That yellow trim was an absolute bitch to paint with '90s citadel acrylics no wonder they switched to make them a metallic (even though it looked way worse) later on edition.Previous Thread:>>97943157Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://mega.nz/file/C4oSnArA#sA2O_7V6OnhZCOLCf0Sba1KW_wao3pZvc6IUmlHvpsk
help the beakie stopped power squatting and stood up and I don't like it
>>98043484David Gallagher thicc Terminators is my happy place.
it's looking at me
>>98043527That from the freshly nuked scrungle-whatever stuff?
>>98042054>I would also appreciate any kind anon uploading the stuff somewhereI'm sure Russ Nicholson's Johnny drawing is in here somewhere, but he's not the only one - not even the only official GW artist - who has taken a stab at portraying him.https://mega.nz/folder/PRwF2B6L#ccp7RxouUJ8I-c4zMpQPzg
>>98043590Yeah, one of the Scrungaloid sculpts.Since we're posting pics, here's the Dark Eldar Archon I've been working on lately, he's almost finished, just some clean up here and there and the basing to do.
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>>980438093/4I'm super pleased with how his cloak turned out.
>>980439234/4
Are 4/5th edition wardancers treated as individual models despite not being skirmishers?
>>98044597Might be in an FAQ from one of these old WDs. Its been way too long for me to remember directly sorry.
Stripped my 4th edition army and corrected some of my questionable modelling decisions from back then.Finally painted a squad and captain (and a used emperor's champion just because I love the model)> (even though it looked way worse) Gold trim was a massive improvement.Frankly, company colours were a mistake and are 90% of the reason these guys aren't storm lords.
>>98044968Before and after of the captain, with a combat shield made of card and a melta bomb glued to the front.
>>98044968>>98044975Quartered livery is pretty sick, nice clean job. My progress for the day. Sculpting tubes is killing my wrist.
>>98044968Looks great.
>>98044968Kino. That's a clean paint job. Is the EC metal or finecast? If he's finecast that's a hell of a clean up job.>Frankly, company colours were a mistake and are 90% of the reason these guys aren't storm lords.Agreed. The design of MkVIII Jes Goodwin marine is perfect except for the adoption of the shoulder trims IMO. Beakie-style clean pad + studded pad looks way better and makes sense to compress iconography to one shoulder.
>>98045392Thanks. It's metal, I haven't yet experienced working with finecast and I'm in no hurry to try.
>>98044975>captain had meltabomb strapped to the outside of stormshield >questionable modelling choices 4th edition you was based.
>>98044975>melta bomb glued to the frontWas he fucking invincible?
>>98041751You're not the only one to notice how unusable Google has become recently
Another shout out to >>98042722 from last thread for the RT scans. It's always pleasant when a part of your life that you've written off for decades makes its way back to you.
>>98038723>2000AD guys seemed to have no hard feelings despite probably being the ones that 40k ripped off the mostThings were easier back then, it seems.Though, of course, not without a fact that 2000 AD guys seemed to be pretty laid back. Pat Mills later even created Redeemer for WH40K, which can be called straight away collab between 2000 AD and 40K.
>>98047024neat, I need to get a resin printer or someone with it at some point
>>98047062Nemesis the Warlock also made me realize that people were right that 40k is just how British people view Catholicism, because Torquemada in Nemesis is literally just that
>>98043724ayyy... my johnny is there!
>>98045047Sculpting spikes on metal panties.
>>98049502Great work on the cleanup, it's fascinating to watch the progress.I really love the look of the Mk V, I wish there was a good modular set for it I could use with my classic RTB-01s and 2nd edition stuff. It just exemplifies that barely holding together look of some of the early 40k power armour art. For me in particular it'd be great as "my dudes" space marines are specifically a bunch of stuck in the middle of bumfuck no-where sector, isolated from much of the Imperium (so I can just easily ignore the main "plot" and what anyone feels like they have to try and inflict on me about it), having to rely on their local forgeworld production a ton rather than getting nice standardised, all the best materials, "modern" suits shipped to them from like Mars or whatever. So really inconsistent armours (and the RT beakies are already pretty varied) with tons of improvised looking adaptations to keep them functioning would play right into that vibe.
>>98043506>>98043512I need to make some houses like that. They look great.
>>98049584Every time I look at the center chest intake I want to resculpt it into Rees power armor so bad. Maybe if I can maintain the mojo without blowing up my wrist. Wil Rees and Tony Hough both make some of my favorite RT marine art.
>>98051588You could try using a tube tool to block the shapes out and then do some manual sculpting to tone down the hard edges on the ribbing for a more "hand sculpted" look. Voxel remesh once you're done and it should look and print really well.I'd love to see more sculpts based on scans (scanbashing?). There's some guy on isnts who's using 2e and of necromunda scans to do old school primarchs, it'd be cool to get some modular power armour based on the monopose kits, or even new mixes of the chaos warriors that got posted last thread. A man can dream, I'll probably give it a go if and when I get some actual free time.
>>98047732
>>98044597They are still a unit in a fighting formation not individuals."Wardancers are not skirmishers and their fighting formation is not a skirmish formation, so they do not suffer any penalties for skirmishing."
>>98049502This looks great! Are you using blender? Any guides or techniques you can recommend so I can learn?
>>98052559Blender and a regular Wacom tablet yeah. Pressure sensitivity is a huge help. I've been using 3D software a long time, but the classic make the donut tutorial remains an excellent way to start learning the interface. I do the new one every time there is a serious version update. But you really have to put in work to master the UI or prepare to be frustrated. Then it's just google searching for the answer to whatever has you currently stumped. The only Blender youtuber I like is Aryan (hard surface modeling) because he is funny as fuck and his channel is zero bullshit. Fuck Blender Bros. have never watched a 3D clay sculpting video, the tools are fairly intuitive compared to a polygon workflow. >>98051870Using anything but primitives would be antithetical to hand sculpting (digitally.) I did make a simple rig to repose RTB01s but abandoned that whole project. Digitally kitbashing minis is fun as fuck if exceptionally tedious, but that's working in 3DCG. That's art, but I live for finding the flow and the brain drugs from making something good. Today's progress. I made it to the legs at last. Release on Sunday?
>>98052702>Today's progress. I made it to the legs at last. Release on Sunday?That's looking fabulous and I am eager for the release,
>>98044968>>98044975Anon you're basically living my dream, they look so good now. Some of mine are a bit too... challenged from my prior modelling work, I think they'll be the bolter guys in the Devastator squads.
>>98044968Actually, can I ask how you did your cream parts too? I'm going for a really simple colour scheme and whilst off-white can be tricky, there's ways with a spray and wash it actually is pretty easy.
>>98053027Pro acryl ivory, edge highlighted with titanium whiteWithout varnishing, recess shaded with a raw umber oil wash.When it's dry enough, cleaned up with a dry makeup sponge.The oil wash tints the ivory pretty heavily and adds a bit of variation.
>>98051861idgiWhy was this deleted?
Where can I find Rogue Trader army list ?>>98054275Probably mod hitting>delete by ip
>>98054410>Where can I find Rogue Trader army list ?For which army?
>>98054949>For which army?For Rogue Trader.
>>98054410>Probably mod hitting>delete by ip>end times Athel Loren
>>98055091>For Rogue Trader.There is a First Edition (Rogue Trader) army list for a Rogue Trader and his entourage in Chapter Approved: the Book of the AstronomicanaHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvSFlSVFVUYkEjQ0ZXR19vdjQxNTlXdlpDQzMxRllfRm5xaEUwb09PRkNPbk1EUmJHelJDVQ==
>>98055218Thank you !
Are 2nd ed monopose marines really worth $10 each?
>>98056511Value is something you decide for yourself man. You laboured. You earned the medium of exchange for your labour. Do you think that the asking price is equal to your labour and you won't be hurting your finances by using those resources to obtain it? If so, treat yourself.
>>98056511Honestly
If the Anon who was sharing the RT marines is still around I would be massively great if you'd share them. I'm so tired of trying to track shit down only to find out it's likely paywalled in some secret group. My telegram @JohnPliskin
>>98046955Beginning of the end
>>98057273
>>98057282>Chuds VS Trannypunks
>>98055218The pirate list right next to it feels much more rogue traderish.
>>98057282The sword he's holding looks a bit wonky
>>98056587Thanks for hooking me up Anon! Kickass!
>>98052973Thanks! My to do checklist:Finish the mini (obviously)Studded and rimless shoulder pad Arms without MK VII wristbandsSome kind of hybrid RT/Chaos backpack, RT backpacks are too weedy for 2E proportions, 2E backpack is too high tech. Do a second version based on the first JB art.
>>98057303You make me incredibly sad if that's the only lense you can look at the world through
>>98057365Speaking of, any one able to help me identify the minis in Astronomican Pirate list?
>>98060325A mix of Bob Olley Space Pirates:https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=IC301_Space_PiratesBob Olley Squats:https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=IC501_Iron_Claw_SquatsAnd RT7 Mercenaries:https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=RT7_Mercenaries
>>98043484Imagine if one of John Sibbick's earlier drafts for the Rogue Trader cover had been accepted.
>>98058126Release not today, wrist is kill. Ice and compression instead of vertex wrangling.
>>98062477As a Zbrush mini sculptor myself, I've long wondered what it would be like to try to sculpt digitally like our ancestors Jes and the Perry brothers did. By taking small, high poly spheres and using TrimDynamic, DamStan, Flatten, Orb_Cracks, and Folly_Clay ONLY.Your work here, admirable as it is, has unfortunately confirmed that it would fucking suck and be tedious as shit but capture the vibe perfectly.I'm pretty sure Knucklebones does this and his shit is sovl supreme.
How many chaos space marines is too many chaos space marines in 2nd edition? I've got about another two dozen more of these monopose CSM left to strip and re-paint (courtesy of illicit dealings conducted in the alley behind my LGS, naturally) as well as one metal CSM with a flamer. Should I start looking for HQ models, vehicles, and more terminators and CSM with special weapons now, or will I need more than ~40 CSM for a proper army?I suppose I should also try getting the metal CSM from the 2e period too, but I'm having a very hard time finding spare plastic arms, weapons, and backpacks.
>>98062919CSM army gets filled up quite fast, especially with support added. Lord itself eats up ton of points in first place, regular squad of 5 of what ever flavor of CSM costs easily over 200pt. Look at the codex, see what kind of army you want to play, figure out what synergizes best together and try to fit it into 1500pt army. You won't get everything you want on table all together so having options is nice.I play Khorne Berzerker army, so I got lord with terminator armor and chainfist, mark of khorne and praise of khorne, roughly 200 points. Bunch of berzerkers in squads of 8 with mix of chainaxes and chain swords, little under 300 points each. I got cultists to be used as a meat shield,5 points each, usually field them in large horde of 20 models. I really like the deamon possessed dreadnought, fast and tanky, always draws huge amount of fire that otherwise would hit other units, great unit for less than 300 points. I've yet to get any other daemons besides my bloodthirster but flesh hounds seem to synergize really well.Play some games, see what works for you. Buy models you want.
>>98061741This is very interesting. I have never seen this sketch before!I'm not as familiar with Sibbick's other work besides what he painted for WH40K (and by extension, Bolt Thrower), WHFB, and WHFRP. I've heard he's done a lot of Audubon/naturalist painting of dinosaurs, like James Gurney.>>98062477>wrist is killThat's all you need, innit?
>>98062562This is the deepest I have gone in on a full resculpt and it is tedious as shit for certain. It's a good tedious but definitely RSI inducing. Probably going to break 20 hours all in. I'd say it's a 50/50 split on base geometry and detailing as far as project time goes. Certainly reflected in a lot of the old metal range releases, where the base body sculpt would get reused a bunch, with just variant details sculpted on top. Knucklebones is pretty rad, with a more sane mix of polygon and vertex modeling. A little to loose and sloppy sometimes, but looking at his meshes has been pretty informative.>>98063062Rita Vrataski, my beloved.
>>98064358>Rita Vrataski, my beloved.That's why I painted my jacket blue.
Grogbert
>>98069971Everything about this looks excellent mate
Anyone know if there has been a 3rd edition to 2nd edition Tau Codex conversion? General consensus seems to be to multiply points values by 150% to get close to 2nd values, but would love to not repeat someone else's work.
>>98058126Arms w/o wristbands, check.
>>98073770I found something like that and been using it, it's alright. You might wanna try couple smaller games with it first.https://mega DOT nz/file/eaxnWChD#yN7ROyGmewh5I-2dedqD76O9UcHZE359t2hrMGxT4UA
Found another MK V reference too. I really hate that facebook seems to be where all the neat shit gets posted now.
>>98074251Thank you, I can make a list or two and compare it versus canon codices with some math hammer.I found a thread on Dakka Dakka with some decent discussion too.
Starting to paint Priming my chaos stuff today, I have this inspo as my wallpaper
>>98076114Related question , if I model is standing on a big sculpted rock, do I paint the rock goblin green? or just green rim and paint the rock gray or something? Same for heavy/tall plinth style base
>>98076118I've always been quite taken with how yellow sandstone-y rocks look on a Goblin Green base. There are a couple of examples in the Eavy Metal Modelling book from the '90s (like picrel, from Mike McVey's collection), makes for a nice bit of visual interest without totally clashing against the green
>>98076114Please say you are modeling a Fimir rider on a Fimir juggernaut too, that is double heretical.
>>98076193Not so far but i want some fimir eventually. Here's my jugger lord i just printed. Sorry kind of a hybrid of old/mid/new, but the spirit and the paint will be heavily 2E inspired with big paper banners and whatnot
>>98076118Have a look at the old collected Games Day/Golden Demon awards books for some inspiration. Rims don't have to be goblin green to be period correct either. Grey, black, tan, green, all feature on studio paintjobs. gofile/d/znK1cN
>>98076250>/d/znK1cNThank you brother!
>>98076250This looks good to me already
>>98076250Nerds never change.
>>98076771hahah.. these books are pvre vnadvlterated sovl-kino
>>98043484I'm trying to find a pic of an anons RT orks riding on hover boards and I have scoured the archive but to no avail. I even found a pic of them under construction but not the finished piece. They were brightly coloured and very cool. Unless I hallucinated the entire thing. Or maybe I'm a retard who knows. Pic is the under construction one I found, can anyone help or post it if they saved it?
>>98078836
>>98078836Yeah, they're mine.
>>98076114are you going to keep the Motorhead banner
>>98079534That's rad as hell, anon.
>>98079534Yes! Hell yeah dude thankyou so much I think they're awesome
>>98076114Oooh, great trim, throwing that shit into my random inspiration folder.Also, that goofy not-Fimir juggernaut is unreasonably adorable.
>>98079534>Slam Sector? Dis is Squig Sektor!Radical.
My old 2nd Edition cookie-cutter marine with flamer looks positively dinky compared to a modern Infernus Marine sergeant!
>>98079534Amazing
>>98082735I searched the image, this guy's work is a bit scrappy, but his approach is on point. https://cowabungajournal.com/2021/09/17/the-bloods-skulls-chaos-space-marines/
I need to an want to start working on these, but I think I no longer know how to do power armour after my last armies were Undead and Slann/Lizardmen.
>>98088167But they are so fine.
>>98088167Painting power armor is like learning to swim or ride a bike, once you know how its done you won't forget it. Just get cracking, you'll be fine
>>98079534give one a hawaiian shirt
>>98088172Man, if it weren't for the Space Wolf-specific models, I'd swear you pillaged my bitz cabinet.This really takes me back...
>>98088172>>98088167That distinctive RTB01 beige plastic is my childhood. The dark blue plastic is a close second since all the Space Hulk and Advanced Space Crusade sprues. Quality taste in posters too.
>>98088594More on topic Chris Achilleos (R.I.P.) Crazy this was only used as a b/w filler piece and Fangorn got the cover art.
4chan still won't load .jfif or .webp
>>98088632>>98088639Achilleos did a lot more fantasy art that, because of the match-ups between what GW and Citadel had licenses for (2000 AD, LotR, D&D, Dr. Who, etc.), ended up on the covers of White Dwarf and some ancillary publications like Ravening Hordes. In his book Amazonas, he said of Alien War:>This picture was commissioned for a role-playing board game, but to the best of my knowledge was never used. There is nothing like this particular painting represented anywhere else in this book; a strictly science-fiction piece packing serious hardware. It's a rarity for me to paint such subjects, but it makes a nice change.
>>98088639>4chan still won't load .jfif or .webpGood. We don't want your kind around here.
>>98044975It's nice to see someone improving
This must be some supreme level plastic.
>>98073770>Anyone know if there has been a 3rd edition to 2nd edition Tau Codex conversion?does remind me that one of these days I should try and do a backporting of the Tau and other 3e onward 40k armies to Rogue Trader using the unit creation rules of RT, would probably still need to do a bit of house ruling for certain things not quite covered by those rules but I imagine I could get surprisingly far just with those>>98076114>>98076193>>98076210would be interesting to figure out what 40k versions of the Fimir would be like
post your favourite chaos rhino inspiration please. I have to decide how to do these for my world eaters. Anyone seen alternate positioning of missiles / bolters on the hull before?
>>98092786maybe go with grody semi-organic missiles, like the kind you'd see in Digimon
>>98092786Since you're using newer rhinos, why not buy conversion kits from etsy or print your own? You could easily replace broken parts that way.
>>98054949>Flamer (with Targeter and Suspensors)Targeter? On a flammenwerfer?
>>98092883Sounds cool.. Will think about this one.>>98092913I will be printing bits. I want to do something mold old school looking/inspired. Thus seeking inspiration for kitbashing/sculpting purposes.
>>98092965*more old school. pic related
>>98092786
What's the best source for old info on the Cult Mechanicus? Besides Codex Imperialis and Space Fleet.
bangles or dangles? seems like a lot of people do bangle armies (they do look great). hmmmmm i have minis for both, and have started painting both but i can really only afford 1 army.
>>98094347basically i like the death company, and fast attack blood options, but greens my favourite colour and the robes over power armour is the coolest thing imo
>>98094347>>98094371Well I did both, I got classic Blood Angels and Angels of Redemption for very same reason
>>98094913welll do you think if i rebased, and swapped the arms for 2e ones (and stripped and repainted) my dangles they’d appear suitably grog and blend in with that era and aesthetic? theres just no basic robed dangle marines from 2e i don’t believe.
>>98094980Nah they are fine, just give them brighter paintjob to make em pop, I painted mine pretty much same way you did. I should clean up the dust from them holy shit lel
>>98094980Honestly most people had a mix of 2e and later-era models on the table until after GW well and truly shit the bed. Just roll with it>no robed DA from the eraThere are quite a few; Asmodai, Ezikiel, Azrael, and Brother-Ancient Bethor all got freshly robed models for the 2e Angels of Death codex, then the Jes Goodwin veteran squad shortly after it came out. Plus that other guy with the Gunslinger rule, probably a coincidence that he has the same style of robes. >t. had a big pile of DA and gave most of it to another Anon for Secret Santa when I reorganized
>>98097140>Asmodai, Ezikiel, Azrael, and Brother-Ancient Bethordidnt know they were that old. maybe the metal robed veterans would be slightly smaller and hold the 2e arms better
Watched this interview with Aly Morrison about his career at Citadel/GW:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ivybQCK-9IBeyond the horrendous shilling there was some actual good bits about sculpting for early WHF/40K. The super glazed story about Marauder Miniatures was good too. Got me thinking about the first few glimpses of RT40K. Like pic related, the teaser from White Dwarf 91 in the months leading up to Rogue Trader's Release at Gamesday 1987.
