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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Trysop on 05 June 2010, 08:40:25 PM
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Hello,
I am trying to find a good proxy to use as Nort Heavy Support Armour, as seen in the Rogue Trooper computer game. I cannot find a decent online picture to link to. But basically it is a shortish, heavy, blocky looking bipedal roboty thing with a mini gun on one side and a missile launcher on the other.
I had thought of AT 43 stuff but I am unfamiliar with the range, an it seems to be hard to find now, are there any good online stockists?
Can anyone suggest any suitable models to me?
Thanks
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I haven't played the game, but from your description, maybe the resin Kryomek walkers sold by Scotia Grendel might work (they are not short, though):
http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_112_117&sort=20a&page=2
They start from STO-01. Sadly no pics on the site, but there are some here on the LAF:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=6807.0
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=16777.0
I'll admit they may be a bit too "Star Wars-ish", though.
Edit: Is it this one?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jp-Y_pSujQA/SrALQog8uWI/AAAAAAAAeTU/urnzR4YPAtA/s320/Rogue+Trooper+the+Quartz+Massacre.jpg
If so, your best bet might trying to find some of the old HO scale (1/87) Heavy Gear miniatures and convert them. Some of the heavy Northern designs (Grizzly, Kodiak etc.) might be a good start. They can be very difficult to find nowadays, though.
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Hello,
Unfortunatly the Kryomek things are too tall for my purposes and the picture you found was of another type of armour in the game, for those I am using some of the EM4 power armour suits as they are close enough or my tastes.
I am still having no luck wiht a pic, but they do apper in this you tube clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTa5nqB8xnE
you can see them at 0:22, 2:25 and 3:04 far from ideal I know.
Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate the help.
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Hm! For pose and size, I'd say the smaller Red Blok walkers (AT43) would indeed be suitable, but those are far more rounded.
For a more blocky design, there were some robots in the old Metal Magic Spacelords line, but unfortunately, EM-4 haven't rereleased them yet (I don't even know if they have the moulds):
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/metal-magic/images/C3602.jpg
So you might try finding one of those (the left one looks suitable, or the right with added weapon modules) second-hand, or in old stocks, but given their age (some 20 years now), that might be even more complicated than AT-43...
A moderately smaller option would be the warbot from Pig Iron (which would need some converting, I guess):
http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/wardroids-c-7.html
Finally, a bit off, and probably VERY hard to find, might be a toy/kit line produced by Tomy in the 1990s. I think they were called "Battle Skippers" and were small, pudgy robots with a "real tech" flair (i.e. no Samurai stuff and that, but short manipulator arms, modular look etc.).
Unfortunately, my "Hobby Japan" mags are all in storage in Germany at the time, and I cannot find pics on the web.
EDIT: Found some stuff. Apparently, the last option was motorised (or some were).
http://img176.imageshack.us/i/dsc00299zf0.jpg/
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/4964/dsc00239tg7.jpg
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But basically it is a shortish, heavy, blocky looking bipedal roboty thing with a mini gun on one side and a missile launcher on the other.
Sounds like a spez murren dreadnought to me.
For a more blocky design, there were some robots in the old Metal Magic Spacelords line, but unfortunately, EM-4 haven't rereleased them yet (I don't even know if they have the moulds):
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/metal-magic/images/C3602.jpg
Do want. Not so much the one on the right, but I certainly would love a few or so of the left model.
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I've wanted to do these my self for ages, have you considered using the incursion APE's
http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=188_189&products_id=1467
similarish kind of build.
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How about the VOR Union Ares or Neo-Soviet Ursa?
Can't find great pictures of them online - the best I can do is here (http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity_ENG/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=206&func=view&catid=25&id=7174&limit=12&limitstart=12) - half-way down the page. My Google-Fu is weak today. :(
Try Ironwind (http://ironwindmetals.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=94) for stock/availability.
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How about the VOR Union Ares or Neo-Soviet Ursa?
Can't find great pictures of them online - the best I can do is here (http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity_ENG/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=206&func=view&catid=25&id=7174&limit=12&limitstart=12) - half-way down the page. My Google-Fu is weak today. :(
Try Ironwind (http://ironwindmetals.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=94) for stock/availability.
Oh yeah, those two are good, although they may be a bit larger than the one shown in the clip.
I painted an Ares in 2008 (or early 2009, not sure):
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Modelling%20and%20Miniatures/Street%20Violence/USSMC_TANKHUNTER_640x480.jpg)
Comes with a load of different guns, all optional.