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Monday afternoon a thin little box with British postage arrived in the mail for me. The only package I'm expecting from across the pond is one coming from Warlord Games, containing 5 Ghar battlesuit sprues. This box however looked to be able to hold just one at best. Never looking at the return label, I cut thru the tape thinking: 'Great, they ran out before getting to my order, and I just spent $12.50 in shipping on a $1.50 sprue'.
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Thus, you can imagine my pleasant surprise when upon opening the box, I instead found the contents to a Kickstarter that I had completely forgotten about! My minis from Gydran Miniature's Pelegian Sapper Kickstarter had arrived! The KS was for a space rat which struck me initially as appealing. However on seeing the final model I didn't like it and messaged the creator to see if I could order something else instead?
No problem! Order whatever you'd like from our store-was their reply. So after a brief perusal, I made my selections, paid the postage and promptly forgot all about it.
That was 3 months ago...
Gydran is a small outfit in Worchestershire, England who specialize primarily sci-fi dwarves (so anybody wanting some 30k Squat breachers, this is the place to go!). Anyways, I had selected the Pugwanian Mercenary B (the 'A' version has an open helmet with the pug's head visible inside), and a funky, retro-bot objective marker (indeed they do make some pretty cool robot minis).
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| Looks like something from The Jetsons! |
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| 'Wrex' marks the spot! (yes, I named the objective marker) |
The objective marker's casting is nearly flawless, and whilst the Pug-merc did have a few obvious mold lines, when set against the gold standard-it was still a better casting than many of the Forgeworld minis that I have gotten over the years.
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| sans-tail |
I opted not to use the curly Pug tail sticking out of the back of the space suit (how would that work anyways?), carved down the socket that said tail was to go into (yes, I literally cut off his butt hole...get over it), adding some Space Marine ammo packs and krak grenades instead. I made an antenna by using a barrel from a spare Tau burst cannon, lopped off the teeny tiny gun barrel, replacing it with a trimmed down plasma pistol tip, then added a spare jet/rocket pack made by Bombshell miniatures. Finally I glued it to the MDF base, and added a pair of human skulls just for shits and giggles.
All in all I'm quite pleased with it!
Now...what the hell do I do with it? Well, for 40k, the only thing I can come up with is to call it a Demiurg. I only have the one however, so I guess I could just blow a command point to field this as an understrength auxiliary support detachment. For rules, it could be a 'counts as' Vespid (like anyone has those minis anyways). The Vespid in general can barely stand up to a stiff breeze, so I doubt that just one would bother anybody much! Actually, that both sounds like a total waste of points...and something I'd totally do!
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| You're short! Fat! And a waste of points! |
That said, Rogue Stars is really the only viable option. Whilst this mini won't fit in with either of my existing crews, I do have a pair of Tau Muppet Auxiliaries (yes really) coming soon. I suppose I could just make another, never-played RS crew for this to belong to.
Regardless I like the little guy, and that's all that matters!
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On a different note: Check out this AWESOME card my Beloved Wolfy got me for my birthday! Its mounted on the wall, just above my computer's monitor.
9 comments:
Looks cute! Even if you don't find a use for it, it has value for that alone.
Also, I really don't think I could call FW the "gold standard". Every other company I've bought resin Models from has had better casts than any of the stuff I've got from FW, and most of them had better sculpting, too.
Fair enough...perhaps just the 'standard' for castings and 'gold' for the pricing then?
I think gold might actually be cheaper per ounce, with the new US pricing ;)
So the picture said "The fist of the Rygel Consortium". All I can picture is Rygel from Farscape.
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Great looking Ahem... Squats! I’ve a squad of Ironbreakers and some SM scout arms to make a counts as squad of Squats to be played as Tactical Marines, along with a squad of Exo Armour I Painted as Custodes! http://weemen.blogspot.com/2017/09/exo-armour-squats-counts-as-custodes-w.html Anyway, added you to the WeeMen blogroll, no idea why it wasn’t there earlier!
Cutting out your models' butt holes is a true sign of dedication. Demiurg are cool and anything goes with Kill Team imho.
@Siph: but, but...how would they see over the wall of the Imperial Palace??
Also, I've added your blog as weel, clearly the oversight was mutual...
@MC: uh thanks? lol. Yes the Mrs. suggested this as a stealthsuit with the wrong gun.
....Farscape.
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