Prodos Games

Just a little followup on this one:

I had sent in an inquiry to ask for information, It's been 11 days now, and I STILL haven't heard back from anyone. I'd never had issue with the customer support previously, but I'm beginning to see why a lot of people complain about poor/no communication.

On a brighter note however, my package DID arrive today. No damaged or missing content among this, or any of my other five orders during this final sale. (I split my final order up so that I could get extras of some of the items. Including six each of Dutch and Lynn (Two for me, one for each of my two boys, two for friends) and two dioramas.)

My final box of Hellhounds had about a dozen tokens, which I'm guessing happened because they had extras and were just trying to get rid of them

I should probably also note that I haven't gone through the Dropship of APC in detail yet, but I would guess everything would be there as I can't recall ever having issues with missing parts from Prodos in the past.

Looks like my order just shipped today. Still no message from them after my inquiry though.

Either way, I figure the most likely scenario is that with them needing to make the dropship specifically for the order (The item listing mentions that orders with the dropship can take a little longer since they make them when they're ordered rather than having them in stock.) before they could ship it. Considering their usual shipping speed, I should see my items inside of a week. Pretty excited about getting to assemble everything.

All in all, I've loved the game, even if it's a little sad that they never released models for some of the units in the wargame book. I think my only regrets at this point is that I could have liked a couple more Royal Guard, and there's no such thing as too many Infants/Stalkers/Warriors. In the last couple of months, I've started playing the game with my young kids. I'm looking forward to spending many years playing the game still, and odds are pretty good it will take a few years to get everything painted too.

Can't wait to see the package arrive, and I'll try to post here again just so if anyone is paying attention, there's followup.

Arachnoid

SP 5
CC/DEF 11/1
RS 10
ST 9
CON 9
WP 12
LD 13
W 1
A 18

Type: Troop, Infantry, Small Base
Coherency: 12"
Deployment Options: Regular, Stalk
Squad Composition 5-15
Equipment: None
Squad Options: This squad may select up to 1 Mutation.
Abilities: Blinding Speed, Fear (0), Leap (6), Perfect Camouflage, Ranger, Swarm

Attacks:
Claws (Same as Infant Claws)
Tail Strike

Points 14

This uses the Infant for base stats then purchases upgrades normally to calculate cost.

Powerful Hind Legs gives Leap. 2pts.

Perfect Camouflage gives the models Stalk and is intended to mimic the way they curl up on the ground and wait for enemies. 1pt.

Scuttlers gives them Ranger which gives them the ability to ignore difficult terrain. 2pts.

I treated gaining "Stalk" and loosing the ability to purchase Facehuggers as a straight trade.

In total, that's 5 points added to the 9pt base Infant.

Thoughts? Comments? Feedback? I haven't had a chance to properly playtest them, so I may make some small tweaks eventually.

Need to find some time to work on these, but I'm very excited about being able to field some customs.

Thanks! Got a lot of stuff coming from their final sale, so the above army is going to grow a bit when all of that arrives. :D

Alright, I figured I would break down what I'm thinking for the models in each case, and I'd love it if anyone interested would chime in and add their two bits. I'll see about trying to stat them up at a later time.

I made several orders (Wanted extra copies of Dutch and Lynn) with their clearance sale, so I've got a lot of stuff coming soon and some of that is going to be used for this.

Arachnoid: Appearance wise, they're very similar to your traditional Xenomorph. As such, I was thinking that I'd get a slip of paper and cut out the little ridge shape then smooth the front portion into the main portion of the head. This would create that same odd dome shape that they have. (Honestly, a simple paintjob done right could capture the look fairly well too if someone wasn't brave enough to try the papercraft.) I'm personally planning to make 5-10 of them using Infants.
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Arachnoid

