"Do You Have A Favorite Hover Robot Design?" Topic

The imperial hovering probe bot on Hoth was always one of mine:

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How about you? Got other favorites of your own?

Dan
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I really like the 'bots from "The Black Hole," cant remember their names these days…

How about the Alphacoders from The Matrix?

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B.O.B and V.I.N.CENT

PapaSync,

Now, THOSE look evil!

Dan
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I liked the drones from Oblivion quite a bit.

Tom Servo from MST3K.

Here they are.

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Another vote for the "Oblivion" drones

Zhodani Warbots

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I Also like the Tau drones, although some of the weaponry seems a bit large.

Does Bit count (from Tron)? tron.wikia.com/wiki/Bit

Also, there's Nomad from Star Trek. en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Nomad

And EVE from Wall-E.

SeRvOsKuLLs, DoOd!

Another vote for V.I.N.CENT.

Lovely design, even with the plasticy look it had. I guess it would be hard to sculpt his voice though.

I never realised this before now but my sons name is Vincent and I used to work (4&1/2 years)at a place called BoB.
Never saw the movie.

While I too have a special place in my heart for b.o.b and v.I.n.cent, Maximilian would be my choice in a non Hollywood environment

TNE2300,

That Zhodani bot looks a lot like those that Skeletor had:

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Dan

Would love to the alphacoders.

The ones PapaSync linked and Maximillian from Black hole

The greatest and most iconic of the hovering robots

Shame Dr. Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell) is no longer with us.

Yep. These …

Nylon acorn caps, wingnuts, and miscellanea.

Okay those wing nut guys are really cool, I'll have to check those parts out and see how big they are.

Thumbs up for the wingnuts.

But I'd still like to have a Not-Maximilian mini.

wing nuts are super cool. But my favorites are the Oblivion drones. Maybe because I liked how they operated.

Those Wing Nut 'bots are cool !! Very nice work !

"Zhodani Warbots"

Like these!

From my blog:
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Regards,
Keith F.

Ok. Here is a Rebel Minis 15mm figure, flanked by the two little guys I want to hover:

As you can see in the next pic, I used stick-on half pearls, flat plastic beads with hole running across (for arms?), two sizes of "pony beads" and a tiny little donut bead for the wire stand to enter at the bottom:

The wire that is holding them in line is about as thick as I will probably need to hold them in the air when based. Not much space in that bottom bead.

So, what do you think so far?

Thanks,

Dan
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@CC
Nice idea I like them very much as well.

Thanks! And it didn't take long to do either.

Anyway, if I use the flat numbered bead for the middle, with holes placed up-down, and at a half-pearl to each side, I might be able to come up with something similar to the Oblivion drones. Hmm.

Dan

I like what you have going there already, like floating R2-D2s, and with the hole for the numbered beads you have a place for mechanical arms, I'm leaning towards the one on the right in your picture

War Monkey,

Here's another picture I took, this time with two other attempts (the new guys are on the right) using smaller beads:

As you can see, I still need to clean up the two on the right, but I hope you get the idea. They are all extremely easy to make. And all of them use the horizontal hole bead near the top, where the holding wire is in the picture, so I can add arms later.

What do you think?

Dan
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Those are really great, just conceder them pinched :D, I have a lot of service bots ideas in my head for them right now, need a few maintenance bots hover and mobile ones, first thing that comes to mind is a set of tracks like Wall-e

Doug,

Send me your mailing address and I'll save you the trouble of tracking down each of the separate components.

Daniel DOT martinez1 AT sbcglobal DOT net

That's a number "1" after my last name, by the way.

Dan

Black Cat Bases makes a couple of Blackhole inspired bots in their 25mm line (they have some 15mm bots as well) that are perfect for Bob and Vincent…

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Note the flight base is 15mm in diameter….

Oblivion drones – Their behaviour and the sounds they made, are probably the only time I've seen an alien robot act like an alien robot. Nice and intimidating.

etotheipi,

Quite awesome work!