From: John Crimmins <johncrim@v...>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:14:22 -0400
Subject: [DSII] Scratchbuilt AA: The End Result
A few weeks back I posted looking for ideas for creating some AA batteries that I could make and plug into a Steve Jackson Games "Combine GEVPC" for use in Dirtside gaming. Earlier tis evening, I finished off the first batch of six of them. There are some less than perfect pictures posted right here: http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim/GEVPC.html The picture at the top shows the unadorned GEVPC, the other two show it with the two modules that I concocted. The one on the left is the AA variant. It uses a piece of Evergreen tiled styrene for a base, some more bits of Evergreen added as decoration, and is topped off with the turret from a Brigade Models "Hanit Class APC with with twin AA gatlings" (Stock # SFV/009e), which I ordered from Tony Francis...along with a bunch of other really, REALLY nice turrets. (This was the first Brigade order I've placed, and it's far from being the last -- took less than a week for the package to arrive from England, too.) The GEVPC on the right was even easier. I turned it into a light artillery piece by painting up an old GW plastic "Mole Mortar" -- the base was the perfect size to drop right into place. The modules are held in place with bits of putty, and can easily be removed without any damage to the paint jobs. This was a really simple project, but a lot of fun -- I'm almost certainly going to be making some other modules for different circumstances. A radar unit would look pretty neat, for instance....