Delving back into Deadzone

21st December 2022

Due to a combination of work (including being on call evenings and weekend for a week) and still waiting on a delivery of hobby materials, my terrain progress has pretty much stopped.

I have done a little more with the paint pens, but an insignificant amount tbh.

Realising that this was impacting my ‘hobby mojo’ somewhat I decided to change tack, and crack on with building up the strike teams that I want to use to run intros.

I had a few (3 GCPS and 3 Verr Myn) already built for running the small board mini intro (plus the leader models), but was unsure of how to build the rest. Seeking advice, I popped up a post on the Deadzone fanatics FB page. I had a couple of replies, and took on board some of the suggestions where viable with the starter box contents.

Over the last couple of days I have been able to build up the GCPS contingent.

I wanted to make sure I used the flamethrowers and grenade launchers on the new plastic sprues, but doing so meant I didn’t have many minis to be just the ordinary rank and file. In steps my old stock ? I have the old Corporation army box that contains 40 ‘restic’ corporation troops.

These compare pretty well in size and design, so the old restic ones could become my basic troopers to make up the numbers.

For the special weapon troops on the plastic sprue there is only one left arm that is used for both the FT and the GL. With plenty of spare arms I found one that was close and just bent it a little to fit. Then repeated for the second sprue.

I then put together some Rangers (as I really like the helm and overall look… should have made more but not really viable for an actual list), followed by coming back to the restic models.

There were three designs of torso, and three sets of laser rifle arms. I started out by just putting three troopers with laser rifle together. Then I knew I would want more, so planned out another three.

Initially I was just going to build them as is, but make sure they had different arms to the previous matching torso – but then I realised I had plenty of plastic parts spare, so did some test fits. Due to the mounting point on the restic bodies I had to bore out a socket on the plastic arms. Craft knife time…

A few minor conversions later (the heads fit pretty well already) and the restic bodies had a bit of variety between them. The guns are a little thinner on the restic versions, but I think that once painted they will blend in well.

I also converted one of the rangers to have a different looking gun (possibly use as thermal rifle) by chopping up one of the pistols and sticking it under the barrel.