Re: The sands of Mars and the gray shores of Luna: 1/300 scale Stargrunt???

Scott Case wrote:
> 
> I'm still thinking over the Sands of Mars stuff and am wondering: Has
anyone
> tried to play Stargrunt with 1:300 scale minis? 

While I haven't actually played with them yet, I've got a full
mechanized FSE platoon painted and a NSL platoon on the way. 

I mounted each figure on a 6mm washer (non magnetic, I'm afraid, but I
don't store my figures like that anyway).  The figures are detailed
enough to make out what each figure is (rifleman/SAW/GMS) and I painted
the commanders headgear light blue to help them stand out.  I also made
a few modifications (prone sniper, ECM tech, spotter, Medic) for some
specialist teams.

I decided to go with 6mm for two reasons:

1) I paint S L O W L Y.  It would take me years to finish a 25mm
platoon.
2) I'm kind of anal about the ground scale matching figure scale.  It's
especially 
   annoying in SGII games when you have a tank that looks like it could
shoot OVER a 
   mountain.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.	By next GenCon
I'll have the NSL finished and at least one of my games will be in that
scale...

Tom

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Thomas Pope
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope