Phalons, Kravak and Savasku was Alien Infantry

G'day Glenn,

> Thanks Beth for the data about figures

No worries.

> Anybody know if the original conception

I'd say as one of the newer races to Jon's stable he just hasn't had time as
yet to get them in all scales;)

> I know the ships have been described

Well the 25mm ones Derek's got are clothed so I wouldn't know......<I'm so so
sorry I really shouldn't encourage that Phalon thread;)>

Seriously I was going to offer to give them a wash and scan some in.
Unfortunately Derek's off a Hobby Expo (being asked repeatedly if its hard to
paint things that small and "do you REALLY play games with them?";)
)
so I can't ask which of his various boxes of unpainted lead these little

guys are sitting in. I did a quick run of his "half painted, I only need a few
hours spare" shelf, his "at least I've done the flesh bits" shelf, his "I
loved it so much I had to undercoat it immediately shelf" and a number of
boxes which should be indexed under "stands a good chance of being painted
before the next millenium" to "will only ever see a paintbrush if they really
streamline extension of the human lifespan"...but zip...he's

either taken them with him to paint today (doubtful) or I've forgotten the
location of another of his metal deposits. I'll ask tonight and IF he can
locate them I'll see if I can get a pic done tomorrow or something.

From what I can remember though, they looked OK, head sort of a floppy
triangular shape, limbs which bend in unexpected places. Not my cup of tea,
but pretty good - I like the P'taah more, but that's just personal
preference.

> AH, the bugs on the webpage of your and Derek's armies?

Yep.

> HTH specialists only?...<rearrange a bit>....Or are

Nope. Some of the 25mm scale have "SAW" or "plasma gun" arms, wouldn't be too
hard to convert some 6mm likewise. When my thesis is in and my paying job
starts up Derek's also going to ask Nic about producing other 6mm bug
types (tanker-like bugs to start with, but I wouldn't mind seeing flying

ones etc too)....much the same way he did with the "skirted Deimos".

> Hmm, are they heavily armored

Yep, we treat them as fast PA for movement and armour/hits etc...plus
there's the "overwhelming numbers" aspect;)

Cheers

In message <5.0.2.1.0.20010325085402.009ffec0@pop.hba.marine.csiro.au>, Beth
Fu
> lton writes:

> In message <5.0.2.1.0.20010325085402.009ffec0@pop.hba.marine.csiro.au>,

Hmmmm.... the front of the Phalon head is a flattened ellipsoid
(horizontal, not vertical) with a central, tri-lensed optic, and is
quite deliberately "inspired by" the Martians in the George Pal movie version
of War of the Worlds (both the creatures themselves, and also the "remote
camera" that the heroes chop off its tentacle). In THIS case I don't think
Dave had any other symbolism in mind when he sculpted them (we've already
discussed the ships far too much...).  ;-)

Jon (GZG)
> I haven't seen the P'taah-- any chance of seeing a scan?

They were four figures that we did a long time back (sculpted by Mike Owen)
that never got developed any further - in fact for the new catalogue
(that I'm getting ready for print right now) we're now dropping them out of
the range, though we can still do some to order if anybody wants any. They're
still listed on the catalogue site in the SGV range, as SGV-06 to09.

G'day Andy,

> http://www.cowell.org/~andy/min/sg2/images/phalon.jpg

Thanks you've just saved me from a serious risk of lead poisoning!;)

<snip next comment....I ain't touching that subject with a barge pole!>

> I haven't seen the P'taah--

I guess I could scan the pic in from Nic's catalogue. I'll see if I can get it
done for you tomorrow.

Cheers

Beth