The First Eldar Miniatures in WH40K Rogue Trader: Part 3
I hope you enjoyed last week's guest post by Geriatricus Maximus. I didn't. What a grouch. For the final installment of my tour through the RTO4 range of original Space Elves, I thought I'd start by...
View ArticleScribblings
For those of you who might be interested in my other writings, I recently had a couple articles published in Watkins Mind, Spirit, Body Magazine. My print article on Zen koans is available in the...
View ArticleThe War Monster
I've always wanted to model a War Monster and last January I finally did it.The incitement for this project was reading Saga: Age of Magic (2019) by Alex Buchel and Fred Machu. Saga has been one of my...
View ArticleAdeptus Mechanicus Servitors by Bob Olley
I'm high on Bob Olley. My latest foray into his world are two of the 4011 Adeptus Mechanicus Servitors he sculpted in 1989.Painting Olley miniatures is often challenging, but these two were a joy. The...
View ArticleEldar Command Group for 40K Rogue Trader
If there is anything that's cooler than the original RT401 Space Elves released in 1987, it was the RT402 Eldar Command Group released in 1988. With these figures, we see sculptor Jes Goodwin starting...
View ArticleRogue Trader Adventurers from 1988
The RT601 range of Rogue Trader adventurers came out in the Spring of 1988, just months after the 1st edition of Warhammer 40,000 hit the shelves. In my eyes, the range was a crowing achievement: 32...
View ArticleRogue Trader Adventurers: Part 2... Geriatricus Speaks!
You bastards. You have no idea how good you have it today. When I was young in the early '80's, we didn’t have nice rulebooks with full-colour illustrations. Holy Jumping Christ, we barely had rules....
View ArticleRogue Trader Adventurers: Part 3... Forerunners
I am not the first painter to tackle the miniatures in Citadel's RT601 Adventurers range from 1988. Indeed, it's hard to love Rogue Trader and not want to paint some of these incredible models.However,...
View ArticleRogue Trader Adventurers: Part 4... The Art of Bob Naismith
The 32 miniatures in the RT601 Adventurers range for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader were sculpted by four top-notch artists: Aly Morrison, Mark Copplestone, Jes Goodwin, and Bob Naismith. We have...
View ArticleRogue Trader Adventurers: Part 5... Stargrave
I've always loved Rogue Trader, but the impetus for my recent push to paint all of Citadel's RT601 Adventurers was the publication of Joseph McCullogh's Stargrave (Osprey, 2021).I see Stargrave as the...
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