"Scratchbuilding droids" Topic

Not life size, female droids (already tried that. Mine never worked. I guess I should have put electronics inside or something?)

But 28mm droid figures, for Star Wars and such.

Not a lot of WOTC droids to choose from.

I bet if one used imagination, one could make some assorted little droids out of scrap parts, eh?

What do you think? My Star Wars table needs a LOT more droids, and I have bought enough R-5 units.

You're absolutely right.

All the droids from the Star Wars miniatures line (with the exception of the basic tan battle droid) are scarce at best. I've been looking for secondary market figures, and there are no inexpensive readymade alternatives out there.

I'd say that a bag of metal tubing, floral wire, and sculpey/greenstuff might make a "good enough for the Jawas we hang with" droid to fill in some gaps on the table. They don't even need to be all that detailed, just the general shape of the astromech ~shouldn't~ be that hard to replicate.

How badly could it go? ;)

The WotC droids go further by repainting some and converting some. Scratchingbuilding a few would be fun, but with such good stock, conversion will get a small horde of droids on the table quicker. Broken electronics have lots of good stuff inside for droids of this scale.

You young pups! *Kitbashing* is the fine art of making stuff out of other stuff:

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And remember, chilluns, parts is parts, toothpaste caps make fantastic space engines or gun muzzles, and the local craft store is your FRIEND!

Leland R. Erickson

I suspect that the easiest way to build a cohesive star wars robot army of different bots is to use the bots themselves.

Buy the common, cheap, and easy to amass robots…sway heads, replace legs with $1 USD mini-tanks or wheels, cut off robot heads and add them to various scratch built bits and bobs.

Then the whole of your kitbashed army would still have enough elements to bind them together :)

BlackWidowPilot, awesome gallery! The naval battleships converted to spaceships are quite nice. Is this based on the old Japanese cartoon with the Yamato as the flagship? (can't for the life of me remember the name of the show but I loved it as a kid!)

Why Spaceship Yamato of course! :)

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Check out the working scale model as it flies underwater

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Well, Starblazers was probably the name of the cartoon. Thanks for the link. Cool that they are making a movie of this!

Starblazers was the dub name… the original was Space Battleship Yamato.

Thanks for the inspiration, guys.

My lifetime of building 1/35 scale armor, 1/48 scale aircraft and 1/25 cars has left me with a HUGE amount of spare parts.

Time to put them to use!

Or you could send all your spare parts and excess bots to someone to build them for you :)

Or you could scratchbuild some awesome ones, make molds, and sell us castings at "Freind of 28mm Man" prices!

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Hmmm I suspect the best thing to do is develop a tutorial of how to use bits and bobs to make bots…cut the middle man out :)

A few things made out of spare hardware, old electronics connectors, $1 USD store trucks, bits, and pieces…

Quar Pod Racer

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A handful of Kroot Dakar Racers

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Hey neighbor dude, you might want to see these pretty awesome 40K Necron conversions:

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…but maybe these aren't the droids you're looking for (there, someone had to say it!)

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Howdy neighba! Cool stuff. Thanks.

When you gonna make it five miles north and do some gaming? I have a great new desert table! ;)

Grievous is crazy fun picture

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So you guys are both in Ft Pierce?

I am a native born Floridian stuck in Texas…from Miami/Ft Lauderdale…spent a handful of years in Satellite Beach/Cocoa Beach…I like the area very much…hopefully when the last couple finish high school we will head down that way again…would be nice to see blue water when I go to the beach again.

How about mounting the basic droid on a marble? As a roller ball type or as a gravity ball type.

Cut it off at the waist, glue to a marble, glue a few bits around the waist.

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Do you have a bunch of these cheap guys? If you called them I suspect they would offer a slightly better deal for all of them trollandtoad.com/p180579.html they have 47 of them.

55 of these trollandtoad.com/p123186.html

21 of these trollandtoad.com/p230699.html

15 of these trollandtoad.com/p230704.html

06 of these trollandtoad.com/p123185.html

How many bots do you need?

Kroot truck! KROOOOOT TRUUUUUK!

I love it. I must make one.

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I'm in Vero (on the border, literally) Saxon is in Fote Pierce

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at Cool Stuff INC.
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almost all the droids a buck or two

Hi guys, here is my simple offering to this thread, R2-D2 in 15mm
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Love that Necron conversion army Saxon Dog

I built my first. A "Beer Droid", basically a regigerated cooler on treads with a serving arm and trash can for emptys.

That and the "Rib Smoker Droid" could possibly be the greartest droids ever devised, and the most useful in the SW universe.

Darnit, Inari7….

I just went and picked up almost every Star Wars fig that was less than a buck (and not a blobby mess) from CoolStuffInc.

Special thanks to Smokeyroan for pointing out that to truly understand the issue, I'd have to have a whole mess of r4's and r5s !

Look what you guys made me do ;)

Not all that cheap but certainly interesting picture fun right?

That image is what an Ogre should look like :)

@ PygmaelionAgain, the owner of Cool Stuff is a great guy. That is our local game store. Hope you got alot of great droids, I need to pick up some too some time.

Inari, I ordered stuff on a thursday, my sister picked it up on a Friday in store. Great service.

Then I order stuff on a thursday, mail oreder, and it ARRIVES on Friday!

They are great.