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Post subject: proxy Drones  Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:22 pm |
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I have a fairly large (unpainted) Tau force, and don't want to spend any more money on it as yet. One thing I don't have is Drones. Has anyone come up with a good way of modelling them up, maybe bits of rod chopped up etc?
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Tactica
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Post subject: proxy Drones Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:05 pm |
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As most of them ship with broken antennas - I wouldn't worry to much about that.
I think you could go to your local hobby supply chain and knock these things out easy enough.
Brass rods come in various thicknesses even smaller than the flying stands that ship from FW... they will be more sturdy too. I'd use those for the poles.
You should be able to buy some pretty thick plasti-card stock from the place as well. If you have a hole punch, that should do it for the disks. Punch away until your hearts conent.
For the gun assembly, it just depends upon how spiffy you want to get. I'm thinking of KISS. Keep It Simple... so, the same places that carry plasticard usually carry that model train I-beam plasticard stuff. If you hold the end of the I-beam up to the bottom of your disk, you should be able to get a feel for how much you need there to represent guns. Glue in place and cut off where approapriate. Viola - gun drones.
Me personally though - this would be way too much effort for drones. To me, its worth it to just buy a few baggies and be done with them. I find that 'creating' models isn't worth the headache for me - just don't have the time I used too... or the patience. 
Good luck, hopefully there's something you can use here.
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nealhunt
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Post subject: proxy Drones Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:55 pm |
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Location: Nashville, TN, USA
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You know, I'd be willing to bet that with some searching through the bins of sewing stores, you could find buttons or snaps that would work passably well as drones. 6mm is ~1/4 inch. Surely, there's some 1/4" fasteners with domed tops out there somewhere.
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