Chaos renegades complete collection (part 1) ...

...almost

Note from the author : Be prepared for an unhealthy dose of bragging and showing off in the following post, future posts should not stay in that vein or keep that same tone but this one is a sort of cathartic way or releasing the pressure from this long-term quest. Thanks you

Aaaanyway, guess what appeared in the mailbox the other day? Well, I'm going to show you right now :

A Rogue trader Tzeentch renegade? that's all? not even remotely unreleased or limited edition? The kind you could order via the mail order service until the early 2000?

YES ! THAT kind of renegade but the one I've been running after for quite a while and more importantly, the one that seals the first stage of my collection.

I can proudly announce that the collection of foot renegades for my chaos renegade army is now OVER.

This little annoying bugger has finally been ticked off my list

This rapid list has been made from the pages of the 

- Citadel 1988 Catalogue 

- Citadel 1989 Catalogue
- Citadel 1991 Catalogue

You can see on that list that many models in the 1991 pages were already in the 1988 and 1989 issues. These models have been coloured in red on the picture above to avoid any confusion.

So here is how the collection looks at this stage. You can see some painted models, some based models just waiting for the prime coat and some others in need of a little preparation and even some repairwork.

I have not added the mounted renegades (and unmounted mounted renegades) on that picture because I have a few things to say about them in a second post.

On the picture above, you have about 64 renegade models plus some chaos terminators, 6 chaos squats and a pair of dreadnoughts.

So let's point them all from the catalogue pages :

For a reason of conveniency, I will show them in the order presented int the 1991 catalogue (blue one) since it's the catalogue that repertoriates most of the range and the best organised one compared to the 1988 and 1989 ones.

We can begin with the 2 first ranges of Khorne and Slaanesh :

I placed the renegades in the same order as on the catalogue picture

picture taken from Solegend

One of the Khorne legionnaires needs some repair work on one of his horns but apart from that, everyone is in perfect shape.

picture taken from Solegend

You can see the some tzeentch renegades have suffered some weapon loss (nothing unfixable here) and you can see from the weird basing on the 3 -armes one that a disc mount is to be expected. While I was at it, I decided to add a fantasy tzeentch champion because I've always felt his place was more on a futuristic field than on a fantasy one :

Just give him a backpack and he's good for the grim darkness etc...

The chaos undivided troops  are next with a wall of models. You can see many of them are variants form each other and I plan on making a post about variants and some strange resemblances between some models :

picture taken from Solegend

Half of them are already painted which is very motivating. I still have to work on some nex design for the banners but now I have all the models, the collectin phase can end and the modelling part can start at full speed now !

You may rmemeber from a few pictures above not all the renegades from the 1988 and 1989 coatalogues made it into the 1991 one. I don't really know why. It doesn't seem these models are rarer than the others and though they were not catalogued anymore from 1991, I believe they must have still be part of the blisters sold.

The one on the left is from the 1988 catalogue while the 3 others on the right come form the 1989 catalogue.

I have been told by some knowledgeable collectors that there is an unreferenced variant of the second renegade on the left. The spike on his helmet causing problems during casting, it may have been shortened but I have failed to find a copy (or picture) of this variant anywhere.

To close the foot troopers range, we can end with the heavy weapon bearers. it is funny how 12 different models were sculpted for these. it's nearly 20% of the range.

picture taken from Solegend

Amongst the 4 god oriented renegades, the Nurgle and Tzeentch ones have had their hands cut by myself in the mid 90's. Some little repair work will be needed to make them come back good as new.

I have a version of each of the heavy weapons (minus the metal conversion beamer) but I have to say I do not fancy the look of them at all. I've always thought the missile launcher looked silly but now I have one, I find it even more silly.It looks like a dolphin with teeth and wire...

The power armoured squats are very nice miniatures and I had th echance to pick a pair of each long time ago. I unfortunately overestimated my modelling skills at the time and ened up with mutilated bodies and severed hands every where. Yhe repair work is not entirely finished for all and painting is always on ^pause because of this banner problem I have.

A funny thing is to consider that while the Marauder Chaos dwarves were copies of the citadel chaos warriors, the 3 power-armoured squats do have a strange resemblance with some of the renegades (even if a little far fetched), I will show you that ni a second post.

Chaos terminators, those are a strange bunch. They totally don't fit fit with th rest of the range and their strange proportions (shoulders higher than the neck, head coming out from the torso).

Even knowing that, I just can't refuse Jes Goodwin models in any army I have. Yes they do not match the rest of the models and Yes their prportions are silly but they're just too beautifully sculpted and too nice to paint to say no to.

Picture from Solegend

Last but terribly not least, the chaos dreadnought is an all-time favourite of mine.I love him so much I had to get another one... The several parts of the model should really help me in building a diffreent model. I will try to keep painting similar on both models but will intriduce subtle difference which will make them look good next to each other hopefully.

In a following post, We will deal with mounted (and unmounted mounted) renegades and we will also have a look at the different variants used to build the renegades and at a few funny details in the range.

I hope this post was pleasant enough even with its horrifying lack of freshly painted lead.

I sincerely want to thank the many of you who helped me fulfill this dream, you all know who you are but making this part of the road with you makes it even more valuable to me, So a big thanks you to (in no particular order) : Steve, Edward, Jonathan, James, Martin, Brian and many others !