Defiance Games Give the UAMC Hardsuits for those Bigger Bugs
August 3, 2012 by brennon
Defiance Games' Alien War has launched its first set of rules out into the world, and with it some pretty good plastic kits. But when your faced with a massive bug horde, or have a rebellion to put down you'd rather be in a hardsuit right?
That's a pretty awesome looking piece of kit. Apparently the model should turn out pretty much as you see here! They also have a German kit on the way, so be looking out for that render later today (I'll update this post when the time comes).
What do you make of the Hardsuit?
Now that looks pretty good…SST all the way
Looks like something from Halo Jones during the Moab battles – nice 🙂
Don’t hold me to this, but I think it’s the actual plastics they’ll be showing off later today for the Germans.
Yep. Pics of the test shot plastic Germans are on their site. There’s also more pics of the hard suit.
http://www.defiancegames.com/index.php/news/item/german-plastic-and-uamc-hardsuits
Looks a lot like what I always imagined the powered armor from Heinlein’s Starship Troopers should be like.
Prefer their standard trooper models. This is OK.
Looks like a big cracked egg, but I’m guessing a lot of folks will want to paint it up with buggy eyes and shark’s teeth, etc.
I see an egg
Smooth lines could fit in as a Tau proxy …
Really like the hitech look. But are those breadknives under one arm really necessary?
I knew I’d seen it somewhere before:
http://flyingdebris.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d2xhg31
This is pretty cool, I’ve been waiting on Wargames Factory to get around to making power armour for a couple of years now, and Tony and Howard have managed it in about half the time.
I think Alex Iglesias aka ‘flyingdebris’ has made all the current box art and most of the concepts for Defiance Games. It might be that Tony and Howard just liked the original suit art and decided it should be how UAMC power armour should look like. As I understand it, the suit was made by Mr Iglesias before Defiance Games started any miniature production. Noticed that the render is missing the shoulder missilepack and the minigun arm. Also the render looks much more top heavy than the original concept, but it might just be the angle. Anyway, hopefully these will… Read more »
I originally “discovered” Alex through this design – he’s since designed the German Panzergrenadiers we just showed off and some of the heavy weapons. He’s on a new project for us right now that will give the Germans something to balance out these Marine hardsuits… Most of our illustration is done by the incredibly talented Diego Gisbert Llorens and you’ll be seeing a LOT of new stuff from him in the near future. The hardsuit weapon arms will be shown off next week – options include HMG, grenade launcher, missile launcher, flamethrower, and hardbeam cannon (the laser-like weapon in the… Read more »