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Tag: Sculptor: Mark Copplestone

  • Imperial Guard Commissar 401309

    A Mark Copplestone sculpt.

  • Imperial Guard Commissar with Laspistol and Chainsword Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader

    This is a 1988 Mark Copplestone sculpt, 401003 and later 072117/4.

  • Imperial Guard Commissar with Lasgun Pointing Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader

    A Mark Copplestone sculpt, going by part number 401001. This one is sadly missing an arm and the tab.

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Chaplain with Combi Weapon

    This guy was a Mark Copplestone sculpt and was part number 410603 or later 070133/58.

  • 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.

  • Rogue Trader Space Marine Lieutenant – Metal Warhammer 40K

    This guy was one of the Rogue Trader Officers and was later shown with part number 070145/12. He’s a Mark Copplestone sculpt.

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue
    • 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
  • Metal Rogue Trader Officers – Captain with Bolter and Power Sword

    Metal Rogue Trader Officers – Captain with Bolter and Power Sword

    This guy was part number 070145/10 and was part of the three Officers set 070145/3 in Rogue Trader days. He’s a Mark Copplestone sculpt and appears in the 1989 catalogues.

    Unfortunately he became detached from his tab at some point. No date on the back of the tab. I had a go at a darker skin tone this time, working with Kimera’s Oxide Brown Dark which is PBr11 – an earth orange pigment – mixing in some Ultramarine which complements it very well – to get variation in tone and pull it down to a darker tone without needing to mix in Carbon Black for the most part – just a little around the eye socket and under the chin. For the skin highlights I initially tried mixing in The White but it turned out a lot more grey and desaturated than I wanted, so I mixed in a little bit of The Red in to bring some colour back in, which improved things. I also mixed in some The Red with the base skin colour for around the eyes, nose and mouth.

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt
    • Skin: Kimera Oxide Brown Dark, shaded with Ultramarine Blue, highlighted with The White semi-unsuccessfully. Further shading with Carbon Black. I mixed in The Red around the lips/nose/eyes.
    • Eyes: Mars Orange, Carbon Black for the pupil. The White mixed with Carbon Black for the eye and the attempt at an amber eye colour was Mars Orange.
    • Base: Kimera Red Oxide, drybrushed with Yellow Oxide then white, then Natural Soil from Soilworks for the pigment.
    • Green: Scale75 Art Spring Green, highlighted with Cold Yellow from Kimera, further highlight of The White. Carbon Black as the shade.
    • NMM Gold: Kimera Oxide Brown Dark, highlighted with Cold Yellow, further highlight of The White, slight glaze of Warm Yellow
    • Red: The Red, shaded with Carbon Black, highlighted with Cold Yellow, further highlight of The White
    • Bone: Honey Moon Yellow, tinted with The White, shaded with Oxide Brown Dark
    • Sword: Mars Orange and Scale75 Orange mixed together as the base, glazed up with just Orange and then Diarylide Yellow, then Cold Yellow, with edges of Orange + Oxide Brown Dark then just Oxide Brown Dark.
    • NMM Silver: Kimera Carbon Black, Scale75 Cobalt and Kimera The White.

    The backpack has a Praetor topper:

  • 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!).

    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 Chaplain with Chainsword

    This is one of the original Mark Copplestone Chaplain sculpts and was part number 410602 initially, later Chaplain with Chainsword 070133/57.

  • 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.