Power Up Your Earth Force Widowmaker Battlesuits From Rebel Minis
June 7, 2015 by brennon
Rebel Minis have got some big chunky battlesuits for your Sci-Fi wargaming. See what you make of the Earth Force Widowmaker Class Suits below that are made to fit in with 28mm scale armies...
While they might look like they're going to fall over sometimes I think these are some epic models for plonking into a larger Sci-Fi force when you need a bit of heavy armour. I love the shoulder mounted weapons and the combat blades on their forearms too.
They won't be everyone's cup of tea but they could make great alternatives for games like Warpath for example.
What army would you have them join?
"I think these are some epic models for plonking into a larger Sci-Fi force when you need a bit of heavy armour..."
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Old Starship Troopers Grizzly models (or possibly Cougar, not sure). Lots of people are going to be very happy.
Yup, spot on. They are SST Grizzlys from back in the day when Mongoose had the licence. The Cougar is the lighter of the two Exo-Suits with the rather ‘Spartan’ (Mjolnir Armour) styled helmet. Both really nice miniatures that could be used in a whole variety of Sci-Fi games I reckon.b
I reckon a few Space Marine players have just found the Centurions-that-don’t-suck they’ve been looking for.
they do look like the type of thing that the terminator suits were based on?
Rebel really need to start getting some decent paintjobs done… the pics always let the models down. I reckon I’ll still pick up a few of these, though…
One- SQUEE, THE GRIZZLIES! Two- I see the casting quality is still mongoose-level : P
these are great 🙂 love the chunky armour 🙂
Mongoose – That explains why they look so much like the Apocalypse Squad suits from the Dredd game.
Ack, I meant Holocaust Squad, where’s the edit button?
I saw these in the tiny picture on the news feed and I definitely thought of them. http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/600×600/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/h/o/holocaust2_1_1.jpg
…I knew I had seen them somewhere!
More cute than menacing. They remind me of the “Lost in Space” robot for some reason.
these are to close to the sculpt of the Holocaust Judge for my liking
That’s because the holocaust judge is re-used and slightly altered Grizzy suit from now dead StarshipTroopers game. Those are exactly the sculpts of the Grizzlies, because Rebel purchased the rights to many of the models (I imagne all the non-Sony copyrighted ones).