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Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps







I've long been in love with the warhammer 40k setting. Something about the fusion of high and low technology, wonder and madness, realism and fantasy, historical and fantasy inspiration and general craziness. My interest tends to be less about cinematic battles and more in gritty, low end conflicts like Taros and in exploring the possibilities of the setting. I have five main goals in this project:

1) To share the civilian 40K stuff I've already done in one place.
2) To keep track of websites with suitable miniatures so I can collect them over time as budget allows.
3) To develop a stockpile of 40K civilian figures, partly for use in "counts as" armies (militia), partly for roleplaying games, and partly just as "aahhrt".
4) To represent a feudal world in the early stages of contact with the imperium for a future campaign.
5) To do several "minor xenos" forces for the same reasons.

A note on scales: To make this more practical I'm pretty much not worrying about scale. I'm imagining that is takes place in the Argo Cluster, (campaign here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/524342.page) an area with a wide variety of human variants from tiny 25mms to hulking 35mms due to genetic manipulation. After all, small people consume less resources...

One of my principle sources of ideas is this article: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Civilian_Life_in_Warhammer_40%2C000_AD

Lets start with #1


A wheel chair bound noble and her retainers.



Very poor picture of some figures assembled for a ball.



Closer up. Since battles and rpgs generally involve fighting, most figures will be armed civilians. Here we have an eccentric minor noble.



And a couple from a quasi japanese culture. I'd like to do several cultural variations. I like it when 40K references real history, particularly if it is obscure.



WIP shot.



Farmer and his Grox.



WIP. Important safety tip - plastic animals don't take craft paint (or sometimes any paint) very well.



Revered earth mover "Pulgax".



Armed civilians in hazard conditions gear.



Rogue trader crew or militia rabble.


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1st Lieutenant





Because we’re here,lad...

Brilliant! Love the variety and quirks of the civilians. The earth mover is fantastic!

What's next?

I love those little moments between the first kiss and the pepper spray... 
   
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Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

These are really neat! I especially got a kick out of the revered earth mover.
   
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Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps







Why thank you! Being someone who is kind of bad with machines but has to interact with them a lot, I pray to the machine god a great deal. I can really feel the machine spirits, especially when they are angry. : ) So revering machines makes a great deal of sense to me. I do think Pulgax needs more purity seals. I'm going to post my genestealer cult stuff here and then figure out my web page list while they are fresh in my mind.



Couple of cult characters



Cult truck. For typical imperial vehicles I favor interwar soviet stuff.



Armored Limo. Generic so it can be used for general roleplaying. I expect to do another at some point, as I see the wealthy using them quite a bit. Probably use one of the super stretch german armored scout cars. I know I'd want one on any 40K planet!



Cult Convoy. I see the Rhino as near universal in the imperium, with lots of civilian use, plus the arbites of course. Some rhinos I might do: Hostile environoment tractor, fire fighting/riot control/pesticide sprayer, traveling minstrel/religious mystery show, Mobile shrine, mobile hospital (for the necessary and deserving of course).



Cult Earth Mover Type 1. Needs more black hash chevrons I think.



Small trucks (actually wooden). Armored windows help give a 40K look, and cover non detailed interiors. I'd like to do an armored wasteland bus.



Cult leaders.



Cult Gun. I have a fascination with towed artillery on the tabletop and plan to do several as part of militia forces and such.



Cult beastmen. As much as GW has tried to squat the imperial beastmen, there will be a place for them in my version of the Imperium. Homo sapiens Verablis. Besides, good mutants are hard to find.



Though not in any way civilian, here are the patriarch and genestealers for completeness.


   
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1st Lieutenant





Because we’re here,lad...

I love the idea of a small farming town being slowly infiltrated and taken over by a Genestealer cult. The limo is great! I thought about the Town Mayor being one of the first to be infected, or being coerced by a Magos in some way! Great work.

I love those little moments between the first kiss and the pepper spray... 
   
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Pious Palatine






Amazing. I love the armoured limo.

What did you use as the starting point for that?

D
   
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Calculating Commissar






Reading, Berks

 evildrcheese wrote:
Amazing. I love the armoured limo.
What did you use as the starting point for that?
D


It looks like a ww2 Russian BA-3 or BA-6 armoured car with the turret replaced?

These all look brilliant. It is always a pleasure to see a cult in action

   
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I bet we'll see cult from GW fairly soon, now that they've done admech. Still, I'm glad to have mine. Glad you like it too! The Limo is a BA-6 IIRC. The main issue with working with 1/35 armored cars is that they are very far off the ground compared to 28mm heroic figs. I've lowered this one somewhat, and if I had it to do over again I'd lower it even further. I think I will do this one as well:
Substantial lowering of the chasis and building up of the back will be in order.

Ok, now I'm going to start indexing the miniatures lines I want to use, since this will take a while.

First we have the attempt to make "suitable for 40K civilians" - Colony 87. I missed the kickstarter, but I'll get some eventually I expect.



Now on the subject of vehicles, I want to do at least 1 coach for the nobility - something huge, strange and bizarre, driven by a servitor perhaps. The way I see it the imperium retains low tech solutions in many situations.


