{"id":651,"date":"2016-12-24T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-12-24T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:05:57","slug":"corps-officer-heavy-rangers-squad-mechanic-alien-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/24\/corps-officer-heavy-rangers-squad-mechanic-alien-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Corps Officer Heavy Rangers Squad Mechanic with Alien Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took my next big plunge in modifying the Mechanic from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/en\/products\/dust-tactics\/products\/corps-officers-expansion\/\">Dust Tactics&#8217; Corp Officers Heavy Rangers Squad<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfminis.co.uk\/shop?product=alien-heads~hfl110&amp;category=accessories~converting\">Hasslefree Miniature&#8217;s Alien Heads <\/a>to make\u00a0my first <a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/tag\/oogappel\/\">Oogappel alien<\/a>. This\u00a0is one of the custom races\u00a0in my upcoming Science Fantasy campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I got two of the Corp Officers Heavy Rangers Squad pack for $4 from Asmodee\u00a0in a <a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/08\/black-fridaycyber-monday-2016\/\">Black Friday Sale<\/a>. I liked how the\u00a0Alien Head looked on the bulkier power armored miniature, makes it look like there&#8217;s an usual body in a pressure suit. The modification went great! I removed the default head, pinned the Alien Head in it&#8217;s place, and added in supporting flesh with Kneadatite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-654\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head-1-960x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head-1-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head-1-595x595.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t as satisfied with the paintjob. I\u00a0was feeling confident with drybrushing but drying it this time taught me that I still have a lot to learn. I had more success with washes but, in general, I think it didn&#8217;t get quite the feel I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first miniature that I added a decal too. I picked up several sets of Tau and Necron decals from ebay thinking that they make for great alien symbols.\u00a0It was quite a process. I didn&#8217;t have a set solution but once I managed to get the tiny thing on (I lost\u00a0two\u00a0of them) it\u00a0seemed to stick well enough. I secured it down with floor polish. Looking at it up close in the photo I see a couple of black spots that need touching up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-662\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head_Backside-8-960x960.jpg\" alt=\"Dust Tactics Corps Officer Mechanic miniature modified with Hasslefree Alien Head \" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head_Backside-8-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head_Backside-8-595x595.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head_Backside-8-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head_Backside-8-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>End of the day&#8230;\u00a0I think I need a lot more practice\u00a0with drybrushing but the result is workable. After working with them, I have to note that I like the Dust Tactics miniatures and they are the most inexpensive that I&#8217;ve gotten since the Reaper Bones Kickstarter (granted &#8211; that was all due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/08\/black-fridaycyber-monday-2016\/\">Black Friday <\/a>sale).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my next big plunge in modifying the Mechanic from Dust Tactics&#8217; Corp Officers Heavy Rangers Squad with Hasslefree Miniature&#8217;s Alien Heads to make\u00a0my first Oogappel alien. This\u00a0is one of the custom races\u00a0in my upcoming Science Fantasy campaign. I got two of the Corp Officers Heavy Rangers Squad pack for $4 from Asmodee\u00a0in a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/24\/corps-officer-heavy-rangers-squad-mechanic-alien-head\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,26,35,27,42],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minis","tag-alien","tag-conversion","tag-dust-tactics","tag-hasslefree","tag-oogappel","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Corps_Officier_Mechanic_with_Alien_Head-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aZ1W-av","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}