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<H3>Yellow Gear!</H3>

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I got a great deal on these Grenadier Space Rangers to plus up my
sci fi legions.  With 50 in the box, I decided to make a set of 15 reds,
15 blues, and 15 greys.  That left me with five guys left over.  I have
always been a fan of support pieces, so I decided to make some SeaBees.
That is, "CB"s - Construciton Battallion guys with some simple conversions.
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Looking at them from right to left, there is a "jaws of life"
operator for an emergency crew and a construction cutter with a big
circular saw made from left over RoboGear pieces.  If you have sci fi
armies, you likely have bits like this left over from something that is
supposed to be more combat oriented, but the mech leftovers make nice
big power tools for the 28mm power armour guys.
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But what if you don't have RoboGear bits, or other very specific parts?
Well, improvise!  For the leader, I cut his arm at the elbow, and glued it
back so the gun was pointing up.  A piece of thread replaced the cable
that was there before.  Now we move to roto-rooter man.  Tentacles.  If
you don't have a buckets of left over tentacles (I do), they're pretty
easy to make by rolling up a clay snake (I do that sometimes, too).  And
the last guy has some type of spray thing.  I think it is an insta-concrete
sprayer (which could have cool tactical uses, too).  The people who made
the bit I used thought it was an exhaust pipe for a jacked-up Hot Wheels
monster truck.  What were they thinking?
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Well, I promised simple conversions, and that was about it.  I just didn't put
on the guns, and put some other stuff on instead.  The paint job goes along with
the yellow gear theme for two reasons: (1) it makes them instantly recognizable
as construction assets to most people, and (2) it means I can put them with
any of the forces without worrying if the paint job matches.
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Oh, I forgot the leader's sword.  The Grenadier (now made by EM-4 Minis) guy
has what looks like a regular fantasy sword.  I replaced that with a chainsaw I 
got off a 'Clix MechWarrior forestrymech.  Those things are a godsend for bits.
They're cheap and they have the coolest pieces.
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Well ... enjoy and convert away!
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