Monday 12 May 2014

Dropzonetoe's New GOTA Combat Walker

By Eli
Original post by Dropzonetoe


Fellow TMPer and miniatures gamer Dropzonetoe posted this amazing conversion of a Gundam action figure into a rather amazing piece of kit for his 15mm GOTA forces. The GOTA are a cool hard scifi force from Khurasan Miniatures which he has already supplemented with robots and drones from Ground Zero Games. Dropzonetoe doesn't keep a blog, so I am not able to link you there, but I can offer this link to the TMP story - HERE.

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Dark and moody photo taken initially. Looks like the units is moving out for night ops.


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So, I know converting action figures into gaming stuff isn't new, but Dropzonetoe really accomplished something pretty amazing with this one. If you look at the bright, big-headed, 1980s anime war machine he started with and then what it became, you can really see how effective a few little bits of conversion are.

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Dropzonetoe has this to say about the project...
I did break the antenna off the top within a few miniatures of handling it. It is a rubbery material but it took to a spray of Krylon spray-paint just fine After painting the torso I painted the arms separately. They are simple plugs and pull off easily. The gun armed hand is the same way.
                         
I just added a dab of E6000 to all the joints and left it to dry a bit.
 Seeing as it had a single cycloptic eye, I wanted to tie it in with my GZG drones and Robots. So, I painted it the same red eye and added rolls of camo netting to the top of it.
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4 comments:

  1. Very neat conversion, I'm always looking for potentially useful toys and things that could make good 15mm vehicles or mechs.

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  2. Very cool force. The netting and colour scheme really make it come alive.

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  3. I have been mixing up ranges for years and what DZT has demonstrated here is just how much a decent, unifying paint scheme can really help to disguise things (even if minimal conversion has been done). Excellent work and... who'd have thought it would be so effective when looking at the original walker?

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  4. Ooh that is a cool mech! He's brave to try conversion on a "rubbery" plastic material - that can go very poorly in my experience.

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