Evil space dorfs - punkish squats for Rogue Trader

Xic, Cyke and ... Billy

They're as small as they're mean, their stench is as foul as the colours they wear hurt the eyes... Who are they ? The evil dorfs.

After painting some of Diego's models, I felt like keeping on the community sculpts with these little guys. They are a sub-range of Oakbound miniatures and are designed with the supervision of Chico "not without my bacon" Danks from Oldhammer on a budget.

Together these 2 fellows have designed a growing range of space dwarves (or dorfs) which are evil but not in a chaotic way. This is a very intersting path to explore as chaotic dwarves, however cool they can ben are a known subject whereas mean and bad ones are far more exotic. These Evil dorfs are the kind to cross streets outside zebras, to add beer in their wine and to shoot in the privates.

After buying the 2 sets available, I decided to keep one of the models for later (I have a particular project for it...) which left me with the 2 dorfs and the cyber goat.

It doesn't cost anything to make a simple package awesome...

Painting wise, I decided very early I'd use very bright colours with these (that's my bias for having been born in 81) and that I would even get that pot of turquoise hawk used after some 18 years or so...

I'm not that used to painting with bright colourful schemes (well I am but it's just always the same patterns really) so I tied to get inspiration form those who do it right like Colin over the Leadpile.

The result is probably not exactly up to the reference but I believe if I get to add new members to the crew, it will look just fine. I have to admit being puzzled by 'how to paint what' at the beginning, a feeling I'd only had with Bob Olley's model so far. Being of a pavlovian type, I just did as I usually do with Bob Olley models and just painted until I knew what I was doing ! That's the explanation for the rather peculiar colour schemes but after all you can't expect any sort of class or taste from squat punks !

To tie my models with some punk iconography, I used the Anarchy symbol and the "No future" slogan on Xic (dorf on the left) and some tartan on Cyke (dorf on the right). Billy the goat was painted in black as befits an evil cyber goat.

For the record, the cyber goat was a painted in under 20 minutes from prime to finish (in case some of you are looking for models for a speed painting challenge...).

"Xic and Cyke are members of 'the badgers', a group of marginals, all composed of squats that have adopted a life of punkish mischief and mayhem. They're renowned for being extremely nasty and offensive in their attittude, smell and outfits. Rumours say they also have a rather "open minded" sexuality and the numerous cybernetically augmented pets they're seen with don't really help to kill those rumours...
Most of teh time The badgers will be dealing narcotics, serving as mercenaries and driving ridiculously overpowered vehicles in a careless fashion."

I know it's bad to turn your back to people but that enables them to read what you have to say...

While I was at it, I thought I'd share a little scale shot of the dorfs along some other squats just to give an idea...

From left to right you have Irn Bounce (aka first squat by citadel ever), a Perry squat, an Iron claw (Bob Olley) squat, Geoff's dorfs and the space white dwarf (aka last squat by GW so far) 

What next ? Well with the "Bring Out Your Lead" event on the horizon this summer, I'd better get ready and focus a little on what I'll need for the occasion... That means confrontation goodness (I know it's been a while I haven't talked about confrontation) and probably the Chaos Grav-attack who's been waiting for sooooo long.