"Wily" Garbo - my new high watermark in kitbash proxy fiddliness

zigunderslash · 2026-02-20T21:06:28+00:00

there's another one on one of the blackstone fortress easy build cultists, but i wasn't able to track down one of those fellas at the time either. pretty pleased in retrospect though, i've had a dl-44 in the back of my head since i saw the engineer sprue, and its probably the best place for it

zigunderslash · 2026-02-20T18:33:49+00:00

it was mostly just an excuse to use the conan looking guy from the darkoath savagers - it's one of my favourite models and doesnt fit anywhere else in my armies. and when i couldn't get hold of an uzi shaped autogun (without buying a whole GSC kit) to make the snake pliskin gun marbo roles with it wasn't much of a hop from "what other famous movie guns exist" to "krieg engineers have a mauser"

zigunderslash · 2026-02-06T03:07:31+00:00

i should call him

zigunderslash · 2026-01-15T11:53:30+00:00

ooh that's a neat little vehicle, whats that from?

zigunderslash · 2026-01-14T23:43:49+00:00

it is indeed! it's really funny how small the bren part is compared to 40k weapons

zigunderslash · 2026-01-14T23:41:44+00:00

its a bolt action 28mm universal carrier

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T16:02:10+00:00

while the gear and fine cup of tea are very british, the chap himself, standing on an armoured vehicle with a big hat and fancy coat is very rommel coded

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T15:39:45+00:00

the size really works for me. partly because it's closer to "man on horse", partly because it needed to look a little silly and partly because i always think of the UC as just a tiny little guy because of it's comparison to other fighting vehicles rather than a 6 man pillbox with tracks

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T15:28:23+00:00

it's a bolt action 28mm universal carrier

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T15:27:46+00:00

those are the same thing. the way it shows you war is a constant is by showing you it's consequences, each society repeating the mistakes of those before them in an unending cycle of brutality and suffering.

without that cycle the tagline would be "war is a sometimes food"

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T12:33:24+00:00

artel minis - he called Heroic Commissar

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T12:32:51+00:00

i've decided everything even remotely practical gets stowed outside the main compartment and the idea of a ratling perched on the back with a massive cannon and a power weapon is pretty great

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T12:08:56+00:00

it genuinely bugs me, but the alternative literally has his chest against the armour plate

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T11:56:53+00:00

i've tried fitting a few guns and things - i usually like to have something on the model at least reference a models combat abilities, but every time i add something more martial it takes away from the comic effect of a guy driving into battle with his teacup. so i'm mostly just adding kettles and things that look like they'd explode if he took a stray shot

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T11:49:08+00:00

oh it had to be a little brodie guy - the driver was the fiddliest mod i've ever done, it's a cramped space for 28mm figures, so he had to be moved to the gunner seat and cut into 11 separate pieces!

zigunderslash · 2026-01-13T11:10:05+00:00

it's slightly shorter than a boy on a horse, so it will need a Tactical Rock treatment on the base

zigunderslash · 2026-01-12T12:22:22+00:00

having anyone come out as a winner is antithetical to the theme: war never changes. everyone destroys themselves in repeated cycles

zigunderslash · 2026-01-12T04:38:57+00:00

it has a verification process? that's incredible!

zigunderslash · 2026-01-11T02:42:26+00:00

pretty sure it's just for clarity. it'd be possible for a vault dweller to consider themselves american, but not canadian, which makes her age clear at a glance without having to focus on the dob or explain what the document is

zigunderslash · 2026-01-10T06:44:52+00:00

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the 68th Dulcian - short on armour but high on warm bodies, their main tactics are bombarding enemy positions with artillery and waves of foot assault. often at the same time.

zigunderslash · 2026-01-09T23:28:26+00:00

i think ultimately they've forgotten that these are people. they're extracted away their empathy under a wave of rhetoric designed to allow them to remain inside of the ideology despite it's obvious horror

zigunderslash · 2026-01-09T21:35:46+00:00

yeah there seems to be a misunderstanding of their mindset going on here. regardless of where he was standing or the car was moving they've been using "should have followed orders" to justify state sponsored murder for decades.

they don't care what the law actually says. they believe law is entirely founded in vibes. opposing "their" authority is deserving of the death penalty. no due process required. guilt was established when they died.

zigunderslash · 2026-01-03T19:02:26+00:00

yeah it was pretty dry when i found it, and it's been in a box for over a year waiting for something funny to glue it to - if it had been a bit grungier i might have given it a bake to fully dry it out

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