This week is the final sculpt from Dave Andrews 1993 Plague Marine range. I had a lot of fun painting this figure and am really happy to have this guy finished and in the display case. The sculpt is limited in pose as per the era, but shows the transition from Rogue Trader Chaos Renegades to 40K 2nd Edition standards. Much like the Jes Goodwin Death Guard miniature, this chap looks like a big chunk of lead that barely fits on the base and when in the group, they really have presence.
Hi everyone, I am 'officially' back from holiday and am painting again. However before I start the weekly posts, I just wanted to share here my first ever podcast! This incarnation of the Daemon Inks Studios blog has been around since around 2010, and I have rarely, if ever shown my face, let alone do anything like a Podcast.
So if you are curious to find out a little bit more about me, the hobby or just want to see if I look like a bag of old troll pants, please check the video. If you are feeling particularly generous, maybe even give the video a like and the channel a follow. Grumpy Old Wolf is a really good asset to the community, providing high quality interviews with a whole host of painters and industries legends, as well as excellent painting tutorials. There really is something for everyone, whether you are grognard or a fresh faced recruit.
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Greetings, today we have a look at the leader of my budding Death Guard Warband. The figure is a mild conversion of Jes Goodwin's iconic Death Guard Chaos Space Marine from 1991. It is truly one of my favourite sculpt of the era and shows just how ahead of the curve Jes was at the time with his sculpts. This miniature locks in the iconic Death Guard look, that would carry on for 35 years into the contemporary plastic era. The colour scheme; like the rest of the collection; is from the 1994 Eavy Metal painting guide, which uses the same miniature for the tutorial. Hopefully I have done it some measure of tribute with my interpretation.
The Rogue Trader Terminators (Imperial or Traitor) by Jes Goodwin are among my favourite sculpts of the Rogue Trader era. With their iconic bull dog helmets, chunky profile and brutal looking weapons, they stood apart from the older range of standard power armour sculpts of the time. And yet despite my absolute love for the sculpts, it would take thirty plus years to pluck up the courage to paint my ones. While I had manage to paint some of the Imperial version; including a Cyclone Missile Launcher (yet to be posted), I had never attempted the Traitor or assault weapons versions. This year I decided to rectify that.
We are back this week with another Dave Andrews Plague Marine miniature. As with last week, this is from the 1993 release, which I view as a transitional Chaos Space Marine miniature. The 1993 range deviates a little bit from Jes Goodwin's Iconic Death Guard sculpt, but does retain or add some of the more typical details we would associate with later Death Guard/Plague Marine miniatures i.e the wooden panels on the bolt gun (how chic!), groin guard, helmet spike and of course battle damage/weathering. Interestingly though this figure sports a more standard MK7 helmet breathing grill as opposed to breathing pipes or filter caps, perhaps to make greater emphasize that these are 'bad guy' versions of the popular Imperial Space Marines. The 1994 multi part versions would fully move away from the 'bunny teeth' grill to give the range it's own unique identity.
