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Those RT/2ed models look great. I never really liked the unorthodox Marines back when they were new, which I regret now. Lots of crazy weirdness before GW exploded in popularity.

Oh, those damned Legionnaires, always showing up unlooked for! (see what I did there? )

It's always nice to see old models get some love. I'm lucky enough to have a few old-school models hanging around myself, but nothing that goes back to Rogue Trader! The sculpts had so much more character back then! Not that the current ones are bad or anything, but you get my drift.

You've done some impressive stuff here lately Az, so I'm looking forward to more as always!

Ooooooh, liking those old-school Termies! You've certainly done the characterful models in your collection justice with some cracking paintjobs.

youve been putting out some serious awesomeness Az! Love your IW. great job all those walls too. LoD are straight out of Eavy Metal of yesteryear - gorgeous work

@Josh - I used to collect all of the different marine sculpts, so I went out of my way back in the day to get as many as I could. There's only a few of the RT ones that I never had, though sadly some of them have been lost to time. Plans for them are to put them into the old-school type armies, so a couple might make it to the IW, others into LotD, a couple to Fallen, but most will go to a specific old-school project I've been planning for nigh on 5-10 years, if I ever get enough other stuff done and out of the way first...

@ZergSmasher - cheers mate. I love the old stuff but you're right, a lot of the older models had a lot more individuality to them, being hand-sculpted as one-piece metals (and by a variety of sculptors) helped a lot with that, methinks! I've got plenty more to show and work my way through...

@Einibbus - Thanks mate! It was good to see how well the old Termies came out. I won't have any issue using them alongside the newer models.

@Januine - Thank you - The walls are merely okay - workmanlike jobs from the '90s. I'll probably order some more and then paint those while overhauling the old ones once spring or summer hits and we have some nice mild weather again. As an aside - I keep hearing about the UK's "heatwave" with weather in the mid-20's and nights around 15. That's what we consider nice, mild weather here. I wish it was like that all of the time, especially right now! 30's into 40 (and 22+ at night) is where it gets unpleasant.



For anyone not around at the time or otherwise not aware, the Warhammer 40,000 of Rogue Trader days was fething nuts. One of the many, many weird ideas of the time were the Jokaero. Essentially super-smart space Orangutans who were the creators of the much-sought-after “digital weapons” available to some heroes of various types. Or Jokaero Digital Weapons, as they were then known. The “digital” this was in reference to wasn’t zeroes and ones, but our digits – fingers. Basically, we were talking ring-lasers.


Finger-bang, Rogue Trader style.



While the Games Workshop of the last couple of years has done a good job of recognising and bringing back old, neglected parts of the lore, like Deathwatch, Genestealer Cults, Tzaangor and so forth, the Jokaero were brought back(?), well, into the game with an actual model back in 2011 with the 5th edition Grey Knights Codex. I know they’d gotten a mention with the earlier Necrons Codex, making it 15 years before being mentioned again after RT, and 24 years before getting their first model. Will 8th Edition give us a second Jokaero model? Only time will tell, but I can’t see them investing in plastic tooling for something like this unless it’s included on a sprue alongside a plastic Inquisitor or some such.



I gave him pinkish flesh for his hands and feet, mostly because I forgot to check out reference photos of either actual Orangutangs or GW’s model before painting that part of the figure. Ah well, still looks good! I pretty much copied the official GW scheme for the electronics. I went over the white/grey of the accessories with a pearlescent paint, giving it a nice, subtle, shimmery effect that can be seen in hand and not at all in photographs.



Something pretty cool is that the indices for 40k 8th edition feature rules for all of their currently-produced/available models, which includes this guy. This means there’s a decent chance that this model will actually hit my table at some stage in the near future. Who’d’a thunk it?

Cool, i'm painting one for Gits I found although I did give his closed hand a banana.........

interesting to see his rules.

Beautiful work on a glorious piece of the past. He actually looks alive instead of the (Trump/cheetah) orange walking wigs I normally see posted.

You'll also note how the Jokaero does not have tiny hands. Quite the opposite, in fact - marking him as a creature of refinement and distinction...

Jokaero. Such a classic 40K concept. If I recall, their rules in RT were wild. If you gave them enough time and parts they could craft a planetary defense laser, right?

