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That’s a great rendition of zool. I also admire your commitment to the cause in opening and I assume consuming all of those smarties! You must have all of the answers now, one of which is clearly yes to making Superted and Bananaman!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Australia

Some great updates! Really interesting to see the 'parent' figures of the old Inquisitor model and to hear your run in with the original sculptor!

It is sad that forums are slowly dying. Who knows, hopefully they'll have a resurgence at some day.
Hahah, and yes as gobert pointed out I'm sure you had a good time eating all of those smarties once they were out of their bags.

 
   
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Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

Wow Curis.

Nothing more to say.

CB

   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Thanks Gobert! I've already started working on the rest of the league. My Mum made a Superted costume for my childhood teddy bear, so he's a definite must for the league.

I hope forums do undergo a rennaissance, zahib. They were a really seminal part of my hobby experience when I was growing up, and the long form helps build a community in a much better way than any Facebook group.

Thanks CB!

Limited edition miniatures are entirely my jam. Limited edition Space Marines doubly so. When Citadel produced this “Imperial Space Marine” to celebrate 30 (ish*) years of power-armoured super soldiers, I giddily hoovered it up.



Speaking of hoovering, get a load of that pose. Wacca wacca wacca.


The miniature is an update of the very first LE02 Imperial Space Marine released in summer 1985. Loads of care was put into copying over the details, from the vacuum-cuffs on the calves, the ribbing on the elbow pads, the rivets on the helmet, and the noodly wiring on the weapon. Here are the two versions side by side.



Something old. Something new. Something red. Something blue.


So there I am, thinking that I’m on the cutting edge of Space Marine miniatures with this lad, and actually it’s been out 5 years and has already had his Codex entry deleted. And the modern range of Space Marines are as big again.



Imperial Space Marine alongside Primaris Lieutenant Calsius.


And if you’re interested in learning the hands down best ever recipe and method for painting Ultramarines it’s over on the Ninjabread Patreon.

When the Marine The original LE02 Marine’s weapon was marvellously oddball. It’s classic mid-1980s Bob Naismith sculpting, where wiring and nozzles were de rigueur. This design of bolter was phased out by 1987 in flavour of the blockier designs that endure to this day. However, the 2016 Imperial Space Marine gloriously recreates the original noodle-nozzle weapon, reconceptualising it on the accompanying rules sheet as a “disintergration combi-gun”.



The Mark of Calth will continue to run. Look at him run. Run Mark, run.


Ninjabread out!

More miniatures at:https://www.ninjabread.co.uk
Painting tutorials at: https://www.patreon.com/ninjabread

*The Imperial Space Marine was released in Spring 2016, which was 31 years after the original from Summer 1985.

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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Amazing wook ,really clean and beautiful retro models

Serve the Emperor today, for tomorrow you may be be dead.
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6 foot underwater

Beautiful work again Curis

Those original weapons are what space-guns should look like.


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Regular Dakkanaut





Sometimes you’re playing your favourite science fiction miniatures game, and the random wargear tables generate a result for which you don’t own the miniatures. EVEN WORSE, the miniatures don’t actually exist. They were never made. Anger sets in. You feel yourself about to explode.

You refuse to reroll the result. You refuse to represent the wargear with a cardboard chit. The only option is to spend a whole year of your life learning how to sculpt so you can design your own version. After that, vacuum cast them in high quality resin so they’re proper playable, paintable miniatures.



I digitally designed these mine-droids as five pieces, so each droid could be assembled a bit differently, with bodies leaning at a jaunty angle, and turning heads.



DTN8 construction diagram.


To direct the trio of droids, I converted a Space Marine Comms Officer from Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, adding a pair of aerials to his backpack with lengths of wire and plastic rod.



Brother-Mechanic Kailogue controlling DTN8 units Snap, Crackle and Pop.


