Collecting Rogue trader Chaos Renegades - part 2

 Alright people, a couple of posts ago ,you may remember I blatantely exposed my chaos renegades collection. Hawk eyes amongst you may have noticed the absence of the mounted renegades. Well, this was because I was still awaiting an important part which I got a few days later.

Picture from the Stuff of Legend

You can see 5 bodies and 2 pair of mounted legs on the photo, "piece of cake" I hear you say?

Nah, collecting is a sport I've not been very familiar with but this little collection and seeing great collectors like Steve Casey, Mutantdale or Axiom has taught me there's always more than meets the eye...

First of all, body 5 is an absolute nightmare to find. everyone who is looking to complete this set seems to have troubles getting this particular one.

But let's assume getting a particular referenced model is just a question of time (or money in some cases), I can see 2 pairs of legs on the catalogue picture. How many do you see in the photo below?

Yes, me too, that's 4 different pairs. Only thing is that 2 pairs are actually variants of the other 2 :

First pair on the left is the original and the other one on the right has had a pointy end added on the feet, some leather straps and a saddle part in the back.

 

 For these, a big square part has been added on th etip of the feet with leather straps too and a daemon faced saddle part has been added in the back as well.

So here we are with all parts at last !... oh but wait !... what's that pair of legs on the right ?

Well, that would be ANOTHER unereferenced pair of legs to build unmounted renegades from mounted bodies...

That's right, 3 unreferenced pieces just for the mounted renegades. The pair of unmounted legs is well known though. All of these could be classified as known knowns (if you don't get the explanation, have a look at HERE).
Now there seems to be a known unknown being a variant of one of the regular renegades but I will only limit this collection to known knowns.

Just to be accurate, the collectionis not entirely complete since I miss a heavy weapon and some terminator arms. I do have all the bodies though which was my main goal from the start.

I summed up the collection in a big board (I love big boards) :

I talked about the similarities between the power-armoured squats and some of the regular renegades, well,  though it may be a little far-fetched, I think it is intersting enough :

I can see very similar heads with the same tubes, a big belly each and very similar legs :

Here, I can see a quite similar pose, very similar helmets and shoulder padsthough the horns differ.

Here, the picture is biased becaus eof the repair job I had to do to fix the damage done eons ago (I think they must be my first rogue trader references). on these th efaces are almost identical with the exception of the horn on top of the helmet. The armour on both model displays this weird caracteristic texture.

oh and just fo rthe laugh, here ar ethe heavy weapon renegades sorted by variant types, I love how they look like the ZZZ tops playng guitar when put next to each other

 
Oh and just because amongst all of this I felt like having a little break but not too far from my grim dark future, I chose to try something on my Eldar Avatar :

It is still very much in progress but it has the vibe I'm aiming at :

The glazes give a shiny finish to the black parts which kills all the nuances but they actually more nuanced in real life. My fave part is the mane which really looks like on fire. I still don't know how I'm going to paint the decorations, I'm probably going to end with bone colours becaus eI have no imagination but a stone grey or something might also do the job.

Tonight, I'm going to finish the details on a handful of rogue trader adventurers and I hope to be able to show them by the WE, "14 Juillet" (or "Bastille day" as english speakers call it) may interfere though...