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yes - more squats! thats what I need. I have three lined up for painting - special weapon squats!

Ambull - yeah thats the spirit! refinement, class, the occasional grey hair and a mutiple personality disorder. Thats all you need to enjoy Rogue Trader Club.

And can anyone tell me how I can change the name of my blog? I think the word 'Never-ending' is scaring away people with short attention spans ...

I believe if you edit the first post, it will change the title. Not 100% sure of that though.

Thanks Grakmar! I will give it a go - and welcome to my temporarily stalled blog. I will do some squats specially and hopefully they will be fresh out of the oven by the time my card reader arrives.

here we go - I've got my new card reader

first things first - new squats with special weapons!

and heres a group shot of all my finished squats


Love my sqats - they are like 23 years old!!
And heres some WIPs of the dreadnought - not at all pleased with the power fist - going to redo that

As you can tell from the last pic with SM for scale my dread is a bit too small - thats what comes of not having a plan - but I learn from my mistakes

Finally I have decided my army is crying out for leadership so here is my captain, pinned and ready to paint - Inquisitor to follow shortly


Comments, hints tips and insults are all welcome

I like the Dread, it's got a nice stance and I think the scale is fine.

If you'd don't like the scale, maybe add a bit to the bottom of the feet to increase the height, and a bit in between the arms and torso, to widen it a little. Honestly I think it's a strong mini as-is.

Oh yeah, and that Terminator is such an awesome figure, the first time I saw a picture of that was the old Red-covered Citadel Painting Guide.
I wish I still had that, it had a great diorama pictures on the back, I think Mike McVey had built it.

I think at this point I will keep the scale as is and maybe make a slightly bigger one with what I've learned. He is goin to have green stuff emblems on his legs and shoulders and an engine bit on his back, maybe a banner pole. I think the hard part now is getting his fist right - I really want to put twin bolters on it as thats what they used to have.

Hope I can do the terminator captain dude justice!

Squats looking great as always
Agree the dread should definitely have twin bolters and want to see what you do with the termie cap. I may even dig mine out and get him stripped - of course he'll then just sit around waiting for new paint for a few millennia
Hmm, okay, think I really need to go freshen up after my 23hour stocktake at work now as I'm just making comments on blogs with no useful stuff in

Oh, yeah got the red box fine, thanks a lot. Did you realise you left some terracotta stuff in there?

Wow, I love this trip down rogue trader lane, great stuff! Man I could use a couple of those old mkI landraider lascannons! Can't wait to see more!

Thanks heliodore, and don't worry I think this thread will be going for a while as I've got about a hundred unpainted old minis and I just cant seem to stop myself from buying more! If only I could paint as fast as I can shop.

Monkeytroll you just gave me my first chuckle of the morning. Dont worry about those old bits of clay in your nice shiny red box, If I were you I would chuck em in the lake...

I think I am getting a studio for ceramics soon - just need to shell out a bloody grand or so for a kiln and I will make more trolls - this time with arms legs and body and maybe genetalia


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Oh and the postman just called - thankyou high-spec lenses LTD for your splenid lascannons! I wonder if they have tiny lenses in them - for focusing the laser-beam

everytime I type 'laser-beam' I have the urge to watch the austin powers trilogy again.

Take it that means the rumours of a free kiln/wheel were bullpoo after all then? Well, good luck on the studio front anyway.
Slaaneshi trolls then ?

Sorry no lenses in the cannons, you can probably see the holes where I ripped 'em out so as to re-fit one of the cyber-pike. Waste of time really, because when I threw one of those bits of clay overboard the stupid fish managed to get it's snout stuck in there. Now it's swimming around blindly bumping into boats.

Oh, and now I can focus again after a LONG shower, is that a nasty old mould line on that bolter wielding stunty?

I got two free wheels but the kiln is a 2ton job that runs on gas and you whould need a small crane to shift it!! still - two wheels for free and maybe I can sell one to help buy a small kiln

It is defo a nasty mould lines but thats what I get for photoing right down the edge of it - Its too much hastle to remore it now - I might drill out the bolter barrel to make it look better though. got my tiny drilling set!

an old flame saw my minis the other day and said that I had gone all anal retentative on em and was that because I was getting competitive because of dakka! have to admit that he was right but I take it as a complement. theres nothing like a healthy mix of pride, jealousy and vanity to get me painting better. I already have sloth, greed and malice aplenty so thats all sins covered, I think its nearly time I went to the dark side and start painting chaos...

That makes six by the arithmetic I was taught, and I'm fairly sure I was also taught there were 7 sins Then again, reckon I've discovered a few that weren't mentioned, although if we're talking sloth I don't think your painting counts, several of your mini's seem to get painted in the time it takes me to decide a colour scheme. So far today I've managed a couple of small patches of red, a flesh wash and some black stockings and cap. And a few looks at dakka.

