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Title: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Froggy the Great on 15 June 2012, 07:24:18 PM

This is one of the toys that my boys broke lately - looks like it's ripe for making into something. This can be another child's toy (which they will fight over), costume prop, mini scenery, vehicle, weapon, whatever. No genre restrictions, though I've been making VSF lately.

What should I make this into? The flanges are about 1cm apart.

(http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=27738)

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Bobble on 15 June 2012, 08:09:16 PM

My first thought would be some kind of laser/plasma cannon?
Put a mount on the round end and paint it up brass with a green glow between the flanges,maybe

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Steve F on 15 June 2012, 08:23:23 PM

A spar torpedo?

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Henrix on 15 June 2012, 09:04:25 PM

It's clearly a ray gun - or a gernsbackian retro-50's sci-fi radio/tv tower.

(Though in the latter case it should be snipped just where the handle ends and the shin part placed on top of the round end.

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Steve F on 15 June 2012, 09:09:37 PM

Or turn it into a tower or post (narrow pole at the bottom) with a round radio-picture screen at the top from which Emperor Ming can make pronouncements to his people.  The "honeycomb" shape in the middle is a set of multi-directional loudspeakers.

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Doomsdave on 16 June 2012, 03:39:16 AM

It is certainly a ray-gun of unusual provenance, but quite similar to the type employed by the Confederate states against the Chinese-Martian Alliance forces in the first Aether War.

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: SirAlban on 17 June 2012, 10:56:05 AM

I think is dragonlfy ornithopter

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Tacgnol on 17 June 2012, 11:54:35 AM

Alien lighthouse for a naval warfare game set on other planets that probably doesn't exist?

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Papa Spanky on 17 June 2012, 06:14:13 PM

Cut the round end off and glue it to the thin rod on the other end. Mount it honycomb side down and now its a lighted (the tip looks like a light) antenna with a microwave transmitter. (the round glued thing)

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Froggy the Great on 18 June 2012, 03:29:59 PM

I think the winner is a dragonfly automaton for any number of my VSF armies.

Title: Re: What should I make out of this?
Post by: Bergil on 18 June 2012, 07:00:46 PM

Currently making star trekky starships out of things like that... if it helps at all  ???