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27 May 2025
With our inaugural set of Hovertrain cars lined up at our fancy Forgotten Rails train station, we’re going to focus more on the other crazy inventions Waterdeep’s Gnome Tinkerers are rushing to market as they race to one-up each other!
The Forgotten Rails’ founders have been incredibly secretive about their Hovertrain technology, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t leaking out nonetheless. Give a Gnome an inch and they make crazy-a$$ stuff…that’s just how the world works, right?!
Last week, we shared our first new invention spinoff – the Dune Catamaran by Aether Studios. These desert junkers also run on arcane magic principles, but via a much less predictable and secure tech compared to the Hovertrains’ Corederite source material. So, let’s see what else those competitive gnomes are up to these days!
This Space Personal Walker by Brite Minis is perfect for our new technology age as it checks all those mechanized boxes. This upright mech is loaded with charm and personality. We love it! It prints in two pieces, and assembly is a snap. The second this long-legged machine was featured on their Patreon, we immediately exclaimed, “Well, look what our Gnomes Tinkerers just made!”
No tiny eyeballs on this bad boy, so DM Ben “volunteered” to color this one up over the recent holiday weekend. If our 3D print isn’t unique, we typically pump out a couple so we can try different color schemes and test the creative waters, as it were. In this case, DM Ben wanted to try a few different approaches with the basing.
The STL is relatively tall, and this increased height fits the STL’s jam here. This mech really feels like it lumbers with every step it takes, every move it makes. #SortaSting
There are so many charming characteristics here, including its long metal legs, the horse-style saddle, the small steering wheel, and the back exhaust pipe. It’s a given that everyone in our party of six will want to ride one, so we have to print three (two per mech) or six (one for each character). And that doesn’t even count the ones we’ll need for whoever is chasing them. A good problem to have, of course.
A single set of colors makes sense when it’s an authoritarian-style piece, but something utilized by the players or NPCs should have some personalization to it! Think kit cars and roadsters – most have their personal touches. Consequently, we’ll create a single police-themed scheme for The Forgotten Rails, but then colorize the top chassis piece for everyone else.
Here were the paint steps:
DM Ben loves to test out new Citadel and Army Painter colors for volume-style prints. That’s how we fell in love with ASP’s Camo Cloak Speedpaint color. It’s an awesome green that we can’t wait to use on other terrain and miniatures.
Also, that Broadsword Silver with Citadel’s Agrax Earthshade is just a phenomenal metal combo. Special thanks to Miniature Hobbyist for sharing that fab mix in one of his painting tutorials. Be sure to subscribe to his channel, as he does a phenomenal job of showing his paint steps and the specific colors used in his guides. We’ve watched his videos countless times.
In terms of DnD 5e stats for these mechanical contraptions, we found this excellent Myriad Mechanical homebrew guide by BladeBot Brew. The author details several specific mech types like the Flamespitter and Juggernaut, but even includes a guide at the end to build your own stat blocks!
Since this is the first upright mech of its kind, we like his Junker mech stats: AC 12, HP 30. We’ll just tweak its Bash stats to something more like six-ish level: +5 att/2d6+2 damage, and then give it a different ranged attack (but Junk Launcher was darn funny).
Until next time!
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