The fuselage is made from the computer mouse and a plastic tub like item from the packaging on a 1/18th scale diecast car. The legs are made from Bic disposable razor handles and evergreen channel and tubing, with the knee joints scrounged from spare road wheels for a 1/72nd scale Tiger tank. The bladelike feet are plastic knives trimmed to fit inside the razor handles. All the other items are from plastic sheet or tubing. I have primed the whole thing grey, and I am trying to decide what colour to paint it. I am thinking a bronze or copper with green in homage to George Pal. Overall the Whole thing stands about 10" tall or 270mm. The funny thing is that I built this but I don't Play Victorian Science fiction. I guess I will have to buy a bunch of colonials to use in a game with this thing, and the two others I hope to build.
Cheers
George
7 comments:
Nice! That's how I got into VSF, backing in. "Oh, I'll just do a coupel of figures for fun..."
Great work.
That is muy impressive! Seeing stuff like this makes one think in entirely new ways! I can't wait to make something like this myself!
Hey, that looks pretty cool. I reckon the painted colours sound good, you can subtract a bit of the mouse's inherent modernity with paint colour and texture. Iron and brass.
Great model.
One perons junk is a wargamers inspiration.
Love the robot. Great job. Using the mouse was a stroke of genius too.
George,
For Victorian SF, there are some nice rule sets. The only one that I've tried is G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. And I only played it as a "straight" Colonial game . . . but it was relatively simple and lots of fun.
On another note, are you by any chance on Vancouver Island? There are a number of gamers here on the mid-to-northern part of Vancouver Island.
-- Jeff
http://saxe-bearstein.blogspot.com/
Hi George,
we truly liked this tripod conversion. It's wild & yet looks so "easy"!
We @ www.aztek-TV.com linked a short newsarticle about it (with pic) to your blog.
Enjoy!
grtz, Francis
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