Doing Some Heavy Lifting - SFD Giant Robot

In the 41st Millennium, circa 1987, Citadel decided to release a limited edition set of Giant Robots. Your imagination goes wild at the thought. These things should be ogre-sized at least. Or possibly, if they have been named correctly, giant-sized.

SFD Giant Robots (image from Stuff of Legends).

It is possible that Citadel created these figures for a Battletech licence (or perhaps a similar in-house game), because in actuality, these giant robots are anything but:

'Scavenger' is barely larger than the Eldar Ghost Warrior or Paranoia robot!

That said, I recently acquired myself a Scavenger, and aside from being a little disappointed that he is underwhelmingly not a giant robot (I had never had one of these 'bots in hand before), I was more than happy to lavish a quick and dirty paint job on the fellow!

After removing him from his solid base, and rebasing him on a 30mm slotta, I gave Scavenger an industrial yellow paint job, complete with plenty of exposed primer, grime and chipped paintwork.

The metal areas got a little bit of rust, but overall I was aiming to keep it quick and simple. Including basing, this guy took less than 2 hours.

 

In hindsight, I wish I'd done the eye-slit red instead of orange - I may go back and redo it, but for now I'm content to leave him be - the newest addition to my engineering crew.

 

'Scavenger' is a multi-purpose lifter/breaker unit, designed to support maintenance and engineering crews.