Time to bolster White Star forces with some mechanized infantry. You didn’t think we would leave Meg’s girls alone on the battlefield, did you 😉 ?
In fact they were spawned when we were working on an idea for a bigger faction. So here is a 2nd piece for it – a mechanized , exorig infantry.

I’m a big fan of a weird war and steampunk genres so those heavily influenced the guidelines I’ve prepared for the units. Female infantry had only a gentle touch of weirdness – we’ve used some US army uniforms as a basis , mixed with existing weaponry and tweaked it a tad. That was quite a natural choice as those were conceptualized around 2 years ago, around the time we’ve been sketching out ideas for The Green Alliance.
But as I’ve been looking for a defining factors, themes for the faction, I really felt some sort of enhanced exo armor would work great. Didn’t want it to be too high tech – I immediately felt it should match regular military grade equipment we’ve already used. After a couple of iterations we’ve got what we’ve wanted. Glen worked out awesome sketches that were simply spot on and Konrad could start sculpting.

Initially the models were cast with the backpacks on, but after some fiddling I removed them and split the models into pieces that are easy to assemble and easy to cast at the same time.

But that’s not all – more are coming. As we’ve been looking for something even heavier, here’s what Glen has come up with.

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