@evilstu here’s the Rock Paper Shotgun article that turned me onto the wealth of mods out there.
I highly recommend the ones for telling you how much health enemy Mechwarriors have left and Merc Deployments (word of warning, the deployments can be BRUTAL if you don’t have some backup pilots and a mixture of chassis in the hanger…).
@a27cromwell those X-wings look nifty dude. always thought it might be nice to repaint some in the personalized colours of the Rogues from the old Bacta War novel…
See I missed Elite. The closest I got was the I-War series at the backend of the 90’s (in fact I still have the joystick – Microsoft Sidewinder Pro – that I brought to play it), where the unique selling point was you were piloting a 200-meter corvette. italso had an insanely lengthy intro that is still pretty bad-ass:
And the sequel (which was far more free-roaming and closer to Elite) was equally nifty:
@mage you requested a link, and here’s one to Snip & Wib’s Codex Compliance playlist. I daft, but coming from a place of love for the subject matter 🙂
And Powermaster Optimus Prime
Sadly I no longer own my original version, but those lovely folks at Hasbro & Takara resurrected it as an extensive remould of the Combiner Wars Ultra Magnus but instead of the powermaster engine gimmick it got the headmaster treatment as part of the Titans Return line.
Takara then went one further to re-engineer the mold to instead of Optimus Prime be Ginrai, hero of Super-God Masterforce, andthen put out a new version of the Godbomber/Apex Armour so you could make Super-God Ginrai. I don;t have a good picto hand but this is how mine now looks as I’ve also brought a few of the Perfect Effect upgrade kits, and got a 3d-printed replacement for the cannon mount on his shoulder (far less droopy 🙂 )
Music? well here’s a little number I always dug from the Cowboy Bebop Movie:
Otherwise hobby for this weekend? Currently reading through Castellan, the latest Castellan Crowe novel, and have The Carrion Throne and the first Horusian Wars novel, Resurrection, on the stack along with the Primarchs novellas for Lorgar, Fulgrim, Ferrus Manus and Jaghatai Khan. Probably won;t get any painting done as again it is waaaay to hot, but I think some iced drinks are the perfect accompaniment to a bit of model building 🙂 Got a few Infinity bits to build and might see about kitbashing up some more Wolves for a Kill-Team…
