So for the first time I've decided to join in forgotten heroes I thought this would be the perfect time for me to realise an idea I've had for many years to make all the incarnations of the Meknificant Seven. For any one who doesn't know who they are, they appeared in the comic 2000 ad as the A.B.C. Warriors, the first incarnation was just after the second Volgan war and seven robots were recruited to bring peace to mars, they included Hammerstien, Joe Pinapples, Happy Shrapnel, Mongrel, Deadlock, Blackblood, and Steelhorn who had become the mess ( a pool of liquid metal that could move and change shape at will)
Happy died on Mars and the Mess became part of a much larger robot called George and remained on Mars.
The second incarnation appeared in Nemesis the warlock book four the Gothic War, and had two new recruits Mad Ronn, and Hitaki, Nemesis replaced Deadlock as he explained they were one and the same, and they had Ro-Jaws and Purity Brown join their entourage.
Their third outing saw Nemesis send them into the black hole bypass, Mad Ronn was dead and was replaced by Mek Quake, Nemesis didn't go with them and Deadlock rejoined them, Hitaki was lost and replaced by Terri, a human who thought of herself as a robot, by the end of this adventure she was dead as humans are far more squishy than robots.
WE next saw the warriors go to the planet Hekate in the Khronicles of Khaos, here they recruited Morrigun a female robot, the team remained the same through Hellbringer, then in Third Element Morigunn died and the warriors recruited the reformed Steelhorn, (the planet spirit Medusa did this and made him her champion).
The team would remain the same through the next mission, The Shadow Warriors.
Through the next adventure The Volgan War, the warriors would leave Mek Quake at an asylum and go and recruit Zippo, while doing this Blackblood would betray the warriors and leave.
Through the next three adventures "Return to Earth" " Return to Mars" and "Return to Ro-Busters" they would recruit Tubal Caine, who was the resurrection of Happy Shrapnel.
This brings up to date of the Graphic Novels, which is where I'm reading it from.
So far I've made 4 frames to work from, and are from left to right Mad Ronn, Hitaki, Happy Shrapnel, and Morrigun, as you can see these are all going to be scratch built to get just the right look I'm looking for
Wherever possible I'm going to base the models on the art of Clint Langley, the models themselves are a head taller than a standard human model, the robots have been drawn in varying heights depending on the artist, Clint draws them this height and also has the robots at different heights so will be sticking with his rendition. I may do more before the end of the month all depends on time, so we will see, so until next time have fun Cheers Dave
Roger.
Cheers Roger.
Seeing you do A.B.C. Warriors and all those cool characters is a real nostalgic blast, and rather inspires me and my meagre JD gaming endeavours. I can`t wait to see what you produce here actually Dave, what ever it is I`m sure it will be very exciting and memorably atmospheric.
Can see how me doing the warriors would inspire digging out your Judge Dredd, as there have been many crossovers in 2000 ad, and films as well. Hope my execution will inspire you
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I remember we talked about doing Max and Dredd and a bit of Resident Evil Dave.. all combined into a cool hybrid game. You making the figures and me playing the games and doing the AAR`s (its still a cool idea actually haha). Ahhh what cool ideas spring into the minds of gamers, half of which never go anywhere, but its still fun planning.. right, even if these things never reach fruition :-))
But yeah, its fair to say your ABC Warriors have struck a chord here, and inspired us to get gaming.
Still the plan to do a post apocalyptic game, but need to finish the Traventi world game first, you may have seen we've done a lot of models for it so far, and will continue to release the models for both until the games are ready and then release them as well, just means when they're released there's a lot of figures and scenery all ready available
Dave, you`ve really caught my imagination with your entry into FH this year. Can`t wait to see what your pieces turn out looking like. While were both simply not as active on the blogs anymore, I think this new project may well draw us back as we check regularly to see this cool project take shape.
Hope the project continues to inspire, all four frames have moved along since the first post, and will show where they've got to at the end of the week, got something else to show tomorrow
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Geek-Unflinchingly-fulfillment-Enterprise/dp/0596806310/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528021444&sr=1-3&keywords=wil+wheaton
Wonder if in the future Warlord Games will include them in their new 2000AD game?
We can but hope that Warlord do some rules for them at some point for one of their games