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Tag: 1987

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Blake with Autogun

    Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Blake with Autogun

    I think the only Space Marine to ever come with an autogun! He’s shown as 070106/16 in the 1991 catalogue, and as Brother Blake in the 1988 RT3 flyer:

    He seems to be named after Madge Blake, who played Aunt Harriet Cooper in the 1960s Batman TV show. The mini himself:

    Painted:

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Blue: Scale75 Artist Cobalt, highlighted with Primary Blue, then Primary Blue mixed with Titanium White

    Black: Scale75 Art Black

    Green: Sap Green and Spring green highlighted with Golden Yellow

    Red: Bold Pyrrole Red, washed with Targor Rageshade, highlighted with Bold Pyrrole Red mixed with Golden Yellow

    Silver: Black Metal, washed with Nuln, highlighted with Heavy Metal, Speed Metal and White Alchemy

    Base: Dark Mud followed by Reddish Brown pigments

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Gorshin with Needle Gun

    Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Gorshin with Needle Gun

    Not a weapon you see much of any more! He’s a 1987 sculpt, shown in later catalogues as 07016/15. His name seems to be a reference to Frank Gorshin, who played the Riddler in series 1 and 3 of the 1960s Batman TV show.

    Colours used:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, highlighted with Cobalt Blue + Pro Acryl Titanium White, shaded with Cobalt Blue + Art Black
    • Red: Pro Acryl Bold Pyrrole Red, highlighted with a mix of that and Pro Acryl Golden Yellow, washed with Targor Rageshade
    • Silver: Black Metal, washed with Targor Rageshade, highlighted with Heavy Metal, then Speed Metal
    • Green: Spring Green, shaded with Art Black, highlighted with Golden Yellow
    • Black: Art Black, highlighted with a mix of Art Black and Titanium White
    • Dust: Soilworks Natural Soil, then Sand, then Gypsum on the top of the rocks. Reddish Brown around the rim.
    • Base Rim: Vallejo Black Grey

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Medic Kribins or Kyle with Carnifex

    This guy was down as Marine Medic Kribins early on, then Marine Medic Kyle, and in the 1991 catalogue he’s Medic with Carnifex 070133/68. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Potter

    Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Potter

    This guy was Brother Potter in the early catalogues, later shown as Bionic Eyes and Bolter 070106/4. He’s a 1987 sculpt.

    He was seen in White Dwarf #117 (Sept 1989) converted by Richard Kernick:

    My paint job:

    Paints used:

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Blue: Scale75 Artist Cobalt shaded with Prussian Blue, highlighted with Primary Blue and then a mix of Primary Blue and Art White

    Skin: Light Skin mixed with Artic Blue, highlighted with Golden Flesh and Art White, shaded a little with diluted Dark Brown Ochre.

    Red: Light Skin followed by Primary Red, highlighted with a mix of Primary Red and Orange. Washed with Nuln

    Silver: Black Metal, with Nuln oil wash, then Heavy Metal, Speed Metal and White Alchemy

    Varnish: Vallejo Mecha Matt Varnish

    Black: Art Black, highlighted with Artic Blue

    Green: Sap Green, highlighted with a mix of Sap Green and Primary Yellow

    Leather: Burnt Sienna then Burnt Skin, highlighted by a mix of Burnt Sienna and Orange

  • Metal Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Captain Huron Grimm

    This guy was Capt. Huron Grimm initially, and seen as Chainsword 2, part number 070119/36 in the 1991 catalogue.

    Marked as GW 87 on the back – nothing on the front on this guy.

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Harris aka Bolter 13

    Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Harris aka Bolter 13

    This guy was first seen as Brother Harris, and later as Bolter 13 which was part number 070106/3.

    He’s a 1987 sculpt and was shown on pages with minis sculpted by either Aly Morrison or Mark Copplestone – I’m not sure which of those two sculpted this fellow. The sticking plaster across his nose is a lovely touch.

    He shares most of his sculpt with Marine Medic 01 from 1987.

    This is a vintage Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine by the name of Brother Harris.

