Drake Gear-Strider at Gencon 2012… Will you be one of the Lucky 20?
August 13, 2012 by beerogre
Heavy Gear will have 20 limited edition pre-release kits available exclusively at Gen Con 2012 of the devastating Drake... the new Gear-Strider coming soon in the Southern Field Guide!
Will you be one of those lucky enough to get one?
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Everything looks fine but the Head needs a little more. Heads are always one of the main points to inhale character into a model and here it feels rushed.
The head is fine. It nicely emphasizes the size of the Gear. I personally love the Heavy Vibro Sword on a pneumatic ram (shades of Robocop 2!) and the Bazooka is crazy.
Looks great. Agree with the head though. I’m a big fan of the “one big eye” heads the SRA have normally.
That little nub of a head isn’t quite enough, in my opinion. With the human silhouette there, it’s barely larger than a motorcycle helmet (not that I expect a person’s head to be in it).
I don’t think the ‘head’ is meant to be a ‘head’ for this Gear. It is a cross between a Spitting Cobra (legs and tread-feet), Black Mamba (stream-lined shoulders), and Black Adder/Black Mamba (torso). The Black Adder doesn’t use a ‘head-in-head’ design for itself, it just has a sensor pod. Same thing goes for the Iguana… the pilot’s head isn’t inside the head, it’s crammed back behind it. The same thing goes for this Drake, it seems… the cockpit is pushed back behind the sensor pod. You can all go to the Dream Pod 9 forums and check out the… Read more »
Yeah. I got one…
nice 🙂