Re: Impoverished Gamer Tip: Re: Jungle Trees

Ever try using the plastic bit of a blister pack covered with black and
yellow tapes as road blocks? cheap and ready available. 

--- devans@uneb.edu wrote:
> Being a strong proponent of bargain-bin diving, I'd
> like to suggest
> that this be stretched beyond mere games shop BBD's
> to include
> toy stores, where I recently found a Weapons and
> Warriors Pirate
> set for $10, which gave me 4 boats/ships in two
> sizes for Sharpe's
> Rifles/Hornblower scenarios which a lot of video has
> been causing
> to seethe in brains in my area, a LOT of tiny
> cannons for whatever,
> some maybe 25mm pirates for other play, AND a fair
> number of palm
> trees that I think are close-to-comparable to GW's.
> 
> Don't you just love run-on sentences?
> 
> Anyway, bits and pieces from many toysets can be
> frightful useful.
> Say you were looking at some plastic dinosaurs for
> use in some other
> company's fantasy war game. You'd probably find
> rocks and foliage
> that would work in a number of game situations.
> 
> Other possibilities that are exciting, but I haven't
> done too much with,
> are craft stores and pet (aquarium, esp.) shops.
> Some plastic aquarium
> plants can be cut to small pieces, and render enough
> small brush to
> cover sections of a table from half a dozen or so
> 'plants'.
> 
> The things that are coming out in painted resin can
> be quite fetching.
> 
> And, craft stores and pet shops have bargain bins,
> too!
> 
> The_Beast
> 
> 
> 

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