Re: Sa'vasku - ground forces (look & feel)

Then again, you can always go to a toy store and buy those cheap rubber
bugs (50 cents max). I bought some cheap plastic dinosaurs for 10 cents
each and painted them so that I could use them as either as draft
animals (carry 1 element of infantry) and as Godzilla like monsters
(this is even before I heard about the movie. . .). They look great
rampaging through an urban area.

Most of the toy stores around here have a large selection of bugs in
various sizes. Cheaper than buying micromachines and you can step on
them without breaking them. Plastic spiders as line infantry, flies as
VTOLs, tarantulas as infantry walkers. . .

On the other hand. . .
Apparently, dead beetles are quite durable. You could just use those. No
painting required! 

If anyone is interested, I'll scan some pix of repainted cheap plastic
reptiles. 

Paul

Tony Francis wrote:
that cats have when they deposit dead wild life on the new carpet).
> Now, if I could put the dead bug in a mould, cast it in metal - there
you go,
> instant bug tanks !! On the other hand, would decaying chitin
> react with silicon rubber - and do I really want to find out !?
> 
> Perhaps it's not such a good idea after all ....
> 
> Tony Francis