>>98100809Blood Drinkers Dark AngelsBlood AngelsUltra MarinesIron HandsCrimson FistsFlesh TearersFlesh EatersSilver SkullsRainbow WarriorsWhite ScarsSpace WolvesSome of these chapters are not like the others. I guess you could say the universe is a big place and, they will not be missed....
>>98100861First 40k short story? The Space Wolves fortress-monastery is on Lucan. One page has the first look at the metal marine models and Dave Andrews' Land Raider scratchbuild, and the next page the RTB01 reveal with Aly Morrison's Blood Angels, the Chaplain/Inquisitor/Death Company/whatever with the chopped beak and sculpted mouth grill is maybe the genesis of the future MK VIIs.
>>981009482nd paragraph is for this page. Woops. I would pay to read more about Brother Tork's escapades purging mutants and chilling in silence in the Fang.
>>98100948>>98100964Blood Angels champion, Morgen Blackblood.
Tyranid drop and the Slann's secret history hinted at, to ultimately go nowhere. John Blanche name drop, because he was always a legend.
>>98101011Closing it with more RTB01s, with half the Space Marines half painted. 30 fully modular plastic Space Marines in one box remains the best deal we ever got (wonk poses and sculpting aside.)
>>98101041
>>98101081You're a sweetheart, anon.Thanks for the blog.
>>98100948Wil Rees went on to paint album covers for Dio.
>>98101041>30 fully modular plastic Space Marines in one box remains the best deal we ever got (wonk poses and sculpting aside.)I disagree, and I had to rack my brain a bit to bring up some old memories. I had a very clear memory of buying one of these in 1992 for $30, or just about that. Adjusted for inflation that's about $70 today...still not a bad deal exactly, if we discount that wonk that you mentioned earlier because let's be real here, no one would pay for this shit today unless they were buying the nostalgia because even by the standards of the day, these were pretty shitty. $70 for 30 minis isn't bad...until you consider another number that I remember extremely clearly, and that was the minimum wage in Washington state in 1992. I remember it because I was earning it. It was $4.25 per hour. That was a lot of flopped Whoppers to get me that boxed set, and while it may have "only" been $70, it sure as fuck felt like a lot more than that at the time. (Which may be why I still have those minis, or most of them anyway.)The big thing at the time was that they were cheaper than metal. (They were also shittier than metal, but even in something as niche as miniatures the market back then, as now, was more than happy to trade quality for a lower price, so now you understand that today's race to the bottom isn't anything new.) That's not saying much, as metal was expensive. The big draw for me, besides being cheaper than metal, was that they were much easier to work with. 1/2
>>98101041>30 fully modular plastic Space Marines in one box remains the best deal we ever got (wonk poses and sculpting aside.)I agree and it's still the best value for money 40k has ever had.
>>98101792But it's not the best deal we ever got. $70 for 30 poorly detailed and ill-fitting (again, by the standards of the day, never mind today because jfc these things make Bones look amazing in comparison) is not terrible, but we now live in the age of inexpensive and high resolution resin printers. $70 is a lot of resin. And in a somewhat ironic twist, people have lovingly scanned and digitized all of those old and quaint minis for us, so we can print as many of them as we want. THAT is the best deal that we've ever had, and something that my 16 year old self could never have imagined back in 1992, when I had to fill up the tank in my truck (gas was 90-something cents a gallon unleaded out here at the time, leaded was slightly cheaper, which is why most of us kids knocked out the restrictor that kept you from filling with leaded and bought that instead when we weren't stealing it), drive two towns over to Bremerton where the nearest game store was, and see if there was anything in their pitiful inventory that I actually wanted, because that's how things were purchased back then and to be honest, it kind of sucked.No, we've got it pretty good right now. GW is charging too much for their shit? They always did, but you have alternatives now. In fact, you can have all of that stuff from the 90's that goes for way too much on Ebay and you couldn't find at your local store back then, and for ridiculously low prices to boot. We have it pretty good right now. Thank you for reading my Ted Talk. 2/2
>>98101812If inflation and buying power explained it all, why aren't some old models costing as much as new models today? The old plastic Dark Elf Sorcerer costs $20 today while new equivalent plastic characters can cost over $40. Razorwing fighter costs $65 while Crimson Hunter fighter costs $96. They're both the same size models and come with the same number of sprues. Ork Stompa and Gorkanaut cost the exact same $150.
>>98101792But it was ~30 bucks for the box of marines shrink wrapped to a softcover copy of Rogue Trader? Making the box more like $10-15. Which for kiddy me was still a lot of money, like a whole years worth of spending all at once. >>98101812If your only previous miniatures were monopose soft lead Ral Partha fantasy and Mithril LoTR, it was mindblowing. All those bits, and easy to pose because of the shoulder nubs. Plastic cement instead of superglue. The paint didn't rub off like on lead. I was super into all the imported rebranded Japanese mecha model kits and RTBs felt like an extension of that, but tiny. My only other big GW purchases from that era were the Tyranids and Terminators box (a mild disappointment beyond the Tyranid warriors) and then the 2E Box set. And while there was a load of carboard and books inside, it was also a miss with the monopose minis. Still nothing near as bad as the BattleTech box set of the time, which might have been the biggest disappointment of my wargaming youth. No miniatures inside!Yes, resin printing and dedicated scanners changed the game 40 years later. Nothing can compete.
>>98102247>If inflation and buying power explained it allIt doesn't, and I never claimed that it did. It does however dispel the persistent myth common to the hobby (particularly among those that haven't been doing it all that long) that in late 80's and 90's Citadel was some bargain brand that was all but giving stuff away for free. It was not. Their stuff was expensive back then too. One of the big differences back then was that they appeared to be pricing their products based on what it cost to make them, not how desirable they were. (The other big difference is that a lot of it sucked by modern standards, but going there tends to rile people.)>>98103161>~30 bucks for the box of marines shrink wrapped to a softcover copy of Rogue TraderI don't remember a combo being $30. I clearly remember it being the box only. I'd already had a copy of RT before I'd purchased any Space Marines and wouldn't have bought a second one.>If your only previous miniatures were monoposeEveryone's only previous miniatures were monopose, anon, even GW's. Multipart minis of that era were made in multiple pieces to make things easy for the caster, not the owner.>Plastic cement instead of superglueA fair comment, and why I cringe whenever I see people today commenting on using superglue on their plastics.>paint didn't rub off like on leadI still have lead minis from high school (1990-1994) with their original paint jobs that were not even topcoated. This is unfortunately a skill issue, anon. (Or you were trying to use acrylics from that era, which sucked the shit straight out of a dog's ass.)>a mild disappointment beyond the Tyranid warriorsGW never did a plastic monopose Termie that didn't look horrible to my knowledge. My Tyranids, alas, did not survive to today. They were simply too fragile but were otherwise great sculpts, and were probably our first hint that maybe there might be something to this plastic fad.
