With the first block of Infinity Escalation League done, need to swell the Dahshat ranks a bit. I can’t just sit back on my painted Yu Jing units and pretend I’m playing Dahshat so bring on the recruits!
I already have some new Haqq members I’ve put together and primed but they won’t be enough. I had some traveling to do so I brought a bunch of unassembled kits and got to work. Here we have McMurrough (top left), Ghulami doc (top right), her helper bot (bottom right), and a Hunzakut. Everything went together well except McMurrough. There were a lot of casting warpage and it just didn’t want to go together well. I foolishly threw my blister pack details away as someone told me I could likely have asked Corvus Belli for a replacement. I got him done in the end with a lot of green stuff to fill in the terrible gaps. Hopefully it looks ok painted up.
Next up, I have two Jackbots for Fiddler. While she has been great solo, her little segway death scooters are even more fun. To get them done I first broke them. It was an accident and I was surprised at how easy it was to do so I recommend doing it so that it doesn’t happen to you after the model is all painted up.
I actually wanted to do this anyway so it was no big deal. I want to customize these Jackbots beyond their static “standing” pose.
Breaking the neck of the bot, I can both pin it for more support and alter the angle/direction for more posing options.
Like this! I used a concrete barrier terrain piece (found at Miniature Market) and pinned the Jackbot going up the side to murder someone from an unexpected angle. The Jackbots have Climb+ just like their momma so going all parkour is in their wheelhouse.
I’ll continue the tread tracks up the side of the barrier when I paint it up. Since I have two bots, I need something different for the other one as well.
My dad showed my Tokyo Drift the other night and there is a scene where the young punk kid is street racing in a housing development and ramps, Dukes-of-Hazzard-style, through a building. I used it as inspiration to help emphasize the speed of these little deathbots.
My greenstuff skills need work as the ramp is a little too contrived and my “smoke/fire” from the rear of the wheel can use some work. All in all though, I am happy with it and think it will paint up fine.
The other half of the barrier was also put to good use. I’ve had this custom build brewing in my head for a while. The motorized bounty hunters got a big boost this season and like a dutiful little minion, I picked up one.
She also has a profile where she is off the bike so I started with that. I took her off the bike and now she’s traded her hog for a piece of uncomfortable concrete.
It makes for a very easy and effective mod. I also get a spare motorcycle from it. We’ll deal with later though. I have to get a few more figures assembled and then I’ll run a batch priming night to get them ready to enter the painting queue.