These are by westwind and might do, but probably it will involve scratch building. Wedding toppers offer a starting point, pity they seem to want you to buy 12 at a time.




   
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Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps







Now we come to the question of how to represent the masses of the imperium who probably work mostly in factories or farming combines. I was looking for some kind of "soviet worker's battalion" type figures, but nothing really came up. There are some partisan figures, but the clothing is too recognizably 20th century Europe. So what I am thinking is Sailors with greenstuffed modifications to their hats to make them them look less recognizable and a few purity seals and such. The idea being to convert this:



Into This:



Here are some from pulpfigures.com that already have the right cap:

Though they are not as uniform as I would like.


More uniformed. One question is color of their uniforms. Grey or brown makes the most sense, but I have a lot figures painted both. Hmm. Maybe olive drab.

Perry miniatures has a naval brigade:


Hinterland makes 28mm female sailors that are a close match:



TMP link on the subject of 28mm sailors for future reference: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=268028

I would also like to figure out a way to "grimdark" the rifles. Maybe add scopes. Power hose to a backpack is better, but alot more work.
   
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Subscribed and will be checking back often for inspiration! One thing that always bothers me about the majority of 40K games/terrain is the lack of "everyday life" flavor.

Even a city that is a blasted warzone would still have abandoned vehicles, hiding/trapped civilians, roving gangs, etc. Looking at something like Stalingrad, in some instances a sense of normalcy would even creep back in at a certain point.

Looking forward to seeing what else you put up.


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Also for the worker uniforms I would recommend a medium blue. Works well for North Korea! Other than that my vote would be for a nice drab gray to match the general drudgery of what I imagine an Imperial workers life to be like.

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89th Mechanized Cavalry - 3500

Order of Our Martyred Lady - 2000

Various Inquisitors / Henchmen - ??? 
   
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Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

I like where this is going. Subscribed.

For vehicles, I can recommend Heller's 1/43 scale Citroen 2CV and 11CV kits. They scale well and are fairly inexpensive. I just need to get around to finishing off the ones I've started working on.

   
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Good cars are really hard to find, and I totally agree about the current GW ruined city terrain. It is impressive, and I think maybe the administrative center of an Imperial city would look like that, but I much prefer the old "scratch build" city with terrain with plenty of rubble and trash. It does take some work to make sure models can stand where they need to, but it works a lot better for me. I have a big cityfighting day coming up soon and I will probably put in some work upgrading some of my urban terrain. One thing I plan to add is more scattered paper. I picture the imperium as crushed under the most ridiculous bureaucracy ever conceived, and I imagine that an artillery hit on any non residential building would scatter meaningless forms over a huge area....

I also plan to do a message board. I found the board where people posted messages for loved ones in the enemy at the gates movie one of the most poignant parts of that movie.

Vehicles are certainly one of the tough areas. I'd love to have burned out vehicles around (though I think more imperials use feet, busses and bicycles than cars), but so few kits work that that would get very expensive very fast. Thanks for the 1/43 idea Zogg, I will definately check it out. 1/35 has been a constant struggle, and with some 25mm figures in the mix, smaller scale sounds good. I've used some wooden vehicles, but really if I want a lot of them I will need to get back into scratch building and casting.



I have some denizen figures ready to post up and some greenstuff joygirls as well, and my explorator/miners part way done. Ordered these guys as part of the Sanitation Militia. Or maybe Hygiene officers?

   
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cornwall UK

weird and wonderful stuff. You should totally get some plague doctors. Hell I should totally get some plague doctors too.

   
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Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps







Free shipping on those plague guys until 2015.... Just sayin' I think 40K really does push my "weird and wonderful" buttons. It is, if you think about it, really, really bizarre, but also familiar because of the historical aspects. The plague doctors will need some power cables (to what? We don't care!), some purity seals, and maybe some hoods or signs warning others not to approach. I think I'm also going to do a disinfectant sprayer (or flamer), guy who has a horse to carry around his fluids....

In the meantime, here are three citizens of the Argo Cluster from the 25mm strain of humanity: Mutant Crimelord Zaphod Bonepart, Mongo Salivare, local militia Man, and Anges Day, retainer of house something or other. (I'm going to paint her in black and yellow particolor like the retainers above, and give her a feather in her cap).


   
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Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

Feathers for hats are always a good move.

Subscribed, now that I actually know how to do that.
   
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Pious Palatine






Digging both the Plague Docs and Mutants. How do they compare size wise to a SM?

D
   
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This sort of imaginative stuff, unique and original takes on things is what it's all about. Great fun, great stuff, keep it coming.

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Earlobe deep in doo doo

Great stuff always enjoy your work!

"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
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Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps







Thanks all!

Size wise I don't know about the Plague Docs, which is part of the reason I'm getting them to see if I want more from that range. The two headed mutants and the other figs in that pic are tiny - 25mm. He'd come up to about a space marine's chin. Maybe. But I can easily see humanity varying a great deal in size in the imperium.

