Well it been a tough 2 weeks. Nothing worse than hitting a stumbling block with a project then getting sucked up by work and life and not being able to get to your project! The good news is I've moved forward! So I ended up on trying to find a happy medium between Sluggas and Shootas. I'm going to put some hand to hand weapons in off hands, so it's my hope that if I want I can call them Sluggas, and some will be posed just with Shootas. Not sure how that works rules wise (perhaps only friendly games), what do you think? Can I outfit enough of da boys to call them either or does it need to be just Shootas and call them Shootas? My plan is to give enough choppa kind of stuff that it could go either way. Ummmmmmmmm any help with this before I build the rest would be great! At the end of the day if I end up only being able to call them one way it's going to be shootas. After all there will be more building in my future.
Soooooooooo Shootas it is. I really wanted to build Laz Guns as was suggested. When I got into it, building Laz guns out of plastic card was looking like a task (one I need much work on) when I came across some old Ork gun bitz. I looked at dem and said yes, I'm liking it. Better yet the Boyz said "nows dat is Shooty" They really didn't like the idea of Laz................
......... plus it took away from my web gear. My first 5 boyz have good web gear. The next 5 will have less web gear so it will not be a issue loosing the detail by shootas covering up the space. It's always a work in progress so I'll just have to see how the project goes...............
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Here is a picture of my RTO boy with the new gun prototype. I found my self stuck on the Radio handset. I'm liking this one better. The finished model will have a cord running from the headset to the Vox. Still not 100% on the pose with the radio headset. The arm may need a bit more adjustment before it gets greenstuffed and sleeves.
Building RTO guys is well kind of a tradition. I figure it fits being Blood Axes and all. You know, what self respecting Blood Axe Mob would deploy in the field with out Tac Com!
Here is the first RTO (notice generation 1 bush hat?). He is from way back in the day. You can see the headset attached to his pack.
Here is a better shot. You can also see I'm rebuilding Da Mushrooms on his base as the old ones just couldn't stand the test of time..........
Here is the RTO for my old Kommandos. Unfortunately they are now way out of scale, so it looks like more building (and a good opportunity to use bush hats!)
Last, but not least. Now I need to figure out long sleeved or short sleeved BDU tops. I'd really like to do short sleeves so I have more skin showing, the problem is it presents more sculpting challenges. I guess by making dem short sleeved my skills will be forced to improve, long sleeved would be a nice cheat. Originally I was planning collars on the BDU tops, but once I got the webgear in place I ran out of space. Thinking I may revisit collars as I want to have enough room to capture the feeling of the camo. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Will need to see where this goes.
So my questions,
Is it reasonable to build the squad kind of mixed, The majority will be armed with Shootas, but if I put the ol school shootas in one hand and a hand weapon in the other could I still call them Sluggas, or because they do have Shootas (some armed only with Shootas) must they be played as Shootas?
The Guns, do they feel right, or should I hit the drawing board again?
Thanks for the help and sharing in my madness............
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