Pulp Scifi: Invaders from the Year One Trillion!

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Alpha:  TEMPORAL TRANSIT RATE DROPPING TO UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS.  DIMENSIONAL SHEARING FORCES WILL DELAY OUR ARRIVAL IN THE CRETACEOUS ERA BEYOND THE LAST CRITICAL NEXUS POINT.

Beta:  MISSION REQUIRES OUTSIDE SOURCE OF PSYKONIC POWER.  WE MUST DIVERT TO LOCALIZED SPACE/TIME AND HARVEST THE NATIVE PRIMITIVES OF THEIR VITAL ENERGIES.

Gamma:  AGREED.  PREPARE TO EXIT CHRONAL STREAM.  EXPECT RESISTANCE FROM THE PRIMITIVES.  THEIR MENTATION IS FEEBLE BUT THEIR CRUDE LIFE-DRIVE WILL SUFFICE TO RECHARGE OUR TEMPORAL MOTIVATORS.

Somewhere in human history, a portal to otherwhen opens and Terror steps through it...



Plastic kitbashing, three time-travelling far-future Mentons and a temporal gateway.



The Mentons themselves are the redoubtable Fortress Figures brainworm models, while their walkers are from Flying Frog's Shadows of Brimstone game. 



The bases are 50mm diameter, so pretty huge.



This is my first experiment with the Brimstone figs, and I can't say I'm entirely pleased with them.



The figs themselves are fine, but they're made of fairly low-density hard plastic and come on sprues.



Which is a problem when you throw five sprues in a box with a hefty pack of game stat cards and then let UPS play with the package.



All three walkers had bent legs, two of them nearly broken through, and one snapped clean off.



They come with a pair of pylon terrain pieces (which will eventually show up in another project) and even one of those was damaged by having been wrenched off the sprue in transit.  All that damage could have been prevented by just padding with some foam or even taping the card pack (which was in plastic) to the box interior.  I've got an email in to Flying Frog, curious to see how they deal with this.  Fixing these things was a nuisance for me but not a disaster - but for a boardgamer who isn't a modeler, I suspect they'd have had a very unhappy customer.

[Wolf Girl]

Very cool! Thanks for posting.

[Hobby Services]

Thanks!  They were a fun little project, even if I spent a fair amount of time cussing the repair work required.

[ErikB]

Those are brilliant!

Next step should be a collection of humans from various periods trapped in some kind of case - a Roman, Greek, Viking, Knight, Napoleonic, Musketeer, WWI and WWI guys, and so on.

[Hobby Services]

Those are brilliant!

Next step should be a collection of humans from various periods trapped in some kind of case - a Roman, Greek, Viking, Knight, Napoleonic, Musketeer, WWI and WWI guys, and so on.

It's a good excuse for cherry-picking figs from historical manufacturers - and maybe fantasy, superhero, and scifi ranges as well.  When you're walking to the Cretaceous Era from the Year One Trillion there's a lot of spacetime choose from for rest stops.

The project was partly inspired by Reaper's Chronoscope range.

[ErikB]

It's a good excuse for cherry-picking figs from historical manufacturers - and maybe fantasy, superhero, and scifi ranges as well.  When you're walking to the Cretaceous Era from the Year One Trillion there's a lot of spacetime choose from for rest stops.

Exactly.  :-)

[MHoxie]

This was the most beautiful thing I've seen all week.
I salute you!

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This was the most beautiful thing I've seen all week.
I salute you!

Aw, it's only Monday. 

[dinohunterpoa]

OMG! 

I don't like them!

They are disgusting, they are scary, they are... BRILLIANT! 

[pacarat]

Just need Bill and Ted and crew...

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Just need Bill and Ted and crew...

Alpha:  THIS CANNOT BE.  RECHECK SENSORY PERCEPTORS.

Beta:  CHECK COMPLETE.  IDENTITY CONFIRMED.  THEY ARE INDEED THE WYLD STALLYNS.

Gamma:  AGREED.  THE IMPERATIVE MUST BE OBEYED.

All in unison:  MAY WE HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPHS?