| Cacique Caribe | 24 Feb 2014 3:48 a.m. PST |
Ok, I'll show you mine first. All of them done with cheap craft beads:
link By the way, I'm not into Dr. Who, but I just found this interesting pic showing Daleks of a type very similar to my bead drones (except for the bumpy thingies):
link QUESTION: So … what hover drones have you guys come up with, and what did you use to make them? Thanks, Dan
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| Lupulus | 24 Feb 2014 5:07 a.m. PST |
Nice. How do you plan to make them "hover"? OOT: I saw the picture and immediately thought "that's got to be from Android Arts" :)
I really like his redesigns of various IPs androidarts.com |
| Borscope | 24 Feb 2014 5:10 a.m. PST |
The difficulty in acquiring and/or fabricating plungers in 15mm scale is what is holding back the industry. Seriously, though. After the original thread I've had "scratch 15mm Maximilian" on my daily "To Do" list. |
| zrunelord | 24 Feb 2014 5:13 a.m. PST |
Great idea Dan,
I will try to scratch one up using Pvc , as outlined in my previous post. Thanks
Z |
| skinkmasterreturns | 24 Feb 2014 6:23 a.m. PST |
I made some with the plastic sewing pins,the ones with the little plastic balls on the non pointy end.I then used one of the jewelry making washer shaped gew-gaws glued to the under side of the plastic ball and shoved the needle into a base,then primed and painted them.They are intel droids/drones for my 15mm not Eldar figures.No,I dont have any pictures. |
| Dynaman8789 | 24 Feb 2014 8:44 a.m. PST |
Could the stick on eyeballs be used for plungers in 15mm? The kind that have a sticky backing to attach to dolls. My guess is that even the smallest of those is too large though. |
| Cacique Caribe | 24 Feb 2014 10:14 a.m. PST |
You could use the stick-on half pearls pictured above instead. The smallest ones are much tinier than the "eyeballs" you talk about. Dan |
| Only Warlock | 24 Feb 2014 10:42 a.m. PST |
Here is my kit bashed Drone to go with my 15mm bug army!
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| Only Warlock | 24 Feb 2014 12:33 p.m. PST |
Cacique your drones remind me of the Robots from Disney ' s "The Black Hole"! Great stuff! |
| Cacique Caribe | 24 Feb 2014 1:17 p.m. PST |
It's magic, of course! The magic of a steam rice box wire handle …
link … all stretched out and run through the horizontal coin-shaped beads near the top of each drone. Dan |
| Only Warlock | 24 Feb 2014 2:06 p.m. PST |
Lol my "art of 2010" concept art book has a drawing of a Chinese takeout container as the Chinese spaceship that was dropped from the film. |
| Cacique Caribe | 24 Feb 2014 7:37 p.m. PST |
It happened totally by accident. I needed thicker wire to string up the bead drones, and we had just had Chinese delivered. What can I say! QUESTION Would running a piece of wire or a short straight pin through the small plastic donut beads shown here work as a "plunger" for your Daleks? link Dan |
 Legion 4  | 25 Feb 2014 8:30 a.m. PST |
Some nice stuff there. I don't have any … but I use 6mm Exodus War Kamikazi Hover Drones for some of my units … along with their tracked attack drones …
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| Cacique Caribe | 28 Feb 2014 2:19 p.m. PST |
Guys, Check out what this fella made!
link I can see something similar put together using a tack and a "textured" bead of some sort under it. The pin on the tack could double as the stand. Not sure what was used to make these "hand-made" drones:
link And look at this other option, where the fella uses beads:
link Another cool example:
link Thoughts? Dan |
| Alfrik | 03 Mar 2014 5:22 p.m. PST |
Like the simplicity of style going on in this thread. |
| Cacique Caribe | 04 Mar 2014 9:15 a.m. PST |
Guys, How about threading these tiny 2mm "crimp beads" with wire, to make robotic arms?
auction Think it might work?
Thoughts? Dan
PS. I have no idea yet about hands or clamps though. |
| War Monkey | 04 Mar 2014 10:08 p.m. PST |
I think they would look like Robbie the Robot that hovers, that would work for many different games, retro, pulp, VSF and many others, I think your on to something there |
| deflatermouse | 05 Mar 2014 4:05 a.m. PST |
Black Cat Bases do a 15mm BOB. Are they back in business? |
| grommet37 | 05 Mar 2014 7:58 p.m. PST |
There sure is a lot of inspiration in this thread. Now I want all my factions to have hover drones. |
| War Monkey | 06 Mar 2014 12:08 a.m. PST |
You know you could make a whole hovering robot army :D Looking at he very first picture at the top of this post I can see a whole cast system there Hummm |
| zrunelord | 06 Mar 2014 11:55 a.m. PST |
Dan you could make them out of card like I did my Killa Kans or PVC like I did my Eldar BFG.
