"Fireteam Andromeda - Repurposing 'Clix miniatures (part II)" Topic
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| Torben Kastbjerg | 13 Nov 2012 6:00 a.m. PST |
Another quick update from the Terminus Nebula blog, detailing a light tank-hunter that I converted from a 'mech-clix vehicle – and thought I'd share with y'all :) Terminus Nebula Blog |
| Moqawama | 13 Nov 2012 7:04 a.m. PST |
I think you'd have more success with Matchbox hovercrafts: see here
at least these are of 15mm size |
| Goober | 13 Nov 2012 7:25 a.m. PST |
That's a very nice job, Torben. The larger clix vehicles are OK for 15mm, certainly not as an MBT, but as a smaller vehicle they are OK, and relatively cheap. That said, the hovercraft above were only £1.00 GBP each…. |
| cooey2ph | 13 Nov 2012 3:20 p.m. PST |
You got me at "repurposed." jumped in the cmg fad before and sunk a lot of moolah. Been repurposing too since the original games evaporated.
was into dnd, mageknight and a bit of mechwarrior. Good job on the conversions! I love it when the repurposed models make my friends wonder what line they originally came from. |
| Torben Kastbjerg | 14 Nov 2012 3:08 a.m. PST |
@Moqawama – I cannot counter-argue that these models are slightly out of scale, but I still feel that they have a good look to them as small, light, two-man vehicles. The ones pictured above are inteded to be used for quick harrasment manouvers – and have little regard to the physical fittings for the various races piloting the vehicle (you wouldn't be able to fit in a Garm, that's for sure!) ;) But I really like those hovercrafts! A shame that we don't have something similar here in Denmark; all we have in regards for toys like this are massively expensive, unfortunately. Cheers on the comments! :) |
| Bunny Coleman | 20 Nov 2012 3:10 a.m. PST |
where did you get those hovercraft as they would make idea 6mm assault landers! bunny |
| Moqawama | 20 Nov 2012 5:53 a.m. PST |
Torben: look on Ebay.co.uk for "Matchbox hovercraft" or "Diecast hovercraft" I bet you'll find lot of suitable toys. |
Dropzonetoe  | 21 Nov 2012 4:16 p.m. PST |
I would suggest that you build a smaller undercarriage to bulk out the size of the tank. Either add a bit of skirting for hover crafts or some tank treads to add some height. I took a under sized matchbox vehicle and converted it into something closer to scale by adding extra kit to bulk it out and it helped a lot. I could see the same thing working with the mechwarrior stuff. basic frame
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