Exö-Squad Röknauts

 

Hey everyone, so you might have noticed I'm a huge fan of Röknauts from Ontos Games, and their latest project saw the arrival of a much anticipated troop type :

Now the thing is, Röknauts have got some some love from very talented painters I cannot possibly emulate, however, I'm having fun keeping my approach to them and I absolutely love seeing the force grow and seeing the project make a cohesive whole thanks to the impeccable artistic choices from Ontos.

As ever, the Rökthane is always a great piece of attention and Hurtzr Wârnug is no different from his brilliant counterparts.

Colour wise, I've kept the colours familiar, it's the green and yellow combo that was chosen by my brother Crooks for the Heavy Industrialist Union.

I love that this theme ties our little imaginary worlds.
Of course Hurtzr Wârnug had to bear a little resemblance to Werner Herzog so I kept the pale hair and tried to make his beard as luxurious as possible.
By the way, I think any dwarf enthusiast will agree the beard is the definite test when it comes to dwarves and the beard on this one is jus *chef's kiss* MWAH.

The Exö-squad comes with a new time of special weapon in the form of a sunstorm rifle which I painted like I usually paint my plasma weapons.

I'm also VERY glad Ontos did the work right  and gave one of the Silvrhand gauntlets a pointing finger pose because nothing's cooler than this if 2nd ed 40k has any place in your heart.
A little detail I aded is painting the loincloth in the same camo the other troopers wears as a reminder of their former squads (more than to actually camo their crotch).

Now although there are 2 body variants fro the trropers, I find the poses make for a smart array of combos with the way the heads turn

As you can see, the Exö-squad are quite chunky and imposing as befits their status, you really get that sense of indestructibility from them.

Now with so many Röknauts done now, I had to check and see how they looked together !

This is really shaping up as a great force and I'm really eager to see more of them in the (I hope near) future.
Now If I'm happing a few other space dwarves I have at hand, it's getting even better !

I couldn't resist testing some backgrounds and a little scenery do try some more atmospheric shots. For some reason the settings on my camera went funny and I only managed to get them back to normal after I was done so these are a little washed out but it's definitely given me the will do do plenty more !

Rogue Trader Land Raider Prototype

So you know how Rogue Trader is an incredible gold mine full of weird nuggets to dig up right ? It's facsinating to see all the seeds of modern 40k in tis venerable tome. Now there's a model that's reached an iconic status and it's the Land Raider. Unfortunately it's not an easy one to get your hands on unless you're willing to spend a fortune.

Now the magic of life is having talented friends, I happen to have plenty of those and amongst them is Curis from Ninjabread, who sculpted the most excellent Röknauts and who decided he needed to give life to one very specific Land Raider pattern.

Röknauts Space Dwarves

Hey everyone ! I was lucky to get my hands on a set of Ontos Games Röknauts lately as their Kickstarter is running ! The project has funded in 5 minutes without a surprise !
 

Now I have a fondness for all the fun niche bits of the 40k verse like every other fan and Curis has poured a tremendous amount of love into making some of these concepts tangible with his own take on the subject.

The models really capture what I like the most about dwarf models, they're small but BIG, if youv'e ever painted a dwarf model face, you know what I mean, dwarf weapons, dwarf beards are such funs, noone wants to paint knees or elbows, dwarves just keep all the good parts and make them bigger while getting rid of the lame ones.

Rogue Trader Bombots !

What I like about digging into Oldhammer is those little gold nuggets you find that got forgotten but were fun concepts. What's even better is when talented people unearth those gold nuggets and make them tangible.

That's what happened with this beautiful concept of Bombots originating from the gold mine that is the Rogue Trader rulebook :

The most Excellent Curis from Ninjabread fame has designed those for the sake of it and I was lucky to get a copy to pay hommage to it !