War Machine... literally!

[Westfalia Chris]

Hiya!

Some may have seen it in other forums (TMP, Sweetwater and Spamworld being the most notorious contenders), but I´d really like to show off my "Terminator" theme collection of miniatures.

Originally intended as a purely Skynet army, reading the (surprisingly acceptable) "Butler´s Jihad" books has prompted me to turn the project to a more "generic machines of death, doom and destruction" theme. I´m currently painting a three-legged "Overmind"-bot, and hope to convert a huge robotic tank soon, which will be a stylistic mix of Mek-Quake and Skynet´s Hunter-Killer Tank.

First, a collection of my favourite pieces. More pictures can be found in the complete gallery under

http://www.dminis.com/scratchbuilder_christian/images.html?galleryId=1775&from=Terminator+-+Reign+of+the+Machine

Scratchbuilt Hunter-Killer Mk. 1, inspired by the third Termie movie:



Heavy Robot, tracked, also scratchbuilt and closely modelled on the T-1:



Terminator Robots by RAFM:



Terminator Robots by EM-4, ex Grenadier:



I hope to get some games done soon, using the old Void 1.1 rules.[/img]

[PeteMurray]

I have no idea how you do it, Chris. I can't get kits finished, or one-piece figures painted, or make up a decent model, and you turn out these beautiful scratchbuilt pieces all the time!

Brilliant, brilliant stuff.

[Poliorketes]

Great as usual. But one Question: Butler's Jihad sound like Dune, not Terminator, or am I wrong?

[KeyanSark]

Incredible work!!!    I really like it.

As far as I remember, the Butler Jihad was mentioned in Dune, and was the reason why the machines are forbidden in that fictional universe.

[Westfalia Chris]

Yup, that´s right, Butler´s Jihad is Dune... didn´t make it that clear, my bad.

What I wanted to say:

I read the first two books by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. "Yavin Hills 90210" Anderson, and was absolutely amazed and surprised at their quality... not that they are excrutiatingly good, but better by a far margin than anything I´ve previously read from those two delinquents. Especially the first book features some very cool machine war sequences, and my mind´s eye just pictured those as big monstrosities of blue steel.

So I thought, a more generic approach might prove useful. I´m going to use the army for settings from Void to Stargrunt, so rules really ain´t the problem. Just to be cool with the minis.

[Pappa Midnight]

Excellent work!
I especially like the HK, very cool scratchbuild!
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[fatgoblin]

thats amazing work!  The painting is good and the scratchbuilding is excellent!  Good stuff!

[Westfalia Chris]

Painted up a new model for use as an "Overmind Node" type robot (aka force commander). It´s an Urban War "Macrosynth" made by the manufacturer "Urban Mammoth", and while I would have preferred a four-legged robot to make it look more like a Skynet Centurion, the three-legged M´Synth is actually a nice, alien-looking thingie...



The base is a resin-cast piece by Polish manufacturer Micro Art Studios. It´s one of the more "overloaded" articles in their catalogue, but rather appropriate for the "post-nuke L.A." style conveyed by the second Termie movie...

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I like it, looks really good and fits together with the rest!