From StuartL - Random Robots - Death Star - 70 Points

Hello again,

My painting recently has been slowed down a little due to that most precious and special of events... no, not Christmas, Gaming! I have managed to get three full days of rolling dice in over the past week, which has been awesome after roughly 18 months of avoiding most social contact. It has certainly been a nice way to finish off the year. 

I have been painting though and I finished these robots up the other day. 

(Sorry the picture isn't so good, we used the camera over Christmas and the settings got all messed up.)

These 9 robots and androids will be forming the core of a new warband for This Is Not A Test (TNT), a post-apocalyptic skirmish game. All of the minis are from Reaper's Bones range and come from various kickstarters. All of them were painted in a similar fashion, metallic silver followed by a black wash and then some spot colours and highlights. Only the two androids in the middle got any other colours applied.

For my Challenge Sector entry, I looked at the Death Star's requirements of "Of Questionable Design" and found a suitable mini, also for TNT, and a kit-bash just like my entry for Skaro. Introducing the Party Bot.

As the entry in the TNT supplement states: "Party Bot is here to party. Amaze your friends, annoy your neighbours, have the best time everrr!" The Party Bot is not a normal part of a warband and is a hired freelancer for any faction. It doesn't have any guns or physical weapons, but comes equipped with 'Raucous Noise' and 'Blinding Disco-Tech' forcing all models nearby to pass skill checks or suffer some large penalties to their skills.

The Party Bot is a kit-bash from some 40K Imperial Guard (nope, still not using their daft new name), kits; a wheel from a tank, some binoculars, speakers from vox casters and heavy flamer nozzles. The top half of the robot is a repurposed cheap Christmas bauble, carefully cut and glued on top. I'm not sure how effective it will be in game, but I intend to download some disco songs and play them at full volume whenever it attacks. 

So, that's a total of 10x 28mm minis for 50 points, plus an additional 20 points for the Death Disco Star. See you all next time.

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Now, if the Imperials had only sent the Party Bot to Hoth instead of the boring Probe Droid. Really, it would have been so much more fun, yet terrifying. I now have burned into my psyche visions of tauntauns moonwalking and wampas Doin' the Locomotion... 

Wonderful (and fun) work Stuart!