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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: James Holloway on 03 March 2012, 10:52:03 PM

Title: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: James Holloway on 03 March 2012, 10:52:03 PM: Hi all,

I am about to start converting some plastic Viridians into heavily-armoured riot cops for an upcoming game. I like their shields and want to match them with some batons. Given the high-tech nature of the armour, I would like the batons to be a bit more than just sticks; some kind of stun baton a la Demolition Man would be nice. Does anyone make something like this for the conversion? Anything you recommend converting into that kind of weapon?

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: Papa Spanky on 05 March 2012, 03:50:41 AM: GW arbites (the latest release) had some on a sprue that were nice looking. If you search "shock maul arbites" there are several examples of coversions done with tubes and greenstuff.
may the googlefu be with you.
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: Doomsdave on 05 March 2012, 04:48:10 AM: It might be expensive to source just the batons in sufficient numbers for your force. How many figures are you converting? Could you add some techno looking gribblies from the bits-box?
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: dijit on 05 March 2012, 12:26:10 PM: If you have some of the old RT lasguns, then the barrels would make fairly convincing batons.
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: Commander Vyper on 05 March 2012, 06:32:07 PM: Victory force red reddan future wars sci-fi riot troopers, have sets of batons and shields available.
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: Goldwyrm on 05 March 2012, 07:29:00 PM: Great ideas above.

If you have an art or hobby store local that stocks Plastruct architectural plastics, they have several fluorescent colors of 1/8" and smaller plastic rod.
http://www.plastruct.com/pages/OnlineCatalogIndex.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=Products&-MaxRecords=50&-SkipRecords=100&-Database=PI&-SortField=zfsequencer&-SortOrder=ascending&-SortField=zfsequencer&-SortOrder=ascending&-Op=bw&CatSearch=Acrylic

You can cut a short length and add it to a sword or axe handle. If you think it will be too much like a light saber, then use something like a poweraxe, and just replace the tip where the axe head begins with the fluorescent rod so there is some haft beyond the grip. You could also add another piece to the end of the colored rod so it looks like a high tech mace with an energized core.
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: A_Train on 05 March 2012, 07:32:14 PM: Could you use the VASA batons from the same miniature line?
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: James Holloway on 08 March 2012, 08:05:03 AM: Thanks for the recommendations, everyone. I knew I could rely on LAF's encyclopaedic knowledge! I think I am going to try the plastic rod thing for the rank-and-file troopers, and maybe chop up a power axe from the bits box for the leader to mark him out as fancy.
Title: Re: Shock baton recommendations
Post by: sykoholic on 08 March 2012, 04:14:06 PM: There is something of a "how-to" for making police batons in the Combat Zone Chronicles

http://www.combatzonechronicles.net/cozox/polis3.htm (http://www.combatzonechronicles.net/cozox/polis3.htm)

They look like basic clubs but I'm thinking that if you were to cut the main "body" into a few equal-sized sections, it would result in sort of a segmented look and thus spruce it up a bit.