Mason
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I have slowly been squirrelling away some old classic Citadel Rogue Trader figures for a venture back into the 41st Millenium with the intention of doing some small scale skirmishing using the RT rules and the original ideas before the whole system went crazy.
I intend doing small ship's crews, Inquistor warbands, mercenaries, pirates, salvage crews, single squads etc without going off into 'army' territory.
Another of my recent endeavours has involved collecting the old Citadel Eternal Champion figures to build a Melnibonean army.
One of the spin-offs of this has been that I have acquired a few 'damaged' figures in the process, mainly characters from the range.
They seemed perfect to me to convert into an Eldar pirate crew with a little conversion so I thought that I would start there (as I could not resist messing about with them and a little green stuff) and add in a few old Eldar for good measure.
I will probably convert them too.
Here are some WIP shots of what I am doing with them...
First up are some standard figures that will form part of the crew, not converted (yet!)....
I will do a little bit of work on them, but not too heavy.
This should give an idea of the sort of thing that may happen to them...
The Eldar on the left is a standard RT figure that had a broken arm.
I simply repaired it and added a an armour plate.
He also received a cloak, as I think this should give them a nice 'buccaneer-like' look.
The one on the right began life as a Melnibonean infantryman, but lost his spear arm for another conversion.
The addition of a few plastic bits from the more recent Eldar sprues (Thanks, weismonsters!) and another GS cloak should make him fit in quite nicely.
I still need to do something to his right leg to finish him off, and hide the scar where his spear used to be...
I am working on a few of the characters from the EC range at the moment as well.
More on those later...
I intend doing small ship's crews, Inquistor warbands, mercenaries, pirates, salvage crews, single squads etc without going off into 'army' territory.
Another of my recent endeavours has involved collecting the old Citadel Eternal Champion figures to build a Melnibonean army.
One of the spin-offs of this has been that I have acquired a few 'damaged' figures in the process, mainly characters from the range.
They seemed perfect to me to convert into an Eldar pirate crew with a little conversion so I thought that I would start there (as I could not resist messing about with them and a little green stuff) and add in a few old Eldar for good measure.
I will probably convert them too.
Here are some WIP shots of what I am doing with them...
First up are some standard figures that will form part of the crew, not converted (yet!)....
I will do a little bit of work on them, but not too heavy.
This should give an idea of the sort of thing that may happen to them...
The Eldar on the left is a standard RT figure that had a broken arm.
I simply repaired it and added a an armour plate.
He also received a cloak, as I think this should give them a nice 'buccaneer-like' look.
The one on the right began life as a Melnibonean infantryman, but lost his spear arm for another conversion.
The addition of a few plastic bits from the more recent Eldar sprues (Thanks, weismonsters!) and another GS cloak should make him fit in quite nicely.
I still need to do something to his right leg to finish him off, and hide the scar where his spear used to be...
I am working on a few of the characters from the EC range at the moment as well.
More on those later...