Re: [SGII], [DSII] More Terrain

At 05:54 PM 1/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I want to get a few stand-alone buildings, suitable for building a
>scenario around (like, for instance, this kit I have for making a
cardstock
>28mm scale prison camp), and a good number of things that I can chop up
and
>make attractive ruins from.  I'm hoping to find some models that are
cheap,
>even if they *look* cheap.  Once they've been sufficently weathered,
>they'll look fine on the table.

It might not be the look your are going for, but I have recently made a
few 
structural features out of  various sizes and shapes of plastic switch 
wiring boxes. The company that makes the ones my local hardware store 
carries has a web site with a small picture at 
<http://www.carlon.com/p_SuperBlueHardShell.html> if you want to see
what I 
am talking about. They also make some that don't have the nails sticking

out of them which are a little more expensive (~US$1.10 as opposed to
~50 
cents), but they save having to cut off the nail holders, which look out
of 
place IMO.

When they are turned over, textured up with plastic card and bits box 
stuff, and painted and weathered they make pretty good industrial
terrain 
or starship interiors. I haven't chopped any up for ruins, but they
would 
be good material for that IMO, being plastic and cheap.

Ndege