| Jimboba | 21 Feb 2015 11:41 a.m. PST |
Thought I would share these Samurai inspired Titan Marines from Rebel Miniatures. Pretty please with the way they turned out. A bit on my blog about inspiration and some. Being (intentionally) GW 40k illiterate I don't see the same as some when looking at the banner decals on these – so forgive if they scream 40k to you!
More here: link |
| SonofThor | 21 Feb 2015 11:51 a.m. PST |
Nice paint scheme! I went with Desert Stormtrooper colors with mine. |
| Redroom | 21 Feb 2015 12:09 p.m. PST |
nice troops, banner came out very well |
| deflatermouse | 21 Feb 2015 12:12 p.m. PST |
whoa momma those are excellent.
I went with just black and white for mine. (painters remorse now) Yours are admirable work. |
| stroezie | 21 Feb 2015 12:37 p.m. PST |
Wow, Renraku Red Samurai, Cool.
Makes me want to run some Shadowrun again and drop these on my players :-)) |
| Grignotage | 21 Feb 2015 1:31 p.m. PST |
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| Victor Kravenhoff | 21 Feb 2015 1:51 p.m. PST |
Looks awesome! I've always thought about making these guys more japanese than German, but I've never seen it executed! good for you. As for it looking like 40k, 40k is, itself, an extremely derivative, so I think you share more of a comman starting with it than a comman conclusion. |
| JimDuncanUK | 21 Feb 2015 2:19 p.m. PST |
39K 39K 39K Apart from that the painting is good. :) |
| Oiler72 | 21 Feb 2015 2:38 p.m. PST |
Those look great, nice take on them. Well done. |
| TamsinP | 21 Feb 2015 4:50 p.m. PST |
What a great follow-through on an inspired scheme. They look great |
| War Monkey | 21 Feb 2015 7:03 p.m. PST |
Those are AWESOME!! What a great theme as well and good follow through as well as TamsinP said. +1 |
| Jimboba | 22 Feb 2015 4:28 a.m. PST |
Thanks all for the positive comments. Glad they are sparking off ideas which is the intent. The 40k reference is specific to the banner decal which is a Tau symbol I think. To me it's got a rising sun! JImDuncan. How are you? Been a while and glad you chipped in. "Good" from you is high praise for a merchant banker's efforts! |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Feb 2015 7:16 a.m. PST |
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| Umpapa | 22 Feb 2015 8:18 a.m. PST |
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 MrHarold  | 22 Feb 2015 9:08 a.m. PST |
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| JimDuncanUK | 22 Feb 2015 12:36 p.m. PST |
Jimboba I'm mellowing in my old age ;) |
| Jimboba | 22 Feb 2015 3:20 p.m. PST |
Jim, I'm so trying not to come back with a cheeky comment on "mellow" and "age". See, I resisted! I'll save it for face to face banter. |
| JimDuncanUK | 23 Feb 2015 5:49 a.m. PST |
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| boy wundyr x | 23 Feb 2015 8:16 a.m. PST |
They do look great, I was going to use the Titan Marines for Japanese forces in my "victorious WWII Axis in space" project, though I wasn't thinking of doing them specifically in a samurai theme, but I'm re-thinking that now after seeing these. |
| Jimboba | 23 Feb 2015 1:26 p.m. PST |
"victorious WWII Axis in space"? Sounds interesting. Got anymore info? |
| Longstrider | 24 Feb 2015 5:05 a.m. PST |
Very clever! A nice blend between the usual Space Samurai look and something more plausibly mundane. |
| Jimboba | 24 Feb 2015 5:11 p.m. PST |
I'm going to take "plausibly mundane" not to mean they are boring, but renditions that are 'sensible' vs the OTT shoulder-pad power legions… What's 39K anyway? |
| Longstrider | 26 Feb 2015 1:40 p.m. PST |
Yeah! Not boring at all. I just think it hits a nice balance between utility (I mean, the JSDF doesn't exactly look like Samurai) and fun. |
 Rebel Minis | 28 Feb 2015 7:01 a.m. PST |
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| AWuuuu | 28 Feb 2015 10:05 a.m. PST |
Great idea with helmet crest ! |
| boy wundyr x | 05 Mar 2015 8:24 a.m. PST |
Sorry for the late response Jimboba, I'm using the Titan Marines for the Japanese and Eureka's sci-fi Germans for, well, the Germans. One of RAFM's space infantry lines (the most basic) will serve as the US remnants in space. I haven't thought through more than that (like what to do about the British, Russians, and Italians), but I'm borrowing ideas from what I can find out about the old Star Reich RPG and the Iron Skies movie. |
| Jimboba | 05 Mar 2015 10:44 a.m. PST |
Yes, I'm wanting some of those Eurekas German's and some of the really nice Heavies from Clockwork Goblin. So, these chaps for the American's?
What if the British, in a bid to rediscover their Empire Days, went a little retro (from Black Hat):
Russians – have to be modelled on Cossack style winter garb.
Italians? Would they even turn up? Kidding! Foreign Legion for the French? |
