{"id":825,"date":"2017-01-22T20:44:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/?p=825"},"modified":"2017-05-08T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:54:16","slug":"corps-officer-heavy-rangers-squad-commander-alien-head-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2017\/01\/22\/corps-officer-heavy-rangers-squad-commander-alien-head-take-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Corps Officer Heavy Rangers Squad Medic with Alien Head, Take Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up\u00a0two packs of the Corp Officers Heavy Rangers Squad for $4 from Asmodee&#8217;s 2016\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/08\/black-fridaycyber-monday-2016\/\">Black Friday Sale<\/a>. The\u00a0alien head is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfminis.co.uk\/\">Hasslefree miniatures<\/a>. I played it safe\u00a0with the first pack, only switching out the heads, but I want some variety in the alien race I&#8217;m creating with them&#8230;definitely more than just a simple &#8220;palette swap&#8221;. So, with that aim in mind, for my second take on this miniature\u00a0I decided to\u00a0change the pose and equipment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-827\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Front-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-960x540.jpg\" alt=\"Front of a painted Dust Tactics NCO commander with an alien head.\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Front-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Front-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-595x335.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Front-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Front-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0shoulder launchers\u00a0are from some rocket bits I picked up from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hoardobits.com\/\">Hoard &#8216;O Bits<\/a>\u00a0and the arm was an extra bit from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manticgames.com\/mantic-shop\/warpath\/enforcers\/product\/enforcer-peacekeepers-wpu.html\">Enforcer Peacekeeper<\/a> set I purchased.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-829\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-960x540.jpg\" alt=\"Back of a painted Dust Tactics NCO commander with an alien head\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-595x335.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to include a comparison\u00a0photo of both miniatures that\u00a0I worked on from this line. I think that changing the footing made a bigger\u00a0difference than I realized at first. I have to admit that I like this stance better than the default one!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-832\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Comparison-of-Dust-Tactics-NCO-Commanders-Take-One-and-Two-1-960x540.jpg\" alt=\"Comparison of two different painted Dust Tactics NCO Commander miniatures\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Comparison-of-Dust-Tactics-NCO-Commanders-Take-One-and-Two-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Comparison-of-Dust-Tactics-NCO-Commanders-Take-One-and-Two-1-595x335.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Comparison-of-Dust-Tactics-NCO-Commanders-Take-One-and-Two-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Comparison-of-Dust-Tactics-NCO-Commanders-Take-One-and-Two-1-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up\u00a0two packs of the Corp Officers Heavy Rangers Squad for $4 from Asmodee&#8217;s 2016\u00a0Black Friday Sale. The\u00a0alien head is from Hasslefree miniatures. I played it safe\u00a0with the first pack, only switching out the heads, but I want some variety in the alien race I&#8217;m creating with them&#8230;definitely more than just a simple &#8220;palette&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2017\/01\/22\/corps-officer-heavy-rangers-squad-commander-alien-head-take-two\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"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":false,"_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-825","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\/2017\/01\/Front-of-a-painted-Dust-Tactics-NCO-commander-with-an-alien-head.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aZ1W-dj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}