Chrysalis: Honestly, this is the one that gives me the most trouble. I think our best bet would be to start with a Royal Guard and try to match the color scheme. The head structure for the Royal Guard is the closest to this variant, and I don't personally have the talent to hand craft the head. I know it won't be a perfect proxy, but it may be passable. If you look at the head on the NECA model, especially from the side, you'll see what I mean by the head structure being similar. The only other possibility I can think of is to somehow make use of a Queen head to the same purpose. I kind of want two of these, but I'm going to hold off on trying to custom something until I feel a little more sure of my plan to make one.
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Chrysalis

Defender: This will likely be the simplest of all of these to do. My thinking is that the two color head can be done easily with nothing more than paint. But if you wanted to be particularly fancy with it, you could use the papercraft approach like with the Arachnoid. I think I'll be doing a set of five of these.
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Defender

Razor Claw: This one actually looks like it's going to be easier than I had originally anticipated. My plan is to take a Praetorian and swap out the head. Obviously the Infants are too small from this game, but I'm looking at a couple of possibilities for the swap. Trade heads from an Infant style model, paint it up, and I think we'll have a surprisingly good Razor Claw. I also just watched a playthrough of the game in the last couple of days, and it looks like there's only a single one in the game, so I don't personally see any reason to make more than one for my collection. I'll likely stat it as a Unique model when the time comes.
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Razor_Claws

Smasher: At first I thought this one might be tricky, but the more I look at it, the more I think just a custom paint job on a Warrior would do just fine for the model. I'm thinking I'd paint of five this way.
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Smasher

NOTES: I figure that in most cases, the paint modifications done could serve two purposes. The first, to offer additional play options by using them as the above creatures. The second to add a little visual verity to my armies during play even if I choose to use them as their base models.

On a snide note, some of the other things I'm thinking about doing:
-Red Xenomorphs (I was thinking about going up 5 Warriors, 10 Infants, and 5 Stalkers)
-Flying Queen. I think this could be done with a set of Dragon Wings from most any similar scaled model
-Newborn (If I can ever find a model in the right size range.)
-Decon(If I can ever find a model in the right size range.)
-Chestbusters. Should be fairly easy. Roll a little green stuff into a serpent, pose, paint, and play.
-White Hybrids: I'd love to do a small group of these, maybe half a dozen. Unfortunately I don't expect it to happen on the grounds that the customization required is probably going to be beyond my skill level.
-Infectoids: Thinking about doing up a few of these, Should just be a case of finding some soldier zombies in this size range and painting them up.
-Trixie: Though I'll be the first to admit that creating the harness might be difficult. Other than that it's just a drone.
-Raven: This is another one that might be difficult to do. I may end up using a spare Queen as a proxy (The Unicast would likely work well for this.) if I don't think of something better in the meantime.

And I've already done up a small group of Boilers and I have a model for "Grid" the alien from the first AvP movie.

I think I figured the Razor Claw model out. I'm thinking we start with a Praetorian, then do a head swap. I'm actually eyeballing the minimates aliens as a possible model for the head swap and am going to see about getting my hands on one to see how it scales before committing to doing one up.

In light of this latest sale, I opted to order up some more items. In addition to the above, I've got Dutch and Lynn coming, a second Officer, two more sets of the Speed Bumps, and another Hot Landing box set which will add five more Prisoners and another synthetic. Also the "One Last Mission" model, but that doesn't look like it's an actual game piece, but a display piece instead.

Last night I created a custom miniature. I got my hands on some guns that can pass as the Pulse Rifle. With a set of five, I figure a couple can be used for bases or similar, but one I decided to use to create Jeri. https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Jeri I took a Alien Warrior, put a pulse rifle in one of it's hands (Had to take part of the trigger finger off so it would fit in the hand right), then drilled a tiny hole in it's mouth and slipped a short bit of wire into it (The stuff I use for pinning) that I'll be painting up as a cigar. Not sure when I'll get around to painting it, but when it happens I'll try to remember to post pictures.

No new predators coming, but got some more Aliens on the way. I still intend to get those pictured up in a new thread when the last of them arrive (Still waiting on a couple of items from Miniatures Market in addition to the items I just ordered up here).