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

[Westfalia Chris]

Great job, and good god, I want the FOundry 2000AD range...

They DO have a 20% Discount sale running now until 2 December, you know...

Ah, I´m such an evil spoiler of the young... 

[Plynkes]

As said, the "newer" stuff uses more "Soviet" icons...

Ah, didn't realise that. Me and 2000AD parted company (amicably enough) about twenty years ago! They always were obviously Soviets, but it wasn't polite to say so back in the old days while there were still real Soviets about (and we're so polite in Britain). Same reason all the Bond films have SPECTRE instead of SMERSH, I guess.

[Westfalia Chris]

Ah, didn't realise that. Me and 2000AD parted company (amicably enough) about twenty years ago! They always were obviously Soviets, but it wasn't polite to say so back in the old days while there were still real Soviets about (and we're so polite in Britain). Same reason all the Bond films have SPECTRE instead of SMERSH, I guess.

Yes, indeed. The new "Volgan Wars" books by Langley, while quite overwrought even for my taste, are far more openly revelling in their Soviet iconology and almost as blunt and, well dumbish as the old Invasion! and ABC Warriors Volgan stuff.

But I´ll go for the Skull and V. Oldschool, comparatively unique in a wargaming context, and I´ve already scraped and filed all the little stars off.

[anevilgiraffe]

Ah, didn't realise that. Me and 2000AD parted company (amicably enough) about twenty years ago! They always were obviously Soviets, but it wasn't polite to say so back in the old days while there were still real Soviets about (and we're so polite in Britain). Same reason all the Bond films have SPECTRE instead of SMERSH, I guess.

SPECTRE was in the novels as well... can't remember off the top of my head though which ones...

[Plynkes]

SPECTRE was in the novels as well... can't remember off the top of my head though which ones...

Yes, they are the bad guys in the "Blofeld trilogy" (Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice). But films of books involving SMERSH (which was a real Soviet agency) either changed the organisation to SPECTRE (From Russia with Love), or removed it altogether (Live and Let Die, Goldfinger). It was thought, especially in the mid-sixties, than tensions were high enough as it was, without annoying Moscow even more by making them the bad guys in all the Bond films.

[abhorsen950]

Im a massive 2000ad fan and these are ace!!!!!

[Westfalia Chris]

Well then, folks, here are the first images of the Volgan forces. At the moment, being human infantry, they are more "early war" and suitable for Volgan Occupation Forces vs. British Resistance (yes, a Bill Savage is planned once I get the suitable figure), and I´ll add Volgan war robots later on, again, as I find suitable figures. I certainly wished Pig Iron did more robots in the style of their packbot... I´ll probably have to convert Necrons with Kalashnikovs.

Infantry from Copplestone Castings:





APC by Imprint Models (BMP-3):

[commissarmoody]

Oh vary nice! I like

I think I know of a few other companys that make robots, I will post more later when I am not falling asleep at the comp but check out http://www.alphaforgegames.com/homepage.html
They have a few good or at least intersting droids in there sets.

[Westfalia Chris]

Three plainclothes operatives of the Volgan Secret Police (VSP):



"KGB Men" from the KKBB range (Copplestone KKBB108).

[RJ]

Everything looks great Chris, looking forward to seeing what you come up with next 

on a side note i really should get some pics of my rogue trooper project posted (thanks for all your help with that)

[commissarmoody]

Keeps geting better an better

[The Worker]

Wow! I was going to say how much I liked your ABC Warriors (more than the series, which I can't stand - gets in the way of good stuff like Sinister Dexter, Nikolai Dante, and others)...

...and then I saw your Volgs! Ace! I love them, and the retro-vibe they've got, harking back to the original (and now the latest books, which have reset the Volgs to the Soviet-Russian look after the excellent interlude where they were all wearing US-style gear, which I personally feel worked better).

Now - do more Volgs, and some British Resistance, and... err... more!

[commissarmoody]

Yeah more! One more song! one more song!

[Westfalia Chris]

After some 6 months of inactivity (*cough cough*), I'm happy to say I rekindled my interest in the ABC/2000AD stuff when I bought the collected Ro-Busters and the second "Volgan War" collection. I originally set out converting a GW Necron figure to resemble "Zippo" from the latest incarnation of the franchise, but that didn't really work out too well (although I'll post pics once I'm done painting).

Therefore, I decided to give the Volgan Timeline a little rest and revisit the Termight/Terran Empire/Khaos Chronicles setting, and spent yesterday evening on a break from revising (god, I despise that e-Business managespeak drivel. I'm so happy my BSc is in Logistics.) and built this:

 

It is, indeed the promised/threatened Killdozer/Tank variant of Mek-Quake. The main inspiration was Simon Bisley's version:



Nonetheless, I also used elements from the later instances where Mek-Quake used this (or a similar) body.

It's been primered and I hope to get to paint it tonight and tomorrow. The arms, by the way, are attached using rare earth magnets, which will allow for some variation in posing, as well as adding variant arms at a later time and making transport much easier. You cannot see it from here, but the rear features a "transport bay" that will hold up to six figures on 25mm bases, or a mix of small and large-based figures. Deadlock shown for size.

Thanks for looking!

[anevilgiraffe]

 

absolutely superb... get it cast