"Suggestions for 28mm-30mm Tech-Com Soldiers (c2030 AD)?" Topic

Based on this new development, what figures are suitable for uniformed Tech-Com resistance troops (circa 2030 AD)?

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Thanks.

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This is the look I'm talking about:

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Copplestone or Copplestone by em-4, soldiers with AR.

What Pete said.

Would these work also?

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And how do those two ranges compare in size to the Copplestone Castings and EM-4 figures?

Thanks.

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If only these were the right scale for my needs 28mm-30mm):

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Looks like he is wearing a modified bomber jacket. I guess that the mega boots are to assist in running amidst wreckage.

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Rezolution's basic CSO troopers might work, or even SST light infantry.

I also forgot about Devil Dog Designs:

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I can't pull this site up from work, but I hope that is the correct manufacturer link.

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What does Tech-com actually stand for, I cant remember anybody ever saying in the films.

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The officers on that page might work with a little bit of converting.

Good question, Praetor12! :)

This is all I could pull up:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech-Com

Kyle Reese: "I'm here to help you. I'm Reese, sergeant, TechCom DN38416 assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for termination."
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Look at THIS though:

"became known as G5ATC or Group 5 Advanced Technology Command (the first four groups were G1 Recon, G2 Infiltration, G3 Attack and G4 Support). This name was later shortened to simply Tech-Com . . ."
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So, I guess that "Advanced Technology Command" was "Tech-Com" then.

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PS. WOW! The main site of that last link has some really interesting stuff:
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hmmm CC, now you got me interested in doing some conversions, I may have to swing by my LGS and see if I can't find something apropriate to do some Techcom doods!

I totally forgot about that site, saw it while ago, thanks for the link.

I just sent for the warzone plastic's, i'm thinking the imperials with some work might make good military for this sort of setting. Need new heads through.

Oops. This is actually the main page:

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PS. Too bad the Terminator Yahoo Group was disbanded. I know that they had lots more info. :(

early skynet attempt at humanoid terminator link

LOL, Praetor12.

You don't need packs of dogs to detect that "Zombienator"!

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Brains……..core malfuction…..brains…etc

Jotun is based on 'Adam' from Season 4 of Buffy I think.

Here are more images of the Tech-Com troops:

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Heck, I'll even go for figures with uniform and armor like this, if done well in 28mm-30mm:

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Going Faster has some really neat Ogre/GEV stuff, too.

How about using the Eureka modern Australians carrying Steyr AUGs with some Eureka SWAT cap head-swaps? Could leave some with helmets and add goggles or IR sets.

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Add some green stuff for random armour plates like on the boots, the targeting system on the laser rifles and for the M83 shoulder carried mines.

Now I've typed this, I want to do this myself… Damn you CC! ; P

You'll also need these:

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Skulls, lots of skulls, littering your future LA terrain…

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MonkeyborgRedux,

Thanks for that link. Yes, skulls are a must.

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By the way . . .

Has anyone made a tunnel-like shelter for the humans?

I seem to remember that there were many improvised sleeping quarters and lots of trash and weapons around.

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The prequel might actually be based on some of the scenes shown here:
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Or the prequel might actually start here:
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Original Terminator movie trailer:
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Original Terminator theme song:
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Here we go. This is the uniform, up close:

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I'm envious of this guy:

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Perfect transport for the rebels:

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NICE!!!

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Leading Edge made a set called Future Soldiers Boxed Set:71102 For T2. They may be what you are describing. There is one figure that maybe John Connor. Unfotunately they are out of production and described as 25mm so maybe too small to go with current miniatures.

Thanks. The Leading Edge soldiers do seem to be a bit small.

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Interesting (and very Terminator-ish) armor/uniform concept here:

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Well I perused my local game store last night but couldn't find anything I was happy with. The only modern 25mm figs they had were Assault Group soviets and some vietnam era americans. I almost grab a pack of the Soviets but at 18$ a pop the price was more then I wanted to pay.

Ideally, I'd like to find a modern american soldier in garrison cap and body armor for a bae and go from there.

CC – you really need to see these!

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Thanks for that link!

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Considering the terrain that resistance soldiers would probably encounter . . .

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. . . Would they benefit from urban camo of this type?

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"Has anyone made a tunnel-like shelter for the humans?
I seem to remember that there were many improvised sleeping quarters and lots of trash and weapons around."

You know, when I asked this three days ago, I didn't even think to look at what "sewer" terrain pieces were available.

I just remembered these sewer pieces by Ainsty/Old Crow:

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Any other sewer/tunnel suggestions?