Used snaggas because "new" boyz are no longer stocked.
>>98043582>ffffaaaaaatttthhhhheeerrrrrrrrrrrrr
All these rivets drive nuts
>>98106260*drive me nutsFuck I'm tired, it's already 2AM, took me over 2 hours to paint all those rivets on just first layer
>>98106160Amazingly cursed image.
>>98106160My cat looks like that when I lift him up on his back legs
>>98106160please never do this again please thank you
>>98106260Is this a 3d printed Great Gargant? Did someone scan the Armorcast model?
>>98106260What's even the point when the painted rivets look better than the metal ones?
>>98107973Yes, but its not a scan. Its the one thats been floating around. Files were alright tho. >>98108161You think so? I still need to put some rust and grime on them, maybe it will help
>>98106260
This was fun, but I don't see myself doing the flames for every guy. Cool that he's so old that he doesn't even have a separate backpack
>>98110482I have a couple of the old multi-part heavies sprinkled into my beekee squads. There's some life-support equipment sculpted onto the backs instead of the regular backpack, but I think that's mostly so any gunner model can take any heavy weapon without worrying too much about the fit.They still break apart any time you drop them unless you pin the gun to the shoulder.
>>98111031I found mine from a flea market of all places. Included was also a marine with heavy bolter. The weapons seemed to be interchangeable, but the unhelmeted dude accepted the multi-melta better.I'll have to see whether it'll be jarring to put him in a squad with 2E marines.
>>98111138>I'll have to see whether it'll be jarring to put him in a squad with 2E marines.I bet it would be, but your other choice is to convert a multi-melta. The Space Marines didn't get one in Second Edition. Kim Syberg converted his famous Space Wolf Long Fang multi-melta from a heavy plasma gun.
>>98111292Not the biggest wolves fan but the overall faded look of the armor here (maybe due to the printing of the time) looks a lot better than the action figure-y blue GW uses in its marketing. That melta looks cool.Maybe I'll scramble at least a combat squad of beakies. In the same lot I also acquired one of Mark Copplestone's Death Eagles marines that could work as a sargeant for then. Very distinct from Mk6 guys however even though he's from the same era.
>>98111359>Not the biggest wolves fan but the overall faded look of the armor here (maybe due to the printing of the time) looks a lot better than the action figure-y blue GW uses in its marketing.It really was this colour. Kim Syberg was one of the first great heroes whose excellent conversions and paint jobs got them featured in White Dwarf magazine (specifically, it's issue 185 from June, 1995), even though he didn't work for GW. Similarly, Bobby Wong's Blood Angels and Ultramarines showed up on a couple of occasions as well despite his never having worked for GW or Citadel.>In the same lot I also acquired one of Mark Copplestone's Death Eagles marines that could work as a sargeant for then.Those ladz are dead sexy. The only one I ever painted up was the plasma gunner.
>>98111292they had access to autocannons too and I don't think I ever saw one
>>98111532Indeed they did, but Citadel never cast one for us loyalists.I had intended to make one for my Scout Squad using a Tallarn Desert Raiders autocannon carriage and a metal Scout Biker, but I didn't get to it before Scout Squads could no longer have autocannons.
I want to play old school Warhammer Fantasy or at least something close to it.I can't decide whether to try Warhammer Renaissance or 3e. The former is easier to parse, but 3e looks goofy and cool in the way that I can't ignore. Which one would be easier to teach?
>>98111613I've always wanted to do an autocannon like Colonial Marines from Aliness on a steady cam arm; as all the mecha artists proved that a MG42 in a body kit looks cool no matter the scale.The RT chaos heavy weapon sprue autocannon would be a good starting point for the conversion.
Good evening, /grog/. I am in need of your assistance. I've been digging through some old catalogues and I've come across a model I can't seem to find anywhere else. This is a page from the 1996 monster mail order catalogue. What's the deal with that chaos warrior rider model on the bottom left of the page? Not Egrimm, the one next to him. This model appears to have only ever shown up in this specific catalogue. It's not featured in any of the other catalogues I have access to. What's his deal? Why doesn't he have feet? None of the other chaos knight/rider models from this time period look like this guy. He appears to be utterly unique and as a result I'd like to add him to my collection, but I've never seen this guy online anywhere and "chaos warrior" is a little too vague of a search term if I actually want to find this specific model. Am I just blind/have I overlooked something obvious, or was this model really only ever found in this specific mail order catalogue?
>>98113439>Emperor Karl Franz>Cooler Emperor Karl Franz
>>98113439the mystery has been solved (probably...) by an anon over at /wfg/. It appears to be a variant of one of the chaos knights from the 8520 set. Weird! Strange! Odd! Why release a variant this cool and keep it stuck in a crummy mail order catalogue? I want it even more now! But if I can't find it, I suppose converting it from the regular sculpt shouldn't be too hard.
>>98113757I'm that anon from /wfg/, the Knight was actually from the Marauder Miniatures MM92 Mounted Chaos Warriors line, just in case anybody here also wants to know without having to visit that cesspool of a thread.
I've always been a fan of ye olde Warp lightning Cannon, the newer skaven stuff is generally pretty great but the new version of the cannon doesn't quite do it for me like the old one does. I'm looking forward to painting this.
>>98113931herp-derp
>>98113934Good stuff, anon. I should get around painting mine, too. Are you planning to go with the classic filthy brass paint scheme?
>>98113757Chaos Champion of War Griffon, anon.http://solegends.com/marauder/mm43chaoschampgriff.htm
>>98114636haha silly hat bird
>>98114636Hm. Neat! Thank you very much, anon! This will help a lot. I will find this chaos warrior rider, prepare a mighty dragon for him to ride, and make him my new chaos lord!
>>98116800It turns out Johnny DID have order numbers in some of the catalogs, speaking of. 4101/10 in 1988
>>98116800And as part of blister 07010/6 in the 1989 trade catalog. I've also seen him in at least one other one from a few years later
>>98117271Hmmm... He should have a part number that begins with 070106, then.The other two models in >>98117276 are 070106/3 (Bolter 13, "Brother Harris") and 070106/2 (Bolter 10, "Brother Hamilton"). Maybe this means Johnny's part number was supposed to be 070106/1, as there isn't another model in the Blue Catalogue with that part number!
