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Kitbash fun. The Pickelhaube Light rig.

May 24, 2026

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I love a kitbash.

The Pickelhaube Mercenary rig or “Frankenstein’s tin soldier” as its enemies mockingly called it, never went into full production. It was an effort to use refinery parts and a captured Triton Engineering rig warehouse complex to fashion a workable cheap rig class of their own. Only seeing a couple of prototypes before being abandoned the project has been classed as a failure. But those that survive still carry weapons to their enemy effectively and are easy to adapt and repair. For example on this rig a foot was blown off and some clever engineer fashioned pincers as a workable foot.

The minis for this game come with lots of weapon options. But then some had spare legs for different poses I guess. I had a spare foot and spare arm pieces. All I needed was a main body and some connecting pieces and I was away. I kept some sprues from 15mm tanks and those parts really helped. The helmet came from some automaton minis I am building, made by the same company, and the top of the body is a can ring pull. The body is a diabetic needle casing. It's all a bit fragile, but a lot of fun to bodge together. It's a bit taller than I hoped, but not taller than most of the minis I already have.