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I guess I'd need LOTS of ruined cars and buses then:

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Another interesting event for the 2030s . . .

Asteroid Apophis possible 2036 impact may or may not be apocalyptic (affecting the entire planet in the aftermath), but might be interesting nonetheless:

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This is interesting . . .

"FORCED LABOR and DEATH CAMPS

For all of their trouble, SKYNET found many uses for human beings; none of them pleasant. The initial stages of the War saw the rogue AI working feverishly to reduce the human population as much as it could, but SKYNET soon discovered that logistics were becoming a real problem. Production of combat units competed with production of construction and maintenance units. SKYNET soon discovered that it was hard to both fight a war on a global scale and try to rebuild the world in its own image at the same time. Labor units were a secondary priority until SKYNET could get the human population problem with its illogical, arrogant resistance to its domination under control and well on its way to orderly extinction. In a fit of brilliance, SKYNET ascertained that it could do both and still fulfill its labor quotas and projections by using captured humans as slave labor. it would work them until they dropped dead, dispose of the bodies, and capture new ones to replace those that attrition claimed. This much the AI had learned from its study of human history, slavery being a time honored practice dating back to before the first instance of recorded human history. For the most part, slavery had been a failure leading to all kinds of problems. However, SKYNET was immune to most of those problems and approached slavery not as a political subject, but rather as an expedient method to acquire cheap, disposable labor. Work or die became the labor ethic of the masses it collected and SKYNET kept it as simple as that, reinforcing its absolute authority at the slightest infringement of its rule.

While humans were in no way as efficient or capable as dedicated, precision made, manufactory produced labor units, they were free for the use and made up for what they lacked in strength with sheer numbers. The joy of hunting humans among the ruins doubled in pleasure for SKYNET when it began to introduce entirely new series of machines that not only hunted humans, but captured them as well. SKYNET learned many hard lessons about slave labor and its camps were evolutionary processes, constantly changing and adapting into armed and armored installations ruled by simple programming that allowed for no divergence of operational protocols. SKYNET soon discovered that it was fighting a war on two fronts, one on the outside of its slave labor camps, and one on the inside. SKYNET eventually learned that not every human that it captured went so unwillingly, that some humans allowed themselves to be captured so that they could get closer to SKYNET, to observe its operations and to, when circumstances allowed, communicate this information back to clandestine human units still operating in the ruins.

it was with great consternation that SKYNET realized that some of the early slave camp revolts had been instigated from within, by powerful, charismatic humans who would later form the core of the Resistance command structure. Shortly after the raid on Camp 30, which resulted in more than 200 humans being freed, seventy-three machines destroyed, twelve hundred tons of equipment scrapped and five thousand tons of processed materials ruined, SKYNET began a policy of laser branding all humans captured and put to work in the labor camps. This information was kept in a central data base and included all physical data as well as DNA samples, medical information such as known injuries and any information that could be acquired while the subject was assigned to detention in the labor camp. Targets which were terminated in SKYNET raids were always checked by the Machines to see if the human remains had a laser brand present on the corpse. If the brand was present, it would indicate an escaped labor unit and the termination would be logged in the database. Laser branding went far in making orderly disposal more efficient. DNA of terminated humans was also checked against a database, especially for humans which formed the core of the Resistance.

Life in the slave labor camps was hard, only the strong survived for long."
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I wonder where this fella got this information.

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I wish someone would redo something like those Tech-Com figures and do them in 28mm. With today's technology and sculptors, I'm sure they'd be much better than what Leading Edge put out years ago. They'd be awesome.

That would indeed be "awesome":

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If someone picked up the license to do them in 28mm-30mm, and they were nicely sculpted and cast, I would be the first to jump in!

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Are there any tech-com candidates that are not small (like 25mm) or bigger than 30mm?

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I also think that Hyun's site is fantastic. I can't recommend it enough.

One day, I would love to see something like this done in 28mm-30mm:

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Until then . . . I guess I'll have to do with EM-4 troopers and others (like Pete suggests above).

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Actually, if all the humans are going to be battling are robots, I could easily just go with the First Corps Colonial Troopers I already have:

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They are a tad shorter than the EM-4 troopers. However, the EM-4 robots are nice and tall. I would rather have the robots taller than the humans.

That is one reason I could never use the Mongoose SST troops. Those are way too big and would make the robots look like mini bots.

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If there were more of the EM-4 Paramilitary/Corporate troops, those would be the way to go. With some minor modifications, they could work. link
The troop leader halfway down this other page might also work. link

I agree with the ease with which those "Paramilitary/Corporate" troops could be converted. Unfortunately, EM-4 made too few and has no plans to expand that range.

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Look here:

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