Conversion: Reverend Cassandra Kusanagi with Spitfire

A few month ago I managed to snatch up an additional Reverend Healer from the Operation Icestorm Box. Originally I had planned to convert her into a Spec Ops for my Bakunin force someday. But since I had a Nomad Spitfire lying around I decided to convert a Reverend Kusanagi with Spitfire as I'm not sure if I like her current model and she is carrying a Multi Rifle anyway.

Originally had her gun pointed forward, but that looked to "gangsta-style"

According to the GenCon Seminar, Bakunin will get new minis even this year. I'm not sure how to feel about that, since I like some of the current ones very much. If they turn out like the new Djanbazan or Nisses I'll have to get some more before they are gone. If they turn out like the new Naffatun however, I'll be happy. Also, expect heavily converted Djanbazan soon on this blog.


Fielding furries, fanatics and free folk
Fenris

Sudden poetry

I want to Cologne to buy new jeans. Found this near the Heumarkt.

It's a quote from the only poem I liked in school: The Panther Apparently someone has the same taste in poetry as me. Köln doesn't look very impressionistic though. Frankfurt, much more so.

Der Panther may also have ruined zoos for me...
Rizzy

Mecha spiders and nostalgic color schemes

Did I ever mention I am a big Ghost in the Shell fan? Probably entirely too often. Yeah, so Corvus Belli recently released a resculpt for the Maghariba Guard, a TAG (big armour suit) for Infinity. While all other TAGs are approximately humanoid, the Maghariba is a giant scorpion in line with the Kenbishi HAW 206 from Ghost in the Shell. I had mine preordered about 10 minutes after preorders went live and it arrived together with the new Human Sphere rulebook. And I would not be myself if I did not do some conversion work. You see there is also a Maghariba Pilot available as a mini....

The picture quality is a bit shoddy, but I didn't have time to take one with a proper camera and I also need a bit of clean up before she is finished, bit I think it comes along quite nicely. I wonder what the Nomad TAG I should have boxed away somewhere would look like with its pilot perched on it.

Something else that is inspired by Ghost in the Shell is the videogame Oni. One of my most nostalgic games. It features the heroine Konoko (an expy of Major Motoko Kusanagi) as an agent of the Technological Crimes Task Force (TCTF) who gets embroiled in a vast conspiracy. It also gave me great ideas for my Imperial Service/Yu Jing force. Meet my first testmini, Commander Terrance Griffin/ Sun Tze:

Still wondering what minis I could use to kitbash Konoko. Asuka Kisaragi would be fitting, but she is not available to the Imperial Service. Maybe a Spec Ops. Or a Kanren Infiltrator could fit.

I'll probably have to do some hairsculpting. The Hazmat from the Dire Foes set would make a good base model, but I have no use for the included Spec Ops. Or rather, I don't want a gateway to also buy Tohaa and Shasvastii. My to paint mountain is already bigger than I want it to be.


Oni's dream sequence level ranges in my top 5 most neckhair raising video game levels.
Rizzy

Imagedump: My trip to Dresden

A few weeks ago I went on a business trip to Dresden. The conference I visited was held at Westin Bellevue Hotel straight on the shore of the river Elbe. Even though we had quite a full schedule, I strolled around a bit and took some pictures. Dresden is a great city for that.

"Punch PEGIDA (far right, nationalist, populist movement) really, really hard. With a running start!"
"Absurd people of all countries - unite!" 

Really nice city with a lot of historic buildings like the Semperoper and the Frauenkirche on one side of the river and a more modern and quite left leaning (see graffiti) other side. In fact, there were a lot of feminist graffiti straight on the sidewalk of the Elbe. So when I happened upon a tiny gaming store which carried around ten or so Infinity minis, I knew which one I had to buy.

The Hotel food was entirely tooooo good, btw
Rizzy