Well, this is a sight I'd never though I'll share. My full Order of Montesa, riding to victory on their mechanical steeds! I love the montesas on the field, they are fast sturdy specialists that get the job done. With the new rules, and the possibility of running a Duo of them I considered the possibility to run them on the flanks of my Varuna and M.O. armies.
I only had one Montesa though, as the helmets and the poses on the models were not really my cup of tea. However a local game store made a crazy sale on infinity products and I managed to get a second one for almost nothing so I was convinced to give them the knife treatment and fit them to my liking.
I loped off their heads in favor of 3D printed old Montesa helmets and reposed the arms a little.
For the colors I decided to forego the purple I had used in my other military orders and in turn use the red cross of montesa as a motive around the bike and on the pauldrons.
As if I wasn't lucky enough, while I was working on my Montesa bikers I got my hands on my Blast from the Past ITS box. There were very little options of models that I didn't have already, I was just looking for the Krakot, but I got Tony Macayana instead. As I don't play Acontecimento, I sold my Tikbalang back in the day when I bought my Stingray series box so I didn't really had a Tikbalang now that it was playable in M.O.
However, I really disliked the idea of the Tik in M.O. It always felt to me like it was put there just to sell copies of the tag box as it didn't fit the theme of the army. So when I got Tony I decided to put her under the knife too to make sure she looked like a proper knight
After extensive reposing and putty filling I managed to get her into an interesting pose: running against an enemy with CC weapons in hand. I then proceeded to add some tabard clothing by using the blister packaging plastic. To my surprise this is a great material for conversions. It's easy to cut and bend, and if bent in a high enough angle, it loses it's plasticity and retains whichever form you give it.
I adapted the cloth to the Tikbalang and the result was pretty good, so the next step would be painting.
I started with the same basic principles as the bikes, go heavy on the white and remove the purple in favor of the montesa crosses.
Two big crosses were drawn on the cloth and some minor red crosses were added to the pauldrons.
The end result was pretty interesting and in the end I managed to get a Tikbalang that I would be proud to play in my M.O. army.
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