Flesh for... - Rogue Trader Civilians

As my friend Willy Idol, would say :

But this is the future right ? Flesh for Rogue trader anyone ? OK, time for silly puns is past...

To give some company to my space metalhead, I thought I'd populate the streets of my rogue trader games with more civilians and unarmed characters just to add depth to it. They will probably be quite useful for story purposes in games I expect to play.

So here they are :

A pair of hookers to give warmth (and venerial diseases) to the mercenaries, thieves and other space brigands my games can lead me to play. But why hookers? Why another sordid concept after a drunk? Well, in all honesty, things were not planned that way at first...

I initially traded a couple of figures for a particular project I had in mind...

An elf cheerleader and a wood elf sorceress, both Jes Goodwin sculpts (who else for elves?) I selected for the parts in the red squares. Best thing of all, the trader which got me the cheerleader very kindly added a dark elf one in the package to apologise for sending the package late (another proof the oldhammer community has some brilliant members). I believe the trader thought I'd use the elf cheerleader for BloodBowl purposes and added a similar model. He just couldn't know this was intended for something else... Anyway, after hacking both the elf cheerleader and wood elf sorceress in 2, I quickly drybuilt what I wanted for my initial project. This lead me to realise it would be a little harder than anticipated... And I still had 2 halves and a complete dark elf cheerleader.

After sticking the 2 halves together I realised the result had some bohemian charm to it. The jacket looking like a perfecto with the robe underneath had that provocative look you could find in the 80's :

Well, removing the pom-poms was just the first part of the job, I had to give the model some fitting hands.

I opted for a provacative pose with one hand calling men passing by and the other making a little gesture of the index to invite some of her preys... The hands used are from plastic Imperial guards. I know they are a little (lot?) too large but didn't want to waste too much time and felt like following this creative flow... The result had the exact look I wanted for this kind of model, the painting would just emphasise all the existing traits.

Like I said, the jacket looked too much like a perfecto not to be painted black and this left little choice but to paint her shirt white to offfer a good contrast. The skirt was painted a vibrant red because I love painting red tis way and because it underlined that bohemian aspect I loved about he conversion.

The rest was just details and after some thinking opted for very light blonde hair to echo the famous queen of pop from above...

Next on the list was the Dark elf cheerleader ...

The model in itself was not one which had caught my eye before but it proved to be a very intersting and finely sculpted one :

From the CCM Wiki

Removing the pom-poms just like for her colleague was the first move but then I found her right leg to be too straight. A little cut behind the knee and a gentle bend after that and I had a far better pose.

Once again, a pair of hands stolen to some Imperial guard arms ET VOILA !

Her hair still looks weird in that context but I'm assuming this is just a way to make it bigger as it was the trend in the 80's...

Painting wise, I wanted to go somewhere else with this one. Part of the explanation is that I wanted them to look different to show teh streets offers different pleasures to night dwellers but another part of it is because I wanted to give some exotism to the scene...

You know, that kind of taste :

And as my mate Colin pointed early this week, Alejandro Jodorowsky's work with Moebius and Juand Gimenez is just so full of coloured humanoids :

And many other medias :

In the cases shown here the coloured skin is clearly the mark of mutation or different origins but for my space doll, I wanted to leave a doubt about wether this red skin could be just a make-up, or the sign of an alien origin or mutation, who knows ?

With red being the colour of passion and carnal pleasure, I opted for it as it also added a provocative look :

I do not want to dig their background because I believe such characters can use a part of mistery and are a bit better in a generic role, the symbol of what you can probably find in every space port of every world...

" - Errmm, excuse me lady, I have lost myself and errrrrm, was looking for the way to errrrrrrrm you know...

- Come on sweety, let's see if the legend is true about squats

- You mean that we've all been eaten by tyrannids?

- Well Just seeing you here answers pretty well, I meant the OTHER one...

- Oh...

- Oh please Darrell, will you please get the fuck out will you ? Some of us are working here !

- (headbangs and air plays guitar) Nanana ! RORK ON ! We're the coworks form HEEEEEEELLL !

- Hey douchebag, you heard the lady?, Now get outta here right now before I grant you another Asshole... man, does that guy have no pride at all? Can't he at least listen to some real bands? "

"- Erm, excuse me fine ladies, I'm just coming from a long trip through space and I could use some...

- Oh please, getta of here you monster freak, just put some pants will ya and go to some farm if you have needs, Jeeeeez !"

As you see life is a repeating thing... We're getting close to the end of this year and I will probably folow the example of my estimed comrades but I thinkI can manage to finish a coupl eof models beforehand so let's see what can be done before I'm getting stuffed with chocolates, gravy, alcohol and joy !