 Parzival  | 02 Mar 2012 7:03 a.m. PST |
link Yes, it's completely absurd. But let's be honest, fellow SF geeks. If somebody made a miniature of one, you'd buy it. |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 Mar 2012 7:46 a.m. PST |
15mm, please. And a no-joke-gorilla in power armor while we're at it! |
| taskforce58 | 02 Mar 2012 7:54 a.m. PST |
I want miniatures for most of the Tagon's Toughs, including Ennesby and The Tailor, and the holographic avatars of Tagii and Petey. |
| MajorB | 02 Mar 2012 8:01 a.m. PST |
If somebody made a miniature of one, you'd buy it. Actually, no, I wouldn't. |
| LostPict | 02 Mar 2012 8:04 a.m. PST |
A Pulp SF elephant exists: link Lost Pict |
| Eclectic Wave | 02 Mar 2012 9:22 a.m. PST |
I would NOT want to be the poor soldier given the job to muck out the Steam Elephant armor… |
| The Nigerian Lead Minister | 02 Mar 2012 9:31 a.m. PST |
I would buy it. I have a weakness for goofy sci fi troopers. |
| Sumatran Rat Monkey | 02 Mar 2012 9:33 a.m. PST |
You have no idea how many times I've found myself staring at the plastic LOTR Mumak from GW*, working through ideas on how to turn it into an armoured sci-fi weapons platform. A trio of them will end up the centerpiece of a sci-fi army one of these days, mark my words. …ooh, I could use it for the SF army I want to build around Matakishi's President-For-Life Kiboko… speaking of which, I need to go place an order. Curse you, Parzival! - Monk * Or the Forgeworld Chaos Mammoth, or Black Tree's Barbarian War Mammoth, or the old Fantasy Lords War Mammoth, or, or, or… But, the Mumak is far and away to most common/likely victim. |
| Farstar | 02 Mar 2012 10:31 a.m. PST |
Historifigs does a small selection of bipedal pachys with light armor and a selection of weaponry. Labeled as being for 28mm, they scale nicely as 15mm. They are a bit blobby and rough, but that makes them better fodder for up-armoring. |
| Broadsword | 02 Mar 2012 12:51 p.m. PST |
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| (I make fun of others) | 02 Mar 2012 2:24 p.m. PST |
Hoo boy, about as funny as your standard web comic. |
| capncarp | 02 Mar 2012 3:35 p.m. PST |
"C'mon you apes! D'ya wanna live forever?" --a chapter heading in Starship Troopers (the book) |
| Farstar | 02 Mar 2012 3:35 p.m. PST |
Eh? Shlock Mercenary is not really intended to be a "daily joke" comic. Nor is it a serious serial. With a couple other long running webcomics such as Sluggy Freelance, it fits into the "theater of the absurd" niche. The most successful web comics to date have been pretty varied, falling into a broader range than the typical newspaper dailies. Serials with an occasional chuckle are probably the majority. Serious serials, from lightly serious (Wapsi Square, Dreamland Chronicles) to unfunny adventure (The Lydian Option, as one example) are very common, while the joke-a-day side has a lot of failures and short runs. The few exceptions are still rarely "up" to the standards of the newpaper funnies. The web doesn't seem to mind. |
| Parzival | 02 Mar 2012 4:02 p.m. PST |
@porfirio: What Farstar said. Schlock Mercenary is humorous in context of the story it tells. It's one of the best continuing adventure comics on the web (a three-time Hugo award nominee, in fact— losing out in all cases to Phil Foglio's magnificent Girl Genius). Go back to the beginning (not for the art! :-P) and follow the various stories. The Teraport War is terrific, as is the origin of the near omniscient AI (well, on a galactic scale) "Emperor" Petey (who looks like a koala bear). And as silly as some of it is, the science is often extremely well thought out, as are the political intrigues and even some of the ethical and philosophical questions the stories raise. Quite an achievement for a daily web comic. It may not always make me laugh, but it always makes me smile… and sometimes makes me think. |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 Mar 2012 9:38 p.m. PST |
Historifigs 'Blasted Planets' line Pachydon?
Yup, very rough, but nothing I would object to sculpting over. |
| bsrlee | 03 Mar 2012 8:12 a.m. PST |
Schlock has also 'caused' a 3 volume (so far) SciFi series by John Ringo, set at the first arrival of the Gate in the Sol system. |
| Lion in the Stars | 03 Mar 2012 8:24 a.m. PST |
Porfiro, try this for a single-point gag. link But Schlock Merc isn't a gag-a-day strip, it's telling a story. |
| Wellspring | 03 Mar 2012 8:55 a.m. PST |
Power armor suits are more effective if you issue them to your uplifted marmosets. |
| ordinarybass | 03 Mar 2012 9:40 a.m. PST |
Here's some of the Blasted Planets Pachydons painted by PatrickWR.
They're small 25mm figs that would probably look best on the table with 15mm or 20mm humans… |
| Zephyr1 | 03 Mar 2012 4:06 p.m. PST |
"You have no idea how many times I've found myself staring at the plastic LOTR Mumak from GW*, working through ideas on how to turn it into an armoured sci-fi weapons platform." Replace the legs with really long cyber-legs, and hang some plate armor all over it. It'll be -almost- like a Star Wars AT-AT….  ;-) |
| Sumatran Rat Monkey | 03 Mar 2012 11:10 p.m. PST |
It'll be -almost- like a Star Wars AT-AT Heh- yeah, except I loathe all things Star Wars/Trek, so not really an appealing prospect to me. :D - Monk |
| Lion in the Stars | 04 Mar 2012 3:39 a.m. PST |
@Ordinarybass: Thanks! Painted, those don't look anywhere near as rough as the unpainted photos lead me to believe. |
| blackscribe | 06 Mar 2012 11:10 a.m. PST |
Zoids Elephander (toward the bottom): link I have four, but now that I've seen some of the equipment packages that were available, I may need more. |
checks out some 10/15mm railroad tracks for wargaming.
