tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28748770569199287392024-03-19T01:48:18.806-07:00Oldenhammer in Torontoclassic miniatures and games that use them
matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-62499406875190909042023-07-11T09:24:00.000-07:002023-07-11T09:24:39.011-07:00Rogue Trader Adventurers: Part 5... Stargrave<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I've always loved Rogue Trader, but the impetus for my recent push to paint all of Citadel's RT601 Adventurers was the publication of Joseph McCullogh's </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Stargrave </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Osprey, 2021).</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCeixXHfLVhMAxTZJ5c6IQGVMkZ4tn20Kf9rUd1J8fnzdrYRKYOmjlmwHagGtwuW5iiGN5pv_gmxXS43wXKGeeC6T_tscHvRSFdbBay3GajNtYBQbm2D2mfSzsbz4-8hwj2CqIiaLwYozLj2vXKsLOvKrXtZ1Jg7tkZqMUyH3lSfH0oxYL-_jUa-6I2A/s3621/Citadel%20Adventurers%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20WH40K%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2263" data-original-width="3621" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCeixXHfLVhMAxTZJ5c6IQGVMkZ4tn20Kf9rUd1J8fnzdrYRKYOmjlmwHagGtwuW5iiGN5pv_gmxXS43wXKGeeC6T_tscHvRSFdbBay3GajNtYBQbm2D2mfSzsbz4-8hwj2CqIiaLwYozLj2vXKsLOvKrXtZ1Jg7tkZqMUyH3lSfH0oxYL-_jUa-6I2A/w640-h400/Citadel%20Adventurers%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20WH40K%20golden.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I see </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://ospreypublishing.com/stargrave">Stargrave</a> </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">as the true heir to </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Rogue Trader</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In some ways, the two games couldn't be more different. Rick Priestly's masterpiece from the '80's is dense as a Bible, with hundreds of illustrations, a sprawling backstory, and detailed rules governing everything from orbital lasers to cavalry charges. <i>Stargrave </i>is smaller, devoid of flavor text, and much more targeted: it provides rules for running a crew of 10 interstellar freebooters, and that's it.</span></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRR72m5mNgaxY8L-sFKe9CqcoiMEU4zbxp9O_8-BvQfibp7N9T9XMIfDQoXU-tKMRiMG_P2EH7NsrGKDjCH7wrVm9mJESRD_jDHc5dZIzf1_fEk4IyWJcEfHHlHVm54gCkpA7T1weTk2_jrwZp6yfvuFkJp_6PzDs1ZAofp_N9iT1ACB4N1ojBqlMLcw/s4608/Game%20of%20Stargrave.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRR72m5mNgaxY8L-sFKe9CqcoiMEU4zbxp9O_8-BvQfibp7N9T9XMIfDQoXU-tKMRiMG_P2EH7NsrGKDjCH7wrVm9mJESRD_jDHc5dZIzf1_fEk4IyWJcEfHHlHVm54gCkpA7T1weTk2_jrwZp6yfvuFkJp_6PzDs1ZAofp_N9iT1ACB4N1ojBqlMLcw/w275-h206/Game%20of%20Stargrave.jpg" width="275" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A game of Stargrave</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Beyond the cosmetic differences, the similarities run deep. Both are attempts to re-implement fantasy rules into a sci-fi setting: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Rogue Trader </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">from </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Warhammer Fantasy Battle, </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Stargrave </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">from </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Frostgrave. </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The common origin in fantasy gives the games an aura of whimsical space opera, even though both introduce dark doses of apocalypticism to create a complex mix (<i>Stargrave's </i>tagline is "Science Fiction Wargames in the Ravaged Galaxy" while 40K's is "There is only WAR").</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Most importantly, <i>Stargrave </i>and <i>Rogue Trader </i>incorporate elements of <a href="http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2012/09/retrospective-warhammer-40000-rogue.html">roleplaying</a>. In <i>Rogue Trader, </i>it comes through the game master, who runs a scenario with hidden information, elaborate subplots, and campaign continuity. In <i>Stargrave</i>, the captain of your crew becomes your player character and develops better abilities from session to session. In both games, the feeling of roleplaying puts a special emphasis on character -- especially characterful miniatures. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In that sense, it's no surprise that the same sculptor, <a href="https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=15446">Mark Copplestone</a>, provided miniatures both for <i>Stargrave </i>and for the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RT601 Adventurers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Well, let's see the last seven miniatures in the RT601 range!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">First is RT601 "Pilot Rav". If I had to guess, I'd say this was a Copplestone design, because of the clean lines, open face, and aroma of pulp adventure.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUqwTGpaEFmjuBZm8DL7TSqm9r8vwOY8uS-TztO6zcnW35Sv3sn4eq31QRGgbMfDJk_AI5CXJtDwYsOWYzV93-sN2z0y193xPmNAaOeg_2p3g2bxO213gp4j_JQciS7AmPsXK2gfZXHKGL4VnHTuRPBTOmo-A0VJYPfOppqX-ycbkXogdrobXhYvCSA/s4031/Pilot%20Rav%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2419" data-original-width="4031" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUqwTGpaEFmjuBZm8DL7TSqm9r8vwOY8uS-TztO6zcnW35Sv3sn4eq31QRGgbMfDJk_AI5CXJtDwYsOWYzV93-sN2z0y193xPmNAaOeg_2p3g2bxO213gp4j_JQciS7AmPsXK2gfZXHKGL4VnHTuRPBTOmo-A0VJYPfOppqX-ycbkXogdrobXhYvCSA/w640-h384/Pilot%20Rav%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Second is the RT601 "Space Pirate", later renamed "Lan Duval". </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6xSZlRABWQYtqcU3epgn3s00KOzojkuROmSADq9AsI6ChvXeMO0XOGMSrkwCVM0BDkJryxVYYahUCSF7lYSLRRXQrP-PxTpNB8hgJz7LF3I2bgju2_KUvMBrpzxkmZ-ftDh_UwZIFI1WDhF1QGma5PfqHEAcMKzzzzXrEY3bUEW6Zgcnc0ONtoqfyw/s4084/Space%20Pirate%20Lan%20Duval%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2450" data-original-width="4084" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6xSZlRABWQYtqcU3epgn3s00KOzojkuROmSADq9AsI6ChvXeMO0XOGMSrkwCVM0BDkJryxVYYahUCSF7lYSLRRXQrP-PxTpNB8hgJz7LF3I2bgju2_KUvMBrpzxkmZ-ftDh_UwZIFI1WDhF1QGma5PfqHEAcMKzzzzXrEY3bUEW6Zgcnc0ONtoqfyw/w640-h384/Space%20Pirate%20Lan%20Duval%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The curious thing about the above miniature is his startling resemblance to a design from the same period by Trish Morrison, the Talisman Timescape "</span><a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2015/08/painted-talisman-timescape-miniatures.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">Space Pirate</a>"<span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (pictured below on the left)</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Citadel is well-known for basing two or more sibling miniatures on one prototype (i.e. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTQxr6ZYDVBj10KWO-m-yOwUme3m0J9XRGPJKssPvxEmyxshpwpBj__ZhJLa4Lx_82uhpHIxSwDIl8VkZYTqol9c5oXNa9LgJGNeKpahiiuiADKWbFaqF318C2YcY7oFvuADY8mr9-xDY/s2048/Kylla+Condotti+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg">Kylla Condotti</a><i> </i>and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9lcIRq8m0hfef7PIgUcZX14JaUzOHlAGQL58mXNLXTJBqPIyIHzQmPWROIAd3i95KHYV31VkiC5rjCScsz03DHyKvJRVqqHh4jAg0CTMIIyUPJmX_isrhudAEtUtoK_eohu28F3yh-CR/s2048/No-Face+Fargo+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg">No Face Fargo</a>) where the basic pose is the same but identifying traits are switched out (usually the face and the weapon). However, in this situation, the Space Pirates share a similar face, a similar weapon, and similar outfits, although all the minor details are different. Maybe Aly Morrison and Trish Morrison decided to each sculpt the same fellow in an excess of marital bliss.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHtGKvYD9chWv9850QibOlt_ThE2bck3DENItt2hUwm5mCNMiBqN5rx-8Bu_oXZweIQZ8FWV5hsB8dIiJj2U-vRsD40z3fEWM00Vy6F6bWjwg0si4Svm1WWcgqItP1CYhRqVS0smWHbDAsRRyfjtsWQHzjDer6ruJbTnL6bIzjpFSbV7Qg0woXFAi5bg/s3320/Citadel%20Space%20Pirate%20Talisman%20RT601%20Comparison.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2371" data-original-width="3320" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHtGKvYD9chWv9850QibOlt_ThE2bck3DENItt2hUwm5mCNMiBqN5rx-8Bu_oXZweIQZ8FWV5hsB8dIiJj2U-vRsD40z3fEWM00Vy6F6bWjwg0si4Svm1WWcgqItP1CYhRqVS0smWHbDAsRRyfjtsWQHzjDer6ruJbTnL6bIzjpFSbV7Qg0woXFAi5bg/w400-h286/Citadel%20Space%20Pirate%20Talisman%20RT601%20Comparison.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Next we have the RT601 "Cyborg".</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0kdkWTY6wqVS3IQBOxy14vmxx_Zii4NHSu3FirhFpoitHfb26wXlJP08VR4bwOq3XP9H9Svp1pToJFSwuCNPVttggvyAROU8jUVryL-cZPNhKGQURiR0nliTWlXxWpD70zjPrSK5CEXa2qiwwuKl-Iiz9iFy1Pdnmcg3x0m7obsQc3VJXyr6lcSNXQ/s3951/Cyborg%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2371" data-original-width="3951" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0kdkWTY6wqVS3IQBOxy14vmxx_Zii4NHSu3FirhFpoitHfb26wXlJP08VR4bwOq3XP9H9Svp1pToJFSwuCNPVttggvyAROU8jUVryL-cZPNhKGQURiR0nliTWlXxWpD70zjPrSK5CEXa2qiwwuKl-Iiz9iFy1Pdnmcg3x0m7obsQc3VJXyr6lcSNXQ/w640-h384/Cyborg%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The above miniature also bears a striking resemblance to the Talisman Timescape "Cyborg" by Trish Morrison (below on the left). Once again, the identifying traits are all quite similar, but the details and the poses differ. It just goes to show that when </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Rogue Trader </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">first came out, it was not <i>so</i> different from a zany game like Talisman Timescape to prevent the miniatures from being mutually compatible.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWiF7UuHWFMr-6W0TDZSvCNVDNS1P-eHm-QZ4XAfxkNdnNyRPHbM7PFvE0T7Hhmu-6qa57DUgdGR5EV2hOHINZhYxdgDDfcDCkE3WaAUCPQAErTp_N5auQjxHZXs1j6jlCqdWl1-Vl243SMDHzZJIrJjEuPlX9sMeLdviONmnY5nwAyoHm94-CFpEdXg/s2937/Cyborgs%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1762" data-original-width="2937" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWiF7UuHWFMr-6W0TDZSvCNVDNS1P-eHm-QZ4XAfxkNdnNyRPHbM7PFvE0T7Hhmu-6qa57DUgdGR5EV2hOHINZhYxdgDDfcDCkE3WaAUCPQAErTp_N5auQjxHZXs1j6jlCqdWl1-Vl243SMDHzZJIrJjEuPlX9sMeLdviONmnY5nwAyoHm94-CFpEdXg/w400-h240/Cyborgs%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Below is the RT601 "Bandit". Methinks he bears some relationship to the Talisman Timescape "</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipjq-aWX1thy1Et42-N-AnPAjQhh6f4Px-AMK6kzxrZP9-VdfVkC4mvpAmmYB0OMKBwacIA7at3ftpbxEiSinTTxF_XU-a4XfItkuk5YbbreGd8vddiTBzOSmBid3dun_j3My1MmgFh_Y1/s1600/Talisman+Timescape+Archaeologist.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica;">Archaeologist</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">".</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL5oSC2o3aeZIPgEOAUuIjWFiZDFIRERbQ70ax3amkX3_yppMaTpS4BUPMVo87bpasxZDKuc7DqgwnA1YVLw35gEpMskqLfU8rTglCiOl0I2jrTBTGZv0vTlOOZSUglE7Hq0aREkuC7oq3h8gnL-ZKN64WeST5Rrt_xN6Ed1WfmNhXbJIOD4KZu-ML4w/s3927/Bandit%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2356" data-original-width="3927" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL5oSC2o3aeZIPgEOAUuIjWFiZDFIRERbQ70ax3amkX3_yppMaTpS4BUPMVo87bpasxZDKuc7DqgwnA1YVLw35gEpMskqLfU8rTglCiOl0I2jrTBTGZv0vTlOOZSUglE7Hq0aREkuC7oq3h8gnL-ZKN64WeST5Rrt_xN6Ed1WfmNhXbJIOD4KZu-ML4w/w640-h384/Bandit%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is the RT601 "Ship's Officer". On his slotta-tab is carved the alternative name "Astronaut". It will no longer surprise you to learn that he shares many traits with the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Talisman Timescape "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQW4owHrvHmMi218i_n86_Qz78pjL_sjDBv4OtrGEHo4Ye89XUpHvIx6DQMa2_ZMH8hEuN_SC8TXKufGzvpumMu4fIpJsytZnnIFp4OKK2KAl1dMBTvNaLhGLcj4XQNB4MAmmT51STgtb/s1600/Talisman+Astronaut.jpg">Astronaut</a>" by Trish Morrison.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9jmXMxs13Qr0bErQUZTKxr5eSEyZst0YtNaED8QoBNUaSBzUx6x8A1URLukG7BVE2k3yF0ZI4Wh2foJ2Av2WZHgDFoqOrEH5a8smnYD3puVxjHAfYNLFn88XwMsVLlIOd903pPk2eOmy_8U-8Zf6GkwQOf5XvjXZR6bX_7GDj7fz6sRmnM7knsUUgw/s4047/Ships%20Officer%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2428" data-original-width="4047" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9jmXMxs13Qr0bErQUZTKxr5eSEyZst0YtNaED8QoBNUaSBzUx6x8A1URLukG7BVE2k3yF0ZI4Wh2foJ2Av2WZHgDFoqOrEH5a8smnYD3puVxjHAfYNLFn88XwMsVLlIOd903pPk2eOmy_8U-8Zf6GkwQOf5XvjXZR6bX_7GDj7fz6sRmnM7knsUUgw/w640-h384/Ships%20Officer%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Behold the RT601 "Imperial Assassin". She was the last of this range to come into my collection. I thought she'd never arrive. All Praise to the Emperor - the Emperor Provides!</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXATtk6V-tJcYABuV76CRV_aKwHj1K430YccHgjG2VOSECV2_ZC2aqoDWpHUzFaQGAcpHdpu6QwfJsGk08jLY80C5n9p_Jv4wTT0w6W0v2VRhLLydU0LG2q-RxCsg8ggUvR2bs4yz77PLx2_ipTLFJRVzn2Q5Y_qxHEDuUs3tgv7Ush-ISXxV0vX3-Dw/s3660/Imperial%20Assassin%20Female%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2196" data-original-width="3660" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXATtk6V-tJcYABuV76CRV_aKwHj1K430YccHgjG2VOSECV2_ZC2aqoDWpHUzFaQGAcpHdpu6QwfJsGk08jLY80C5n9p_Jv4wTT0w6W0v2VRhLLydU0LG2q-RxCsg8ggUvR2bs4yz77PLx2_ipTLFJRVzn2Q5Y_qxHEDuUs3tgv7Ush-ISXxV0vX3-Dw/w640-h384/Imperial%20Assassin%20Female%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And finally, the last miniature in the RT601 range is the "Mad Punk". I saved her for last because I think she's my favourite paintjob of the lot: a nice, clean lick of paint.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8bBMoF_siVsTMkQupwku03eS54E6QEJwNJk3VHa5e7Gz3KUHsCo1TZgSdBEan7ACjkcYEAFqjpk5KuEnsQvxN6i28WUd5oUrbQMM9LnwutoBRPg7H9maHlHYTYrglnueGe7bovHdH3OfxpRadIaZq_QED28O7TyV259TOgdPDmMVuLKl8i3PahpYfjw/s3778/Mad%20Punk%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2267" data-original-width="3778" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8bBMoF_siVsTMkQupwku03eS54E6QEJwNJk3VHa5e7Gz3KUHsCo1TZgSdBEan7ACjkcYEAFqjpk5KuEnsQvxN6i28WUd5oUrbQMM9LnwutoBRPg7H9maHlHYTYrglnueGe7bovHdH3OfxpRadIaZq_QED28O7TyV259TOgdPDmMVuLKl8i3PahpYfjw/w640-h384/Mad%20Punk%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">Many thanks for staying with me over this long series of posts!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6Yd0lY_MAn5DOxjpiDHnEu3G3-Z4daVMmdyhA9CYMdeJgGCLbsToR9L_-Aeclq9gJYgqYpd_9qwqewPUCDke_sW9MnMfhRgDB7kRlopeEkRfhgQYZUulwSJuQpxb6tZJuGWFTqHK-2x4-VqKzqYe8cKFqtR0zgQD8BpQRFN20bmKqZdRUPpPlqE4Nw/s3194/Adventurers%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Warhammer%2040K%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1996" data-original-width="3194" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6Yd0lY_MAn5DOxjpiDHnEu3G3-Z4daVMmdyhA9CYMdeJgGCLbsToR9L_-Aeclq9gJYgqYpd_9qwqewPUCDke_sW9MnMfhRgDB7kRlopeEkRfhgQYZUulwSJuQpxb6tZJuGWFTqHK-2x4-VqKzqYe8cKFqtR0zgQD8BpQRFN20bmKqZdRUPpPlqE4Nw/w371-h232/Adventurers%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Warhammer%2040K%20golden.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-29522598323904532762023-07-01T11:54:00.003-07:002023-07-01T11:54:39.436-07:00Rogue Trader Adventurers: Part 4... The Art of Bob Naismith<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9fA9g-YZ_faa1dH5xPAGyS3ho5SaZpwyYwjGcsSfwbO2dIcMozy3jLQC3VGNLwyvpwnziXLmqI9vaZof11bNf9hqgsz9uCoKfO1_MQufE7ND-3mqlyiW-A2Eqkm5f-bxf6eWcbul1YT7uFGbSzuQC4CpfuG4ocDkP3Id3C5BQxNEy9OqTX5aY6_OIw/s2604/Space%20Eunuch%20Scum%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Scum Space Eunuch RT601 Adventurers Bob Naismith painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1627" data-original-width="2604" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9fA9g-YZ_faa1dH5xPAGyS3ho5SaZpwyYwjGcsSfwbO2dIcMozy3jLQC3VGNLwyvpwnziXLmqI9vaZof11bNf9hqgsz9uCoKfO1_MQufE7ND-3mqlyiW-A2Eqkm5f-bxf6eWcbul1YT7uFGbSzuQC4CpfuG4ocDkP3Id3C5BQxNEy9OqTX5aY6_OIw/w640-h400/Space%20Eunuch%20Scum%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" title="Scum Space Eunuch RT601 Adventurers Bob Naismith painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The 32 miniatures in the RT601 Adventurers range for <i>Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader </i>were sculpted by four top-notch artists: Aly Morrison, Mark Copplestone, Jes Goodwin, and Bob Naismith. We have those names only because they were all included in the page devoted for this range in the 1988 Catalogue (where the range was re-designated as <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt601adv/index.htm">4004 Adventurers</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQECF4xzjVqm87Wppyj50Lq87STF1P3-xQuWh81b1AzBDQnIUV7ypdBS8QYCyOKvYWYxck2KQUz_B0d7fIGDI8ntjGqOHEra1AeeWfAd_Oq-sk5L_81OTxZ3PUdfW1RDyZm7U0D60JLvArMzRPPi2zhu3JNSiMvQ0K_lttRIkGjPEzmTM12iYYeKlDg/s240/Bob%20Naismith%20Miniature%20Sculptor.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="156" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQECF4xzjVqm87Wppyj50Lq87STF1P3-xQuWh81b1AzBDQnIUV7ypdBS8QYCyOKvYWYxck2KQUz_B0d7fIGDI8ntjGqOHEra1AeeWfAd_Oq-sk5L_81OTxZ3PUdfW1RDyZm7U0D60JLvArMzRPPi2zhu3JNSiMvQ0K_lttRIkGjPEzmTM12iYYeKlDg/w130-h199/Bob%20Naismith%20Miniature%20Sculptor.jpg" width="130" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Bob Naismith</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ43kyZdTjw">Bob Naismith</a> was the old-hand of the bunch, having started working at Citadel in 1981 and having hundreds of sculpts under his belt. We know (thanks to an interview done by Axiom at <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-interview-withsculptor-bob-naismith.html">Magpie and Old Lead</a>) which six models in the RT601 range that Naismith carved: the Imperial Scout, the Ex-Tech, the Scum (aka Space Eunuch), Astropath Koth, the Hero, and the Hive Worlder. A</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">fter that, it becomes foggy on who sculpted whom. I'd bet good money that Aly Morrison sculpted the Pirate Captain because he's so damn ugly. But my powers of guesswork fade after that.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If any of you have any information or insight into which sculptor is responsible for a given miniature in the RT601 range, please let me know in the comments.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It strikes me as a true shame when we can't assign a model to the responsible artist. If you take miniature sculpting seriously as an art form (and I do), <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/giorgione-debate-does-attribution-matter">proper attribution</a> is essential. How else can we discuss a particular sculptor's style, evolution, and influences?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In any case, for today's post, let's look at Naismith's six models in the range. As a group, they showcase his talent for varied poses and his imaginative use of details to tell a story about the miniature.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First comes my personal favourite, the RT601 "Scum". This miniature is also known as the "Space Eunuch" because that is the name carved on his slotta-base tab. And a Space Eunuch he is, what with his bare bum cheeks, bald head, and leather boots. I tried to enhance the effect by giving him Marie Antoinette facepaint, including heart-shaped lipstick and a beauty-spot.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQa-YKIo1vjMPEoIxyGXPRuDpZ4lPBr2m4wVF9DZQE4mVgxcnnPuQseSW2gnuGHJaLdOlQv1u2DeZh3f_6csCrDGPeCn7l28QhqsHA5AE0ysqTnQtZYnJ3IWYFMtgR7e8H0W2Gwy2hAFdBk_9ijNdkRv7y1umzhI1s5gWkezkhKbxKoFkd-nfWkqDFw/s4063/Scum%20Space%20Eunuch%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Scum Space Eunuch RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2438" data-original-width="4063" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQa-YKIo1vjMPEoIxyGXPRuDpZ4lPBr2m4wVF9DZQE4mVgxcnnPuQseSW2gnuGHJaLdOlQv1u2DeZh3f_6csCrDGPeCn7l28QhqsHA5AE0ysqTnQtZYnJ3IWYFMtgR7e8H0W2Gwy2hAFdBk_9ijNdkRv7y1umzhI1s5gWkezkhKbxKoFkd-nfWkqDFw/w640-h384/Scum%20Space%20Eunuch%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Scum Space Eunuch RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Second is "Astropath Korm". Like every member of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, Korm was led before the Emperor so his mind could be fortified in the hideous rigour of the </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">soul-binding </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ritual. Did you know that, according to the </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">WH40K: Rogue Trader </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">rulebook, this doesn't merely make all Astropaths blind -- it also deprives many of smell, touch, or hearing? In Koth's case, I tried to illustrate his wretched state by showing his eyelids sewn-up like a shrunken head.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehXRyuoYHWHIpoUjK30ZilHiPZVQNbt1_X5PQNt5O1bLHqEL_Jq-PEl0wwceS9UJVNXYxuli7-DuBhJ4GnIW2Si-QzDbGWGCoFw6T4qQYqAXm8A8dLvEw2lwTnGVHZHcV0eg-69iDNuBhdp357H8ocwD5xplFASKFzhPl_ZTw3j4x0d7GXgQ0LmDwJw/s3853/Astropath%20Korm%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Astropath Korm RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2312" data-original-width="3853" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehXRyuoYHWHIpoUjK30ZilHiPZVQNbt1_X5PQNt5O1bLHqEL_Jq-PEl0wwceS9UJVNXYxuli7-DuBhJ4GnIW2Si-QzDbGWGCoFw6T4qQYqAXm8A8dLvEw2lwTnGVHZHcV0eg-69iDNuBhdp357H8ocwD5xplFASKFzhPl_ZTw3j4x0d7GXgQ0LmDwJw/w640-h384/Astropath%20Korm%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Astropath Korm RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Third is the RT601 "Ex-Tech". I'm not sure what his name means. I suspect he used to be a ship's technician before an encounter with hostile aliens forced him to abandon his toolbox and take up flame-throwing for a living. In any case, this is a great sculpt: lots of emotion and activity!</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgT5FCfHatI21-ijD4rMEclfuEHbdKv5uYDMAtuMxIHIJHVrB6MtN6JF68GgbnIWJLD2wSOafSs-fPCuzc6oc8TkiFcUdM9EqwMKSmlX6QMQc-EU32MBM2QIDM1X1rc1aSu9GI-jVqttG98TeDylVAVkrnO_6K2NumSdwmlzpO79YROgBfofXyjAdxg/s3732/Ex-Tech%20Flamer%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ex-Tech RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2239" data-original-width="3732" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgT5FCfHatI21-ijD4rMEclfuEHbdKv5uYDMAtuMxIHIJHVrB6MtN6JF68GgbnIWJLD2wSOafSs-fPCuzc6oc8TkiFcUdM9EqwMKSmlX6QMQc-EU32MBM2QIDM1X1rc1aSu9GI-jVqttG98TeDylVAVkrnO_6K2NumSdwmlzpO79YROgBfofXyjAdxg/w640-h384/Ex-Tech%20Flamer%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Ex-Tech RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fourth is the RT601 "Hero" (or, according to his slott-base tab, "Feral Hero"). Look at that leopard-skin loincloth! What a beefcake!</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdAEqRHJ0Y8j7lbGXfPi_R77MrjiBN-X03VNGNYfHAIgP8lwMwu0RbDgZI9L_9yVvCtDwxHGHP0XPmuS4OLuw3cHKPkcIGkFSCHoB7kC1cEUXVD7_iPVtP5nlNIwM3K-4VR6om8NT5cit_WG_9pV43XGplQWDfXH1tZtUtu5xbqLfQw4Wv2oGDHNTIHQ/s3788/Hero%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hero RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2273" data-original-width="3788" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdAEqRHJ0Y8j7lbGXfPi_R77MrjiBN-X03VNGNYfHAIgP8lwMwu0RbDgZI9L_9yVvCtDwxHGHP0XPmuS4OLuw3cHKPkcIGkFSCHoB7kC1cEUXVD7_iPVtP5nlNIwM3K-4VR6om8NT5cit_WG_9pV43XGplQWDfXH1tZtUtu5xbqLfQw4Wv2oGDHNTIHQ/w640-h384/Hero%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Hero RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next is the RT601 "Hive Worlder". The equipment in this model tells a story. He's wearing a knight's plate armour from the hips down, a biker's leather jacket, and carries a hand-crossbow that's jury-rigged with something that looks suspiciously like a micro-missile launcher. But the main attraction is his hair. No matter how bad things get on this fellow's homeworld, he always takes time to wash </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">and </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">condition.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1SU8gIIrOBVv4ulK6n2zzVFrV3NJLPdLJGQ5HM6_1TFOpeXgZkS9uADgWsTQ4Tj5Vis1aWtm9j1EboYAntNTnIOBtj9JSf3QXmmCmDyErXjyIZs0PgXqFmWkykwmuWor4DeztnLkd_gDgRfJXD-uH9CmMOqG6wIjIi6kAuy8DwaiUNTUP98Uiiq4hA/s4093/Hive%20Worlder%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hive Worlder RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2456" data-original-width="4093" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1SU8gIIrOBVv4ulK6n2zzVFrV3NJLPdLJGQ5HM6_1TFOpeXgZkS9uADgWsTQ4Tj5Vis1aWtm9j1EboYAntNTnIOBtj9JSf3QXmmCmDyErXjyIZs0PgXqFmWkykwmuWor4DeztnLkd_gDgRfJXD-uH9CmMOqG6wIjIi6kAuy8DwaiUNTUP98Uiiq4hA/w640-h384/Hive%20Worlder%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Hive Worlder RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Finally, we have the RT601 "Imperial Scout". His exotic equipment and world-weary expression shows that this fellow is a seasoned </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">traveler. To my eye, he seems to be wearing a still-suit out of Dune, complete with tubular breathing apparatus and skin-tight membrane. Another great sculpt from Bob Naismith!</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIOwdi4ovbORfUB6PfY6mvMqHxUYqTtOk0qjGr--MkWJ9oszELAmnllG_y-eoh2fDTWAuYa54xS7pR_-sKbbcJkusbfq4-vzmjSmiSZF6jqXZvEwvPBUBCoeGHYAl9LwX0Z3J9HWB4M2barlpIoXotxVZOYMovKWroaFpjgXtXBL2j1FPVtfZsPVKVw/s4014/Imperial%20Scout%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Imperial Scout RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2408" data-original-width="4014" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIOwdi4ovbORfUB6PfY6mvMqHxUYqTtOk0qjGr--MkWJ9oszELAmnllG_y-eoh2fDTWAuYa54xS7pR_-sKbbcJkusbfq4-vzmjSmiSZF6jqXZvEwvPBUBCoeGHYAl9LwX0Z3J9HWB4M2barlpIoXotxVZOYMovKWroaFpjgXtXBL2j1FPVtfZsPVKVw/w640-h384/Imperial%20Scout%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Imperial Scout RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for coming by!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeBYdRJCQdBEVxOgOGSN2FUpkym6HoeicYF4iqXHPSJZVDpfaKIlNzv-9NcEHaD3kt40rRc1mI5Sg5LzdCIjSjjBiVPaMkdzFIreF8HXKJGctuzpUBCHQ5bGB_13515U0v-v4jXwOUUJuVbU8yV-KCpqmKKRu1VfqhPzeJPipIYRhAw4or--nJ-C6Rw/s2540/Hive%20Worlder%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="2540" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeBYdRJCQdBEVxOgOGSN2FUpkym6HoeicYF4iqXHPSJZVDpfaKIlNzv-9NcEHaD3kt40rRc1mI5Sg5LzdCIjSjjBiVPaMkdzFIreF8HXKJGctuzpUBCHQ5bGB_13515U0v-v4jXwOUUJuVbU8yV-KCpqmKKRu1VfqhPzeJPipIYRhAw4or--nJ-C6Rw/s320/Hive%20Worlder%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-6565725101282791142023-04-10T17:30:00.003-07:002023-04-10T17:30:52.325-07:00Rogue Trader Adventurers: Part 3... Forerunners<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFQ0Q_FRmUceFAf8XXpQSqjg5m8po_hjjWCL6his_4UpdSJFMBYk9FAVWnHoi48Kt8RMBZRuFgvoSkeVB2NuQv-QaVAcv6MHlmCbY-rJUfZrFlY10AOQ405M6XH9HG1BHPANgURgxCrpcNYv6noRZknw1kKTjFWx0clqxEkoi7JeAqgh7NaHz_TNAsg/s2441/Psyker%20and%20Pirate%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K painted" border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="2441" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFQ0Q_FRmUceFAf8XXpQSqjg5m8po_hjjWCL6his_4UpdSJFMBYk9FAVWnHoi48Kt8RMBZRuFgvoSkeVB2NuQv-QaVAcv6MHlmCbY-rJUfZrFlY10AOQ405M6XH9HG1BHPANgURgxCrpcNYv6noRZknw1kKTjFWx0clqxEkoi7JeAqgh7NaHz_TNAsg/w640-h400/Psyker%20and%20Pirate%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" title="RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K painted" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am not the first painter to tackle the miniatures in Citadel's RT601 Adventurers range from 1988. Indeed, it's hard to love Rogue Trader and not want to paint some of these incredible models.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">However, the only other person (that I know of) who has tried to collect and paint <i>all </i>32 miniatures is Jason Fulford at <a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/p/rt601-adventurers.html">Rogue Heresy</a>. His painstaking work in analyzing the range (and recording the names carved on the slotta-tabs, which often differ from the catalogue names) is a service to the hobby. Following his progress in completing the "Adventurers Project" was a source of inspiration and encouragement for me. I'm particularly fond of his colourful "<a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/2016/06/rt601-rogue-trader-adventurers-and-more.html">Hive Worlder</a>" and the fierce expression he coaxed out of the "<a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/2013/04/rt601-adventurers-pirate-captain.html">Pirate Captain</a>".