Hi guys! I am thinking in get some remotes from my army, but, I don't want to get non-resculped miniatures. Then, due to our split with the empire state, we don't have to use their remotes anymore. What do you think are the best proxy options? Therefore, which of them did you get first? How do you use them?
Are you talking about S3 or S4 REMs (or both)? If you ever intend to play Ikari (which has many JSA profiles), then you might consider the PanO S3 ones which Ikari uses. (JSA uses PanO guns, too, don't they?)
I've been using my PanO S3 remotes, both because I already had them, but also to reflect the support PanO have been providing to the Secessionists. I've been using a Pathfinder and Mulebots as the S4 remotes too, but I'm tempted to pick up the YJ combat remote box as I quite like their style.
Yeah, Pano Rems are the best fluff wise option, but... They are old AF. I have so little old miniatures and I want to get more. Seems like that I have to wait to see PanO Rems re-edited. Thanks for responses!!
I ended up using Haqq Kameels for the baggagebots, and Nomad combat REMs. But that was way back in the day, long before the Uprising, simply because I don't like the appearance of the YJ Combat REMs and baggagebots. If you're not playing in tournaments, you can do interesting things. I've long been riffing off of the Ghost in the Shell ideas (as you might guess from my Avatar), and I found a source for 1/72 scale Tachikomas from the Standalone Complex TV series. Three come with each Jigabachi Advanced helicopter model kit, and I bought 3 kits, though you really only need two helicopter kits to get all the REMs you will need post-uprising. (The helicopters are terrain for my airfield) The Tachikoma models are smaller than a proper scale model would be, but they do just barely fit on a 40mm base as a S3 REM. You will need 4 Tachikomas for the S3 REMs, and with some moderate scratchbuilding skills you can turn the last two into the Logikomas from Arise as your baggagebots (you need to make new legs using sheet plastic and a new butt pod, but most of the butt pod can come from the Tachikoma kit). To identify which Tachikoma is which Infinity REM, I bought some muzzle-flash effects from Armorcast, put the small ones onto the 'Weibing' Tachikoma. I cut up the cannon barrel and made a gatling gun from 0.5mm plastic rod for the 'Husong', and also gave that one a large muzzle flash. For the 'Son-Bae' Tachikoma, I reshaped the cannon barrel to look more like the tube with the safety shroud off, and made a huge missile spiralling out of the muzzle with a bunch of steel wool as the smoke. For the 'Chaiyi' Tachikoma, I took a ~3" long piece of 0.5mm music wire, bent it into a spiral around a large paintbrush handle, and glued that coming out of the center of the non-gun hand. That leaves the combat REMs. I found a Fuchikoma model as an extra with a Major Kusanagi PVC figure. That Fuchikoma is bigger than the 1/72 scale Tachikomas, toes hang off the edge of a 55mm base. The fuchikomas I bought have some ugly mold lines, you will want a brand-new Xacto blade to carefully shave those off. Wash the model really well to get all the PVC mold release off of it, let dry, then prime with Krylon Fusion. The primer may feel sticky for a long time after, but won't once you get your first coat of actual paint on it. I made a second gatling gun for the 'Rui-Shi' Fuchikoma, and also gave it a big muzzle flash (I started doing that to ID the HMGs in firing poses). The other Fuchikoma I left alone.
My plan is to use a mixture of Haqq and Nomad remotes: new remotes for Yaokong, kameel for Panguling and nomad sputniks for Rui Shi and Lu Duan. From a fluff point of view PanO remotes makes more sense, especially as so much JSA kit is PanO provided now, but I'd already painted PanO remotes and fancied something a bit different. If you're trying to use new models only, I think the only remotes that are truly "new" are the new Haqq remotes, the Aleph rebots and Rudra. I think most of the other are either n2 or older.