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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: cheetor on December 08, 2013, 08:10:40 PM
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(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/zoidberg1.jpg)
I cant remember who made this figure (and the couple of associated not-Futurama figures that I bought at the same time) but I quickly painted up this guy over the weekend. I plan to use Dr Zoidberg as a coach for my DreadBall Nameless team, as a substitute for the Judwan medic in Deadzone and as part of an Ordo Xenos Inquisitorial retinue.
(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/zoidberg7.jpg)
The sculpt is quite basic, crude in places but it encouraged a certain cartoony approach to painting. I reckon that the character is pretty much immediately recognisable and I hope to have a few laughs with it.
The associated blog post is HERE (http://sho3box.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/zoidberg/).
(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/zoidberg6.jpg)
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That's pure gold. If you ever recall/rediscover who made that mini, I would love to know!
I think all of your proposed uses sound like great fun.
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That is great!
I want one too..
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Limited Armorcast from memory and totally oop :'(
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Love it 8)
cheers
James
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Limited Armorcast from memory and totally oop :'(
Yeah, Armorcast sounds right. I dont recall these figures being limited, but they may have been. I have not-Zoidberg, not-Bender, not-Roberto, not-Robot Devil and not-Tranny Bot. I dont know if they ever made the rest of the crew of the Planet Express, but I would like to assemble the full crew in miniature at some stage. Reaper make a vaguely Leela looking figure (http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50115#detail/50115_w_1), but it doesnt look quite right to me.
The Zoidberg is a bit of a crude sculpt, but fun all the same. Roberto, Bender and Robot Devil are quite decent. Tranny Bot looks quite dodgy in terms of sculpting.
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Woooo! :o
I made some Futurama guys some time ago, I would love to have this one!
Wonderful brushwork, as usual :)
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lol Excellent job man. Love that inquisitorial retinue. Amazing. :D
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Yeah, Armorcast sounds right. I dont recall these figures being limited, but they may have been. I have not-Zoidberg, not-Bender, not-Roberto, not-Robot Devil and not-Tranny Bot. I dont know if they ever made the rest of the crew of the Planet Express, but I would like to assemble the full crew in miniature at some stage. Reaper make a vaguely Leela looking figure (http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50115#detail/50115_w_1), but it doesnt look quite right to me.
The Zoidberg is a bit of a crude sculpt, but fun all the same. Roberto, Bender and Robot Devil are quite decent. Tranny Bot looks quite dodgy in terms of sculpting.
Part of a limited run Paul othrwise, believe you and me, I'd have a set, so bite my shiney metal butt! ;)
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(http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/zoidberg_kraken.jpg)
'Nuff said.
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Thanks for the feedback folks. Its a straightforward paint job (with a few more cock-ups than I thought now that I take another look), but I am swelling with patriotic mucus all the same ;)
Part of a limited run Paul othrwise, believe you and me, I'd have a set, so bite my shiney metal butt! ;)
Fair enough :)
I checked my Armorcast purchase history. I bought the lot last April. They were only available until a June cutoff date. I could have sworn that I saw those figures for sale long before that though, a few years ago even [SHRUG].
Does anyone know if there were more characters available than "Satanbot", "Insane Bot", "Folder Bot", "Doc Lobster" and "Hooker Tranny Bot"?
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Nice. Looks so cool beside the nameless team, they look all business and then he's so comic.
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Where did you get Alf? :)
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Nice. Looks so cool beside the nameless team, they look all business and then he's so comic.
Thanks. It looks a bit like Zoidberg won a bet (or that the Nameless lost one).
Where did you get Alf? :)
Four A Miniatures (http://www.fouraminiatures.com/page2.htm).
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There was a Dr Lobster on ebay this morning.
Well there was...... :D
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Does anyone know if there were more characters available than "Satanbot", "Insane Bot", "Folder Bot", "Doc Lobster" and "Hooker Tranny Bot"?
Looks like there's a few other bots for sale currently on the armorcast site, including the hooker tranny bot
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Thanks. It looks a bit like Zoidberg won a bet (or that the Nameless lost one).