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are many other painters whose work on this range are worth a good look:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Axion at <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2020/12/choose-your-own-adventurers-more.html">Magpie and Old Lead</a> has done some wonderful things. I particularly love the matching assembly of the "Cyborg" and "Test-bed Slave" (plus other Rogue Trader figures).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=473924">Ninjabread</a> created a wonderful series of dioramas using "Tech-Priest Schlan". Remember: only the strong will survey.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Warburton at <a href="https://classic40k.com/2017/09/15/hrodebert-garran-adeptus-inquisitor-of-the-ordo-scriptorum-rogue-trader-adventurers-rt601-official/">Classic 40K</a> zeroed in on the best sculpted miniatures in the range: the unobtrusively named "Official". Under his brush, the beautifully carved face and subtle details in costume all come to life. Brilliant!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At the Lead Plague, Asslessman has conscripted several members of the Adventurers range into his fantastic <a href="http://leadplague.blogspot.com/search/label/sensei">sensei warband</a>.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sho3box's "<a href="https://sho3box.com/2017/10/10/choose-your-own-adventurers-12-doug-orewell-squat-miner/">Squat Miner</a>" shows some real mojo.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Every once in a while, when I want to remind myself what extraordinary painting looks like, I check out the work of Dr. Mathias at his <a href="http://miniatureextravaganza.blogspot.com/">Miniature Extravaganza</a>. His version of the "<a href="https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102436.345">Navigator</a>" is simply gorgeous -- and even more gorgeous when you see him arrayed with all his mutant colleagues.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you know of any other painters who have dabbled in this range, please let me know in the comments.<br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First is RT601 "Pilot Lorgar". His outfit shows the levity that you could still find in Rogue Trader miniatures: the gold epaulettes, the handlebar moustache, the expression of panic.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTMKrMUltEI6PrrdXnvWT8x1J01JdOn43-ND6pQbmqhUHm9eVYcdYEgVNifb4p6r6xiwWTNO2FFbkjfFCqtdiClBizKQBDTIOCqY8Hne-bycBqHE0xOh5Ygto1crpXbN5A2mRpwIFLfewkFKfXmgt_kpiaryK50LxKK8fvIL6UVB6WOo0BZ52H7WzkA/s3829/Pilot%20Lorgar%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pilot Lorgar RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2297" data-original-width="3829" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTMKrMUltEI6PrrdXnvWT8x1J01JdOn43-ND6pQbmqhUHm9eVYcdYEgVNifb4p6r6xiwWTNO2FFbkjfFCqtdiClBizKQBDTIOCqY8Hne-bycBqHE0xOh5Ygto1crpXbN5A2mRpwIFLfewkFKfXmgt_kpiaryK50LxKK8fvIL6UVB6WOo0BZ52H7WzkA/w640-h384/Pilot%20Lorgar%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Pilot Lorgar RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Second we have RT601 "Punk", renamed in 1988 as "</span><a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt601adv/fly1988rt2r1-rt601-01.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica;">Xaif</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">".</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGr7y8INTAluckXMg62sctyoTF-X1v9vii0SlgwIv33sYlIgb64Mk7yuXHSzaFhPeuM91dz8c0EwxV16Df0w4wheYMfOrEx3l-YPeOjcS3Bzq4GCcEaYVonGv0O8GAmOnbhpcbKT0vWHpf3E2FknWs-IPoTGHo9F7urtCXMhS4y0qS5dZ186jXPbB4Dg/s4150/Punk%20Pirate%20Xaif%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Punk Xaif RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2490" data-original-width="4150" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGr7y8INTAluckXMg62sctyoTF-X1v9vii0SlgwIv33sYlIgb64Mk7yuXHSzaFhPeuM91dz8c0EwxV16Df0w4wheYMfOrEx3l-YPeOjcS3Bzq4GCcEaYVonGv0O8GAmOnbhpcbKT0vWHpf3E2FknWs-IPoTGHo9F7urtCXMhS4y0qS5dZ186jXPbB4Dg/w640-h384/Punk%20Pirate%20Xaif%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Punk Xaif RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Below is the RT601 "Astropath Yerl". He was first released in March 1987 as the "Imperial Psycher" in the RT1 range. He's a disproportionately tall miniature, verging on a different scale.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixO1pdf6Bfq_w1Pwb6PCPoTgX2Z6dnbE8ZHW-5qtStkMM424RNyim2ZDkt3toNtSnzV-MN0wodQkmhWJcDULIxISw67oe0f15ZYv2UJnC4UkyhQFT2_6-og2w0VvXKxrXdzCR4wbX3cHA7XwTaBYDJzDvzPVs5acwOruxzuQCJwA-KkwR6dYo2qUIOVQ/s4221/Astropath%20Yerl%20Imperial%20Psycher%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Astropath Yerl RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2533" data-original-width="4221" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixO1pdf6Bfq_w1Pwb6PCPoTgX2Z6dnbE8ZHW-5qtStkMM424RNyim2ZDkt3toNtSnzV-MN0wodQkmhWJcDULIxISw67oe0f15ZYv2UJnC4UkyhQFT2_6-og2w0VvXKxrXdzCR4wbX3cHA7XwTaBYDJzDvzPVs5acwOruxzuQCJwA-KkwR6dYo2qUIOVQ/w640-h384/Astropath%20Yerl%20Imperial%20Psycher%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" title="Astropath Yerl RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fourth is the RT601 "Tech-Priest Zon". He also appeared first in the RT1 range as a "Telepath" and later an "Astropath", as I've detailed in my posts on the <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/06/the-first-rogue-trader-miniatures.html">first Rogue Trader miniatures</a>.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJUBAtYd992W5Mr2PlYlJbqSiJa7HXXY2weqZ4E-XH3gZRoN0Nu5MVPfQtNZUsdAFFPVpBL6RnMy7cH7jpQm3pllHMl7zE428Ee0CCir4xFGB3AbpUEPPC31cxgyhACKQi2wmfUGSP_AWsduKb2DJ3BBgpoY_r3vDZy247uT4Sfns5yvO0tX3FHWtp5A/s4281/Tech-Priest%20Zon%20aka%20Telepath%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tech-Priest Zon RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2569" data-original-width="4281" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJUBAtYd992W5Mr2PlYlJbqSiJa7HXXY2weqZ4E-XH3gZRoN0Nu5MVPfQtNZUsdAFFPVpBL6RnMy7cH7jpQm3pllHMl7zE428Ee0CCir4xFGB3AbpUEPPC31cxgyhACKQi2wmfUGSP_AWsduKb2DJ3BBgpoY_r3vDZy247uT4Sfns5yvO0tX3FHWtp5A/w640-h384/Tech-Priest%20Zon%20aka%20Telepath%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers.jpg" title="Tech-Priest Zon RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Behold the RT601 "Pirate Captain". I love this miniature, with his malicious leer and his Buck-Rogers garb. I tried to make his teeth nice and yellow, because I don't think space pirates floss.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_lP5a8CvEVxitIQhiT268iIPPRRtca-5ln6fkDfdK8M20KlKsRzdiBqC7d157XFujs64lazFrFZXAflJJiNHmQ77EEg2pgAivmQ5RShVwfXC8XBaDI_CzPo4NcqeMsiG9iNMpvIusdT-L6e5y7qYRzGsvh0daNAS9htGXGGm2M-P9WIwHZIOtabNhg/s3929/Pirate%20Captain%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pirate Captain RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2357" data-original-width="3929" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_lP5a8CvEVxitIQhiT268iIPPRRtca-5ln6fkDfdK8M20KlKsRzdiBqC7d157XFujs64lazFrFZXAflJJiNHmQ77EEg2pgAivmQ5RShVwfXC8XBaDI_CzPo4NcqeMsiG9iNMpvIusdT-L6e5y7qYRzGsvh0daNAS9htGXGGm2M-P9WIwHZIOtabNhg/w640-h384/Pirate%20Captain%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Pirate Captain RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The RT601 "Psyker" is another of my all-time favourites. Her simple pose gives us an excellent sense of the painful energy coursing through her. In a tribute to </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Stranger Things, </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I gave her a nosebleed, as you can see. Oddly, on this miniature's tab is written "Citizen".</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMaom9dxQz3apki14btceRNdPALFPGNZW2FnF6gXl5WvaNSejpc8yvgrJTFtcWYBvBs-TG8hGliJb13wz-Eu7fKQxS3EA3khrs1sQOftLcjrq44b4O1XRTEYGypYuwCbGOWD0XZWJZ6XGELoNKh6KH6OUMN0XxscSpzOUDgx863jiGZzm7_ud70-N3uQ/s3858/Psyker%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Psyker RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2315" data-original-width="3858" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMaom9dxQz3apki14btceRNdPALFPGNZW2FnF6gXl5WvaNSejpc8yvgrJTFtcWYBvBs-TG8hGliJb13wz-Eu7fKQxS3EA3khrs1sQOftLcjrq44b4O1XRTEYGypYuwCbGOWD0XZWJZ6XGELoNKh6KH6OUMN0XxscSpzOUDgx863jiGZzm7_ud70-N3uQ/w640-h384/Psyker%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Psyker RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last but not least is the "Official". As I mentioned above, I think he's the best-crafted miniature in the range. He has lots of elegant details, an intriguing pose, and a memorable facial expression that's a joy to paint. I wish I knew who the sculptor was!</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA4WHYn1exfLLVrT9KO3p7vEanAcqzFt78X8jbEqRpaaxL9g6G0Jf7mBCGDxcsjaEmRM4Mq6Sx8_X0o7XOk-0mlxZ2r_oFtAf_fZJsm1RRA-s1qZrf6rtGUKHpZDN6bg-ledAqCddXxGuBBHE_to0EToQLs_l_E5Rz6OtThFWcdCsw_DWhIIt1WvYmw/s3875/Official%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Official RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="3875" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA4WHYn1exfLLVrT9KO3p7vEanAcqzFt78X8jbEqRpaaxL9g6G0Jf7mBCGDxcsjaEmRM4Mq6Sx8_X0o7XOk-0mlxZ2r_oFtAf_fZJsm1RRA-s1qZrf6rtGUKHpZDN6bg-ledAqCddXxGuBBHE_to0EToQLs_l_E5Rz6OtThFWcdCsw_DWhIIt1WvYmw/w640-h384/Official%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Official RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for taking a look!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigk7E7WfOhD60Lds4YffSI1E9ZqoYm1vKLvrh8SmQee_zsfRceNp15Y491Bt5GrKGxRRa3z-V44V6p6ht60xzAL-Xq_nmHTtJB8DvRxxIamwKaFI4SVkDgUeWhQWELgQTTKeyf00fyxBl0pkhtOEtKvAfvzyCyIrkvnhxXGZlvdSa_lHBKCeHlvZu1Mw/s2682/Official%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature%20side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Painted rt601 Rogue Trader Official" border="0" data-original-height="2244" data-original-width="2682" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigk7E7WfOhD60Lds4YffSI1E9ZqoYm1vKLvrh8SmQee_zsfRceNp15Y491Bt5GrKGxRRa3z-V44V6p6ht60xzAL-Xq_nmHTtJB8DvRxxIamwKaFI4SVkDgUeWhQWELgQTTKeyf00fyxBl0pkhtOEtKvAfvzyCyIrkvnhxXGZlvdSa_lHBKCeHlvZu1Mw/w320-h268/Official%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature%20side.jpg" title="Painted RT601 Rogue Trader Official" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-42962006035053666242022-10-07T06:26:00.001-07:002022-10-07T06:26:24.808-07:00Rogue Trader Adventurers: Part 2... Geriatricus Speaks!<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJxD_iAJhBMQTvg8S9pabg_Uwf0ohfaPARjvfKGv2UhXyBiPcm8jD8Aj13dJadyQXBHY1qje5Ks-2ez3ZB47MhjGQG9J_JQFTN1T0nVK_xXcdzqzGPRdP2DgixWsyYV1xE-1dgkVaoVM1lbBGgYIztC0TquN_iVc_XNh1HAd9K3hmIURm1kbpWM0q2A/s2537/Tech%20Priest%20Schlan%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tech-Priest Schlan painted miniature Rogue Trader" border="0" data-original-height="1586" data-original-width="2537" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJxD_iAJhBMQTvg8S9pabg_Uwf0ohfaPARjvfKGv2UhXyBiPcm8jD8Aj13dJadyQXBHY1qje5Ks-2ez3ZB47MhjGQG9J_JQFTN1T0nVK_xXcdzqzGPRdP2DgixWsyYV1xE-1dgkVaoVM1lbBGgYIztC0TquN_iVc_XNh1HAd9K3hmIURm1kbpWM0q2A/w640-h400/Tech%20Priest%20Schlan%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" title="Tech-Priest Schlan painted miniature Rogue Trader" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">You bastards. You have no idea how good you have it today.
When I was young in the early '80's, we didn’t have nice rulebooks with full-colour illustrations.
Holy Jumping Christ, we barely had rules. And we certainly didn’t have
Warhammer 40K. If we wanted to play a knock-off Star Wars skirmish game, we
couldn’t just reach for the latest British import, like some silk-slippered
princeling. Oh no. If we wanted to roll dice, we had only one option: we played
<i>Galacta: Star Commandos</i>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7T6PJC8QDPsd-uxEFKYZZ2BhCBQsTJ6hseiEkdlZ9SWnrw_DMYywRUGt8g7INYq7VxCVBjz6onBfYCDnXJHvY9-W8Bz1hF-qik876eslFlnAN3yBOBGkDTg-3HqeXsWli7r1EsCy6zvq0AufKePq8dQPdsz_O-FmFhj3_FwvSO6I1MzOKwx9NrbSFQQ/s792/Galacta%20Star%20Commandos.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="600" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7T6PJC8QDPsd-uxEFKYZZ2BhCBQsTJ6hseiEkdlZ9SWnrw_DMYywRUGt8g7INYq7VxCVBjz6onBfYCDnXJHvY9-W8Bz1hF-qik876eslFlnAN3yBOBGkDTg-3HqeXsWli7r1EsCy6zvq0AufKePq8dQPdsz_O-FmFhj3_FwvSO6I1MzOKwx9NrbSFQQ/w278-h367/Galacta%20Star%20Commandos.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Have you heard of </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/235213/galacta-star-commandos">Galacta: Star Commandos</a></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">? Of course
you haven’t. You belong to a generation that has never known privation. You
couldn’t find Galacta at a gaming store. We had no gaming stores! Gaming stores
were a far-off dream, like universal peace or a cure for mange. If you wanted </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Galacta</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
you took a bus to the mall and went to the "hobby store". The same store that sold your mom yarn. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">hey
kept </span><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Galacta </i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">behind the counter, like porn. And if you asked to buy it,
the old lady at the cash would say, “This isn’t a toy, you know. You can’t eat
the lead.”</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><div><div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Those old ladies are gone now. So are the hobby stores. And
so are the malls. They have been plowed into the earth so that you and your
friends can sip bubble tea on a patio. What is bubble tea, anyway? My only
prayer is that it's something that will give you gas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Unboxing <i>Galacta </i>was a painful experience, but we
grew up fast in those days. Inside we found: (1) ten solid-based miniatures so
lumpy they looked like Hershey’s Kisses; (2) a photocopied pamphlet with two pages of rules; (3);
a dozen pots of paint dried into hard putty; and (4) a paint brush so splayed that it couldn’t be used to apply makeup on a Bonobo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They called it a “<a href="https://www.goingfaster.com/heritage">paint-and-play</a>” game, the cruel jerks. But
did we make a Reddit about it? Of course not. Because that’s what wargaming was
all about in my day: disappointment.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And then <i>Rogue Trade</i> showed up and
ruined everything.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+++DISENGAGE PROTOCOL_GERIATRICUS_MAXIMUS+++</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+++END TRANSMISSION+++</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />This is the last time I let someone write guest post. What a downer. Anyway, let's continue the tour through <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/09/rogue-trader-adventurers-from-1988.html">Citadel's RT601 range of Adventurers</a> for 40K Rogue Trader. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First up is "Female Warrior Gabs". Her slotta tab gives her the alternative name "Sister", which seems to a reference to page 268 of the <i>Rogue Trader </i>rulebook (1987), where we find an enigmatic passage mentioning the Adepta Sororitas or Sisterhood: "an order of devotional warrior women." The accompanying illustration by Stephen Tappin shows "Sister Sin" in full power armor. Sadly, the Sisterhood was an idea that languished for a few years, but was rekindled in the 2nd edition <i>Warhammer 40,000 </i>rulebook (1993).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3pSFVt4KKMBRDc-d2Qy6zyNLtnwxcFiHPMSlECzlqR1SZBsBEAENiQPibgkgsHtU993sS6oI5jrdf1cEZ6OsnHbZKtajaHcqFgLq8jdRnZsMw9BzBDBxV_r6K4_43VqcuPICKq7MuGnmxYArD9Q_GX6jb83qKu93Y89Bmlxx3SuxkEHqz9cc7TS9wbw/s4180/Female%20Warrior%20Gabs%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Female Warrior Gabs RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="4180" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3pSFVt4KKMBRDc-d2Qy6zyNLtnwxcFiHPMSlECzlqR1SZBsBEAENiQPibgkgsHtU993sS6oI5jrdf1cEZ6OsnHbZKtajaHcqFgLq8jdRnZsMw9BzBDBxV_r6K4_43VqcuPICKq7MuGnmxYArD9Q_GX6jb83qKu93Y89Bmlxx3SuxkEHqz9cc7TS9wbw/w640-h384/Female%20Warrior%20Gabs%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" title="Female Warrior Gabs RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Next we have the only other Sister from the Rogue Trader era, "Female Warrior Jayne". This is another beautiful sculpt, with female characters that are dynamic and interesting without being sexualized or caricatured. I only wish they had chosen better names than "Gabs" and "Jayne". It makes them sound like they play bingo.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSo8yb1GAvU9p-FX7a6aiKvUOuKjCxq-8CjxUVUvgIByLbufgbPsSbwmhHDpeTAUTqNahG8ILJfOY-O5TdKZSCJB_uQzO5aoZP8mzT_g139XonJEQgjAx96TwqAG5_hiDEZMyRCDzC2FiYIexpbfW5q5Ry0uGb4IwO87OMINSxfJzMqAHEWDyXnf7lgQ/s4305/Female%20Warrior%20Jayne%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Female Warrior Jayne RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2583" data-original-width="4305" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSo8yb1GAvU9p-FX7a6aiKvUOuKjCxq-8CjxUVUvgIByLbufgbPsSbwmhHDpeTAUTqNahG8ILJfOY-O5TdKZSCJB_uQzO5aoZP8mzT_g139XonJEQgjAx96TwqAG5_hiDEZMyRCDzC2FiYIexpbfW5q5Ry0uGb4IwO87OMINSxfJzMqAHEWDyXnf7lgQ/w640-h384/Female%20Warrior%20Jayne%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted.jpg" title="Female Warrior Jayne RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nothing is more evocative of Rogue Trader than the Tech-Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus -- mainly due to the mind-wrenching illustrations of </span><a href="https://steemit.com/art/@katharsisdrill/will-rees-warhammer-40-000-illustrations" style="font-family: helvetica;">Will Rees</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. Here we have "Tech-Priest Schlan". He's a wonderful miniature that really captures the strange blend of technology, religion and body-modification. I tried to paint his face in such a way that the tubes and plates are hard to distinguish from his flesh.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6WevHSRn9VjlL0Lw-7l4M7ojCvrwNcQbytS713J_XzxWoyf3LPzdfOXqWBuCHmgJaAVb1lKbn9mvStixw5U6fTzU6vJ12Trsl-Qb4fi_CmZiKutIpPlbylbYup59BJANGBBoxJlOdwE-HsokvVQO50hB6brKsBbc3ARiCA_LIzpi6O8Cvrx1C1UCF4Q/s3923/Tech-Priest%20Schlan%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tech-Priest Schlan RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2354" data-original-width="3923" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6WevHSRn9VjlL0Lw-7l4M7ojCvrwNcQbytS713J_XzxWoyf3LPzdfOXqWBuCHmgJaAVb1lKbn9mvStixw5U6fTzU6vJ12Trsl-Qb4fi_CmZiKutIpPlbylbYup59BJANGBBoxJlOdwE-HsokvVQO50hB6brKsBbc3ARiCA_LIzpi6O8Cvrx1C1UCF4Q/w640-h384/Tech-Priest%20Schlan%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers.jpg" title="Tech-Priest Schlan RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And speaking of bionics, here is the "Test Bed Slave". This is another miniature (loosely) based on an <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/rtnzss/1987_adeptus_mechanicus_technomat_testbed_slave/">illustration</a> from the <i>Rogue Trader </i>rulebook. I do wish that not </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">every</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> cyborg was waving his arms around like he's Frankenstein's Monster.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHZbFgy5JAxoRNGsTophw7ziD9X80kPWQ2qTu-e5pBufPJOmn35ZNmBduOiuEZLx77ntjtad9b3rdYV8S2qmHuf521tWZQfv3236ay0rMcd2TMlCz_u4mvkjo5BilWQFgXOgpyULJJf6pKgOvAl7JustosQqdQjWCykxnL_No0-qEHUXHbGg-nVvPig/s3681/Test%20Bed%20Slave%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Test Bed Slave RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2209" data-original-width="3681" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHZbFgy5JAxoRNGsTophw7ziD9X80kPWQ2qTu-e5pBufPJOmn35ZNmBduOiuEZLx77ntjtad9b3rdYV8S2qmHuf521tWZQfv3236ay0rMcd2TMlCz_u4mvkjo5BilWQFgXOgpyULJJf6pKgOvAl7JustosQqdQjWCykxnL_No0-qEHUXHbGg-nVvPig/w640-h384/Test%20Bed%20Slave%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Test Bed Slave RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Fifth is the "Old Pirate". I find him fairly ho-hum -- but he's one of the few Rogue Trader miniatures portrayed with a needle pistol.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gAu2vKGVjnNx40Uom_3DPtKAp53YBwVvNvTb9JfcP_jlwxiI1_GHLIr34p4sE-ORmut4A_SSxr0lhVXpZ5wvauzDl_sjGudsYJ7Ft3MwY_LOzyVJPtGFfhe9ku27pqYBGXwbk_EhG2cTr0b9v_Lmzvs0qs0pJAMvSl3TSY4LLRwwinOj-Jn20qwmUQ/s3748/Old%20Pirate%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Old Pirate RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2249" data-original-width="3748" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gAu2vKGVjnNx40Uom_3DPtKAp53YBwVvNvTb9JfcP_jlwxiI1_GHLIr34p4sE-ORmut4A_SSxr0lhVXpZ5wvauzDl_sjGudsYJ7Ft3MwY_LOzyVJPtGFfhe9ku27pqYBGXwbk_EhG2cTr0b9v_Lmzvs0qs0pJAMvSl3TSY4LLRwwinOj-Jn20qwmUQ/w640-h384/Old%20Pirate%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Old Pirate RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And finally, here is the "Space Amazon". This is another iconic miniature that seems to be in high demand (if eBay prices are anything to go on). As Jason Fulford has pointed out, this sculpt is almost certainly based on John Blanche's "</span><a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/2015/09/space-amazon-rt601-adventurers.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">Amazon</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"> </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">illustration. I enjoyed painting this miniature, but it is the opposite of Gabs or Jayne. With her garter belt and bodice, the Space Amazon is a female warrior whose essence is confined within the stereotype of the sexy </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">femme fatale.</i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQOa26q3YMOXkHlmJM-_CVkmORbnaThTT9kTKQ1eenhjxXHvCIXnIw91JzUrPgSK7bNBgkZzbYBOFBhT1pibPizQYSQSRoQvZSM8qtGSVy8n_Bd2Qt6D7bbiEj7fYFDMBFBbgCrfsyt5t9bY49xeiyMVsRJ4JRkeO3GbpW57xZnqIwHMgpBwY_6kWJw/s4327/Space%20Amazon%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Space Amazon RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2596" data-original-width="4327" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQOa26q3YMOXkHlmJM-_CVkmORbnaThTT9kTKQ1eenhjxXHvCIXnIw91JzUrPgSK7bNBgkZzbYBOFBhT1pibPizQYSQSRoQvZSM8qtGSVy8n_Bd2Qt6D7bbiEj7fYFDMBFBbgCrfsyt5t9bY49xeiyMVsRJ4JRkeO3GbpW57xZnqIwHMgpBwY_6kWJw/w640-h384/Space%20Amazon%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Space Amazon RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for coming by!</span><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ryAGUTKZd0mbbK9Z02fnG5NaVTt6QQaBz4xitgPmwJk4CSvLI5uPjHWIyIcAMtUJMK92jr59b4Vii72acc_F7nLfUkJOFDmN8yNiu9HxC4qYa78q5KCZNlt2GTfWmSHSmiznuicG8uYR73Qspe9Tgz_QFbdxmcWyR3V3pFW9c7ajxNNnSlN3jBW8NQ/s932/Sister%20Sin.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="932" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ryAGUTKZd0mbbK9Z02fnG5NaVTt6QQaBz4xitgPmwJk4CSvLI5uPjHWIyIcAMtUJMK92jr59b4Vii72acc_F7nLfUkJOFDmN8yNiu9HxC4qYa78q5KCZNlt2GTfWmSHSmiznuicG8uYR73Qspe9Tgz_QFbdxmcWyR3V3pFW9c7ajxNNnSlN3jBW8NQ/w346-h302/Sister%20Sin.jpg" width="346" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by Stephen Tappin (1987)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><br /></p><p></p></div></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-51953821621288466362022-09-15T07:42:00.000-07:002022-09-15T07:42:29.132-07:00Rogue Trader Adventurers from 1988<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9cYDYS4CQxz7qz0QclMtE__vBhCSa5tC50ikIUaooE6P8kr8o2zCO6zp4bNrvw4QwQ0kNvhHJXzizLP1i6aZMo_Jq1rhrpvS7riFa2yGfhyx8HC_OxP5BKaEY5cumKjNxrtpAQUIrGdo_t6tFVDvU6ECVJvIErZajjbLuELXcFnO3edIBB291g5_IQ/s3634/Citadel%20Adventurers%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20WH40K%203x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2180" data-original-width="3634" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9cYDYS4CQxz7qz0QclMtE__vBhCSa5tC50ikIUaooE6P8kr8o2zCO6zp4bNrvw4QwQ0kNvhHJXzizLP1i6aZMo_Jq1rhrpvS7riFa2yGfhyx8HC_OxP5BKaEY5cumKjNxrtpAQUIrGdo_t6tFVDvU6ECVJvIErZajjbLuELXcFnO3edIBB291g5_IQ/w640-h384/Citadel%20Adventurers%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20WH40K%203x5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The RT601 range of Rogue Trader adventurers came out in the Spring of 1988, just months after the 1st edition of Warhammer 40,000 hit the shelves. In my eyes, the range was a crowing achievement: 32 miniatures showing the </span><a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt601adv/index.htm" style="font-family: helvetica;">wild diversity and imagination</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of Games Workshop's new sci-fi universe. Each figure pops with character and story-telling potential.</span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="581" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfCXAoieJ-kJSJ_PtZ7NiOS0Fdq8LUTJcl6q4qbdDXb67xtb3EQj6RPWPfJdNGzYj0jbtP8reQp0-DIdHzH21y79Uptzlw-z4jQZ7Hv2VOkS0vZ7uJRBS5swREWkhlzaCDzbkNVN62kGT2Pw-yk-LcNeksonIDvdqdUiG_fdHc9O8pf8QaNsBiTG9UQ/s320/RT601%20Adventurers%20White%20Dwarf%2099.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="233" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From White Dwarf #99</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Originally, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> was a hybrid between a roleplaying game and skirmish wargame. For instance, it required a Game Master to guide the players through scenarios and campaigns. The rulebook is crowded with charts that randomize the equipment carried by soldiers and heroes, a feature that only makes sense in a roleplaying game (like the random encounter charts in AD&D). And finally, there was the justly famous "</span><a href="https://bloodofkittens.com/wargaminghub/2013/07/19/40k-without-a-plot-is-a-dull-and-limited-game-so-for-all-gamers-underabout-33-heres-the-rogue-trader-plot-generator/" style="font-family: helvetica;">Plot Generator</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">" at the back of the rulebook, which threw players into contact with new worlds, alien civilizations, planetary governors, imperial assassins, and dastardly pirates.</span></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">But to run these scenarios, you need miniatures to play the <i>dramatis personae</i>: the politicians, rebels, engineers, navigators and rogue psykers. And that's where the RT601 range of adventurers came in! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And yet for all the splendor of this range, it was an evolutionary dead end. As we all know, WH40K grew into a tournament games of army lists, not a plot-driven adventure game. And so the RT601 range was the first and last great spurt of character-miniatures.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I'm pleased to report that I finished collecting and painting all 32 miniatures in the RT601 range. Let's take a look at the first six miniatures!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First is the RT601 "Eldar Trader". In <i>Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader </i>(1987)<i>, </i>Rick Priestly writes that the Eldar are "clever traders" who eschew conventional space travel. Rather, they use small warp-gate networks centered in their craftworlds to move their goods between planets. The haughty expression of this model is priceless. I can almost hear him saying, "You don't want carpet. You want <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUrQoG7ED8">area rug</a>!"