RE: Impovrished Gamer Tip: Not just Jungle Trees

For the truly cheap, ask your local framing shop for their matt board
scraps (I 
did, I now have a stack of odd sized pieces 10" tall).

-----Original Message-----
From:	Thomas Anderson
[SMTP:thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk]
Sent:	Saturday, April 24, 1999 12:17 PM
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	Re: Impovrished Gamer Tip: Not just Jungle Trees

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, djwj wrote:

> Almost any box
> shaped item can make a good wheeled tank with some milk bottle caps,
or even
> soda caps, medicine caps,....... ( A knight in full armor walks up and
> smacks me with a rubber chicken) ..Ahem... for wheels.

the sprues that GW epic infantry bases come on can be put to use, too.
they are basically little cross of lorraines:

    |	 |
----+----+----
    |	 |

i laid them horizontally, and put an oblong of foamboard vertically on
either side:

  ==========
    |	 |
----+----+----
    |	 |
  ==========

elevation:

  +========+
  H	   H
--H	   H--
  H	   H
  +========+

front view:

H     H
H     H
H--+--H
H     H
H     H

and bunged some extra sprue at one end, sticking slightly over:

(close-up)

   +-----------------+
   |		     |
   |		     |
----------------+----+
		|
		|
----------------+----+
   |		     |
   |		     |
   +-----------------+

and stood the whole thing on a flying base. i think it makes quite a
good
container freighter, and it was free. it looks a bit like the basic
freighters in X-wing and tie fighter.

i've got a science ship modelled along the same lines, but with banner
poles made into antennae and a base as a radar panel. and some other
bits
and bobs.

> A lot of hobby stores have tank extras (shovels, small sandbags,
> machineguns, ect.) very cheap.

i have a bundle of bombs i was supposed to stick on a F-15E Strike Eagle
(or whatever) model a few years ago, but never did; they look a bit like
tiny classic flash gordon style rockets. any ideas as to what i can use
them for?

> FT players take note as well, Impovrished gamer fleets can grow
exponentialy
> faster than white-metal fleets. The old sprues from the epic square
infantry
> bases are in a majority of my fleet.

<DOH> that'll teach me to compose without reading in full first!

i could add that i scratch-built tanks, IFVs, and a couple of other
things
for 1/1000 scale from card and toothpicks. but then i'd have to confess
that i made an entire regiment of MBTs to scare an opponent. regiment =
10
companies, company = 10 tanks. now all i need are the footsloggers to go
with it ...

Tom