"Who Else Makes Sci-Fi Drones for 28mm?" Topic

The only ones I was familiar with are the 40K Tau drones.

Who else makes hovering drones?

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These are the Tau drones:

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There are two different types in the superfigs henchmen line
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Iron Wind Metals and Ral Partha Europe have the old Vor Union drones and Shadowrun Riggers + Drones packs. Also, some of the more exoticly shaped small-scale aeroplanes and spaceships would work well as drones IMCO (Aerotech Hellcat II for example — since I mentioned IWM).

There are also some in the Superfigs line.

I agree with TnJrp small scale aircraft and space ships are good.

Some of the Mongoose Publishing B5 Vree ships might work, especially the fighters.

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Hope this helps,
Iain
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Infinity has some too uner their PanOceana, Yu Jing, Haqqislam and Nomad ranges.

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Infinity has the best drone designs ever.
They are ground drones though and fighting machines, so they are far larger than the TAU drones and they are (at least so far) ground moving so I don't know if they fit the posters needs.

It might not be hovering, but Mongoose make a RPV drone similar to a Predator for Starship Troopers.

Cacique Caribe, have anything particular in mind? I've got a line of miniature sin developement now and if you have suggestions for something you'd like to see I might be able to help you out.

Ebbles Miniatures does hovering drones in cardstock. Several variants, plus a "mother" drone. you can print them to whatever scale you wish. I use them for both 20mm and 28mm, with great success.

Mel Ebbles has a pair of cardstock drones, one large (command) and one smaller (attack) with a variety of weaponry. Pictures and his announcement are here:

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They're designed to be used with small magnets to allow part swapping, although the magnets are not necessary.

Scratchbuild whatever you want using bottle tops, plasticard, and other assorted bits and bobs. Use $Tree weapons from the "military playsets" as the weapons.

Wal Mart also has a $2 USD die cast predator drone that would work with 28mm figs fairly well.

The Vor union line has a few of blisters of drones.

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Here is a nice link with lots of pics.

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We have a selection of hovering drones –

Here's the asteroid miner 'security drones' (scroll about half way down the list of images)-

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And here's the more sleek alien gopher drone we produce for our alien species the Hydrissians –

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(There are two types of gopher drone – one with a transmitter – the other with a light machine gun).

Hope that helps! :)

Rod – alphaforgegames.com

There's also the ultra-cool Hydrissian 'Scavenger Drone' that kinda, maybe, might be a bit reminiscent-in-a-good-way of those sentinel things in The Matrix

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There are also a number of little drones in the recent wave of releases for Rezolution, though only one of those floats. Look for the "Bots Pack".

DP9 has some, and others that would be good for UGVs, or even larger-than-man-sized combat robots. (Really, for man-sized combat robots, all of the Gears would work.

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All those DP9 models appear to be 'limited edition' resin kits…

That makes them seem kind of 'fancy'…

AFAICT, only the Thunderhammer and Sagittarius are resin, but I haven't seen them. I know the others are metal – except the drones, those I'm not sure about either.

Thanks Venusboys :) – forgot the scavenger drone….

This tripod could work as a drone for 28mm figures, couldn't it?

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Those Infinity Drones would make for some decent 6mm Ground tanks as well….

Funny thing though… They have "ninjas" with the "Yu Jing", which is a Chinese word (or pair of words), yet "Ninjas" are Nihon-go

That's cuz the Chinese have taken over the entire continent of Asia, and made the Japanese "an offer they could not refuse." They're still Japanese, but they work for the Yu Jing government.

Because it's hard to see, those Infinity remotes are actually on 40mm bases. They're BIG, roughly man-high. (I've got the Yu Jing, PanO, and Haqqislam remotes)

I must get one (or two) of these RAFM drones . . .

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These look kinda drone-ish, though they are prepainted plastic:

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I ordered and received those SW attack droids:

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Nice close-up of the Tau drone sprue:

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Not too pricey either:

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Aberrant

have a look aT GZG's 15mm range – some are ok for 28mm.

How big is the RAFM aerial drone?

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Well that base is about 1" across.

-Eli