>>98117511Brother Sheer and the dead Space Marine laying on his back also show up in the late summer '89 catalogue under 070106. I don't see anything in the Blue Catalogue for 070106/1, 070106/9, 070106/12, or 070106/13. I wonder if Sheer, Johnny, and the dead guys fill any of those slots.
>>98117589This is starting to make sense. I bet Johnny's part number was supposed to be 070106/1.In the late summer '89 catalogue, there are several blisters of tactical marines from series 070106. Most - but not all - of these models appear in the Blue Catalogue with the same prefix. The individual model numbers match the photographs in summer '89 catalogues; the only differences are the models that are completely absent.
>>98114125Yes, I think that the brass/copper look as painted by the GW studio is just right. I won't be trying to replicate it exactly, but it is my guide. I've aslo really been enjoying getting to grips with a tarnished copper effect on some of my models.
>>98117819>>98117589..I just had a hilarious thought. 106/1 is still the trade part number for the blister pack of RT marines. 10612 and 10613 could also be easily misread as 106/2 and 106/3. What if someone accidentally went through and deleted the "duplicate" part numbers on the sheet when the order came in to the print shop for manual paste-up?
>>98117880That very well could be. I'm dumbfounded how Brother Sheer isn't in there. In addition to appearing in blisters of Space Marines, you got duplicates of Sheer and Hamilton in the Tactical Squad blister-box. Even though he's not in the Blue Catalogue, I think I've had more Brother Sheer models than any other single metal beekee.
>>98117589After seeing the Vostroyans, I wonder how much a made-to-order Johnny would cost.
>>98119122At least 10 bucks per model if sold in squads of 5-10.Otherwise 15+ per individual model
How do I strip plastic models without damaging them?
>>98119651AK paint stripper, but for love of God, wear gloves
>>98119651If you are in the UK, Bio-Strip is incredible fort plastics.
Are retroclones welcome in this thread? I was wondering if anyone here's played Rogue Hammer, and if it's any good.
>>98119806How does it compare to dettol?
>>98119709Does it weaken plastic?
>>98120478I've stripped multiple different plastics with it, including old RT orks, all fine. It just peels the skin from your hands unless you use proper gloves
>>98119122>I wonder how much a made-to-order Johnny would cost.It depends on who's making it to your order.
>>98120396No idea. I've never used Dettol to clean miniatures and frankly I don't even know how it would, what ingredients are even in there to strip plastic?I'd highly recommend Bio-Strip though. Doesn't damage them at all.
>>98119122>I wonder how much a made-to-order Johnny would cost.You know that scans and 1:1 exist.
>>98120967Oh I'm aware, I'm just wondering how overpriced they'd be by that point. $400 NZD for the Vostroyans was nothing short of ridiculous.
>>98120967Nta, but that scan is actually awful. I've printed it before and it looks like chewed gum, barely any detail or sharpness.I've been meaning to give it a remaster, at least to make it functional, but time hasn't been generous to me so far.
>>98121912>but that scan is actually awfulOnly if you are low paint skill chum. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Here's mine printed from this exact scan on 2k printer.
>>98122015Gonna add this one to the collage... wait, is he already there?
>>98122028Oh, yeah. Second row, fifth from the right.
>>98122028>>98122036Yeah, I posted him on /wip/ before. https://www.instagram.com/p/C063bKGMIjq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==Here's my Insta where you can see his back. I'd even post raw file, but it's on external drive somewhere and I'm too lazy to search for it. I fucking hate this new captcha.
>>98122015To be fair, all the panel lining on the free scan is gone. It's the definition of soft. >>98121912Let's race to see who can resculpt it slower.
>>98122015Yeah, even painted it looks pretty soft.Even on my 10k printer the detail just isn't there.>>98122422Yup, >no panel lining >soft edges>no lenses on either visor and targeter>no definition on the pouches, which also lack buttons>no grill on the helmet and belt buckle>no barely defined robbing on the cables and front of the feetIt's even more drastic when you consider that metal models tend to be overly sharp, more than plastic at times because metal reproduces detail very sharply.>>98122422>Let's race to see who can resculpt it slowerJust don't wait for me to begin :^)Speaking of remastering that model, does anybody have front and back pictures of Johnny from a low frontal and rear angle?
>>98123135The best I have seen is on Angry Griffon's (thankfully restored) site. https://angrygriffin.net/miniatures/warhammer-40k/rogue-trader/space-marines-rt/rt101-space-marines/
>>98122015Huh, Ai seems okayish at doing this.
>now with even less detail and even more artifacts!Butlerian Jihad when?
>>98123285>no hard edges, no clean curves>lumps everywhere>looks like it was carved out of a potato with a butterknife>horribly misshapen head, shoulderpad, gun, and magazine/scanner>but hey at least his bulge is fat
>>98122422>>98123135>>98123285Having a go at cleaning the rough scan on nomad. Working from photo references as I don't have an original. Not sure if I'm butchering it, as I've been staring at it for two hours, but at least it's starting to look less blobby and more crispy.WIP, of course.
>>98079569nah I feel like that's too personal to steal. I'll do something heavy metal looking though :)Finished the daemon prince and a couple of berserkers so far.
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>>98123135>Speaking of remastering that model, does anybody have front and back pictures of Johnny from a low frontal and rear angle?Somewhere in this dumpster fire of a room, I have the master I used to make the mold for >>98120584. If I can't find it presently, I always have pic related, and, as a last result, I still have one in its original blister from before the Dark Age of Technology.This photograph is over 20 years old.
>>98106260I will disagree with the anon who said painted rivets look better. In my eyes, metal rivets are better and are well worth the multi-hour effort.
>>98125817>>98123135I can have stripped pics in ~4 hours if someone doesn't get on it before then
>>98126200Third contrarian opinion: mostly painted rivets with some panels having metallic rivets to imply repairs.
>>98126244That seems a little extreme. I just need time to find it, but I'm busy working.If you *must* strip yours, you should repaint him as a Void Bringer. I don't think Saint Duncan is going to get around to doing one.
>>98126310I got a really badly-painted one a couple years ago and haven't popped him into the acetone yet. It's not really a burden for me, just gotta finish some chores around the house before I go dig him out.
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>>98125817All round shots 1/3. The ink didn't take as well as I would like but I'm not wrestling my phone and tripod around for another session tonight.
>>98125817>>981273762/3. Note the irregular vent in his belt buckle, the clear lens in the helmet targeter, and the odd shape of the back of his head. The bottom of the bolt in his bolt-pistol is clearly rounded
>>98127376>>98127382>>98125817the knife on his hip also doesn't come out very clearly, but it's a short triangular dagger with a pair of retaining straps.3/3: the Rogue Trader banner pole backpack. The top two "vents" have flared rims and ridges on the bottom that suggest they were actually supposed to be bolter magazines, while the bottom two are more like the mouths of square pipes.
