Bridges

I need a bridge to cover the gap over water in my Geohex terrain, it really
needs to be something beg enough to handle an Ogre Mk V. Any suggestions?

> On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 03:05 PM, Roger Books wrote:

> I need a bridge to cover the gap over water in my Geohex terrain,

This might not be of a lot of help. In 1993 (I believe) a company called DCP
made some resin bridges of two sizes which were made specifically for OGRE
stuff. Unfortunately there not easy to find these

days. It wouldn't be too hard to scratch build something like these bridges
though. I could take some shots of them if it would be of help.

Have you tried N-scale railroad bridges?

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>

I own one of thos bridges, they are/were well made.  Wish I could part
with
it, but...

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Kevin Walker <sage@chartermi.net>

> On 3-Dec-01 at 16:53, Brian Bilderback (bbilderback@hotmail.com) wrote:

I spent 20 minutes with the owner of a fairly well stocked model train store
with no luck. I'm debating attempting to sculpt one.

> On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 01:05 PM, Roger Books wrote:

> I need a bridge to cover the gap over water in my Geohex terrain,

I'd suggest building one yourself. You can make it out of either styrene

or wood for much cheaper than a model.

> I need a bridge to cover the gap over water in my Geohex terrain,

Make it out of plastic. Any good hobby shop should have plastic cheet of
various
thicknesses -- I prefer Evergreen, which has sheets that are pre-scribed
into squares, so you can break it into the size that you need without having
to worry about cutting it.

And Plastruct makes plastic girders, I-beams, and support struts that
are used for model
railroading or for architectural models -- again, any good hobby shop
should carry this stuff. Use plastic glue to set something that looks
appropriate to form the sides of the bridge, and there you are.

Roger,

Ouch! I usually substitute some rough terrain transition pieces so I don't
have to jump a big gap. I have some bridge models in the JR minis 28mm range
that are wide enough for a MK V, but I thought they couldn't use bridges!!
They just collapse them! Isn't there something about them having amphibious
ability after MK III?

KR

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Yes, DCP did make the official Ogre terrain, but the bridges were designed to
fit the ordinary military units, not an ogre. He may have had plans to build
an Ogre size bridge, but I never saw one.

KR

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Roger,

I will scratch build one for you if you like, I've made a few.:)

KR

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> On 3-Dec-01 at 18:47, Kieran Rohan (krs@geohex.com) wrote:

No, they can us bridges. There is a nice picture in the mini's rules of an
Ogre crossing a bridge. I'm not just after a bridge for Ogre though, it just
happens to be the right width. I need a bridge for 40mm Fantasy Rules! stands
and, of course, DS and SG. I'll take a look at the JR minis.

> --- Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net> wrote:

> No, they can us bridges. There is a nice picture in

Hello, delurking...

If you're looking for 40mm wide bridges any bridge
that can be used for 15mm DBM/DBA games should work.
(since FR! uses the same base width) I have such a bridge for DBM from Hovels
I believe. (UK?) I think I ordered mine from Wargames (WV, USA).

I can doublecheck it with an Ogre tonight. Hum, Ogre in DS, might be a good
way to introduce the local players to the game, we already have plenty of the
new
Ogre minis. (are stats/suggestions already in the
archive?).

Intro: Came across GZG first in the excellent reviews in Mecha Press by DP9.
Started out with Full Thrust first and now have DS & SG. (not played the other
two yet but am putting together forces for them) Use mainly Micromachines and
fleetscale B5 ships though I'm getting into the "official" miniatures now.

Also a Piquet Heretic (join us join us). Hated it until about the third game
or so when I learned to focus on what I wanted to do instead of what card was
currently up.

Anywho, hope this helps. I'll take a look for the
bridge/Ogre when I can. (fighting a nasty cold at the
moment and loving the wonderful Ohio weather O_o )

Did he have none, or just none that suited you? I could look around for

you.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>

Caveat: This suggestion might work in this case, but it wouldn't work for
someone like me, with very poor scratch-building skills.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <s_schoon@pacbell.net>

> On 4-Dec-01 at 14:53, Brian Bilderback (bbilderback@hotmail.com) wrote:

The only bridges he had were "rail" bridges or they were far too small. If you
see one give me a yell.

Does anyone have the bridge from KR? The drawing looks good but there is
nothing to give me an idea of scale.

> --- Kevin Clement <lord_sepulchrave@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I can doublecheck it with an Ogre tonight. Hum, Ogre

Check out
http://www.ftsr.org/ds2/multiverse/fmaogre.asp where
there's a conversion of the OGREs themselves. It requires a bunch of
houserules, but if you want to downgrade the OGREs to fit within the main
rules it will give you a start point.