    Paints used:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s The White or Scale75 Art White Ink, shaded by mixing in Kimera’s Orange
    • Black: Kimera’s Carbon Black, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s The White
    • Base: Alizarin Crimson, drybrushed with Yellow Ochre, washed with Cygor Brown, the tube washed with Mortarion Grime, pigments of Soilworks Natural Soil and Moss Green. Rim is Vallejo Model Color Black Grey
    • Red: Kimera’s The Red, shaded by mixing in Kimera’s Phthalo Green, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s Cold Yellow
    • Skin: Kimera’s The White washed with Contrast: Guilliman Flesh, then some additional work done with Ochre Brown Light, Ochre Brown Medium, Pale Skin SART-51 and Pink Flesh SART-07.
    • Silver: Scale75 Black Metal, washed with Basilicanum Grey, highlighted with Thrash Metal, then Heavy Metal, then Speed Metal
  • Metal Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Brother Froth Space Marine

    Metal Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Brother Froth Space Marine

    This guy was a 1987 GW sculpt! He was shown as Brother Froth initially, but by 1988 he had changed his name to Brother Sheer and acquired a sight on his gun and a fatter pauldron – likely to fix a casting issue with the old design. At any rate this is the earlier iteration! I can’t find him in the 1991 catalogue unlike most of his brothers.

    Someone at some point seems to have filed down the studs on his left pauldron.

    Painted:

    Colours used:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, shaded with Prussian Blue, highlighted with Pro Acryl Titanium White mixed with Cobalt Blue
    • Red: Pro Acryl Bold Pyrrole Red, highlighted with Golden Yellow, shaded with Targor Rageshade
    • Lenses: Scale75 Art Spring Green, highlighted with Golden Yellow, shaded with Art Black, dot of Titanium White
    • Silver: Scale75 Heavy Metal, shaded with Targor Rageshade, highlighted with Heavy Metal and Speed Metal
    • Symbols: Cobalt Blue mixed with Titanium White
    • Base: PVA + Noch Ballast, then Dark Mud, Natural Soil and Sand on the base, Natural Soil on the legs, and Vallejo Wild Tuft – Dry – 6mm used cut in half.
  • 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!

    • 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
  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Leanman or Lestrade

    Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Leanman or Lestrade

    This guy goes by Brother Lestrade, Brother Leanman or Bolter 9, depending on which catalogue/flyer you are looking at. Part number 070106/5.

    Designed by Bob Naismith.

    He’s listed as Brother Lestrade in the Feb 1988 Astronomican, and Brother Leanman in the Sept 1987 White Dwarf 93 RTO1 listing and in the Feb 88 flyer.

    He’s a 1987 sculpt. As seen in the September 1989 White Dwarf (#117) converted by Richard Kernick:

    I have two of these guys and one had the bonding studs filed off – I didn’t notice until painting was underway.

    Paints used:

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, highlighted mixed with Primary Blue and Pro Acryl Titanium White, shaded with Art Black

    Lenses: Sap Green, highlighted with Spring Green and Pro Acryl Golden Yellow then Titanium White

    Black: Art Black, highlighted with a mix of Art Black and Titanium White

    Base: Burnt Sienna then Natural Soil and Sand pigments

    Decals: Ultramarine Forge World sheet, Armiger sheet for the honour markings

  • Vintage Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Longun or Anderton with Heavy Bolter

    Vintage Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Longun or Anderton with Heavy Bolter

    The heavy bolters were a little bit smaller way back when…

    Later shown as Space Marine armed with Heavy Bolter, part number 070121/48.

    Painted but not based:

    I tried my version of speed painting on this guy… which means about 2 days worth of painting effort.

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Base Coat: Scale75 Artist Cobalt blue, building to a blend of Cobalt and Primary Blue. Shade of Scale75 Instant Fairy Blood and Scale75 Shadow Black

    Edge highlights: Scale75 Primary Blue

    Recesses: Scale75 Instant Fairy Blood, darker areas Instant Shadow Black

    Silver: Scale75 Heavy Metal building to Speed Metal on the edges, shade a glaze of Scale75 Artist Black

    Red: Scale75 Artist Crimson building to Primary Red, shade of Scale75 Fairy Blood and Scale75 Shadow Black

    Green: Scale75 Artist White followed by Scale75 Fluoro Green, shade of Scale75 Instant Basilisk Green

    Decals from the Forge World Ultramarines sheet