More - you know you are a wargamer when....

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> Michael Brown wrote:

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Snippage!

> Author - A. Teal (see URL below)

One more:

You know you are a wargamer when...You eye each peace of styrofoam packing for
"terrain effects" before throwing it away... 8D

> * when you take better care of your GeoHex than your front yard. (or

What do you mean, "take care of your yard"?

> * When your Excel spreadsheet to track your miniatures to paint exceed

Okay, I've made investments in miniatures...but you seem to be talking about
two different things here?

> * When your Christmas list you give to your wife is composed entirely

My wife is pretty good about this sort of thing but the rest of my relatives I
have to tell, "You'll never find the right gift, just put a check in the
envelope."

> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:

> Michael Brown wrote:

or when you start using vector movement *in real life*: "hmm, to turn that
corner, i need to boost in this direction...".

Tom

You have an entire desk drawer devoted to terrain and vehicle construction. At
work. Plus an entire shelf of likely materials that came through the mailroom.

Bonus points if you actually get to create something at work.

I once made a T34 from 2 pink rubber erasers, 4 pushpins, 8 thumbtacks, some
tape and a toothpick. At work. With a carved barrel. And a staple for an
antenna. With pennant.

Slow day....

-=Kr'rt

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One day (I hope soon), I'm taking pictures. You can see my 25mm office supply
hovertank.

My VTOL is coming along nicely. Jiffy marker caps make great engines; they
even have a little arrow indicating the turbine rotation.

I built an oil refinery out of a library tape core, bamboo skewers, and a part
of my wife's birth control pill package (technically, not office supplies,
unless you work at the White House).

I'm amassing a huge pile of terrain (and vehicles); it must have cost me less
than $20 for ALL of it. And that's Canadian money.

Paul

> Wasserman, Kurt wrote:

> I once made a T34 from 2 pink rubber erasers, 4 pushpins, 8 thumbtacks,

Kr'rt...you're starting to scare the children...

Mk

> Bonus points if you actually get to create something at work.

Ii used to work at a game store and then at a general hobby store (with games
of course). I got PAID to make some terrain.....

Yes, but if I do it at work I get to keep it...plus I probably get paid much
more than I do if I worked at a hobby store.

I got to keep some of it. If it was slow and there wasn't anything pressing
for me to do, I could do anything I wanted:)

Note: I said I USED to work at a hobby store. Now I work at a place that pays
my bills, and keeps me in the hobbies:)

> Paul Lesack <lesack@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

In a message dated 99-03-03 22:47:20 EST, you write:

<< What do you mean, "take care of your yard"? >> I think he means the living
map of a far away planet you take over from the evil bugs on sunday.
-Stephen