</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv33iB3g1zYo-CAHEgLBS31xRHcxoIvwytfUvM1_IMzaeO8V11kAMHcLcPiADjGHAFhBctgSyT1zpLIOk0dLT_ymmNtyiz7hNnT-GI7ajHa4AzJpZb81qw5y-Wm3lQhc-PBneximZT5dOAtb4P92kNm3lTk4IEipBjk9EYqC_1qgd5W1AWhlGEWP2Y_Q/s4222/Eldar%20Trader%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Eldar Trader RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2533" data-original-width="4222" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv33iB3g1zYo-CAHEgLBS31xRHcxoIvwytfUvM1_IMzaeO8V11kAMHcLcPiADjGHAFhBctgSyT1zpLIOk0dLT_ymmNtyiz7hNnT-GI7ajHa4AzJpZb81qw5y-Wm3lQhc-PBneximZT5dOAtb4P92kNm3lTk4IEipBjk9EYqC_1qgd5W1AWhlGEWP2Y_Q/w640-h384/Eldar%20Trader%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Eldar Trader RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Let's continue looking at some of the non-humans. Second comes the RT601 "Squat Miner". Once again, we are treated to a great facial expression and an insouciant pose. How sweet it is to get some Warhammer miniatures who are not sporting weapons! All this fellow has is a drill, bad teeth, and a cheap cigar. For you collectors out there, this seems to be one of the rarer sculpts in the range.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1yF_1YjauXasFIVW-pZrm8sGKcqIZdIjBCtdHto-fCqZX5Yfp1rEpMTJ5s94bn6VWUSRAy9RTnV-Bb1whcCYoqggbJ5NxE02nxpw7SUX9UYAa5wbNzK0CZbFXXuHwp1O7YMUqfE4pM6lXlYrINFoaei-b5Lbaip3RNc4zg8AgN529FpcZ2NYCFhsHOA/s3910/Squat%20Miner%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Squat Miner RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2346" data-original-width="3910" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1yF_1YjauXasFIVW-pZrm8sGKcqIZdIjBCtdHto-fCqZX5Yfp1rEpMTJ5s94bn6VWUSRAy9RTnV-Bb1whcCYoqggbJ5NxE02nxpw7SUX9UYAa5wbNzK0CZbFXXuHwp1O7YMUqfE4pM6lXlYrINFoaei-b5Lbaip3RNc4zg8AgN529FpcZ2NYCFhsHOA/w640-h384/Squat%20Miner%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Squat Miner RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Third is the RT601 "Squat Engineer". There are lovely details on his hazard suit. I'm particularly fond of his eager expression. He looks like "stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes, he </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">something something something upon a peak at Darien."</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-6FNnfLUtlnlt8lJA-w1sw6XPa8u3G2n0XYrA-xAxEjwv4TLMfQtBdxvdoUvFLUcOQgDWHXFSSfMQQ8qqLjiAfpeLp8B-7Mmij_IDQhYwCsTRZVRWzKXyQfdjFFxHDFqAqG_M-GJI9XdFd52FG-slwyA0VFnsisAsDpH3J9W0asC_kc_yMHjPorUdg/s3964/Squat%20Engineer%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Squat Engineer RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2378" data-original-width="3964" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-6FNnfLUtlnlt8lJA-w1sw6XPa8u3G2n0XYrA-xAxEjwv4TLMfQtBdxvdoUvFLUcOQgDWHXFSSfMQQ8qqLjiAfpeLp8B-7Mmij_IDQhYwCsTRZVRWzKXyQfdjFFxHDFqAqG_M-GJI9XdFd52FG-slwyA0VFnsisAsDpH3J9W0asC_kc_yMHjPorUdg/w640-h384/Squat%20Engineer%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Squat Engineer RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next is the RT601 "Halfling Cook". In </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Rogue Trader, </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Priestly gives a description of Halflings that would make Tolkien moan in his grave: "They are idle, hedonistic, gregarious, over-friendly, and sexually promiscuous... Their lives are spent eating until sick, drinking copious amounts of intoxicating liquid, and procreating uncontrollably. These small, loud, hungry and lecherous creatures call themselves Halflings, but other humans know them as Runtlings, Stunties and Ratlings... They have earned themselves a role amongst the stars working as cabin crew and runarounds...".</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I tried my best to make this fellow look loud, hungry and lecherous.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLutzs21b3UsWrv5bwUjEY1m-xAYH1wt8BY73Ke_nlBD2R_9UKqcyINBGNgnx-6pCVqxQ4LL1d2mHseiRo9SsmGHu_e1WLxaKlo8x6dI724xgpTmZVmdrO1AEhmls2uSDmBUKV2IDo-dMjRZz67gqZainMThkgDC-8bZW69cIYK9h1xLSDQiyrF4pffg/s3930/Halfling%20Cook%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Halfling Cook RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2358" data-original-width="3930" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLutzs21b3UsWrv5bwUjEY1m-xAYH1wt8BY73Ke_nlBD2R_9UKqcyINBGNgnx-6pCVqxQ4LL1d2mHseiRo9SsmGHu_e1WLxaKlo8x6dI724xgpTmZVmdrO1AEhmls2uSDmBUKV2IDo-dMjRZz67gqZainMThkgDC-8bZW69cIYK9h1xLSDQiyrF4pffg/w640-h384/Halfling%20Cook%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Halfling Cook RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fifth we have the RT601 "Navigator". Navigators aren't quite aliens: they are mutants with a tendency to be "tall and spindly, and their flesh may have a peculiar transparent quality... </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hands and feet can be ridiculously large and are frequently webbed." This is indeed a tall, gangly miniature with over-sized appendages. I went the extra step and gave my Navigator a third eye.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbvnalgcoFNUux4Rli3jnEyCr3baVBKQ16wMtJ9wxXkVw2MGIV--4uTADWtOgoRT0Peg3_4Yg_lLvWK-M_veF5RQkbP1VJc1S_-QbBUhiNeyLRJAPcXcHQw8keVveAQWG_yH6YWEul2FC8Xp529wvBytak8UfPfvUOdEPqxnDELSFgR73XkJHRlpmHw/s4202/Navigator%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Navigator RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2521" data-original-width="4202" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbvnalgcoFNUux4Rli3jnEyCr3baVBKQ16wMtJ9wxXkVw2MGIV--4uTADWtOgoRT0Peg3_4Yg_lLvWK-M_veF5RQkbP1VJc1S_-QbBUhiNeyLRJAPcXcHQw8keVveAQWG_yH6YWEul2FC8Xp529wvBytak8UfPfvUOdEPqxnDELSFgR73XkJHRlpmHw/w640-h384/Navigator%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Navigator RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last we have the RT601 "Ventolin Pirate". Ventolin, of course, is an asthma medication administered through an inhaler. I like Curis' suggestion at </span><a href="http://injabread.co.uk/choose-your-own-adventurers-episode-5-nebuli-tsar-ventolin-pirate/" style="font-family: helvetica;">Ninja Bread</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> that the Ventolin Pirate is a conhead alien who requires Ventolin gas to survive. In any case, he's a great miniature, with fine details and a striking design.</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0OfnRkKtO-iY9IHH4xxrro2wRxxKt815_EhJc_iMzIGn8oAtXgkSJcUw42Ab9xIkteEzmc37077hG1jP_NfnLmKRfJdwGpStln8Pun6lvtCcrlmSVUnIsTgCvrWpwRB3ZWXYLjLDdFebMlkjePABdQs2AFsb47Cy_zeNKr2GiVkAnYp8pOD7-LR3Qw/s3817/Ventolin%20Pirate%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ventolin Pirate RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="3817" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0OfnRkKtO-iY9IHH4xxrro2wRxxKt815_EhJc_iMzIGn8oAtXgkSJcUw42Ab9xIkteEzmc37077hG1jP_NfnLmKRfJdwGpStln8Pun6lvtCcrlmSVUnIsTgCvrWpwRB3ZWXYLjLDdFebMlkjePABdQs2AFsb47Cy_zeNKr2GiVkAnYp8pOD7-LR3Qw/w640-h384/Ventolin%20Pirate%20RT601%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Ventolin Pirate RT601 Adventurers Citadel Rogue Trader 40K" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for coming by! And remember: stay </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">loud, hungry and lecherous!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzE7Am5I4i5DzY1ngyFBP8ZWeiOe7w-LVHYO01n4n2zm6va0_HQgqp5DjXzlSKMKn9_JTiqHY9ePDAVsWQ9PSCi5htSC1gtQQQ8xiS8BallrVTU9_2-Yvyx3eLPZe_A57Jsk4TWBFvO5on5dttBgizildebF2jF-b3ZEAhyKt3a-HufcMiz76i4IcNFw/s2500/Halfling%20Cook%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Halfling Cook RT601 Adventurers Citadel Warhammer 40K" border="0" data-original-height="1563" data-original-width="2500" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzE7Am5I4i5DzY1ngyFBP8ZWeiOe7w-LVHYO01n4n2zm6va0_HQgqp5DjXzlSKMKn9_JTiqHY9ePDAVsWQ9PSCi5htSC1gtQQQ8xiS8BallrVTU9_2-Yvyx3eLPZe_A57Jsk4TWBFvO5on5dttBgizildebF2jF-b3ZEAhyKt3a-HufcMiz76i4IcNFw/w400-h250/Halfling%20Cook%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" title="Halfling Cook RT601 Adventurers Citadel Warhammer 40K" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-19295404131402326502022-09-05T05:27:00.000-07:002022-09-05T05:27:56.700-07:00Eldar Command Group for 40K Rogue Trader<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXlS3Z3H6gZYWeSxMeYNNA7RE0XJhDvzhnSxsT1VD-rWEU48OVhleG7cl_56DbujGeToRjwu6NhrKp1a2mG4DA4n5cQ0-HPIXGPqjQH6l2f9ai7KBqlB-_h9YPu2w9YosUtxGqOPcYGQY49jqnK6b00p6uNF3KYeT2pdLIRHpURt4ECSvNOVRSMg-1Cg/s3509/RT402%20Menhe%20Worldsong%20Space%20Elf%20Eldar%20standard%20bearer%20heroic%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2127" data-original-width="3509" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXlS3Z3H6gZYWeSxMeYNNA7RE0XJhDvzhnSxsT1VD-rWEU48OVhleG7cl_56DbujGeToRjwu6NhrKp1a2mG4DA4n5cQ0-HPIXGPqjQH6l2f9ai7KBqlB-_h9YPu2w9YosUtxGqOPcYGQY49jqnK6b00p6uNF3KYeT2pdLIRHpURt4ECSvNOVRSMg-1Cg/w640-h388/RT402%20Menhe%20Worldsong%20Space%20Elf%20Eldar%20standard%20bearer%20heroic%20golden.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">If there is anything that's cooler than the original <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-in-wh40k.html">RT401 Space Elves</a> released in 1987, it was the RT402 Eldar Command Group released in 1988. With these figures, we see sculptor Jes Goodwin starting with the basic theme of the Eldar warrior, and embellishing it with free-jazz experimentation. The peaked helmets morph into masks or burst into tentacle-like tubing, the weapons grow teeth or elongate, and the armor mimics the shapes of Space Marines. It is a tour-de-force.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmMQyM7xoCj_uk0vj3t1SkEKleR_Kp89f3gHMJlN6AHnQ1yHw-fCGNU7R5InWpfPS1dDQiyrLY6sdNdGe0Up9qwuySmbH2RjI2Z67VlH0dYtKSTjlxDXi0zUJZJqz7S6m9FD5PRe7Bi5AxZsYJrvkNJYE1BXY7OY2MG09cI8n_nGtQfx_bMdWfCZLHA/s887/Eldar%20Command%20Group%20from%20Book%20of%20the%20Astronomicon.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="887" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmMQyM7xoCj_uk0vj3t1SkEKleR_Kp89f3gHMJlN6AHnQ1yHw-fCGNU7R5InWpfPS1dDQiyrLY6sdNdGe0Up9qwuySmbH2RjI2Z67VlH0dYtKSTjlxDXi0zUJZJqz7S6m9FD5PRe7Bi5AxZsYJrvkNJYE1BXY7OY2MG09cI8n_nGtQfx_bMdWfCZLHA/s320/Eldar%20Command%20Group%20from%20Book%20of%20the%20Astronomicon.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It's amusing to look back on these miniatures and to remember that, back in the 1980's, the whole "Space Elf" business was seen as a bit of a boondoggle. As <a href="https://gavthorpe.co.uk/2017/05/16/interview-with-the-mighty-jes-goodwin/">Jes Goodwin</a> recounted in a fascinating interview with Gav Thorpe in 2017:</span><p></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><blockquote>"...I had been allocated to the space elf range because I was ‘new boy’ and nobody thought they would sell as well as space soldiers or space dwarves. As the resident elf nut I jumped at the chance to prove we could do something cool with them."</blockquote></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Well, I think we can safely say that the story ends well for the sculptor and his work. Over 30 years later, the Eldar continue to be one of the most aesthetically and mythologically interesting aspects of the 40K universe, (notwithstanding what some <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-part-2.html">crusty grognards</a> might say). And Jes Goodwin is the Lead Miniature Designer at Games Workshop, one of the few personnel remaining from the glory days of the 1980's.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I curbed my customary inclination to collect <i>every </i>miniature in this range because -- well, how many standard bearers and musicians does one squad of Space Elves really need? I painted them in the classic scheme of blue and yellow. Their insignia marks them as members of the <a href="http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Eldar_-_Encyclopedia/S">Scarlett Command</a>, a small band of Eldar Corsairs.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First up is the leader of my force "Cdr. Avele Swifteye". He (or she?) is wearing a helmet overlaid with scowling visage, an apparent homage to the mask (or <i>men-yoroi</i>) that <a href="https://www.giuseppepiva.com/en/news/samurai-armor-mask">samurai</a> wore in order to protect their face and scare their enemies. Avele's mask and crest seems to mark him (or her?) out as an aristocratic warrior.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQkS51mXDvEXJaTw3VfwxtDRW7OCvY2eJeU2Ts5pFLSeGZcwpy38NmVSqZSiSJPfU5ubdftLs5J1k1czS435KhOt0VWfVIlmbuPwnUHRclW1OZ8_6LVRlF763-AIdNOcmB7SY3B873wVK0O2WMbi5z5YI7GJIsOu76wfVklZIcdAjGv0pHY3c1L86RdQ/s4212/Eldar%20leader%20RTO4%20Cdr.%20%20Avele%20Swifteye%20rogue%20trader.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2527" data-original-width="4212" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQkS51mXDvEXJaTw3VfwxtDRW7OCvY2eJeU2Ts5pFLSeGZcwpy38NmVSqZSiSJPfU5ubdftLs5J1k1czS435KhOt0VWfVIlmbuPwnUHRclW1OZ8_6LVRlF763-AIdNOcmB7SY3B873wVK0O2WMbi5z5YI7GJIsOu76wfVklZIcdAjGv0pHY3c1L86RdQ/w640-h384/Eldar%20leader%20RTO4%20Cdr.%20%20Avele%20Swifteye%20rogue%20trader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Next we have the champion, "Kaevii Firehand". I find this miniature interesting because it seems to betray influences from Space Marine armour, specifically in the exaggerated shoulder pauldrons and the flaring greaves with deep wells for the feet. The haircut is <i>deep </i>1980's.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8epi2MsPD83RU15LTOmYi1GpWK-BkIlSDnbznrRQu5efeeSgdo86q0l6pRP62pEVo6oD_0jwjzq0YVhNojl-UAAXyXEd9fCA3T2nfiZu1Uy-qEXSx8d-PYdEWZSO4ER7VEXIO-SaoLbtXymPolZtCRM7j8OW0zJsUFAGrpdflSPGTTMVN7YCr9_mgw/s3979/RT402%20Eldar%20Champion%20Kaevii%20Firehand%20Warhammer%2040K.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2387" data-original-width="3979" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8epi2MsPD83RU15LTOmYi1GpWK-BkIlSDnbznrRQu5efeeSgdo86q0l6pRP62pEVo6oD_0jwjzq0YVhNojl-UAAXyXEd9fCA3T2nfiZu1Uy-qEXSx8d-PYdEWZSO4ER7VEXIO-SaoLbtXymPolZtCRM7j8OW0zJsUFAGrpdflSPGTTMVN7YCr9_mgw/w640-h384/RT402%20Eldar%20Champion%20Kaevii%20Firehand%20Warhammer%2040K.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Third is the musician, "Kaele Lightprow". Nothing marks a Rogue Trader era unit out like having a musician. He is playing keyboards which are integrated into his thigh-armour and which activate the organ pipes on his backpack. Shine on, you crazy diamond!</span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNueJRIH78rUIcd0LZtevhlq9qLr6kY89y-klo8STKDMJvNIGGPgKyJQ7pJmX8grjQyvoDlAugJ3hZ7aU-xSlfusEwvfA9s899klb6gpR1CJ7oGbR2OCdwbm-Nq8fi1Pr5dKaoLnxXE5fIevtv8U1i88xZc1ChHUjP5TiS37wp88Vg6PwrEaNfyWkDA/s4171/RT402%20Kaele%20Lightprow%20Eldar%20Musician%20Warhammer%2040K.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2503" data-original-width="4171" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNueJRIH78rUIcd0LZtevhlq9qLr6kY89y-klo8STKDMJvNIGGPgKyJQ7pJmX8grjQyvoDlAugJ3hZ7aU-xSlfusEwvfA9s899klb6gpR1CJ7oGbR2OCdwbm-Nq8fi1Pr5dKaoLnxXE5fIevtv8U1i88xZc1ChHUjP5TiS37wp88Vg6PwrEaNfyWkDA/w640-h384/RT402%20Kaele%20Lightprow%20Eldar%20Musician%20Warhammer%2040K.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Last and certainly not least is the standard bearer, "Menhe Worldsong". This is probably my favourite miniature in the Space Elf range, and one of my top picks of all time. He looks to me like the meanest Eldar who ever donned a big pointy helmet. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMFXnsO1VrzXW1zB6vf26b2kiAsbAXykqmMfPp2LOSTnqZuiZrDYMUAismH6-Buq-dkPuPUOTex-Uf122TBsX6ly8M1K9t8_Joq8HG2781LtQC1PN_ohruMCV0-NVIuiPsAqx4JKpDY6cZa_QicR17iZyz_bTgwKKlNzMcc2uYGOUoS881Kf6OLLuxg/s5391/RT402%20Menhe%20Worldsong%20Eldar%20Standard%20Bearer%20Warhammer%2040K.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3235" data-original-width="5391" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMFXnsO1VrzXW1zB6vf26b2kiAsbAXykqmMfPp2LOSTnqZuiZrDYMUAismH6-Buq-dkPuPUOTex-Uf122TBsX6ly8M1K9t8_Joq8HG2781LtQC1PN_ohruMCV0-NVIuiPsAqx4JKpDY6cZa_QicR17iZyz_bTgwKKlNzMcc2uYGOUoS881Kf6OLLuxg/w640-h384/RT402%20Menhe%20Worldsong%20Eldar%20Standard%20Bearer%20Warhammer%2040K.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">WAIT! That should be the end, but I painted two bonus command figures: a spotter and a special weapon trooper. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The spotter is from the RT404 Eldar Field Artillery range released in April 1988.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj617ll_rFG5nPj1R13hnPy7xfA1dVzBW7P7FL62dUSnm38xDESK6rD-eCNGqNEQiDF_MPttl6TpYFp4LtXs_rk5DrZ5hLwR3VOyvjqKcJJAYg9d05AMo_ByZl_BAxJeYPmkcgP2pA16RjyAMUky3koxgn73L5yr0IUY2oYKfIldmyJ5G3Qxc0QA6XKYA/s3824/Eldar%20RT404%20D%20Cannon%20Crew%2040K.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2294" data-original-width="3824" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj617ll_rFG5nPj1R13hnPy7xfA1dVzBW7P7FL62dUSnm38xDESK6rD-eCNGqNEQiDF_MPttl6TpYFp4LtXs_rk5DrZ5hLwR3VOyvjqKcJJAYg9d05AMo_ByZl_BAxJeYPmkcgP2pA16RjyAMUky3koxgn73L5yr0IUY2oYKfIldmyJ5G3Qxc0QA6XKYA/w640-h384/Eldar%20RT404%20D%20Cannon%20Crew%2040K.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And finally, my special weapon trooper is "Velasinn Doomdrifter" from the RT402 Command Group. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-81F9LNU9SnAtr_IU3zj_CK1qgvjKhqpgCPM06Xd8uAJbam4lUHgpwMoYNV2Lp0_3MGZYK-Z6_S5WqnoV6-YAwXXqdI8ojdSA1ybIDT-rjG0F_Pc5SPP5VzwhfhPfBf5gs8b_6WnYt3lWAmrfYBR4KGhmO9ItFjK5EupIoUbmZbEAM-rgohphwoIBQ/s4043/RT402%20Eldar%20Champion%20Velesinn%20Doomdrifter%20Rogue%20Trader.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2426" data-original-width="4043" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-81F9LNU9SnAtr_IU3zj_CK1qgvjKhqpgCPM06Xd8uAJbam4lUHgpwMoYNV2Lp0_3MGZYK-Z6_S5WqnoV6-YAwXXqdI8ojdSA1ybIDT-rjG0F_Pc5SPP5VzwhfhPfBf5gs8b_6WnYt3lWAmrfYBR4KGhmO9ItFjK5EupIoUbmZbEAM-rgohphwoIBQ/w640-h384/RT402%20Eldar%20Champion%20Velesinn%20Doomdrifter%20Rogue%20Trader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Well, that's it for my Eldar project. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed sharing it. Take care!</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-e-QLKjN-5rlA8qZ6Qvllz7_vCnLFILLqs0DbKT_veSXuBPMFml13_rko22NS_jPs3Ai-QRNxuf1LNw65JPMxDcXwQNpEfFFe9LOxABY7I5LpkENKjtZIni_ilLCjNPVyddJi-TO780b9My47M3_yyXP2A2XqVM0DQFbV60olaQIr158WQ47Tpg2JoA/s3442/Eldar%20Space%20Elf%20Command%20Group%20RT402%201988%203x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2065" data-original-width="3442" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-e-QLKjN-5rlA8qZ6Qvllz7_vCnLFILLqs0DbKT_veSXuBPMFml13_rko22NS_jPs3Ai-QRNxuf1LNw65JPMxDcXwQNpEfFFe9LOxABY7I5LpkENKjtZIni_ilLCjNPVyddJi-TO780b9My47M3_yyXP2A2XqVM0DQFbV60olaQIr158WQ47Tpg2JoA/w406-h243/Eldar%20Space%20Elf%20Command%20Group%20RT402%201988%203x5.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-83195534076359637112022-08-18T06:42:00.001-07:002022-08-18T06:42:45.759-07:00Adeptus Mechanicus Servitors by Bob Olley<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepjtR_33N2Rd3oXQgZPO4pvm8YULLArY5lhkCfPBxQriZ3tZExQ12GruqsfT2o9AIf-1ozjVCtQL5B26ETdPBDHWoqDLuBMBAbb-WkpB4kMT5lS9IGTMPBJWlHLoSxzC4xFbEAL7I_1aD9qxN4o4lMMwNeG4BncAbBTjUJU9aBroGCuvl8E6iN4PgNg/s4000/Adeptus%20Mechanicus%20Servitor%20Citadel%201989%20by%20Bob%20Olley%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1820" data-original-width="4000" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepjtR_33N2Rd3oXQgZPO4pvm8YULLArY5lhkCfPBxQriZ3tZExQ12GruqsfT2o9AIf-1ozjVCtQL5B26ETdPBDHWoqDLuBMBAbb-WkpB4kMT5lS9IGTMPBJWlHLoSxzC4xFbEAL7I_1aD9qxN4o4lMMwNeG4BncAbBTjUJU9aBroGCuvl8E6iN4PgNg/w640-h292/Adeptus%20Mechanicus%20Servitor%20Citadel%201989%20by%20Bob%20Olley%20painted.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I'm high on Bob Olley. My latest foray into his world are two of the 4011 Adeptus Mechanicus Servitors he sculpted in 1989.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Painting <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2014/12/bob-olley-and-iron-claw-weird-turn-pro.html">Olley miniatures</a> is often challenging, but these two were a joy. The facial expressions -- by turns crude, servile and sedated -- emerged from the brush without any specific intention on my part. The wonderful details (like the wires, implants and bionics) were crisply carved and easy for me to delineate. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The two miniatures seemed to paint themselves.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It's a reminder that part of the miniature sculptor's art is to help the painter. After all, it is the painter who will have the most intimate, the most delicate experience with the sculptor's efforts. Indeed, few other visual artists can console themselves with the notion that there is someone out there who will spend hours and hours contemplating the most minute details of their work. (I just spent some time in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence where I was confronted with some of the greatest sculpture in human history. But with the crowds seething around me, I couldn't spend more than a few moments looking at each individual piece).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I wonder whether miniature sculptors often get feedback from their customers on the experience of painting their models. I hope so! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Here is the first of Mr. Olley's magnificent miniatures. This is "Servitor" 4011-06.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RQNie-kVjZ5CQWVUrtTE97xhzCdECWhKpMwrgMYZciZ6LoNCOkl-HglzxUyWnKQ5apHUdJ_pcRgAKAbLb4Ktp1u6sUrBfrBdHCfFLzQxkQEoDuewbcS6QCZWCnbjRPMo8GwKyjRdoKlFaqJVNJQy40Zqb_Kl6glG90T9YRij6FImYe9IKeDVv3gcaA/s4259/Adeptus%20Mechanicus%204011-06%20Servitor%201989%20by%20Bob%20Olley%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2555" data-original-width="4259" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RQNie-kVjZ5CQWVUrtTE97xhzCdECWhKpMwrgMYZciZ6LoNCOkl-HglzxUyWnKQ5apHUdJ_pcRgAKAbLb4Ktp1u6sUrBfrBdHCfFLzQxkQEoDuewbcS6QCZWCnbjRPMo8GwKyjRdoKlFaqJVNJQy40Zqb_Kl6glG90T9YRij6FImYe9IKeDVv3gcaA/w640-h384/Adeptus%20Mechanicus%204011-06%20Servitor%201989%20by%20Bob%20Olley%20painted.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And below is "Servitor" 4011-07. I love the drool tube going into his mouth. Olley is a genius.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyPVOGK1o8I28Vo0y29cuddnmjgqnNKc24xi66-kG53XHbDmyCaViZJ5jQfKuZIt6oA79VCPS0r4LPIMdeQGG27FeAFi9nE9PZj8Di5APQrBFTPNnqNecPhkvD8dX1Xk9C-fqcqwLsSXj3CXayvKVPWSxDMjY6GmSil_A4BrtwzAA6CqYlkKcLh2w0MQ/s4193/Adeptus%20Mechanicus%204011-07%20Servitor%201989%20by%20Bob%20Olley%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2516" data-original-width="4193" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyPVOGK1o8I28Vo0y29cuddnmjgqnNKc24xi66-kG53XHbDmyCaViZJ5jQfKuZIt6oA79VCPS0r4LPIMdeQGG27FeAFi9nE9PZj8Di5APQrBFTPNnqNecPhkvD8dX1Xk9C-fqcqwLsSXj3CXayvKVPWSxDMjY6GmSil_A4BrtwzAA6CqYlkKcLh2w0MQ/w640-h384/Adeptus%20Mechanicus%204011-07%20Servitor%201989%20by%20Bob%20Olley%20painted.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The only other miniature I know who was as easy to paint was the "Mad Punk" (below) from the RT601 Adventurers. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Are there any sculptors whom you think are particularly good at making life easy on a miniature painter? I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts in the comments.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thanks!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDMSRqCTQT-Uv3MvPXh_FliLmuig2FrFkLqp4rVRZOPHAFfXwgeNCoTJL_K1MvfXzm2PA3ky4-0XyBwFKJqcItvTZ6oP-0kEBXTjxh11GlgwfDIK80_rhrIWfs_CcjSgg9L4OqoQDVSBsW0TqmZjpJMcKVr-utfWhqtiZsOUwBsZj1JsX3F6bBRTnBA/s2206/Mad%20Punk%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1379" data-original-width="2206" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDMSRqCTQT-Uv3MvPXh_FliLmuig2FrFkLqp4rVRZOPHAFfXwgeNCoTJL_K1MvfXzm2PA3ky4-0XyBwFKJqcItvTZ6oP-0kEBXTjxh11GlgwfDIK80_rhrIWfs_CcjSgg9L4OqoQDVSBsW0TqmZjpJMcKVr-utfWhqtiZsOUwBsZj1JsX3F6bBRTnBA/w303-h189/Mad%20Punk%20RT601%20Citadel%20Rogue%20Trader%20Adventurers%20painted%20golden.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-52521482936089876162022-08-11T06:03:00.000-07:002022-08-11T06:03:19.322-07:00The War Monster<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzO_DTqFSaEHk2dgFP5z2ltz7xC5TlWEsovhlOLGwMvfZ7219AToYj8NRUm2sTYARlDrAbT1mnNqtn8udIKUsuPREKddd_-Gl2BJOQLmkLirfQRO3ZXIkNSQvrXGxych9jsda5JerzMs2AogPhP-vEnspOB_CLUfJ3V5KtcIminFw94hGaj5YeIwRiSQ/s4063/Great%20Beast%205x7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="War Monster for Saga Age of Magic painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2902" data-original-width="4063" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzO_DTqFSaEHk2dgFP5z2ltz7xC5TlWEsovhlOLGwMvfZ7219AToYj8NRUm2sTYARlDrAbT1mnNqtn8udIKUsuPREKddd_-Gl2BJOQLmkLirfQRO3ZXIkNSQvrXGxych9jsda5JerzMs2AogPhP-vEnspOB_CLUfJ3V5KtcIminFw94hGaj5YeIwRiSQ/w640-h458/Great%20Beast%205x7.jpg" title="War Monster for Saga Age of Magic painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I've always wanted to model a War Monster and last January I finally did it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The incitement for this project was reading <i>Saga: Age of Magic</i> (2019) by Alex Buchel and Fred Machu. <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2017/06/vikings-versus-zombies-saga-battle.html"><i>Saga</i></a> has been one of my favourite rule-sets since the first edition sprung on our hobby in 2011. <i>Age of Magic </i>adapts the second edition for fantasy skirmish games. One of the strengths of the book is that the authors give their imagination free reign when it comes to units: besides great dragons and giants, there are rules for fielding the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse or Hern's Wild Hunt. But most intriguing for me were the rules for one gigantic beast who swarms with drivers, archers, and crew. I was hooked by the requisite dimensions for the model: a base between 8 and 12 inches long. Since Saga games usually occur on a 3x4 foot board, this single miniature would occupy a huge part of the available real-estate. A real monster!</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4GxsFwdqeArA5E_pX-Li8tuiFpJZwf_S7Cctm4juQx0Y8HmD5WBYoE0L5jDS_yyhZhUI-c086WE93NIyeaoy7CnNpx5DsnuvsMbcE_gdYjgNbvfUT2kL3ZPJD2TIzuz8Bd_-R1AsXWgvwlfWsa_OibZLs6kEpg8dy48qrUp4iC3M0kgnbOXiKv_7VRQ/s2094/War%20Monster%20stats%20from%20Age%20of%20Magic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="2094" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4GxsFwdqeArA5E_pX-Li8tuiFpJZwf_S7Cctm4juQx0Y8HmD5WBYoE0L5jDS_yyhZhUI-c086WE93NIyeaoy7CnNpx5DsnuvsMbcE_gdYjgNbvfUT2kL3ZPJD2TIzuz8Bd_-R1AsXWgvwlfWsa_OibZLs6kEpg8dy48qrUp4iC3M0kgnbOXiKv_7VRQ/w640-h376/War%20Monster%20stats%20from%20Age%20of%20Magic.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rules from <i>Saga: The Age of Magic </i>(2019)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Of course, it wasn't Saga that first gave me the idea for the great beast. One of my favourite books when I was a small child was Steven Kellogg's <a href="#"><i>The Wicked Kings of Bloon</i></a> (1970). This priceless gem of a book features two obnoxious brothers who go to war with each other by arming and armoring great dinosaur-like monsters. The brothers' struggle for domination is brought to an abrupt end when their dinosaurs decide that they'd rather cuddle than fight:</span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIeGob5i4knVgqdPPBjVy68DUPqhZ008XF9v3XRFrgLspPxfW7fshV3F2kjskjWZjDGCfBXr2dTRl9Pjk4YsG1ptNSOJ3xR6zwVSsz9dS2-7JkYzsKD4tJEJxvkl-Rr2FJXB40cU0jk4RJJJx0BYZv_5du8U3N1xkOJWPu-sM9781yi4-Ykj1zQwXvg/s2259/Wicked%20Kings%20of%20Bloon%20illustration%20by%20Kellogg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="2259" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIeGob5i4knVgqdPPBjVy68DUPqhZ008XF9v3XRFrgLspPxfW7fshV3F2kjskjWZjDGCfBXr2dTRl9Pjk4YsG1ptNSOJ3xR6zwVSsz9dS2-7JkYzsKD4tJEJxvkl-Rr2FJXB40cU0jk4RJJJx0BYZv_5du8U3N1xkOJWPu-sM9781yi4-Ykj1zQwXvg/w640-h324/Wicked%20Kings%20of%20Bloon%20illustration%20by%20Kellogg.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by Steven Kellogg from <i>The Wicked Kings of Bloon </i>(1970)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And then, of course, there's <i>White Dwarf #100 </i>(April 1988). This special anniversary edition featured the work of the German modeler <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Benbow-Workshop-108465760836563/">Michael Immig</a>, whose incredible dioramas captured the attention of John Blanche when they met in Hamburg. Michael's "Fighting Dinosaur" is more than a model - more than even a work of art. It is a shamanistic fetish constructed out of chestnut shells, mouse bones, old buttons and fir cones (not to mention an Airfix Brontosaurus and innumerable Citadel miniatures).</span><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsAnX2ysev1zBUIrj1IM_LxyTy7bOC9VMeBjAwgxVhD-h_gukQgx2MbM1tFNtnyGE9qSR_Y0srqAn_eoAfU8xwSilgrmmnTXW0zHdhYC1iejBLf5SIsW6zfJqGseqPMzrSktk3pTNwynsL9X_2SHXf1wPYFChMKxmUVsGlcDzD2XH0JIDqAwhUSR4-A/s3168/Fighting%20Dinosaur%20by%20Michael%20Immig.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3168" data-original-width="2244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsAnX2ysev1zBUIrj1IM_LxyTy7bOC9VMeBjAwgxVhD-h_gukQgx2MbM1tFNtnyGE9qSR_Y0srqAn_eoAfU8xwSilgrmmnTXW0zHdhYC1iejBLf5SIsW6zfJqGseqPMzrSktk3pTNwynsL9X_2SHXf1wPYFChMKxmUVsGlcDzD2XH0JIDqAwhUSR4-A/s320/Fighting%20Dinosaur%20by%20Michael%20Immig.jpg" width="227" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>White Dwarf </i>#100</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I could never emulate the complexity and beauty of the "Fighting Dinosaur". But I did take from it the idea that a great beast's howdah should be a ship-like construction, complete with look-out tower and different decks.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Ultimately, I decided to do something simple. I wanted a model that could be used for different settings: an orcish beast for Saga, a piece of moving scenery in Warhammer 40K, an exotic adversary for Star Wars skirmish games.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span>To ensure a variety of different miniatures could stand (or even fight) on the howdah, I tried to make it</span> broad and easily accessible, without many railings, walls and other accessories that might get in the way. I didn't want a diorama so much as a functional model.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The beast itself in a plastic dinosaur from Amazon. I added a few choice details with greenstuff and brass chain, and then primed him black. The painting was dead simple: I brought out the colour with successive layers of drybrushing over his rough scales. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjRPhujHE_3jTvzfTPnrNb1Pnh5ut7mqBxMVKXOE41KSq8LncwlfJ7UTYgVBNODVNvbWMCSSnJ5UrmWUrqVD6b596MAXgEEcz816ys9-d4dTbJR4j6QB7ywIToGumwBjmJrFgRYgL0ZZGQ_z5pGiPsoWVTna5vAjGWEDEyxmHCNQ3ZQcxq3AzkU38YJg/s3264/The%20War%20Monster%20Steps%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2402" data-original-width="3264" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjRPhujHE_3jTvzfTPnrNb1Pnh5ut7mqBxMVKXOE41KSq8LncwlfJ7UTYgVBNODVNvbWMCSSnJ5UrmWUrqVD6b596MAXgEEcz816ys9-d4dTbJR4j6QB7ywIToGumwBjmJrFgRYgL0ZZGQ_z5pGiPsoWVTna5vAjGWEDEyxmHCNQ3ZQcxq3AzkU38YJg/w640-h470/The%20War%20Monster%20Steps%202.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The howdah is an amalgamation of balsa wood and popsicle sticks welded together with industrial quantities of superglue and greenstuff. I think I could sit on it and it wouldn't snap.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Overall, I'm pleased with the results, especially when it's loaded down with Krapfang's Orcs.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKWX9CxbzCoI8Rr1UMdDjIZ71negY-k-lD0B9-NwSQ8t3qmmrwcL4nAZ9I4JPhOsyuyjtVe8xYe6AB8Rtr0a5X8uU3CheH6UjMIQGLs9zvD15bgiu1_xN4-Caj2UV7vygL3zrgDz8OUSIffDv_O2muQbmUxCFM_-RqusFnawJfBPMhRzbSKmS8Ko2vYQ/s4122/Great%20Beast%208x10%20right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Painted miniature War Monster for Saga Age of Magic" border="0" data-original-height="3298" data-original-width="4122" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKWX9CxbzCoI8Rr1UMdDjIZ71negY-k-lD0B9-NwSQ8t3qmmrwcL4nAZ9I4JPhOsyuyjtVe8xYe6AB8Rtr0a5X8uU3CheH6UjMIQGLs9zvD15bgiu1_xN4-Caj2UV7vygL3zrgDz8OUSIffDv_O2muQbmUxCFM_-RqusFnawJfBPMhRzbSKmS8Ko2vYQ/w640-h512/Great%20Beast%208x10%20right.jpg" title="Painted miniature War Monster for Saga Age of Magic" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmuNTxj7gqMzm_PpfW7wbYKs3JtdBqSnuDyrQJrLqKCvWyuDpkPVdkjyruQaQLh8xEgT2BruqksnQ7kbNwnU7g6TQpfwi7jx1HndhqR4qlaLA7WwdTwZvgqAgcRxM9Hj-dZ8z80MSZYc1vhaPzx8WBVcPS8JwN-NFIZaR7SrCTNJevZJeDl10TyFwog/s4202/Great%20Beast%208x10%20detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3362" data-original-width="4202" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmuNTxj7gqMzm_PpfW7wbYKs3JtdBqSnuDyrQJrLqKCvWyuDpkPVdkjyruQaQLh8xEgT2BruqksnQ7kbNwnU7g6TQpfwi7jx1HndhqR4qlaLA7WwdTwZvgqAgcRxM9Hj-dZ8z80MSZYc1vhaPzx8WBVcPS8JwN-NFIZaR7SrCTNJevZJeDl10TyFwog/w640-h512/Great%20Beast%208x10%20detail.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now I just need to see how it plays in a game of <i>Saga</i>...</span></div><div style="font-family: helvetica; 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font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-30342672363389980872022-08-03T15:11:00.001-07:002022-08-17T19:22:22.680-07:00Scribblings<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">F</span><span style="text-align: center;">or those of you who might be interested in my other writings, I recently had a couple articles published in </span><i style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.watkinsmagazine.com/product/70-summer-2022-watkins-mind-body-spirit">Watkins Mind, Spirit, Body Magazine</a>. </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIsqLXwfRZLnUMEt9ClYi2mGHlZEl6wR9TM1Doae5GZOqgdLXsUzs50XupnTr5KtWFvBkRmnfwp5JJbJd1Non8r5H2ffreqJ8py2Tu8i8e2jD2LhjULOJlltFuUQp9iu5K1PmmAKZ7MqIGaUuwlT0Otdedx1rnW12iTsVo95lpv4yRrudJVcHF8gPQDw/s2560/WMBS70-SummerCover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1810" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIsqLXwfRZLnUMEt9ClYi2mGHlZEl6wR9TM1Doae5GZOqgdLXsUzs50XupnTr5KtWFvBkRmnfwp5JJbJd1Non8r5H2ffreqJ8py2Tu8i8e2jD2LhjULOJlltFuUQp9iu5K1PmmAKZ7MqIGaUuwlT0Otdedx1rnW12iTsVo95lpv4yRrudJVcHF8gPQDw/w283-h400/WMBS70-SummerCover.jpg" width="283" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">My print article on Zen koans is available in the Summer 2022 issue (pictured above). </span><span style="text-align: center;">Who would have guessed I'd ever share a table of contents with Lady Gaga?</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">And there is another article (with no paywall) on the <i>Watkins</i> website about</span><span style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.watkinsmagazine.com/a-funny-thing-mindfulness-and-mourning">my dad's death last summer</a>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It's a real honour to be published in <i>Watkins. </i>The magazine grew out of Watkins Books, which is the oldest esoteric bookstore in London (and one of the oldest in the world) - being founded in 1897 by a friend of the theosophist Madam Blavatsky.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSU5xTWPYp2HvS5_5NFooxoQsZsjqCdKPbw7UT_EGxRjtGontW4xLeJ2kKRsmdE0KhZnFpAxYWwd0d8e9IoRhZ0HXM8JDQzHkSArZuekqcwp-h8p3pVT30RO3FBj3fv4CP4u4b_PS8R8C_n6XkY2NCU9AvNJhyV_j3Iuob3oLi8GhYWw7haZkZVWhOg/s1903/Watkins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1903" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSU5xTWPYp2HvS5_5NFooxoQsZsjqCdKPbw7UT_EGxRjtGontW4xLeJ2kKRsmdE0KhZnFpAxYWwd0d8e9IoRhZ0HXM8JDQzHkSArZuekqcwp-h8p3pVT30RO3FBj3fv4CP4u4b_PS8R8C_n6XkY2NCU9AvNJhyV_j3Iuob3oLi8GhYWw7haZkZVWhOg/w640-h228/Watkins.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">If you're curious about my writings about meditation and Buddhism, my author's website is <a href="http://www.bluecliffrecord.ca">www.bluecliffrecord.ca</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-12960352353020665112022-07-20T05:39:00.000-07:002022-07-20T05:39:16.417-07:00The First Eldar Miniatures in WH40K Rogue Trader: Part 3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLoLjVJzuC2nYEcVs_8XJaOc0O86xCUjdx-4CFgJYYLt3Y8IE3EyEWw4Jm3XGe3uYZwWGd0yhJNd-_LISYEJuFy9o6VjOJgaq2aYq-V0tbSXMEhauQ46yjYuMDiFVA9iv4N_uwCruFN96iL9TStQG5eRBSHH03huv80M2TV7TFg-c3HEu7mMhsirHyiQ/s2429/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Captain%20Aetolia%20Lightfoot%201987%20by%20Jes%20Goodwin%20golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1472" data-original-width="2429" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLoLjVJzuC2nYEcVs_8XJaOc0O86xCUjdx-4CFgJYYLt3Y8IE3EyEWw4Jm3XGe3uYZwWGd0yhJNd-_LISYEJuFy9o6VjOJgaq2aYq-V0tbSXMEhauQ46yjYuMDiFVA9iv4N_uwCruFN96iL9TStQG5eRBSHH03huv80M2TV7TFg-c3HEu7mMhsirHyiQ/w463-h281/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Captain%20Aetolia%20Lightfoot%201987%20by%20Jes%20Goodwin%20golden.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you enjoyed last week's guest post by <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-part-2.html">Geriatricus Maximus</a>. I didn't. What a grouch. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For the final installment of my tour through the RTO4 range of original Space Elves, I thought I'd start by taking a look at some of the other fabulous painters who have tackled the range before. Honestly, I found it intimidating to try to paint these miniatures precisely because there are so many talented people who have turned their hand to them and produced stellar results:</span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-asENjnHrWYQPJUh7_XeiUthMD_63xijQI8nKBiawUp3Do0F3qIq4R-2mAETnIuYVc2khOLADxCb9cUyk7uxMquFCzXFFbYP-dB23AkxN0fsPsd9W-pg-rUPoe87x1imzQJvXAJnqNdhsEQjLI0JTDXCXyzIiV57qk92XoX_sXTf9Wa7uMWDlWGByZQ/s776/Eldar.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="610" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-asENjnHrWYQPJUh7_XeiUthMD_63xijQI8nKBiawUp3Do0F3qIq4R-2mAETnIuYVc2khOLADxCb9cUyk7uxMquFCzXFFbYP-dB23AkxN0fsPsd9W-pg-rUPoe87x1imzQJvXAJnqNdhsEQjLI0JTDXCXyzIiV57qk92XoX_sXTf9Wa7uMWDlWGByZQ/s320/Eldar.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration of Yriel from<br /><i>The Book of the Astronomicon </i>(1987)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">The first stop on our tour must be <a href="http://eldritchepistles.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-dave-perry-collection-rogue-trader.html">Dave Perry's Eldar</a>. Steve Casey at <a href="http://eldritchepistles.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-dave-perry-collection-realm-of.html#more">Eldritch Epistles</a> did a huge service to the hobby by presenting Dave's work in a series of stunning posts. Dave was a member of Games Workshop's Design Studio and 'Eavy Metal team. His Eldar (to quote Steve Casey) are "an absolute riot of yellow". I could stare at them all day. They are the Van Gogh sunflowers of the Warhammer world.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">As a lovely contrast, take a look at the "Starry Night" Eldar painted by Frank J. and posted to <a href="https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1001235-Eldar%2520Corsair%25209.html">DakkaDakka</a>.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Another treasure captured by Steve at Eldritch Epistles is a handful of Eldar from <a href="http://eldritchepistles.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-bryan-ansell-collection-rogue.html">Bryan Ansell's personal collection</a>. They demonstrate the incredible variety of colour schemes that the Eldar attracted even from their earliest days.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm quite partial to Subedai's Eldar at <a href="https://thelostandthedamned.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/dawn-of-the-eldar/">The Lost and the Damned</a>. He used a cool palette that catches the eye, and his work on the helmet markings is exquisite.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">I also enjoyed the Eldar painted by Dutch Law at <a href="https://southernbermanblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-few-space-elves-eldar-batch-4.html">Berman Blog</a>. Orange and teal is a striking combination of colours. And the strange effect is enhanced by the alien pallour he gives to those without helmets.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;">When it came to painting my own Space Elves, I decided to go classic: blue bodies and yellow helms with black stripes. I suppose it might be <i>too </i>classic<i>. </i>But I was seduced by the miniatures glimpsed in the pages of <i>Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader</i> (1987), as well as by the profile of Yriel and Yriel's Eldritch Raiders from <i>The Book of the Astronomicon </i>(1988). If I was going to paint the original Eldar, I wanted them to look like the original Eldar.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">* * * * *</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><p></p><p>First up is "Eoan Fireheart". He differs from all the other miniatures in the range (save for the heavy gunners) insofar that his armour is bulkier, curvier and more bulbous. I like the way he has removed his helmet but the lower breather mask has stayed attached to this face.</p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Yua0rAZ262hbcV3EhI2o8ExdCu4dq7d7psQIeCCdfzizrWc6kdXKlkE6VEt6X6fjGxoLzyjYsWU8S2J4eAnbn2xd1O6nfyrNRZFHYYnd1B057l2-mfddja9Y3GAdB2V51lIxc00h30jjp7haD_2PJstM1vx4h3u7-q4bSqbXCBpKY7lw8G5QTMe04g/s4387/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Eoan%20Fireheart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Eoan Fireheart RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2632" data-original-width="4387" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Yua0rAZ262hbcV3EhI2o8ExdCu4dq7d7psQIeCCdfzizrWc6kdXKlkE6VEt6X6fjGxoLzyjYsWU8S2J4eAnbn2xd1O6nfyrNRZFHYYnd1B057l2-mfddja9Y3GAdB2V51lIxc00h30jjp7haD_2PJstM1vx4h3u7-q4bSqbXCBpKY7lw8G5QTMe04g/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Eoan%20Fireheart.jpg" title="Eoan Fireheart RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Next comes "Capt. Aetolia Lightfoot". This is one of my favourite sculpts in the range: it looks great from every angle. As I've mentioned before, I love the way that it's hard to tell where the armour ends and the weaponry begins.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdo0A15PAosJUr-T57OKYFlHYKUJQthXm_jWX3CuryrW70UkHGeiqKFngCbm3ziJoGHVaCT0cb7_bjG-8TX54QcZEi2xszYnX5gBlC2OSuYjqCZp-DYBR4-8oIIa8BOAJKulrPtPd-8m1T_WZZmq_MgqnT8PN3ypxqDTBh6z18qZmzJSPNW_R6sixyw/s4087/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Capt.%20Aetolia%20Lightfoot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Captain Aetolia Lightfoot RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2452" data-original-width="4087" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdo0A15PAosJUr-T57OKYFlHYKUJQthXm_jWX3CuryrW70UkHGeiqKFngCbm3ziJoGHVaCT0cb7_bjG-8TX54QcZEi2xszYnX5gBlC2OSuYjqCZp-DYBR4-8oIIa8BOAJKulrPtPd-8m1T_WZZmq_MgqnT8PN3ypxqDTBh6z18qZmzJSPNW_R6sixyw/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Capt.%20Aetolia%20Lightfoot.jpg" title="Captain Aetolia Lightfoot RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Third is "Ceido Sharpeye". Although this is a simple pose, I find it compelling: the couched shuriken catapult conveys caution and watchfulness.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeRBZSzjIc5dUMquvlnQwZDrKfY4qjUVSb-uDvyg77xQI_9TiRPyrtmyJWeJOwn7FtTVcmXvReZED_hxvxtuXHr5SWOk0mtLcCuu8alIxrmQnVCdb8Jc00lpUTim4i5i_IPIak6TEWS2ckEtwEqwv4WS8drrvy_JCZy24KjVKhw-DLWuzE3z7SHf6IQg/s4247/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Ceido%20Sharpeye.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ceido Sharpeye RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2548" data-original-width="4247" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeRBZSzjIc5dUMquvlnQwZDrKfY4qjUVSb-uDvyg77xQI_9TiRPyrtmyJWeJOwn7FtTVcmXvReZED_hxvxtuXHr5SWOk0mtLcCuu8alIxrmQnVCdb8Jc00lpUTim4i5i_IPIak6TEWS2ckEtwEqwv4WS8drrvy_JCZy24KjVKhw-DLWuzE3z7SHf6IQg/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Ceido%20Sharpeye.jpg" title="Ceido Sharpeye RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And finally, the last in the RTO4 range is "Kern Proudbrow". The languid but aggressive pose is 100% Eldar awesomeness. Thanks Jes Goodwin for giving us such amazing miniatures!</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKRLr0Z8AjgtRvJRStNoH6fZ-C5cx_xReVcyoRdkZzQh_egCwvBnPLdFGwbJN6ZuDw692aZQIoRQzmkkX6j4mj-hL3w_snhYevxoWkgvr1Oe97ywvQaKZ5lRR5Zy9mtZnu9SjAsjnvcoFL2fQgtrnjDDqd1KnMn8ZeeMxvmLVGBKVmwvZIadS3QzlLQ/s3967/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Kern%20Proudbrow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kern Proudbrow RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2380" data-original-width="3967" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKRLr0Z8AjgtRvJRStNoH6fZ-C5cx_xReVcyoRdkZzQh_egCwvBnPLdFGwbJN6ZuDw692aZQIoRQzmkkX6j4mj-hL3w_snhYevxoWkgvr1Oe97ywvQaKZ5lRR5Zy9mtZnu9SjAsjnvcoFL2fQgtrnjDDqd1KnMn8ZeeMxvmLVGBKVmwvZIadS3QzlLQ/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Kern%20Proudbrow.jpg" title="Kern Proudbrow RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you know of any other great paintjobs for these miniatures, please share in the comments. Cheers!</span></p><p><br /></p></span><p></p></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-3865680871456198792022-07-12T05:51:00.000-07:002022-07-12T05:51:25.080-07:00The First Eldar Miniatures: Part 2 - Geriatricus speaks!<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Back in my day, we didn't have "Aeldari" or "Asuryani" or even "Eldar". Hear that? Not even Eldar. We had <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-in-wh40k.html">SPACE ELVES</a>. And that was good enough for us. Just plain old Space Elves. We didn't need fancypants names stolen from the glossary in the <i>Silmarillion. </i>That's because we had guts. We got by with nothing but Elves. In space. With shuriken catapults.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcxTWT-2vR3vgP-sgFePNEzkeQUX7SrqzWjz2moGK8JaR56luEhHnumYIsHSnrl8Sv4Z1gqQY7uCLdcl4nBtY_-ePROazOGB_dGn58mABndXRQPNUj3kMR9r2ekPJmFgA-EKRtkIP0R-LliiS4GRe0Q_W-UhQhHmkmSO_NRA-xM2jb92xoyafAqIJAw/s2468/RT401%20Eldar%20Jes%20Goodwin%201987%20WH40K%20Rogue%20Trader%203x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Original Jes Goodwin Eldar Space Elves 1987 painted" border="0" data-original-height="1481" data-original-width="2468" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcxTWT-2vR3vgP-sgFePNEzkeQUX7SrqzWjz2moGK8JaR56luEhHnumYIsHSnrl8Sv4Z1gqQY7uCLdcl4nBtY_-ePROazOGB_dGn58mABndXRQPNUj3kMR9r2ekPJmFgA-EKRtkIP0R-LliiS4GRe0Q_W-UhQhHmkmSO_NRA-xM2jb92xoyafAqIJAw/w640-h384/RT401%20Eldar%20Jes%20Goodwin%201987%20WH40K%20Rogue%20Trader%203x5.jpg" title="Original Jes Goodwin Eldar Space Elves 1987 painted" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There were no <i>good elves </i>and <i>bad elves</i>. There were just elves. Sometimes they helped you and sometimes they raided your homeworld and incinerated your family. But we didn't bellyache about it or go around calling them "Drukhari" or nuthin'. What a bunch of lightweights you guys are. When a bee stings you on your knuckle, is it a Dark Bee? Was it seduced by Slannesh? Yeah - that's what I thought. Go make a Tic Tac video about it.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UpM_2l7Z38LWPYyTwd1WOwxvJWmKV9NqcJJj1ag_oAyxxSKbw82ezRv0a3E9tC3iyIlKe_ROUOdHeSCdKZMZaOaUYEQbEMx66500L2IfIMm8nQ9KStU5vbDcT-sIqFbb8VuZMWMzZRKjjlo0zkGYnG8zFINjSWX9ASlvYLPlsLWKEN0hlTd4_o7abQ/s313/Space%20Elves.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="313" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UpM_2l7Z38LWPYyTwd1WOwxvJWmKV9NqcJJj1ag_oAyxxSKbw82ezRv0a3E9tC3iyIlKe_ROUOdHeSCdKZMZaOaUYEQbEMx66500L2IfIMm8nQ9KStU5vbDcT-sIqFbb8VuZMWMzZRKjjlo0zkGYnG8zFINjSWX9ASlvYLPlsLWKEN0hlTd4_o7abQ/w200-h181/Space%20Elves.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Aspect Warriors? Just keep talking, Einstein. Ask a proper Space Elf about their aspect, and before you can say "Jiminy Cricket", you'll find a pointy chainmail slipper lodged three feet up your intestinal tract.</span></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And for Chrissakes, don't call them "Guardians". Our Space Elves didn't guard shit. They were mercenaries. Or pirates. Or bounty hunters. If you want a guardian, read the newspaper and stop bothering me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">So now you understand. In the good old days, we didn't have rap music. We had precisely one record, and it wasn't even a record. It was a 7" flexi disc of Sabbat playing <i>Blood for the Blood God</i>. We'd play it over and over again while talking about how AWESOME the SPACE ELVES were and how they'd certainly kick the ass of every other army in the 40K universe if only their stats were better.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+++DISENGAGE PROTOCOL_GERIATRICUS_MAXIMUS+++</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">+++END TRANSMISSION+++</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This is the second installment of my tour through the original <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-in-wh40k.html">RTO4 range of twelve Eldar</a>, er, Space Elves. Our first miniature is "Alesia Wildfire". Like many of these Space Elves, he or she is pleasantly gender non-specific (and armed to the teeth).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruBrRnpUjwMfloerGDaWtB90xvZ7di8vmP99i6H4s63GTLB7qISC13XphqMWTgi-mOGhEwhl_5GoGfvRUoP4fnyGtUXT23AuTaUUB8tbADRAGWzmXtsxLrW370T5Ci_mDR0R40SX9OzdgQ4gMlJOn9sL9B6SeQjXnqWQJg-kliKFDQ2gh6-WI_-cdwQ/s3767/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Alesia%20Wildfire%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Alesia Wildfire RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2260" data-original-width="3767" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruBrRnpUjwMfloerGDaWtB90xvZ7di8vmP99i6H4s63GTLB7qISC13XphqMWTgi-mOGhEwhl_5GoGfvRUoP4fnyGtUXT23AuTaUUB8tbADRAGWzmXtsxLrW370T5Ci_mDR0R40SX9OzdgQ4gMlJOn9sL9B6SeQjXnqWQJg-kliKFDQ2gh6-WI_-cdwQ/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Alesia%20Wildfire%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar.jpg" title="Alesia Wildfire RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Next is "Cmmr. Inghen Keentongue". It's not clear what "Cmmr." is abbreviating. Commander? Commodore? Centimeter Mister?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSjQze99lBuzQv09jzAwJ3-CDS3CjN-8fGYtbc8f5OFamzC9oPeyPM8Yi6tYVfCCNCn3Tu7fSE5bWKi_URaWtG7On56wLc4QzM6CJJFEfmLlWvxWC8EDLssf7BWEY2wFoPir38PWG7WBh9xnQPBUtZ_oUXxXmPhXHYfYkNdnORuvdwkpE9chx8NuFUA/s4275/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Inghen%20Keentongue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cmmr. Inghen Keentongue RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2565" data-original-width="4275" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSjQze99lBuzQv09jzAwJ3-CDS3CjN-8fGYtbc8f5OFamzC9oPeyPM8Yi6tYVfCCNCn3Tu7fSE5bWKi_URaWtG7On56wLc4QzM6CJJFEfmLlWvxWC8EDLssf7BWEY2wFoPir38PWG7WBh9xnQPBUtZ_oUXxXmPhXHYfYkNdnORuvdwkpE9chx8NuFUA/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Inghen%20Keentongue.jpg" title="Cmmr. Inghen Keentongue RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Third we have "Caetra Darkflight", who demonstrates the correct way to shoot from the hip. Knowledgeable readers informed me in the comments on <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-in-wh40k.html">last week's post</a> that Caetra is carrying a laspistol (at least according to the <i>Citadel Miniatures Blue Catalogue</i>). I don't know about you, but that seems pretty big for a laspistol.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6z4ISGs7bP6POIumvSOr1mdWVJzhZJRvAdU5CLhAHtVaVgI84pTfjEUfmWvfmS5eS-86iA3MFINPlxIlaxxxqv6x2r3fZ5yDGCe073qYHn4zR38Pm9EKPGKIs6DaEzrOEXY4lT4An26C-Lv5PnBACDH-eNba5WGdGnCYffRAx9HRqvL5KsiwyLEcXJw/s4068/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Caetra%20Darkflight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Caetra Darkflight RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2441" data-original-width="4068" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6z4ISGs7bP6POIumvSOr1mdWVJzhZJRvAdU5CLhAHtVaVgI84pTfjEUfmWvfmS5eS-86iA3MFINPlxIlaxxxqv6x2r3fZ5yDGCe073qYHn4zR38Pm9EKPGKIs6DaEzrOEXY4lT4An26C-Lv5PnBACDH-eNba5WGdGnCYffRAx9HRqvL5KsiwyLEcXJw/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Caetra%20Darkflight.jpg" title="Caetra Darkflight RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Our last miniature today is "Irbic Trueshot". This is a lovely sculpt that showcases the organic lines of the original Eldar. I mean Space Elves.</span></p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUaaGAQsAeGK8SB23IcKqyV-rqwrg9nXoQSaYQEr0qjGRxs9ap7_5bsgATAAQ8FAu1SLs525_3P6o0hFjEjQqiUy_rJEZUgR1Yk7Y0vsO6tY28eD8E0P8XU1Y4SBYeNgkNK3fFtCYCRbpyIdaxjzZHf26gz92Viynz9cF0egQwu10LAkbc5IFANHzLw/s4172/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Irbic%20Trueshot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Irbic Trueshot RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2503" data-original-width="4172" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSUaaGAQsAeGK8SB23IcKqyV-rqwrg9nXoQSaYQEr0qjGRxs9ap7_5bsgATAAQ8FAu1SLs525_3P6o0hFjEjQqiUy_rJEZUgR1Yk7Y0vsO6tY28eD8E0P8XU1Y4SBYeNgkNK3fFtCYCRbpyIdaxjzZHf26gz92Viynz9cF0egQwu10LAkbc5IFANHzLw/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Irbic%20Trueshot.jpg" title="Irbic Trueshot RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thanks for dropping by - next week, we'll finish off the RTO4 range!</span></p><p><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-16582984224785520562022-07-01T05:18:00.004-07:002022-07-12T06:24:52.622-07:00The First Eldar Miniatures in WH40K Rogue Trader<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqF5y2W7EbftnYX4EUzg51D84JoUaAdoq5WGxCqdVz-oDpAUXb2l06wgZeWXuSMC6mVz_sJBv9FYxVCetG9mVX6bY1GVWCuM53fi6mEema4YNAygikuHhAt_bdwWVRzLo6miIc_n2v0c3u30Rlk_6zmvcWpbnu_RTTWkIylYflH4YdYJYpZh9IQWO13Q/s2844/RT401%20Eldar%20Rogue%20Trader%201988%203x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Original Eldar first Space Elf miniatures" border="0" data-original-height="1706" data-original-width="2844" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqF5y2W7EbftnYX4EUzg51D84JoUaAdoq5WGxCqdVz-oDpAUXb2l06wgZeWXuSMC6mVz_sJBv9FYxVCetG9mVX6bY1GVWCuM53fi6mEema4YNAygikuHhAt_bdwWVRzLo6miIc_n2v0c3u30Rlk_6zmvcWpbnu_RTTWkIylYflH4YdYJYpZh9IQWO13Q/w640-h384/RT401%20Eldar%20Rogue%20Trader%201988%203x5.jpg" title="Original Eldar first Space Elf miniatures" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The first <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rto4eldar/index.htm">Eldar miniatures</a> were sculpted by Jes Goodwin and released by Citadel in September 1987. There were twelve models in the range, which was labeled RTO4 Space Elves and later renumbered to RT401.They're an astounding <a href="https://taleofpainters.com/2016/07/review-eldar-sketchbook-by-jes-goodwin/">achievement of design</a>: The peaked helms, the organic lines and the heavy armament! In one fell swoop, they made "space elves" an instantly recognizable race while also highlighting the newness and strangeness of their values.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZwsiDJ7NCAVmdYgYnMl2cXM6yI1E3QmIdUj5h-uGS1KV3l1TNdEYX2DMNUkMricQiMNNj7fmqrcPbP73sWoLOJucEN51Y7owezTB4iUSS9D_p5ms3OqAPn8PVeZ9Xjgd7J0XevHjgmylhwv50SKLZXlUsSmo2Xqt2Gb2m-yFAYC-w82mbgcLt5yIag/s938/Eldar%20Raiders.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="711" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZwsiDJ7NCAVmdYgYnMl2cXM6yI1E3QmIdUj5h-uGS1KV3l1TNdEYX2DMNUkMricQiMNNj7fmqrcPbP73sWoLOJucEN51Y7owezTB4iUSS9D_p5ms3OqAPn8PVeZ9Xjgd7J0XevHjgmylhwv50SKLZXlUsSmo2Xqt2Gb2m-yFAYC-w82mbgcLt5yIag/s320/Eldar%20Raiders.jpg" width="243" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by Tony Hough (1987)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The genius of WH40K Rogue Trader was that it accomplished two different things at the same time. On the one hand, it <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2015/02/star-wars-and-warhammer-40k-rogue-trader.html">shamelessly borrowed</a> concepts, tropes, characters and conflicts from pre-existing settings. All these stolen goods gave Rogue Trader a welcoming familiarity. We recognized parts of Star Wars (armoured space troopers, a frail and psychic emperor, laser swords) or Dune (navigators, personal shields, assassins). We especially recognized the main races, because they were lifted </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">en masse </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">from Tolkien.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">But on the other hand, Rogue Trader did a wonderful job of defamiliarizing the borrowed elements by giving them a twist. And nowhere was this twist more potent than with the Space Elves.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The Space Elves of the Rogue Trader universe were not the benevolent nature-lovers of <i>The Lord of the Rings. </i>Rather, they <a href="https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/02/40k-retro-meet-the-original-1988-eldar-armylist.html">straddle good and evil</a>. Their capacity for malice didn't fracture them into two different races (like the High Elves and the Dark Elves of <i>Warhammer Fantasy</i>). In this sense, the original Eldar resemble humans: both races are capable of moral ambiguity. Unlike humans, they seem to be motivated by boredom more than greed. As the <i>Rogue Trader</i> rulebook tells us, the Eldar trade, adventure, and fight "simply as entertainment":</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For many Eldar the peaceful, idyllic monotony of the craft-worlds becomes so dull and uninspiring that they are driven to associate with other, younger and more hot-blooded races. Aside from the traders and merchants, there are some Eldar who throw themselves wholeheartedly into alien society, becoming adventurers or mercenaries... The most famous, or rather infamous, mercenaries are composed of renegades from Eldar society; the psychotic, the malcontent, murderous or evil...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Both the <i>Rogue Trader</i> rulebook and the <i>Book of the Astronomicon </i>(1988) make it clear that most of the Space Elves appearing on the gaming table are either pirates, raiders, or mercenaries. These are not the guardians of craft-worlds, but a wild bunch of killers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Well, enough talk - let's look at the miniatures! Here are the first four from the RTO4 range of Space Elves...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First is "Aedui Starborn". A simple, classic design. An early sign that Space Elves are badasses is that he (and many of his colleagues) are armed to the teeth with two guns. The crossbow design in the shuriken catapult recalls the Eldar's origins in fantasy settings.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZZ1iHr_Hib-GCDDQKUtTfR_KeeAOdT7qAA-QWfdH92JuT5IOblEg8owJUsi0GXGv7LdGhwBhV0-KJaMoHVEDesRiwc5N-WrD9CTRFf3DcBZvBfGYoMYzYl8THjSZdrsPj9FddTxkc5V_ZJM3SFXB7C_ZoeracaKd8_GO93sESM9iEra2xpWI6n_u-Q/s4188/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Aedui%20Starborn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Aedui Starborn RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2513" data-original-width="4188" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZZ1iHr_Hib-GCDDQKUtTfR_KeeAOdT7qAA-QWfdH92JuT5IOblEg8owJUsi0GXGv7LdGhwBhV0-KJaMoHVEDesRiwc5N-WrD9CTRFf3DcBZvBfGYoMYzYl8THjSZdrsPj9FddTxkc5V_ZJM3SFXB7C_ZoeracaKd8_GO93sESM9iEra2xpWI6n_u-Q/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Aedui%20Starborn.jpg" title="Aedui Starborn RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Second we have "Belgae Strongwill". Why bring a rifle when you can carry a vehicular laser cannon?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iRPai2LEgNbTB5qXWt7HHlephVHerkCYY9bh5gR2OzkCqON0SMvMPGxtkfrRt2q0hgQQ8qy19iSRqUvO1071n0IgtgTnY3dJSRProp__s9_XA3PXUivJqigROxX8ehItDPwfYxmp-fNdVVqekxuwIKmzavqHKLcY9LjKpNfpKN0tFQww7_zTozjblA/s4103/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Belgae%20Strongwill%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Belgae Strongwill RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2462" data-original-width="4103" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iRPai2LEgNbTB5qXWt7HHlephVHerkCYY9bh5gR2OzkCqON0SMvMPGxtkfrRt2q0hgQQ8qy19iSRqUvO1071n0IgtgTnY3dJSRProp__s9_XA3PXUivJqigROxX8ehItDPwfYxmp-fNdVVqekxuwIKmzavqHKLcY9LjKpNfpKN0tFQww7_zTozjblA/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Belgae%20Strongwill%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar.jpg" title="Belgae Strongwill RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">"Gaedhil Quickshadow" is next. If you can tell me what weapon he (or she?) is carrying in the left hand, please leave a comment. I see that weapon all over the place in early Rogue Trader minis, but I've never been sure whether it is a shotgun or a lasgun.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJSVaWD7U8tU8f4KNvezDalUupUqLDLAWBO1Fca2QPPX8pYkxmU5IDC0sHmkbN7XawhdIID_BLmZv87WZcRS8SamdPmBtOB0JrQxbVavXZfwBpUk9pLm77zMJHqB_SmbE-fLAGHvKTzN8Y0mWQM6ja5IarbdKtJ9OEm5XRF8YeH3Is0Z3PXZ9Mz8DkA/s3916/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Gaedhil%20Quickshadow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Gaedhil Quickshadow RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2350" data-original-width="3916" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJSVaWD7U8tU8f4KNvezDalUupUqLDLAWBO1Fca2QPPX8pYkxmU5IDC0sHmkbN7XawhdIID_BLmZv87WZcRS8SamdPmBtOB0JrQxbVavXZfwBpUk9pLm77zMJHqB_SmbE-fLAGHvKTzN8Y0mWQM6ja5IarbdKtJ9OEm5XRF8YeH3Is0Z3PXZ9Mz8DkA/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Gaedhil%20Quickshadow.jpg" title="Gaedhil Quickshadow RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And finally, here is "Sgt. Mael Nightwing". I am particularly fond of this miniature because of the strange way that the casing for the weapon blends into his (or her?) gauntlet. It's a subtle touch that you see in a lot of these early Eldar sculpts: a melding of implements into armour.</span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLqftgb-GgIW9fsgNonhb0MbT51oTciqlgla1nlsYIbDpC4ytEj1kafrgTPX3h8bztU2rgtDsHF9lhkLyzzJYBzQUXLfjupIC0mhicNIH1CdfH31cufjWF7FnZq8F5lIcg8Z-X5dN26v52qS78zqn10d48Y4wSC08dB6rYcU79kXBqwffDGNuTn_3KA/s4114/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Mael%20Nightwing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Sgt. Mael Nightwing RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2468" data-original-width="4114" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLqftgb-GgIW9fsgNonhb0MbT51oTciqlgla1nlsYIbDpC4ytEj1kafrgTPX3h8bztU2rgtDsHF9lhkLyzzJYBzQUXLfjupIC0mhicNIH1CdfH31cufjWF7FnZq8F5lIcg8Z-X5dN26v52qS78zqn10d48Y4wSC08dB6rYcU79kXBqwffDGNuTn_3KA/w640-h384/RT401%20Space%20Elf%20Rogue%20Trader%20Eldar%20Mael%20Nightwing.jpg" title="Sgt. Mael Nightwing RTO4 RT401 Citadel 1987 painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Stay tuned for more of the original Eldar <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/07/the-first-eldar-miniatures-part-2.html">next week</a>!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Happy Canada Day!</span></p><p><br /></p></div></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-46676759640772888972022-06-24T08:49:00.002-07:002022-06-24T08:49:50.198-07:00Where Did Oldenhammer in Toronto Go?<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYTrcN-hS2FJHdEGilDK-3fCus4FAS2fsNHs7SZ5FTJ8SktO1OMBx89YURtI9IyOdK_qQhqj7b-qutvu8ALxBvqiJBcAGuCBlM4vz06C6zpEhOD158xkS1vZR_Y4xLOdyKmYmGnq8L4NqhVgWB0qZ3-xi65doTHg2IOEQYyU759CluBWv2C4_moP4pxw/s684/Garden-of-Flowers-and-Weeds-cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="468" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYTrcN-hS2FJHdEGilDK-3fCus4FAS2fsNHs7SZ5FTJ8SktO1OMBx89YURtI9IyOdK_qQhqj7b-qutvu8ALxBvqiJBcAGuCBlM4vz06C6zpEhOD158xkS1vZR_Y4xLOdyKmYmGnq8L4NqhVgWB0qZ3-xi65doTHg2IOEQYyU759CluBWv2C4_moP4pxw/w274-h400/Garden-of-Flowers-and-Weeds-cover.jpg" width="274" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Attentive readers will have noticed that there was (another) gap of a year during which Oldenhammer-in-Toronto went silent. That's because I am incapable of chewing gum and walking at the same time. To be precise, I am incapable of working on two pieces of writing at the same time. And in the last year, I've had some urgent writing projects that got in the way of my beloved blog.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The good news is that these projects are (1) finished and (2) went pretty well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">My first book was published last November:<a href="https://www.bluecliffrecord.ca/"></a> <a href="https://www.bluecliffrecord.ca/"><i>The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on the Blue Cliff Record</i></a>. This is a book about Zen and meditation. It's based on one of the great works of medieval Buddhist literature, called "<a href="https://www.bluecliffrecord.ca/commentaries/">The Blue Cliff Record</a>". It might sound dry, but the Record is actually a pretty funny book. There's a lot of absurdist humor (and even a couple fart jokes). Translating the book and adding my own commentary was one of the most delightful tasks of my life. </span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I have no idea how sales are going, but I suspect they're pretty modest. On the upside, the book has been received well by critics. In the past few months, <i>The Garden of Flowers and Weeds</i> won a Gold <a href="https://nautilusbookawards.com/2022-winners-cat-21-29/">Nautilus Award</a>, a top prize from <a href="http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2022awardannouncement.html">Bookfest's International Book Awards</a>, a Bronze <a href="https://www.ippyawards.com/">Independent Book Publishers Award</a>, and a Silver <a href="#">Benjamin Franklin Prize</a>. Honestly, that's more praise then I could have ever wished for or expected.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span>If you want to support a brother, please consider </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948626497">buying the book!</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNiN4d-0ByaoONdzfQIBjPaO_GKq2E0hd-vxL-I_2l5YxZj8SiIVBzHiza00_PHUGMCL_tHEWIrTZsfIP7dGxbu2lrPKYTRw6IU40RKK5-a_vxrd4D3d7UvCJZHuZcV_8u62KS41k0d6iYJDXD64HeLG8R5H_8J4Hlb7F8MWSdywJSy10KI_S6JElpA/s3264/Garden%20of%20Flowers%20and%20Weeds%20Nautilus%20Award%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="3264" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNiN4d-0ByaoONdzfQIBjPaO_GKq2E0hd-vxL-I_2l5YxZj8SiIVBzHiza00_PHUGMCL_tHEWIrTZsfIP7dGxbu2lrPKYTRw6IU40RKK5-a_vxrd4D3d7UvCJZHuZcV_8u62KS41k0d6iYJDXD64HeLG8R5H_8J4Hlb7F8MWSdywJSy10KI_S6JElpA/w278-h278/Garden%20of%20Flowers%20and%20Weeds%20Nautilus%20Award%201.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span>I only have one regret. Before I had found a publisher, I asked </span><a href="http://realmofzhu.blogspot.com/">Zhu Bajiee</a><span>, the fabulous illustrator and grandee of the Oldhammer movement, if I could commission him to create some illustrations from the stories of the Blue Cliff Record.</span></span></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Zhu produced a series of superb pen and ink drawings. I think they might have been his best work, and that is saying something. I had really hoped that my publisher would use the illustrations in the published text, but it was not to be. This was a crying shame. However, at least I got to share <a href="https://www.bluecliffrecord.ca/teaching-of-matthew-juksan-sullivan/spitting-on-the-buddha-dharma-talk-for-august-2019/">Zhu's work</a> on my website.</span></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">As the book was going to press, another writing project got in the way of this blog. My friend Nathan is a filmmaker, and he asked me to write a full-length script for a Cthulhu-adjacent movie. Our previous collaboration was a short animated film called <a href="#"><i>The Ikon</i></a> (2019) that premiered at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. I've never written a full-length script, so it took me many months to complete. The movie is party about non-Euclidean horror and partly about the more common horror of caring for an aging parent. Stay tuned for more information about a movie tentatively called <i>The House on Clareview.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinR5OKv4aHjiQpOgDGBuWDN-i36L6ByE1RifG--vePmpinAelTTo4hYZ2HJ378AO3AyqLiGgcSD7SKW2mqagyFSehLLUvpxiVU7fT3j3YPZxumtMPzCu0_HTKLke9AG9zKSK3s7E0FnC0R2OyEPlkibKO_yubZw2EJ2O6G5JBP_4WxdaUWwBzfarH8KQ/s720/The%20Ikon%20still%204.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinR5OKv4aHjiQpOgDGBuWDN-i36L6ByE1RifG--vePmpinAelTTo4hYZ2HJ378AO3AyqLiGgcSD7SKW2mqagyFSehLLUvpxiVU7fT3j3YPZxumtMPzCu0_HTKLke9AG9zKSK3s7E0FnC0R2OyEPlkibKO_yubZw2EJ2O6G5JBP_4WxdaUWwBzfarH8KQ/w640-h266/The%20Ikon%20still%204.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Still from <i>The Ikon </i>(2019) © Nathan Saliwonchyk</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br />And then, of course, there was Covid. I don't think anyone had a good pandemic, although some were much, much worse than others. I experienced what I think a lot of you did: a grinding sense of anxiety and stasis as the pandemic stretched into indefinitude. I will add that during the past two years, I sustained some grievous personal losses, although (thankfully) none of them were directly related to the virus. As the dust settles, I'm grateful that I and Mrs. Oldenhammer-in-Toronto have made it out in one piece. And we now have a beautiful puppy:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn91uUNu2z81lDfflyYOT6QzIjYszIM6eVDILLmWgSE39SZz2coHFTiIEKKIb9v8SI5iyCR8L03gktA1MzrlIhpSbXR85Bxd8mQhjB1GtGSgunxmhe7DjvIUWECBQrINNYv7UckiNqjWnt_epVePkhHnahKwo7jlfzKhjbafhm77YM0LmDCJI0iFpjw/w360-h270/20220617_190918.jpg" width="360" /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I hope you're in one piece too. Thanks for reading and letting me update you on what's been going on while the blog has been quiet. </div></span></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-2049069100051763392022-06-21T05:53:00.003-07:002022-06-24T08:53:03.578-07:00The First Rogue Trader Miniatures: Part 3<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TCQjBeKdhTgQuFb0KN17o-IHFOHHtTDRFR1CacWPs2hGlOgUsPJWr2faKD8HQ2Er5TF3suUQ_6hNrKMIHmcDm6nkvqbxpkJVfZRgCIgQEl5z3Hj3Xl7S4YTea9XTABfkwN_nVBpn0DNkCIuXEKdh2F-CTofNCPPKNyloevR47ww7Wp9ldJ0Zo4R08Q/s2070/Pirate%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniatures%20RT1%201987%20painted%20miniatures.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2070" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TCQjBeKdhTgQuFb0KN17o-IHFOHHtTDRFR1CacWPs2hGlOgUsPJWr2faKD8HQ2Er5TF3suUQ_6hNrKMIHmcDm6nkvqbxpkJVfZRgCIgQEl5z3Hj3Xl7S4YTea9XTABfkwN_nVBpn0DNkCIuXEKdh2F-CTofNCPPKNyloevR47ww7Wp9ldJ0Zo4R08Q/w640-h400/Pirate%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniatures%20RT1%201987%20painted%20miniatures.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Th<span style="font-size: medium;">is is the third post dedicated to Citadel's <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/06/the-first-rogue-trader-miniatures.html">first Warhammer 40K miniatures</a>. I, of course, am not the first Oldhammer fan to take up the challenge of painting the rare miniatures in the RT1 range, and I'd like to pay some tribute to those who inspired me.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">There
are at least three others who have painted the full set of 14 miniatures:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In
2018, Jason Fulford at <a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/2018/05/warhammer-40000-rogue-trader-first.html">Rogue Heresy</a> completed the range and presented his superb work. I love his imaginative colour choices and the way he paints faces. My particular favourite is his rendition of the "<a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/2017/09/rogue-trader-mercenaries.html">Ground Combat Trooper</a>" (aka Abbadon). The blue-glass faceplate is a masterstroke.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://goblinlee.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-first-rogue-trader-releases.html">Goblin Lee</a> finished his set in 2015. His work nails the authentic feeling of Rogue Trader. Highlights for me include his "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLFB6Z0BB9jBQZeDHcAxAbdUDYrTRO5Qzxmw5VAdziiknIUp8ihy8M0re7eWSZ64FkGOubScgZa-q9foa2H5fy3XE9MTwZuu83I_M5BavITkybalkM-7zNTOJmRw-HpYqqBntTXDogZjs/s1600/25th+August+2015+056.JPG">Dark Elf Space Trooper</a>" and the "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2vVrg41Gz78xNCzkYs2PQaw6tmsAzmdDhAIWHUDePmZhoVygTykif1p3Br_MDr1pnFeRHMACwOktwmZ92SHmiNzUpvA9hxVHHeFG1EikRVSuLIakv7uitNQiE07vfeVCzWZ5UglUu0Q/s1600/25th+August+2015+039.JPG">Imperial Bodyguard</a>" (get a load of those pants!).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.axiapainting.com/">Giuseppe Chiafele</a>'s work on this range is archived at the Stuff of Legends. If you haven't seen it before, <a href="http://www.sodemons.com/rhrt/rt1releases/index.htm">take a long look</a>! Giuseppe is a professional and it really shows. I very much like the way he painted all the Imperial Troopers with the same colour scheme -- it's a nice change from the mercenary mishmash that I (and most other painters) employ when tackling the range. I wish I knew whether Giuseppe did these minis on commission or whether it's from his personal collection.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Then, there's Axion's work at <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/">Magpie and Old Lead</a>. I don't think he's done the complete range, but some of his work on individual models is not-to-be-missed. Check out his exquisite work on the "<a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2021/05/no-more-sushi-jokes-please-rogue-trader.html">Piscean Warrior</a>" or the "<a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2017/10/orks-for-orktober.html">Space Goblin</a>".</span></li><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Finally, check out Dave Stone's version of the "<a href="https://wargamesculptorsblog.blogspot.com/2022/06/saint-exmin.html">Piscean Warrior</a>" - a strange, deep-sea paintjob that I just love.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Now to my own work. Here are the last five miniatures from the RT1 range...</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First is the "Pirate". As I've mentioned before, this is a reworking of</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> "Cedric", a fantasy C01 Fighter from 1986. Both were sculpted by <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-interview-withsculptor-bob-naismith.html">Bob Naismith</a>. Personally, I'm sad there weren't <i>more </i>adaptations from the fantasy line to Rogue Trader - it adds a Buck Rogers-esque flavour to things. I really love this miniature for the dynamic pose and quirky details.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkf7lzKbVP2x7-ln1Z2BKi_WYAQBfLYkrvkTdZhrwyWhF5CFKc2ZdD-IyAk8SCzBtmHvL8R-wupCw2vQLE7l-I0kCtZhgpHPgZbI5KD6mJK6pazDNY0wXOdDsV47Pj3NhdOADjbvl7yXKpR8dYil3Pr2B8nKQwNsKyVRgOlDrNDYxSXWIJjn0Z-1ZNg/s3949/Pirate%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20painted%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Space Pirate RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2369" data-original-width="3949" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkf7lzKbVP2x7-ln1Z2BKi_WYAQBfLYkrvkTdZhrwyWhF5CFKc2ZdD-IyAk8SCzBtmHvL8R-wupCw2vQLE7l-I0kCtZhgpHPgZbI5KD6mJK6pazDNY0wXOdDsV47Pj3NhdOADjbvl7yXKpR8dYil3Pr2B8nKQwNsKyVRgOlDrNDYxSXWIJjn0Z-1ZNg/w640-h384/Pirate%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20painted%20miniature.jpg" title="Space Pirate RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And now the original Space Elf: the "Dark Elf Space Trooper". This miniature is like a piece of concept art showing the first rough ideas for the Eldar. With the small head, huge backpack, and narrow legs, he (or she?) resembles a hornet. I took the trouble of creating a triple view of this miniature because it's hard to capture the strange dimensions of the sculpt by Bob Naismith. Although it is flawed, I wish there had been other miniatures made in this line so that the ideas could have been developed more fully. In the event, responsibility for the Space Elves was taken from the veteran Naismith and given to fledgling sculptor </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jes Goodwin because the management at Games Workshop thought that <a href="https://gavthorpe.co.uk/2017/05/16/interview-with-the-mighty-jes-goodwin/">Space Elves wouldn't sell</a>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVriVCx86BakjRNsfIHiYhWtlPMTOUeKg66-GDMiGvQkBOmMhdykQd4zjSPCVPXJ8RtbaAaoiu7zJZOS2062TCz1h9kZGMYdW95XRLdV0JfiQBWdFOsE2cLn_ACD2L3FRsMXXZBGpxW_LfwYsuegg_Ls-iDFT8XLEY0AsqCrvpAW2JOv9vru4pLYOYfw/s4036/Dark%20Elf%20Space%20Trooper%20painted%20RT1%20first%20Rogue%20Trader%201987.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Dark Elf Space Trooper RT1 1987 Citadel First Eldar miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2422" data-original-width="4036" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVriVCx86BakjRNsfIHiYhWtlPMTOUeKg66-GDMiGvQkBOmMhdykQd4zjSPCVPXJ8RtbaAaoiu7zJZOS2062TCz1h9kZGMYdW95XRLdV0JfiQBWdFOsE2cLn_ACD2L3FRsMXXZBGpxW_LfwYsuegg_Ls-iDFT8XLEY0AsqCrvpAW2JOv9vru4pLYOYfw/w640-h384/Dark%20Elf%20Space%20Trooper%20painted%20RT1%20first%20Rogue%20Trader%201987.jpg" title="Dark Elf Space Trooper RT1 1987 Citadel First Eldar miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The "Imperial Heavy Trooper" would later become "Faststar John" in the RT7 range of Mercenaries. He's another sculpt by Bob Naismith. I've got a deep personal attachment to this miniature because it was one of the first painted Rogue Trader miniatures I ever owned as a kid. My older brother painted him. He gave him to me after I agreed to go out and buy him some fried chicken.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHI6_Kp29SS5boOKjw_gP6DKSVCP6zG_sEzfKruGZ911juzIpTsX6-skKj7NkNADrXnHhELCxnzBv5Yu6BCWJkmRFIRWGzsmd-UyyhDQmqL3vE4Ew-th_ejWyl4Dd4J-p5mgEsBy1ZCBWARt6VzkRm6A0OMkX3o921w_5ohtPcP6Edxg10yHRlEFTywg/s4043/Imperial%20Heavy%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Imperial Heavy Trooper RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2426" data-original-width="4043" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHI6_Kp29SS5boOKjw_gP6DKSVCP6zG_sEzfKruGZ911juzIpTsX6-skKj7NkNADrXnHhELCxnzBv5Yu6BCWJkmRFIRWGzsmd-UyyhDQmqL3vE4Ew-th_ejWyl4Dd4J-p5mgEsBy1ZCBWARt6VzkRm6A0OMkX3o921w_5ohtPcP6Edxg10yHRlEFTywg/w640-h384/Imperial%20Heavy%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Imperial Heavy Trooper RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The hits keep on coming! We've already had the first Space Elf, and now we get the first Space Ork miniature -- known in this range as "Space Orc with Blaster". At this early stage of the game, not only were Orks simply called Orcs, but Bolters were called Blasters. Space Orks wouldn't deviate too far from this original mold -- the mishmash of gear, the spikey helmet, the heavy boots and the metal shoulder-pads all started here. (I'm giving you a triple view so you can catch all the orky details).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4rk_nRjiLAAu0gpRRdzpMH9dOTOhtUmbBW-KZMnKLSq97tKZ4dQi2NyNvziVaEqw-JMJOuHg87-kIZnfPRjw9zowS89uroguEjit46j4MoeWjmZaz1Co7vukgYgHwOWXhEJDLhm_OHCiuJx2ThPfByXxUEDR0FHiqWT8Gc6ppv87N3C_djb0SWPUrOg/s4600/Space%20Orc%20with%20Blaster%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20Rogue%20Trader%20First%20Space%20Ork.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Space Orc with Blaster RT1 1987 Citadel First Space Ork miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2415" data-original-width="4600" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4rk_nRjiLAAu0gpRRdzpMH9dOTOhtUmbBW-KZMnKLSq97tKZ4dQi2NyNvziVaEqw-JMJOuHg87-kIZnfPRjw9zowS89uroguEjit46j4MoeWjmZaz1Co7vukgYgHwOWXhEJDLhm_OHCiuJx2ThPfByXxUEDR0FHiqWT8Gc6ppv87N3C_djb0SWPUrOg/w640-h336/Space%20Orc%20with%20Blaster%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20Rogue%20Trader%20First%20Space%20Ork.jpg" title="Space Orc with Blaster RT1 1987 Citadel First Space Ork miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And finally, the last miniature in the range: the "Imperial Heavy Infantry", also known as "Space-Dout Sam" in the RT7 Mercenary range. I'm lukewarm on both this miniature and my paintjob. In another sign that this was <i>very early days </i>in the world of Warhammer 40K, he appears to be carrying an M16.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5OsvyGwc9HGuCqvoq0Ai-VmIMIzc3ao2cXEbeR1Rh6HFLDWyZpxPG4fQQoC8b1F3kS7ImbMX552h6o35w04D5VzTaYn2n6bHQFu1rT97QpNJStU-662zb3dZyiwmWcgpVr6th5hHTaxlllCuwZSOnnesYoQ2oNdVIRu1L47z4yoWHy8BQOjihvPpC1g/s4362/Imperial%20Heavy%20Infantry%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Imperial Heavy Infantry RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2617" data-original-width="4362" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5OsvyGwc9HGuCqvoq0Ai-VmIMIzc3ao2cXEbeR1Rh6HFLDWyZpxPG4fQQoC8b1F3kS7ImbMX552h6o35w04D5VzTaYn2n6bHQFu1rT97QpNJStU-662zb3dZyiwmWcgpVr6th5hHTaxlllCuwZSOnnesYoQ2oNdVIRu1L47z4yoWHy8BQOjihvPpC1g/w640-h384/Imperial%20Heavy%20Infantry%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Imperial Heavy Infantry RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">If you know of anyone else who has tackled some of these miniatures, please post about it in the comments. I'd love to see some other versions. Thanks!</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><p></p></div></div></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-30793317208320009092022-06-14T05:02:00.004-07:002022-07-01T06:55:30.179-07:00The First Rogue Trader Miniatures: Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnvRSrcOl8yzWADBJKS1So9pdwwQvBDQrSc5AcUVgZaViHzZxdjLYq3a9XkU63bkM1MZL9zditdMrNAvhRKMGKaVMEpA664nQYXUN5d9XhhpYokmXfP0ictuUImb0CQ0CqbobKtRvsPixcd7Q1u-JqKIQ94Pthrg4OzwsnEnJtIA7Z6IQv0n9tI5kUg/s2326/First%20Gretchen%20Space%20Goblin%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%2040K.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I have a bad habit when it comes
to collecting miniatures. Maybe two bad habits, if you consider collecting
miniatures itself to be a bad habit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="2326" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnvRSrcOl8yzWADBJKS1So9pdwwQvBDQrSc5AcUVgZaViHzZxdjLYq3a9XkU63bkM1MZL9zditdMrNAvhRKMGKaVMEpA664nQYXUN5d9XhhpYokmXfP0ictuUImb0CQ0CqbobKtRvsPixcd7Q1u-JqKIQ94Pthrg4OzwsnEnJtIA7Z6IQv0n9tI5kUg/w640-h400/First%20Gretchen%20Space%20Goblin%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%2040K.jpg" width="640" /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Let’s say I decide to pursue a certain range of vintage Citadel miniatures (like the <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2016/10/terror-of-lichemaster-heinrich-kemler.html">Terror of the Lichemaster</a>). Accruing such a collection takes
patience, and I have none. So I grow antsy and begin to
despair when, after a few months, the miniatures I need don't
appear on the market. A sane person would just wait it out, because <i>all miniatures</i> will eventually present themselves for sale in the
ripeness of time. But do I just wait? No. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Instead, I adopt a manic logic. I decide the only way to distract myself from the anxiety of completing my range is
to start collecting an entirely different range. I tell myself
that completing the second range will be a consolation prize if I am never able
to finish the first range. In my mind, it makes sense. In reality, am doubling my trouble. Soon I will be anxious about completing two sets not one. Plus, the second set is inevitably even rarer than the original range (damn you, <a href="https://shamutantis.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/drifting-with-the-orcs-again/">Osrim Chardz</a>). It is a bad habit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">But, it’s an ill-wind that
bloweth no good. My bad habit results increased fretting and the
expenditure of much treasure. But it also means that I almost accidentally
accrue some great sets. That’s what happened with the RT1 range
consisting of the <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/06/the-first-rogue-trader-miniatures.html">first Warhammer 40K sculps</a>. My original purpose was to collect
the RT06 range of Rogue Trader Adventurers. But when that project hit a wall
(damn you, <a href="http://www.rogueheresy.com/2014/06/imperial-assassin-rt601-adventurers.html">Imperial Assassin</a>), I decided to pursue RT1 since it seemed in easy reach. It wasn't, of course (damn you, <a href="http://www.sodemons.com/rhrt/rt1releases/pirate/index.htm">Pirate</a>). But at last it's complete!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Last week, we
looked at the first four miniatures of the range. Now I give you five more…</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First is the “Imperial Garrison
Trooper”, later renamed “Kylla Condotti” for the RT7 Mercenaries range (Nov.
1987). This is another sculp by <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-interview-withsculptor-bob-naismith.html">Bob Naismith</a>. I’ve always loved this miniature because of the simplicity of the design
and the apprehension on his face. He’s a conscript, and he knows it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDQrXa_BX3Lgr69456-Btt4WZTdeAx9a2iYW_xl84a7aREncWdJv9xyvJS21Y1rVse1GBbGXHiiyh58pizWpQt38LW01OhwNuTMzPligmXdZFGgjBR2uH95hdJWLzq4m9vyhOz3K1kn60Nf-pS5fNzoGRoVJLplF1zCu6o08ZXtrbGpU-4YBkaVn2DQ/s4350/Imperial%20Garrison%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Imperial Garrison Trooper Kylla Condotti RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2610" data-original-width="4350" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDQrXa_BX3Lgr69456-Btt4WZTdeAx9a2iYW_xl84a7aREncWdJv9xyvJS21Y1rVse1GBbGXHiiyh58pizWpQt38LW01OhwNuTMzPligmXdZFGgjBR2uH95hdJWLzq4m9vyhOz3K1kn60Nf-pS5fNzoGRoVJLplF1zCu6o08ZXtrbGpU-4YBkaVn2DQ/w640-h384/Imperial%20Garrison%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Imperial Garrison Trooper Kylla Condotti RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Second is the “Space Goblin”,
later renamed “Bogbag” in the 4404 <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt4404gretchen/index.htm">Gretchen</a> range (1988). I want my Space
Goblins nasty, cross-eyed and leering, and this fellow hits the mark. Note that this early miniature represents a kind of false start for goblindom. He's well-armoured and carries some technological geegaws on his belt. Later gretchen are generally feral fellows with primitive muskets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBRKoDpLbmdQl8WdX1lHNMnBR93niy-qcuWOZCWY1bQC2MKdO1_3Sd9gsPrt8Timm4krCDBBSDsOZjoAhz2dagkwOSXLOmkJtduXW7uV0cOTHsDcSFzx7BVs4rhTf_RlfGYuRPzRTvZ_d1969Ef3673G2fMBSycmeIe4GmmLhqq3k4D8uIsyPHo6j7w/s3194/Space%20Goblin%20First%20Gretchin%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Space Goblin original Gretchen RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1916" data-original-width="3194" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBRKoDpLbmdQl8WdX1lHNMnBR93niy-qcuWOZCWY1bQC2MKdO1_3Sd9gsPrt8Timm4krCDBBSDsOZjoAhz2dagkwOSXLOmkJtduXW7uV0cOTHsDcSFzx7BVs4rhTf_RlfGYuRPzRTvZ_d1969Ef3673G2fMBSycmeIe4GmmLhqq3k4D8uIsyPHo6j7w/w640-h384/Space%20Goblin%20First%20Gretchin%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20painted.jpg" title="Space Goblin original Gretchen RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next we have the “Imperial Light
Trooper”, aka “No-Face Fargo” in the RT7 Mercenaries range (Nov. 1987). He’s an
unambitious variant of the Garrison Trooper, and was also sculpted by Bob Naismith.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxVmtEYRNrd9BXkVzxVqojWoL7GrA8nAyqZo5-6CdBiaN7GbST1mpJAsxMnKX1e5Re3Je7IBg8DGU4ptR1aclHw4Ohr5QZChR0FZFxuxf8N5Z0V3rabt6iDkXrAHf-BxYYKOghAGtgfHphvUnlwRQEzox0dPnC2JDv-0patbbFmjcZPSTf1uVdQ-AvVA/s4427/Imperial%20Light%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Imperial Light Trooper No-face Fargo RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2656" data-original-width="4427" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxVmtEYRNrd9BXkVzxVqojWoL7GrA8nAyqZo5-6CdBiaN7GbST1mpJAsxMnKX1e5Re3Je7IBg8DGU4ptR1aclHw4Ohr5QZChR0FZFxuxf8N5Z0V3rabt6iDkXrAHf-BxYYKOghAGtgfHphvUnlwRQEzox0dPnC2JDv-0patbbFmjcZPSTf1uVdQ-AvVA/w640-h384/Imperial%20Light%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Imperial Light Trooper No-face Fargo RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And now the glorious "Imperial Bodyguard", aka "Adeptus Custodes". Drawings of this miniature appear in some striking illustrations from the <i>Rogue Trader </i>rulebook. It's a sculpt marked by a fine sense of design and intriguing details. I've always been attracted to the Eldar-like dimensions of his helmet. It puts me in mind of elite regiments in history (like the <a href="http://www.civilwar.si.edu/soldiering_zuoave.html">Zouaves</a>) who adopt elements of the (outlandish) dress belonging to feared or respected opponents.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyiG4KA3u7ewQpc5m7eajBjgIZkgIrcH0kiKhdBKhNFHyCDInl98B11bsYDIv8XqbrNa6norEhgCyqW3XbrWXsRn3nlNlje6mc_zOKsO8OVdTmPlennaCNxKHbetsE8cKVyQhhKsnLhCuVEfySa408nTQkteNIFKTZDhZK5MthU2zjarggYszMmdwsxA/s4102/Imperial%20Bodyguard%20Adeptus%20Custodes%20painted%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Imperial Bodyguard Adeptus Custodes RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2461" data-original-width="4102" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyiG4KA3u7ewQpc5m7eajBjgIZkgIrcH0kiKhdBKhNFHyCDInl98B11bsYDIv8XqbrNa6norEhgCyqW3XbrWXsRn3nlNlje6mc_zOKsO8OVdTmPlennaCNxKHbetsE8cKVyQhhKsnLhCuVEfySa408nTQkteNIFKTZDhZK5MthU2zjarggYszMmdwsxA/w640-h384/Imperial%20Bodyguard%20Adeptus%20Custodes%20painted%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987.jpg" title="Imperial Bodyguard Adeptus Custodes RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBF0v46sLZzQUTTVwBUXtk6JuNdLedYRpV-gaX3dwxaQYJ6Zl9h_iEZEGKxeApqX5iV28iert9vmc7wUqhn8rSKm_N87X4GfrllbWwsBbovePTXsf96Wm4AlC9vb7iXBS-ibwHM2AFIfU7XgwANaBXHA0wE6C5PrdZRjv-ZB4rDWSeCUHdg2k2NfQSA/s245/Adeptus%20Custodes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBF0v46sLZzQUTTVwBUXtk6JuNdLedYRpV-gaX3dwxaQYJ6Zl9h_iEZEGKxeApqX5iV28iert9vmc7wUqhn8rSKm_N87X4GfrllbWwsBbovePTXsf96Wm4AlC9vb7iXBS-ibwHM2AFIfU7XgwANaBXHA0wE6C5PrdZRjv-ZB4rDWSeCUHdg2k2NfQSA/s16000/Adeptus%20Custodes.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An illustration from the <br /><i>Rogue Trader </i>rulebook (1987)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Lastly, the "Imperial Psycher", aka "Imperial Psyker" or (in the RT06 range) "Astropath Yerl". Like the Adeptus Custodes, we can see him portrayed in several iconic illustrations. This is a large sculpt that stands strangely out of proportion with its fellows. But the tallness of the miniature at least accentuates the thinness of the face and hands, which is fitting for an Astropath.</span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihg6jM5vnnXmYeqfA2NWUiJpTzT0BqgaOL1OnbVI61PJfGqqaToVf9agkdE5YwVga4HIAXnSN4gF-4_ZZOo_MW41lHkzAbaacxjYjlM2AVEIPJ9UKeHs6iGqLlAoCtH4BBXiI1EBLPeqVdCsr2EbbY7rHdzsMWfa--UcX_cmsbbP_U6ZYtdjdmF5ZN0A/s4221/Astropath%20Yerl%20Imperial%20Psycher%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Imperial Psyker aka Astropath Yerl RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2533" data-original-width="4221" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihg6jM5vnnXmYeqfA2NWUiJpTzT0BqgaOL1OnbVI61PJfGqqaToVf9agkdE5YwVga4HIAXnSN4gF-4_ZZOo_MW41lHkzAbaacxjYjlM2AVEIPJ9UKeHs6iGqLlAoCtH4BBXiI1EBLPeqVdCsr2EbbY7rHdzsMWfa--UcX_cmsbbP_U6ZYtdjdmF5ZN0A/w640-h384/Astropath%20Yerl%20Imperial%20Psycher%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Imperial Psyker aka Astropath Yerl RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Next week, I'll give you <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/06/the-first-rogue-trader-miniatures-part-3.html">my versions of the final minis</a> from this range and review some of the other painters who have tackled them.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG06_2pD9nNe1hzbYIAjpTdEEp3imQhKsK0K1gouhcpxKjicPsrbmJj7a9To6Ngf1lNwhBrAuLiBh5ivwK9fI_ay2L-EUrcTs5e1kDCy98CWI5AVwU3dOKhJVyDv9OLio699BkRSGpFPPf8yA7eE8BIqVSilsRxU0LLyarTEiWDD4kk4eGKhgVlCP_Ig/s3408/20220612_120341.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3408" data-original-width="3408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG06_2pD9nNe1hzbYIAjpTdEEp3imQhKsK0K1gouhcpxKjicPsrbmJj7a9To6Ngf1lNwhBrAuLiBh5ivwK9fI_ay2L-EUrcTs5e1kDCy98CWI5AVwU3dOKhJVyDv9OLio699BkRSGpFPPf8yA7eE8BIqVSilsRxU0LLyarTEiWDD4kk4eGKhgVlCP_Ig/s320/20220612_120341.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><p style="text-align: center;">Bonus picture: Oldenhammer in Toronto just hired a new copyeditor.</p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-78522439133009636182022-06-08T04:26:00.003-07:002022-07-01T06:47:22.744-07:00The First Rogue Trader Miniatures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn_NFjfOav0XRyCSlwLdk1ZNj5D4UPVU1RonNrv0WuQjlfldYnFmTGoWsBl1jN2V2G7-DDnr1mBMjxrmwvyBNz5fIQWWDfXpl6cMJ3ci4XyNZs98fs-8AUASIQtanXvhiyybchQa4_cxd8WaFsRDqdbwXBMojDdBz5Ei2UVz2R3hEx_CVpj6KI8eoQQ/s3175/First%20Warhammer%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniatures%20painted%201987.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1905" data-original-width="3175" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn_NFjfOav0XRyCSlwLdk1ZNj5D4UPVU1RonNrv0WuQjlfldYnFmTGoWsBl1jN2V2G7-DDnr1mBMjxrmwvyBNz5fIQWWDfXpl6cMJ3ci4XyNZs98fs-8AUASIQtanXvhiyybchQa4_cxd8WaFsRDqdbwXBMojDdBz5Ei2UVz2R3hEx_CVpj6KI8eoQQ/w640-h384/First%20Warhammer%2040K%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniatures%20painted%201987.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Warhammer 40K may be the most popular tabletop wargame in the world, but it started with a whimper not a bang -- at least in terms of the miniatures. The first murmur came in August 1986, in the Citadel Miniatures Mail Order Sheet. Amid offerings of models for Doctor Who, AD&D, and Thrudd the Barbarian, there appeared an unassuming advert for eight "<a href="http://www.solegends.com/citads1986b/198608/fly8608f-01.jpg">Imperial Marines</a>". I will have more to say about these lovely but undersized miniatures in a coming post. For now, we can just note that there was no mention of a new game or a new sci-fi universe, Rogue Trader or 40K. Then quiet reigned for almost a year.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In March 1987, the Citadel Miniature's Mail Order Flyer advertised 14 new miniatures under the official label <i><a href="http://www.solegends.com/citads1987a/198703f/fly8703f-01.jpg">Warhammer 40,000 (Rogue Trader)</a>. </i>It was not clear who these miniatures were, what you'd use them for, or what "Rogue Trader" even meant (although attentive readers might have remembered that as early as 1983, Rick Priestly had been teasing rules for an <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citcat1983comp1/citcomp1059-02.htm">intersellar ship/trading game</a> called "Rogue Trader"). In any case, things didn't get any clearer in August 1987, when <i>White Dwarf #</i>92 featured a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/uqwqiz/warhammer_40000_rogue_trader_teaser_from_white/">mysterious full-page teaser</a> consisting of an empty star-scape emblazoned at the top with the insignia of the new game. Finally, the <i>Rogue Trader </i>rulebook was published in September 1987. In the same month, <i>White Dwarf </i>#94 featured a long profile of the game. From that moment on, the stream of 40K miniatures has never ceased.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1MXj-aEGnBzj60N9ArIH6pMiGYcN6Jxn_YFaElVzrYL9D6nOSDJUENjVKGetwomfkxic8X7YOzkK1T9eCCeFt-BTtzKAd9NcH0D0PgCI9QmRxy1BOBtiD_3Ek3wXQMbyi6fK6ZTDJaxCEsEJZ7IufVX4HnKzdFc8epAEVhsC61PehH4A6neDXEeRskw/s1169/First%20Rogue%20Trader%20Miniatures%20catalogue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1169" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1MXj-aEGnBzj60N9ArIH6pMiGYcN6Jxn_YFaElVzrYL9D6nOSDJUENjVKGetwomfkxic8X7YOzkK1T9eCCeFt-BTtzKAd9NcH0D0PgCI9QmRxy1BOBtiD_3Ek3wXQMbyi6fK6ZTDJaxCEsEJZ7IufVX4HnKzdFc8epAEVhsC61PehH4A6neDXEeRskw/w640-h258/First%20Rogue%20Trader%20Miniatures%20catalogue.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Let's return to the first 14 official Rogue Trader miniatures from March 1987 -- the range that would later become known as <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/1st40k/fly8899rt1r4-40k1st-02.jpg">RT1</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Looking at them now, what surprises me is how half-baked they are. The names are redundant (i.e. "Imperial Heavy Trooper" versus "Imperial Heavy Infantry"). The intriguing nomenclature that would become a hallmark of 40K is entirely absent: we have an "Imperial Bodyguard" rather than an "Adeptus Custodes", or an "Imperial Psycher" rather than an "Astropath." The miniatures do highlight the great innovation of 40K, which is the shameless combination of sci-fi tropes with Tolkien-esque fantasy races. However, they highlight this new approach in a ham-handed way: the new Orc is a "Space Orc", the goblin is a "Space Goblin", and the dwarf is a "Space Dwarf". This is <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceX">Space Hamsters</a> with a vengeance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZA_LakLTTGhRCswrdI0sHRYmSYJVR-bjwXm2ZXZawRMUmPII7_UiKUEzOdiAOHvq0_TouhFw1cJDQfjHQ9D-g7VyUC1akzRWhAotNxzw0AVjrCdnLYSspuIYmcVFaC5EVloKhVALjw4K6x9LRDOH-uHZbLam-j20yKtmr3Ad6Ity0e5safnXFCDNsw/s630/Rogue%20Trader.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="449" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZA_LakLTTGhRCswrdI0sHRYmSYJVR-bjwXm2ZXZawRMUmPII7_UiKUEzOdiAOHvq0_TouhFw1cJDQfjHQ9D-g7VyUC1akzRWhAotNxzw0AVjrCdnLYSspuIYmcVFaC5EVloKhVALjw4K6x9LRDOH-uHZbLam-j20yKtmr3Ad6Ity0e5safnXFCDNsw/w249-h348/Rogue%20Trader.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The sculps themselves are a mixed bag. There is an awful lot of duplication for such a small range of miniatures. The "Light Trooper" and "Garrison Trooper" are siblings based closely on the same prototype; so also with the "Heavy Trooper" and "Heavy Infantry". The "Pirate" is <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citc/c001fighters/c01fighters-c3p17-02.jpg">ripped</a> from "Cedric", a fantasy C01 Fighter sculpted by Bob Naismith in 1986.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Some of the figures are awkward to the point of ugliness. The design of the "Piscean Warrior" is so flat that it almost appears two-dimensional. Similarly, the Dark Elf Trooper looks like he is trying to squeeze between two parked cars before shooting you with his ridiculously flared weapon. (When I mounted both minis on bases, I had to spread their limbs and twist their torsos in order to add a sense of depth.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Finally, almost all these miniatures are strangely divorced from the world of 40K that was about to unfold in the <i>Rogue Trader </i>rulebook: The "Piscean Warrior" is an orphan without past or future; the Squats of 40K look nothing like the "Space Dwarf"; the Eldar of 40K look nothing like the "Dark Elf Space Trooper"; and the Imperial Guard look nothing like the various troopers marching through the range. RT1 became outdated the moment the Rogue Trader rulebook appeared. Indeed, to the extent that these figures survived at all, it was only by being rebranded for other ranges. Several of them wound up in my beloved range of <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/rogue-trader-mercenaries-from-1987.html">RT07 Mercenaries</a>. Others snuck into the RT06 Adventurers. The rest perished in obscurity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I love these miniatures so dearly precisely because they are awkward and unpolished. They are a fossil from a time when the world of Warhammer 40K was still forming -- a prehistoric era before names were invented, shapes settled, or identities solidified. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And so, without further ado, here are the first four miniatures of the RT1 range of Rogue Trader miniatures...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*<span> *<span> *<span> *<span> *</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First we have "The Telepath". With his tonsure of neural implants and blank expression, he bears a striking resemblance to <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/06/miniatures-for-star-wars-lando.html">Lobot</a> from <i>The Empire Strikes Back.</i> I don't love this miniature because it's so static. He would go to reappear in the RT06 Adventurers range as "Tech Priest Zon".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKw1__q14FBtk3yw5EJ-lCKciNMpzngUHb_huutOaLL31Hg3rJ3skoRw1uOraQrx3SmkSU3kdXn5D0JH013eAdXkE12haA_ZL-GN89GRms43Ssj3a3L9YnPYqV0ahq3RQ5xgEqjWxthYN8jZ-TzWgOS9A8kxdW-onRGrv9eQEFn1gWhOC5AasNR530Sw/s4281/Telepath%20Tech-Priest%20Zon%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Telepath aka Tech-Priest Zon RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2569" data-original-width="4281" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKw1__q14FBtk3yw5EJ-lCKciNMpzngUHb_huutOaLL31Hg3rJ3skoRw1uOraQrx3SmkSU3kdXn5D0JH013eAdXkE12haA_ZL-GN89GRms43Ssj3a3L9YnPYqV0ahq3RQ5xgEqjWxthYN8jZ-TzWgOS9A8kxdW-onRGrv9eQEFn1gWhOC5AasNR530Sw/w640-h384/Telepath%20Tech-Priest%20Zon%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Telepath aka Tech-Priest Zon RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Second comes the "Ground Combat Trooper". Loyal readers will know that I've already featured this miniature as the RT07 mercenary <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/more-rogue-trader-era-mercenaries.html">Abaddon.</a> He's got a beautiful design. With the tubes, baggy envirosuit, and face-window, he's always reminded me of the Sardaukar Troopers from David Lynch's <i>Dune </i>(1984). Although it's hard to pin down the sculptor for some of the miniatures in the range, thanks to the work of Axion at <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-interview-withsculptor-bob-naismith.html">Magpie and Old Lead</a>, we know that Bob Naismith carved this one.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbsQKlBmLtWRxq971ya2r8s7sYzcYe1xJlWqPJXmHsxspblKYpAs7LCfUEwYxWmtSOhB4P9CBibFPQ4t-VnCOCUn8lc7jnQblSl3V0p9KvqsdL_eaE7I-ndWZB0Mnc6P2TAKIkjmTweP-whmVIGMpNrPpQd9LuvfMHf8jFf2NYJKD1k35aWqDXaZh_sw/s4553/Ground%20Combat%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ground Combat Trooper Abaddon RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2732" data-original-width="4553" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbsQKlBmLtWRxq971ya2r8s7sYzcYe1xJlWqPJXmHsxspblKYpAs7LCfUEwYxWmtSOhB4P9CBibFPQ4t-VnCOCUn8lc7jnQblSl3V0p9KvqsdL_eaE7I-ndWZB0Mnc6P2TAKIkjmTweP-whmVIGMpNrPpQd9LuvfMHf8jFf2NYJKD1k35aWqDXaZh_sw/w640-h384/Ground%20Combat%20Trooper%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Ground Combat Trooper Abaddon RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wi8oC5ztyLdiDjYCE-j-F924pn7Ih_OHyrc7DT78mXdwih_bOyS4xxqOUMYalMlMAjuq22p2_2Umju41Og3wPaTPQgZ0O2VriqhXFhtMWxelxCwNjUrFICWh-GwWlLPevyyLxv5yINhATvHLqcGvydBZJYJzZ_lDkUxqM_mYbg9sUR0Z-Rme2uA9tg/s1000/Sardaukar.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="728" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wi8oC5ztyLdiDjYCE-j-F924pn7Ih_OHyrc7DT78mXdwih_bOyS4xxqOUMYalMlMAjuq22p2_2Umju41Og3wPaTPQgZ0O2VriqhXFhtMWxelxCwNjUrFICWh-GwWlLPevyyLxv5yINhATvHLqcGvydBZJYJzZ_lDkUxqM_mYbg9sUR0Z-Rme2uA9tg/w146-h200/Sardaukar.jpg" width="146" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sardaukar (1984)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Behold the "Piscean Warrior". There's some wonderful detail on this slimy alien, including a host of flesh-tubes and a inlaid scabbard that seems to come right out of R'lyeh. But, as noted above, this large figure is marred by a flat and linear design that perfectly encapsulates the worst of slotta-base-sculpting.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx6hNZU26jUak3DVUgMUDxxTrUbpacgWEttvxdBnjd4HDaal8esksSq9nBvtM_adyQAHJxnelu_5ft3oTeuv9d57j636q-v9HRHmu51ftpECn71fd9LRzVpM-_-o8tCfZMx08g2QbSKkyjOAJ21mDcaLlGhn3Jf8WHzNjTHV18sZgXbqnPTh9Rtwncvw/s4310/Piscean%20Warrior%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20WH40K%20painted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Piscean Warrior RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2586" data-original-width="4310" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx6hNZU26jUak3DVUgMUDxxTrUbpacgWEttvxdBnjd4HDaal8esksSq9nBvtM_adyQAHJxnelu_5ft3oTeuv9d57j636q-v9HRHmu51ftpECn71fd9LRzVpM-_-o8tCfZMx08g2QbSKkyjOAJ21mDcaLlGhn3Jf8WHzNjTHV18sZgXbqnPTh9Rtwncvw/w640-h384/Piscean%20Warrior%20RT1%20Rogue%20Trader%201987%20WH40K%20painted.jpg" title="Piscean Warrior RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>And finally, here's one of my favourite Rogue Trader miniatures: "Space Dwarf", better known to his friends in the RT7 Mercenaries range as "<a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/rogue-trader-mercenaries-from-1987.html">Irn Bonce the Squat</a>". This is a figure sculpted with great style: a simple, harmonious and balanced design. Plus a grenade launcher.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUs5RELGRHeO2KMRasqSfnJaQNUzqZ5I3OcbE5Ka-y0CtvEZZztJEWK3zA29WGHtJSy-7sELXkSEZRRsazuSdwGXBK5zX3MbybrFGeE2a4i6lUyCvX1PcY-LZyprnLt1vktTO66inBSGUhvdmb25VE-CevHeinc1uIETLcfDTT_-JxSs3DC5nE0JGQrg/s4450/Space%20Dwarf%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Space Dwarf Original Squat RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="2670" data-original-width="4450" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUs5RELGRHeO2KMRasqSfnJaQNUzqZ5I3OcbE5Ka-y0CtvEZZztJEWK3zA29WGHtJSy-7sELXkSEZRRsazuSdwGXBK5zX3MbybrFGeE2a4i6lUyCvX1PcY-LZyprnLt1vktTO66inBSGUhvdmb25VE-CevHeinc1uIETLcfDTT_-JxSs3DC5nE0JGQrg/w640-h384/Space%20Dwarf%20RT1%201987%20Citadel%20First%20Rogue%20Trader%20miniature.jpg" title="Space Dwarf Original Squat RT1 1987 Citadel First Rogue Trader painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thanks for stopping by! It's nice to be sharing things with you again!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Here is the post for the <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2022/06/the-first-rogue-trader-miniatures-part-2.html">next 4 minis in the RT1 range</a>...</span></div><div><br /></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-27471413399872641962021-04-29T07:02:00.000-07:002021-04-29T07:02:31.629-07:00Death Star Chic: The Imperial Navy in 28mm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbV7r5eYbccPU3yYQpxET6yxLhgB2QbMX0PWxyCENkE8kwQ6c44ZJN7Frw6z_J1XMbepDiy9lFv-l2OD9TiCmIlF_YXM5Rg7osyCxQLre1xL6izg6hHqSsien0kGm_7dJt6gg0KAqLrFs/s2048/Death+Star+28mm+Star+Wars+miniatures+3x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbV7r5eYbccPU3yYQpxET6yxLhgB2QbMX0PWxyCENkE8kwQ6c44ZJN7Frw6z_J1XMbepDiy9lFv-l2OD9TiCmIlF_YXM5Rg7osyCxQLre1xL6izg6hHqSsien0kGm_7dJt6gg0KAqLrFs/w640-h384/Death+Star+28mm+Star+Wars+miniatures+3x5.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />The first rule of good fiction is to make the audience identify with the villain. When it comes to Star Wars, George Lucas couldn't allow us identify with the morality or outlook of the Imperials -- they are, after all, genocidal <a href="https://decider.com/2015/11/30/star-wars-and-space-nazis/">space Nazis</a>. So he cunningly got us to sympathize with the Imperials on another level: aesthetically. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-XPWjwW_FoFtQPxFUFMqR8KNpsuXkKmHP0CLQozfW66Do3giISbEGA5ANxBBKcLLCuLV_W8pn_dS2bQ5zaorLy0LG6JG1jpK2Dik98Wb2Om31BI03XIhyphenhyphenj8UfnTDGo7QAlHrZs4aS18D/s581/Grand+Moff+Tarkin.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="377" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-XPWjwW_FoFtQPxFUFMqR8KNpsuXkKmHP0CLQozfW66Do3giISbEGA5ANxBBKcLLCuLV_W8pn_dS2bQ5zaorLy0LG6JG1jpK2Dik98Wb2Om31BI03XIhyphenhyphenj8UfnTDGo7QAlHrZs4aS18D/w126-h194/Grand+Moff+Tarkin.jpg" width="126" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man. At least this girl is. And I'm especially fond of the sailors... that is to say, the uniformed members of the Imperial Navy. Sure you have your glistening Stormtroopers, and we all owe Her Maj Darth Vader a debt of gratitude for marrying cybernetics with high-camp drag (that wide belt! that cape!). But I'd trade them all away in a heartbeat for the choke-collars, double-breasted woolens and saucy kepi caps of the Imperial Officer corps. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The strong sense of fashion filters down from the officers to the Imperial Navy's rank-and-file, who look just stunning in their flared helmets and high "fuck-me" boots. So let's commence a brief tour of Death Star chic, using some re-painted Wizard of the Coast plastics:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First up are some standard issue Imperial Navy Troopers. I've always thought that such troopers are sadly under-represented in Star Wars wargaming. The elite nature of the Stormtroopers is lost if they appear willy-nilly in every battle. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Note the hesitant aiming, clenched fist and chin-straps. Doesn't it all just cry out, "I'm a big boy now!"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybdGpIs28ENtVU3F4tS3trQklq7tlPgdbtQSNgttbEw247ZP9QcW55F2ed_3mFVzvRV2dTbeFMS7RphwA_aY54vpd4B_zbATMg33KzoAt5QbCzj-kB1Adp-wIE7Fjow-DQaj7YDP0JCMH/s2048/Imperial+army+trooper+28mm+Star+Wars+miniatures.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybdGpIs28ENtVU3F4tS3trQklq7tlPgdbtQSNgttbEw247ZP9QcW55F2ed_3mFVzvRV2dTbeFMS7RphwA_aY54vpd4B_zbATMg33KzoAt5QbCzj-kB1Adp-wIE7Fjow-DQaj7YDP0JCMH/w640-h384/Imperial+army+trooper+28mm+Star+Wars+miniatures.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next comes the Death Star Troopers. These are the elite that Grand Moff Tarkin hand-picked to man his planet-destroying battle station. I wonder if he was the one who chose the butch black uniform:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhaPQbg0d8-jZ6a4wn4rr5fcLImHrdOj3M8_m1JVrgrqmFOPORBGfcN-oKw1cTftPTDZa-dlaACzAJ4SfOSXTE0qDxim2O6l5j163equTWiEXeGajZeuuEADOcgv-sjNpSumrAJULx7G2/s2048/Imperial+navy+trooper+28mm+Star+Wars+miniatures+3x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhaPQbg0d8-jZ6a4wn4rr5fcLImHrdOj3M8_m1JVrgrqmFOPORBGfcN-oKw1cTftPTDZa-dlaACzAJ4SfOSXTE0qDxim2O6l5j163equTWiEXeGajZeuuEADOcgv-sjNpSumrAJULx7G2/w640-h384/Imperial+navy+trooper+28mm+Star+Wars+miniatures+3x5.