Raedwald’s Sci Fi Thread (p.9 - Pilots)

[Grumpy Gnome]

One man's trash is another man’s treasure… great work! 👍

[uti long smile]

Cracking job - glad you like the junk piles!

[axiom]

You can't go wrong with junk piles! Useful for every tabletop. These look great

[Pattus Magnus]

They look great! As folk have said, they’re versatile scatter terrain. In game terms, they could be variable cover, depending on what the pile consists of… usually soft cover (household garbage won’t stop bullets), occasionally hard cover (big chunks of metal or concrete in the pile), and once in a while explosive (when folks throw highly combustible material in the trash and a shot passing through sets it off).

[Metternich]

Your junkyard is wonderful.  Great scatter terrain.

[Raedwald]

Thanks all!

@uti long smile - Yes, a satisfied customer, cheers!

@ Pattus Magnus - The variety of stuff does offer quite a few options, like exploding fuel drums etc.

[Raedwald]

Hi all,

Finished a character for my Five Parsecs from Home crew; The Prima Luces (PREE-ma LOO-chays).

I’d rolled up a ‘lower megacity class’ trader, and after mulling over several options, I thought I’d have my first go at grinding away a fair chunk of a miniature in order to remodel it with putty. I therefore went with the excellent Colony 87 Tech Trader. I happened to have two of this mini, so could include a before/after comparison below.

I needed him to be shotgun armed, and after an unsuccessful search for something to scale, I ended up lazily using a slightly oversized genestealer hybrid arm that was to hand. Nevermind.

Apologies for the poor photos.

Cheers,
Raedwald

[TheMightyFlip]

Really cool conversion 

[Grumpy Gnome]

Really cool conversion 

I agree! 👍

[uti long smile]

Nicely done!

[OSHIROmodels]

That works well 

[Pattus Magnus]

That turned out very well. I actually didn’t notice the oversized arm when I first looked at the picture (I noticed the enormous gun, but that’s just how they are in the 40k universe…). The smooth conversion work and excellent painting keep attention away from the arm’s proportions.

[axiom]

I think the shotgun arm works very nicely

[zemjw]

I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out

Perhaps having the arm as cybernetic, with a metal hand, would have given you a story reason for the discrepancy

[Raedwald]

Many thanks all!

And thanks for the reassurances about the arm. Painting can help hide a multitude of converting sins. The gun masks it from the front, but I confess to angling the back photo favourably to hide the ape-like propotions! 

@uti long smile - Pure coincidence, a consecutive one of yours from Crooked Dice. Cheers.

Also just noticed I’ve forgotten to add any static grass - job for tonight.

Cheers,
Raedwald