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Heroic Knight
 
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when playing a sci fi game like star wars wat do you use apart from obvious , medic would haf hand held electronic equipment wat would u use 2 represent it as example.
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Obsolete PDAs work really well as phys reps for electronic equipment -- get them from ebay for next to nothing.
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Heroic Knight
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| You could do something like getting a metal box (or maybe plastic), and then adding lots of coax cable/usb/scart etc inputs. Then you can use cables to look like you've got yourself an integrated system! You could also have ports for jacking into systems. Of course, none of it would work... unless you are pretty nifty with wiring! Having a usb controlled combat suit would ROCK!
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| Pound shops are great for all sorts of sci fi kit. You can get all sorts of nice stuff from tpy guns to random PDA like things which flash. Some tips can be found here: http://www.larpguide.co.uk/pages/larp_articleview.asp?ID=37 For medical kit, I generally go for a 'Battlestar Galactica' new series realistic look and use modern day stuff. Buy cheap bandages from poundshops, look online for medical suppliers and purchase things like line kits from them. I also cheat and use old insulin bottles (I have a plentiful supply of them) and syringes with no needles.
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Heroic Knight
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| I've in the past used old mobile phones as techy equipment - suitably canabalised and covered in wires they work quite well. Something like Star wars is probably a bit slicker than the systems I've been looking at kit for so things like circuitry on display probably wouldn't be appropriate, but that's another easy thing to do - just stick on an old circuit board to any flat surface on equipment makes it look a bit more technical. Also, Cyberdogs (they have a shop in Camden, but I believe you can buy them online too) sell bracers, bracelets and the like in metal, wire and lights which are easily converted into whatever your character wants - mine I added a display screen, a keypad and a wire leading to my PDA (I'll second Ian's vote for PDAs, obsolete or not, they're great) to make into a mediscanner with upgrades and it looked pretty nifty. Black/silver Fimo with jewellry wire can be used to make or add to equipment too - you've got to put effort in to get neat lines and no fingerprints in it, but it can work pretty well. Likewise, Cyberdogs, the Gadget Shop and other similar places sell pretty cheap things like ear-mounted torches which just look cool.
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| We used to have a saying....'spray it silver and take it to Override'. Typically works if you cover a modern item with silver spray and gaffer tape it tends to look cool and post apocalyptic sci-fi. Also I took a satellite dish to a sci-fi game once. Looks cools, and if you get a sky mini-dish (which are 10 to a penny) then they're not too big eaither. You can easilt assemble it on game. Matt -----
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Heroic Knight
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Yeah, anything with lights and electronics is good. I hear good things about Cyberdog...
Kids toyshops are fabluous for cheapish gizmos. Anything from the Gadget Shop or that is not everyday is great.
Also great are things that look scratch built out of modern junk. Latex Weapons that are modern metal pipes broken off and that kind of thing.
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i got a large hexagonal shaped pencil-case that opens up and looks like a sci fi toolbox or med-box spraypainted black and filled it with all kinds of junk from broken model kit parts ( including a star trek warp engine as a kind of denueraliser  and some accessories and tools made from parts of old toy robots glued together and painted silverelectronic noises are fun too! but having light up LED's was out of my field of expertise
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