| Cacique Caribe | 01 Dec 2011 4:07 p.m. PST |
Have you guys seen this kit? Also goes by Elgo:
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I just can't believe someone hasn't bought the moulds and started making stuff like that again, and at a reasonable price! Imagine the potential for modern combat games, alien invasion scenarios and post-apocalyptic skirmishes. And never the same building twice. Awesome versatility factor:
Dan |
| HG Walls | 01 Dec 2011 4:25 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 01 Dec 2011 4:33 p.m. PST |
People like this made sure awesome kits like that went extinct: link Dan |
| cfielitz | 01 Dec 2011 4:41 p.m. PST |
What would you say the scale of them are? |
| cfielitz | 01 Dec 2011 4:50 p.m. PST |
My bad, its in the title! |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Dec 2011 4:51 p.m. PST |
There are a couple of listings with comments like this: "An American Skyline No. 92 vintage building toy set. Made in the 1950s and 60s by Elgo Plastics Inc., it features small plastic pieces that can be fit together to create HO Scale (1/8th inch = 1 foot) models." I hope they are correct. Dan |
| McWong73 | 01 Dec 2011 7:04 p.m. PST |
I'm tempted to get some, these look really good, but I have a feeling that they may not be in HO scale – nothing to go by than gut feel mind you. |
| WarWizard | 01 Dec 2011 7:28 p.m. PST |
I had one of those sets as a kid. That brings back memories. |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Dec 2011 8:13 p.m. PST |
WarWizard, You did? Please tell us, would it work for gaming terrain for, say, 15mm? Thanks, Dan |
ZULUPAUL  | 02 Dec 2011 4:17 a.m. PST |
Got one a couple of years ago @ a garage sale for a buck. Yes they are HO scale CC & would work for 15mm. |
 javelin98 | 02 Dec 2011 10:00 a.m. PST |
Hmmm… I'll bet we could whip up some designs for panels like these in Sketchup, to print on Shapeways or Ponoko. Those are pretty cool. Are there any better pics of the attachment system? |
| billthecat | 02 Dec 2011 12:14 p.m. PST |
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 Dye4minis | 03 Dec 2011 6:20 a.m. PST |
Hi, Javelin98. The "system" consisted of square blocks with "X" shaped internal support, that extended above the "brick". Molded as one piece, a slot existed to allow the walls to slide between. lll lll
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l/l ll A top down view by a non graphic artist! The checkerboard tiles were floors that has notches cut in corners to slip over the "x" corner part of the brick. There were also solid color sheets for roof sections as well as final caps and rooftop small walls. It was possible to remove a floor as a section , when built, an place toy soldiers inside. After you played with the set for a few months, the friction fit to keep the walls from sliding out would fail. So you tried to get Momm and dad to buy you a new set! It was a really great construction set am sure that it had to have influenced modular designers sine the 60's. As for the checkerboard floors….I suppose they were a popular tile arrangement in skyscrapers of the 40-60's in the USA.
(Of course, "I" wouldn't remember. Being a little nipper at the time, I didn't pay attention to such things at the time unless being made to stand in the corner for being bad! -A current "Time-Out" session…..) 8>) Hope that helps explain how they worked. Tom Dye |
has some Star Trek ships painted.
