We travel from LV-426 to Cybertron via Sarah's yacht...
Cybertron
Dystopian Wars Prussian medium robots and 2 Canadian Robots
- Medium robots (7) 40mm tall figures
Dominion of Canada robots |
Metzger robots (3)
For a long time these were the biggies in the Dystopian Wars universe, supplanted just before Spartan games went belly up. Also Prussian, they are amphibious and come in both land and water versions and I am painting them in pairs. I figured, I already have 2 pairs painted up, so might as well finish up the last of them...(and yes it is an excessive amount of these for anyone to have)
Waterline versions
Krypton (Super figs)
I have actually had to stop myself from painting these figures over the last couple of weeks. I am trying to keep with the planetary themes and move in some sort of order throughout the rings. So while I have back tracked once, I really only want to use Sarah's yacht to skip over any planets where I just can't match any figure to theme.
So Krypton means super heroes, and for me that is a good size collection of Old Glory and Reaper figures. Some of the Old Glory figures (5) are quite large topping out at 60mm! Most are listed as 33mm on their site, but really are in keeping with the scale creep of 28mm modern figures. Some of the figures are very primitive, you could not confuse them with the modern DC or Marvel lines. Heck, even some of the Heroclics are better figures. So why was I keen to paint these, dunno! It just got into my mind to do them. I figured contrast paints might work on these as there were some deep details, but my experience with contrast paints told me that contrast alone would not work. Maybe that's just me, I have some luck with contrast, but basically as a base coat, adding highlights after.
The Big'uns (4)
Exitor, Host leader |
Triangle man & Major Payne |
The rest of the named supers (mostly named by me)
Teuton, Red Dynamo and Basher. All are from Reaper, the 'twins' are bones while Red Dynamo is metal.
Red lightning |
Blue streak vs Earth Mother |
The villains: King Pin, The Magister, Pinhead |
Orange Julius, The Proletariat, Green virus |
Ultra, Night watch, Guardian |
Dynamo, Gladiator Ape |
Green Ronin, Mr Hilter, Cyberman |
Artemis, Blue Hawk, Blue Angel |
The Henchmen
These guys worked out as I envisioned them. I see them as being made out of a super strong, but malleable plastic and can transform themselves into different shapes or even weapons. Well I figured that would mean the plastic would get discolored when it stretches out, hence the change in colour from a deep pink to the light pink shade.
I find the eyes kind of freaky in the pictures.
Gun toting & sword wielding elite warriors
28mm vehicles (5 cars)
The points
- 40 for two planets
- 20 Sarah's yacht (Blue Angel)
- ?? points regular 3 x ? DW Metzger robots 75mm tall
- 45 points waterline 3 x DW Metzger robots (treating as 15mm vehicles)
- 91 points 13 x 40mm tall DW robots & the 4 big supers
- 185 points 37 x 28mm foot
- 100 points 5 x 28mm cars
Total 481 + Big robots
Wow, a ton of metal and a ton of supers. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThank you. They are kind of heavy to keep moving around! Now I hope I can find the time to play a game with them.
Deleteanother huge entry from you. Kove the waterline robots
ReplyDeletelove even,
DeleteNo, no I kove them too! Thanks.
DeleteWhat an eclectic and awesome group of figures. Excellent work on all of them. lovely stuff!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful grouping of greatness! I really like the Metzger robots!
ReplyDeleteGreat work and I too wuv the waterline bots.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking big robots!
ReplyDeleteSome tremendous stuff there. The waterline robots are awesome, and the henchmens stretchy look really works well.
ReplyDeleteSplendid collection of supers(good and bad!) And awesome teutonic robots!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
WhatsApp great collection of figures!
ReplyDeleteGreat collection of lovely minis, Chris. I particularly like the Dystopian Wars robots, though a lot of that is due to sorely missing the original version of the setting (I just can't get to grips with the new rendition).
ReplyDeleteThanks! They have no appeal to me either. Some of the new designs just seem too odd almost like caricatures. It was the Prussian Sky Fortress that got me started in DW, certainly an over the top model, but it has style!
DeleteGreat work there Chris, you've been realy productive.
ReplyDeleteHi Chris:
ReplyDeleteA lot of clever, colourful stuff here. Well done. Your Canadian robots made me smile, Canada's army has been waiting years to replace the pistols that most of us carried in Afghanistan and still use, all of which are WW2 era Brownings. This must be an alternative timeline Canada. :)
Cheers, and well done, MikeP
Thanks for the comments. The background game history says that these are second hand robots that were purchased from the FSA (Americans) with the flight capability removed. Different universe, similar challenges...:)
DeleteGreat work, I particularly like the robots.
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