A little while ago someone was asking for tips on creating starship corridors
f or SG2 (or was it FMA?).
I found this site that SG2 and FMA players should find interesting:
http://www.ainsty.co.uk/
It's a British company that makes resin terrain. The picture on the home page
i s a sewer system that could be used in almost any era. It looks awesome (I'm
re
ally tempted for a Call of Cthulhu game...). They also sell sci-fi
corridors, f or starships or ground complexes.
I'm sure a number of you will want to check it out. Anyone have any comments
on the company?
> agoodall@canada.com wrote:
Mike Richie will be using the Ainsty starship corridors for his FMA event at
the convention in March. The game board will be representing the deck,
hangers, cargo, bridge, and engineering sections of a EFSB Warlock destroyer.
> A little while ago someone was asking for tips on creating starship
The Ainsty stuff is very good, and Mike who owns the company is a nice
chap. A lot of the range is ex-SVF, which Mike bought a couple of years
ago. Like a lot of resin scenics, its biggest problem is that to cover any
decent area of tabletop you need a LOT of it, which starts to get rather
expensive. That said, it IS very impressive if you can afford it!
> I'm sure a number of you will want to check it out. Anyone have any
I've not dealt with them directly, but I've a friend that's both ordered for a
local store, and done direct for himself, and certainly seems like a class act
with class materials. Another Brit group that seems to have no
problems with selling to colonials. ;->=
> Like a lot of resin scenics, its biggest problem is that to cover any
AND heavy. That was one nice thing about the old Sci-Fi Supply
vacu-formed
stuff; worked up very light, but could be tricky to work with. Dunno if
they're still in business. They ran the giant-sized Star Wars and Ogre
battles at GenCon. You got to love MicroMachine fighters attacking a
six-foot long Star Destroyer. *sigh*
Has anyone tried out the downloadable Reviresco corridors? I know John's
planning on selling them eventually, but I don't know if he's going to
print up packs, or do the e-business download-for-charge stuff.
I did some downloads, printed and made up a few, was reminded of why I hate
paper construction. ;->=
However, they turned out fairly well, and I had a few suggestions to pass on
to him. Had a few more that came to me, but got sidetracked by the operation
in Oct, and haven't played with them yet.
One thing: if they were sloped on the interior walls, the decks could be
narrower, but still allow reaching down into the corridors to move figs.
Course, you have to be fairly gentle when playing, and you're stuck with
the printed pattern, as they probably won't paint up very well. ;->=
The_Beast
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Allan,
Thank you for posting that. I was just thinking about this as a friend of mine
just brought me another bunch of Star Wars Galoob figures. I was just starting
to think about ways to simulate corredors etc.
Bob Makowsky
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0400, "Bob Makowsky" <rmako@coqui.net>
wrote:
> Thank you for posting that.
You're quite welcome.
I'm really in love with the sewer. Jon has a point about needing a lot to be
effective on a table top. Even still, the basic sewer set looks good, and not
very expensive (when you see what you get) at £30. I'm snowed under with
painting right now, but I think I'll eventually go with a couple of the sewer
sets, probably buying one to begin with.
For sci-fi corridors, I've been using my old "Space Hulk" game (a game
that I never got into... it always seemed too unbalanced). It was, however,
one of the better deals from GW since they had accidentally thrown in too many
corridor bits.