Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

6 posts ยท Mar 30 2000 to Apr 1 2000

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:43:41 +1000

Subject: Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

G'day,

> Have you seen the very OOP Evil Empire's (tm) Book of the Astronomicon?

No I haven't but does sound pretty cool. Mind you I'd then have to add -
'alien psychedelic scenery' to the list of things I've got to do;)

> While I've complained loudly about the common black with drybrushed

Does beg the question of how you paint an ultra-violet camo pattern
though;)

Cheers

Beth

From: Gregory Wong <sax@s...>

Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:49:14 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Re: Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

> Does beg the question of how you paint an ultra-violet camo pattern

Here's a thought, though I haven't tried it... yet.

Take your tabletop terrain and view it under a blacklight. Then get paints
that have a similar look under the blacklight and paint your camo to match the
patterns of your terrain.

Players come into the room looking at your strange paint job in regular room
light. Right before you start the game, turn the lights off and turn on the
blacklights.

Just my 2 cents (US).

--Greg

From: Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@S...>

Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 01:15:28 +0100

Subject: RE: Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

> Take your tabletop terrain and view it under a blacklight.

> --Greg

This is a cool idea Greg, and the same could be applied to
KV ships, thought the best cammo would be boring black/grey in
blacklight. Maybe this is the rationale behind the shimmering purple and green
KV paint jobs in MT, they'd look good in UV so would be a 'come on if you
think your hard enough' paint job for blood lust enraged KV kaffers.

This also resurrects the most excellent black light, red light and mood music
thread.

My games have the ambiance of the night club in 'fire walk with me' but with
UV blacklight not strobes.

I've got an 18" blacklight flourescent I bought from the local disco suppliers
as was, at Cambridge cattle market, 8 years ago.
The red light is another 18" sun-light flourescent wrapped in
several layers of red letraset OHP film I got a bundle of for nothing. The
heat resistant stuff handles a flourescent's surface temp, no worries.

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:17:47 -0500

Subject: Re: Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

> I've got an 18" blacklight flourescent I bought from the local

If you have a good theater supply place around, you can get "lighting gels"
which are intended to go in front of klieg lights. If you don't have a good
theater supply place around, ask your local school drama department.

From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>

Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 08:07:03 -0500

Subject: Re: Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

> Tim Jones wrote:

A bit off topic, but perhaps useful:

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:23:14 -0500

Subject: Re: Interesting Camo (was Interesting Birthday Cake)

> A bit off topic, but perhaps useful:

I am somehow not surprised that you are the one who tried this.

> Alas, my wife soon discovered that this sort of

The correct response to your wife is "So it's a good thing I married a woman
who's beautiful without makeup."