[COMMERCIAL] [OFFICIAL] GZG: More Wheeled and Tracked Mini-Drone variants now in

[The_Beast]

From Jon Tuffley of Ground Zero Games:

A quick heads-up to everyone that I’ve just uploaded TEN new packs of the wheeled and tracked 15mm mini-drones to the webstore, all in production and available!

In the usual place, of course, at https://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/ or just www.gzg.com

There will be more to come, but this is just a little something to prove that I’m still alive (well, I was the last time I checked…). ;-)

Doug

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Jon added another pack the very next day, this one a set of grav-mobile security drones.



Remember Disney's Black Hole?  I do.  Hopefully there's a Maximilian proxy in the pipeline.

I too am not dead.  Yet.

[Burgundavia]

Wonder how big these are and if you could use them as mini drones in 28mm. I do quite like Jon's stuff (but OMG he needs a better website)

[Pattus Magnus]

It looks like the base is sitting on a 1cm grid cutting mat. If so, each drone looks like it’s about 1cm wide, or maybe a little more. Should be just right for small drones in 28mm games, IMO.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

That's a 50mm green base there, so yes, about 1cm or so in diameter.  Should work fine for 25/28mm scale drones, perhaps for Cyberpunk or Shadowrun?  Might want to use a taller flight base for larger scale though.  The stems on those are integral to the base so it should be trivial to just pop the mini on another stem or piece of rod or wire.

I've scale-jumped his wheeled drones to 28mm forces in the past and they looked fine.  Great, even.

[Burgundavia]

Good to know, would love some drones for my table.

[Mad Mecha Guy]

yes the grav are 10mm across, 9mm tall.

Have to think about doing old Maxie, would be 'very' inspired by (don't fancy getting squeaked).

there are some fan drones and slightly larger ground drones that are slowing working through the pipeline ( I have test casting of them). 

Please don't bother Jon about these, as will be ready when has chance. 

We have some problems with the metal version of moongrunt rovers.  The USA print broke when moulding, small cock-up on redesign along some really annoying shrinkage on chinese rover body.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

I see he's got two of the three USLF rovers up in their all-metal version now.

https://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/15mm-stargrunt/infantry/moongrunt/mg15-usv01b.html



https://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/15mm-stargrunt/infantry/moongrunt/mg15-usv01a.html



The third one's in the works along with the Chinese rovers.  The resin & metal version looked like this:



Busy stretch after a long quiet spell.

[Commander Roj]

Good news!

[Ragsta]

Oh my gosh I love these so much. Memory lane for one of my childhood films!

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Oh my gosh I love these so much. Memory lane for one of my childhood films!

Right?  First "dark" Disney film I ever saw as a kid.  I re-watched it last year and was struck by how well the practical effects had held up.  Other than the somewhat kid-friendly "faces" on VINCENT and BOB and some obvious wires for the anti-grav the model work, set design and overall aesthetic is still very impressive, with the Cygnus as a particular standout.  Even that brief zero-gee sequence with the live actors aboard the Palomino wasn't bad - certainly better than the zeegee in the opening sequence of Barbarella when you disallow for the, ah, other attractions involved there.  Falls down on the computer graphics and "holograms" but at the time those were really pushing the envelope and that makes them interesting historically, if nothing else.

Shame the acting is so hit-or-miss, and even after all this time the ending is as incomprehensibly weird as ever.  Sure does push the nostalgia buttons for all that, though. 

[The_Beast]

Thanks, Rich!

Obviously takes your touch to get the comments flowing. 

There was a recent convo somewhere on lunar combat, and I was SURE ears would pick up on the OP.

Edit: Of course, at the time, kidnapping, forced labour, belly of the whale... Pinocchio was plenty dark for me.

Doug

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Back when the Moongrunt stuff was new-ish I had a set of homebrew rules mods to run lunar or micrograv (ie large planetoid) combat partly done for testing, but that document is long gone and never got posted.  Not really actively minis gaming any more but maybe someday I'll try to recreate it so other folks can try them out.

Pinocchio was pretty dark, but the source material had been read to kids for almost a century so parents couldn't very well get their knickers in a twist about Disney doing it.  I do recall some Bible Belters protesting Fantasia, not just over the Night on Bald mountain sequence but perceived "Satanist" elements and nudity and bestiality and whatever other closet kinks they had.  It wasn't on the same scale as the media-driven fuss about Disney going "dark" and adult starting with Black Hole and Watcher In the Woods.  Apparently no one was supposed to remember Old Yeller (or Bambi, for that matter) existed and all Disney had ever made was their 70s family schlock like Million Dollar Duck and the Apple dumpling Gang.