Building Power Armour troopers part 1

During the games we played while fleshing out our SciFi rules (based on TFL Sharpe Practice and Chain of Command) I often looked with envy at my opponent's beautiful heavy power armour troopers.

These are from the Mongoose Starship Troopers range and are still available via Rebel minis. I didn't want to order these but was looking for miniatures with a similar look.

Then I found this model from Puppetswar: Heavy Prime Striker

Most of their available heads are of the 40K variety (which I didn't want to use), but fortunately an access hatch type cover was available (already attached to the miniature in the picture above). My first idea was to go for shoulder pads with missile pods, but then I changed my mind. A shoulder mounted harness offered more options for weapons and active defense gear. This harness however, didn't fit (incompatible with the access hatch "head") at first. Carefully clipping the edges solved this.

Almost all parts came with pre drilled holes for magnets and I planned to make full use of this. 

On to the arms. I wanted to stick with one main weapon attached to the right arm and a left arm with a plain hand so ordered right arms with all available weapon extensions and added some from my bits box.

At this point I changed my mind again and ordered some close combat left arms. Everything had gone well up untill now so I was a bit surpised when I received close combat right arms. I contacted Puppetswar about the wrong parts and they sent me new close combat arms. Unfortunately these new ones were also right arms. 

I experienced this once before when ordering from The Assault Group. Probably a case of incorrectly labelled stock. Unlike The Assault Group, where I got the correct miniature in the end (and got to keep the other ones! Great service), Puppetswar stopped responding to my requests for close combat left arms.

Eventually I decided to break and cut the close combat right arms to turn them into left arms with the help of some greenstuff.

Hopefully this will be further obscured after painting.