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Mike's Minis
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| I'm not one
of those guys who wasted a lot of time painting his minis
in intricate detail as even the best paint job couldn't
ward a gauss round to the noggin. As you can see, my color
scheme was basically "Smurf Blue" with simple
gray highlighting of the weapons systems. More importantly,
I often took saw and drill to the standard minis in order
to jazz them up a bit. Here are my variations: |
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This was my first
custom job, designed not only to add a little
movement to the static Orion pose but to also
add a little levity to the game. It was this
mech that earned my accumulated collection
the sobriquet of "The Smurfs".
Incidentally, I used wood putty to fill in
the hex bases as I had huge cans of the stuff. |
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| This Awesome
also got the subtle 'leg job'. Combined with
the swinging arms it has a much more kinetic
appearance. |
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Was there ever
a mini that needed more esthetic re-engineering
than the Charger? It was supposed to be a
fast mech but its stock pose said "Rooted
in place". In addition to the leg repositioning
it also received a slight twist to the waist.
Much better, yes?
BTW, the slight green tinge to the exposed
areas of these minis is the accumulated result
of many fingers moving them around. This is
the sort of grime the Antique Roadshow loves. |
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| The basic idea
was to make the mech sort of squatting down
with both arms sticking straight forward as
though laying down a withering hail of AC
rounds. But the pose required the cutting
and epoxying of six joints and, well, it didn't
quite work out. So I renamed this my "Staggermech". |
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| It seems almost
everyone has, by now, made a Wolfhound mini.
It was an enticing design back in 1988 so
I made my own, just in case. I probably used
it once as can be seen by the lack of grime.
A production version was eventually released
but I like mine better. |
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| Believe it or
not, this is a Katana, with a bit of battle-damage
extant. I built this one, and the whole group
of 2750 mechs, long before the mini's were
available. |
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As I mentioned above, I developed
a whole set of the 2750 mini's but, unfortunately,
I sold most of them on eBay years ago and
can't find the pictures I took of them. The
Katana and this Exterminator are the only
two which remain.
And why is this one painted silver? Because
the 2750 book specifically said they used
that color to aid in their stealth capacity.
Besides, it looked wicked cool. |
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