Re: [SGII], [DSII] More Terrain

At 06:12 PM 1/5/02 -0800, you wrote:
>At 05:54 PM 1/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>I want to get a few stand-alone buildings, suitable for building a
>>scenario around (like, for instance, this kit I have for making a
cardstock
>>28mm scale prison camp), and a good number of things that I can chop
up and
>>make attractive ruins from.  I'm hoping to find some models that are
cheap,
>>even if they *look* cheap.  Once they've been sufficently weathered,
>>they'll look fine on the table.
>
>It might not be the look your are going for, but I have recently made a
few 
>structural features out of  various sizes and shapes of plastic switch 
>wiring boxes. The company that makes the ones my local hardware store 
>carries has a web site with a small picture at 
><http://www.carlon.com/p_SuperBlueHardShell.html> if you want to see
what I 
>am talking about. They also make some that don't have the nails
sticking 
>out of them which are a little more expensive (~US$1.10 as opposed to
~50 
>cents), but they save having to cut off the nail holders, which look
out of 
>place IMO.
>
>When they are turned over, textured up with plastic card and bits box 
>stuff, and painted and weathered they make pretty good industrial
terrain 
>or starship interiors. I haven't chopped any up for ruins, but they
would 
>be good material for that IMO, being plastic and cheap.

I've got a box full of...well, STUFF that I've been saving for this
purpose.  Various sizes of plastic packages, boardgame pieces,
interesting
bits of styrofoam....it's quite sad, really.  I don't know if I'll ever
be
using any of the stuff, but in case I find a need for it I'll be ready.

John Crimmins
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