With these models - to be used as Heavy Droids in my Mechanoids army - I've completed a starter army of my own design for Alien Squad Leader.
![Heavy Tracked Automata Heavy Tracked Automata](showcase/scfshowcase/2009/625936a.jpg)
These models come in four pieces: torso, tracked bottom, and two arms.
![Heavy Tracked Automata Heavy Tracked Automata](showcase/scfshowcase/2009/625936b.jpg)
The torso and track unit attach by means of a large metal pin, but you'll need gap-filling glue if you want a gapless join. The torso can be posed to face any direction - and in fact, there's nothing to tell which way is "supposed" to be the front.
![Heavy Tracked Automata Heavy Tracked Automata](showcase/scfshowcase/2009/625936c.jpg)
The arms glue into a socket under the shoulders, and I think there are separate right and left arms, with slightly different pins and corresponding holes - but it was hard to tell, and I had more of one arm type than the other.
If seams on robots bother you, then you may want to file away some of the casting seams - I just tried to make them a little less obvious.
![Heavy Tracked Automata Heavy Tracked Automata](showcase/scfshowcase/2009/625936d.jpg)
My painting technique was simple, designed to match the previous models, and to hide some of the flaws in these sculpts: prime back, drybrush gunmetal, then drybrush silver. The tracks were painted charcoal grey, and the wheels were painted gunmetal. The "eyes" in the face were painted light blue, and I made a stab at picking out some of the arm "lights" with the same color. The top of the head unit was painted silver.
![Heavy Tracked Automata Heavy Tracked Automata](showcase/scfshowcase/2009/625936e.jpg)
Meanwhile, I prepared steel bases by priming them, painting them tan, and then gluing sand on them. The finished models were glued down to these bases.
![Heavy Tracked Automata Heavy Tracked Automata](showcase/scfshowcase/2009/625936f.jpg)
The finished model measures 35mm tall, and about 30mm long (from gun barrel tips to back of tracks). It's also a good chunk of metal, and feels like a Heavy Droid when you move it on the game table. I've also managed to drop two of them so far, and so far, the torso/track joint bends but doesn't break! (Can you spot the "battered" automata above?)