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Yo, I have a couple of old models that ha been sitting around for ages and would love to know what they are.

First, this guy. Big robot guy. Missing his head and arm - I got him in a trade for some Necrons years ago and wondered what he was!



Then, these are some third-party resin cyborg/robot guys I bought years ago online but can't remember which company made them. They look like taller, more robotic terminators.

 ArbitorIan wrote:
Then, these are some third-party resin cyborg/robot guys I bought years ago online but can't remember which company made them. They look like taller, more robotic terminators.

The first one looks like the torso, legs and right arm from an old RAFM 1:87 Heavy Gear miniature - a Southern Cobra of some sort; did RAFM ever do a Dark Cobra, or was there an earlier variant with that particle cannon?

The torso is glued on wrong; it's actually been rotated forwards by 90 degrees, with the front glued to the hips, the top facing forward and the back at the top.

 Dark Severance wrote:

 ArbitorIan wrote:
Then, these are some third-party resin cyborg/robot guys I bought years ago online but can't remember which company made them. They look like taller, more robotic terminators.

Hummm might be a interesting kit for a Iron Hand conversion kit.....

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
The first one looks like the torso, legs and right arm from an old RAFM 1:87 Heavy Gear miniature - a Southern Cobra of some sort; did RAFM ever do a Dark Cobra, or was there an earlier variant with that particle cannon?

The torso is glued on wrong; it's actually been rotated forwards by 90 degrees, with the front glued to the hips, the top facing forward and the back at the top.

Thanks! And good spotting. I know nothing about Heavy Gear, but pulling it apart and rotating the torso does make a lot more sense as a model! If I could get hold of another I might convert them into some sort of Castellax/Castellan thing, but I guess they're pretty rare. A quick search shows up lots of DP9 Heavy Gear minis, but they seem to be a smaller scale?


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Dark Severance wrote:

Thanks! I've just ordered some more - they're going to be my new Thallax...

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote: Hummm might be a interesting kit for a Iron Hand conversion kit.....

I think that was actually my plan when I first bought them. I was gonna do a whole Iron Hands 40k force for a while and was collecting tons of bionic bits, robot kits, anvil industries things. Now all those bits are slowly making their way into various Heresy armies...

Yes, the RAFM miniatures were 1:87 scale, but they were replaced about 20 years ago by 1:144 scale miniatures. Apart from some tweaks to some sizes, that's what they are now.

There are some of the bigger gears in the game now that approach the size of the old 1/87 ones (striders, I think they call them?) but yeah, the scale change thing happened a while back and it's pretty much why I stopped collecting them back then.

I know DP9 more for their Cyberpunk2020 work than anything else.

Of-topic but a retro review of Cyberpunk 2020 would be hysterically funny now. Even funnier in 4 years.

1st edition CP set in 2013 would be funnier.

Then again, Shadowrun didn't have wifi in its first ed, either.
Then again, both of them were late 80s games - and this was before the omnipresence of the www.

It’s always funny to look at near future sci-fi once it gets a little dated. It’s a great mix of “where is my flying car” and “My iPhone is way better then that.”

Fun Fact: My personal benchmark on when to get a cell phone is when it could do everything a pocket secretary from Shadowrun could do, because those were awesome.. I now have a cell phone.

I recently re-read the Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson - Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive - and they're much less dated than a lot of things that span off them. Probably because Gibson didn't know anything about computers when he wrote them (on a typewriter), and so didn't spend much time wittering on about the specs. Other than the infamous "three megs of hot RAM" line They're about the nature of sapience and consciousness, not about hardware, anyway.