Mister Rab in spaaaaaaace! (Phagons 11/03)

[Mister Rab]

Thank you  That means a lot to such an admirer of your own work.

[Dr DeAth]

Nice bunch - you just can't beat unfeasibly large guns and a boss in shoulder pads and striped trousers - keep up the good work.

[Mister Rab]

you just can't beat unfeasibly large guns and a boss in shoulder pads and striped trousers

My project just got a strapline! 

[Mister Rab]

Thanks, Scurv - more bonus points for me for this update, then  

Ahead of tonight's first ever game of Necromunda, I've got my possibly-too-few-in-number Guilder gang finished and based - and even with one spare ganger ready to swell numbers if needed. Handily they also form the start of my Rogue Trader and retinue for some retro RT/40K action in the future. Introducing the final three...

Finish the job, don't get killed, get paid, don't drink or gamble it away. That was Tyler Watson's mantra and he stuck to it fervently. See, he'd been above the Line once, and that had been enough. Now every waking moment went towards The Plan - buying the bio-signs and passes to sneak across and set up in a new life where the air was barely 'cycled, no-one was trying to blow your head off, and the food wasn't just nutri-sticks. Finish the job, don't get killed, get paid, don't drink or gamble it away.

Bobby Fettle? Story went he'd been a bounty hunter but had lost his clients 'cos of a rat. He'd been shipping some fella back from the Outlands in cryo but a rat had chewed the cable and the mark had defrosted. In the case. No food, no water. He was dead and rotting by the time they got back to the hive. That was the reason for the 'tache as well - always perfumed to mask the imagined smell of putrefying corpse...

Hayden Blue, the fungus boy. He'd try anything to get a buzz; that hair colour was a case in point - laced with some critter's venom, slowly being absorbed through his hair and scalp. Mental!

So, that's the lot. Time for a family photo:

I wonder if any of them will survive their first encounter? Wish me luck!

[Puuka]

Cool stuff. 

Where is the cyborg model from?

At first I thought it was a heavily converted Rhino from the Heroclix set Critical Mass

[Mister Rab]

At first I thought it was a heavily converted Rhino from the Heroclix set Critical Mass

  No, with a couple of exceptions, my conversion skills normally only extend to painting it a different colour than it is on the website 

[Mister Rab]

After a top-notch evening of dice rolling with Whiskey Priest's scavvies among others, the gang are now properly blooded and didn't get wiped out! We used the original Necromunda rulebooks (and even some original boxed-set terrain for old-school cool points) and I liked the system. It was just a straight-forward "last gang standing" game, but I got a bit of a feel for how a more narrative scenario would run and I'm looking forward to having a go at one next time.



More game photos and blether on my blog

In game terms, the gang picked up a few advances but not much loot. I also realised the flaws inherent in having a tiny gang so sold my lascannon in the post-game and have hired another ganger and three meatshields ("juves" in Necro parlance) to bulk things out a bit. The juves are in the post from Forlorn Hope Games and are from the Future Skirmish line.

I'll continue to post here as more get painted.

[Mister Rab]

Keeping the ball rolling, I got stuck into a squad of Phagon beastmen tonight. One finished and four under construction.

[Earther]

All your Guilders look fantastic, but I'm loving the new Phagon additions! Top job! 

[Mister Rab]

Thanks 

I think I've done a better job with the beasts as well; something about our familiarity with humans and the things we wear means that any slight deviation makes the whole seem less accomplished. Well, that's my theory anyway!

More beast painting tonight, I hope...

[Earther]

They're all stonking Mr Rab!

[Mister Rab]

They're all stonking Mr Rab!

Too kind 

[axiom]

Phagons are looking great! I like the green jacket on the finished one particularly.

I do like your basing - what are you using for the little orange additions? They really set the whole thing alight!

[Mister Rab]

Thanks, axiom, I was rather chuffed with the green armour; it's the first time I've gone for anything approaching edge highlighting and I rather like the effect. I shall have to practise it over the next few figures.

The orange bits are foam scatter, of the sort you get for tree foliage. I picked a bag of it up for a quid or two from a toy and model shop in Ely, Cambridgeshire Bedford a couple of years ago and rediscovered in a recent tidy up. I think they were meant to be Autumn foliage but it was a bit... alien looking for me to get to look realistic. Fortunately, now I want alien looking!

EDIT - shop changed for accuracy! The bag still had the label on. Unbranded but only £1.50 for a 4x6x1" bag.

[Mister Rab]

I have a load of phagons painted like that!
once again excellent work.

Yeah, it was only when I searched for pictures of them to pick a gun colour that I saw green is almost compulsory for their armour    I had picked it to go with Luthor's cloak, keeping him as my colour link for all the bits and pieces that will make up the retinue.