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Sometimes it’s easy to modernise an old sculpt… and sometimes it isn’t.

Sculpted in 1987, this particular example of the Rogue Trader Adventurer range is not my favourite sculpt.

On the plus side, the figure looks a lot like Grace Jones circa A View to a Kill.

Grace Jones on her preferred mode of flying

‘The Concorde made life a lot easier, and I was the symbol of a Concorde crowd that had replaced the jet set. I flew on the Concorde so many times I knew the pilots. I knew their families. I could have flown the plane, except I would have wanted to do it naked, sprayed silver, in roller skates.’



Whatever one might say about Grace Jones, she is an eighties icon, which is an appropriate vibe for the figure.

I assume that the two female space marine miniatures in the Adventurer range were sculpted either at an early stage in the games development when the Adeptus Astartes were not exclusively male, or else just sculpted partly for fun, which does seem to be something that happened reasonably regularly during that Citadel era.

In terms of the background of the setting, those old figures pose a conceptual problem. What are they?

The fairly obvious thing to go for would have been to paint the female marines as Adepta Sororitas – Sisters of Battle.

The only photo of a Rogue Trader version of these is in the back of the RT rulebook. Its pretty metal. “Sister Sin” has spiked nipple armour, a veil and a bolter. The woman in the illustration also wears a ram skull motif on the left shoulder pauldron, which matches the miniature above.

But I didn’t want another Adepta Sororitas miniature. And the recently explored Sisters of Silence feature armoured pariah nuns that I fancied painting, while also being a concept that dates back to Rogue Trader, which isnt essential, but is fun to callback to.

So I ignored the Adepta Sororitas and roughly copied the Sister of Silence colour scheme that Warhammer TV’s Duncan used instead.

The model that I had was a pretty battered example of a pretty rough sculpt. The casting wasnt too bad, but while it wasn’t a chore to paint, it also wasn’t really inspirational. So plans to add some weathering and some Rogue Trader style graffiti to Joans armour (like “Sister Sin” above) fell by the wayside as I aimed to just get it finished. I might go back to add some slogans if I can think of anything apt.

Suggestions in the comments please. “Pull Up to the Bumper” is too long.

Good news is that it gives the rather lonely Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Jodorowsky a thematically apt partner for future witch hunting, assuming that he can tolerate the massive, permanent hangover that Joan generates in psychics like him.

Part seven of Choose Your Own Adventurer will be on either Magpie and Old Lead or Ninjabread, as usual and will return here for number nine.

Filed under: Group Project, Miniatures | Tagged: 40K, Choose Your Own Adventurer, Rogue Trader, Rogue Trader Adventurers, Sci-fi |