From BillA - Skeletal Robots (20 points)

I mentioned in my last post about playing a lot of Galactic Heroes, a sci-fi skirmish game, and that it's part of a family of games allowing for skirmishes across a variety of genres.  One of these sister-games is called Wasteland Warriors, a post-apocalyptic setting drawing inspiration from the Mad Max movies and TSR's Gamma World RPG.  Tom, my co-conspirator in promoting these games locally, and I are both interested in giving this one a spin so I did some digging for post-apocalyptic figures that I liked the look of.  I quickly found Moonraker Miniatures, who offer fresh castings of Grenadier's classic "Future Warriors" line, and just as quickly placed an order.

The first figures to get fully based and primed were these four Terminator-inspired "Skeletal Robots," which I figure will see use in both Wasteland Warriors and Galactic Heroes.  

Over a black primer coat, they each got a heavy drybrush of Reaper "Tarnished Steel," followed by a wash of GW "Nuln Oil." Once dry, they were washed again with "Reikland Fleshshade" to add some rust to their recesses.  

From there, they were drybrushed with Reaper's "True Silver," and their eyes picked out in "Fresh Blood" red.  Bases are once again superglue and baking soda, base-coated black and given successive drybrushes of "Stone Grey" and "Weathered Stone Grey."

You might notice two different styles of robot here - the first, more skeletal and menacing, and the second (as captured in the picture right above this text) a little more filled out, the detail not as deeply cut.  According to Moonraker's website, these figures were originally produced by a company called Forlorn Hope Games in the style of the Grenadier skeletal robots.  I'm tempted to go back over them with another wash of Reikland Fleshshade and treat them as surviving prototypes of the more menacing terminators.  

Four 28mm figures should net me 20 points. 


Got to love some menacing killer robots and you've done a great job on these ones Bill.

TamsinP