{"id":3170,"date":"2014-09-11T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T09:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2014-09-11T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T09:56:20","slug":"reaper-bones-sci-fi-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Reaper Bones Sci Fi Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Reasonable<\/a>
Reasonable Sci Fi figures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I mentioned in an earlier post that last weekend I had started a couple f painting projects. \u00a0One was to paint up the Reaper Bones science fiction figures that were part of the Bones I Kickstarter. \u00a0For me, these are meant to be opponents for the Aliens-like space marines.<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a>
Getting silly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I suppose these figures are meant to be painted in Stormtrooper white and black. \u00a0There is no situation I can imagine, other than embassy gate guard duty, in which white uniforms make any sense in a tactical environment. \u00a0Regardless of how far future you get, we will always strive to camouflage ourselves. \u00a0I opted for a brown theme to distinguish them from the green uniforms of my colonial marines.<\/p>\n

Many of the figures (see top picture) are armed with something that looks like a reasonable assault rifle. \u00a0Some have silly looking GW-like oversized weapons (see middle picture). \u00a0Others are just ridiculous. \u00a0I am not a GW basher; although, I’ve played almost none of their games that I enjoy, but one thing that really rubs me wrong are those crazy oversized weapons. \u00a0They are stupid from a physical\/tactical sense, and they are aesthetically painful. \u00a0The good news, however, is that much of the rest of the industry has seen fit to follow suit in order to attract the hard-core Warhammer players.<\/p>\n

\"Completely<\/a>
Completely ridiculous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I can suspend disbelieve with the best of them at times, and I really enjoy old black and white movies. \u00a0There is a scene in a really good, old, WWII propaganda movie, called Air Force, in which John Garfield is firing a .30 cal machine-gun from his hip. \u00a0Silly. \u00a0That scene looks like real battlefield footage compared to the figures in the photo above. \u00a0 Even if you presume some sort of exoskeleton type of assist to carry and hold the Gatling Gun looking monstrosity, you’d look like a ballerina doing a pirouette as soon as you pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the figures are done, and I am ready to put them into a game.<\/p>\n