The time has come to sell on my dear old squats.
I've mentioned before that I fell back into wargaming playing a 15mm FUBAR campaign with a couple of mates. This was great fun. We jointly created the back story for the planet we were fighting over, and we would take it in turns to GM/host games (so the players never knew their opponent's mission objectives). Each game was designed to move the narrative along. There were many memorable battles; a brutal shoot out between tech-ninjas and fascist goons in a labyrinthine downtown slum, a scramble for an alien artefact in the jungle zone causing a stampede of toy dinosaurs, a Seven Samurai-style defence of a mining facility where the defenders could move through underground tunnels to ambush the attackers...
My whistle had been well and truly wetted. I'd enjoyed painting the 15mm guys and fancied having a go at some 28mm minis. And of course, being a contrary sod, I picked a totally dead faction! Considering I didn't have a clue what I was doing, and was using Tamiya paints with wood stain for shading, they actually came out OK (albeit with the classic 'fried egg' eyes).
Sadly, their unpainted comrades were sold on to help pay for new break shoes and the project came to a grinding halt. In the last several years I've used them once - for a random game of Stargrunt - so I think it's now time that these venerable warriors were enjoyed by someone else. But before they ship out, I thought I'd take a few snaps for posterity.
The first 'Space Dwarf' release for Rogue Trader was the RT03 range (1987) sculpted by the Perrys. From left to right: Lewis Gunn, Colt Stoner and Smoothbore Sten.
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