Re: Impoverished Gamer Tip: Re: Jungle Trees

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Rick Norman wrote:

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

Plastic minis blisters are useful things - I've used them for bunkers
and
various small buildings. The basic GeoHex blisters - rectangular w/
slightly rounded edges and corners - makes a very nice bunker. Sort of
the
Atlantic Wall look, which I've always liked for modern fortifications.

For tree ideas, see the scenery section of my website - URL in my sig
below.

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)			-DS2/SG2/FR!/HOTT-
      - http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9774/games.html -
-SciFi & Fantasy Wargaming House Rules, Photos, GWAutobasher, & more-

> 
> --- 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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