Archive for July 11th, 2009

This week I won an auction for a bits lot that included a spare set of Broadside metal bits (minus the back jet covers) and a full Sniper Drone team. Two of the snipers were complete, save for the top antenna, but one of the drones was missing a key bit:

Shy one fin.

Unfortunately, it’s rather hard to get a single left-hand Sniper Drone fin, so my options were limited. I could either run a crippled drone, buy another drone set to cannibalize (and have the same problem over again), run fewer drones… or I could rebuild the drone myself. Fortunately, along with the metal bits came some plastic bits, including a set of sensor spines, a spare battlesuit burst cannon, and a fusion blaster. I looked at the shapes, and this gave me an idea. I dug through my bits and spare sprues, and got out a matching set of pieces. Read the rest of this entry »