Human-Cyborg Disintegrations...

Greetings once more...

I've managed to complete another model in the past week. This one took a little bit of work but I'm pretty happy with how he/it turned out.

This is another member of the crew of the Perennial Sparrow, commonly known to Hanz as "Goldenrod". It refers to itself as Zi'Phreap'Yoah when not willfully misinterpreting the orders it has been given.

The definition on the right leg is better than this picture shows.

There are some green wires in his midsection that also don't show up here.

This was a freebie that came with White Dwarf back when the Necrons were first released that has sat in its blister pack for the last (god...) 22 years. I didn't find the Necrons particularly interesting at the time and thus didn't do anything with it. I finally found a use for it.

I even thought to take a few work in progress shots with this one.

Started out with a base grey

Then painted it silver, with some wash shading

Then brushed a vallejo bronze over the body and brass on the gun

In play Zi will be a Chaos Android harking back to the Necron's origins. I rolled up some random robot stats from the Rogue Trader book. I probably won't use the Compendium robot rules, given its actually a daemon, and I don't think they will work well in the confined spaces the game is intended for.

I wanted his gun to be something a little special without having to make up any new stats and not too powerful either. So I came up with the idea of randomising its effects.

Each time it fires roll a D6.

    1-2 - Fires as a Neuro-Disruptor.

    3-5 - Fires as a Graviton Gun.

    6 - Fires as a Plasma Gun (doesn't need to charge up but cannot be fired during the next turn).

This gives it some weird effects and most of the time it won't cause any actual damage, but occasionally it will be very destructive.

Finally a quick group shot of all my "Astral Conflict" inspired models so far.

Till next time...

Cap'n Smyrk

Scoudrels and Scenarios...

Following on from my sinister mostly bionic inquisitor I have painted a couple more models inspired by a certain series of "science fiction" films.

These models and more that I have planned are part of a plan I've been formulating for a while. This involves a (possibly solo-play) Rogue Trader scenario that I actually might be able play, inspired by the aforementioned film series.

This is partially driven by my lack of much in the way of terrain on which to play a game, and not really having any space to store terrain if I were to try my hand at making any. I do however possess a copy of the old GW board game Ultramarines, with its fit together board sections (as well as some additional ones from old issues of White Dwarf). As such the scenario involves using these board sections to play on.

Anyway these ideas are only partially formed at the moment, so on with the models. These are at least part of the crew of the Perennial Sparrow.

A pair of scoundrels

Firstly is Hanz Ollow, the captain of the Sparrow.

The colour scheme is based on his getup in the second film which fitted best with the clothes the model is wearing.

Complete with yellow trouser stripe

And his beastman first mate Broo'Chakka.

I tried to get some of the variation from very dark to bright browns on the fur, although its only really noticeable on the head. Originally I tried out a bone colour on the horns and hooves, but my shading didn't really work out and after checking out some pictures of actually goat horns and hooves I switched to a brownish grey base colour.

Tried a dark red drybrush over the teeth of the chain dagger.

Still need to acquire the model for one of the other main characters, if I can find one at a reasonable price. And some suitably well-armoured minions for the Inquisitor.

Till next time.

Cap'n Smyrk

Jabberwocky...

I certainly seem to have found a rich new strain of motivation for Oldhammer of late and have managed to continue painting up more models.

Although one of these is a bit of a cheat since it was technically already painted...

The first is a old C29 Jabberwock, a model that I have had for years (and previously seen in a previous post) the reasons it was acquired are lost to the mists of time.

It was originally painted in its somewhat eclectic colour scheme by my late elder brother and as such I didn't want to repaint it so all I've done is give it a few washes and some highlights (and a coat of varnish), eventually I'll probably mount it on an base once I have one of a suitable size.

Also painted this week was another Imperial Inquisitor. This one inspired by a certain other science fiction character. Although I bought the model especially for this purpose on seeing it up close I can't help thinking the designer may have also drawn inspiration from the same source...

Although not desperately visible in this image I painted the inside of his cloak a dark red just to reduce the amount of black on the model, for a similar reason I went with making the bionics metallic.

I'm currently working on Pilot Rav from the Adventurers range and Beast-Trooper Gaxt as a pair of roguish scoundrels.

Till next time...

Cap'n Smyrk

Final Arbitration...

So I finally tracked down one of the two remaining Adeptus Arbites that I don't have and decided to get it painted up to go with my existing Euphoria Precinct.

And so presenting Arbitrator Rhodes.

He's painted in the same way as all the earlier ones.

And the whole Precinct together.

The only one I need now is the second edition Champion.

Till next time.

Cap'n Smyrk

Not (A)Eldar(i)...

So as promised I've painted some of the original Eldar range.

I went for a darker scheme than that I used on the earlier models, closer to the schemes used in the Rogue Trader rulebook, although keeping to the blue and red colours I'd previously used with pale grey weapons and blued metallic "chain".

I painted a full 5-men (or elf...) squad with a leader and lascannon.

They were mostly painted with Vallejo paints and blue wash, with a few Citadel (both old and more recent) and even one Humbrol paint.

Since they are all painted the same way I've only made close ups of the lascannon warrior and the squad leader.

Originally they came out a little more purple than I really wanted but a further blue wash seems to have solved this problem.

Now I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, unfortunately this means I much prefer them to my old scheme...

Oh well...

Till next time.

Cap'n Smyrk

A Return to Oldhammer...

Due to recent events I've found myself with more free time of late and have used that to actually slap some paint on some figures.

So I've added a couple more members to my Star Trek themed Imperial Guard. One of them is just regular trooper, the second is to expand my options a little.

Originally these figures were painted to accompany my eponymous Rogue Trader. However I thought about also using them as more conventional (if poorly camouflaged) Imperial troops. As such they needed a leader as my Rogue Trader (the old Imperial Scout model) is a little too ragged in appearance and carrying too much xenos weaponry to fit the bill.

So the first figure is Commander Tzcherkoff for use as a commander when they have more loyalist tendencies, complete with Gold 'command' uniform.

Eventually I intend to form a five man command squad, possibly armed with bolters around him for now he has to make do with these two.

The other figure is a basic trooper to add to the main squad, painted in the same way as the earlier figures, complete with classic 'ray-gun' coloured lasgun.

And finally a terrible shot of the whole squad so far, still needs a couple more members to get a full 10.

Think I might paint a few classic Eldar next.

Till next time.

Cap'n Smyrk

Sorcerous undertakings...

Hello again

As mentioned in my posts about old style battle report graphics I have done a little bit of painting recently. Not actually oldhammer specifically being a set of Heresy Miniatures fantasy sorceresses (formerly Spyglass figures I believe).

They may not be to some people's tastes but I was using them to practice skin, cloth and hair which they all have plenty of.

So the first figure was an trying to paint pale cloth colours and I also attempted to give a sort white/platinum blond hair.

I may have over emphasised her rear end...

The second sorceress was trying darker out colours and keeping up the racial diversity of my figures.

She is unfortunately looking to her left, due to my continuing struggles with eyes...

The last sorceress has a crystal ball that I wanted to try painting.

I'm fairly happy with how the crystal ball came out, although the photo is not great

Just about finished a pair of Imperial Guardsmen so once their varnished I'll be posting them as well.

Till then...

Cap'n Smyrk