The best tool I found to cut card/Pvc real neat, is a flat tipped blade, instead of the normal surgical blade ( think flat wood chisel ). If you press down on one point & wiggle it to the other side it shears the card neatly.I always put a piece of hardwood underneath ( mahogany in my case). You can build almost anything out of card & the right tools. I'll post pics of my droid soon Z. |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Mar 2014 9:11 p.m. PST |
How big are these Lego claws/clamps?
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auction Does anyone know? Thanks, Dan |
| zrunelord | 01 Apr 2014 2:24 p.m. PST |
Hello again Dan,
The top claws are around 15mm long & they belong to Lego droids.I posted pics here.The droids that these belong to would be good for 15mm. flickr.com/photos/zrunelord
This should help. Unfortunately I do not have of the bottom ones Z |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Apr 2014 2:50 p.m. PST |
Wow. Those claws do look a bit too big for any of the drones I'm making with the beads. Thanks so much for the excellent comparison shots! Dan |
| Borathan | 01 Apr 2014 6:53 p.m. PST |
depending upon what you want to do with it, one easy one was one of the ball capped straight pins painted up as a Star Wars remote |
| John Treadaway | 01 Apr 2014 7:41 p.m. PST |
Just plain pins
The desciption of these in the Slammerverse is just of smooth metal balls used in swarms. This seemed an easy fix. John T |
| War Monkey | 01 Apr 2014 9:53 p.m. PST |
@zruneload
Those lego droids could work as service drones as powerloaders and such I'll have to secure a few for the shipping yard :) |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Apr 2014 10:08 p.m. PST |
Could these be good for any drone or robot-making? 8mm long. 5mm hole.
auction Just wondering. Dan
PS. Wow. I just noticed that the lot has 3750 of those beads! I wish there was a way to get just 100 of those, and in the US. |
| War Monkey | 01 Apr 2014 10:45 p.m. PST |
I don't know, but I can see them used for shipping drums, you would just have to fill them or put a cover on them Or wheels |
| Zakalwe64 | 02 Apr 2014 8:30 a.m. PST |
The green drone above was made by takiing a large stick-pon and gluing bits of plastic card and rod to it. The pin became the stand. |
| zrunelord | 02 Apr 2014 9:28 a.m. PST |
You're more than welcome Dan… and I have to convince my son to donate them to the greater good :) , which sadly up to now I have unable to do.
Yes they would make great Powermules. The droid I did was the NSL one using a Tau helmet & pvc but I shall be posting more droid goodness soon. Btw you do not need to buy 100 of those beads , just wrap Pc flat cable cut to the length you need , wrap it round a skewer ( choose your diameter,rub some Vaseline on it so that the glue won't stick ) , glue with superglue & you can make as many as you want.Flat cable can be used in loads of projects. Hope this helps
Z |
| Cacique Caribe | 04 Apr 2014 8:42 p.m. PST |
I wonder if using a small shirt button for the center disc section, one of those buttons with 4 holes, would allow a good anchor site for four hanging mechanical tentacles:
Dan |
| War Monkey | 04 Apr 2014 9:16 p.m. PST |
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| zrunelord | 04 Apr 2014 11:37 p.m. PST |
It should,Dan.
Especially if you get a concave + convex one as this will give clearance space for whatever will anchor the hanging things…. but you will need to drill a 4th hole for the flight base. Z |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 Sep 2014 4:03 a.m. PST |
Has anyone played around making any other hover robot drones of their own from scratch? I'm thinking of painting a few of mine like worker drones, in bright colors like this: link And, like the mule robot in that link, maybe adding tiny squares and other small panels here and there might be a good idea too. Dan |
| Soldado | 21 Sep 2014 10:37 a.m. PST |
CC not so much scratch built but i use these as recon drones
They are server rack shelf mounting studs mounted onto pins Im working on armed versions |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 Sep 2014 12:51 p.m. PST |
Those are fantastic! How tall are they? Dan |
| Soldado | 21 Sep 2014 1:33 p.m. PST |
here's a scale shot with some of GZGs NAC troopers and matchbox "technicals"
They stand around 30mm high when based without the base they are 18mm tall by 11mm wide around the base its about 8mm around the square area. By the way I have no idea where you'd get these from, I got them from work where they were being thrown out. I understand that they were supplied with some equipment that we fitted with something more suited to the job. |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 Jan 2015 2:38 p.m. PST |
If you have some bits left over, here are some of the cargo elements you could make:
They are a mixture of beads and Lego bits. More pictures here, towards the bottom of that folder: link Comments welcome. Thanks, Dan
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| War Monkey | 21 Jan 2015 8:04 p.m. PST |
Wow! those look great! I guess I need to hit some little kids toy boxes! ;) |
| Cacique Caribe | 30 Jan 2015 2:02 p.m. PST |
This spherical droid should be pretty easy to replicate for 15mm, I think. I could use a simple and cheap plastic half-pearl for the top, just as long as there's some sort of narrow buffer between and the body. That would keep the head from gluing flush against the body, which would paint up nicely:
link The little "greeblies" could be added before painting. If only I could get my hands on some of ST Scotty's "transparent aluminum"! :) Dan |
gets started with WWI British in 15mm.
