Rtb01 - Adventures Of A Rogue Trader Era Modeller

[millest]

[URL=http://millests.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/2015-lets-party-or-at-least-model-like.html]2015 - Let's Party (or at least model) like it's 1989![/URL]



Hi folks, so the new year has been here for a while and now its time to start with some hobby fun. Since December and life changing for the better I have been on a bit of a retro funk and have indulged in many culinary delights, music marvels and video failures from my youth. Until recently however one thing has always eluded me due to time and costs, that slippery weasel is the joy of the hobby days of my youth!

So trawling through facebook I discovered I wasn't the only one pining for the modelling days of yore. In my travels of the book of face I came across the Oldhammer Community ([url]https://www.facebook.com/groups/400319303383363/?fref=nf[/url]) who are a group who share my interest in older models from both 40k and WHFB. So on joining the group and spending some time mooching around I rediscovered this art work and fell in love all over again.



I origionally had a few RT marines in my younger days but these were second hand even then as we had no really hobby shops in my old home town so these came to me by way of a car boot sale and had already been painted a good few times. Even with that I had fun painting them and dreamt of the days of owning my own army and having a proper hobby.
Eventually by the time I really got the pocket money and understanding to get in to things like warhammer the new 2nd/3rd edition marines (cant remember which) were coming out and things were moving on, in other words White Dwarf was out and Mail order ruled, that and occasionally I got to a bigger town where there was a GW. To this day I still dont know where my origional RTs we but I have always missed them and have always dreamt of replacing them.

So after joining the Oldhammer page it didn't take much looking before I found their trading page and now I'm a little older and more able to get these rarer things (ie I have a wage) I decided to take the plunge and start seeing what a new old gamer could find, eventually as a result ended up being the proud owner of this little lot:



I still have a few other bits to come in the post and once they arrive I will be sharing them with you, I have a few plans for the force including some modelling/painting options for a few characters but the one thing that is alluding me is what chapter to paint these guys as!
Any suggestions or thoughts on the chapter that will get some ancients join there ranks would be great so once organised I can start assembling the RT force of my young dreams

There are more images and more background on these models on my blog here so please feel free to pop over and have a look:

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[millest]

the latest elements for the RT force have arrived and very happy with the Lore Keepers smile emoticon
more pics on the blog here:
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[Kirsten]

Always interesting to see old models given new life

[millest]

Well after more waiting for various packages and parcels the core of the force has finally turned up and now to start showing off some of the units pre-paint.

Next is the turn of the devastator squad, this is mainly made up of a core of metal models and 5 of the plastic RTB01s from the third squad in my first RTB post here. That squad has come in useful as with a few extra trades they have now filled out this unit and put together some donor models for a random squad of five (more on them later in the blog).

Here are the models that are forming the base of my heavy weapons teams.



there are more pics and info about the models and the choices of them on the blog here:
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[Wolfshade]

My last surviving RTB01s are going to be pressed into service as a command squad

[Kirsten]

imagine if GW released a plastic set of RTB01's, people would go crazy for them.

[YorkNecromancer]

Imagine...

£11.99 for 36 beakies? In the modern day?

I'd lose my f**king mind.

Because yeah, the sculpting is outdated, and the scale is wonky, and...

Man, I bloody love RTB01 beakies. That is a magical, magical kit, and it's not just the nostalgia-goggles; it's the fact it came with so many bitz, the fact the bayonets are just big-a** knives, the beautiful lines of the old bascinet helms...

A magical, magical kit.

[Kirsten]

even if it was £36 for 11 people would still lap them up

[Darren Richardson]

ahhh man, I bet you were the one who outbid me on eBay recently for almost 3 squads worth of those RTB01 Sprues

I've been slowly building up my own RT/2nd Ed squads myself, but run out of the RTB01 arms with bolters while repairing a batch of broken beakies I got in a lot off of eBay last year, it's the two parts that seem to be the hardest to find anywhere as well.....

Still good luck with your small army, as for which chapter, I've been thinking of using the old white dwarf articule which focused on the Mentor Legion during RT's years as a basis to work from.....

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doh! just saw you traded on the Oldhammer forums for them, so ignore my first comment.....

I wonder who did outbid me for them?

[millest]

ahhh man, I bet you were the one who outbid me on eBay recently for almost 3 squads worth of those RTB01 Sprues

Darren, give it a couple of days and even if I only have 3-4 left ill let you know, got some on ebay at the mo as well, but only 5 bareheaded sergs. sound ok?