And here are the figures for my North American Confederation androids. These are Ral Partha Europe Blockhead mercenaries, which in my mind capture the look of the robots from Elysium.
These are ready for painting, but I want to finish the rest of my current mecha conversions before starting because I only have room on my workbench to make or paint, and I know how to easy it is to spend time clearing models to switch between each.
So that's all for now. Catch you on the bounce.
Work on this project is progressing slowly. The conversion has generated a few surprising challenges.
The first problem being from reversing the orientation of the backpack. I chose to have my mecha backpacks to have the engine cylinders facing down, because my feeling is it's better to lower the center of gravity.
This meant I have to add the butt plate to the lower body.
This required some radical surgery and sculpting to fill the holes from the supporting rods, and the gap created from angling the butt plate.
I've now got to make the weapons to mount on the backpack, and attach an autocannon to the right arm before I can begin applying paint.
I realize that what I know versus what I think other people know are often at odds even when we share the same hobby of wargaming. So here is an explanatory video on what is a platoon.
Important because the rules I've written are based of players fielding a platoon.
There's a lot to digest, but consider this a primer for the command and control concepts behind Big Little Wars that outlines the origins, concepts, with examples for context.
Above is the start of assembling my running RAFM Jager from the the Azure Devils set. I base my CASE-2X Dogs conversions on these models as they're just the right size to go with 15mm infantry. This model inspired me to repose a standing Hunter into the running CAS-3-Mod-1 Ape: the model I recently painted.
The boxes within the pictures shows that the flexed knee was miscast.
Therefore, the first thing I needed to do was fix it. I started to sculpt a knee, but it didn't look quite right. Fortunately, I
have spare Jager legs to that I could get a replacement knee.
Once that was corrected, I drilled out leg and torso castings so I could magnetize the model.
And here's a shot of where I've gotten to.
So, this post shows that this conversion is very much still a work in progress, which has taken far longer to get to this stage than I first thought.
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| Maneuver group. |
I've finished painting my Khurasan 15mm Entomal aliens, aka the Stikk. I'm using these in my Bad Dog universe as Subatduku. They've yet to appear in a novel, but will appear in Big Little Wars wargame rules.
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| Support teams and command team. |
I have another ten figures to paint, which will make for a second maneuver group in due course.
I've decided to take a break from painting to build up some more combat armor suits that have been sitting on my work bench waiting for me to get back to them.
I got my set of Robot Rally circa 2002. Still haven't played a game either, so these miniatures that come with the game have sat on the lead mountain for eighteen years.
Ironically, I managed to paint the robots
below below a friends as a Xmas present in 2004.
So, I'm painting my set in a different combination of colours, because why not? And, who wants to be boring and paint an identical set again? Not I. Which, also probably explains why I'm so terrible at painting armies.
Anyway,
all the colours of the rainbow still seems to me to be the right choice
for fun, happy robot rally mayhem. So here they are with the base coat
laid down.
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