[SG] - WAS Re: Ghurka's uploaded NOW whip antenna and old gamers...

Hi folks,

That fishing line suggestion is a good one. I'd never heard that one before
either. If someone tries it for 25mm and it works ok, let us know.

> Just out of curiosity, I have thought about adding antenna in the past

I use brass rod. Really thin stuff for infantry figures (whip antenna on my
NAC radiomen, didn't do it on the Gurkhas yet... it works well for this, but
you run into space problems in figure cases if you are using cases, like the
ones done by chessex, that have regular size spaces for the
figures - having a whip antenna sticking up can get caught in the foam.
just have to be careful, though, and it isn't a big problem).

For vehicles, more brass rod again. Mix of the thin stuff and some
slightly thicker.  I use this rod for rifle barrels too - particularly
on
the NAC sniper figure.  I don't like the "barrel-less" design of their
sniper rifle (a laser, I think), so I add a brass barrel about 1cm long, and
it looks much better IMO.

> One of the younger members of the club recently made the comment "If

> (referring to my 'High Elves')?"

Ok, here we go... the "back in the old days" stuff has started...

"Back in my day, dice were wood burning, I tell you. We had to roll them on a
crooked table that only had one leg. Actually, it was a rock. Yessir, a rock.
And we had to walk for 10 miles uphill to get to the gaming club, and then 10
miles back uphill to get home again. Through SNOW up to your ears, I tell you.
Yessir, kids were tough back then. Our mass battle table top rules consisted
of lining up our figures on either side of the table and throwing rocks at
them and each other. Tougher, they were, I tell you. And now that I think
about it, the figures were rocks too. Our dice had only 2 sides, and we were
*grateful* do you understand me! None
of this fancy "12-sided" and "20-sided" stuff.  Feh.  Let me tell you,
back in my day, gamers were REAL MEN!"

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In message <3.0.6.32.20010615155938.00883870@POP2.sympatico.ca>,
adrian.johnson
> @sympatico.ca writes:

AND WE WERE THANKFUL, TOO, BY GOD!

> On 15-Jun-01 at 16:15, Andy Cowell (andy@cowell.org) wrote:
Through
> > SNOW

Hey, with the dearth of wargamers I experience around here I would be thankful
also. At least there was a game.