Re: ye olde chitless game!

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Allan Goodall wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 01:18:12 -0400, "Thomas Barclay"
<kaladorn@magma.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> >1" washer (with space in center for penny) is 
> >used to place squad leader on. Serves dual 
> >function of illustrating who is squad leader and 
> >provides extra space for other indicators. 
> 
> I find that my figures already have an identifiable squad leader.
> 
> I'm having problems envisioning this, Tom. I wouldn't have thought a
1" washer
> would have enough room for a penny and the figure.
> 
> >Wounded... ideally wounded figures like the NSL 
> >wounded figures. Maybe I'll work on making 
> >some for the other nationalities. 
> 
> How would you make them?
> 
> I was thinking that, considering how many you'd need, I'd make some
sort of
> marker with a red cross "satchel" on it. This would denote a casualty.
I
> thought that a washer with a red cross satchel and spent bandages (not
sure
> how I'd do this)

Very small rolls and strips of paper coated in glue? Also, just small
squares of paper with red all over them.

> How _would_ you represent a buried mine or CDM on a penny? A CDM would
look
> like a little claymore mine or something? What about a burined mine?
Just a
> patch of earth with a mound on it, or would you make a little disk
that looked
> like a round mine lying on the ground?

Model the ground in putty and insert slices cut off sprues or plastic
rod. Some models come on large sprues with a round cross section that
will cut ~1mm thick without warping - the soft polystyrene OO/HO
figures come in or the rubbery stuff that model tank tracks come
attached to. If you partially hide the disks, paint them metal and
then scatter the ground with grassy bits they'll look like mines...