Robot with a Spear, or the "Hoplobot"
I picked up the Dreadball Robot Team from Mantic a long time ago. The intent was to use them as robots, but not scifi football robots. I only used a couple for conversions so far (the legs for this guy and giving this one a gun ). This past weekend I decided it was time to do something with another of these bots. I forgot how annoying the plastic-resin (restic?) of some of the older Mantic figures was to clean up. But the most obvious mold lines were removed. I didn't think of giving this bot the spear until the painting was basically done. He was just a fighting robot (I've been thinking about doing a Magnus Robot Fighter project for a verrry long time) but I wanted something more for him. After looking at various bits- guns, swords, clubs, etc. I came across the old Wargames Factory Greek spears and thought they looked small enough to easily fit into his small hands. I drilled carefully through the fist and cut the spear into two pieces. The connection ends were trimmed down...
