Since the Rügen Incident, things went bad in Europe. Findings from various artefacts did not solve the question
what happened on the island and it is still unclear what hides beneath the ruins of Sassnitz.
But what was found pushed scientific progress beyond known borders....
Mechanised Ape Infantry (M.A.I.) which is one of the results from cruel experiments in the bunkers of Stalingrad, also known as "Ape-X" from Reaper Miniatures' Bones range.
Reaper offers with it's Bones sortiment a big range of miniatures for a low prices. The reason for this is, that the miniatures are made from some kind of PVC. The material is pretty soft and the details are soft.
On both minis I modified one arm. I cut and reposed the arm, then the resulting gap was filled with Greenstuff, in which I sculpted a fur pattern with my hobbyknife (called cuttermesser only by professionals). If I would not know, I could not say which arms were changed.
Also both miniatures got a new 3D printed 50mm roundbase, since I did not like the look of the bases attached to them. The bases were printed with the same setting than the stuff below, and took 50 minutes to print for each of them.
I finished the miniatures with a simple but effective paintjob. When these creatures will be used for future games they will count as light tanks.
While I painted the miniatures, the 3D printer printed some movement trays
from Thingiverse. They will be a nice addition for games or maybe even figure storage.
By the way, I think I never mentioned that we are using PLA as printing material.
The movement trays were printed with 100% infill at 195 degree celsius, with a print and
movement speed of 50mm/sec. Printing one of these things took about an
hour, after that I added some sand and my standard base colorset to make
them match with the bases of the minis on it.
And as you can see, the new movement trays look decent and match perfect with the bases.
