Wednesday, May 14, 2014

CoC - Mines

Another Convergence servitor solo that I've picked up after the Attunement servitor is the Reflex servitor.



Like all the other servitors so far they come in a blister of three so expect to see this x3 when you open up your blister.  As you can see there is not much assembly that is required seeing as the figure itself is all one part so you basically just need to attach the flight stand and you are done.  The model itself is fairly simple but then again what would you expect from a model that is a mine?  I've seen some pictures of some pretty neat conversions for this model where it is cut in half and just placed on the base to represent how it can dig-in.  If not for my tile basing I'd be quite tempted to copy the dug-in look since I found it to be quite a good idea.  Not only did the model look good but you can also theoretically make six models out of three so I thought I'd pass on the idea in case others would like to try it.

In game terms, I think that the model is quite good with its dig-in defensive ability and is thus pretty much safe from shooting or blast attacks.  Along with its counter-charge ability and proper placement it is also quite good at getting in the first punch and disrupting enemy charges.

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to painting these models yet either and seeing as they lack any assembly they most likely will be one of the last things that I get around to painting.  So don't expect to see any pictures of them painted any time soon :P.  Though, I will give you an idea of how they will look like with the colour scheme that I've thought up for them.  The main body will be black, the front grill will be red with the three vertical lines being purple.  As for the little pressure nobs covering the body, those will more than likely be bronze.

Friday, May 9, 2014

CoC - Bots

I picked up a box of Reductors not too long ago and I thought Id share the un-boxing of them with you.  So lets see what we've got...


First off we get two bags.  One that has all the bases in them and another one that contains all the parts for the models.  So lets rip those bags open to see what goodies we get.


Inside the bag there are a bunch of torsos/legs and heads and oh look another bag!  Unfortunately, I appear to have gotten one of my grunt heads lost sometime during the packaging process because I only got 8 heads.  However, I did get 3 leader heads since it looks like they package the heads in fours (1 leader + 3 grunts) and don't bother to remove the extra leader heads.  Unfortunately, the leader heads differ quite a bit for me to simply use one of the extra heads as a replacement for the lost grunts head.  Though I'm not too worried seeing as I'll be buying another box and am planning to magnetize the models.  So lets see what that last bag holds...


As expected, these models are also made up of a bunch of parts, which, seems to be typical for the Convergence of Cyriss.  Though, what did surprise me is that some of the arms are actually two pieces!  This can be seen on the model that is on the right.  It's blade arm only goes up to its forearm and then the shoulder part is a separate piece.  I'm not really sure why they needed to break those arms into two pieces when they were able to make some of the other arms as a single piece.  So be prepared for quite a bit of assembly and clean up work on the models, since I'm sure you can see from the pictures that the models have quite a lot of flash/mold lines that will need to be removed.

I will of course post some pictures once Ive got them cleaned and painted though I don't think that I'll get around to that anytime soon.  Until then you'll just have to imagine what the final model will look like once its painted.  I will be following the colour scheme that I used for the Angels, that is, mainly black with small portions  painted red (the face plates and shoulder pads).

Until next time...