>>98127376Yours is missing his (slightly crooked) beak rivet, did you shave it off?
>>98127545There's no rivet on the model and no evidence he ever had one - the beak is as smooth as a baby's bottom. This one's second-hand, but usually carving something like that off does leave a small trace. There are also some slight differences in the mold lines between Griffin's, Johnny's BA one, and mine. I wonder if it wore off the master during some later mold refreshes, especially since Griffin's seems to be smaller and misshapen compared to the one in the White Dwarf page.
Are there STL's for the second edition arms, bolters, pistols, chainswords, backpacks, etc..? I've got so many metal dudes with no arms...Here's a WIP pic of my doodle.
>>98128190Lookin' sharp!I don't have a 3D printer, but I am a bit of a digital packrat. There is probably something in this collection of STLs that might benefit you:aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9EWkF6bGJ6RCNoUTM1OFowdkVwWHhJcXh5QnBxRW9R
>>98123612For working from 1 very so so picture in a minute of my spare time, for free? Yeah amazing, >>98124053Looking good
BOYL fully cancelledWow that's a shock
>>98128272Very nice Anon. Appreciated. I'm slowly going to gather an entire 2nd edition set of STL's.
R.I.P.Glad I didn't book a flight now. Still a bummer for the locals, but selling the event space that hosted you for free tends to cause this.
>>98129185>We're not cancelled>we're postponed >to next year >at the same date it usually is kek
Tomorrow is final day for entries for Olden Demon, anyone else participating?
>>98128272Amazing, thank you.On another topic, does anyone have a good solution for fitting some of the backpacks to metal characters? They never sit flush and it bugs me. I usually have to chop off some of the power pack exhaust that bumps against the shoulders, or create plasticard spacers.
why :( why has noone scanned these beauties, I can't justify these ebay prices :(((((
>>98130348It's mostly because of those prices, as scanners need to get the originals somehow. Those daemons, just like the old keeper of secrets and juan diaz daemonettes are in great demand but so far nobody has been able to get them.
>>98129185I don't know your name or if we played a game together during previous BOYLs or not.But, if any BOYL anon is here: I will miss you guys.
Going to be painting some eldar vehicles and jetbikes soon and I'm looking for inspiration for the patterns and other details I can put on em
>>98131881
>>98131889Last one. These are all from White Dwarf 207.
>>98131881>I'm looking for inspiration for the patterns and other details I can put on emBrowse garish color schemes of IRL poisonous animals, find some you like, then convert them into geometric shapes.
>>98131955I already have a color scheme, I'm just looking for shapes and symbols
Random second hand store find. I had to steady myself.
>>98043800Blast from the past.
>>98132527Found mine at used books stand for 7€, I felt bad cause it was so cheap.
>>98132527Wish I could find 3e rulebook that wasn't busted somehow. Every copy I've come across has had some problem from loose pages to torn covers and water damage.
Gettin' somewhere. A lot of the waist area had extra material, likely due to the poor scan, so I'm having to rebuild pretty much all detail from references. I think it's close to 80% done now.
>>98076114Always loved the green cables on 2nd edition Chaos Marines
>>98132919The spines on those were pretty weak since they were paperbacks, it wouldn't surprise me if that's a big reason why GW made the following rulebooks all hardbacks. Most folks I knew had theirs re-bound with spiral rings.
>>98133087>>98132919They also had a really subpar glue that hardened over time (so did the OG Rogue Trader hardcover for that matter). The binding on my 4e mini-softcover from the boxed set outlasted the 3e book by years even though the cover failed in about six months
I think I still need a few more palm trees but I'm pretty happy with my homage to the batrep from my first whitedwarf.
>>98133658That looks great.
>>98133658Looks comfortingly familiar, nice work.
>>98133658sovl
>>98131881Epic tanks might give you some ideas
>>98121912There are less blobby versions out there. This one has a seperate head (2 variants) and four body variants, with and without belt pouches.>no panel lines on the legs though
>>98134946I know that one, but it's a proxy rather than a scan. The proportions are all wrong, particularly on the helmet and it looks polymodeled rather than hand sculpted. It is an ok proxy, but we can definitely do better
does anyone remember the name of that 90s pc game the Tau ripped off.
>>98135101Any more details? The only Tau vidya I remember was Fire Warrior, but that came later.
>>98128272Messing around with resculpting some of the scans here. I desperately need the arms, backpacks, and weapons, so I'll refine those in earnest and make them available somewhere.
>>98136444forgot pic
>>98135101Its the Vau from Emperor of the Fading Suns. Which turned into a ttrpg just called Fading Suns and fleet battle game I forget what it was called. The Vau have a rigid cast system with weird psychic controllers, hooves, numerous client races and advanced antigrav. GW got away with it because Holistic Designs was going under.
I’m looking to start collecting an old(er) hammer army. I can’t decide between 2nd, 3rd, or 4th edition. Any suggestions?
>>98136758My firstborn are practically interchangeable between all three editions, but especially 3rd and 4th. Just a matter of which aesthetic you want to lean into? Even then, you can make a bright and bold 4th ed army or a grim looking 2e army.
>>981367582e for sure.
>>98136448Use a boolean "slice" operation with a subdivided plane to trim sprue nubs and make your geo manifold before starting on cleaning mold lines with sculpt mode.
>>98136976That was just me dicking around. I'm doing arms now and trimmed the sprue like a total retard. I deleted the vertices, filled the hole, remeshed, then started sculpting. I'll do boolean on the next set of arms.
>>98136448I made cleaned versions of this whole set and more if you need it
>>98137105Nta, but I'd be a happy fella if you were to share those!
I downloaded all the scrungaloid stls, and now I need to decide which chapter to paint them as.
