Re: Miniatures
In reply to #2479 Miniatures by Robert S. Dean
"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. :-) - - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]