New Darkson Designs

[white knight]

Robert of Darkson Designs posted some new previews:

American Robot Trooper:

 

Russian PSI Officer:

[Svennn]

I'm liking the robots. I think I would prefer them without weapons though

[fatgoblin]

robot looks fantastic!  Also looking forward to their release of the lab rat that won the painting competition.  Suddenly got a big urge to do some weird WW2 a few days ago.  on the hunt for some nice minis  :mrgreen:
http://www.darksondesigns.com/news.html

[celtoslegion]

You can't really go wrong with robots, can you? It seems that it isn't to hard to change tehir weapons into something mor future like.

The Psyker is great - I'll go along well with pulp or near future settings IMO.

[dodge]

Those darksun designs figures really whet your appetite don't they.

These new releases look very good.

[pixelgeek]

It seems that it isn't to hard to change tehir weapons into something mor future like.

The arms are separate pieces that come with a shoulder section, arm and the weapon moulded into the arm. It should be quite easy to cut the Thompson off and add a more futuristic weapon.

One of the figures has the stock of the gun back behind its bent elbow and that one might be a bit more problematic to convert.

All of the weapons are moulded to the arms though so I am not sure what the full impact of that would be in terms of modding the figs.

[fatgoblin]

as long as you are happy to keep the stock, your swap out the rest of the gun I suppose.

[pixelgeek]

as long as you are happy to keep the stock, your swap out the rest of the gun I suppose.

Probably the simplest thing to do.

[fatgoblin]

wow, thats terrible english I just used!  haha

anyway, maybe use hasslefree guns?
http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/range.php?range_id=39&subcat_id=17

[celtoslegion]

I really think of getting some of their stuff.

How are the Darkson minis in terms of casting quality and size compared to lets say Artizan or Copplestone?

[pixelgeek]

How are the Darkson minis in terms of casting quality and size compared to lets say Artizan or Copplestone?

The sculpts are very crisp with next to no flash or mould lines.

They are "true" 28mm scale figures so they are slight in comparison to the Artizan and Copplestone figures.

For the monster and power armour figures this isn't an issue. For the troopers and other sculpts they do, to my eye, look noticeably smaller than the other 28mm scale figs I have.

I've not really noticed the difference when gaming with them though

[celtoslegion]

Thanks for the reply.

Since I wanted to get the american robots, the rocket guys and the russion Psiker, this shouldn't be an issue.

Robots come in all sizes.
Psiker are supposed to be skinny guys
and Rocket men should be "jockey size" either, because the less weight you have, the more fllight time you have.

[celtoslegion]

Just out of curiosity - does anyone of you have a picture of all the pieces in the american robots blister?

I like multi part models and would like to see all options.

[pixelgeek]

Just out of curiosity - does anyone of you have a picture of all the pieces in the american robots blister?

No pictures as I have assembled mine but IIRC

three bodies
four heads
four sets of left and right arms. One set has the gun in the left arm and the others have the gun in the right arm

The gun is moulded onto the arm and isn't a separate piece.