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COBALT Commander

Si — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:32:30 +0000

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COBALT Troopers

Si — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:26:42 +0000

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Progress so far

Si — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:20:58 +0000

I realised the massive photos I posted last night didn’t really do my mediocre painting any favours, so here’s a better sized photo of the evil gang so far:

On the painting table I have five more COBALT Troopers primed and base coated, then the three Iridium Corps and their two wardroid supports all started basecoats. I need to get some fluff posts up about these guys so it all starts making more sense in my head and on paper.

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Data Cards Overview

Si — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:20:00 +0000

I really like the idea of putting together little data files for my COBALT guys. I want this project to be more than just a bunch of random miniatures. Hopefully it'll all hang together as a cohesive army project. So following on from the GI Joe esque inspiration, I thought I'd present the bio's of the units in the style of cardback data sheets. Cut them out and build your collection!

Oh and I was going more for tongue in cheek melodrama rather than the hugely indepth biographies that Larry Hama put together for GI Joe

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The Evil Enemy

Si — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 22:14:40 +0000

A new project! This time I’ve been inspired by the cartoons of my childhood in the early 1980’s. I’d been thinking about doing a sci-fi force away from the 40k stuff, something to give me free rein over the design choices. Then I saw Kolonel Zanzibar over at East Riding Miniatures and knew it was going to be a GIJoe/Action Force Cobra inspired army.

I rummaged around for a name for a while and came up with COBALT. The acronym will be completed in due course (whether it can top MASK’s villain V.E.N.O.M. – viciously evil network of mayhem, I don’t know, but I’ll try!). Cobalt worked in my head because of the colour blue, had a nice round sound to it, and more importantly would let me use all kind of elemental puns and references throughout the army. Huzzah!

So with my commander figure already set I wanted some other commanders. I had a Moonfleet scientist I wanted to use as some kind of crazy doctor/chemist type. Then I found a Nazi German female who just begged to be Baronesque. I’ve just received a few models from Artizan, I’m hoping I’ll get a Destroesque guy out of there too.

The troops are based around CP Models fed troopers. The blue COBALT Troopers are all Mk2 (which I find a little odd, since they seem a lot more rudimentary than the larger mk1’s) with Pig Iron heads. Then the red Cadmium Guard are mk1 troops with the new modern Pig Iron heads. Finally the big green guy (Iridium Corps.. getting the idea yet?) is from Dust Tactics with yet another Pig Iron head.

I’m going to do proper break downs of each unit type with full details at a later date, but for now here’s where things stand:

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