Starship flooring

6 posts ยท Aug 28 2000 to Aug 30 2000

From: Barclay, Tom <tomb@b...>

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:20:43 -0400

Subject: Starship flooring

I have Space Hulk, and the hardboard laminated with neat looking sci-fi
tile might just do the trick. If you don't want to cut it up and use it in a
construction, you could easily colour photoblast the tile design, and put it
onto foamcore or hardboard or styrene. It has neat "tile" ish design.

Also, the model railroad guys have some neat moulded styrene sheets which
might make cool floor if painted appropriately.

Just my 0.02.

Though, if you want authentic flooring, I'd suggest a gyptometer thick
laminated structure using alternating unobtanium and fantasium layers.
Reinforce this with a "structural integrity field" (c) and you'll have a
floor capable of sustaining manouvres in hyperspace, subspace, n-space,
and tablespace.

<ROFL!.... no need to send the Narns....>

From: Michael Brown <mwbrown@s...>

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:07:33 -0700

Subject: RE: Starship flooring

I picked up some "Plastic Canvas" at the craft store, 10.5" x 13.5" for
$0.39US each. Has a grid of 1.5" squares that could be picked out with paint.

Michael Brown

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From: Imre A. Szabo <ias@s...>

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:40:17 -0400

Subject: Re: Starship flooring

I've thought about doing the railroad modeling styrene sheet for 6 mm, but
alwasy found it faster and easier to the desing I want on the computer, and
then print it off, trim to size, and presto... There's no reason why you can't
do the same with 25 mm... Although there is not the 3d depth, it does allow
quick and scenario specific changes and modifications that would take many
hours to do in real modeling.

IAS

> Barclay, Tom wrote:

> I have Space Hulk, and the hardboard laminated with neat looking

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: 29 Aug 2000 11:48 GMT

Subject: Re: Starship flooring

> I've thought about doing the railroad modeling styrene sheet for 6

changes and modifications that would take many hours to do
> in real modeling.

If you want rapid building/modification in 3D, there are few materials
that beat Lego blocks. May look a bit toyish, but if you use the slimmer

types of blocks and mainly grey/green/blue ones, they go quite well
with 25 mm figures.

Greetings Karl Heinz

From: John Crimmins <johncrim@v...>

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:48:11 -0400

Subject: Re: Starship flooring

> At 06:40 AM 8/29/00 -0400, you wrote:

If you want some things that are already ready to go, check out:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/tilesDany.html
and
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/tilesfuture.html

...for some nice free ones.

From: JDoch226@a...

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:09:04 EDT

Subject: Re: Starship flooring

In a message dated 8/29/00 4:44:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> johncrim@voicenet.com writes:

<< If you want some things that are already ready to go, check out:

 http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/tilesDany.html
 and
 http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chasm/9223/tilesfuture.html
> [quoted text omitted]

These look great - I will be trying them out tonight!  Thanks!
Jed