Re: Speaking of Kitbashing, was [DS] Dropships and Walking Drones and Guns

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Brian Bilderback wrote:

> Roger Books
> 
> >Kitbash.  Go down to  your local Rat Shack/Electronics supply place
> >and buy some transistors.  Or cut them off of a circuit board.
> >If that won't work try some 4 pin ICs.
> 
> I DID come up with a cool looking Light Assault Dropship/Attack VTOL
for 
> DSII last night.  I took the body af a B-tech madcat, put on the LRM 
> launcher boxes, addes a couple of trhusters where the arms go, no
legs, 
> filed off the flat part of the bottom, and glued on a backback from a
Heavy 
> Gear as tail assembly (I had an aircraft  v-tail from a bits box I
added as 
> well).  Not bad for a bashing neophyte.  Makes me want to get som
Madcats 
> and backpacks.

Sounds cool - any chance of pics?

Madcats are those 'mechs with the sort of cylindrical body, right? Kind
of
like the nose of a B-29 bomber? If that's the one, I can see how that
would make a cool dropship.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -