{"id":6164,"date":"2017-01-22T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2017-01-22T22:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:33:02","slug":"space-centaurs-and-mk-iii-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"Space Centaurs and Mk. III Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mk. III Robots, Space Roomans, Space Centaurs, Phrinx, Space Ducks, and Dragon Spawn in front of the Phantom shuttle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0I was supposed to go play a war-game with some board gamers from where I used to work on Saturday evening, but Saturday morning I picked up some sort of cold \/ flu \/ upper respiratory bug that knocked me out. \u00a0All day Saturday and Sunday I would do something for an hour and then take a nap. \u00a0I don’t get ill very frequently, but when I do, it really saps my energy. \u00a0So, between naps, I worked on two more sets of figures from my buddy Mark Morin (see the link to his blog at the top of this page).<\/p>\n

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Space Centaurs on my painting table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mk. III robots on my painting table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This set included space centaurs and Mk. III robots, both from Star Rovers, I believe. \u00a0I started by priming them in dark gray and then dry brushing them white. \u00a0For the Mk. III robots, I decided to do something a little different. \u00a0I typically paint my robots in 1930’s metallic, but I decided to go with a more Star Wars look of painted robots.<\/p>\n

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Mk. III robots backing up some Space Roomans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I decided to paint the horse portion of the space centaurs in a variety of colors. \u00a0I set out to make them look like Indian paint ponies, but there wasn’t enough horse showing to provide enough opportunity for variation, and the all started to look too similar. \u00a0so some of the centaurs became black, brown, and white. \u00a0\u00a0I decided on an orange space suit for the human part of the space centaur.<\/p>\n

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Two squads of space centaurs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Combat Patrol(TM)<\/em>, I plan to allow the space centaurs two movement cards, rather than one, just like cavalry in the Napoleonic supplement.<\/p>\n

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Closeup of a space centaurs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I mentioned earlier, I went with a \u00a0basically white paint scheme with just a few details.<\/p>\n

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Mk. III robots are organized into two teams (led by corporals) and a squad leader (a sergeant).<\/p>\n

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I have quite a large collection of out-of-produciton figures molded by Ma’k. \u00a0I just have one set left to paint — some anthropomorphic space bugs.<\/p>\n

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The bottom half of a Really Useful Box full of figures cast by Ma'k: space Roomans, space centaurs, and Mk. III robots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The top half of a Really Useful Box full of figures cast by Ma'k: Dragon spawn, space ducks, and Phrinx<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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