The first steps in making the Ork Gargant

I have been rounding up the materials necessary to create the torso and feet of the Ork Gargant.  This is going slowly because I have to search for the necessary components.

In the first photo, you can see the two bodies which I will use along with the "shoulder" pieces abd the "feet" and a plastic Easter egg.  The Easter egg is divided from one end to the other so all I had to do was remove the plastic part that allows one half of the egg to be connected to the other.  Also, I took the rounder end of a normal Easter egg and cut it in half to make the "toe" end of the "feet".  The bodies came from a box of battling robots which I purchased in the 1990s.  The bodies are very sturdy because the plastic is very thick.  You can see that I have started working on the yellow and gray body which is round, somewhat like a can, whereas the red and gray body is octagonal.  I have searched for these robots on the internet but have had no luck finding any.  Had I not had these bodies in my collection, I would have found something else to use.  One such item to use as a substitute is the body of a lamp (if it is plastic) and I have seen plastic bird feeders which would make a good substitute.  If you look at the red and gray body, you can see four spikes around the top of the body.  I have removed these spikes from the yellow body.  When I work on the red and gray body, I will remove the spikes as well.

Tools
The tools I have used for this part of the construction are a razor saw to remove the spikes from the top of the body, to remove the plastic rim on one side of the first Easter egg, and to cut the round part of the other Easter egg in half.  I used a file to smooth the parts which I had to cut.

Materials
For this project, I am using a body from a battling robots game (the controls were wired to each robot), some other parts from the battling robots game, and some Easter eggs.

Mega Miniatures now owns the rights to Alpha Forge Minis

I have a number of miniatures - some salvage trucks, Demolition robots, Hydrissian pieces, Mephalian pieces, robots, and some of the ganger miniatures.  I recently decided to try to buy some more robots so I went in search of a place to purchase them on the internet.  I found that Mega Miniatures now owns the molds of the Alpha Forge line and, in fact, has the rules and supplements as free downloads.  Go check them out if you have not already.  I highly recommend the Alpha Forge miniatures and Mega Miniatures as well.

The molds and the rights have been sold by Mega Miniatures, but I am unsure who has them.  Supposedly, someone bought the miniatures to augment his or her game which will eventually be released.