GZG 15mm Stargrunt Crusties / District 9 Aliens painted up (mecha added 4/23)

[Hobby Services]

And last but not least, the mecha, along with a pilot lugging a repair kit from the civilian pack:



Very large model for 15mm, and a fine choice as a hulking 28mm scale warbot.



Comes in nine piece IIRC, although assembly is pretty simple.



The arms and shoulder joints have ball sockets and can be positioned lots of ways.



Only bit I worry about is the missile pods, which don't really socket in as deeply as I'd like. 



The model is pretty heavy (even more so when stuck on a washer base as it is here) and I prefer sturdy joins for protruding parts.



Still, it looks cool, and it's great at scale jumping which is always nice.  Might even work as a not-Titan in 6mm games.

There's a pose variant mecha with the legs in a different stance, but other than that this thread now has every Crusty model in the range painted up.

[commissarmoody]

Impressive

[Dentatus]

Nice model but those huge missile pods on tiny mounts on shoulder pads is throwing me off. Is there an alternate spot for them?

[YPU]

Nice model but those huge missile pods on tiny mounts on shoulder pads is throwing me off. Is there an alternate spot for them?

Have to agree, GZG had one of these build without the shoulder missiles on display at Salute and it looked a lot better that way.

[Hobby Services]

Nice model but those huge missile pods on tiny mounts on shoulder pads is throwing me off. Is there an alternate spot for them?

Not that I could see.  You could probably build a mounting point out of putty somewhere, maybe replacing the little antenna arrays.  Might even be sturdier that way.  Or you could leave them off completely, which wouldn't hurt the look much.

Note that gigantic missile pods on spindly mounts are kind of a common mecha trope, though.  Zentaedi artillery pods, for ex, or Loud Ninja's Tavshar archons feature ones that are just as odd-looking.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice mecha.