So, I picked these up at GenCon in '06. Went back a couple times and didn't see any more there. I believe these were random singles. I wasn't willing to commit to a whole bunch until I knew how big they were. Now, I wish I had picked up more.
These have already be primed and washed. I intend to clean them up and add details. (Yeah, they've been sitting around a while.) They normally come in precolored plastic, but the detail is good enough that I have to paint them.
These are actually toys made by a Russian toy company, and so they didn't come with bases. The ones on these I got from a 40k rip line made by the same people who do the Steel Warriors minis.
As a toy, they were meant to have some interchangeable parts. Specifically the arms and backpacks. However, as a toy made of plastic, the pins have a tendency to break. So, I'll have to pin the arms on a couple as well as the backpack for the gray one. In fact, while taking a picture showing the interchangeable parts, the shoulder pin on the green one broke off in side the gun arm for the red one. So, now I'll have to cut and pin.
Good thing I planned on keeping them in their original configuration. With glue a necessity, interchangeability is impossible.
The funky Gundam looking one I modded to give the legs more Mecha style legginess. It was originally as short as the others. Pulled the pieces from the arms of a Dark Age Blade 2. I was also hoping to make it taller than most of my Ral Partha stuff, but instead put it in line with most of the assault class Mechs.
Their size was kinda disappointing to me. I'll show how in a bit. I was truly hoping for something that would be of Mobile Suit Proportions to my Ral Partha and IWM BattleMechs - ie. roughly 15-18 meters tall, thus most BattleMechs only coming up to the waist on these.
However, they work well even for Mecha with torso mounted cockpits, and make them unique compared to Mobile Suits or BattleMechs. I don't know the rules to the game that came with them. I know there was one, because they each came with stat cards as shown in my off topic post
asking about translation.
However, in spite of that, I know I can come up with stats or a rules-set of my own to play them with. They're just too neat to let sit around.
