Re: [GZG] Carrying around figures

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round. It keeps it from spinning.

Don't use a tubing cutter, use your dremel with a cutting disk. If you
make 
a 
trivial jig you can whip through them very quickly.

I agree with point 3.

As for storage it is much easier to store ships without large bases. I
just
cut a hole in the foam I store the minis in. NB, I have only done this
with 
FSE,
UNSC, and Star Trek. UNSC is a bear to pack no matter what basing
you use.

When I started this I was riding a motorcycle full time. The minis had
to
take up as little room as possible and be extremely well padded.

Roger

On 9/16/05, Scott Siebold <gamers@ameritech.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I tried your system about 4 years ago (the round brass tubes) for my
1/300 
> scale aircraft 
> 
and I rejected it due to too many problems.
> 
> -The brass tube is not that easy to cut. I used a special brass tube 
> cutter which
> 
> worked like a pipe cutter but still the tube would get slightly
deformed. 
> You have
> 
> to ream out the larger brass tube and clean (dremel tool sander) the
end 
> of the
> 
> smaller tube to get a proper fit.
> 
> - The brass tube is difficult to attach to the ship. You have to drill
out 
> a space
> 
> that's bigger then the brass tube or drill into the model and anchor a

> wire in the
> 
> model and into the brass tube. The tubes are not that small, the
smaller 
> tubes
> 
> are about half the size of of a GZG fighter.
> 
> -When finished you now have a model with a brass tube sticking out of
it's
> 
> bottom which will be difficult to store when not in it's stand.
> 
>  I did about a dozen aircraft and stands when I rejected the system. I
now 
> use
> 
> plastic stand and plastic/metal rods and mount the stands on massonite

> bases.
> 
> It's simpiler and much easier to mount and very easy to repair ships
(the 
> ocasional
> 
> drop off of the table is to be accepted). On larger ships I use
multiple 
> stands and
> 
> larger massonite bases.
> 
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