Re: [GZG] Carrying around figures

[Roger Books <roger.books@xxxxxxxxx>]

Use square not 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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