Uesugi Kenshin  | 09 Feb 2010 4:30 a.m. PST |
I have decided to field 'em, so now I need some help. The old robots are hard to come by and a biy pricey for what you get! The Pig Iron Droids would probably be the most obvious alternative. Can anyone else suggest some 40k appropriate robots that dont lookk to Battle-techy? |
| 2bit elroy | 09 Feb 2010 4:45 a.m. PST |
Agreed UK. Go with Pig Iron War Droids. Rattlehead has the best price in the US as I rememeber. link |
| Palewarrior | 09 Feb 2010 5:25 a.m. PST |
Warmachine Warjacks would do, although some are a bit pricey. |
| f u u f n f | 09 Feb 2010 7:01 a.m. PST |
These are what I have been looking at using for Rogue Trader 40K 1E robots.
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| Battle Works Studios | 09 Feb 2010 7:24 a.m. PST |
There are a few warbots in Aberrant's Rezolution range, of varying degrees of goofiness. HyperBunny's Alpha Forge suggestion is also a good one – the big demolition droids are really an impressive model. |
| ThorLongus | 09 Feb 2010 8:23 a.m. PST |
why not some cheap mechwarrior clicks, repaint, rebase,done |
| Paul Hurst | 09 Feb 2010 8:32 a.m. PST |
My local "£1" store does a pack of 4 robots for…..£1!  They come in a variety of colours with different weapons and are about 50mm tall. They're made of plastic and should be easy to convert/augment. The same sort of thing should be available in your local cheap store. |
| Ivan DBA | 09 Feb 2010 10:09 a.m. PST |
Warmachine Bauhaus Vulkan battlesuits would work well, if you converted them slighlty to cover up the crewman's head sticking out of the top. |
| Insomniac | 09 Feb 2010 11:41 a.m. PST |
Slightly converted Bauhaus Vulkan: picture |
| ming31 | 09 Feb 2010 2:23 p.m. PST |
Alpha Forge's Demo bot is a big boy . the smaller droids are not as big as the 40k bots , but they do not have the fire power either . Excaliber had some bots …I only saw them on the website . The pig Iron droids are about the same as a GW Terminator. |
| Farstar | 09 Feb 2010 2:47 p.m. PST |
The old GW robots fit (barely) on a 40mm square base. The other models of that size range have since been "promoted" to 65mm rounds. For size comparison purposes, the "Heavy" warjacks for Warmachine are on 50mm rounds. Another answer to the OP's question is the Talos from Kryomek. Several poses and weapons, clearly "robot-y", and clearly NOT Battletech. |
| Space Monkey | 09 Feb 2010 2:48 p.m. PST |
We've been using the Warmachine mechs along with the original Rogue Trader robots… I also like the robots from the old Metal Magic sci fi line but haven't put them together yet.
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| Mark Plant | 09 Feb 2010 4:02 p.m. PST |
Star Wars plastic pre-paints will get you there fastest. |
| Space Monkey | 09 Feb 2010 5:43 p.m. PST |
Most of the Star Wars stuff is too iconic of Star Wars… and not all that 40k-goofy in design. |
| ThorLongus | 10 Feb 2010 7:00 a.m. PST |
there is a star wars prepaint "bulk loader droid" that would be perfect, intended as a cargo loading dockworker droid
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| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 10 Feb 2010 2:01 p.m. PST |
These from North star aren't bad link I used these plastic ones from heroscape with some conversion work for my 40k robots link |
