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Thats an awful lot of miles that is. I walked that far once and it took all day. (with a break for lunch).

Thanks for looking! I have a lot to thank vallejo for when it comes to faces - their flesh wash is perfection. A lot of skill is required to get those eyes and their pupils in the right place though.


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I just spotted this on ebay - when painted it will make an excellent fighter escort for the spaceship. It is apparently 6.5 inches long so the scale is about right

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290759950372?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1426.l2649

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Here's the squad and their pilot - I've gotta throw together some kind of ramshackle assault shuttle for them. I think their story is that they travel the galaxy seeking employment - or just places to rob.


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I don't know if that pic is zoomable so here is one linked to the gallery so you can all zoom and even vote mabyes.

Now this is how grimdark should be!!! I bloody love your work Weety, and I have to be honest, I'm somewhat jealous of your miniatures...

SUCH an improvement Weety - they look amazing together! A real motley crew, and they look tough as nails. As Archroy said, your faces are getting better and better, and the weathering is flawless. I especially love the background for the pilot - totally explains his lighter loadout to the others - if his day goes well, he won't even be picking up that rifle!

Can't wait to see what you do if you get your hands on that retro spaceship

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Mercenaries in the modern marketplace need to make themselves flexible.

They do yoga?

Nice group weety. They really look like they belong together and have a consistent theme and feel.

Word!

Dysartes yes I can really picture this lot doing yoga... It would be comical to watch.

Thanks you guys for your acknowledgement. Unfortunately some splitter went and outbid me on the buck rogers fighter - But There are others so maybe I will win the one with all the paint falling off and the missing engines - Perfect for my purposes as I'm going to hack it up and repaint anyway.

The latest merc - Just a few more to go now. I'm not totally convinced by this one - I think maybe he needs more variety of dirt.

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Ooh, now that guy is impressive! Looks like an old Dredd wastelander or something? It's funny how your early shiny palette has been worn down by the grimdark! But a fine thing too.

Nice! I think the dirt's fine as is, no need for any extra. Not to say extra would be a bad thing, just not necessary

I think it's just that he's a bit more monochromatic than the others, but that's nothing bad, think it'll add a bit to the group dynamic.

Yeah, he needs some bling. Maybe a bright white nametag that says "Ned".

Just kidding...he needs something but definitely not an employee name tag.

Maybe a peace button.

Peace button would be humorous, like in the film it would represent the dichotomy of man.

I was worried about the monochrome - unlike the others he has all over body armour and as I had planned to do all the armour white(ish) I was left with a very dull palette. Maybe he needs something else.

I do miss the old bright colours but then I am pleased that I can make dull minimal palettes look good. And there will always be some minis that will merit bright vivid colours.

Looking good there Weety, the muted palette really suits the mercs (although as you said, there'll always be a place for bright & shiney)...

I still think his face reminds me of Davey Jones though (or is it Rorschach?)... Maybe it's none of the above and I'm just stone bonkers in the nut... Ho hum...

I'm on holiday! Hooray. Going to wales on Wednesday to scale peaks and eat lamb. Nomnomnom. Maybe also cheese on toast - which I am reliably informed is the welsh national dish, closely followed by takeaway curry.

So to celebrate escaping the underpaid treadmill of work here is a mercenary who I will call Herman Zeightgrubber. A man who loves his work. He calls his missile launcher Frau Gertrude and he likes to talk to it when performing maintenance.


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I seem to have forgotten to paint his eyes - oops

Herman Zeightgrubber

...i dunno where that derives from but it rings a bell in me...

and with a lovley looking rocketlauncher like that... who needs them eyes^^

Niice job Weets! Cheese on toast!.>Wow..I bet that prompts all sorts of International tourism!

I just slung random german sounding names and stuff together till it sounded cool. I want them to have a variety of different European sounding names. So far we have

Herman Zeightgrubber - missile guy
"crazy" Ivan Oblastov - the pilot
"dirty" Dirk Sanchez - the guy with the pointy helmet

Gotta name the rest

Dstein - yes the welsh aren't really known for their cookery - which is why they have so many chinese and indian takeaways. But then again who doesn't like cheese on toast? They call it "welsh rarebit" in wales so its more special and sometimes they put bacon in it.

