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Tag: Year: Unknown

  • Metal Rogue Trader Armour Variant Corvus 1

    This guy is one of the Armour Variants range and goes by Corvus 1, part number 070270/6. I can’t find an unambiguous sculpting credit for him, and there was no year on the tab.

    Paints used:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, highlighted with a mix of that and Pro Acryl Titanium White, shaded with Prussian Blue, further shading with Art Black
    • Red: Primary Red, highlighted with Primary Yellow over a little bit of white. Shaded with Burnt Sienna and Art Black
    • Lenses: Titanium White, then Spring Green, shaded with Art Black, highlighted with Primary Yellow then Titanium White
    • Gold: Titanium White, then Intense Yellow, recess wash with Burnt Sienna. Primary Yellow near the highlights. A little bit of Permanent Orange.
    • Silver: Titanium White, Art Black and Cobalt Blue.
    • Base: 28.5mm slotta, PVA on the outskirts with Noch grey ballast on top, Martian Ironearth through the middle. Undercoated with Vallejo Mecha Black, then Scale75 Red Ochre. Pigments of Reddish Brown, then Natural Soil, then Sand and Gypsum on the rock. Tuft is a Wild… something, I forget

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother A Skull aka Brother Dixon

    This Rogue Trader Space Marine seems to be down as A Skull originally and Brother Dixon later on. In the 1991 catalogue 070121/49. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt and there was nothing useful on the tab, unfortunately.

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Death Eagle 410614

    Amazing pose on this chap. He’s a Mark Copplestone sculpt, part 410614 and later Power Glove and Bolter.

    He can be seen in White Dwarf 112:

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Jump Pack

    I haven’t found these in a catalogue yet!

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Stalker

    This Rogue Trader Space Marine went by Brother Stalker and was a Bob Naismith sculpt.

    He has an unusual set of proportions in his beaky helm – making him look more mouse-y than most!

  • Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Space Marine Librarian with Tome 070145 8

    Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Space Marine Librarian with Tome 070145 8

    This guy was one of three power armoured Rogue Trader Librarians and is part number 070145/8.

    No date on the back of the tab.

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, lightened by mixing in Kimera’s The White, shaded by mixing in Kimera’s Orange
    • Black: Kimera’s Carbon Black, highlighted by mixing in The White
    • Base Rim: Vallejo Black Grey Model Color
    • Base: PVA glue, sand, Soilworks Reddish Brown, Soilworks Natural Soil, Soilworks Sand
    • Sword: Kimera’s Cold Yellow, Orange and The Red mixed with Carbon Black. Highlighted by mixing in The White
    • Leather: The Red mixed with Phthalo Green
    • Bone colour/parchment: Cold Yellow mixed with The Red, lightened with The White, washed with Targor Rageshade
    • Skin: The White, Guilliman Flesh, then a mix of Cold Yellow and The Red with The White. Purplish bits on the bulge on his forehead were Sigvald Burgundy.
  • Metal Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Space Marine Lieutenant Commander 070145 11

    Metal Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Space Marine Lieutenant Commander 070145 11

    This guy was a lieutenant commander and was part number 070145/11. He was one of two Firstborn Lieutenant models I’m aware of – the other is Lieutenant with Power Sword and Bolt Pistol. He’s a Mark Copplestone sculpt.

    Note the marking on his forehead. As per the How to paint Space Marines book:

    • Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
    • Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, shaded with Dark Prussian Blue and Prussian Blue. Highlight with Primary Blue and Titanium White
    • Base: Scale75 Art Burgundy Wine Red, skull Buff, rocks Yellow Ochre, drybrush of Golden Flesh, pigment of Reddish Brown in center, then Natural Soil further out, then Sand, then a light brush of Gypsum on the rocks/skull
    • Parchment: Buff, shaded with Buff + Burnt Sienna Umber, text with the latter. Highlight of Buff, then further highlight of Buff + Pro Acryl Titanium White
    • Power sword: Pro Acryl Titanium White, blended to Primary Yellow, then blended to Intense Yellow, then blended to Permanent Orange, then blended to Orange, then blended to Crimson, then Burnt Sienna Umber, then Art Black
    • Bone: Buff, shaded with Garaghak’s Sewer. Bone end to sword was Scale75 Art Off White, shaded with watered down Burnt Sienna Umber, highlighted with Off White and Titanium White
    • Rim: Vallejo Black Grey Model Colour
    • Yellow: Titanium White then Primary Yellow, shaded with Intense Yellow, further shading with Primary Yellow + Pro Acryl Bold Pyrrole Red
    • Red: Bold Pyrrole Red, shaded with Art Black, highlighted with Primary Yellow, dot of Titanium White
    • Gauntlet: Prussian Blue mixed with Titanium White, Art Black and Titanium White. A little bit of the yellows in the underside reflection.
    • Eye lenses: Spring Green, shaded with Art Black, highlighted with Primary Yellow then Ardcoat.

    I pushed the blue darker to contrast a bit more with the sword and make it stand out. I had to try something different with this power weapon – the three facets on each side meant that the technique I used previously didn’t work out quite how I had hoped.

  • RT Imperial Guard Rapier

    This metal Rogue Trader-era tracked heavy weapon appears in the 1988 catalogue as the Imperial Guard Rapier along with two crewman. Designed by Michael Perry as per the 1991 catalogue credits.

    It can be seen in White Dwarf #100:

    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

    Based:

    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

  • Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Slater

    This is Brother Slater from Rogue Trader! Also known as Bolter and Sensor, part number 070106/6.

    He appears as Brother Slater in the RT3 flyer in April 1988.

    No date on this tab!

    Painted:

    Paints used:

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Blue: Scale75 Cobalt Blue, highlighted with Primary Blue and Pro Acryl Titanium White

    Red: Pro Acryl Bold Pyrrole Red, shaded with Targor Rageshade, highlighted with Bold Pyrrole Red + Pro Acryl Golden Yellow

    Silver: Black Metal, Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, shaded with Targor Rageshade

    Base: Natural Soil, then Sand, then Gypsum for highlighting the rock

    Green: Sap Green, Spring Green mixed with Titanium White

  • LE2 Imperial Space Marine

    LE2 was apparently the first Space Marine sculpted in 1984, according to the 1997 catalogue! Other sources give his sculpting date as 1985, however, so I have marked it as Year: Unknown until I find a tab that shows it definitively.

    He turns up in the 1991 Blue catalogue as Bolter 5, part number 070121/42 which is right amongst the C100 marines as far as part numbers go. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.

    White Dwarf 93 has an entire squad of just him:

    A 360deg view:

    • 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
    • Gun: Carbon Black and Kimera’s Orange