>>98136758>I’m looking to start collecting an old(er) hammer army. I can’t decide between 2nd, 3rd, or 4th edition. Any suggestions?Do it like you might have done back then: grab a core ~2000pt second edition army with a few hundred points of alternate stuff you can swap in. That should be roughly 1000-1250 in third and fourth depending on how you wargear up. Tack on a ~500 point combat patrol/Kill team force with some conversions for specialists for maximal 4e fun, and then fill in the spaces with other stuff that seems fun. Be aware that in addition to the 2e/3e gap, there are a bunch of wargear combinations and special characters who were legal in 3e, or with some codexes, but not in 4th. So it behooves you to have a handful of different HQs built if you plan or hope to play multiple editions, and a few multirole models and extra special/heavy weapons for your infantry can carry you even farther.For example, my 2e/3e Canoness has a power fist and Combi-bolter. She's legal until the Witch Hunters codex (GW started heavily-restricting Power Fist access outside Marines after the CC rules update in 2002). My post-Chapter Approved update one has paired chainfists representing an Eviscerator. She's extremely not legal in 2e and wasn't legal in 3e until late 2001. My Hero-level models can either run as Characters for 2e when I use the girls as allies, squad leaders in later editions, or in several cases can work as Palatines. Storm bolters were wargear-only until the WH codex, but a Sister Superior packing one with some backup frags was still a pretty good choice. Infantry multimeltas are pretty great in RT/2e and hot dogshit afterwards because they lose their blast and average combat ranges go way up. So I only kept a couple and converted the rest to heavy bolters or flamers. My immolators have magnetized turrets for heavy bolters and multimeltas once those became an option. And so on and so forth.
>>98137195Since they have been nuked, would you mind sharing them, please?
>>98130681Which old keeper of secrets? The RT one? If so, I may know a guy.
>>98137948That one indeed.The only one I've seen is an AI assisted scan that looked rough to say the least.
>>98137191I have a teleand yes like the whole model range for the 2nd edition stuff, most of it
>>98137801They're back up for free now.
>>98138349Oh, cool. Thanks
>>98136758Make and paint a fluffy force, then go with the edition that supports it best.whichever you can find players for
>>98137105I too would very much like to have those, especially the powerfist
>>98132958Beautiful work ! Blender I assume? Very keen to download this one
Does anyone have a photogrammetry rec? Are the phone apps worth it? Do they nail you for scanning old minis? I'm not afraid to do some clean up.
>>98138349Oh, neat.
>>98138764I have the original model this lad was based on.I think his name was "Chuck".
>>98138670None of the phone apps are worth it imo, the results are too poor and you need to pay for the good ones. You're better off getting an openscan mini/classic, it'll save you lots of time and headaches.>>98138580Nomad Sculpt, I find it a lot easier to use than Blender, and it runs better on my 9-year old machine.
>>98138764It's a bit sad that they didn't add a Johnny inspired scrungo, would've been a fun little nod.
Hopefully we'll get some heavy weapon scrungaloids to complete the set.
>>98138094The originals weren't as bad as a lot of RT stuff, but they weren't amazing either. But let's talk business here. I know absolutely nothing about 3D editing beyond fixing bad .stl's and mixing and matching parts in 3D Builder, nor do I know anything at all about scanning models. Assuming that I wanted to get this thing onto the internet, what's the best way to go about it?>got some other things too
>>98143541Poor to decent:Make a shitty turntable and take photos with your phone. Pirate metashape. The Johnny floating around was done this way. Good to very good: Build an OpenScan mini, pirate metashape. If you already have a real digital camera, that's cool, you can build a better version of the OpenScan. Any step you can automate reduces the tedium factor in an incredibly tedious process.Exceptional scanners are using prosumer tech with expensive hardware setups. If you want exceptional scans there is way too much hard earned institutional knowledge to convey in a 4chan post. From light sources to priming techniques to how you process the output.There are tele groups dedicated to scanning that aren't super hard to find.
>>98143011Maybe some matching RT Dreadnoughts to go, as well.
>>98143686I was afraid that it was something like this. Thanks for the rundown.
>>98131449looks like some of the folk like Curtis and Inedible Ink are sorting out a bootleg BOYL so keep your eyes peeled
Wow... we hit the image limit? That's a good feeling, really.
>>98146765We're not too far off bump limit so I'll sort a new thread at some point, just gotta shoop a new header image after I get some mundane crap done.In the mean time, what was that with the Scrungaloids? I'm really late to the party on that mess, been distracted with other game stuff. I came across this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NrGlod1Fs59UpWLwR1kPewiChVi0s3dKLdgOlsWTULE/edit?tab=t.0 for the game system itself and I've seen some miniatures but apparently GW C&D'd them? Did files get uploaded and distributed anyway for printing?
>>98146765It feels like it's been a while since we last did, innit?
>>98147370Yeah, it's a RT parody/homage game. It released a couple weeks ago, along with a really nice range of LE-02 inspired marines (or scrungaloids, as they call em).The whole thing got immediately C&D'd by GW and the (paid) STLs were removed, it took like a day.The STLs are available again, but they're free now. I suppose the GW lawyers allowed them to be released as long as the creator cannot profit from them. I read the game, it's got some fun rules regarding paintjobs, the rest of the rules seem ok, it's all very tongue-in-cheek.You can get the models here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/birmingham-wastes-expedition-sample-pack
>>98147426I would say "I'm surprised they give that much of a shit about one of their oldest designs they don't even use anymore" but nah not surprised at allWas probably a third party firm filing the C&D "on their behalf" like most copyright shit jewish legal cashgrabsrip the scrungels tho I heard about it on youtube right as it came out I was excited for it to grow :(
>>98147722Yeah, it's nice that we got the models, but sad that it'll be the end of the whole thing. It seemed potentially as goofy as the quar, just sci fi.
>>98147748>sad that it'll be the end of the whole thing. It seemed potentially as goofy as the quar, just sci fi.From the Cults page>These models are free and will remain free, as will any future releases. If you want to see more figures, please paint up and post what you've created; at the end of the day what I want is to see people playing with the toys I make
>>98148557Oh, that's actually kind of lovely.You heard the lady, fellas, time to get painting.
John Blanche has passed away. May the legend rest in piece.
>>98150683What, really? Dang
>>98150683>>98150746Memorial thread, the Bell of Lost Souls tolls for a legend today. >>98150372
>>98150746Ya, rly.All credit to the guy, he didn't get a quiet decay of a retirement to fade out in and was busier than ever up right to the end. Playing games, doing masses of art for projects, sticking his name on paint sets (pretty good ones I might add). I'd bet he'd wished he'd quit years ago to get more time to faff about like that, despite fighting through severe health issues.
>>98150906The dude was just driven, and was well aware he was building a legacy to pass on. He will be painting with the gods now.
Celebrity deaths don't usually phase me, but JB dying is actually making me feel loss. Time to convert a mini in his honor.
Where do you guys buy your oldhammer minis? eBay listings are so expensive... Is 3d printing them the way? Are there good custom STLs of retro 40k minis?
>>98151132Lucky ebay finds, they do happen if you are diligent. That and pay/free scans from tele and a resin printer. The real trove is facebook private oldhammer groups and being a social cunt, but I can't support meta.
New thread ya gits.>>98151367>>98151367>>98151367