I wonder if he reacts violently to being called a monkey...

Great stuff! Gotta love digital weapons!


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Cool, i'm painting one for Gits I found although I did give his closed hand a banana.........

interesting to see his rules.

He's a pretty decent shot with a BS 4+, but terrible in close combat. His digital weapons are AWESOME. 24" Heavy 1 S7 AP -3 D3 damage. Or at 12" Assault 5 S4 AP -1, 1 damage. Also augments shooting for friendlies within 3"

Digging the colour pallette on the monkey, nice work

Nice work on the Jokaero. I remember them being one of the weirder bestiary entries in the RT book.

Compare the old Digi-weapon illo with the one worn by the model. Whoever is wearing that digi-laser has fingers as big around as my wrist.

Damn, so I'm going to have to get an Inquisitor painted up now, I guess. I haven't even been looking at those models (or entries) as I slog through my half-painted models in Power Armour...

Their were a bunch of great inquisitor figs in the past too. I think you painted up a terminator armored one with a bionic leg if I remember correctly.

Lovely stuff since i was last here Az.

Thanks for the Iron warriors army shot looks amazing and the Jokaero looks Fantastic

Super looking (don't call him a monkey AOV!) Space Orang there, I really like the warmth of the fur and skin on him. Your LOTD look great as well, they seem very easy to slot into an army in 8th edition as well.

Thanks guys!

I've got that figure, Theo - and a converted one as well, but never finished either. You're thinking of the "standard" Terminator Captain that I showed off awhile back. That or someone else posted the bionic-leg guy!

I'll have a few more LotD up this weekend. Still need to crop the photos and do the write-ups, though.



Not really a content post today as much as a SUPPLY DROP! one. – Part 1 of my 8th Edition stuff – the Dark Imperium boxes arrived, finally. I’m expecting Part 2 (Indices, dice, ruler, etc) and Part 3 (Forge World Indices, HH Book 7, transfers, some models, etc) in the next day or two. Don’t worry – I won’t be posting about each and every new toy that I get. And yes, I will be figuring out a way to sell a few spare rulebooks locally for less than the retail price.


The top box had 3 sets worth of figures inside! Win!

With 8th coming, I dug out my DV boxes a couple of weeks ago. I’d decided to finally get the Dark Angels I’d accumulated over the last few years painted. Starting with the starter box models. The Chaos models have been put aside for now, but will make up the core of a solid force of Word Bearers with a few being siphoned off to other Legions.



Instead of painting at work during my lunch break, this is what I’d been doing for the past few weeks. Mould line cleaning! I figured it might be the kind of tedious-at-home job that could be bearable at work in short bursts while listening to a podcast or something, and luckily – I was right. This how I started getting through the few extra squads I’d eBayed before getting out the DV boxes. Yes, they sat sealed for years since 6th and 7th were not friendly to returning players. I won’t go on and on, I’ve made my opinion on 7th well known by now.



Here’s part of the production line. Weighting down the 32mm bases with washers before clipping the slottas off the DV models, and then gluing them down. I’ll end up with at least a Battle Company for starters – probably two. I’ll get to the Ravenwing and Deathwing components later. In the meantime, I’ve been going through the rebasing process for my existing DAs, moving them from 25s to 32s, and needing to build a bunch of extras to bulk out my old squads from 7 and 8 marines to 10s.

I’ll have some actual painted and finished models from the DA army soon. While I’m working on those, I can start figuring out how to distribute the Primaris marines amongst my Astartes armies. I won’t be doing a “Primaris Army”, but splitting them amongst my other forces instead.

*Cough cough...... locally...... cough rulebook..*


Can't wait to see you get stuck into these! and that's a LOT of sets! what's on the cards for them all? and when are you starting to get them assembled?

And I thought I had a buying problem ......

It took me years to build up most of my chapter, but that reminds me of buying 10 battleforces at once . Glad the wife never saw those orders come in.

Loving the legion of the damned on the previous page, great paint jobs on some wicked old minis.

I think I'm probably at Company strength with my Dark Angels army. Which is cool and kind of horrifying too lol.

Damn that is alot of marines.

Guess you can never have too many.