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lapdogs are strictly forbidden aboard the capital ships of the Imperial Navy, so the officer class occupy themselves by coddling the MSE-6 Mouse Droids:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAIR0W5EoHWRVctZTcgfDvcbDixzTgKfIKRq6EYrIDI2OoLGzeUfd2YHz7bwX4zcfbvO8kmPVKv9t4UpQv_-oqWriCZdlUQ71Dg0WLtoFAFVSLE5utMbibWuql0XWAeA1IH45OICD4uG8/s2048/MSE-6+Mouse+Droid+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAIR0W5EoHWRVctZTcgfDvcbDixzTgKfIKRq6EYrIDI2OoLGzeUfd2YHz7bwX4zcfbvO8kmPVKv9t4UpQv_-oqWriCZdlUQ71Dg0WLtoFAFVSLE5utMbibWuql0XWAeA1IH45OICD4uG8/w640-h384/MSE-6+Mouse+Droid+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here is a RA-7 Protocol Droid, also known as the Death Star Droid. I said a few weeks ago that the twins Aleksin and Pavol are the first <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/06/miniatures-for-star-wars-lando.html">openly gay</a> figures in the Star Wars canon. That may be true, but protocol droids have long been recognized as LGBTQ+ icons. Writing in <i><a href="https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/c-3po-queer-icon-star-wars-rise-skywalker">Mel Magazine</a></i>, Jospeh Longo described C-3PO as "science fiction's first great queer character" and "a wiry, aging twink droid in love with an old queen, R2-D2." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Death Star droid certainly fits that pattern. With his dignified mince and belly-exposing <a href="https://twitter.com/emmabo/status/1212185286064660482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1212185286064660482%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Femmabo2Fstatus2F1212185286064660482widget%3DTweet">crop-top</a>, this darling is practically begging for a night at the <i>Rail</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIWUniuX7peqR9wzsHQvL1hyphenhyphenxRHNFdWAZF99wrWrPuuS6Iq8dfSMRsK5TtwDpb4HePDRnwlA5-FW1fNAWn5J4WnekpVDN-_VcwTJ83H9Y0xL-tSciqYQqZ5butEmjhxrhrW5hFDS_jNs8/s2048/Death+Star+Droid+RA-7+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIWUniuX7peqR9wzsHQvL1hyphenhyphenxRHNFdWAZF99wrWrPuuS6Iq8dfSMRsK5TtwDpb4HePDRnwlA5-FW1fNAWn5J4WnekpVDN-_VcwTJ83H9Y0xL-tSciqYQqZ5butEmjhxrhrW5hFDS_jNs8/w640-h384/Death+Star+Droid+RA-7+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And finally, I present Grand Moff Tarkin, who is absolutely rocking the angry daddy vibe. Princess Leia probably said it best: "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash."</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEb90Nw2D0_BXpgIETZohfjAM1jRe5YDIEe-c99eqvCZKbGZUNo97zxGyEfXEr9TlQXVuvMRqdbVYbL0HhG15Fk5Q53bQ4gQJSAP7KVwnAHrU4sqtzup4zGr0EKutIer-xgYtyA-HpzjF5/s2048/Grand+Moff+Tarkin+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEb90Nw2D0_BXpgIETZohfjAM1jRe5YDIEe-c99eqvCZKbGZUNo97zxGyEfXEr9TlQXVuvMRqdbVYbL0HhG15Fk5Q53bQ4gQJSAP7KVwnAHrU4sqtzup4zGr0EKutIer-xgYtyA-HpzjF5/w640-h384/Grand+Moff+Tarkin+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"...<i>The Empire Strikes Back</i> is heavily indebted to girls, to gays, to drag, to dance, to European traditions of camp and opera and being too much, with its excesses manifesting in spectacular effects, in the availability of male bodies for desire and consumption..." </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Rebecca Harrison, "Queer Empire", <i>LA Review of Books, </i>May 21, 2020</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEwUYru7xLnHHqQPAfmpzUHQSardkpIMF6ecVEaDp-kQtQ_nSj6YxUZ8D4hcweEf25HtTGzuOEdUbv1k6MbuQaRvdRHxmG7oNxlwM83aFPK_C5pCVuKCsgYh0ZKIpONNrnRaBkp1P5v6Y/s2048/Death+Star+Droid+miniature+28mm+golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEwUYru7xLnHHqQPAfmpzUHQSardkpIMF6ecVEaDp-kQtQ_nSj6YxUZ8D4hcweEf25HtTGzuOEdUbv1k6MbuQaRvdRHxmG7oNxlwM83aFPK_C5pCVuKCsgYh0ZKIpONNrnRaBkp1P5v6Y/w390-h241/Death+Star+Droid+miniature+28mm+golden.jpg" width="390" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Stay safe, my friends!</span></div><p> </p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-50521487389437802782021-04-20T05:58:00.001-07:002021-04-20T05:58:10.528-07:00Miniatures for the Mos Eisley Cantina<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXDGR04-_30lZ4wpJDR3h1NV08SX9dAC8jXgtYCeCdoKhWGR0A4huauVVTYoWKp6UqvLxmlaUoCAJWZ70N87-7AWCq5QiofplJ86a7uNyXu-bI9G4W7wI90nWIVrM-vDJBDgAz2Nd5jS1/s2048/Garindan+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature+heroic+golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Garindan and Mos Eisley Cantina miniatures" border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXDGR04-_30lZ4wpJDR3h1NV08SX9dAC8jXgtYCeCdoKhWGR0A4huauVVTYoWKp6UqvLxmlaUoCAJWZ70N87-7AWCq5QiofplJ86a7uNyXu-bI9G4W7wI90nWIVrM-vDJBDgAz2Nd5jS1/w640-h396/Garindan+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature+heroic+golden.jpg" title="Garindan and Mos Eisley Cantina miniatures" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Luke Skywalker's entry into the cantina on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfy5Esue_ls">Mos Eisley</a> is the defining moment of the first Star Wars movie. The scene introduced a universe without definitions. It promised us that everything to come was an open-ended journey, in which every face in every crowd has a history if only you're lucky enough to hear what it is, or imaginative enough to invent it on your own. As the writer Patrick Cavanaugh said, "Even though we knew nothing of these ancillary characters, their appearances conjured all sorts of backstories in our minds, allowing us to flesh out countless adventures within this world in just a matter of moments."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So iconic was the Cantina scene that it created its own trope. Almost every other movie in the Star Wars franchise (and many other sci-fi films) has a scene echoing Mos Eisley. Although it's tempting to dismiss this as crass imitation, I see it in terms of epic poetry. An epic is defined by certain conventions: for example, there must be a scene in which the heroes partake in a counsel of war, and there must be a long, boring recitation of the order of battle (like Homer's "catalogue of ships" or Tolkien's description of the knights entering Minas Tirith). The cantina helped define the sci-fi genre by creating a new (and deeply satisfying) convention: </span><a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BarFullOfAliens" style="font-family: helvetica;">the bar full of aliens</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioBucKTpM7hYFGE-sg7_RmIrjl4Lwq3hkjoozxbyLYftDTg3IEROF1cqiMDsaMZjA9TGdcvt9NnMHARQYxng2TGhnBLHzdXF2K-24DNUgnV4K-3NMO47hNownAnbg38igXVrfIlLfVXxj/s2000/PondaEvazan.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="2000" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioBucKTpM7hYFGE-sg7_RmIrjl4Lwq3hkjoozxbyLYftDTg3IEROF1cqiMDsaMZjA9TGdcvt9NnMHARQYxng2TGhnBLHzdXF2K-24DNUgnV4K-3NMO47hNownAnbg38igXVrfIlLfVXxj/w400-h168/PondaEvazan.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haven't we met before?</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are my renditions of some of the more famous faces in Chalmun's Cantina, all of which are repainted versions of plastic WOTC miniatures...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First comes Ponda Baba, the club bore whose arm gets cut off. I will always have a soft-spot for this Aqualish alien, because one of the first Kenner Star Wars figures I owned as a child was "<a href="https://www.actionfigure411.com/star-wars/kenner-vintage-collection/star-wars/walrus-man-1211.php">Walrus Man</a>."</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIPSFmK2vF-aiDd6WlKDa9n5ORyvaOFopFPdxh5wW1U3Z-_a-tG6uVHnfQ7DL9DxbIDTsAhi11U6RNZJNmZ_10SrSdHYl-ATbbXxgkONY78XyanfklWUsb77HsZyOm_MHhfeb_1c9mEUb/s2048/Ponda+Baba+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ponda Baba 28mm painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIPSFmK2vF-aiDd6WlKDa9n5ORyvaOFopFPdxh5wW1U3Z-_a-tG6uVHnfQ7DL9DxbIDTsAhi11U6RNZJNmZ_10SrSdHYl-ATbbXxgkONY78XyanfklWUsb77HsZyOm_MHhfeb_1c9mEUb/w640-h384/Ponda+Baba+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="Ponda Baba 28mm painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr. Cornelius Evazan is </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ponda Baba's companion. Evazan appeared in both </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">A New Hope </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and in </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Rogue One </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">after taking time off from his regular gig in the belltower of Notre Dame.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-Au49FQpuwViHLyZMZhJtPrsMn7KBb_sx3t1XLQgS9TmtTewqEi_lba0fmhWXsnmISbE4HspVKRmy6o_VRbLn6PWpRcepkT1KEhVu-KZ3MYn6jpumfwDQS-l7AAOEdq3aDqprElqI-zV/s2048/Doctor+Evazan+Star+Wars+miniature+28mm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Dr. Evazan 28mm painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-Au49FQpuwViHLyZMZhJtPrsMn7KBb_sx3t1XLQgS9TmtTewqEi_lba0fmhWXsnmISbE4HspVKRmy6o_VRbLn6PWpRcepkT1KEhVu-KZ3MYn6jpumfwDQS-l7AAOEdq3aDqprElqI-zV/w640-h384/Doctor+Evazan+Star+Wars+miniature+28mm.jpg" title="Cornelius Evazan 28mm painted miniature" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BoShek is the smuggler who introduced Obiwan to Chewbacca when the old Jedi was looking for a ride off of Tatooine. That black flight suit looks quite natty, if you ask me.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4eW067YCm9QJKFx1oqdyxwvbuHH1OyF49jlnXrlSDMTUklYzp6K8QNfJ3sj2qZsrCPHqlXxowW_-np_kHyUtCGmtlEEb3smu8FiWLVeNI8iQJC9g3W0sdPQ4r0m5KHaEHIFhYAe9tJHI/s2048/BoShek+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BoShek 28mm painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4eW067YCm9QJKFx1oqdyxwvbuHH1OyF49jlnXrlSDMTUklYzp6K8QNfJ3sj2qZsrCPHqlXxowW_-np_kHyUtCGmtlEEb3smu8FiWLVeNI8iQJC9g3W0sdPQ4r0m5KHaEHIFhYAe9tJHI/w640-h384/BoShek+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="BoShek 28mm painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinDqblec0l9DV4jDZgKnOF6efiC4LLfa_mrFScmAoWD1HmlO1A2Ma4HNwL7wBlO_BAmX9e320vnlJTHd6c81KHu0W8l2JAha4LL9XVQpB2JyFgyEiRvuvC9ROfdA_L7ElpqPs64KgfgLZ/s1002/BoShek.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="1002" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinDqblec0l9DV4jDZgKnOF6efiC4LLfa_mrFScmAoWD1HmlO1A2Ma4HNwL7wBlO_BAmX9e320vnlJTHd6c81KHu0W8l2JAha4LL9XVQpB2JyFgyEiRvuvC9ROfdA_L7ElpqPs64KgfgLZ/w292-h165/BoShek.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Takeel (also known as Snaggletooth) is a Snivvian mercenary and drug addict. He's</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> another inmate of the Cantina who owes his fame less to the movie and more to his afterlife as a Kenner action figure. I hope you appreciate the disco-vibe of his leisure suit.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhGVcA-6gyDw_WMNuKG_GTTXXkJSNGRT5IumYfpFdeaop1YHrdleTpEPnLe0qfhizOiPUXl1rURkXjmCijjqRON4SyueLCIDfOk2IAG5Y31yUAVvxoAZ47XVVxzhvZOMwDvHc7R5pL1WZT/s2048/Snaggletooth+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Snaggletooth Takeel 28mm painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhGVcA-6gyDw_WMNuKG_GTTXXkJSNGRT5IumYfpFdeaop1YHrdleTpEPnLe0qfhizOiPUXl1rURkXjmCijjqRON4SyueLCIDfOk2IAG5Y31yUAVvxoAZ47XVVxzhvZOMwDvHc7R5pL1WZT/w640-h366/Snaggletooth+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="Snaggletooth Takeel 28mm painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Can you imagine going through life with a name like "Muftak the Talz"?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I can't.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV3q9MDJkXCT7-AwxOkpFuHhuhRIkAYQS_aR-c9-EUssUAytItWc17EfaWoTspgjtNq3auajiO9ywTShBhoNJYQcxUeD6Ki-8A4dhPSHpahLHW4dS_YxLrLMh2Q1oruEgRf8QtN1RoFrIw/s2048/Muftak+the+Talz+miniature+28mm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Muftak the Talz 28mm painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV3q9MDJkXCT7-AwxOkpFuHhuhRIkAYQS_aR-c9-EUssUAytItWc17EfaWoTspgjtNq3auajiO9ywTShBhoNJYQcxUeD6Ki-8A4dhPSHpahLHW4dS_YxLrLMh2Q1oruEgRf8QtN1RoFrIw/w640-h384/Muftak+the+Talz+miniature+28mm.jpg" title="Muftak the Talz 28mm painted miniature" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And finally, we have my favourite: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Garindan. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He's the one who spotted the fugitive droids Threepio and Artoo outside the Cantina. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He may be an</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Imperial spy and general cheese-eating tattletale, but he looks so good.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYpmsvqFCD3ZhrvtPRnw3bzvbT2J4a1CVpgE3KrujHJZ-Qsc82Xu8X4Jy6yptVy0lZzLwH1Rq5FN4EfFSkbV8qto813mRQvHDHZXsH5A3O3eFO5QWyX7ekOTS74ry-lDm6MfipJrzlts7/s2048/Garindan+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Garindan 28mm painted miniature" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYpmsvqFCD3ZhrvtPRnw3bzvbT2J4a1CVpgE3KrujHJZ-Qsc82Xu8X4Jy6yptVy0lZzLwH1Rq5FN4EfFSkbV8qto813mRQvHDHZXsH5A3O3eFO5QWyX7ekOTS74ry-lDm6MfipJrzlts7/w640-h384/Garindan+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="Garindan 28mm painted miniature" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hope no one is ratting on your droids, my friends. Be well!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg609ft5nFxNaZxQ_sQ_Hlv0X-lkVxOw_10ED6FrPcmZqEYd0FD-0Dk4MnTkQppBFRt0yIkaouq8FekeTqjvxBo7MpwRjJ4TrsABriT7cOf33Hmn5VrQPLK1kSQyCHpeK_MC7acv-ZcqcRD/s2048/Mos+Eisley+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature+3x5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mos Eisley Miniatures 28mm" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg609ft5nFxNaZxQ_sQ_Hlv0X-lkVxOw_10ED6FrPcmZqEYd0FD-0Dk4MnTkQppBFRt0yIkaouq8FekeTqjvxBo7MpwRjJ4TrsABriT7cOf33Hmn5VrQPLK1kSQyCHpeK_MC7acv-ZcqcRD/w523-h314/Mos+Eisley+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature+3x5.jpg" title="Mos Eisley Miniatures 28mm" width="523" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-68575857197435297192021-04-07T06:54:00.002-07:002021-04-07T06:54:45.381-07:00Miniatures for Star Wars: Lando<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The comic <i><a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Lando">Star Wars: Lando</a> </i>is the greatest Star Wars movie that's never been made. It's a perfect script for a tight, 90-minute adventure film: To clear an old debt, Lando assembles a crew for one last heist. It all goes according to plan until they realize they've accidentally stolen the luxury yacht of the Emperor himself.<br />
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I've always been a little cagey about the comics, cartoons and novels set in the Star Wars universe. All this peripheral literature has a way of providing too many <i>answers</i>.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8qMd_91BxS_AY5G1YlaSj_WFpB4HCtVl2k5PhQrkDwEqWK3MfnUILDWm41IjBdEALFOyyMQe9WKHrz9CuVVnNB6nS_lthl9lY6WypimNiazGAO6eFmrpg8U3Vt33DPCTUWcDNRkxNJkg/s707/Lando+Comic.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="707" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8qMd_91BxS_AY5G1YlaSj_WFpB4HCtVl2k5PhQrkDwEqWK3MfnUILDWm41IjBdEALFOyyMQe9WKHrz9CuVVnNB6nS_lthl9lY6WypimNiazGAO6eFmrpg8U3Vt33DPCTUWcDNRkxNJkg/w320-h282/Lando+Comic.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When I was a child, the magic of Star Wars was that every re-watching left me asking new questions. My friends and I ruminated endlessly on matters great and small, from how Palpatine became Emperor to what lay under Boba Fett's mask. (Among the other sins of the prequel trilogy was that it systematically went about answering all these questions.) I think one of the reasons I love <i>Lando </i>so much is that it throws new light on a much-loved character, but it never stoops to be an origin story.<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The small but vivid cast of characters in <i>Lando </i>is another reason I love the comic. And so I set out to find appropriate miniatures for each of them. The seed of the collection comes from <i><a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/p/the-complete-imperial-assault-miniature.html">Imperial Assault</a></i>. However, <i>Imperial Assault</i>'s coverage<i> </i>is patchy so I had to fill the gaps with repaints and homebrews made from the old WOTC Star Wars miniatures. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Without futher ado, I give you...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lando Calrissian (miniature from FFG's <i>Imperial Assault </i>range):</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7u5OqNByOw_2vxrHuH6TRW96ZPRr1vJEX29FC9WHwWU5l562uWiOJ7HUU8cj0UEKIoPuAcpZ9nzMK9eTGbO0xhZjcX1nGuEI0EDKdCVjk821jxEkA7YXC6R8NfNidyS8zWnPiWLbxVw4J/s2048/Painted+Lando+Calrissian+Miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img alt="Lando Calrissian painted miniature FFG" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7u5OqNByOw_2vxrHuH6TRW96ZPRr1vJEX29FC9WHwWU5l562uWiOJ7HUU8cj0UEKIoPuAcpZ9nzMK9eTGbO0xhZjcX1nGuEI0EDKdCVjk821jxEkA7YXC6R8NfNidyS8zWnPiWLbxVw4J/w640-h384/Painted+Lando+Calrissian+Miniature.jpg" title="Lando Calrissian painted miniature FFG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lobot (miniature from WOTC's <i>Star Wars Imperial Entanglements </i>range)<i>:</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyvAUXJhFVDZjEOvvJ1fOerbh2PjjW3ch0QZnYC1CGNWuzLphewzu1pwv6j6nBOxcsmLLcajc7NSfuLYks_ISPBBvsjeZWWeTwrl5ceukVfzTCbRc50X6WH4RP_Nijjz_AGqpomSOx8Xp8/s2048/Lobot+Star+Wars+miniature+28mm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lobot painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyvAUXJhFVDZjEOvvJ1fOerbh2PjjW3ch0QZnYC1CGNWuzLphewzu1pwv6j6nBOxcsmLLcajc7NSfuLYks_ISPBBvsjeZWWeTwrl5ceukVfzTCbRc50X6WH4RP_Nijjz_AGqpomSOx8Xp8/w640-h384/Lobot+Star+Wars+miniature+28mm.jpg" title="Lobot painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Chanath Cha, bounty hunter and erstwhile lover of Lobot. (Let that one sink in.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Her miniature started life as some generic WOTC miniature that I butchered with greenstuff. Fortunately, a fresh paint job hides many sins):</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFERqwZ4lXqmXCLEhaJxebCjhfWYmOwAfMhvX-CXuWImYJWnXvkUNmKklMpUo71V4LVYz7YA0VQv7jOIGSWnB9ycABKIOORSrKDcM6N-WG-sCFWhlKYVw_xSNFGzMMasGUThT1VdKonTG/s2048/Chanath+Cha+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Chanath Cha painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFERqwZ4lXqmXCLEhaJxebCjhfWYmOwAfMhvX-CXuWImYJWnXvkUNmKklMpUo71V4LVYz7YA0VQv7jOIGSWnB9ycABKIOORSrKDcM6N-WG-sCFWhlKYVw_xSNFGzMMasGUThT1VdKonTG/w640-h384/Chanath+Cha+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="Chanath Cha painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sava Korin Pers, the unscrupulous ugnaught scholar (another WOTC miniature modified with a dollop of greenstuff):</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSO_DFaw7S169AkRwlQA5uci2ZX05S7N2n5DmKneFJeWb1v2jP59UibYHjXa6vPCF368VUziDYNqOqd53k9LY86D3S8x12W0GpJZWife9GAy9gyGd1F-WUcxPvxDBtZh4IGKjZnyLt_AY3/s2048/Korin+Pers+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sava Korin Pers painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSO_DFaw7S169AkRwlQA5uci2ZX05S7N2n5DmKneFJeWb1v2jP59UibYHjXa6vPCF368VUziDYNqOqd53k9LY86D3S8x12W0GpJZWife9GAy9gyGd1F-WUcxPvxDBtZh4IGKjZnyLt_AY3/w640-h384/Korin+Pers+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="Sava Korin Pers painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And last but not least, we have the genetically identical alien clone warriors Pavol and Aleksin. As far as I can tell, they are the first openly queer characters in Star Wars. They are also fantastic creations: deadly brothers/lovers who look like panthers and only speak to each other. I had to homebrew their miniatures from WOTC Sith Warriors who died horrible deaths under my X-Acto Knife.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOW5HwCDSv76xY5JXFan8oLXBOwUokY3XITjap62B4nvd0jDXFQ_rIcI_iaIxGQCoGJUoWVuubEfYIWghBigAZ5FZbRIsXl8GzjuooXE36gUNJu4_LxvJ9qQXreuDH88uzJk6jYPm2WztD/s2048/Pavol+28mm+Star+Wars+miniature+28mm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pavol painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOW5HwCDSv76xY5JXFan8oLXBOwUokY3XITjap62B4nvd0jDXFQ_rIcI_iaIxGQCoGJUoWVuubEfYIWghBigAZ5FZbRIsXl8GzjuooXE36gUNJu4_LxvJ9qQXreuDH88uzJk6jYPm2WztD/w640-h384/Pavol+28mm+Star+Wars+miniature+28mm.jpg" title="Pavol painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirVtpY1ThZO8aQPfpCNRZLOwrOpUvG_rxDhyphenhyphenrHOrXZYcVBvQs9opEb1f7GQglLaM7NR0qjpEO0TE-Br0lJj2HF35GD73Y9f8H5hJ_23juY1QnyghbJ6xdyU6PRX1DApVBfM30tDGMxjc-x/s2048/Aleksin+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Aleksin painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirVtpY1ThZO8aQPfpCNRZLOwrOpUvG_rxDhyphenhyphenrHOrXZYcVBvQs9opEb1f7GQglLaM7NR0qjpEO0TE-Br0lJj2HF35GD73Y9f8H5hJ_23juY1QnyghbJ6xdyU6PRX1DApVBfM30tDGMxjc-x/w640-h384/Aleksin+Star+Wars+28mm+miniature.jpg" title="Aleksin painted 28mm miniature - Star Wars" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for stopping by!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hope you are all doing okay... or at least better than Pavol and Aleksin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-IeM9NaPex4W13wEfM4GFPj2700mFg6ZGahCjRvzU3BYk8RotXZpEGLfb6aGPYDfpTNxtHF6VeTNCK6-tINYnasKCm-CyvSxxZ-NTyo9k6bwdm0DTkslVJ1Ld2GMXpSXbmA736snj-9wK/s1000/Pavol+and+Aleksin.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-IeM9NaPex4W13wEfM4GFPj2700mFg6ZGahCjRvzU3BYk8RotXZpEGLfb6aGPYDfpTNxtHF6VeTNCK6-tINYnasKCm-CyvSxxZ-NTyo9k6bwdm0DTkslVJ1Ld2GMXpSXbmA736snj-9wK/w300-h400/Pavol+and+Aleksin.png" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-55303375214947562022021-01-08T09:11:00.001-08:002021-01-08T15:37:54.329-08:00Animated Zen Koans<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've had a lot of time off since Christmas but my miniature painting mojo has vanished. I think it's a combination of Covid fatigue, winter blahs and insurrection-induced anxiety. I might also be tired after finishing a series of painting projects (like the <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/rogue-trader-mercenaries-from-1987.html">40K mercs</a>). But I still needed an outlet for my creative urges, so I turned to a enterprise I've been flirting with for a long time: taking some of the ancient stories about Zen Buddhism and animating them into <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0KBOCFrq-WjL0LZx2jLXSY5zphs1R2J">one-minute movies</a> using cartoon bunnies and computer-generated voices.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZPPUOtUeMAI" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZPPUOtUeMAI"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I guess there's a time in every man's life when he says to himself, "I want </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">to </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">take some of the ancient stories about Zen Buddhism and animate them into one-minute movies using cartoon bunnies and computer-generated voices.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">" And for me, that time is now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The source material comes from <i>The Blue Cliff Record, </i>which is a 1000-year-old collection of dialogues spoken by Zen Masters from Tang Dynasty China. These dialogues are often called <i>cases</i> or <i>koans. </i>A "koan" is a Japanese transliteration of the Chinese word </span><a name="_Hlk2336025"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">gōngàn</span></i></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, which meant "a decision of a judge." In each of these stories, a Zen Master pronounces a judgment about the nature of enlightenment. But in trying to describe the highest truths of Zen, these monks often relied on non-sequiturs, one-liners and radical understatement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In order to animate this deadpan absurdity, I needed equally deadpan characters -- hence the robotic voices and big-headed puppies. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Above is my rendition of the first case from <i>The Blue Cliff Record, </i>where the mythic founder of Zen has an awkward conversation with the Emperor. The next one I did was the 28th Case, where two Zen Masters talk about the importance of not talking about anything important:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CZhKLkJFI4w" width="320" youtube-src-id="CZhKLkJFI4w"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Finally, I illustrated one of my favourite stories, the 74th Case, where a series of Zen Masters give unhelpful advice about gratitude, happiness and generosity.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WXysttkdG3E" width="320" youtube-src-id="WXysttkdG3E"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don't know if anyone will enjoy watching the movies half as much as I enjoyed making them. But I wanted to share them in case they might be some help in dispelling your own winter blahs.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Take care, everyone!</span></p><p></p><p><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-43306460065556378982020-12-23T10:35:00.000-08:002020-12-23T10:35:52.107-08:00Merry Mercmas!<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbQq0nED6ktgIedIPGXcB6Q_-mkoHLqkYQGa_TFOAldcxGsUzrtKujobbmHNkdtkw9D4eADUtMMkonnfHLNFeNPJCi-Pzjnu2L6Wa0TiT5pg6jxEuaisDtZxUgeIwrGoAVMZ_k09l4rTBN/s2048/Old+World+Jack+golden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbQq0nED6ktgIedIPGXcB6Q_-mkoHLqkYQGa_TFOAldcxGsUzrtKujobbmHNkdtkw9D4eADUtMMkonnfHLNFeNPJCi-Pzjnu2L6Wa0TiT5pg6jxEuaisDtZxUgeIwrGoAVMZ_k09l4rTBN/w640-h396/Old+World+Jack+golden.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! Reconnecting with the miniature painting community in the last few weeks has been medicine for me. So thanks for all the greetings and encouragements. I truly enjoy each comment all of you leave behind when you come to visit. I hope you are all staying safe and finding ways to make the most out of this wounded holiday season.