Re: [SG] Walking Drones and Guns

If you can find a pack of Ral Partha's Riggers & Drones minis for the
Shadowrun line, they included a three types of drones, a very small
tracked, a gunned wheeled drone, and a small frisbee like hover drone.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bell, Brian K (Contractor) 
  To: gzg-l@CSUA. Berkeley. EDU (E-mail) 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:48 AM
  Subject: [SG] Walking Drones and Guns

  I would like to add some small (dog size), 3-6 legged, walking
drones/robots to a SG game. The idea is that a team lets loose a number
of sensor drones into an area they expect to have enemy activity. These
can be air dropped, or walk in on their own power. The drones move
stealthily and attempt to detect enemy locations (and radio them back).
My idea was to use hidden counters until a unit is spotted. You would
not know if the counter was a unit or a group of drones moving around.
Also a sniper team could carry one and activate it to move off if the
sniper is spotted (drawing fire away from where he is actually
retreating). Another use would be as patrolling sentry gun (think of the
sentry guns from alien that walk the perimeter).

  The trouble is finding/building miniatures. Does anyone know of any
3-6 leg robots, smaller than human size, figures? Any in 15mm?

  Anyone know a good way to kit-bash such a figure?

  My fallback plan is to take a domed button and use wire or stick pins
to form legs. Then add a piano wire antennae. Don't wait for pictures,
most of my projects die in the planning stage.

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