Re: Just wondering.....

On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Ground Zero Games wrote:
> >ANyone else have some good suggestions for low cost fig replacements.
 Of 
> >course Jon won't; he WANTS us to buy figs!!!  ;)
> 
> Sure we do - we've got to eat :)
> BUT we're also quite happy for people to play FT with anything they
want -
> in fact there are plenty of suggestions in the rules for making
> scratchbuilt ships.
> Have a look in a craft shop for all sorts of cheap glass/plastic beads
and
> things; the plastic "spares" from Games Workshop also can be very
useful
> (yes, they are good for SOMETHING!!) - take a couple of the "domed"
plain
> shields, stick them back-to-back and put a couple of plastic 25mm
weapons
> on the sides as "drives" - hey presto, instant Trek-shape ship!

One member of our games group has put together some scratchbuilt ships
using discarded household items -- currently, he plays FT with the 
"SS Mennen" and the "SS Revlon," and he's working on the "SS Avon".

He once mentioned that he & his 10-year-old son were cleaning up in
their
garage, and as they were about to take the trash out to their trashcan,
his son asked (with a perfectly innocent look on his face), "don't you
want to go through it and make sure there isn't something in the trash
you
want to keep?"

--
Rick Rutherford ----- rickr@digex.net ----- The above opinions are mine.
"I've seen collisions on fire off the side of the ethernet LAN. 
I've seen the lights on the CSU/DSU glitter in the dark near the router.

All these things will be lost in time, like dropped packets. Time to
die."