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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Hobby Services on April 10, 2017, 10:49:11 PM
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Latest project, platoon-sized group of GZG's excellent not-Prawn models.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NpUAAOSwU8hY6~Rw/s-l1000.jpg)
Plenty of figure variety in this range, including a nice leader and sniper, and a medic repurposed from the civilian pack.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mngAAOSwc49Y6~R5/s-l600.jpg)
Your basic infantry squad, with an integral heavy weapon trooper and their signature arc guns.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/be0AAOSwc-tY6~Sc/s-l1000.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9KAAAOSwuLZY6~Si/s-l1000.jpg)
Tripod mounted weapon teams with attached observers / assistants.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oYoAAOSwAANY6~S1/s-l600.jpg)
And a small unit of horsebug xeno-cavalry, because if human colonial guard units get mounted troops, so do the xenos.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WOMAAOSww3tY6~SJ/s-l1000.jpg)
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Beautiful work and minis.
Thanks for sharing your photos.
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Nice work my friend.
Love how the orangy colour of the mounts goes with the green of the other minis.
Makes me want to watch the movie again.
Will you be doing their mecha also?
Keep it up.
Z
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Nice.
Not sure if I had seen them painted up before.
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Very nice! This is why I love 15mm!
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I think all I've ever seen them in is a variation of grey; these are THRILLING!
The mouth details really pop!
Doug
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Nice.
Not sure if I had seen them painted up before.
I had some of the cav up a while ago on ebay, probably saw them there. Took me till now to do more and some infantry.
The mecha and power armor guys are on the workbench.
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Very nice!
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Finished a platoon of the power armor - and the infantry/cavalry mixed force sold well, so there'll be more to come. Onward to the support mecha!
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8kIAAOSwcdRY8ln3/s-l1000.jpg)
Biggish models, cast in two parts.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VmsAAOSw5UZY8loD/s-l800.jpg)
The backpacks with the jump jet, air tanks/power cells(?), and manipulator/sensor arms are separate piece.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/w-YAAOSw53NY8loK/s-l800.jpg)
They're entirely optional, so if you wanted to leave them off and have a slimmer, more durable and easier-to-paint model you could do so.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RkcAAOSwHHFY8loS/s-l800.jpg)
Total of five poses so far, three with the basic arc guns and two different heavy weapon specialists.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6wwAAOSwIWVY8loW/s-l800.jpg)
All in all, a great set of figs and less obviously drawn from District 9 as inspiration, which makes them more useful as more generic aliens in power armor in other settings. They could even scale-jump pretty well for anything from 6mm armored giants/robots to 28mm "little green men" xenos.
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They all do paint up well. If I had a lick of sense, I'd switch to 15mm sci-fi.
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15mm scifi has certainly become a vastly better supported subgenre over the last ten years or so, and the range of models available continues to grow pretty steadily.
New batch painted, this time a quartet of the Prawn light mecha/combat robots and a tech/repair crew to go with them.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xv0AAOSwHHFY84rf/s-l1000.jpg)
The techs are from the civilian pack, but I think they fit the roles pretty well. Kind of like the idea of Daddy Tech bringing his kid to work.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/AxkAAOSw53NY84rt/s-l1000.jpg)
The mechs are very versatile models and come with a wide mix of arms, including enough extras to do some with two guns or even an unarmed variant if you wanted a civilian "power loader" design with two open hands.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/O-0AAOSwvihY84r6/s-l1000.jpg)
They're also excellent candidates for scale-jumping to 25/28mm, where they'd be great slightly bigger-than-man-sized combots.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cVcAAOSwVm5Y84ro/s-l1000.jpg)
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They look great! Well painted and based too
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Very well done.
I will have a look at them at the GZG stand at Salute.
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Thanks, pretty happy with them. Selling well too, which always helps.
Next lot, a grab bag of figs designed to be used as a bunch of alien ranchers with livestock.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KWoAAOSwzqFY9Ppc/s-l1000.jpg)
My head canon says the little scuttle bugs (seen below with a couple of herdsmen carrying shock-prod staves) grow up into the breeding-phase horsebugs used by the cavalry, hence the similar color schemes.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aWEAAOSw3ZRY9Ppz/s-l800.jpg)
The rancher is a minor conversion with a hat added from a human GZG colonist.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/MPgAAOSwvihY9Pp7/s-l800.jpg)
It doesn't fit his alien noggin well but he's very proud of it.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uU4AAOSwIWVY9PqY/s-l800.jpg)
The arc rifle's for shooting varmints, not human colonists whose hats you then steal. Of course.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Wv4AAOSwN6JY9PqA/s-l800.jpg)
The "jeep" flyer is from Alternative Armies. A nice little model, very very Old School.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3CsAAOSwtZJY9Pqd/s-l800.jpg)
The crew are from GZG's Crusty civilian pack.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cqgAAOSw7U5Y9Pqs/s-l800.jpg)
Clearly a licensed Master Pilot and his young apprentice, carrying some tools for field repairs in case of a breakdown in the Outback.
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Love it!
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And last but not least, the mecha, along with a pilot lugging a repair kit from the civilian pack:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8DkAAOSwzqFY~RWl/s-l1000.jpg)
Very large model for 15mm, and a fine choice as a hulking 28mm scale warbot.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TE4AAOSwmCVY~RWq/s-l1000.jpg)
Comes in nine piece IIRC, although assembly is pretty simple.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sloAAOSwvihY~RWv/s-l1000.jpg)
The arms and shoulder joints have ball sockets and can be positioned lots of ways.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sogAAOSwvKtY~RW7/s-l1000.jpg)
Only bit I worry about is the missile pods, which don't really socket in as deeply as I'd like.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/U5EAAOSwN6JY~RXA/s-l1000.jpg)
The model is pretty heavy (even more so when stuck on a washer base as it is here) and I prefer sturdy joins for protruding parts.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/MhQAAOSwHHFY~RXM/s-l1000.jpg)
Still, it looks cool, and it's great at scale jumping which is always nice. Might even work as a not-Titan in 6mm games.
There's a pose variant mecha with the legs in a different stance, but other than that this thread now has every Crusty model in the range painted up.
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Impressive
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Nice model but those huge missile pods on tiny mounts on shoulder pads is throwing me off. Is there an alternate spot for them?
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Nice model but those huge missile pods on tiny mounts on shoulder pads is throwing me off. Is there an alternate spot for them?
Have to agree, GZG had one of these build without the shoulder missiles on display at Salute and it looked a lot better that way.
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Nice model but those huge missile pods on tiny mounts on shoulder pads is throwing me off. Is there an alternate spot for them?
Not that I could see. You could probably build a mounting point out of putty somewhere, maybe replacing the little antenna arrays. Might even be sturdier that way. Or you could leave them off completely, which wouldn't hurt the look much.
Note that gigantic missile pods on spindly mounts are kind of a common mecha trope, though. Zentaedi artillery pods, for ex, or Loud Ninja's Tavshar archons feature ones that are just as odd-looking.
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Nice mecha.