[GZG] SGII demo games in France

15 posts ยท May 14 2006 to May 17 2006

From: le TiYo <letiyo@w...>

Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:51:45 +0200 (CEST)

Subject: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lHi all!
During this week end there was a games convention near the Lyon city here in
France. For these two days we ran demo games and answer questions (a lot!)
from public, i also manage to ran an initiation game late in the night. Took
some picture from our urban board for this event, here is the link if you want
to take a look at it:
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1674128
TiYo

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:47:03 -0700

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 5/14/06, le TiYo
> <letiyo@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Nice pictures, and really really nice terrain!

Brian
www.warbard.ca/games.html

From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 07:40:25 -0500

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

Agreed, but where are the space ships?!? ;->=

Shows the amazing work you can do with, what I assume is, foamcore and
aquarium plant. Very nice, indeed.

Did the questions ("(a lot!)") seem positive? Mr Tuffley, I'm certain, would
love to hear of more enslaved, er converts.

Jon, does raise the question of where the Euros are coming from: how do
various countries rank in customer volume? Not asking for accounting figures,
just a sense of where the base lies.

The_Beast

Brian wrote on 05/15/2006 12:47:03 AM:

> On 5/14/06, le TiYo <letiyo@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:05:02 +0100

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> Agreed, but where are the space ships?!? ;->=

Well, we have quite a number of customers in Scandinavia, a few each in
France, Germany, Spain, Holland and Italy, and a small handful in
Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary etc) - but all these put together are
just a tiny fraction of our UK and US/Canadian customer base.

Any publicity and promotion anywhere is always very welcome from our
point of view, but especially in mainland Europe.....  :-)

Jon (GZG)

> The_Beast

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:16:15 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1674128

Brian said:
> Nice pictures, and really really nice terrain!

Depressingly nice terrain, in fact. I suppose it's time to get started for
next February's ECC.

From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:13:00 -0500

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

On 5/15/06, gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
> <gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> During this week end there was a games convention near the Lyon city

Nice buildings!

I downloaded a few of your pictures, for inspiration.

How did you make the rubble?

Did you airbrush the buildings?

What are the buildings made of? They look like they are made of either
foamcore (foamboard) or cardboard.

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:57:57 +0100

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

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Gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l>Hi all!
> During this week end there was a games convention near the Lyon city

Great work, and really nice scenery. Thanks for the publicity!  :-)

From: Mark Kinsey <Kinseym@p...>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:55:24 -0400

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> laserlight@verizon.net wrote:

> http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1674128
Just save all your packing material and you'll be set.   ;-)

From: le TiYo <letiyo@w...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:47:12 +0200 (CEST)

Subject: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lThanks all for your
comments!!! Took me 3 weeks to do this board and it was rush work and
stressfull as it was my first real attempt making such scenery! In the
beginning i had planned a lot of detailing on buildings (bullets and rockets
holes, stairs etc...) and on the board itself (shells craters, ground road
signalling, street lights...) but i had to make some choices to finish in
time, by now could take my time and do it quiet! Just to answer Allan
questions:
Rubbles were made mixing fine sand + small aquarium gravel + foamcore
small bits + water diluted PVA glue. I use a large brush for floors, to
leave just a small amount of the mix, and put in place on the ground with a
small spoon. Buildings were cut from 3 mm foamcard boards and based on 3mm
MDF. Spray paint for the whole with black undercoat (10 to 20 cm away),
followed by gray (30 cm away) trying to spray by light strokes and a
final light grey highlight near 40/50 cm away with lighter strokes.
Caution spraying eat the foam so you need to undercoat edges first, i didn't
do it as i was in hurry! TiYo

From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:53:25 -0500

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> Caution spraying eat the foam so you need to

I think this just added to the great damaged look. ;->=

Small improvement might be some 'structural beams and pipes' extending out of
the rough edges of damaged floors and walls, but that's for a more relaxed
build.

The_Beast

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:24:51 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> Took me 3 weeks to do this board ....my first real attempt

First attempt, and you got those results in only three weeks?? Don't mind me,
I'll just be looking for aspirin here...

From: Hudak, Michael <mihudak@s...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:31:16 -0400

Subject: RE: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> >Took me 3 weeks to do this board ....my first real attempt

You should feel especially proud then. Usually it's Laserlight giving
the headaches.....  :-)

From: le TiYo <letiyo@w...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:52:27 +0200 (CEST)

Subject: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lI must concede that
on friday i would had took one full box of aspirin: leaving job to recover
vehicle for the week-end my car battery crash down just 2 hours wasted
before beeing back home. Let's rock one of my cats find it funny to eat the
underway crossing roof!!! Aaarghh gonna kill you nasty pet!!!! Printing flyers
black & white, NOOO printer found it fun to choose magenta!!! Near midnight
still got to put the static grass on the board, that damned roof to paint...
"Darling comming to bed soon?" wife's asking and me thinking "my God why not
just take two hill and my green carpet" and as i was up since 5 o'clock in the
morning there was a lot of stress at home this day. Finally woke up on
saturday at 04:30 to finish before moving at 06:00. TiYo

From: Tom McCarthy <tmcarth@f...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:55:01 -0400

Subject: RE: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

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experienced builder would be proud of building all that in three weeks. Sorry
to hear you had extra complications, as well.

________________________________

From: gzg-l-bounces@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
[mailto:gzg-l-bounces@lists.csua.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of le TiYo
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:47 PM
To: gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

Thanks all for your comments!!! Took me 3 weeks to do this board and it was
rush work and stressfull as it was my first real attempt making such scenery!
In the beginning i had planned a lot of detailing on buildings (bullets and
rockets holes, stairs etc...) and on the board itself (shells craters, ground
road signalling, street lights...) but i had to make some choices to finish in
time, by now could take my time and do it quiet! Just to answer Allan
questions:
Rubbles were made mixing fine sand + small aquarium gravel + foamcore
small bits + water diluted PVA glue. I use a large brush for floors, to
leave just a small amount of the mix, and put in place on the ground with a
small spoon. Buildings were cut from 3 mm foamcard boards and based on 3mm
MDF. Spray paint for the whole with black undercoat (10 to 20 cm away),
followed by gray (30 cm away) trying to spray by light strokes and a
final light grey highlight near 40/50 cm away with lighter strokes.
Caution spraying eat the foam so you need to undercoat edges first, i didn't
do it as i was in hurry! TiYo

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:25:28 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: RE: [GZG] SGII demo games in France

> From: "Hudak, Michael" <mihudak@state.pa.us>