Here's a few things in the pipeline. I'm better at acquiring and converting models than actually painted them, though I've wound up with quite a few painted armies over the years.

First a Minor Xenos - the Kif. I always liked CJ Cherryh (well, Ok, I often liked her stuff, sometimes it seemed like one breathless political intrigue revelation after another). I liked the Chanur book's treatment of aliens - they seemed really Xeno without being OT. So when I say Denizen Miniatures was selling "not Kif" for $1.50 each I got them.



Here's what I got primed and washed:



The books described them as grey skinned in black robes, (and blood drinking vampires), which fit in pretty well with Imperial ideas about what Xenos are. But I have a ton of grey figures, and will probably get more during this project. I like grey, but it is overkill. Also, they looked very military and efficient with the squad leader signaling, various special weapons, etc. So I've decided to recast them as more decent, or at least less sinister, xenos troopers. The robes will be Camo smocks - not sure what exactly, maybe mottled woodland, maybe some kind of tigerstripe, maybe a more exotic aplenflage. That will add some variety to painting them. They are small, but on the big side of 25mm, so they look kind of like fighting bipedal shrews. Or something.

I don't have them yet, but I want some of zombiesmith's stuff. The quar are nice, but a little too WWI humans with long noses. The to'ok on the other hand, are awesome. Odd, quirky but believable if you think 40K is believable. I mean clearly, shields and guns and bright colored plate armor must work great. I like the heraldry. Very rarely do I see stock painted miniatures and think - "I want them just like that", but in this case I do.




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Here's a bit of work on an explorator team or hostile environments miners. The vehicles are from my IG but I think I may repurpose them to this. I think I will do the team in somewhat garish colors. They have more of a chance to express their individuality than most imperial citizens, plus I have a ton of grey and brass stuff already. The ground vehicles I can convert by adding more domes. 'Cause nothing says space like domes. The heavy track I like, but I may do a full on model tank conversion in stead. The smaller tracks are 1/35 french mortar carriers.











The team will be joined by a few Cobalt and Blue Moon figures:







With clear plastic Helmets!

Plus maybe reaper's Dee Dee:



Some of the guns will need to be converted to power drills, laser cutters, auspex surveyers, etc.
   
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There is not this idea.

Yes to clear plastic helmets! That's how you know that you're in space, after all.
   
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Woo-hoo for that Genestealer cult. Those guys look awesome.
   
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Yup, clear helmets is where it is at. Here's a quick and dirty piece of construction equipment. Paint windows blue, cover them with bolted on metal sheets, wash brown and dry brush a bit. I'd like to do a squad of construction workers with hammers and such. Probably off of Catachans.




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Heres some other interesting figures from blue moon manufacturing: heavy weapons crew, but they might be useful for lots of things.

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Painted one of the 25mm retainers to House Vauren (the yellow and black lot). The picture shows how incredibly crude the highlighting is. : ( Looks better in typical wargaming light and distance.



Lord Vauren's Aunt Lucidia and some servitors:



And more retainers:



Test Kif Painted



Squad Progressing.

   
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Lurking Gaunt






Amazing paint job on the not kif!
Really enjoying this blog so far!

   
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A little bit behind in saying this, but... the To'ok look like space turtles! I love it!! Your work is great, liking the creepy clown-ish look the cultists got!

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Thanks! Yeah, the to'ok have a very original look. I get the impression that the guy who makes them has trouble sculpting humans or super elaborate stuff, but he does a great job coming up with ways around that with things that really look great but not too hard to sculpt (though still well beyond my ability). One thing I like about the To'ok is the variety in the squad - you get a grenade launcher, some kind of heavy stubber, a standard, medic, variety of others.

Speaking of which, here's Bella the Lady of the Evening so to speak. I figure women dressed mostly in parchment is probably a thing in the seedier parts of the Imperium, so I started with the reaper Bella figure and GS'd some parchment, purity seals, and boots. Still a bit rough in places, but I'm going to try to smooth out the bad bits with putty. Still, it is some of the best GS I've done, which I attribute to doing only a tiny bit at once then leaving it for a day to harden before adding another piece.





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Looks like Ironclad Miniatures in England will be supplying the Scavenger types:



5.5 pounds for 4 dudes is a good price too.

They also have some martians who would fit with some of my ideas for desert dwelling imperials.

Got the Plague beak guys. They scale well with the usual GW stuff and seem sculpted to a reasonable level of quality.


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Need this dude from reaper too:


(Dr. Totenkranz).

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Each day he rises before dawn, performs the ritual worship of his power broom to appease its machine spirit, then shuffles out onto the streets and walks two hours to where the inhabitants are wealthy enough, or powerful enough, to care about clean streets. Head down he labors, nursing his hatred of the Master of Curbs who oversees him and occasionally bullying his Twentyfiem'em shovel man. One among uncounted billions, his only break in labor is the rituals the Emperor demands. Philosophers sometimes say the human spirit is unquenchable. Does he dream and aspire to more, or are the soporific additives to his diet of synthetic protein and reclamation stew enough for him?
   
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cornwall UK

Lol - power broom... master of curbs... brilliant!

   
 
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