Halo: A 28mm wargaming project: covenant troops cast finally.

[supervike]

So, I'm assuming those McFarlane Warthogs are nicer than the Wizkids' Haloclix ones?

I've got a Haloclix one....Anyone got both that can do a side by side photo shot?  Or tell me what the differences are.

[former user]

it is amazing what uniformity simple head swaps can create

congratulations!

damn You....
now, I am already thinking my own project over....

[Dewbakuk]

So, I'm assuming those McFarlane Warthogs are nicer than the Wizkids' Haloclix ones?

I've got a Haloclix one....Anyone got both that can do a side by side photo shot?  Or tell me what the differences are.

Far superior! They're not all 'battle damaged' for a start. The Mcfarlane one is a better scale fit as the clix one was done for the Haloclix figures which are huge next to 28mm figs. I never bought the clix version so can't do a proper comparison, but the clix one is definately bigger.

[wellender]

I bought the Haloclix one at a sale at my comic shop.  It does not scale up well at all with 28mm figures.  Copplestone, Reaper, Hasselfree, and GW.  I tried all of them and more.  It still looks wrong next to 28mm figures.

[Commander Vyper]

I have 9

Although mine are packed away and not finished like the Commander's.

And how do you know that then eh?

eh???

[Dewbakuk]

And how do you know that then eh?

eh???

'cos you've shown pics of yours with figures in Admittedly that doesn't mean your's are finished, but they're further along than mine. All I've done is remove the guns from three of them to start their change into transports.

[Vodswyld]

I am actually attempting to do something very similar.

So far I am having issues with the hands that are gripping the gun. Any insight on how you manage to do this so well?

[Commander Vyper]

I am actually attempting to do something very similar.

So far I am having issues with the hands that are gripping the gun. Any insight on how you manage to do this so well?

Well I cut the guns and fused them with the plastic cadian rifle butts, still need to finish the join but that's how I did it.

The Commander

[TheShadow]

thought id jump on and let everyone know - my local gamestation has teh mcfarlane warthogs in - currently on sale at £3 each !!!

[supervike]

Never occured to me to check the local video game store....

I've got a mission for tommorow!

[Ulu Elsomalien]

thought id jump on and let everyone know - my local gamestation has teh mcfarlane warthogs in - currently on sale at £3 each !!!

..I hope you bought all of them to rebuy them to ouy community ? 

[Mr.J]

I was just wondering what the metal weapons are that you've used?

[warrenss2]

Halo, Terminators, Aliens, Zombies, Zombietown making.

And a set of twins to boot!!! 

Where do you get the d@mn time, Cmdr?? 

And where do you STORE all this???

Cheers.

[Commander Vyper]

You can add spacefleet into the mix too you know & Cthulhu, Lord of the Rings, 15mm Halo, don't sell me short warren!

Time is a very rare commodity, which I have very little of, so I cut into what I like to call wasted time, (monotonous TV viewing, sleep, you know that kind of time) and use that for minis.




Metal weapons are from Heresy miniatures, Andy's also recently done some more, shotguns, bullpup and a sniper rifle, all very usable.

[Commander Vyper]

Noble Team:



Commander Carter-A259 (Noble One)
Lieutenant Commander Catherine-B320 (Noble Two)
Warrant Officer Jun-A266 (Noble Three)
Warrant Officer Emile-A239 (Noble Four)
Chief Warrant Officer Jorge-052 (Noble Five)
Lieutenant SPARTAN-B312 (Noble Six)



Well as you know, bit of a Halo nut, so with the release of Halo:Reach I started work on my own version of Noble Team, using Pig iron system trooper bodies and a range of pig iron heavy trooper variant closed helmets (customised by yours truely).

Noble One: modified helmet and plastic-tube shoulder armour, still more sculpting and work to complete.

Noble two:used a bionic arm from my necromunda bits box to recreate Noble Two's arm Heavy Trooper 7 closed helmet modified with GS.

Noble Three: Swoped out rifle for one of Heresy's new sniper rifles, looks great, still to work on helmet etc...

Noble Four: rebuilt the helmet to recreate the EVA helmet, more sculpting to detail to the top and rebreather, also going to carve the skull into the visor as Emile has. Also probably remove the las rfile and add a shotgun, (again weapon of choice for Emile's line of work). Mocked up the CCW (curved blade), probaby reduce it in size again but just wanted to see if a cut and shut would work.

Noble Five: just mocked up the shoulder pad at present more detail to follow, helmet to be bulked out too.

Nole Six, just some helmet work to make it a little more ODST like , nothing extra yet.

I'll also be adding magnets to nobles 1-4 & 6 as I'm using Elysian FW jumppacks to represent the jet pack loadout, (they are spot on!).
 
No time for more this week but will update after next weeked.

Enjoy

The Commander