Angry Griffin's Oldhammer

Category: Oldhammer

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine with Terminator Honours, Bolter and Bayonet 070145 6

    This guy is part number 070145/6 and is one of three Rogue Trader Space Marines with Terminator Honours.

  • Vintage Rogue Trader Imperial Guard Rapier

    This appears in the 1988 catalogue as the Imperial Guard Rapier along with two crewman. Designed by Michael Perry as per the 1991 catalogue credits.

    Assembly ought to go as shown:

    This model is featured in the April 1988 edition of White Dwarf, stating the following:

    Rapier carriers are incorporated into Imperial Army forces at both the company and regimental level. Each troop company has a support squad which ideally includes 5 Rapier carriers as well as other mobile support weapons such as Mole Mortars. In practice, the natural attrition of campaigning tends to mean that support squads operate with whatever they can get! They are easily distinguished by their blue ‘artillery’ uniforms, with yellow shoulder pads bearing the company insignia. Individual Rapiers are also used in the front line to support infantry squads.

    At the regimental level, Rapiers and other heavy weapons are organised into whole support companies. These unwieldy outfits are used to provide heavy bombardments or en masse support for major offensives. In theory, a company comprises 10 machines, often divided between 2 types, such as 5 Rapiers and 5 Mole-Mortars. But. they are often reduced to so few weapons that they are forced into a supporting role on the battlefield, rather like the company support squads.

    Regimental support companies wear the same blue tunics as the company support squads, but with a distinctive red shoulder pad rather than yellow.

    Artist unknown! From WD100

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Silver: Black Metal, drybrush of Thrash Metal, drybrush of Cobalt Alchemy, drybrush of White Alchemy, wash of Nuln Oil (old formulation), wheels washed again with Seraphim Sepia

  • Metal Space Marine with Meltagun 0808 2 2nd. Edition Games Workshop

    This guy is part number 0808/2 and was one of three special weapons Marines sculpted in the year before 2nd. Edition.

    The 1993 catalogue which shows them says that the miniatures on that page are designed by Jes Goodwin and Normal Swales – not sure if it was a joint effort or whether one did the Devastators also shown and the other the special weapons.

    Says 1992 on the tab!

  • Metal 2nd. Edition Space Marine Dreadnought Warhammer 40K

    Designed by Jes Goodwin. It was announced in White Dwarf 182 (Feb 1995). The example in the WD issue is painted up as the third dreadnought of the 2nd. Company.

    The right arm had a Multimelta (0425/3), a Twin Lascannon (0442/22), an Assault Cannon (0427/16) as options. The left a missile launcher (0442/23 with front 0442/24) or a power fist (0425/5 with fingers 0425/6).

    A variety of Dreadnoughts were shown in WD205:

  • Metal Rogue Trader Grey Knight Terminator 2 070243 5

    This is one of the three Rogue Trader Grey Knight Terminators (No.2), and is part number 070243/5.

  • Metal Space Marine 2nd. Edition Land Speeder

    Designed by Norman Swales and Jes Goodwin! It was first shown in White Dwarf 179 on the back cover and announced in WD180 in December 1994.

    Marked as 1994.

    Found a box!

  • Metal Space Marine Jump Pack 0426 4

    This is the jump pack which came with the 2nd. Ed. Space Marines.

  • Metal Rogue Trader Grey Knight Terminator 3 070243 6

    This guy is one of three Grey Knight Terminators from Rogue Trader and is part number 070243/6.

  • Metal Space Marine Scout 5 010109306 Games Workshop

    This metal Space Marine Scout is number 5 in the catalogue and part number 010109306.

    1997 on the tab!

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Hamilton 070106 2

    Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Hamilton 070106 2

    This chap is Brother Hamilton in the April 1988 RT3 flyer and Bolter 10 070106/2 in the later catalogues.

    He seems to be named after Neil Hamilton, who played Commissioner Gordon in the 1960s Batman TV show.

    This model appears in the original run of Citadel Combat Cards as Gideon Fax, a Marine Medic in the Mentors chapter.

    1987 on the tab!

    You can see him in WD99:

    My paintjob:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, shaded by mixing in Kimera’s Orange, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s The White
    • Silver: Scale75 Black Metal, washed with Basilicanum Grey, highlighted with Black Metal. Then Heavy Metal, then Speed Metal.
    • Lenses: Kimera’s Phthalo Green mixed with Kimera’s Cold Yellow as a base, followed by Scale75 Art Spring Green, mixed with Cold Yellow and The White. Shaded by mixing in The Red to Spring Green.
    • Leather: Kimera’s Oxide Brown Medium followed by Oxide Brown Dark. Highlights done by mixing in Cold Yellow and Orange.
    • Black: Kimera’s Carbon Black followed by mixing in some The White.
    • Red: Kimera’s The White, followed by The Red, highlighted by mixing in some Cold Yellow, shaded by mixing in some Phthalo Green.
    • Skull: Kimera’s Oxide Brown Light, followed by Natural Soil, then Gypsum