The Meknificent Seven and Friends - 2014/10/26 Meks and Mercs (p.16)

[cheetor]

Thats a great update

The H wagon is recognisable I think, although a more heavily striped look would make it more so I reckon. Although Im not really a fan if the striped giant flying shampoo bottle Ezquerra H wagon design, it is definitive.

The raised road is perfect. No convincing tabletop MC1 is complete without some of those.

I really like the signage in the 95 movie and the Boxtree Making Of book is full of them.

I eagerly await more scenic updates. I cant get enough MC1 terrain

[OSHIROmodels]

That's a good breakdown Chris and I prefer the right hand plan as there is definitely more interest there and doesn't look like your standard board.

Short reply as I'm on my phone so I'll give a better one tonight when back from work 

cheers

James

[Michka]

I love the elevated roadway. It's just like the one I never got around to. Your ground surface is very nice. Maybe a little too clean for the Big Meg, but what do I know. I absolutely love the building designs you have planned. I would suggest you to either have mostly large buildings, or a very few. I noticed that the large buildings look a little toy-like unless there's a line of them sitting next to each other.

The Citi-Def figures look terrific too. Something tells me that group has to call in the Riot Judges a lot. Absolutely no respect from the tenants. 

[H.M.Stanley]

Late to the party.

OMFG!! Just fantastic.

[Westfalia Chris]

Thanks, all! I had actually painted a couple of new figs in early March, but forgot to upload the pics until now.

Foundry Judge Grampus with Mongoose and Citadel Kleggs for scale:



Foundry Mean Machine Angel:



And the variant Foundry Johnny Alpha sculpt painted in a different style from my original set:



As for plans, most of my projects are currently on hiatus due to the upcoming move (and me having a one-hour commute every day until then). Nonetheless, I intend to return to 2000AD sometime this summer, with a focus on terrain and probably the rest of the Strontium Dog part of the Foundry range - I recently got myself the second SD files collection, and that British Mutant Civil War story is quite captivating with some rather interesting modelling opportunities (tankettos, maybe some buildings that could work for Cursed Earth settlements as well).

Will have to see when I get back to it. Thanks for looking!

[cheetor]

Great work on those, I like the Kleggs in particular.  I have the same pan-manufacturer group of Kleggs waiting for paint and the wildly disparate stature makes me more enthusiastic to paint them.  Anything for a bit of variety.

I like the bright green on Johnny too. 

[Commander Vyper]

Nice paints Chris, can't stand those mongoose Klegg sculpts. DIRE and static.

[Westfalia Chris]

Hi all,

once more into the breach, with a smallish update containing some new Meks for Booth's Robotic Legion of the Damned (or Termight's armies of conquest later on), and two concept models.

First, robots! I recently got some of the Prodos Warzone figures to try out the range - Max Steiner as a model in its own right, and this Attila Cuirassier since he was so adorably hammy.



A huge model (on a 40mm base), but with excellent detail and good casting quality. Very enjoyable to paint. I'm looking into getting one of their Eradicators for use as a warbot, but haven't decided whether to paint him as a Volgan or a Free World Forces mek.

Next, another of the old Harlequin War Droids. No conversion this time, I found him at a local swapmeet held twice a year. Was a bit worried that pickings were getting slimmer after the last one, but I got a load of useful fantasy and scifi stuff, the latter mainly consisting of robots for the 2000AD project - Legions of Steel, Ral Partha Reaction marines etc and some Excalibur figs. Will paint those up at a later date.



Moving on, War Droid 206B from the Excalibur "Fearless" range. An old model which I got at a previous episode of the aforementioned swapmeet. A bit static, but nicely 2000AD in its design IMHO.



And finally, two concept models for a gang of Space Mercenaries (Torching the Native Huts on Anthrax IV^TM). Easily recognizable original Warzone figures - a Cybertronic Chasseur and a Capitol Infantryman. Lots of fun to paint and very much in style for my taste - I'm thinking of mixing and matching a couple figs from the old Warzone range, while keeping to the Void VASA Marines for the Eternal Soldiers. They're quite a bit bulkier than the Foundry 2000AD range, but similar in height, so could work out fine.



As I am struggling to get myself motivated for a proper, full-blown project, I think painting some 2000AD-ish stuff on-and-off is the more realistic option. But first, off to finish some commissions.

Thanks for looking! I'll replace the pics with better versions once I get a lighting rig figured out, and maybe reactivate my old PC for long enough to extract the image templates I used for the old frame effects, but I wanted to get some feedback now.

[OSHIROmodels]

Very nice mate. Love the first one 

cheers

James

[Blackwolf]

Nice work Chris! Nice to see the thread resurrected too

[cheetor]

Its always good to see this thread surface again, great work.

Is the cuirasser model assembled as supplied or it converted?  It looks a lot more ABC than I expect it to if its off-the-peg.

[Mason]

Its always good to see this thread surface again, great work.

Agreed!
 

I love this thread, very inspirational.
 

[Westfalia Chris]

Its always good to see this thread surface again, great work.

Is the cuirasser model assembled as supplied or it converted?  It looks a lot more ABC than I expect it to if its off-the-peg.

Straight from the blister pack. It's actually single-pose only, with a one-piece torso plus arm/gun pieces, and any change would require some tricky work, particularly with regard to the head and the numerous pistons in the limb joints.

Once the brown parts were finished, I was a bit surprised how similar the model is to the movie Hammerstein. You could probably replace the minigun with sculpted hammer and gun-gauntlet arms, but he'd be in a very sedate pose after that.

Still, a great model.

[cheetor]

Still, a great model.

I think that I have a single Cuirasser that came as part of the Kickstarter starter set.  The model is armed with a smaller weapon IIRC, but your work has made me view it in a different light.  The model looks fantastic here, just like one of the very few decent things from the 1995 Judge Dredd movie.

[Commander Vyper]

I'm sure that you have these already Chris but:

http://www.excalibur-miniatures.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=230

Good looking ABC's there.