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I found this ancient mini while sifting through my old bitz box. I decided to paint him up one evening, and wanted to go with a color scheme that fit the old Rogue Trader style from this little guy's era.




For the record, he's from Space Crusade- a Milton Bradley/Games Workshop team up to make a Space Hulk style game with a younger audience in mind. From my understanding, Space Crusade was never released in the US, and is unfortunately out of print.

It also had epic advertising!

Oh, that ad is awesome.

I love those little guys. I have/had some, along with the ED-209-looking Dread. Really nice job you did bringing one up to date.

haha, the guy who narrates the commercial sounds like the stereotypical space marine voice.

Wow.. That takes me waaaay back. This is the game that started me on 40k.. I remember those miniatures - the Marines, Orks, Genestealers (which basically haven't changed one bit, and I know someone who still uses them in his current 40k army!), chaos and crappy that crappy dread.. I'm pretty sure i still have all of it somewhere..

Memories.. *tear rolls down cheek*

odinsgrandson wrote:I found this ancient mini while sifting through my old bitz box. I decided to paint him up one evening, and wanted to go with a color scheme that fit the old Rogue Trader style from this little guy's era.




For the record, he's from Space Crusade- a Milton Bradley/Games Workshop team up to make a Space Hulk style game with a younger audience in mind. From my understanding, Space Crusade was never released in the US, and is unfortunately out of print.

That think is REALLY cool looking!

you do good work, and that is a cool old mini
the black and yellow linework looks well done

Cool I just found the entire box of space crusade with the rules at my local club. So that helps the brain juices to flow. Those bayonets scare me! How are you going to kill someone with that?

Wow, the memories. I still use those stealers. That is probably the best paintjob I've ever seen on a Space Crusade mini.

Thank you.

Yeah, I used those genestealers too. They became part of my 40k force, along with most of the contents of the Space Crusade box (I was really into converting the minis up, so most of them ended up in a kitbash of some sort).

From what I remember, we used those same Genestealers up through the second and third editions. I don't remember them changing until the forth ed.

The genestealers in Space Crusade probably came straight from the Space Hulk Genestealers. Those minis must have had a very long lifespan.


That reminds me, I found an ancient plastic Terminator at the same time, but I need to strip him before I can paint him up...

Any links to the old space hulk game.. i don't think it ever came to Australia.. and does anyone know where you could possibly pick up a set of crusade/hulk?

Nice,the ad was awesome cool!

Sicarious85 wrote:Any links to the old space hulk game.. i don't think it ever came to Australia.. and does anyone know where you could possibly pick up a set of crusade/hulk?

ebay is the only place I know where you can get them both. Space Crusade, because it was a joint project of two companies that no longer do joint projects, is not available.

Space Hulk was just a GW game, so I think you can find stuff that was released through the Fanatic/Specialist Game division. It came out in the late 80s originally, and had a sort of second edition that was released sometime in the mid nineties.

After a little searching, I found a link to some of the Space Hulk rules, but so far not all of them:
http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2006/11/10/700/space-hulk/

I'm not sure how much stuff you can get online, so good luck searching.

Good paintjob. That ad is also the awesome.

The bayonet is neat.
I wish they still made bolter-bayonets.

That is sooo cool

SWEET Retro man!

Flinty wrote:It also had epic advertising!

THAT WAS AWESOME!

...and hilarious...

BUT MOSTLY AWESOME!!

LOL that add was hilarious! and very nice paint job btw

This also had the "chaos androids" or pre-necrons. I had a whole unit in my old Necron army.

Now, I'm so headed to my parents place and rummaging around for my old space crusade box.. I'm gonna paint some old skool cool

Sicarious85 wrote:Now, I'm so headed to my parents place and rummaging around for my old space crusade box.. I'm gonna paint some old skool cool

Sweet! That is a clear success!

Uriels_Flame wrote:This also had the "chaos androids" or pre-necrons. I had a whole unit in my old Necron army.

Yeah, a long while back, I cut up my androids to make bionic parts for space marines. This is absolutely the original Necron.