"Metal 28mm Servile Robots?" Topic

The only one I know of is in the PI.1 Command pack:
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Are there any others, slaving away to carry our things and do work for us?

CC

They have one sweeping up
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Something bipedal, like the NS-5 or earlier model robots in the movie "I Robot" would be really nice:
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CC

The Wizards of the Coast Star Wars range has plenty of little robots that work fine as household robots. Sure they aren't doing anything active, but that would rather limit them anyhow.

Course they're plastic, but how does that matter?

Copplestone has a "waiter" robot in one of his sci-fi packs.

Denizen do a pack of three worker robots.

In addition to Paranoia droids, which would be easy to convert to be "servile" (or at least non-combatant), Mongoose's Gangs Of Mega-City One has some robots that are or are easy convert into civilian models.

We need more schlep-bots! I like the one in the Pig Iron command pack, doing the heavy lifting for the Joes.

Gotta go with Star Wars minis here. The ASP droid is a great labor bot. Throw a piece of cardstock on the R5 astromech and you've got a waiter like R2 from Jedi. You've got all kinds of Battle Droids and Super Battle Droids for combat. You could clip the lances off of Bodyguard droids to have labor droids in cloaks. C3P0 can be found pretty cheap as a household type, butler. There is a medical droid. Lots of possibilities.

Hi there,
Loads of people love that little taskdroid in the command pack – We have plans to look at doing a pack or two based on that figure with maybe a 'lifter' version of the wardroid.
The question is – do you make them more military or civilian based?
If you have any comments fire them over to us.

Simon – Pig Iron

SJ Games has, or perhaps its "had," a couple of steampunk robots. There was a giant one and a average size one, each with a distinctive look. I have them. They're quite clunky-lookiing, which may or may not suit your desired aesthetic. But they are non-militarized, they are not bristling with skulls, machine guns, or weapons of any sort. They are also clearly robots – quite humanoid, quite mechanical. They're not the "what's the heck is that?" "that's a robot," Oh," kind of sci fi robot.

Andrew

"We have plans to look at doing a pack or two based on that figure . . . The question is – do you make them more military or civilian based?"

Simon,

For that style of "taskdroid", it would be great to have something like this:

* workers (for carrying or repairing equipment of different sorts)
* medical team (medic and casualy retrieval)

Either as a combined pack or as two separate packs would be fantastic.

CC

"For that style of 'taskdroid' . . ."

Sorry, I meant to type "Based on THAT very same style of 'taskdroid'. . ."

Don't change the general look of the droid (I LOVE IT), just make additional variants for different tasks.

Thanks.

CC

The "I Robot" look is still nice:

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CC

For non-bipedals, I guess some of these might work:

gamerocket.net/search_items.asp

Search for "droid".

CC

Doesn't GZG have in their station series a male/female humanoid droid or two…and Reviersco had a 'butler bot' at one time and cargo hauling and medibot…etc???

Sgt DWW

There are neither metal nor servile:

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However, I would be interested to see what they would look like with their heads replaced.

CC

"Loads of people love that little taskdroid in the command pack – We have plans to look at doing a pack or two based on that figure . . ."

Simon, any release dates yet for those additional Pig Iron "taskdroid" packs?

Thanks.

CC

Mongoose makes some bots for 'paranoia'.

Simon: "The question is – do you make them more military or civilian based?"

There are already lots of warbot types about. Bipedal medbots, mulebots and general service and recon bots would be ideal, I think.

What does everyone else think?

CC

From a message off-line with Simon, it seems like the taskdroid pack is still in the plans!

Fingers crossed.

CC

The Pig Iron 'taskdroid' is indeed a really cool mini. I love the idea of other sorts of 'schlep-bots'that trail around after the platoon. For a PI Taskdroid pack I'd love to see:

Ammo bearers
Stretcher bearers
Mine clearance (really, send the droid through the minefield…)
Sentries
Baggage 'bots hauling the platoon's packs, water, etc

I would really love a bunch of NS-5s:

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CC

I'm with Stinger on this – I'd like to see more of the Pig Iron taskbots – I like the style of the existing one, and would love multiple poses/functions.
I'd also be okay with being able to just get a pack of multiple copies of the existing one.

NS-5s

easy…

Necron Bodies, with Hasslfree heads.
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Byram1: "NS-5s . . . easy . . .Necron Bodies, with Hasslfree heads"

1) How tall are those GW Necrons?

2) Also, can they be made to look "servile"? Or do they have weaponry built into them?

I've never seen one up close.

CC

I know this is artwork, but is this what those Necrons really look like?

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If so, can the weaponry be removed without damaging the figures?

CC

Foundry do Mek-Quake. Does he count as servile?

Which one is "Mek-Quake"? Where is it on their site?

Thanks.

CC