Varuna Scheme Concept: Project Snake Eater.

Hello hive mind. I've come with a concept I want to apply to most of the SKU list of the Varuna Immediate Reaction Division. I'm planning on getting my Varuna army commissioned to be one big Metal Gear Solid reference with each mini being painted to be either a direct or loose reference to a unit or character from the franchise. Here I plan to show what ideas I have so far and ask for help conceptualizing the rest of the army. For a short TLDR, I've thought on and have pretty solid Ideas for Fusiliers, Kamau, Orcs, The Cutter, The Motorized Knight of Montessa, Dronbots, and The Squalo. I'm still looking for ideas for, Helots, Zulu-Cobras, Echo-Bravos, The Croc Men, Techbees, Crabbots, The Machinists/Traumadocs, and Palbots.

To start this image, made by u/burlesford on r/infinitythegame, shows most of the SKU for Varuna only missing the Kamau HMG sculpt. The other minis to disregard would be the Kaldstrom Fusiliers/Orc (as I will be using the Icestorm sculpts instead) and the Armbots as I'm hoping for a resculpt soon and won't be adding them into the commission at this moment.


For the Fusiliers my plan is to have them emulate Foxhound. Some specific load-outs to be some of the characters. The main color scheme will just take from the logo.

Sniper Wolf for the sniper load-out seems pretty obvious.



I like the stance the ML profile is taking and it reminds me of how Vulcan Raven saunters around with some huge weapons.



The next pretty obvious take for this seems to make the TAGs into the Metal Gears themselves. First with The Cutter sharing an alarming amount of similarities to Metal Gear Ray, with both having an aquatic theme.

For the next one I'll start the first of the proxies. The Squalos is a fine model and would make a decent Metal Gear Rex but CB has spoiled me with what could be another direct reference in the upcoming Chernobog. So when this new model releases I will be picking one up and having it serve as my Squalos.

For the Kamau I think the Frog unit from MGS4 would work well. I wouldn't be 100% as canon has them as a all female unit but eh I think the aesthetics and covert ops themes match well.

With the Orcs I plan on having most of the scheme from the iconic Varuna Division scheme for the Orcs and have the skull iconography added onto the color schemes of the Skulls unit from MGS5. The Skulls don't really fit into HI as they don't really wear power armor but I think it'd work well just to transplant the color scheme onto the Orcs armor.

The Montessa Knight will mark the 2nd proxy. As it seems people mostly use the paramedic BS profile it really fits as a proxy to have the MBH proxy in for it and since the MBH looks close enough to her I can use that as a chance to have her represent EVA and her iconic bike from MGS3.

For the First HVT he's an old model but Angus gives the perfect opportunity to represent the iconic scene of Snake taking on the Boss's will to become Big Boss in MGS3.

For the small REM with the Dronbots I think the Geckos from MGS4 would work thematically with them being effectively tiny metal gears.


From here on out I will just be relisting the pictures of the models I am asking assistance on. Please comment on any ideas you'd have to any of these units.






The last thing I would like to ask is if anyone is willing to assist me in designing an army logo (a circular logo such as what you see with each unit and sectoral icon). I'm willing to give commission for this as well and I'm hoping for it to be made with around 2-3 main colors for it as I plan to set the entire armies color theme set to that and have the base rims for their LoF arcs painted with them.
Also a link to the og Reddit post that I made: https://www.reddit.com/r/InfinityTheGame/comments/txb8fu/varuna_scheme_concept_project_snake_eater/