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Tag: 1988

  • Rogue Trader Imperial Guard Commissar with Las-Gun

    Rogue Trader Imperial Guard Commissar with Las-Gun

    This Imperial Guard Commissar was a 1988 sculpt by Mark Copplestone, and goes by Commissar with Las-Gun (as does another one, but this chap is the one who isn’t pointing).

    The catalogue page:

    The mini:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Prussian Blue mixed with Kimera Carbon Black, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s The White progressively. The same for the gun.
    • Lenses: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, shaded with Carbon Black, highlighted with The White
    • Skin: Kimera The Red, Cold Yellow, Carbon Black and The White all mixed together in varying amounts over and over again until I was less disappointed than when I started.
    • Yellow was Cold Yellow, shaded with The Red. Red is The Red, shaded with Carbon Black and highlighted with Cold Yellow.

  • 1988 Nurgle Chaos Renegade – Tube Head

    This metal Games Workshop miniature was designed by Michael Perry.

  • Brother Levers – Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine

    This chap has two power gloves! He’s later shown as part number 070145/15.

  • Brother Repp with Melta Gun – Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine

    Brother Repp with Melta Gun – Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine

    This chap has 1988 on the base and is shown with part number 070106/17 in the 1991 catalogues. He’s listed as one of those sculpted by Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone.

    He seems to be named after Stafford Repp, who played Chief O’Hara in the 1960s Batman TV series.

    You can see him in WD99:

    My paintjob:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue and Guilloche: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, highlighted with Kimera The White, shaded with Carbon Black
    • Base: Scale75 Red Ochre, drybrushed with a mix of Red Ochre and Honey Moon Yellow, further drybrush with a little bit of The White mixed in
    • Meltagun: Black Metal, then Thrash Metal, then Speed Metal, then White Alchemy. Shading with Carbon Black. Heat bloom Kimera Warm Yellow, then Orange, then Toluidine Red, then Phthalo Blue Red Shade, then Violet, then Carbon Black
    • Eyes: Scale75 Art Spring Green, shaded with Carbon Black, highlighted with Cold Yellow and The White.
    • Red: The Red, then Scale75 Red Ink SART-74, then Black Ink SART-79 in the recesses, then Cold Yellow for the highlights. Some Carbon Black + The Red for shadows.
    • Yellow warning sign: The White, then Cold Yellow, with Carbon Black for the exclamation point.
    • Black: Carbon Black, highlighted with The White

    The one new thing I tried this time around was doing the heat bloom on the meltagun with a brush rather than airbrush. I didn’t much care for the recessed eye lenses – they were difficult to paint and also to get light to for the photo!

  • Brother Sheer – Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine

    This guy is the later sculpt of Brother Froth – he has a gun sight and a few other minor changes, presumably to make him easier to cast.

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother West

    This chap was Brother West, and later Bolter 8 – part number 070119/21. His name seems to be a reference to Adam West, who played Batman in the 1960s TV series.

    He can be seen in WD99:

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Meredith

    Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Meredith

    This awesome sculpt was initially shown as Brother Meredith, and by 1991 was Bolter 11 and part number 070106/10. He seems to have been named after Burgess Meredith, who played the Penguin in the 1960s Batman TV show.

    Sculpted by Mark Copplestone (as confirmed by the man himself!).

    He can be seen in WD99:

    Painted:

    Paints used:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s The White, shaded by mixing in Kimera’s Orange
    • Red: Kimera’s The Red, shaded by mixing in Phthalo Green
    • Silver: Scale75’s Black Metal, shaded with Basilicanum Grey, highlighted with… other Scale paints, I’ll find my notes
    • Flesh: Some of Scale75’s Art pinks, washed with Guilliman Flesh
    • Base: Sand and a couple of little rocks undercoated then painted with Ochre, then pigment of Reddish Brown, Natural Soil and Sand for the rocks applied.

  • Metal Space Marine Rogue Trader Techmarine with Wrench

    This guy was one of the original Mark Copplestone Techmarine sculpts – 410501 – and shown later as 070133/72.

    He can be seen in White Dwarf #107:

  • Metal Space Marine Rogue Trader Tech Marine with Toolbox

    This guy was Tech Marine with Toolbox 410506 initially, later part number 070133/74. He’s a Mark Copplestone sculpt.

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Martins

    This guy appears as Brother Martins in the early catalogues and flyers and later as Hand Flamer and Heavy Plasma, part number 070121/51.