1/56 Gear Krieg walker ShiKi

[Agis]

GnG by Company B gets again better - 28mm Japanese walkers: Shi Ki

To support the GnG line in 28mm Brent Dietrich of Company B finally released the Japanese Shiki walkers! The Shiki 38 - a basic variant with one turret mounted MG and one rear turret mounted MG, one Teppoyari and Anti-Tank Explosives. The kit comes with both leg variants, walking and ground mode!
see: http://035f399.netsolhost.com/Gears_gutssalepage.html

Rules to use these walkers in your Victory Decision games can be found in the ViDe: Gear Krieg book.
http://www.wargamevault.com/product/109526


Personally I like the look of the ground mode Shiki even more!

More pics: http://www.adpublishing.de/html/gears_and_guts_.html

[Thib-0]

These look cool  and very well painted.

[macgarns]

It looks like a Transformer , but with less chrome and shinny parts !

[No Such Agency]

OK, no offense to you Agis since I love your work. And no offense to DP9 because their stuff is almost all great.  But I just feel these look... dorky.  Dorky enough to be "realistic", admittedly, except the awkward little arms that I can't picture wielding that lance thingy with any effectiveness.  (All the GK walkers have awkward little arms but I figured the arms on walkers would mainly be for cutting wire, moving obstacles etc.)

* ducks *

[Agis]

No problem for me - I have just painted the model!
 
And each to his own...

[robertsjf]

except the awkward little arms that I can't picture wielding that lance thingy with any effectiveness. 

I agree it looks odd but the lance thingy isn't a traditional lance or spear, where brute force is used to push the device into a body cavity and cause all sorts of internal mayhem. The lance is actually a stick with an explosive device at the end. Make contact and BOOM!

Does that bring the arms back into the "Dorky enough to be realistic" area?

[Elbows]

Doesn't for me - because it doesn't look to have the articulation to actually point or deploy the thing.  I think it's an okay little model minus the lance/boomstick which I think is really out of place.

[Jakar Nilson]

Doesn't for me - because it doesn't look to have the articulation to actually point or deploy the thing.  I think it's an okay little model minus the lance/boomstick which I think is really out of place.

Would it help if the model had the actual joints clearly marked?

http://jakarnilson.deviantart.com/art/Captured-Shiki-177822105

[former user]

  that's funny
It appears to me that once You buy the dynamic of a walker balancing tons of steel on two hydraulic legs, thoughts about realism become a bit pointless. The "transformer" concept is pretty well done I think. Not sure if it shouldn't have some stuff tacked to the surface. looks a bit sterile...

[Agis]

that's funny
It appears to me that once You buy the dynamic of a walker balancing tons of steel on two hydraulic legs, thoughts about realism become a bit pointless.

Absolutely - I am always amused when the word realistic is applied in a Gear Krieg - The World War II Two-fisted Pulp style wargame - context.

 

[Heresy]

Hi,

Uoo, fantastic painting job and fantastic model. I like very much the "transformer" options!.