lucky]

A good start, wishing you all the best on the rest of them.

[warburton]

Nice work, I look forward to seeing more!

[Mister Rab]

Thanks chaps! That cyborg I mentioned should have his wiring sorted by the end of tomorrow evening.

[Mister Rab]

And here he is! Meet Gregor, your psychotic neighbourhood cyborg:



Before the incident with the fungus harvester, Gregor had been regularly mocked and knocked around because of his diminutive stature. Since they rebuilt him (they had the technology!), very few dare to mess with the eight foot of servo-enhanced plasteel pit fighter and bodyguard he has become - the only thing that is short about him now is his temper...

As a bonus, have a blurry scale shot with depth of field problems 

[Ray Earle]

Cool stuff. 

Where is the cyborg model from?

[stone-cold-lead]

Great start to your RT crew. I really like the looks of some of those Spacelords models. Tempting to get some... but they'd just gather dust.

[Mister Rab]

Ray - he's from the now defunct Alpha Forge range for Star Mogul. I'm not sure whether the molds where taken on by anyone else, or if they fell into the post-Mega-Minis black hole 

stone-cold-lead - do it! I'd dearly love to see what you did with them, but perhaps wait until I've got a few more done so I don't get discouraged 

scurv - ten in an afternoon  ? You mad, bro?! I'm such a slow painter that for me this rate of one per two evenings is getting dangerously close to relativistic speeds 

[Viruz]

Nice work. 

[phreedh]

You could knock off 10 in an afternoon. I have.

I would get sore.

 

I like that cyborg!

[Mister Rab]

If I start running up against my need-these-figures-for-a-game deadline (6th March) for the first eight, you might notice that colour scheme appear, Scurv 

[Mister Rab]

Luthor Pavonis caught sight of himself in the mirror and raised an appreciative eyebrow; all his items of clothing clashed with at least one other piece - perfect! He'd explained it to Gregor one evening while the brute was having one of his regular memory wipes. Some men of wealth and power took great care to dress exquisitely; what did that say but they had money and lots of people have money. Some wore discrete clothing; this said they were confident that everyone knew who they were without having to catch your eye. Luthor's approach was different; dress like a colourblind pimp to send out the message that no-one dared to tell you how stupid you looked.

Besides, he had whispered as Gregor went into the deepest part of the reboot, Luthor loved to feel fabulous!



I like this sculpt, it was fun to paint and I got most of it done while encouraging my two lads (seven and almost five) further along the way of the geek with a spot of their own figure painting. All in all, a very pleasant day and a third figure complete.

Here's the boss doing a twirl:



And the rest of the boys I need to get done by the 6th:



Spurred on by Scurv, I'm pretty confident I'll make it  

[Damien]

Great paint jobs, really like the old school hex bases too!

Cheers,
 Damien

[Mister Rab]

Great paint jobs, really like the old school hex bases too!

Hex bases are the future, so it seemed appropriate  

Now, on with the recruitment...

Dean inhaled deeply and appreciatively, rolling the smoke around his mouth before exhaling gently and regarding the glowing tip of his cigar as if it contained all the answers to all the questions in the universe...

The crash of falling masonry and his brother Nico yelling for him to get up and start blasting snapped him out of his reverie and back to his day job - shooting the people Luthor told him to shoot. Life could be worse, eh?



And with the rest of the gang:



I'm fairly pleased with how this little project is coming along and I've got a snazzy new robot from Oathsworn as some more substantial... bargaining power.

Not my paintjob, but this is the brute. I'll probably go with more yellow to tie in with the cyborg

[stone-cold-lead]

Really nice, cohesive set of models. Leader looks great!