The War Planets Fun Page! Fan Art, Helpful Hints and Other Stuff Last Updated 12/23/97 Split off from main page.
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Fan Fiction

    Due to the need to keep costs reasonable, the Drone and Hero figures tended not to get the best paint jobs in the world, usually not much more than monochrome with an "ink wash" or spackle pattern, maybe a few dots of color. So I took it upon myself to improve on those I thought I could improve.

• Picture 1 (left to right)
  • Ice Drone: Only needed a coat of gunmetal on its gun.
  • Bone Hero: I didn't fix the basic color, which is supposed to be green according to the trading card, but I added the blue harness and leggings, white teeth, silvered the gun (and added the yellow bit) and its power cable, and made the eyes red.
  • Bone Drone: Added the orange/yellow pattern to its muzzle, painted the teeth white, added silver crests on the head, painted various bony spurs white, added a dot of red paint on the targeting laser.
• Picture 2 (left to right)
  • Remora Drone: Painted it gunmetal to match the Beast Drone, added violet accents and red eyeslit.
  • Beast Drone: Added violet accents and red eyeslit.

• Picture 3: Beast Hero: Remora Hero has identical mold, but the figure is "inkwashed" dark red rather than sparkly red.
• Picture 4 (left to right)
  • Rock Drone: Added a lot of detail that can't be seen in this scan because of the shape of the toy. Sigh.
  • Rock Hero (Front View): The trading card picture has a lot of subtle metallic colors that I wasn't able to duplicate, so this guy's a little on the garish side.
  • Rock Hero (Side View): Since a lot of detail work was visible from the side, I included this scan. The thing on his lower leg is a dagger.
• Picture 5: Fire Hero, from front and back. I set out just to touch up the pain scheme (which was kinda sloppily done), and ended up adding the bronze and red details. Not visible is the work I did cutting away the excess plastic so that the cable hooked to the gun actually looks like a cable and not a half-disk.

    Bone Moon Omega Vehicle: AKA the Cthulhumobile. The original black and silver color scheme was insufficiently squamous, so I fixed it up.

Fluffy Sez:

1. If you have the old minibot Transformer toy Cosmos, his head is just the right size for the IDPS linkage setup of the Shadowraiders. The main benefit is that he's a ready-made vehicle for those Beasts (like Fluffy himself) with smaller waists, since they can connect flush with Cosmos.
2. Fluffy's got a lot to say about the Ice Moons:
   • Open Ice Moons away from everything else, preferably over a sink. Otherwise, you will find sparklies in the strangest places days afterwards.
   • Washing a sparkly Ice Moon object will remove the looser bits of glitter, but unless you really scrub (and we're talking scouring with steel wool or something here, I went over Ice Moon Alpha with a toothbrush and lots of elbow grease and it STILL wasn't enough), glitter will still slowly come off on everything. Kinda like how brushing a cat will slow the rate at which cat hairs get all over everything, but not stop it.
   • If you simply must do something lacquer-like to your Ice stuff, Fluffy recommends clear nail polish, which dries nice and hard. Matte spray finish, like I've used in my various painting projects, turns some of the softer plastic permanently sticky, as I found after painting Ice Moon Alpha's Beast and spraying it.
   • The Ice Moon fun just doesn't stop! Mainly because I've had them home over the weekend fiddling around with them. Anyway, both Ice vehicles work better as Beast platforms if you drive them backwards. This solves the bad balance problem for Omega, and just looks cooler on Alpha.
3. War Planets 40K! The Hero and Drone figures are about 25mm scale (or 1:72 scale for you model-builders), but now there's more War Planets toys available at that scale for adding to Science Fiction wargames like Warhammer 40K. I'd make up rules for them, but I don't know WH40K myself. Anyway, the following toys in the line are roughly 25mm scale:
   • All Heroes and Drones.
   • All Shadow Raider pieces except for the planetoids themselves. Notably, the Beasts are good for Titans and the like.
   • Every part of the Scorpizoid Tank (and, presumably, any other Tanks that are released).
   • The Beast Planet's "Whaler" is potentially 25mm, but is probably more like 5mm or 10mm scale.
   • The Fire Planet, minus crust, could be used as a troop dropship at 25mm scale. The fighter craft would have to be ignored, or used as a miniature scout drone, though.
4. Get some MicroMachines soldiers and put them in either the Bone Planet or the Scorpizoid Tank. It's a bug hunt, man!