Thursday 10 June 2021

Crooked Dice Femdroids (Classic)

 Well tomorrow is my first gaming event since January 2020 its a 7TV day being hosted by Board in Brum at their new premises. Its a great little venue all on one level now with the shop at the front and a vast gaming area out back. So far 12 people have confirmed they are coming and we will be divided into groups of 6 who we will play amongst across the 3 games during the day. I am very much looking forward to playing some 7TV as haven't touched it since I did the Fantasy Playtesting last year with my daughters.

The day is themed around Dr Ulysses Argo and his mechanical Argonauts taking over the world. We all created our casts and let the organiser Mike know what we were bringing so he could match up equal numbers of villainous and heroic casts to face off against each other. With a large number of Heroic casts coming I was happy to change my cast up to a villainous one. So my Octopussy cast will get an outing another time. 

I don't have the Argonauts programme guide yet so created my Villainous cast using the core spyfi rules. Looking through my unpainted pile I found a bunch of Femdroids that I bought such a long time ago I forget when and wear from! I had cleaned them up and primed them alongside a bunch of other items a few years back at least as they were primed grey which I haven't used for ages as I can't get it at my local hobby store anymore and have been using white.

So since morning Sunday I have been furiously painting them all as a batch (I only need two for my cast though) and these are the results. I am quite pleased with how they turned out and actually how much of a pleasure they were to do. I still do love these Austin Power inspired sculpts. Though I must admit the new ones are gorgeous models which I may get and use for something else (Probably Dare Devil Troopers).








23 comments:

  1. Excellent work on the Fembots Simon, hope you have a great time on the weekend.

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    1. Thanks very much Dave! I shall try and do a report on here next week :)

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  2. These are not my favourite sculpts from the Crooked Dice portfolio but you have done a nice job of painting them - hope you have a good day of FtF gaming

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  3. Okay, these are excellent, Simon! Love the removed faces - classic.

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    1. Thanks Dean. Yes you get a pair of head in each set on of each type so tried to mix them up a bit with different hair colours and such.

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  4. Great paint-jobs on some very disturbing culps!
    Souds like your upcoming event will be very exciting, good luck !

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    1. LOL thanks very much Joe! I am looking forward to it and can't wait!

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  5. Great work Simon! Have fun with them at the game event. We are still not able to have those group gatherings here in Alberta yet, though we just moved to stage 2 today so theatres, casino's etc are now open with limitations. Soon!

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    1. Thanks Terry. We are still sort of limited on numbers and how we mix. So on the day we were split into groups of 6 people and then you could only amongst that group.

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  6. These look really good! Hopefully you had fun at the event.

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    1. Cheers Matt it was a fun day. Will do a report of it this week.

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  7. Great stuff Simon! These are some of my favorite CD sculpts and really like the blue colour choice 😀

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    1. Thanks Ivor. Its funny you mention that people seem to prefer these over the newer versions. Though I must admit I have other intentions for the new ones when I do get around to picking them up.

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  8. Haha, classic vibe indeed! Looking forward to the report!

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    1. Thanks Suber! look for it sometime this week.

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  9. Seeing Femdroids (it was in Austin Powers right?) for the first time all those years ago was something I could never unsee again ... and now your cool paintings has brought back all those memories O_O ^_^

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    1. LOL Glad to have rejogged your memory! thanks very much!

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