Re: ISO sci-fi terrain and random rambling

Hey Tom,

I vaguely remember seeing something along those lines. I did some poking
but 
have yet to find what I remember (perhaps they were paper models?).

I did see some non-rectangular storage over at Ainsty?: 
http://ainstycastings.co.uk/index.php/cPath/32/osCsid/a65bce76205d10458c
4beb8ad53877f6

I found the octagonal flat cases and the pod crates particularly
fetching. 
Several hexagonal types as well.

I checked also Armorcast, Antenocitis, JR, Itar's, Hirst, and Old Crow
with 
no luck.

I'll continue to poke...

Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom B" <kaladorn@gmail.com>
To: <gzg@firedrake.org>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 2:59 AM
Subject: ISO sci-fi terrain and random rambling

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> Dear Brain Trust:
>
> I had thought I had seen some company making 25-28mm sci fi terrain
that
> included a variety of non-square, non-rectangular cargo containers and
> boxes. I'm thinking some were hexagonal, others were a variety of odd
> shapes. I recall they had other products, but it was all of their odd 
> shaped
> shipping containers that caught my eye.
>
> Only, just now, I cannot recall whom it was and consequently can't
find
> their site...
>
> Some of you who keep track of who is who in the miniatures world must
have
> some idea. Help? :)
>
> While Browsing....
>
> I did find a small company that has done what I think are 28-30mm
moulds 
> of
> Mal, Kaylee and Shepherd Book (though obviously under other names). 
> They're
> pretty good. I wish they'd do Wash, Jayne, Inara, Simon and River as
well. 
> I
> think these same guys have a Corbin Dallas, a Leeloo, and a few other
> notables (Doc Savage). They have a couple of kits which you can
combine to
> do a good K-9 and several 'Doctors'.
>
> And another company making a 40mm Jack Burton (Kurt Russell). And
somebody
> did a lot of not-Star Trek NG in 28mm complete with Alternate Universe
> builds of their (quite large) figure lines.
>
> Unrelatedly....
>
> I've decided my current building and moulding projects will include:
>
> 1) MALP/FRED from Stargate
> 2) Trauma Tube (armoured autodoc/stretcher for wounded to stabilize
them 
> for
> transport) - eventually I want to create legged and tracked 'mules'
for
> casevac and a grav version of the trauma tube for really high tech
> militaries.
> 3) AC Jeep GMS variant (or AAA variant) - kind of a Stinger POST
module on
> the back of a small AC jeep
> 4) Ship crew workstation (this is going to take some time because I'm
kind
> of sick of crew consoles looking like they have 60s 'Mod' seats,
pipes, 
> and
> 1970s TV sets for displays).
> 5) Making plaster wrecks of the die cast cars I own so I'll have
wrecks 
> for
> my gaming scenarios of the cars I put in them
>
> My friend Kevin is scratchbuilding and moulding a Puddlejumper from 
> Stargate
> using 4" pipe and resin moulds for the front, rear (with working
hatch),
> bottom, weapons pods and interior detail.
>
> He already built a MALP, but he carved it (!!!) out of foam and I
don't
> think it'll stand a casting. I think we'll have to build a hard one as
the
> foam one may not have the desired durability. But it sure looks nice.
I'm
> expecting one or both of these to see the light of day at the next ECC
> Stargate scenario.
>
> Lately, when he was bored, he scratchbuild a 28mm Spanish Town for his
> pirates games.... argh... if I had 1/4 the talent.... his home made
20mm
> multi-level WWII row housing (from moulds he made) is good enough and
far
> more game-friendly than most of what I see on the market today.
>
> Of course, my own plans are interfered with by the 25mm wild west
phase...
> need to scratch build a barn, make some terrain boards, cast some
cacti, 
> and
> generally work on finishing off Tombstone. I've taken Desperado from
MKP 
> and
> modified it to be a bit quicker and less fiddly in resolution.
Everybody
> loves a good Western.
>
> I've discovered that permastone (dental plaster ish) casting in
plastic 
> egg
> containers yields half-egg sized objects that resemble a back yard
> composter. Of course, I plan to build some composters from these. But
more
> pertinently, it looks like they'd do in 1/300th (if I line 3 up in a
row)
> for a small 3 Mile Island sort of reactor. Maybe part of a local
municipal
> power grid.
>
> I have some other plans to try to produce other 1/300th terrain from
some
> oddball bits of plastic packaging from computer bits and consumer
goods
> saved over the past few years. My inkjet cartridge plastic packaging 
> became
> mixing bowls for the Alumalite resin. The expended cartridges may
become
> 1/300th or 25mm gaming terrain as well.
>
> Not quite as good as Martin, Stuart, Mark, etc. but working on it....
:)
>
> Tom
>
> -- 
> Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their
> family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.* 
*--
> Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt
> -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus (from the book Agricola, attributed to a 
> speech
> from Calgacus)
>