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| The Data Kings secure a vital fuel dump. |
I think it's fair to say that I'm really enjoying painting up these Techs. They're varied enough not to be boring, but uniform enough to not agonise over odd unique details. The differing sculpting styles are meshing together well enough too!
Over the course of the last few days I painted up a selection of four additional Techs, to give me 8 out of the 10 needed for the forthcoming event.
First up are Vobis with his plasma pistol and servo claw, and Franklin, my juve armed with a pair of stub guns. Vobis and Franklin are my concessions to minimal combat efficiency. Vobis is a ganger, technically armed with a plasma pistol and club for the event (he can't take a servo claw until the full Trading Post lists are published. He is one of my favourite Techs with that ridiculous over-sized claw!
Franklin gets his pair of pistols (because a gunslinging juve is fun, if inefficient) from the new Orlock kit. He too gets a club - I cut a large spanner from plasticard and hung it on his belt to represent it. Paint-wise, the drill was the same as the previous Techs, just with a darker skin tone on Franklin for some variety.
The second pairing comprise the leader of the Data Kings, Maxdata, and one of the champions, Osbourne. Maxdata is the Jes Goodwin Tech Baron - a suitably imposing leader, equipped with ostentatious chest armour, calculator and showing off his bionic muscles.
Osbourne is one of the Roy Eastland Techs, with a fun work apron and an oversized beetle-back carapace armour piece. His 'plasma' gun is a Forgeworld Volkite caliver mated with Forgeworld Death Korps of Krieg arms.
The Data Kings really are starting to look like an actual gang now!
look great mate!
ReplyDeleteCheers! Glad you like them :)
DeleteExcellent work my friend, the gang is really taking shape now!
ReplyDeleteThey're certainly all coming together :)
DeleteLooking great. And with that Volkite you can run around "choom"ing everyone to death.
ReplyDeleteAnd do you have Orlocks as a forthcoming gang, or are you just raiding someone's bitz?
I love plasma guns and the Volkite was a way to get something rather low tech and dangerous looking into the group!
DeleteI bought the Orlock arms from a bits seller - it ended up being the most efficient route.
It's amazing how well does this scheme work on these. I love them!
ReplyDeleteThanks Suber! Hopefully it's nice and eye-catching.
DeleteRoy Eastland! The one sculptor it's feasible to collect each of his Citadel offerings. You're doing a lovely job on this band, axi.
ReplyDeletePossibly Mark Copplestone and Nick Lund are also realistic candidates for such a collection? Cheers Curis!
DeleteIs that Maxdata mini a one piece sculpt? He looks rad! Your gang is fantastic Axiom :)
ReplyDeleteMaxdata is a one piece sculpt of Jes Goodwin loveliness. I've not modified it at all!
DeleteYou're still ticking items that are on many of our bucket lists, that's inspiring !
ReplyDeleteWe share so many bucket lists! It's a bucket dossier :)
DeleteOne of the main thrills of this gang and the other Confrontation era miniatures that are getting worked on by yourself and others is seeing them actually painted up by someone with a genuine love of the range and a great handle on modern techniques.
ReplyDeleteYou have to remember that for many people who came to GW stuff later on in the mid-nineties (as I did), all that we saw of these minis was the few that survived into the old blue catalog, and none of those were ever painted.
If it's any consolation, they weren't readily available or shown off in White Dwarf even if you were around in the early 1990s!
DeleteTo this day, I still don't understand why a range with ~80 models (including unreleased figures) didn't get splash releases alongside the rules being published in White Dwarf.
It's fun for me now to paint them up knowing that in some cases they've never been seen painted before.
It is strange - I can only imagine that they must have suffered in the same way that all of the other elements of the GW universe did when there was that massive push towards everything being about the armies and 40k alone in the course of the 90's.
DeleteEven when the remnants of the Confrontation range were still in the Blue Catalog, they were described as being suitable for use as such things as chaos cultists and Imperial Guardsmen, as well as gangers.
Variety in skin tones is a nice touch in your limited palette color scheme. Nice!
ReplyDeleteI'll certainly aim to include a couple more with different skin tones. I was pretty pleased at how the first guy came out. Cheers!
DeleteAbsolutely loving these, man - You're killin' it!
ReplyDeleteThanks buddy! I'm enjoying throwing them out!
DeleteDamn Axi, I am really enjoying this gang more and more. (And seeing two of the few remaining Confrontation figs in my own collection being painted up is encouraging too!)
ReplyDeleteWhich two do you have Dai? I do love these old figures.
DeleteFranklin and Osbourne. I also have an old Scavvie #2 that you likewise showed a while back that is in my Nurgle Cult warband and an old Bounty Hunter #5 that I've yet to paint since purchase purely due to never finding arms that I felt were suitable to his sculpt. But that's it, i think. They all sit, based, primed and unpainted in my "to-do" drawer with the 100's of others waiting their turn for my butterfly hobby-attention to alight upon them, paintbrush in hand.
DeleteThese are awesome; great work!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kym!
DeleteThese Techs are really cracking! It's been amazing to catch up with the blog and see these figures coming to life.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sean! I'm really looking forward to finishing the gang and giving them a runout.
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