Grundi

[Inso]

I was over at a different forum and one of the members has made a small selection of Space Dwarfs called Grundi. Here's the link:

http://spacedwarfsonline.freeforums.org/the-grundi-by-me-t500.html

I made my comments on the link but for a first go at this sort of thing, I think he has done a great job. I particularly like the way some of the hands have pistol grips ready to attach your weapons of choice to.

He mentions shorter arms are on the way and I reckon that once they turn up, these will fit in nicely with other Space Dwarf miniatures.

I just thought I'd share

[Sinewgrab]

Huh.  Shorter arms, and they could occupy the same space as the Grymn, I think.

[Knightofspades]

Looks nice, I like the longer arms it looks like they are descendants of humans that colonized heavy gravity worlds and their legs and bodies evolved to be more compact to compensate. The arms however have no reason to be shortened down over time.

[The_Beast]

Looks nice, I like the longer arms it looks like they are descendants of humans that colonized heavy gravity worlds and their legs and bodies evolved to be more compact to compensate. The arms however have no reason to be shortened down over time.

Actually, I'd think so; definitely thicker, but the longer the arm, the greater the leverage gravity has 'on the end.'

Doug

[Knightofspades]

Its a fair point but would the effect be as great as it would be on the legs?

[The_Beast]

Its a fair point but would the effect be as great as it would be on the legs?

You're getting in finer points of skeletal mechanics, far beyond my ken. 

As everything is a trade-off, there would be a fair spread of possibilities. I can only guess at the boundaries. Hal Clement's Missionr of Gravity assumes that, at some point, the only body plan possible would be a centipede, if I remember correctly  after all these years.

Doug