Loving those Legion of the Damned guys, very awesome freehand.

@Nerdfest - PM me about the rulebook - I'm sure we can come to some arrangement that benefits m̶e̶ us both greatly. I'm in the process of mass mould line removal. Then it's gluing onto 32mm bases in batches every so often, then adding their fancy-pants DA backpacks in a decent mix (and keeping some aside for other projects). Blu-tac over the gun/wrist joins, then a mass spraying of black, then brunswick green. Then a test-zenithal with a lighter green spray, then mass edge highlighting, aquilas, purity seals, DA icons, tactical arrows, eyes, etc etc. Then do all their bolters seperately, glue 'em on. Sand, slate and paint their bases. Once they're all done excepting squad markings and company markings, I'll break them down into squads and mix in some other special and heavy weapons and sergeants for variety, probably use a couple of the plasma cannon in tactical squads and swap a couple of them for other heavies into a dev squad - that kind of thing.

The Chaos models I have much wider, more involved plans for. A lot of them will go into my Word Bearers, but a lot of them will also be converted and find homes in my Death Guard and World Eaters armies. Some will become non-rubric, Thousand Sons - basically post-Rubric marines that have fallen to Tzeentch and been recruited by the Cabals as c̶a̶n̶n̶o̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶d̶d̶e̶r̶ useful and valued members of the warband. Some of the less-mutated ones will undoubtedly become Iron Warriors, and even mixed in with units like Raptors and ...those other Raptors.

The cultists will be painted in a pretty generic style, so that they can be used by any Traitor army that I happen to be fielding at the time. Lots of neutral, earthy tones and even the odd red or blue will be muted down. KInda like the way I've been painting (most of) my vikings.


@Theo - I shouldn't take a photo of the room where my GW sets are kept. I really shouldn't.

@evildrcheese - Thank you mate - there's more to come in the next day or two. I finally cropped some photos for the next post, so I just need to do the write-up still. And retake some other photos for what will have to be the following one, because one key photo turned out blurry.

@angelofvengeance - excellent. Link me your company shots to keep me inspired (or post them in this thread - I don't mind!)

@OneManNoodles - It is mate, but they're not really going to be impressive until they're built and painted. Until then, they're just plastic...

@aku-chan - thanks mate! Freehand things like that are probably my most favourite part of miniature painting, so Legion of the Damned are great since they give me so much scope and freedom to cut loose.

And now, some (sorta) new stuff!



Following up on the group shots I’ve been doing of some of my models recently, here’s one of the Marauder Miniatures Dwarf Slayers that I’ve painted. I think they come up nicely as a group, actually, despite the goofiness that some of them have. I’ll do another group shot of the Citadel Giant Slayers sometime down the line – after I’ve finished all of them, so don’t hold your breath for it right now…


(WD scan via Stuff of Legends)

Here’s the full range on release, which I am missing three models from. Of course, there’s also a variation on one of these guys, plus a scattered few from other Marauder Ranges, and then an expanded but separate range of MM Troll Slayers. While I’d really like to get the missing three (and every other Citadel and Marauder Slayer model that I don’t own), I’m not going to kill myself over it, instead I’ll keep an eye out on eBay for them at reasonable prices. Wish me luck!

The most striking thing to me from these two side-by-side pictures is that my models come up pretty nicely against the “official” ones here. Not too shabby.

Those slayer look good all lined up like that. I think I like yours better than the studio versions. The shading, especially on the metallics, is much smoother, and the shodows not nearly so deep.

I'm just getting a photo bucket message saying you need to update your account for 3rd party hosting...

Yeah photobucket is doing it to everyone. No more free 3rd party hosting. It's pay or get stuffed.

I'm seeing them just fine, and they look even better than the heavy metal paint ups .

It seems it's slowly creeping across and affecting more and more people. I've fixed the Slayer post, and I'll slowly work backwards, fixing what I can. I've unfortunately found that Imgur doesn't allow pics hosted on their site to be used on Blogs, which means I now have to host each image twice, once for Dakka, and once for Wordpress. What a fething nightmare.

Well maybe when their traffic drops substantially they'll figure it out . Luckily I only do dakkadakka, so my gallery is safe.