Pre-fab Military Outpost Walls.

Never one to pass up an idea worth stealing, I read Alexander Wasberg's latest post  (check it out over on his blog lasers and Broadswords) on his military outpost walls and thought to myself:

" I can do that me! "

So I started hunting through my mountains of accumulated junk euh... building materials, looking for something that would allow me to easily churn out different lengths of pre-fab walls.
Here's what I came up with.

Construction is very simple, a piece of giftcard sandwiched between two pieces of stapler nail strips.
The heads of the nails form a solid foot alowing the walls to stand on their own quite easily.
The single sections are 10 nails wide and the longer ones 20, 30 and 50.
Just count the number of nails you want, break two pieces off and superglue to the giftcard then cut away the exess.
These are 15mm high but you can get them in many different sizes, this will bear further investigation as I can already think of some other posible uses for them...

I also decided to add a ring to the top so the engineer mecha could more easily assemble them.
Now I just need to settle on a paint scheme (kinda leaning toward the bare metal look, just a quick wash and done)

All in all this has been a quick little project ( about 2 hours time so far) which has given me a bunch of very versatile terrain pieces so thanks again Alexander ;-))

Cheers,

Stroezie out.

How do AAR? Help!

Ok, so I've been building and collecting 6mm scifi for a couple of years now, I've got a large collection of minis and a ton of terrain( and a whole lot more planned) but for the last year or so I have not played a single game.

There are various reasons for this, but mainly it boils down to lack of opponents and weird workhours making it dificult to go to game club evenings. To remedy this I've been looking at solo rules and I would like to start a little mini campaign to try various things out.

Now to keep myself motivated I thought I would post some AAR's of my games here on the blog. Turns out I suck at AAR's.

When things started heating up I totally forgot to take notes and the few pictures I took were not much to look at afterwards and did not really jogg my memory about what was hapening when I took them.

So I turn to you guys,

If you do an AAR, how do you document your games, do you take turn by turn notes and pictures or just the highlights. Do you write it down, use a recording device...

All tips and advice welcome.

To give you an idea of the kind of games I intend to play I'll show you the setup of the first game.

Here's a shot of the board

The attackers (my team)

The defenders( solo engine driven OPFORCE)

The mission is to place satchel charges on each of the four base gun turrets and blow them up so that allied forces are free to move in.(8 turn limit)

Rules will be Gruntz with card activation and some aditional solo rules borrowed from THW, USEME and others.

This mission (and the terrain for it ) was inspired by the VOTOMS Pailsen files manga episodes 3 & 4.

If you like mecha check them out here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOFMfI1Yew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGy0eU8mK9M

enjoy,

Stroezie.

Martian Buildings sighted !

Thought I'd give you all a small update on what I've been up to lately

So for the last few months I've been collecting bottle caps from various cleaning products and this weekend I decided it was time to start using them to build a martian kraal/vilage.

I got the idea for these from looking at sub saharan african architecture.

Here's a picture of them being built

And the finished product, three dwellings, three incubators and a grain silo

I still have to put hinges and doorknobs/pull rings on the gates.

I made these first few as a test run and plan to build about 5 more and then maybe some kind of enclosure/surrounding wall to put them all in.

That's it for now as I leave you with one more picture of my entire VSF mars project so far...

Ps: Yes I am a verry erratic builder/painter so don't expect any logical progress ;-)

Cheers,
Stroezie.