I was avoiding the temptation to mention drilling out the barrels

Thanks, when I get started I usually finish in the same day - but its just getting started thats the trouble - I've got the inquistor and the captain sitting here undercoated and with a thin wash of dark grey to bring out the detail and I just cant quite get off my ass to do anything else just yet. Maybe lunch first - going out for drinkys later so they might not get done

Damn whats that other sin - I could just google it but thats cheating... errrrrrm errrr, Lust thats the one - how could I forget.

lol, easy to forget that one

See, that's a sign from Slaanesh, you need to look at some of the old chaos mini's too Definitely a lot of character to some of those, and just as further temptation I may start on a couple and throw up some progress on my chaos thread later...



edit: Although that's definitely not a reason to forsake the squats

Well I've got two chaos squats so its definitely not! I'll keep an eye on your thread

Umm, of course, yes..yes..the umm, the chaos squats. No..no,no,no, of course I hadn't forgotten about them, how could I? Those were...ummm..the...err..the very thing I umm had in mind, yes obviously.

[casually walks off whistling]

And having said I'll do a bit of chaos stuff, I suppose I really should get off my backside and wander down to the workroom (sounds so much grander than room full of toy soldiers and assorted crap)

How on earth did lust ever get lumped in with all those nasty sins? It can be a healthy thing...

I think I would like very much to see some chaos squats. Lots of room for strangeness there.

yeah I'm going to start a chaos pirate warband thingy, the necromundia dudes and RT space pirates will be the cultists and I've got some second edition chaos marines a couple of RT traitor marines and of course the Chaos Squats. Also got some beastmen

HAHA, and another one falls into the web of chaos.

Can't wait to see where you take them paint-wise, for some reason I can't help but envisage a real 'Blanchitsu' vibe coming from them.

well having done a lot of research I would say blanchitsu would be great! if I can pull it off - I want bright colours and contrasts, detailed and bizarre freehand, and a slightly surreal feeling. Also I'm afraid that a uniform paint scheme is right out - which may make them look a bit incoherent, but that's cos they are incoherent - I'm fed up of churning out uniforms. Time for a bit of fun...

On a more boringly uniform note here is the first draft of my captain - he is by no means finished but its not looking to bad..




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oh dear thats a big mould line on the ammo clip - you only see these things on photos sometimes

weetyskemian44 wrote: I want bright colours and contrasts, detailed and bizarre freehand, and a slightly surreal feeling.

Excellent, just what I was hoping for I think you can pull off that blanchitsu feeling, your minis already have an old-skool 'feel' to the paint which I think is sometimes lost when people are painting older figures. Your squats are excellent examples of this, they just ooze that original Rogue Trader vibe.

Cap's looking sweet so far, nothing boring about it, the Imperials go for that whole uniform thing after all Is that a resin base he's sitting on? Well standing on, but you get my drift.

yep resin base from ebay - ruined city style - they are about 4 quid for 2.

I think half the reason my paint job looks retro is cos I still have the same paints I bought 20 years ago - they are getting a bit crusty now. still liquid though. But no seriously complement accepted - old school was what I was going for.

I've pinned together my first chaos warrior and given him a curvy knife from the night goblin sprue. he will be given a lick of paint real soon - I think I'm feelin like sky blue, fiery orange and a smattering of pale purple, with a lotta copper and gold. he is gona be one psychedelic marine

Al of these are awesome it is hard to make old models look good but you do an amazing job, I really like those squats if GW still had them as an army I would defiantly get them. You're lucky to have them.

Looking good as usual...I like the dred.

M.

thanks pennywise and manokok, I really enjoy painting the squats too - they have a small surface area so I can paint three at a time!

I've been a bit lazy recently - what with work and friends. But I've made a start on the first chaos dude - he is a lovely shade of blue at the mo - and he will have a flaming orange border detail.

Reliving my wargaming life looking at some of these!

Glad to help tortured robot - I love my little nostalgia trip - its special to me.

I'm making a start on my first chaos marine, he is not as old as I would like, hes like 1995 I think, but he still fits in with the overall theme.

The yellow is going to be very carfully washed with red wash - don't want any overlaps with the blue - I want maximum contrast on the colors - his pipes will be dark green and his knee pads and gloves might be purple - not sure - might go for a natural horn color for the horns but I don't know - any thoughts or comments are welcome

Yep, you were right when you said you were going psychedelic Not sure if the green will work with the blue/purple/orangey thing, but will hold off judgement till you're done, I was looking at a few of my old chaos marines last night and they have a real mish-mash on them so can't really comment - I'll blame it on impetuous youth and strip 'em down. Horns might be good in a very dark red fading to bright red, probably best to wait till the rest is done though.

And suitably cunning, I hadn't twigged to your speed being down to the size of the minis

yeah the only thing quicker to paint than squats are squigs!

Be careful now! You're starting to slip into the territory where some of us have the models

I'm not sure I'm sold on the rainbow color scheme. If the colors aren't too drastically different, I think it could look really cool. But, you don't want it to slip into where he ends up looking like a clown.