Tuesday, May 5, 2020

40K Rogue Trader Adventurers - Eldar Trader and Associates

Here's the next installment in my 40K Adventurers project- the Eldar Trader.


I've been enjoying painting the Adventurers as part of small groups, so I decided to paint up a female friend and a Bonesinger as well. Both are non-GW sculpts I acquired years ago through the old Yahoo Collecting Citadel Miniatures Group. I decided the female is a psyker, so she received a Gyrinx companion (a Rogue Trader era limited release). It made sense to add a couple bodyguards so I selected three RT era Eldar mercs. One has a headswap (Dark Elf) from the mixed race WHF army box.


I still have the Eldar Trader I painted around 1993, so I decided to take a side-by-side comparison photo. Next up, by request, is the pilot. I have an ornithopter for him too, which was a long project in the making.

7 comments:

  1. Nice work, very nice indeed. Those minis work great as a group too despite some aesthetic differences between them. Good call on an eldar pirate ornithopter, I was personally thinking of doing the same (using the admech flyer) but it doesn't fit my current eldar project (and also has no gaming use for me other than as a scenery/objective item) so has been put on the backburner for now.

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  2. You're really pumping these out! Lovely and colourful!

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    1. Thanks, trying to work steadily, with one adventurer group per month, one Inquisitor per month. I think I missed Feb. so I'm caught up ;)

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  3. Very nice indeed! Your 1993 version was damn fine too, mind you!

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    1. Thanks, I was hoping the old one would be much worse, that way my improvement would be more obvious, hehehehe :)

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  4. Beautiful! Your use of colour here is really sweet. The group is fantastic, you managed to integrate them all perfectly!

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    1. Thanks :) When unifying a group I use the old art trick of spreading color through a composition- using a particular color at least once on each figure :)

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