Stargrave - The Talons of Solubris
Going Commando
I realised that when I was assembling ideas on kitbashes for my crew I had oversubscribed on the alien heads. The Les Grognard Adrian helmet and facemask seemed a nice solution to my alien heads blunder.
Commandos have heavy armour and grenades, so I stuck with my Gates of Antares C3 sprue for the armour. There are two grenade arms on my Les Grognards sprue so I used one for this build and one for my Pathfinder (Pathfinders are also prescribed to have grenades, but not heavy armour.)
The C3 rifle looked great, was easily cut from a hand, but obviously looked different to my other carbines. I accepted this change because cutting at the NorthStar carbines to fit felt like a lot of work and unlikely to end in a nice result. With the right hand busy throwing a grenade I had to work out how to have the carbine on show. One of my few remaining Grognard left arms was a rifle support arm. I snipped off the C3 hand and used the stock and grip of a WW2 Japanese LMG to drag the look slightly more in keeping with the other carbines. The gun rested neatly in the Grognard support arm across the model’s chest. I also visited the Japanese Warlord Games sprue for a light mortar round pouch to suggest some grenade storage.
Lloyd shot
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