Mystery of the SFD Giant Robot Tank: Solved?

[Pariah Press]

The SFD Giant Robots were a limited release series from Citadel around 1987. A couple of them appeared in the Rogue Trader rulebook. They were advertised in a mail-order flyer, but one of the pictures was missing. Was the pictured miniature the Tank or the Imperial? And where was the other robot?

http://www.solegends.com/citle1990/lert/lesfdrobots/index.htm

I was cruising around eBay when I found what appears to be the answer. There was a blister pack, originally marked at 1.95, which contained both the Imperial and the "unreleased Manga robot." I think that the Manga robot is the mysterious Tank robot!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144054938538

Whew! We can all rest easy now!

 

[Sleepysod]

It’s a nice model as well, shame they weren’t all more widely available

 

[twisted moon]

interesting. i can't say that range ever impinged on my awareness before.

 

[thehealthrevi]

Thank you for sharing this information with us.

 

[dylanpig]

Interesting, but there is also another candidate that appears in Heroes for Wargames:

SFD Giant Robots - Lost Minis Wiki

Lost Minis Wiki is a non-profit site dedicated to identifying, photographing and documenting fantasy & sci-fi miniatures. If you have a miniature and you don’t know what it is, you’ll likely find it here at Lost Minis Wiki.

www.miniatures-workshop.com

 

[Brother Meredith]

Great designs, shame they are at a small scale for 40k

 

[ManicMan]

erm... for the design bit.. yeah.... great designs as in the first edition battledoids/battletech (I wanna get some of them first edition figures but.. hard to find.. mostly cause they weren't allowed on sale for long. Atleast Citadel's ones were.. less clear but you can clearly see 'inspired by' Kazutaka Miyatake, Shoji Kawamori and Go Nagai.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Interesting to see how the design team were influenced early on by Japanese animation.

 

[Pariah Press]

Interesting, but there is also another candidate that appears in Heroes for Wargames:

SFD Giant Robots - Lost Minis Wiki

Lost Minis Wiki is a non-profit site dedicated to identifying, photographing and documenting fantasy & sci-fi miniatures. If you have a miniature and you don’t know what it is, you’ll likely find it here at Lost Minis Wiki.

www.miniatures-workshop.com

Yeah, that mini is indeed another possibility. That said, I’ve never seen it anywhere besides in Heroes for Wargames. I wonder if it was ever released, or whether it’s even a Citadel miniature!