Rise of the Machines

Today I have another robot, he's not quite a terminator but he's angry and he's armed.  I'm guessing he's some sort of maintenance bot and he has decided that the best maintenance he can be doing is bringing "Death to the Fleshy Ones!", after all they are the ones making all of the mess.

Death to the Fleshy Ones!

Another Mongoose Mini-bot, he was a bit of a test bed for painting red and for practising a bit of edge highlighting.  I was quite happy with the results but I'm struggling to keep the lines neat, more practise and keeping the paint thinned though should do the trick.  Keeping the paint thin when painting the highlights makes all the difference, the  finish on this is much smoother than I managed on the dustpan bot I used a similar number of layers but was much more careful about not letting the paint dry out on palette.

Not quite Rosie from the Jetsons.

Between him and and irate motorised dustpan and brush I've got the start of a robot uprising, hopefully Fido won't be tempted away to join them.

An uprising has to start somewhere

That brings me to 7 miniatures this month which is a vast improvement and hopefully I'll keep the momentum going.  I've been stocking up on undead for march but there's a real chance that the latest boxed offering from Games Workshop will throw up a it of a distraction.

Fido!

I decided Corporal Jones was probably a dog person, I also thought a Robo-Dog would be a very quick edition to the squad.  Then I thought that the Wargames Foundry have a very nice robo dog in their 2000AD range, Toby from The Ballard of Halo Jones which I thought would be a good alternative to the Mongoose Robo-Dog.

Toby, his time will come

As it turned out, Toby arrived from Wargames Foundry and turned out to be a bit on the large side for the resin bases I've been using, a new order of bases from  Tiny Worlds would be required, as would carefully removing his metal base.  Instead I stuck with the Mongoose miniature and painting him turned out to be not that quick and basing him was still pretty fiddly.  I think he's turned out all right though.

Robo-Fido

I stuck to red so that he fits in with the rest of the squad, the legs made him quite fiddly to paint  are to small to pin to the base, Instead when I cut away the metal tab I left enough to use as a pin.

Walking the dog on the mean streets of Mega-City 1 

Fido comes out of the equipment budget so corporal Jones gets his gun and 30 Credits worth of mans best Robo-Friend and some armour which sounds like a good deal to me.

Don't pet strange dogs.

He's a bit rough around the edges and I used Typhus Corrosion to cover up a bit of a mess around his paws that I made when basing him.  This instantly made it my favourite Citadel Technical paint, it will be just as good for muddying up boots to cover up unsightly basing errors as it will be for adding grime to metallic areas.

That puts me at six miniatures for February, by far my best monthly total and with a week still to go.