PROJECT REACTOR:
At the moment, due to careful Paneuropean counter-espionage techniques,
the best reconnaissance shows only what appears to be a ping pong ball
sawn in half...
TERRAIN BOARDS:
...Now have their own page.
HEKI TREES:
Heki, in Germany, makes utterly incredible model railroad trees for HO
scale. Their bushes make perfect trees for N scale, or for OGRE/G.E.V. A
problem with forests in wargames is always that there's a tree-trunk where
you want to put a mini, or the trees get broken off of the styrofoam and
damaged or lost. To solve both these problems, I trimmed 1/3" off the tips
of sewing pins, heated the blunt ends in a candle for ten seconds and
stuck them into the bases of the Heki trees. You can't stick them deep,
because there is wire in there, but if you hold them steady while the
plastic cools, that millimeter or so of pin embedded in the plastic will
be more than sturdy enough. Now you can stick trees and forests anywhere
you want, and instead of having a terrain piece with trees sticking out of
it to get bashed around and broken off, you remove the trees and box them
separately from the terrain flats. Works great.
Here are some pics of the above terrain board with some of my Heki darts
stuck into it. In the foreground a convoy of GEVs are crossing a stream
bridge under the watchful fire support of a superheavy, a missile tank,
and a pair of heavy tanks. This is on the West side of the GEV board, and
there ought to be town all over this area, but I hadn't gotten that
far:
RUBBLE COUNTERS:
Take a two-inch disk of your favorite terrain base, be it cardboard,
polystyrene or thin wood. Sprinkle with a few chunks of chopped plastic
model sprue for city rubble, or chopped up toothpicks or very small twigs
for burnt forest. I also like to add a few sections of Plastruct's
L-shaped extruded plastic, cut so it will stand upright like the corner of
a building, then jagged heavily with an x-acto or files. Apply glue to the
base and over some (but not all) bits of the chopped stuff, then add flock
or fine sand. Spray with black primer and drybrush with light greys.
Neither myself nor Steve Jackson Games Incorporated may be held liable for any damages suffered to self, pets, miniatures, or major metropolitan areas by the appropriate or inappropriate use of powered or non-powered tools, solvents, adhesives, paints, or chihuahuas. These items are inherently hazardous and should not be used without appropriate precautions and adult supervision.