Re: DS2:Scratchbuilding a dropship

The AFV amongst the infantry on the top right - Looks familiar.  Was
that 
originally a Marder?

Brian

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
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				 - S. Freud

>From: Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: "'gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu'" <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: DS2:Scratchbuilding a dropship
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:02:11 -0800 (PST)
>
>The large dropship/assualt shuttle I built a couple of years ago was
>pretty simple, but looks OK as scenery - see:
>
>http://warbard.iwarp.com/sg2gallery.html
>
>(The first group of photos)
>
>It's basically a box (the cargo/engine section) with a wedge-shaped
nose,
>thin boom-mounted tailplanes, and fairly short, wide wings. Some detail
>bumps & stuff were added with clay or styrene strip; the whole thing
was
>painted grey with darker grey jagged camo pattern. The wide back ramp
>actually comes up and down, and there's a twin-MG anti-personnel
mounted
>to fire out the back hatch as it opens.
>
>The whole thing was made of .040 styrene sheet - card would have been
>cheaper but syrene is tougher & a bit easier to work with.
>
>What ever you're building, stick with it, paint it, and then see what
>you've got. If nothing else, wreck it and use it as crashed-shuttle
>scenery!
>
>Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
>- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -
>

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