Cyborg-Rabbit

[Mr.Marx]

I painted something, and its not a ship!


The anime super-girl Deunan Knute, atop the shoulder of her giant rabbit-cyborg lover Briareos Hecatonchires.

(Sorry about the *awful* photos)

More info on the blog.
Link:http://dinky-bloggity-blog-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/28mm-appleseed-deunan-and-briareos.html

MM.

[Mr.Marx]

I think it will fit well in your fallout setting. That fig is true 25mm right?

Love your kryomech swat guys. Never knew they existed. Its like old school citadel stuff in looks. I am going to have to take another look at that line of figs now.

I like your ships too. Never seen that era done before. Is that something that is just done at your club or is it a popular ruleset I have never heard of?

Yeah. Its good old 1980's true 25mm - but a 8' rabbit-cyborg at that scale looks fine next to a modern 28mm figure.

The Kyromek figures are real nice. I know that Scotia used to sell them, but there arnt many pictures on the internet, so you'd have to buy blind.

Ta for the ship compliment. They look a little funny blown up to that size in the pictures - they are 1/2400 scale - so are only about an inch long. Sadly, its just somthing that I do as far as I know. I played one game at my club six months ago, but really its just a personal vanity project. I must have about 50 models, with rules and everything ready to go, but have never found anyone who wants a game. Woe is me.

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[FramFramson]

I saw on your blog that you saw several iterations of the tv series/movie for Appleseed, but I was wondering - did you ever read the original comics?

Masamune Shirow has long since descended into fetishism and gun-porn and any comic he's done in the past 10 years has been largely incomprehensible.... BUT, the original Ghost in the Shell and the first two volumes of Appleseed (the original printed comic versions I mean) are some of the finest pure science fiction written in the past half-century (comparable to say, William Gibson).

Appleseed's original story is essentially about the beginning of a world era when Transhumanism becomes real, and GITS was actually a pretty amazing treatment of a world where prosthetic bodies are a legit thing. The adaptations I've seen tend to lose that great science-fiction story (which is already buried a bit) under nonsensical anime-style gibberish and make Shirow's fetishism much worse.

[Mr.Marx]

I saw on your blog that you saw several iterations of the tv series/movie for Appleseed, but I was wondering - did you ever read the original comics?

Masamune Shirow has long since descended into fetishism and gun-porn and any comic he's done in the past 10 years has been largely incomprehensible.... BUT, the original Ghost in the Shell and the first two volumes of Appleseed (the original printed comic versions I mean) are some of the finest pure science fiction written in the past half-century (comparable to say, William Gibson).

Appleseed's original story is essentially about the beginning of a world era when Transhumanism becomes real, and GITS was actually a pretty amazing treatment of a world where prosthetic bodies are a legit thing. The adaptations I've seen tend to lose that great science-fiction story (which is already buried a bit) under nonsensical anime-style gibberish and make Shirow's fetishism much worse.

I have not 'read' either The Ghost in the Shell or Appleseed....yet. They are down on my list however. Im on quite a cyberpunk swing at the moment, so might bump them up my list. Time to have a look on ebay I think....

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[FramFramson]

I think they're very worth it, though they do require a bit of work to get through (his only real "easy" reads are the two Dominion Tank Police books, which are quite fun and a great laugh).

His later work sadly is just kind of a mess, mostly Shirow drooling over the minutiae of modern combat ops. I think volume 3 of Appleseed is literally just one long mission with almost no plot at all. Volume 4 has more plot and starts to get back to the transhumanism stuff, but not a whole lot. I heard that he sort-of put the story back on the rails, but haven't seen any later translated volumes. I'm not optimistic though, since Ghost in the Shell 2 was a disaster. It's just a jumble of totally incomprehensible pseudo-mystic nonsense and is again just one long combat 'op'.

[Mr.Marx]

I think they're very worth it, though they do require a bit of work to get through (his only real "easy" reads are the two Dominion Tank Police books, which are quite fun and a great laugh).

His later work sadly is just kind of a mess, mostly Shirow drooling over the minutiae of modern combat ops. I think volume 3 of Appleseed is literally just one long mission with almost no plot at all. Volume 4 has more plot and starts to get back to the transhumanism stuff, but not a whole lot. I heard that he sort-of put the story back on the rails, but haven't seen any later translated volumes. I'm not optimistic though, since Ghost in the Shell 2 was a disaster. It's just a jumble of totally incomprehensible pseudo-mystic nonsense and is again just one long combat 'op'.

Sounds nice. I'll have to ask Father Christmas.

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[TheMightyFlip]

Very nice mini, I painted one up a couple of years ago.

Supposedly, Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, and Dominion all share the same unizerse, though they are all set decades apart, not sure if thats true or not, just something people seemed to jump on when they saw Anipuma and Unipuma ih GITS.

I liked the Intron Depot volume 1, as it detailed his work from his beginnings, through appleseed, GITS, and Tank Police as well as Orion, but later volumes just became a series of pin ups, which was a shame.