Re: GEOHEX Terrain

They cut with a hot wire.  Flock is easy, Woodland Scenics T-49 Mixed
Turf. 
I use a latex (house paint) in an olive or other green as the base coat,

apply flock while wet (I have boards that are almost 10 years old and
still 
hold the turf).

If you have some GeoHex shaping the jigs might not be that hard.  I
might 
need to do this myself...

Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn.com

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From: "Carlos Lourenco" <loscon@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:49 PM
To: <gzg@firedrake.org>
Subject: Re: GEOHEX Terrain

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> The sloped curves would be easy to match using a hot knife, (that is,
a
> good hot knife) shouldn't be that hard at all. The foam itself is
cheap 
> and
> easy to work with even if you mess up one or two you eventually the
the
> hang of it. That's the easy part, matching the flocking colors might
take
> some more trial and error w/ the mix.
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Evyn MacDude <infojunky@ceecom.net> 
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:55, Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk@pcisys.net>
wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Michael Brown wrote:
>> >
>> > > GeoHex was patented and he let it lapse.  I think you can still
get 
>> > > the
>> > info
>> > > from the US Patent Office.  I visited them while they were still
in
>> > > production, the key was the jigs they used for cutting.	Every
piece
>> was
>> > > hand cut, it was the fastest and cheapest option (he did look at
>> > "casting"
>> > > processes with the folks that make packing inserts)
>> >
>> > I've seen the Patent.  Not helpful.  ;-)
>> >
>> > I've always suspected that there was something sneaky/cool going on
>> during
>> > production.  I've always felt that the pieces fit together in some
way
>> > for easy production not just cool hills.  I just couldn't see how.
>>
>>
>> I have from the gents at Monday Knight Productions that the big
secret 
>> was
>> the jigs use to make the cuts. Everything beyond that was pretty much
as
>> you expect.
>> --
>> Evyn
>>
>>
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