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I promise diamonds on the trousers for the next one!

Yeah, the Laughing God demands I laugh

Looks good, nice and bright.

Have to say I was also a bit suprised to not see diamond leggings, but not to worry, it would be boring if they all wore those


On a different note, with you looking for a new studio should those who are after mugs for a certain celebration coming up at the end of the year (I don't want to name it this early, bad enough I've already heard it mentioned in adverts) order soon?

I have found this site to very useful in identifying old GW minis

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Eldar(Warhammer_40,000_Rogue_Trader)_-_Collectors_Guide

Monkey troll and others - I would suggest that you wait for a week or two and I will let you know if everything has gone according to plan - if it does then I should be making mugs in my dads glasshouse (its full of dirt anyway so he shouldn't mind - so long as I keep the poisonous chemicals away from the tomatoes) with much greater speed as its just down the road. So then I can take orders.

Thanks for the link theunicorn - it seems more complete than sololegends

Definitely diamonds on the trousers next time.

Also - farseer and warlock may be out of the stripper today!

Mystery marine page 66 i think is a Rhino Marine...hangs onto the side of Rhino...
9 pages to go of updates....

I have recently been asked to paint some stuff for a friend's boyfriend for his Christmas present. I'm definitely not the best, but I do my best. Anyway... two of the figs I've been asked to paint are the Space Pirate and Space Thug old Rogue Trader figures. I want to take them and skip town after reading this blog.

you'll do fine I'm sure. Are you going for bright zany colors or a more grimdark approach? Either would work well for those minis. Feel free to post a pic on here!

I'll certainly post those two when I am finished. I hope I do you proud.

Updates - according to that "collecting citadel miniatures" link a few posts above this dude is a harlequin warlock so he can zap people with his zappy powers at the same time as blinding them with his acid rave gear.

Funky with a capital P.

Rave gear - check, fwoosh gun - check, glow fist - check, zappy powers - check. Sorted. Lets 'ave it large.

Like the blue to purple blend on his dakka, nice psychedelic touch.




Diamond leggings? Everyone does those, thought you'd do something different

Thanks - I'm all for the psycadellic look on these harlequins. They are like acid-clowns, think Batman Forever.

now you´re cooking with harlequins^^ this is what i had in mind! looks extremly cool... wnated to point out how funky that one is...but monkey beat me to it^^


vik

OOOh now that is Britpopaliscous Diamonds ... Check

love the whole jazzy psychedelic effect. one of your most impressive minis to date, really captures the style that was intended for these guys , in fact i think your style is born for harlequins.

it has that early 90s late 80s fleetway comics thing going on.. think Zenith brats bizarre Rogan gosh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_%28comics%29

yeah as if the guy is too funky to choose between colors...

Rogan Gosh! awsome, a guy named after a surprised curry, who looks like a Hindu deity's teenage son on a carnaby street shopping spree! I wlll have to look into that for a giggle.

I would agree that the colourful style is ideal for the harlequins and I do love to splash a little colour around. The Idea with these two halequins was to take three main colors; blue, yellow and purple and then play around with them and put a splash of red and green just here and there. Backed up with the gaudyness of gold it makes for a very harlequinish feel.

For anyone who didn't know - the harlequin is based on a european traditional entertainer.

ooh don't me started on traditional European entertainment , i am a great big fat fan of the Commedia dell'arte especially the funky sado masochistic characters.

Harlequin originally was Arlecchino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte

Another harlequin is on the way! - this time he will have purple trousers with yellow diamonds instead of the other way around.

Spangly

More spangles

It is important to note that, back in the bad old days, many characters were named after Celebrities, and Indian Food.

God Bless 80's GW.

--Brian

nice. I never figured out how to do the diamonds on mine... Well done weety.

I don't post here often, but it's one of my daily stops! I always love to see what new thing you have come up with lately! You never fail to impress me! the Harlies are great! Exactly what I think of when I think of Harlequins...I don't actually think of them very often, but when I do, that's what they look like!

Aren't Spangles hard-boiled sweets from the 80s? They were square, so I suppose if you turned them slightly you'd get diamonds

Looks cool nevertheless. And you've got that blue/purple thing going on with the gun again. Is that blending or are you messing with interference colours too? Either way I like.

I remember Rogan Gosh, he was in that 2000AD spin-off comic, can't recall the name right now. Had a re-vamped Dan Dare too, possibly by Grant Morrison?
I saw a bit of Zenith, but had stopped with 2000AD when he was about, so don't recall the Brats Bizzare.

I hadn't heard of it either - I have friends who are well into their 2000AD and have piles of them. I have often enjoyed reading a bit when I have the opportunity. Sounds cool though right!

The blue/purple is tenticle pink (I dont think you can get it any more) with a watered down blue vallejo wash worked into it in a cunning way

Thanks RS jake its nice to hear from someone new - I often browse stuff for a while before commenting as well.

Cheers y'all I had better be off now - who knows I might paint another

I too think your oop minis are the boss, and your painting is amazing. I get too anxious sitting and painting that long myself, of course army painting is another flavor of boring no matter what you do...green pants, green pants, green pants, now belts, belts, belts, etc.

Good news, everyone!

I spoke to the wwoman I'm painting for, and she and her boyfriend, who owns the minis in question, agreed to a lower fee in exchange for the two minis. So I now own the Space Thug and Space Pirate.

Of course, I need to finish all her minis before I can do my own. But to answer you earlier question, weety, I'll probably go grimdark.

Here are pics of the two figs, the space pirate is one you prev posted, this one has a laspistol in his hand, and it seems pretty flimsy. The other had the name "Space Thug" on it's base.

@ Weety , another gem!

@Monkey & Weety , i have a soft spot for 2000AD so many great writers and artists cut their teeth on that comic.
i miss its rebellious spirit and its cheeky genius.

A good deal vallhalla - I think my one of them has lost his multi-melta. The space thug could almost be a proto-goliath juve!

Cheers neil. I Agree - and its British!

Both nice minis Valhalla, my copies turned to chaos fairly sharpish

I grew up on 2000AD, from about prog 6 or thereabouts, just after it came out anyway. Got a bit bored with it eventually (late 80's/early 90's I think), seemed to have lost some of it's spirit, and wasn't keen on all the re-boots of characters like Rogue Trooper - I'm rarely keen on any re-makes/boots in any format me, old-skool through and through

Revolver - that was it! Probably still have the first few issues shoved in a box in my folks garage.

I always get the feeling that there is a long drawn out storyline going on but I have never read enough consecutive comics to be sure. I just love the artwork on them though - I read a random Slain story where this massive celtic bloke with a riddiculously big axe leads an army of british celts in totally slaughtering loads of romans. I was filled with a brief rush of national pride seeing all those bloody decapitated romans. And its all painted in a realistic style, which looked pretty and was a good medium for lots of blood. That's the part of 2000AD that I always remember anyway. I think it was a late 90s one.