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I want to end 2020 on a high note, so here's one of my favourite Citadel miniatures of all time: the Warhammer 40K mercenary "Old World Jack." His grim expression of dread and his lively sense of movement make a compelling contrast. Plus his armour is an early ancestor of the beaky space marine armour that discloses how influential <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_AD_(comics)">2000 AD</a> </i>was on Citadel's visual style: those boots and knee-pads are right out of <i>Judge Dredd</i>:</span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZBnkEkEpsMi5e9lnvDPDbZJuVj7QK0dofYlRRVLJoE5oL5BSV3-O-aRyZYzbrhUzZh5LCdWGQKp4n0NyFKlOolwdEtM2wlPsY8rNDV7o6fUB27K-PNkHbpdaP7HX1zZiI_JGZFqvE1mb/s2048/Old+World+Jack+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZBnkEkEpsMi5e9lnvDPDbZJuVj7QK0dofYlRRVLJoE5oL5BSV3-O-aRyZYzbrhUzZh5LCdWGQKp4n0NyFKlOolwdEtM2wlPsY8rNDV7o6fUB27K-PNkHbpdaP7HX1zZiI_JGZFqvE1mb/w640-h384/Old+World+Jack+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next is "Catachan Luke." He's named after the jungle planet Catachan, which is mentioned in the Rogue Trader rulebook as the deadliest of hostile "death worlds". But if Catachan is a mythic version of Vietnam, Luke is clearly patterned off a US infantryman, complete with an M16:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswffvbTpD59_cw4B2hhLE02A3pXdfyNucMTt16X428giif0_ssJOOK7V7D8mDzMZn00B_PlmkseL-OhYGE3fsH9SRXUEc4-OlODcl7QH6dxbRZQ0HU3UqVfS5UToGDn8sMcU6uGBRT-1M/s2048/Catachan+Luke+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswffvbTpD59_cw4B2hhLE02A3pXdfyNucMTt16X428giif0_ssJOOK7V7D8mDzMZn00B_PlmkseL-OhYGE3fsH9SRXUEc4-OlODcl7QH6dxbRZQ0HU3UqVfS5UToGDn8sMcU6uGBRT-1M/w640-h384/Catachan+Luke+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don't know about you, but if I was going to spend my hard-earned money on a heavily armed mercenary, I would not hire a man who goes by the name "Spaced-Dout Sam." Jesus, Sam -- pull yourself together.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUU6FmeKAZ8mhgV6eg9PDWvJpW5Bh4THCM8Q-2f987mQmv_Hd5gi4X9OERNQhUdieK0wjuvt2IVbgBlkl431CKHeS5auq0I_SscSdVPpKOxzgd0Y7oaP_azd1wNAbvlZko2bDBnXNrWrV/s2048/Space-Dout+Sam+RT7+Mercenary+1987.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUU6FmeKAZ8mhgV6eg9PDWvJpW5Bh4THCM8Q-2f987mQmv_Hd5gi4X9OERNQhUdieK0wjuvt2IVbgBlkl431CKHeS5auq0I_SscSdVPpKOxzgd0Y7oaP_azd1wNAbvlZko2bDBnXNrWrV/w640-h384/Space-Dout+Sam+RT7+Mercenary+1987.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And finally we have "Mad Morris." Like many of the RT7 mercenaries, this model lived a double life as an Imperial Guardsman. But that, of course, is quite appropriate, since it is easy to imagine many of the more sociopathic Guardsmen deserting the service, repainting their equipment, and taking up life as a gun-for-hire:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOWnDV8fCoyUdW1YTqQ9N6Umlpi0JMXZocrkXAkDuzlZP_JTwPHKIKbkigeWDRAf6PoSoOq9QdixMZb2NMBrrjHbf1y0UThicb47_UKfWGneA_84rtkx9yNWhfBnrex8td6u5qKXoRvL7/s2048/Mad+Morris+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOWnDV8fCoyUdW1YTqQ9N6Umlpi0JMXZocrkXAkDuzlZP_JTwPHKIKbkigeWDRAf6PoSoOq9QdixMZb2NMBrrjHbf1y0UThicb47_UKfWGneA_84rtkx9yNWhfBnrex8td6u5qKXoRvL7/w640-h384/Mad+Morris+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for coming with me on this tour of the Rogue Trader mercenaries. In case you missed the earlier episodes, here are the </span><a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/rogue-trader-mercenaries-from-1987.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">first</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/more-rogue-trader-era-mercenaries.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">second</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and </span><a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/12/mo-mercenaries-for-warhammer-40k.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">third</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> posts I wrote about the RT7 range of miniatures.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* * * * * </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I will leave you with one final piece of great personal news. Mrs. Oldhammer-in-Toronto and I adopted a retired racing greyhound. We had been thinking of getting a pooch for many months. She wanted a medium-sized dog and I wanted a small dog, so we compromised and got an extremely large dog. Seriously - he is so big, when he lays down (which is most of time time) he looks like there's a dead deer lying around my house. "Utopia" came to us from the racetrack on Wheeling Island, West Virginia, via the extremely caring and professional foster care at <a href="https://www.ggreyhoundadoptions.com/">Gillian's Greyhound Adoption</a>. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzH-uBrmRhp8ent4VMJf7EcMJqZMf0xHTAZm6fORdVOvDD-Of8cMzDyw7GlieRI1WENrNCM1oroGGk6nkzG2PtCwmnoOgEQSRT4RSPk8MbYmyNoOkqCbfdrxwhEWQO1bLGeT9qShPDudcI/s2048/Utopia+with+a+red+bandage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzH-uBrmRhp8ent4VMJf7EcMJqZMf0xHTAZm6fORdVOvDD-Of8cMzDyw7GlieRI1WENrNCM1oroGGk6nkzG2PtCwmnoOgEQSRT4RSPk8MbYmyNoOkqCbfdrxwhEWQO1bLGeT9qShPDudcI/w640-h480/Utopia+with+a+red+bandage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I can assure my reading public that his is a very good boy.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNs0xbzhL9c6JI9b71PgTS1R8rQKAO8A3RcEWJAapxDz596lgissRp7cbYoNJ15BL3Q4erWsmUcMFWD7MnkIgQE4iUhxgXNWG8Vs79FNB0a6V-Y-lOOpzBzK8VEqiJN9GmPBM2XZjpGui/s2048/20201103_124905.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNs0xbzhL9c6JI9b71PgTS1R8rQKAO8A3RcEWJAapxDz596lgissRp7cbYoNJ15BL3Q4erWsmUcMFWD7MnkIgQE4iUhxgXNWG8Vs79FNB0a6V-Y-lOOpzBzK8VEqiJN9GmPBM2XZjpGui/s320/20201103_124905.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-63388027081674758612020-12-10T07:27:00.001-08:002020-12-10T07:27:56.898-08:00 Mo' Mercenaries for Warhammer 40K<p><br /></p><p>Any student of history knows that mercenaries were an indispensable part of life in the ancient world. We see them in every force from Carthage's elite infantry to William the Conqueror's Flemish allies. Speaking of the Flemish... There's a <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1926_num_5_1_6418">marvelous legend</a> that when Duke Baldwin of Flanders asked what compensation he could expect for helping William's invasion of England, William handed him a blank sheet of parchment. This seems to be the first example of payment by a blank cheque.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzbhn5mHrH18W3noNiX73FVAGboor6Uv2PpNRiV_XgQdvWBrI8GETlicBzRbzcE1LPQ26723_vQdWgroK1KO_6wwIdTfmM7uN58hV9wAR6YF2CXE50Sr0OHl_v4bahpYb938nQuWR3cXj/s2048/Fastar+John+golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzbhn5mHrH18W3noNiX73FVAGboor6Uv2PpNRiV_XgQdvWBrI8GETlicBzRbzcE1LPQ26723_vQdWgroK1KO_6wwIdTfmM7uN58hV9wAR6YF2CXE50Sr0OHl_v4bahpYb938nQuWR3cXj/w640-h396/Fastar+John+golden.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>If not always completely reliable, ancient mercenaries were at least esteemed as necessary professionals. But after the modern nation state began to emerge out of the mercenary-infested wreckage of the Thirty Years War, renting soldiers fell out of fashion. In the late 20th century, mercenaries attracted a downright dishonorable reputation because of their role in vile bush wars and civil conflicts. If anything, the corporatization of mercenary work in the modern Middle East has only sunk their standing further.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/rogue-trader-mercenaries-from-1987.html">Rogue Trader minis</a> that I've been profiling in my last couple posts reflect the idea of mercenaries that was current in the 1980's: these are decommissioned army men looking for a buck or poorly-organized irregulars. More like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crippled_Eagles">Crippled Eagles</a> of Rhodesia than Blackwater's shiny private army in Iraq.</p><p>Well, let's have at 'em. First up is "World Burner." I have always been a little entranced by this figure. He's armed only with an auto-pistol and a gas mask -- and yet his faceless glare (and sinister name) make him seem like a terrifying opponent:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AomIxE_yH0Yb2ICYI2Pp80kYJYlCEt7v1UyLszebqenWctnU8ppldXwTvrAViJ_ajlwvADZTFzO26kUEUxOJ0fjQGeATCfP2MjsrRP1ehLa0lukvkvPoSeyrRrLl0o-O7_zRhat6W8Lp/s2048/Worldburner+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AomIxE_yH0Yb2ICYI2Pp80kYJYlCEt7v1UyLszebqenWctnU8ppldXwTvrAViJ_ajlwvADZTFzO26kUEUxOJ0fjQGeATCfP2MjsrRP1ehLa0lukvkvPoSeyrRrLl0o-O7_zRhat6W8Lp/w640-h384/Worldburner+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Next is "Break Out Con." I feel like if I were an escaped convict, I wouldn't advertise that fact by making it a nickname. But then, of course, I don't have a fully loaded bolter. When you've got a bolter, they call you anything you want.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1AGLmW3t45civJ2WocxAlGs3_HgSpqKFP7OvyTI9AK7wwoB5PQ5LCcgAx6pEtIUemaV9TbTFCHhxeaVwAqgyN7QsZSYI9QHSgfP5Qino8zzbLRj-mwGRW5w34-wFQVHexzzpwKYhBjuN/s2048/Breakout+Con+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1AGLmW3t45civJ2WocxAlGs3_HgSpqKFP7OvyTI9AK7wwoB5PQ5LCcgAx6pEtIUemaV9TbTFCHhxeaVwAqgyN7QsZSYI9QHSgfP5Qino8zzbLRj-mwGRW5w34-wFQVHexzzpwKYhBjuN/w640-h384/Breakout+Con+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Here is "Hacker Harris." He and Break Out Con are a classic example of the Citadel Design Studio's modular technique, where the same basic sculpt is reconfigured to create two or more miniatures. First and foremost, this was a way of producing more miniatures in a shorter period of time, and it helps explain the Studio's ability to crank out so many different miniatures in such a short period of time (that and the drugs). But the modular technique has other benefits. It implants a pleasing sense of pattern in Citadel's miniature ranges.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkrsZrgldKdBvWLjlia9UE6MP9mi7iMmQc8exvGD3BuutlwrqEIkt-mSh5ZDapvyAgoh3FJaAM2qAT5MKDhRP71Nio27FXm_02UX2_lofXkl3fMPGidKb_imaw94963vI1ikA1No9GSA-/s2048/Hacker+Harris+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkrsZrgldKdBvWLjlia9UE6MP9mi7iMmQc8exvGD3BuutlwrqEIkt-mSh5ZDapvyAgoh3FJaAM2qAT5MKDhRP71Nio27FXm_02UX2_lofXkl3fMPGidKb_imaw94963vI1ikA1No9GSA-/w640-h384/Hacker+Harris+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>And finally, here's "Fast-Star John"...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPhV58bDPZFqZaRL14Mjk1OwjF-9Mgmy_TUaT6R_uRXh2tUY76LUsHo-DxiHzKfkrKtB6v6b_6aZNypKS1PS1ocl_Dsfk0SATRfIL3ViHAhYKM6dwQBkKzR4iKHPcLqLsqODFPQ6YJlsZ/s2048/Fast-Star+John+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPhV58bDPZFqZaRL14Mjk1OwjF-9Mgmy_TUaT6R_uRXh2tUY76LUsHo-DxiHzKfkrKtB6v6b_6aZNypKS1PS1ocl_Dsfk0SATRfIL3ViHAhYKM6dwQBkKzR4iKHPcLqLsqODFPQ6YJlsZ/w640-h384/Fast-Star+John+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Fast-Star John appears to be a modular variation of World Burner. Both seem to be wearing a modified (and dyed) set of traditional Imperial Guard flak armour. Hence the sense that these fellows are decommissioned veterans or perhaps deserts. He also seems to be carrying an M16. Just the thing you want for your Bush War... in space.</p><p>Thanks for stopping by!</p><p><br /></p>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-62807676054009599502020-11-24T06:14:00.000-08:002020-11-24T06:14:01.837-08:00More Rogue Trader Era Mercenaries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuXOleQ6DGD9JiUbNKRnhiolF7jH89cfpJex0STTfVXPp790d1-g9peWee1Tm6HySwoLA0vOVF1w6xo14efzYOgamb77jsWUPBKVx0Kf8pUnYXAniO0Dv_G-KEvnvOISsIBHcCGdfuvG9/s4534/RT7+Rogue+Trader+Mercenaries+1987+5x3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2720" data-original-width="4534" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuXOleQ6DGD9JiUbNKRnhiolF7jH89cfpJex0STTfVXPp790d1-g9peWee1Tm6HySwoLA0vOVF1w6xo14efzYOgamb77jsWUPBKVx0Kf8pUnYXAniO0Dv_G-KEvnvOISsIBHcCGdfuvG9/w640-h384/RT7+Rogue+Trader+Mercenaries+1987+5x3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Citadel's RT7 line of <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/rogue-trader-mercenaries-from-1987.html">Mercenaries</a> from 1987 represent a long-dead vision of Warhammer 40K. With their medley of attire, weaponry and species, they hearken to 40K as a messy skirmish game that prioritized narratives and role-playing. Like other early lines that died out (the <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/ic301pirates/index.htm">Space Pirates</a> or the <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/1st40k/index.htm">Adventurers</a>), the mercs have no place in the tidy world of race-based factions and army lists that became the norm as 40K pivoted towards competitive tournament play. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I painted the mercenaries, I kept thinking of how they may not fit into 40K as a game, but they do match 40K as portrayed in fiction, especially the excellent novels of <a href="https://www.blacklibrary.com/authors/dan-abnett">Dan Abnett</a>. Even Abnett's frequent references to "bodygloves" (i.e. protective wet-suits worn under coats or heavier armour) seem to be prefigured in mercenaries like "Plunderino Pete" and "Sarge Rockhard."</div><div><br /></div><div>And speaking of Sarge, here he is:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuR-yNqbV4B7u01sN-Z84UIhI3XuX6fpJSghL2kXhc-XI5d8Rkr0JNAN6WpQjC7veQ9vz2MsC0scrrbUOrqlgv3lzYNmkBFO724eTup33pO0Zmt8pvUAT2NFRYXGm29b3aX_uBe9GS1-E/s2048/Sarge+Rockhard+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuR-yNqbV4B7u01sN-Z84UIhI3XuX6fpJSghL2kXhc-XI5d8Rkr0JNAN6WpQjC7veQ9vz2MsC0scrrbUOrqlgv3lzYNmkBFO724eTup33pO0Zmt8pvUAT2NFRYXGm29b3aX_uBe9GS1-E/w640-h384/Sarge+Rockhard+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The next fella I painted was the somewhat unimaginatively named "Shorty". I believe this abhuman ratling is the first and last Warhammer 40K miniature to be sculpted with a smile:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmeaCvN_rOQ6mL0NWc8cQgQe3mq3aciuVEtJYNylwZKwkJLJONcWdDkyaL5VhBzZtGJJT6apINeuAD6NY2DtZK5ARj5_ZHvLYOR1bo-KOugs-4C5G9XRGrpN6tSdHvGY-dtCr8qoPMyiRa/s2048/Shorty+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmeaCvN_rOQ6mL0NWc8cQgQe3mq3aciuVEtJYNylwZKwkJLJONcWdDkyaL5VhBzZtGJJT6apINeuAD6NY2DtZK5ARj5_ZHvLYOR1bo-KOugs-4C5G9XRGrpN6tSdHvGY-dtCr8qoPMyiRa/w640-h384/Shorty+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Here is "No-Face Fargo." I spent 10 minutes staring into space trying to think of something witty to say about a miniature named "No-Face Fargo," but I drew a blank.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9lcIRq8m0hfef7PIgUcZX14JaUzOHlAGQL58mXNLXTJBqPIyIHzQmPWROIAd3i95KHYV31VkiC5rjCScsz03DHyKvJRVqqHh4jAg0CTMIIyUPJmX_isrhudAEtUtoK_eohu28F3yh-CR/s2048/No-Face+Fargo+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9lcIRq8m0hfef7PIgUcZX14JaUzOHlAGQL58mXNLXTJBqPIyIHzQmPWROIAd3i95KHYV31VkiC5rjCScsz03DHyKvJRVqqHh4jAg0CTMIIyUPJmX_isrhudAEtUtoK_eohu28F3yh-CR/w640-h384/No-Face+Fargo+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Finally, here is "Abaddon." Well, at least here is the <i>first</i> miniature to be called "Abaddon." Later, this name would be reallocated to <a href="https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Abaddon">Abaddon the Despoiler</a>, "the greatest Champion of Chaos Undivided in the galaxy" and the "scourge of the Black Crusade that divided the Imperium and ushered in the eternal night." But in 1987, Abaddon was just a guy who decided to show up for garrison duty wearing a bright green envirosuit:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0hemIIkjRmOQMZsLFwES8RSpggG2mhHPBIbwtflzgYDkh9rw6vN09KXDb6uz34rFXQpBoOzUsZIWhYZen4T4Rah8YQFkdnCw5fSVee5aIr6BOe9gIxVoCK1FMQ2-ywpDMsGvERhGkJotN/s2048/Abbadon+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0hemIIkjRmOQMZsLFwES8RSpggG2mhHPBIbwtflzgYDkh9rw6vN09KXDb6uz34rFXQpBoOzUsZIWhYZen4T4Rah8YQFkdnCw5fSVee5aIr6BOe9gIxVoCK1FMQ2-ywpDMsGvERhGkJotN/w640-h384/Abbadon+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope you are all safe and healthy. Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4e6ptj9VHg7kpkrl6ZEZVFao0gsnyn7ymJiF00szkwgfxp_XUY_mqW8VDcJxwVD8Ar3SVww9BkxtWcdPufuWrFSemr0r4EazBd1qk26bU6pAFnk6oeYB98xkvWIQyE3ctMiyMOE65iAqp/s2048/Sarge+Rockhard+golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4e6ptj9VHg7kpkrl6ZEZVFao0gsnyn7ymJiF00szkwgfxp_XUY_mqW8VDcJxwVD8Ar3SVww9BkxtWcdPufuWrFSemr0r4EazBd1qk26bU6pAFnk6oeYB98xkvWIQyE3ctMiyMOE65iAqp/w400-h248/Sarge+Rockhard+golden.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-3968909249769996492020-11-16T18:36:00.001-08:002020-12-05T09:23:10.022-08:00Rogue Trader Mercenaries from 1987<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The moment of my death, a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUbJs_QSnik">snow-globe</a> will roll out of my nerveless hands and a few whispered words will fall unheeded from my lips... <i>Irn Bonce... the Squat</i>...</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8k2HIR-BJhSWdd0YJMTqhBK4qnAIDU4tgI5V7NhINdkYb607NYcu2bFQmdz2kKenN_MF0mKcCgQ5fpQ-klodSumly7QrkcjdGF6UVU-yVl47mOhGris6KMBgvPQ8-r_n4r44hyFKa7ez/s2048/Irn+Bonce+the+Squat+golden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8k2HIR-BJhSWdd0YJMTqhBK4qnAIDU4tgI5V7NhINdkYb607NYcu2bFQmdz2kKenN_MF0mKcCgQ5fpQ-klodSumly7QrkcjdGF6UVU-yVl47mOhGris6KMBgvPQ8-r_n4r44hyFKa7ez/w640-h396/Irn+Bonce+the+Squat+golden.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It all goes back to late 1987, when my older brother brought home White Dwarf #95. This was the apex issue of the magazine. Among so many other things, it introduced us to The Fury of Dracula, Ruglud's Armourd Orcs, the 3rd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Deodorant Hover Tank, Prince Ulther's Imperial Dwarfs, and a flexi-disk recording of Sabbat's love-ballad </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Blood for the Blood God</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. But among all these wonders, my eye was glued to one thing only: the Mercenaries sculpted by Bob Naismith and the Perry Twins for Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bKKzEh-40xkxjqA4CC4tXXsPe5Rg_KWlXtiHsTSs4eEwnZ263B81foE6hfNcYqtPIgABfSourNdJwjJFh1eVVuMlCVda-ZJHT5NM5L3OruoDTKwbaEGx60NZ_p4VBbPVNFStHNF2plme/s400/Rogue+Trader+Mercenaries.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="400" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bKKzEh-40xkxjqA4CC4tXXsPe5Rg_KWlXtiHsTSs4eEwnZ263B81foE6hfNcYqtPIgABfSourNdJwjJFh1eVVuMlCVda-ZJHT5NM5L3OruoDTKwbaEGx60NZ_p4VBbPVNFStHNF2plme/w400-h303/Rogue+Trader+Mercenaries.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the 12-year-old me, these 16 minis lay at the summit of desire. My brother and I managed to collect most of them and we played hundreds of games with them. But, of course, as we aged, we grew neglectful of our treasures and I gave or traded them away by the time I left for university.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A few years ago, driven by the demon of nostalgia, I managed to reconstruct a complete set of the RT7 Mercenaries. But it took me another few years to build up the courage to paint them. These minis occupy such a large part of my imagination, I couldn't quite bring myself to touch them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anyway, in the past few weeks, I finally screwed myself (??) to the sticking place. In tribute to my memories, I didn't depart from the colour schemes set out in the White Dwarf. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are the first four I painted, starting with "Kylla Condotti" (who originally appeared in early 1987 as "<a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/1st40k/First-RTx-01.jpg">The Imperial Garrison Trooper</a>"). I love the apprehensive look on his face. It seems to say, "Why is everyone else wearing armour?"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTQxr6ZYDVBj10KWO-m-yOwUme3m0J9XRGPJKssPvxEmyxshpwpBj__ZhJLa4Lx_82uhpHIxSwDIl8VkZYTqol9c5oXNa9LgJGNeKpahiiuiADKWbFaqF318C2YcY7oFvuADY8mr9-xDY/s2048/Kylla+Condotti+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTQxr6ZYDVBj10KWO-m-yOwUme3m0J9XRGPJKssPvxEmyxshpwpBj__ZhJLa4Lx_82uhpHIxSwDIl8VkZYTqol9c5oXNa9LgJGNeKpahiiuiADKWbFaqF318C2YcY7oFvuADY8mr9-xDY/w640-h384/Kylla+Condotti+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Inquisitor Augustus" is the only mercenary I didn't paint this autumn. I finished his bad buck-toothed self around 2015. As far as I can tell, my painting technique hasn't changed much in that time, and he fits right in with his brothers:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxW4Vs0Z85XlXdqhOjneR5RtipFoixYK2HhOLBCGo_icYubHTFdn3ybbHlKEZ3_8HlQj9qoQFho8lX4102oojJmeamHUSV28raYj_x9OWzzmpwgyI1BuYlmwPSgVwXV28r9dGBVwIZfK9/s2048/Inquisitor+Augustus+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxW4Vs0Z85XlXdqhOjneR5RtipFoixYK2HhOLBCGo_icYubHTFdn3ybbHlKEZ3_8HlQj9qoQFho8lX4102oojJmeamHUSV28raYj_x9OWzzmpwgyI1BuYlmwPSgVwXV28r9dGBVwIZfK9/w640-h384/Inquisitor+Augustus+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Plunderino Pete" is the victim of a typo. It's clear from </span><a href="http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt7mercenaries/astrop55rt502mercsx-01.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica;">later ads</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> that his true name is "Plundering Pete." But Plunderino always seemed more romantic to me, as if Pete came from an unfortunately named Italian village:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTXvc6OvdtvpR3lZxVfnuL73K4mVs7rCdT4vwL1uQAQ_yVbdGKKSQ7y1KJGsUr1LAteySA7UAbDwVQQPMj7Cry_R9jQaIhQKxaxE7bP34ZlvzuunoCVeOD87N-bjR6P3DnbelkJxWpvcRh/s2048/Plunderino+Pete+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTXvc6OvdtvpR3lZxVfnuL73K4mVs7rCdT4vwL1uQAQ_yVbdGKKSQ7y1KJGsUr1LAteySA7UAbDwVQQPMj7Cry_R9jQaIhQKxaxE7bP34ZlvzuunoCVeOD87N-bjR6P3DnbelkJxWpvcRh/w640-h384/Plunderino+Pete+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Irn Bonce the Squat" is my favourite in the RT7 range of Mercenaries. I love his power-armour, his unusual grenade launcher, and his visored helm. But I've never quite understood his name (is it a reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru">Irn-Bru</a>?) or why he has an "M" emblazoned on his forehead:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxHGCPzBXaE7rzAIQwvmIzk24lO1o6kmLdOvNpCKntEtNTxsXufYbckj_BtNlKfZwrI4ZOpo31tM6oTtLR-Dg0dZ24zV3m20thayFGKR04xD1GqcCxZ7su0GWEG6zauRQVYgM6-cdTuHx/s2048/Irn-Bonce+the+Squat+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxHGCPzBXaE7rzAIQwvmIzk24lO1o6kmLdOvNpCKntEtNTxsXufYbckj_BtNlKfZwrI4ZOpo31tM6oTtLR-Dg0dZ24zV3m20thayFGKR04xD1GqcCxZ7su0GWEG6zauRQVYgM6-cdTuHx/w640-h384/Irn-Bonce+the+Squat+RT7+Mercenary+1987+Citadel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for stopping by - and stay tuned for <a href="https://www.oldenhammer.com/2020/11/more-rogue-trader-era-mercenaries.html">more mercs</a>!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>matthewjksullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126108200355039621noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874877056919928739.post-33159534473960630722020-06-11T06:33:00.001-07:002021-04-13T20:55:33.034-07:00Star Wars Bounty Hunter Miniatures<br />
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Can you break up with someone who has just died? I think of this Seinfeldian question when I contemplate <i>Star Wars Imperial Assault.</i><br />
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In the beginning, I went deep for the <a href="http://www.oldenhammer.com/p/the-complete-imperial-assault-miniature.html">Imperial Assault miniatures</a>. We went for long walks and took cooking classes together. But gradually I began to feel trapped. As the game lost vitality, languished and fell into a coma, I knew my love was dying too. When Fantasy Flight Games announced there would be <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/eoarn3/any_rumors_on_the_future_of_imperial_assault/">no new minis</a> for the game, I hit my limit. As the hearse carted the game away, I stood in the driveway shouting, "And don't come back!"<br />
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I had just one regret. I always wanted to possess the iconic roster of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmPIJvkoOI0">six bounty hunters</a> from <i>The Empire Strikes Back. Imperial Assault </i>gave us splendid renditions of Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88 and Bossk. But it<i> </i>croaked before it could bequeath the final two: Zuckuss and 4-LOM.<br />
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Thankfully there are other ways to get 28mm Star Wars miniatures. For instance, there is that wretched hive of scum and villainy, the 3D printing service Shapeways. I turned to the excellent designer <i><a href="https://www.shapeways.com/shops/mel_miniatures">Mel Miniatures</a>, </i>whose catalog fills the gaps left by the more orthodox gaming companies. Here's the Zuckuss that I bought from them:<br />
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And here's the assassin droid 4-LOM.<br />
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Once I entered the world of off-brand Star Wars miniatures, I didn't want to stop. If it was wrong to cheat on Fantasy Flight Games, I didn't want to be right.<br />
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But 3D printing through Shapeways is <i>expensive. </i>Twenty-five dollars a figure turns miniature painting from a hobby to a vice. So I turned to the pre-painted Star Wars miniatures produced by Wizards of the Coast between 2004-2010. They often sell for a dollar or two, and there are hundreds of choices. Of course, this line of miniatures has some problems: the plastic is soft and doesn't capture fine detail. But the shoddy factory colouring makes the sculps seem worse than they really are. A decent paint job at home will hide a many sins.<br />
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To illustrate my point, here's my slightly converted rendition of Boushh, the bounty hunter who Leia impersonated in <i>The Return of the Jedi:</i><br />
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And here's the Wookie bounty hunter Black Krrsantan, who's well-known to anyone who has dabbled in the recent wealth of Star Wars comics:<br />
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