Hydra Space Pirates Characters - Retro Raygun - Vera Thorne - The Butcher

Here a two of the upcoming releases for the Retro Raygun Space Pirates faction, which I painted for Hydra Miniatures.

Vera Thorne, a fierce Space Pirate leader with a boson pistol and combat knife. 

 

 

The Butcher, a homicidal enforcer wielding a massive boarding axe.

 

 

40K Space Pirates Additions - Satyr Art Studio Oldhammer Style

Satyr Art Studio released several Oldhammer styled miniatures over the last few months. I painted up two of the 'Space Pirates' to add to my 1980s Adventurers- they fit in perfectly.

Satyr Arts Studio are far left and fourth from the left.

40K Rogue Trader Adventurers - Space Pirates

In the ancient times, when I was first getting into Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K, I chanced across an advertisement in White Dwarf #99 that showed a variety of characterful civilian figures. They captured my imagination immediately and I managed to acquire a few. Sadly, it was fairly hard to find the 40K Adventurers figures in Omaha, Nebraska in the late 1980s.

 

After a few breaks from GW over the years, I decided around 2010 to make the final push to collect the entire range and managed to score the ones I was missing on eBay. Every year I tell myself I'm going to paint them, and then the year rolls over... However, this year, my resolution is to paint them all by the end of the year!

 

 

First up were a few of the Pirate types from the advert: the Pirate Captain, Old Pirate, and Space Pirate. I also decided to tackle the Space Pirate from 40K Talisman set, 'Loritta' (aka Cybergirl) from the Space Pirates range, and three other ne-er-do-wells from yet another range of pirates and adventurers. My color inspiration was some spice pirate concept art by Moebius for the legendary Jodorosky Dune movie that never happened.

These figures are crude by today's standards but I have to say they are straight up FUN to paint.