RE: Impoverished Gamer Tip: Re: Jungle Trees

I use an exacto, Matte board ($4 for a 3'x4' sheet) and Elmer's white
glue
for all my bunkers. I have made bunkers, buildings, walls, ruins, etc.
One
sheet will do LOTS of scenery. Spray it black, dry brush gray (Works
really
well if you get "pebbly" textured matte board) I did an entire DSII
firebase
with bunkers, walls, VTOL pads, command bunker in a few hours on one
saturday...

Michael Wikan
Game Design
Slave Zero
Accolade, Inc.
http://www.slavezero.com
mwikan@accolade.com
wikan@sprintmail.com
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night
to
visit violence on those who would do us harm."-George Orwell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Burger [SMTP:burger00@camosun.bc.ca]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 5:57 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	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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