The Book of Sinestro Corps Soldier

[IAmBatman]

There are so many unique sculpts for GLs and so many unique hero designs we're going to do, I'm just not sure if a common GL is ever needed.

[Griffin]

Especially since we are creating common Constructs as well.

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

Okay, this time I´ve got it!

A little walkthrough of my Lanterns... When you look at a comic book picture with a large group of Green or Yellow Lanterns, you´ll typically see a solid basis of humanoids, mixed with a few truly alien aliens... I wanted the same feel for my Lanterns, so I went with a this mix...

For my Yellow Lanterns, I started looking around for figures that looked like they would be able to "instill great fear"! Some more obviously so than others, some more subtle...


Repainted Clix: White Martian, Wendigo, Leader and Meggan.



These guys are all Clix figures, with head swaps, from Marro, Star Wars minis and a single D&D monster. (There are several Star Wars figures available for 50 Cents or less) Figures used: Captain America, Captain Atom (I think), Goliath, Mr. Fantastic and the Demon.



These are D&D and Dreamblade figures. I especially like the screaming mouth on top of the pile of tentacles/worms.


I´ve mostly kept to figures of roughly human size, but wanted just a few that were slightly larger, to keep it visually interesting. This bunch are a bit bigger than medium 5, but on avarage, I don´t think it really affects the gameplay enough to be bothered about it.
There´s no fancy painting techniques used on any of the figures, the only real "talent" used is a steady hand. All flat colours. I did give the "beaky brain" a layer of gloss varnish to make it even more creepy... The Yellow Lantern symbol is just a white circle with some black lines. It would be almost impossible to paint it right, but at a glance, this looks fine.


After I´d made the Yellow Lanterns, I thought it would be fun to make some Greens too. Like I said earlier, I play these as Sinestro Corps Soldiers, but they are Heroic Officers. I went for the same mix of humanoids with a few weird and wonderfull aliens...


A repainted Wildfire and Ace, along with Arisia, made from a decaped Supergirl with a headswap from a Marvel Girl figure, and Katma Tui, who´s a repainted Saturn Girl. (for now Arisia and Katma can be used as common heroes, but if cards ever are made, well, I´ve got them ready!)


These are all Clix with headswaps (and a single tail) from cheap Star Wars figures. Clix used: Boom Boom, ?, Blob, Doc Xampson, ?,?


These are all D&D figures. A couple of them held weapons in their hands, which were carefully cut away.


These final figures are a couple of Dreamblade figs, and a Star Wars Mynock. Yes, the energy sucking parasite that attacked the Millenium Falcon, is now working for the good guys! My favourite is the amorphous blob...

Again, these guys were painted in a simple, no nonsense, straightforward way. One of the most fun things about painting (for both Yellows and Greens) was trying to figure out where to paint the uniform colours on the weirder looking figures.

I´m sorry to have stretched this for as long as I did, but I had some technical problems... I´m done now, thanks for all the appreciative comments!

[elitebeatk]

Neat! Do you have all the official yellow lanterns as well?

[Griffin]

Holy cow you made a lot of those. Unfortunately, I don't think you will ever be able to use them for what they are in C3G, but that shouldn't stop you from finding some use for them. A battlefield full of those guys would be pretty cool.

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

Thanks!
I have Sinestro, Arkillo, and 3 of the Amon Sur Soldiers.

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

Holy cow you made a lot of those. Unfortunately, I don't think you will ever be able to use them for what they are in C3G, but that shouldn't stop you from finding some use for them. A battlefield full of those guys would be pretty cool.

I went a bit overboard yeah but I had fun with it.
The Yellow Lanterns are easily playable as Sinestro Corps Soldiers, just giving some visual variety. The Green Lanterns are only usable when played as Sinestro Corps Soldiers that count as Heroic Officers, but it´s actually great fun!

[IAmBatman]

Those look awesome, DWK!

[Grishnakh]

Originally Posted by DEATHWALKER 1970

I went a bit overboard yeah but I had fun with it.
The Yellow Lanterns are easily playable as Sinestro Corps Soldiers, just giving some visual variety. The Green Lanterns are only usable when played as Sinestro Corps Soldiers that count as Heroic Officers, but it´s actually great fun!

These are just brilliant. Perhaps you guys should make a generic Green Lantern Corps card as well. If you don't want to go too far overboard it would be simple enough to just alter the Sinestro Corps Soldiers card with a new picture of a generic green lantern, change the Heroic Officier line and use the same stats. I'm not even sure it would need to be playtested, at least that much. (In fact, if you guys don't do this I think I will for my personal games.)

[Scapemage]

Originally Posted by Grishnakh

These are just brilliant. Perhaps you guys should make a generic Green Lantern Corps card as well. If you don't want to go too far overboard it would be simple enough to just alter the Sinestro Corps Soldiers card with a new picture of a generic green lantern, change the Heroic Officier line and use the same stats. I'm not even sure it would need to be playtested, at least that much. (In fact, if you guys don't do this I think I will for my personal games.)

Deathwalker, those look so fun to paint and play, that 'm going to make my own! Not to hate on the wonderful painting jobs of many others I have seen, but those are the most awesome looking repaints I have ever seen! You have inspired me so that I will be making some of my own, for use in personal customs and maybe C3G, and I may even dip into some other colors of the spectrum.

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

Thanks Scape!
I´m happy to hear that you feel inspired, hope you´ll post some pictures...

[DEATHWALKER 1970]

These are just brilliant. Perhaps you guys should make a generic Green Lantern Corps card as well. If you don't want to go too far overboard it would be simple enough to just alter the Sinestro Corps Soldiers card with a new picture of a generic green lantern, change the Heroic Officier line and use the same stats. I'm not even sure it would need to be playtested, at least that much. (In fact, if you guys don't do this I think I will for my personal games.)

Thanks!
And if you do a "makeover" card, I´d absolutely LOVE to see it! (and print it and play it of course!)