Among other things, I'm thankful for all of you who check in and make this blog worthwhile. I've been in a gaming drought for a while, and this helps me feel like a member of the community. I'm also thankful to live in a time when it is so easy to find so many different figures from so many different small businesses. This morning I ordered two sets of figures for Major Tom's Spaceship from three different manufacturers on three different continents. To a guy who cut his teeth on mimeographed* house-rules that's pretty amazing.
Here's the lazy man's way of building stairs:
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1. Two bamboo skewers cut to size and glued in place. |
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2. Build the treads like so. One 2mm wide glued to a 5mm tread. |
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3. Glue the treads in place as shown. This preserves line of
sight, and you can even wedge the little mans in place. |
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Figure for scale. |
That's two of the staircases. I also made one ramp (shown in the back right), and one traditional staircase. It loses a little consistency, but the ramp provides more cover, and the stairs just plain look cool. I think so right now, anyway. I may go back and change it to make all the stairs the same, just to keep the retro-vibe going.
*Note to the under 30 crowd - Google it.
Looking awesome keep it up.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that your "lazy man's way" of making terrain is still more work than most of us put into our terrain! (-;
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with Brummie - it's looking great!