Modeling drivers in vehicles or not?

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Modeling drivers in vehicles or not?
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consectari	Aug 4 2010, 05:21 PM Post #1
Rat king Posts: 683 Group: Members Member #66 Joined: Feb 10, 2009	Shamefully, I haven't actually completed any of my post apoc vehicle conversions yet. Many are far along or very nearly ready for paint, but I'm still trying to decide on whether to model drivers. For some, it will be easy. The legs will be completely hidden, so just cut them off and pin the pelvis to the seat. For open top vehicles, like buggies, looks will be important, so I'll actually have to get seated minis. Enclosed vehicles will look less odd without drivers than buggies will, though. Will it look more weird to have driverless vehicles roving about, or vehicles the driver has abandoned still showing the driver in them? What to do, what to do? Edited by consectari, Aug 4 2010, 05:23 PM.



Carrakon	Aug 4 2010, 05:36 PM Post #2
Raider Posts: 454 Group: Members Member #175 Joined: Apr 15, 2010	I think an excellent case can be made for both approaches if looked at from a general ankle. As you said: An abandoned vehicle with a dude sitting in will look quite dumb - same goes for a vehicle possessed by spirits driving without a driver. The most important question when determining the answer is of course, whether the vehicles will see more action or if they will mostly stand around in your terrain. The other factor is dependent on your vehicle design: Maybe it is possible to just put a regular miniature in the driver's compartment? Sure, it won't look as good as having an actual driver's miniature, but better than an empty vehicle. Of course, enclosed vehicles don't need a driver - there's plenty of tricks you can use to obscure the inside of the vehicle (armor plating, dirty windows, webbing - you get the idea)



mattblackgod	Aug 4 2010, 09:19 PM Post #3
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	For me - I like drivers in open vehicles. I tend to build cabs on all my open vehicles for that reason. Try some putty sauages for the legs of crews in vehicles. If you need boots trim off the feet and add to the bottom of the putty sauages. Mmmmm sauages!



RavenFeast	Aug 5 2010, 12:27 AM Post #4
Mutant Hunter Posts: 1,451 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: Aug 3, 2008	If it's open: yeah.



tinker	Aug 5 2010, 04:25 AM Post #5
CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries Posts: 9,394 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Aug 4, 2008	Hmmm, long pork sausages



mattblackgod	Aug 5 2010, 09:30 PM Post #6
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	They had foot long bratwursts at the festival I was at last weekend!



Carrakon	Aug 5 2010, 11:33 PM Post #7
Raider Posts: 454 Group: Members Member #175 Joined: Apr 15, 2010	mattblackgod Aug 5 2010, 09:30 PM They had foot long bratwursts at the festival I was at last weekend! Too much information. Edited by Carrakon, Aug 5 2010, 11:33 PM.



HVNSNTSOLDIER	Aug 6 2010, 01:17 PM Post #8
Coldheart Posts: 595 Group: Members Member #155 Joined: Feb 25, 2010	I always tend to go the modular route. Buying two of the same figure, making a removable driving model to slip into the vehicle and the other a footslogging one for when the driver hops out.



mattblackgod	Aug 6 2010, 03:38 PM Post #9
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	Good idea!



shadowbeast	Aug 13 2010, 08:54 AM Post #10
Tribal Savage Posts: 273 Group: Members Member #15 Joined: Aug 4, 2008	in a covered vehicle not so much, as the crew are easily obscured like in a discussion at Railpage about populating model trains, not so important in the more common scales as you can't see into many of the trains. open topped, certainly, though in the most common game scales getting the figure is then an issue. This will turn out more like in a discussion about large scale radio guided ghost ships which move about like they are under command but there is noone on board. Worse yet in most cases any driver figure you can stuff in will be much smaller in scale than the vehicle...



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