Hello hello you lovely beasts.
I’ve been doing some more painting for my Southern Republican honour guard. Now in the backstory the honour guard was made up of Fer de Lances, Gilas, and the occasional King Cobra. But with the Legion Republique becoming a legitimate military unit prior to the Second War for Terra Nova, they would clearly need to bolster their numbers with other gears. I’ve found mention of the Sidewinder being very popular, probably because of its similarity to the Fer de Lance, but also because it was made during the pilot-safety era of gear construction.
This is something it has in common with the much more recent Diamondback design and I figured my SRA honour guard would be more than happy to field some. The only issue is the Diamondback is a little plain looking, having no ‘ears’ or crests for me to paint white. So I decided to spruce it up a bit with some 3rd party crests!

More pictures after the jump.






The Diamondback model is available from Dream Pod 9
The crests are from Anvil Industry in the UK who have an amazing and very affordable range of 28mm scale miniatures and conversion parts. Highly recommended.
what size of magnet do best for HG? i got some 3 x 2mm are they fine? i got some odler metal models that are just glued but i ordered the North South and CEF plastic starter kits and would like to magnatize
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I use 2x1mm and the occasional 2×0.5. I think 3×2 would be ok for vehicles but too big for the hands of the gears
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