Re: Ship building.... the hard way...

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Steven M Goode wrote:

> Excerpts from mail: 20-Oct-99 Re: Ship building.... the h.. by Brian
> Burger@victoria.tc 
> > The really cool way to do this would be to coat the walls and
ceilings of
> > your ship in magnetic sheeting, and put washers on the bottom of
your
> > figures bases.
> >  
> > And have small detatchable 'flying stands', which will also stick to
the
> > walls/ceilings.
> >  
> > Then when the artifical gravity goes, you can really have 3-d, 0g
combat.
> >  
> > It would be a heck of a lot of work, but it would be really, really
> > cool... any takers? :>
> 
> Unfortunately, from my experiences with using magnetic sheeting and
> washer-based figs, the magnetic force isn't usually enough to support
a
> metal figure.  Plastics might work, though.

Ah, but that's why you use the One True SG2 Scale: 15mm. Figures are
smaller, way way lighter, and should stick to a magnetic wall with fewer
problems.
 
Plus, the ship doesn't have to be quite so big...or you can do really
really BIG areas to fight it... entire starbases, or hollowed-out
asteroids, say...

> Cool idea, though.  

Very.

The Trav 25mm starship builder (I've erased the orginal email...): Do
you
still have it? Any chance of some photos or anything?

Apostle of the One True SG2 Scale,

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