Four A Miniatures (http://www.fouraminiatures.com/page2.htm).
Thanks! :)
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That's delightful.
http://(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/zoidberg7.jpg)
What's the arachnoid type figure to the right?
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He blends in seamlessly. =)
I never clicked with Futurama, but not-Zoidberg makes a fun model. Nice highlighting on the coat and pants, too!
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That's delightful.
What's the arachnoid type figure to the right?
I think all 3 in tha back row are DreadBall Nameless players (really weird aliens)
Besides that, it could be a new strand of Genestealer lol
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(http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/zoidberg_kraken.jpg)
'Nuff said.
"Zoid-berg, right ahead!"
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What's the arachnoid type figure to the right?
The very question on my lips...Dreadball nameless. Must have a look.
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What's the arachnoid type figure to the right?
As a few others have said, the other figures in that photo are DreadBall Nameless (http://sho3box.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/lunar-industries-lampreys-dreadball-nameless-team/) with a pretty quick paintjob.
(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/lunarlampreys2.jpg)
(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/lunarlampreys5.jpg)
(http://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/namelessspawn5.jpg)
Mantic have a single Nameless assassin - "Oberon" - available for Deadzone next year (Kickstarter backers already have it) too if non sci-fi sport squid figures are what you are after.
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Just got a reply from Armorcast:
The fellows are up on the site now. Hopefully by the end of this coming week there will be a new slacker delivery boy available as well.
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Just got a reply from Armorcast:
The fellows are up on the site now. Hopefully by the end of this coming week there will be a new slacker delivery boy available as well.
Thats good news (everyone).
Armorcast seem to be selling enough volume to justify adding to the range, which is great. Heres hoping that 2014 brings not-Hermes, not-Hubert, not-Amy, not-Leela and not-Nibbler. It is quite far down the rabbit hole, but I would love to paint an Enema-bot (http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Enema_Bot) too.
The Futurama Xmas episodes featuring St Nick-bot were all rather weak, but considering the time of year I guess I will also pick that up, once the Delivery Boy appears.
There was a Kickstarter this year that was making a pulp rocket ship in 28mm. I remember thinking that it would make a decent "close enough" Planet Express Ship proxy.
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You may be thinking of ships from War Rocket, which you can see on my friend's battle report here:
http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2012/12/space-battles-in-flash-few-test-games.html
The largest is similar to the Planet Express ship... out of scale for Zoidberg, of course!
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You may be thinking of ships from War Rocket
It was this one from Bombshell Miniatures (http://bombshell-miniatures.highwire.com/product/boldly-go) that I was thinking of actually. It has a similar raygun-gothic aesthetic to the War Rocket stuff, but its 28mm.
(http://product-images.highwire.com/5354573/boldlygo.jpg)
Its not a very close match for Planet Express Ship structurally, plus its probably a bit too small, but painted in the right colours it would fit in adequately enough I think.
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You may be thinking of ships from War Rocket, which you can see on my friend's battle report here:
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Actually, I've always wanted one in 28mm for something completely different. War Rocket... Ajax! ;)
Wait. Farce/farce. Okay, not COMPLETELY different....
Doug
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I have been painting robots in my Sci-Fi Non-Combatants (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=77015.0) project and in my collaborative Judge Dredd project (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=78076.0) recently, but the latest robot doesnt really fit into either of those threads, so it goes here.
(https://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/roberto2.jpg)
(https://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/roberto.jpg)
Roberto is an insane robot that features in Futurama, just like the Zoidberg that I painted and put in this thread a while back. I forgot to take a photo of the two of them alongside each other, duh. I will remedy that at a later stage.
(https://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/roberto3.jpg)
Im going to have to pick up one of the Hedonist Bot models at some stage too. Its a must have.
The Roberto blog post is here (https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/roberto/).
(https://sho3box.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/roberto4.jpg)
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Great stuff 8)
cheers
James
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Extremely cool, haha! :D