mr tough guy Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 So while I haven't actually painted much in a while (think the counter stuck at 3 minis in the last 5 years) I have been trolling ebay and have been feeding the ledpile, and over the last 2 years I've managed to gather quite a collection of RT era marines. Anyway now I'm ready to actually start and get some stuff painted up. Took me about a year and half to decide they're going to be spacewolves, and have even found some RT era spacewolves transfers, and have now finally started on a first test mini. The plan is to do a proper Rogue trader era army, I'm not planning on playing (haven't played a game since 2nd edition) so that makes it easier as I'm not bothered with making a playable army, instead I'm following the armylists from the compendium and the book of astronomican, plus the plan is basicly to ignore all current spacewolves fluff and have some proper chaplains, medics, techmarines and librarians like they did back in the day, and will also completly ignore all the norse influences. Anyway here are some pics of the first test mini, in various stages http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7578/sw01.png http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5057/sw02.png http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/5932/sw03.png Obviously it's not ready, but I need to figure out if I want to go with NMM or real metalics, to be honest I pretty much stopped painting real metallics and switched to NMM when I started painting confrontation minis, so it's probably been at least 10 years since I've used them, so I may have to replace them, not sure that NMM will work with the grey armour though so I'll probably go with metalics Also I need look into getting some stuff so I can get the transfers right, as the surface isn't smooth on the first one I tried Also not sure what colour to paint the gun, the studs on the left shoulderpad, or the backpack Anyway hopefully I can keep it up, as there's about 50+ marines, 2 dozen terminators, a dozen scouts, a couple of dreadnoughts and some assorted vehicles to paint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matchbox Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Beautiful. Go for black with Metallica for the guns. Or failing that go for a black iron look. But I Think too Much silver would draw away from the grey of the armour. Just my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr tough guy Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Apart from a bit of static grass on the base, the first test mini is done http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7691/sw04.png http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3512/sw05.png Though I did find out I definetly need to get some new metallic paints, as most of my pots died, I was barely able to revive a bit of chainmail to paint this one, so the metals are just a quick drybrush of chainmail for now. Just need to figure out who makes good metallic paints these days. and a small preview of what's up next http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/4656/sw08.png http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6032/sw07.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Great stuff! Very nostalgic! Keep it up Mr Tough Guy. I remember my first ever SM was a SW from the RT box set. You've got the colours crisp and nice. Even the miniscule bolter-symbol on his shoulder pad. Now that's attention to detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomselect Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Hi mate, love the nostalgia factor from these! regarding decal work, gloss varnish the area first, that always helps. also using a decal setting and softener kit (micro set/micro sol) will help. regarding metallic paints, i think its personal preference, i like the GW silvers but prefer the vallejo golds. go figure.. keep it coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veteran Sergeant Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 There definitely was a certain charm to the old Rogue Trader era stuff. Definitely did a good job capturing some of the older artwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr tough guy Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share Posted January 1, 2012 So after painting one marine, I'm actually already a bit bored with painting powerarmour, I know not great if you're planning on a spacemarine armour so I've decided to break it up by painting a scout first. I was planning on finishing this yesterday so I could enter it in a online painting contest which deadline ended yesterday, but stuff got in the way and I wasn't able to finish it, but this is as far as I got: http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8483/swscout.jpg the insert shows the freehand spacewolf badge I painted on the shoulderpad, had to freehand it as I don't have RT era spacewolf transfers that would fit the tiny shoulderpad (well I could probably have used the sergeant badges on the old sheet with a bit of trimming but I wouldn't have enough for all of them) I was origiganaly planning on painting it on his belt buckle, red on yellow, but after two strokes of paint having made a mistake I realized red on yellow is a pain so went with a white on black wolf on his shoulderpad instead. Not sure what to do with the beltbuckle now, nor what to do with the white oval on his chest, figures they both need something, maybe a skull on the belt and an "ENDURE"on the chest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Yay for Advanced Space Crusade scouts! You're really piling on the nostalgia, Mr. Tough Guy ;) How about a squad name on the white chest plate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr tough guy Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 That might be a nice idea, recently watched Band of Brothers, and since I'm not tied to the traditional spacewolf companies, was thinking of doing marines from easy, dog and fox companies, so the name of the company might be a nice idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr tough guy Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Finished the first scout, went a differnt route with the chestplate, and did the kanji for wolf. Might add a squad marking/number to the belt at a later time, but otherwise it's done. http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2636/scoutwp.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souldrinker1 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 EXCELLENT! god i love seeing rt scouts, those mohawks/mohicans are just amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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