I just got back from shopping with the wife and kids. and I am sitting contemplating what project I should work on. I have a problem with settling on one project at a time and finishing it. So I drift from one to another. It leaves one with the impression that I never finish anything, but I do eventually get things done. Compound this with the fact that having three children under the age of 6 leave me with little time to work on anything. I started a neat little undertaking last night. I am making hedges for WWII skirmish games using green kitchen scrub pads and tongue depressers. The idea I am sure is not new, but the results are satisfying. and a person can do a whole truckload of them in an afternoon. I have also picked up a few packs of cork tiles in 1' X1' squares. Enough in fact to cover a 4' X 6' table. I am thinking that I can use it to simulate desert terain for Crusades skirmishes my wife and I want to play ( yes she games occasionaly too, but she's more of an RPG'er). It can also do double duty as terain for Heavy Gear games as well. I also am waiting for a couple of orders I recently placed. One from Dream Pod 9 . the makers of Heavy Gear. I ordered a box each of specialist gear squads for the northern and southern factions, as well as infantry for each. The other order is from Woodrows Warstore .They have an excelent selection of plastic 1/72nd figures. Thanks to them my collection of 20mm stuff is reaching unmanageable proportions.
George
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Hey, to make a really good (and very inexpensive) "desert" terrain base, just buy a roll of brown wrapping paper.
However, before stretching it across your game table, wad it up really good and then spread it out. All of the resulting wrinkles look fabulous as a desert surface.
You can then "tear" your cork squares into nice rough pieces for hills (you can even stack them).
Anyway, it is an idea you can try out. Also, if you want to see some pictures of this type of surface, check out my September 19, 2006 blog photos.
-- Jeff
Greetings,
If I might just add one rule set that you might like to take a look at:
"Hordes of the Things"
There is only one inexpensive book to ever buy (no suppliments); and you can litterally use ANY figures you want. (in fact, there's even one army that uses various sizes of stones and costs nothing to build).
For more information, go to:
http://www.hordesofthethings.com
-- Jeff
http://saxe-bearstein.blogspot.com/
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