Here they are trundling across a battlefield of the far future, bringing their payload of high explosives into the heart of an enemy formation. Their armoured shells protect from light arms fire until they detonate with the power of giant fragmentation grenades. They can be programmed to explode at pre-set co-ordinates, or piloted remotely, allowing them to respond to shifting battlefield conditions, and even sadistically chase a retreating foe.



Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep .. BOOM.


Right, I can finally get on with my game now. I had to cast a few sets up, so expect to see some painted in other colour schemes soon.

Ninjabread out!

More miniatures at:https://www.ninjabread.co.uk
Painting tutorials at: https://www.patreon.com/ninjabread

 
   
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Omnipotent Lord of Change





Albany, NY

I spotted these little guys on your blog and 100% assumed they were mass produced by one of those Oldhammer-adjacent pulp sci-fi artisanal shops in the UK. Turns out I was mostly right They look very sharp, the teeny bit of poseability is a great touch for adding that lovely whiff of character.

KOW BATREPS: BLOODFIRE
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Regular Dakkanaut





Thanks Boss!

I've recently drafted a set of barricades for 3D printing.



HOLD THE LINE!



They're available here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/glorious-1990s-barricade-fortifcation-terrain-set

Ninjabread out!

 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






Fantastic vibes here all round, the retro designs are so characterful and get to display that well with such high quality painting

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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Nice! That's a fantastic old school design!

My hobby ADHD, mostly Necromunda, with a splash of regular 40k... 
   
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London, UK

Absolutely love the droids you sculpted, so full of character.

Those barricades are also looking fantastic.

   
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver






Love the gothic arches on the barricades, it's very fitting!

See what's on my painting table Now painting: Kruleboyz Gutrippaz 
   
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Looking at your terrain builds reminds me what I always liked about this sort of "vintage" terrain — Redundant skull spam was always kept to a sensible level!

Inspiring stuff as always
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Thanks for the comments!

Yeah tauist – I think of skulls on models like blood in a horror movie. A trickle of blood is scary, a bucket of blood is slapstick.

Back at the turn of the millennium, there was a hyper-rare Space Marine that was only available in England if you spent £500 in a Games Workshop during the Skulz programme. On a pocket money budget, it took the co-ordinated efforts of all my friends to get one. And over two decades later, here he is painted.



Well, I say £500 – he cost fifty Skulz, and you got one Skulz for each full £10 you spent, but you got eleven Skulz printed on the Skulz collector’s card so the worked out at £390.


He’s a stellar miniature that was really ahead of his time for a number of reasons. First, he came with a solid metal base (40mm no less, when nothing larger than 25mm for infantry had ever been seen) depicting a fallen Chaos standard – at a time when scenic bases were incredibly rare. Second, he clutches a standard of Ultramar – a sculpted banner at a time when banners were paper affairs you photocopied from White Dwarf or came supplied as self-adhesive labels. Third, he was sculpted by Shane Hoyle, one of my favourite sculptors – and notable as he’s one of the first Imperial Space Marines since 1990 not sculpted by Jes Goodwin.



I like how thin he is turned sideways, like a Paper Mario character.


I wondered back in 1999 if he was Ancient Helveticus – the Ultramarines special character. But Helveticus’ defining feature is the Banner of Macragge, and this sculpted banner didn’t match the design from White Dwarf 195. Plus his wargear didn’t match the 2nd edition Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarines Codex (or the 3rd edition Chapter Approved incarnation). And critically, as you can just about see in the photo above, his left shoulder has a skull marking inside an Ultramarines’ inverted omega sculpted on – meaning his rank is more likely Sergeant than Chapter Ancient.



Another nice touch from the sculptor is the detailing on the pole.


On the subject of shoulder marking – his right pad features a sculpted-on Tactical Squad arrow. This is a source of irritation to me, as I’ve copied the white trims of the original ‘Eavy Metal paintjob. If you’re strict about the Codex Astartes – and Ultramarines are strict – the only two Companies identified with white shoulder pad trims are First and Tenth, and neither has any Tactical Squads. I will conceptualise my version not as a Chapter Ancient (or Company Ancient for that matter), but as a Third Company Sergeant with non-standard trim markings denoting Veteran status (and will back this up by pointing to the Crux Terminatus on his left calf as further proof of Veteran-ness), holding a sacred Ultramarines standard (but not a Company or Chapter banner).



