{"id":1111,"date":"2013-11-13T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2019-01-06T11:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T10:14:06","slug":"space-rat-men-ideas-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2013\/11\/space-rat-men-ideas-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Rat-men ideas 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I heard about an abandoned Russian cruise ship drifting around the Atlantic Ocean and inhabited by rats (<a title=\"Russian rat ship\" href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-02-abandoned-russian-ship-km-ireland.html\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-02-abandoned-russian-ship-km-ireland.html<\/a> ) I had always wondered how you&#8217;d make sense of having rat-men in Warhammer 40,000 and this led me to think wouldn&#8217;t there be rats in the holds of space freighters? What might happen to those rats aboard vessels lost in the warp?<\/p>\n<p>I imagine Space Hulks (<a title=\"Space Hulk\" href=\"http:\/\/warhammer40k.wikia.com\/wiki\/Space_Hulk\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/warhammer40k.wikia.com\/wiki\/Space_Hulk<\/a> )<br \/>\n aren&#8217;t just inhabited by Genestealers, Orks or Chaos Renegades. Sometimes the rats on board would have mutated having been exposed to the warp (and perhaps having eaten warp-tainted cargo and human corpses). Some might have mutated into rat-men! Their equipment would reflect the technological environment they live in; not much wood, tools you might find on a space craft, scavenged and improvised weapons and armour.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mycenter\"><span class=\"image-share-wrap\"><span class=\"hidden-share\" style=\"width:24px;\"><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2013%2F11%2Fspace-rat-men-ideas-1%2F&picture=http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Space-Ratmen-01.jpg\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/facebook.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Space%20Rat-men%20ideas%201&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2013%2F11%2Fspace-rat-men-ideas-1%2F&hashtags=miniatures%20concepts%2Cscience%20fiction%2Cspace%20rat%20men\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/twitter.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2013%2F11%2Fspace-rat-men-ideas-1%2F\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/google.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2013%2F11%2Fspace-rat-men-ideas-1%2F&media=http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Space-Ratmen-01.jpg&description=Earlier%20this%20year%20I%20heard%20about%20an%20abandoned%20Russian%20cruise%20ship%20drifting%20around%20the%20Atlantic%20Ocean%20and%20inhabited%20by%20rats%20%28%20http%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2013-02-abandoned-russian-ship-km-ireland.html%20%29%20I%20had%20always%20wondered%20how%20you%26%23039%3Bd%20make%20sense%20of%20having%20rat-men%20in%20Warhammer%2040%2C000%20and%20this%20led%20me%20to...\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/pinterest.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2013%2F11%2Fspace-rat-men-ideas-1%2F&title=Space%20Rat-men%20ideas%201\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/reddit.png' \/><\/a><\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Space-Ratmen-01.jpg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196 cool-image-share\" title=\"Space Rat-men ideas 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Space-Ratmen-01.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a couple more pages of these to colour in, including my version of how a Skaven Grey Seer could be done.<\/p>\n<p>Skaven, Grey Seer and that sort of thing is copyright Games Workshop; this is fan art not intended to infringe GW&#8217;s copyright.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/gallery\/microworld-games\/Dregs-Beastkin-Dragoons.jpg?t=1516276006\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Dregs Beastkin Dragoons\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"shutterset_52b4d44068ecbc45d152bfba12ce2137\" data-image-id=\"292\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/gallery\/microworld-games\/Dregs-Beastkin-Dragoons.jpg?t=1516276006\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/gallery\/microworld-games\/thumbs\/thumbs_Dregs-Beastkin-Dragoons.jpg?t=1516276006\" data-title=\"Dregs Beastkin Dragoons\" data-description=\"Dregs Beastkin Dragoons\">\n\t\t\t<img tid=\"cis\"class=\"cool-image-share\" title=\"Dregs Beastkin Dragoons\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"Dregs Beastkin Dragoons\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"292\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"\"\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a 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What might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2013\/11\/space-rat-men-ideas-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Rat-men ideas 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[292,18,202],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sketchbook-pages","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf","tag-space-rat-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}