Miniatures

> Date:     Thu, 27 Jun 91 14:47:27 EDT
> From: "Robert S. Dean" [email removed]
> Subject: (2479)  Miniatures
>
> Does anyone out there use 25mm miniatures as visual aids during Traveller
> games?  What have you found that "looks" like a Traveller character?
>
> Rob
>
I find the Battletech figures quite suitable (not the 'mechs, the ground
types).

Of course the Grenadier Traveller figs are very good, but they are
out of production as far as I know.

Other suggestions could be shadowrun figures or any modern period figures
for that matter. The range of weapons of course won't be available, but
my chracters still run around with 7mm rifles.

The hard part is providing vehicles, horses just don't cut it. I have
gone to auctions looking for good vehicles and not found too much. The
old 15mm line of traveller figs produced a couple (air/raft, and a
wheeled vehicle), but there isn't too much for 25mm vehicles (There's
a lot of lead in a good scale vehicle - even the 15mm air/raft weighs
about a kilo).

					-Dan

Dan Corrin, Network Manager, Mechanical Engineering, UWO, London, Ontario
TML/CZ FTP site coordinator:     [email removed].        [phone removed]

"Robert S. Dean" [email removed] writes:
>
> Does anyone out there use 25mm miniatures as visual aids during Traveller
> games?  What have you found that "looks" like a Traveller character?

For Traveller, I use the old 15mm figures produced by Citadel.  I also have
a few Laserburn figures, and a set of Martian Metals Zhodani (which don't
look much like "official" Zhodani - no beards or turbans :-) .  The Laserburn
ones are the most human-looking, unless you assume the Citadel ones are
wearing very heavy clothing (cloth armour, perhaps).  Using the 15mm figures
means I can use 15mm deck plans with them.

Someone else asked about vehicles.  25mm works out as about 1/72 scale, which
means you can use 1/72 scale model vehicles, with a bit of customising.  Or
you can build your own.  One vehicle I made was an Imperial grav APC.  I
used the chassis of a HO scale Chieftain tank, with the suspension area covered
over with some plastic card, along with the turret from a M-24 Chaffee tank.
I took the Chieftain's gun barrel, cut it in half, and glued one half to
the M-24's turret.  The Chieftain's gun barrel has a thick section just over
halfway along; that part became the muzzle of my APC's gun.  The result looks
quite impressive, especially as I use it with my 15mm figures.  The big idea
of this vehicle was to let the players know that if their characters got too
rowdy, there was something bigger and meaner than them, and this was it!

Some of West End's Star Wars figures would be suitable for Traveller - in
fact, the Imperial officer looks almost exactly like my 15mm officer figure
from Citadel.

And if this is anything to do with the PBEM military game, I'll use the
Darth Vader figure.  :-)

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