COMPLETION !

My Forgotten Heroes for 2020 draws to an end as I have now completed Purity Brown, Terri, and Grobbendork, I may yet finish Torquemada in armour, but as this is on top of what I aimed to achieve I'll save that for a separate post if I get it done.

Here's a shot of all the models finished for this year that I hoped to do, not very happy with Purity and Terri so no individual shots.

This is a shot of the original seven

This was the second rendition during Nemesis the Warlock Gothic War.

This was the start of Nemesis the Warlock into the Time Wastes.

This was the team for the Black Hole Bypass story.

This was the team for Khronicles of Khaos, Hellbringer, and the start of The Third Element.

For the continuation of the Third Element this was the team, also for The Shadow Warriors.

This is the current team that developed through the Volgan War Saga, and has run through, Return to Earth, Return to Mars and Return to Ro Busters.
That's all for this post so until next time stay safe and have fun !

GHOSTLY APPARITION

On one of my recent posts Frank asked about opposition for my warriors, I've been pondering this for a long time, as I could do some of the opposition from their Mars adventures, or Imperial Rottweilers from the Khronicles of Khaos, or the might of Termight from Nemesis the Warlock, I've decided to start with Termight. First and foremost would be Torquemada, so I've started work on him in full armour, but have finished his ghostly spirit form first. There were several different versions of his spirit, but this was my favourite version

Thinking in gaming terms, that if the human form is killed, then the spirit form manifests at the same spot, physically unable to effect the opposition but can animate any dead terminators to continue fighting, when in spirit form, is only able to be hurt by psychic attacks.
That's all for this post, as I finish the humans and slug on the table, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

STEELHORN

This is the last robot I need to complete all the renditions of the Warriors, leaving two humans and a slug to finish.
SteelHorn first appeared in the very first incarnation of the warriors, but spent most of the series as a molten mess of metal, until it fused with the very large robot George during the battle at BIOL. He later returned to the warriors in the " Third Element" where Medusa the planet spirit of Mars had returned him to his robot form, and has continued to be a member of the group since.

If I'd had spare silicone I'd have taken a mould of at least the chest and head so I could cast it in translucent blue, to add to the effect of the crystalline structure, but had to suffice with painting the effect. Pleased with the overall effect of the model, and happy to have finished the robot element, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

JOE PINEAPPLES

In the cross hairs of this post is Joe Pineapples, he has been a part of the warriors through all versions, and the best sniper, his look and the way he talks may have changed over the years but his marksmanship has never changed.
He has had some strange looks, but Clint Langley has returned him to the basic bare bones style, as robots go some consider him to be very cool, so much so he has human female girlfriends.

The model is another complete scratch build, and had a few challenges on the painting as his symbols looked more like painted on than 3D, but always happy to accept a challenge.
That's all for this post so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

DEADLOCK

The next warrior to be conjured up is Deadlock, a long serving character in this franchise, having only missed 1 incarnation, Nemesis book 4 the Gothic War, in which Nemesis took the place of Deadlock ( probably didn't want two with the powers of the mystic arts running around), he also had a one off story on his own, which can be found in the graphic novel "The solo missions"

He has long been one of my favourite characters and again I've based the model and painting from Clint Langley's work, although I have added a nod to the Khronicles of Khaos book with him casting a demonic apparition, he is very different in pose and style to any model that has been released of him previously, which is why I was able to make him as part of Forgotten Heroes.
That's all for this post, while I work on two more robots, and two humans, plus a slug to finish the set, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

HAMMERSTEIN !

Next off the factory line is Hammerstein, he is one of only 3 robots to have appeared in every version of the Meknificent seven and was first introduced in Ro Busters in the comic Star Lord with a different head and hammer. In the storyline he was the first war robot built and put into service, and he believes he  is the leader of the A.B.C. Warriors, although in a lot of the storylines you would think it was Deadlock or Steelhorn, but that's an argument for them.

The model is a complete scratch build using Greenstuff and plastic rod, now before anyone says "Dave he's supposed to be brown, you would be correct, apart from Clint Langley's version where he coloured him in a blue grey, and as I've sculpted his version I stuck with his colour scheme. Although it's hard to see in the pictures I did include the extra arm sockets, so at a later date I can make these and put them on the model if I want to.
If I hope to finish all of them by the end of the month I need to be doing roughly 2 a week so need to get a move on.
That's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

ZIPPO !

First off the factory line for this years Forgotten Heroes is probably no surprise Zippo, as the frame for this one was almost finished when I did my introduction post

The character was introduced during the series "The Volgan Wars" originally was part of a covert group and known as agent orange. After the A.B.C. Warriors had kicked Mek Quake out of the warriors and dumped him off at an asylum for robots, they had gone to rescue Zippo and recruit him, and on the journey each character recanted how they had first met Zippo during the Volgan War. he has since been in the intro and end of Return to Earth, Return to Mars and Return to Ro-Busters, probably more but that's as far as they have printed in Graphic novel form.
The whole model is either greenstuff, or plastic rod, and painted in a colour scheme to fit with the comic strip.

If I was making this as a production model I would have to do it with two head variants, to show the difference between mouth open and closed, and he'd also need multiple arm variants as he's been shown with multiple configurations.
That's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

FORGOTTEN HEROES 2020

Tomorrow see's the the start of Forgotten Heroes run by Jez over at carrioncrowsbuffet the event this year is to convert and a paint a model based on a character from either film, TV series or comic book that hasn't had a model made for it or you don't like the model currently available for it.
In 2018 I took part in this event, creating many models for the A.B.C. Warriors from 2000 ad. Here's a picture of all completed models so far.

This year I'm hoping to get some more of the Warriors finished, I have 7 to do, all the frames were made over the last couple of years and very occasionally worked on, this year I'd like to get them all finished, but will have to see how far I get. Now some of you may be thinking but they've released models of some of these Dave, and indeed they have, but I'm doing as many as I can based off the art of Clint Langley, as I like his version the best.
Here's where Thy're all at

As you can see Zippo and Hammerstein are almost built and should easily be able to finish these.

Joe, Steelhorn, and Deadlock have all been started to a decent level.

Lastly there's Terri and Purity which have a lot of work to do !

So be prepared there will be a lot of posts this month about these guy's, and hopefully a few for other projects, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave

" FORGOTTEN HEROES 2018 ROUNDUP "

As Forgotten Heroes draws to a close for 2018, here is my last submission to the event.
Morrigunn
Almost forgot to show the painting of this lady robot, included a freehand fanged horse head on her thigh that the Night Maras gifted her while she trained with them.

Blackblood
We all have a colour that we dislike painting, and mine is green, which is the predominant colour of Blackblood, pleased with the overall look I managed to achieve.

Mek Quake
In Clint's artwork he has Mek Quake as dirty and rusty, so once I'd got the silver shaded and highlighted, I stippled on Reikland fleshshade, and Agrax Earthshade to get the desired effect.

Nemesis
Although this model was started before the event I thought I'd show him as he's now finished.

Group Shot
Here's all the models together that I've finished so far

What The Future Holds
For anyone who knows the A.B.C. Warriors you will notice there are seven models left to build, here is a group shot of all the frames made to finish the project, some are a little further along than others.

This has been a fun event to take part in, and have seen some fantastic entries, of some characters I've never heard of, and some I knew. Look forward to next years event and see what everyone comes up with.
Until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave