Tuesday 25 August 2020

Upgrade for Pano: The new messenger-REMs

Since I am reworking my PanO-troops for the moment and integrate some Svalarheima-forces there, not less than three boxes of the new messenger-REMs landed on my table. If you have read some of my battle-reports, you may have noticed that I am a big fan of Fugazis and Pathfinders. Svalarheima with AVA 3 on Fugazis and AVA 2 on Pathfinders and Sierras fits there quite well.

Building the old sculpts was not that funny most of the time, since pieces did not fitted together and the antennas were quite fragile. So there is a good hope for the new sculpts to solve these issues. After unpacking and cleaning the content of all three boxes, the following picture appeared:


The body still is separated from the rear antennas and the legs still are made from two crossing parts. If you already have build some REM-boxes, you will find well known arrows on the legs so that you know what fits together and in which direction the body should go. Then you simply glue the body on top of that and finish things with the antennas. You need to be a bit careful here and while taking them from the sprue, since you can bend them a bit to easy and alter the position of the sticking-points. Nevertheless that can be corrected without any problems. The pins there are well made, so that they fit perfectly into the body and stay them without any force! Just make sure you put them there the right way round! The weapons are seperated as seen before and have a sticking point on the side of the body with a good fit. I build three Fugazis, since that is a solid choice most of the time, one Sierra and one Pathfinder, since that should be the set-up used together most of the time. One REM was magnetized so that it can be played as Clipper, Sierra and Pathfinder, if needed. I used small rare earth magnets here and drilled a round and deeper hole into the body part and replaced the sticking point of the weapon with the magnet. That system is already tested on my Haqqislam-REMs.


Just to be complete, here is a comparision between old and new sculpts.

After building them, the fun part of painting them was done. I batch-paint a lot recently and decided to put all REMs together to make sure they are looking familiar. So you can also see a Bulleteer, three Auxbots and an EVO Mulebot.Now only some snow needs to be added on the bases to fit in the look of the other Svalarheima-forces.

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