Veteran Sergeant of the Third Company defending the Imperium’s bunkers and concrete barricades against an Ork Waaaagh!.


HIs release through the tertiary channel of exclusive Skulz retail incentives makes him one of the rarest Ultramarines miniatures, except for perhaps the 2004 Black Library Uriel Ventris diorama. So here he is alongside my other limited editions, marching for Macragge.



Left to right: 30th Anniversary Imperial Space Marine, Primaris Lieutenant Calsius, and the Skulz Standard Bearer.


Ninjabread out!


More miniatures at:https://www.ninjabread.co.uk
Painting tutorials at: https://www.patreon.com/ninjabread

 
   
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Very nice models, you've done a great job on the skulz marine

My hobby ADHD, mostly Necromunda, with a splash of regular 40k... 
   
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Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

As always Curis, great paint jobs on classic models.

Cheers,

CB

   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Thanks lads!

Speaking of classic models...



I have poured every ounce of my heart and soul into sculpting a range of 1990s style Space Dwarf miniatures. I have made the graphics as inhumanely retro as possible.

Sign up for the launch here!

 
   
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver






Those look great! so retro.

Except Washington DC is in Eastern Standard Time, not Pacific. Otherwise!

See what's on my painting table Now painting: Kruleboyz Gutrippaz 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Oops! That's me mixing up the state and the city. Thanks Gwyn!

“In evil’s millennium, the squad-fate fell to Schiltron Toothcutter. The Rökthane’s commands combined metal and mettle so that worlds were won by iron arms and iron wills.”

– Hreddi Falsetooth, the Nethyrtruth Edda



I’ve taken to Kickstarter to produce a small range of resin cast 28mm scale Space Dwarf miniatures for collectors, modellers, painters, roleplayers and tabletop wargamers. This Kickstarter will enable the figures to be professionally moulded for production, and vacuum-cast in high quality resin.



“HOLD THE LINE! BWAA BWAA BWAA BWAA!”


I’ve got a deep passion for the science fiction concept of squat and indomitable warriors heading out into the stars with an arsenal of hi-tech weapons. I wanted to distill the essence of techno-fantasy metal mysticism into miniature form, and do it with an iconically 1990s twist.

Rökthane Schiltron Toothcutter

Schiltron Toothcutter, Rökthane of the Naudor Thronesworn, is a leader who has earned the respect of his troopers a dozen times over. His far-sighted view of the battlefield gives his squad a significant tactical advantage – and many battles have been won by the relentless advance or unbreakable defence he inspires. Famously Schiltron and his warriors defended the Nethyr Edge for 13 cycles, saving countless lives.

Schiltron is armed with a customised binar-blaster, enscribed on the casing with his runic S initial, and clad in diamond-flak armour.





Röknaut Trooper with Wyrmboltr Rifle

Each Röknaut Trooper is a hero in their own right, respected throughout the galaxies as bloody-minded and unyielding in the face of any enemy. Not only are Röknauts experts in combat, but void travel, toxic environs survival and hardware maintenance. Their extreme technical aptitude lets them operate where other forces have been destroyed by mechanical realities – and their adamantine-hard will lets them fight even longer still.

Armed with the iconic Wyrmboltr Rifle, and clad in diamond-flak, the Trooper is a bold icon of the Röknaut Thronesworn’s might.





Röknaut Trooper with Helstrom Autocannon

Those Röknauts with distinguished marksmanship are assigned heavy weaponry from the Röknaut armouries to support their squads. Capable of hefting a weapon on their squat shoulders that a human would need a tripod and a loader to operate as efficiently, these warriors are a redoubt on the battlefield, and many legendary figures from Röknaut folklore are famous for their excessive weaponry.