Now bacon..That's a delicacy!! At least properly cut and cooked bacon..Too many restaurants and people in the US overcook bacon. There is a true art to cooking pig.

well that is quite an international something^^

Herman looks great. Denims, muddy boots and a missile launcher - it's all the look this year

And you didn't forget to paint his eyes, he's just got them closed in a state of mild ecstasy before he fires off Gertrude

YES! Thanks monkeytroll you made me see the miniature in a whole diffrent light - I bet he clenches his buttocks and grunts as he pulls the trigger. Lol, he loves to fire Gertrude.

Oh yeah - one man and his missile launcher, a very special kind of relationship

Scaling peaks - hiking or climbing?

I have to again compliment those bases Weets, they really fit the RT-era look and you paint it with that same retro-vibe as your minis.

Yeah I gotta buy some more! I might have to try making my own.

Here is names and back stories for the rest.

Names



This guy ^ can be called Jørgen Nutt. He makes up heroic stories about his scar but everyone suspects that he got it from repeatedly headbutting a sharp bulkhead while high on meth.



^Lucky Steve Stoyanov, He isn't really that lucky, in fact he is quite clumsy at times so the other mercs thought it would be funny to call him lucky. He stitched on the number 7 because he is superstitious and thinks he is under the evil eye.



^ Jerrod Zinkburger, proud owner of an occasionally functional jetpack, a meltagun and the most complete suit of armour in the mercs, Jerrod is considered a bit swanky by the others and dibs have been taken on who gets his kit when he dies. But he just won't die...



^Domingo Jalepeto, Nicknamed "Mingo the merciless" or just mingo to his amigos. This mean man prefers to keep his face concealed as he secretly fears that the inquisition will catch up with him for his past heinous crimes. During a heist on a mothballed imperial battlecruiser mingo broke into the control room and programmed an orbital barrage on the nearby heavily occupied planet for sh*ts and giggles. He feels pretty bad about it sometimes, but only when he is really maudlin drunk.



^ Delray "cueball" Sarrazin. Ex guardsman, dishonorably discharged for giving his squad food poisoning, he claims to be an excellent cook. Other mercs live in fear of his escargot in a creamy sauce, made with fresh stink-slugs scrapped from the bilge tank.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:



^Lucky Steve Stoyanov, He isn't really that lucky, in fact he is quite clumsy at times so the other mercs thought it would be funny to call him lucky. He stitched on the number 7 because he is superstitious and thinks he is under the evil eye.

He's the Souther Trooper from the Rogue Trooper miniatures range, I've never seen one painted before.

He was also released as a mercenary for rogue trader. But thanks for pointing out its 2000AD origins.

HAHA Funny Stuff Weets!

Nice paint jobs, and great backstories! Nice work weety!

Fine looking bunch o' mercs there Weety (if fine is the right word - disreputable, scuzzy, untrustworthy?)

 weetyskemian44 wrote:



^Domingo Jalepeto, Nicknamed "Mingo the merciless" or just mingo to his amigos. This mean man prefers to keep his face concealed as he secretly fears that the inquisition will catch up with him for his past heinous crimes. During a heist on a mothballed imperial battlecruiser mingo broke into the control room and programmed an orbital barrage on the nearby heavily occupied planet for sh*ts and giggles. He feels pretty bad about it sometimes, but only when he is really maudlin drunk.

Could the mask also be for his career moonlighting as a luchador?

The stories are cool. Well done!

He is totally a luchador on his days off look at him how could he not be. But I thought that didn't sound very 40K so I left it out. Maybe they could call it space wrastling.

Thanks mr JB I took special care over them - I might do longer stories for them - which will be lurid but basically safe for work-ish.

Space-luchador! What's not grimdark about that?

More fluff is good