Heavy combat robot

Back in late summer 2025, I backed Chris Smith's "Project Heavy", a series of hundreds of modular robot parts. Chris specialises on lots of Epic Scale proxy models for Space Marine / Adeptus Titanicus, and as Kill Me For Prizes (KMFP Designs) has a huge range of stuff available.  As I write this, his models on MyMiniFactory are 50% off for Black Friday.

The sheer range of parts is incredible.  They're all a very boxy, chunky style, ideal for use in something like Battletech as well as Epic 40K games.  They are divided up into:

• Torsos (several types, each with multiple options regarding equipment sockets)
• Shoulders (wide, narrow, with and without arm attachments, variations in equipment sockets)
• Arms (various types, separate upper and lower parts, 1,2,3 or 4 equipment sockets
• Legs (various bipiedal designs plantigrade and digitigrade, quad, also tracks)
• Weapons to fit equipment slots (gatlings, autocannon, missiles, machine guns)
• Equipment (sensors, hands, claws) 

I printed a range of test pieces back in the spring, just in FDM to see how they all go together.  They'd be much better in resin, but I need to give my resin printer a good clean, it hasn't been used for several months.  I've printed at the native scale, but they can be scaled up or down easily.  Printed at 150% or 200%, they could be piloted robotic vehicles.  At the scale I printed, they are just large robots.  Printed at 30-50%, they'd be human-sized or slightly larger robots.

I've put together a few example models.  The first of these is a general combat robot, equipped with a shield, hand held cannon and top-mounted missile pods.  This is probably a repurposed civilian robot, with retrofitted weapons.

The digitigrade legs are a single piece, 2 thin shoulder blocks attach to the central torso, the weapon arms has a single piece hand and weapon housing attachment, with a separate gun barrel glued in.  You could use something like a set of rotary cannon barrels instead.  The top weapon pods slot into a mounting on the top of the torso, and again, while I've used missile pod fittings, there are lots of alternative weapons that could be used instead.

The base colour is Vallejo khaki with an Army Painter strong tone wash, followed by Vallejo bone white drybrush.  Camouflage patches are GW Goregrunta fur contrast paint.  Markings are in red, with an old GW waterslide transfer on the shield.

 The robot has been glued onto a 30mm MDF base which felt about the right size for it.  It should be ideal to add some fire support to something like a rebel force or hastily assembled militia unit.