The Röknaut is armed with the deadly dual-barrelled Helstrom Autocannon, capable of obliterating opposing hordes with sustained fire, or rending a hole in the side of a battletank with a tightly focussed salvo.





Classic 28mm Scale

Designed to fit in with the miniatures of your youth, the Röknauts are sculpted as a love letter to the 1990s, when miniatures were characterful chunks of awesome. The miniatures are scaled to fit with classic 28mm humans – the Trooper with Wymboltr Rifle measuring 18mm from boot sole to eyeball.



Left to right: (top row) Macrocosm, Mantic, Ontos, Heresy, Olley’s Armies, (middle row) Citadel, Iron Claw, Ontos, Citadel, Forge World, (bottom row) Nico, Citadel, Ontos, Citadel, Darkling Miniatures


What you will Get

Pledging to this project will get you a complete squad of five Röknauts vacuum-cast in high quality resin. Supplied unpainted and unassembled.





The Iron Brotherhood in the ruins of Thrallfort-22


I love painting miniatures – it’s the primary way I engage with the whole collecting/painting/gaming hobby. When the first Röknaut prototype arrived, I completely flipped out, whacked on some Savage Garden and entered a fugue state, only to emerge some hours later with the Rökthane fully painted. I’m extremely biased when I say these miniatures are a joy to paint, so to triangulate if they’re fun-with-brushes I sent a set of advance castings to Oldhammer blogging supremo Jean-Baptiste. He absolutely ripped through painting a whole squad of them in a magnificent weathered industrial yellow scheme.



You can visit the project here.

Rök on!

 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Back when I was a kid, you could broadly divide robots into two types – the Transformers toys you wanted, and the offbrand Transformers-type toys that were available to buy here in the United Kingdom. I loved both.

While we were awash in the stories of the Transformers UK comic, Transformers Ladybird books, Transformers VHS cassette – the toys themselves were difficult to buy. The UK toy aisles were, however, awash with other companies’ robo-offerings – Grandstand’s Convertors, Bandai’s Robo Machine, Tek Toys’ Robo-Kats, MC Toys’ Moto-Bots, Tomy’s Super Alternators and many more. They seldom had any accompanying in-universe fiction, and sometimes not even a name! My imagination went into overdrive trying to shoehorn these pretenders into the official Hasbro Transformers universe, creating my own contrived space operas that justifed a steam train fighting an aircraft carrier.



"Mega Moto-Bot, my old friend! Optimus Prime needs you to urgently patrol this area which you may notice includes the Glasgow Transport Museum. Again."


Now my play patterns have evolved beyond simply ragging toy vehicles around the floor shouting their names and making explosion sounds and into sophisticated adult wargaming, I thought I’d resurrect some of the netherspace of non-canonical robot warriors and sculpt a gawky 1980s robot chonk. Presenting Autoborg, Robot Warrior of the Far Future.



Autoborgs strive their struggle to battle the wicked armies of the Deceivibots!


Okay, I may have missed the point by not engineering him to transform – or sculpting an accompanying vehicle mode. But I feel his Popeye style forearms and spindly strut thighs really evoke the spirit of a transforming robot toy. I was tempted to paint him in big slabs of bright primary colours to get across the toyetic vibe, but instead chose a striking camouflage scheme which is instantly undermined by big slabs of purple that really contrast against the sandy yellow colour of the base. Generation 2 Megatron eat your heart out.



Statistically speaking, he’s camouflaged against 60% of enemies.


If you’d like to fight science fiction wargames with your own Autoborg, he’s up on my Cults3D.



Ninjabread out!

 
   
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General






A garden grove on Citadel Station

Those little explosive robots are great!

ph34r's Forgeworld Phobos blog, current WIP: Iron Warriors and Skaven Tau
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The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence?
When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.
 
   
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Those Röknauts looking hard as fur man!
   
 
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