"Using Plastic Bases As Corridor Panels For 15mm SF?" Topic

A) Anyone using them for their 15mm SF terrain corridors/tunnels? Perhaps the flat ones? Or even the 25mm x 50mm rectangular slotted cavalry bases? If so, got pics and tips for us?

B) And has a styrene (not resin) manufacturer ever thought of making their bases with a "tech" patterns to them, to use as panels?

Thanks,

Dan

I did that years ago, worked well using the GW cavalry slotta bases.

Ha!

I thought I remembered someone doing something like that with the slotted cavalry bases! I didn't know it was you though.

Got pics of the final results?

Thanks,

Dan

ooh it was not me, this was about 20 years ago when 40k first came out..

They are long gone I am afraid.
They did look quite good though!

I had the slots showing as the floor (upside down bases) and then the flat side as the walls, with bits of stuff attached here and there.

How about sheet styrene?
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Regular groves cut into the plastic in various square sizes

Plastruct
has treadplate (PS-148) in 1/100 and double diamond plate in 1/48 (PS-152) for that 'tech or industrial' look. There are several more sizes available.
The online catalog doesn't have pictures but if you download it there pictures.

At least I couldn't find pictures online

Good point!

But I was thinking of the "depth" the bases might provide to the surfaces of corridor walls. Perhaps using styrene sections on top of portions of the bases might do the job.

Just a thought.

Dan

I did this a while ago. Pictures on the blog:
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I don't think I'd go that route, just due to the high expense – bases aren't cheap.

Styrene, or cardboard strips, with paper terrain glued to them seem a bit better to me.

Perhaps, on a metal surface, with thin magnetic sheeting underlays beneath the corridor walls, and room panels, so they stay in place reasonably well, but can be rearranged, as desired too.

Those professionally done, paper terrain corridor and wall systems look superb. Most seem geared to 25mm/28mm figs, so not sure if you can reduce them in scale easily, when printing out, or not, but I imagine you probably can.

I've toyed around with making some basic designs in paper, using MS Word, and simple shapes, and shading in various grays, and white. They looked pretty good, 'til the PC crashed.

May need to revisit that again, at some point.

The only downside I can see with paper terrain for flooring is that the surface detailing may eventually be worn off, so sealing it, or adding on a plastic overlay may be needed, for people using their terrain a lot.

Those terrain tiles by Spacejacker are really nice, but I'd put magnetic sheeting, or magnets under them, so they could be rearranged, as desired.

I agree, we still need a nice, textured wall option, and guess styrene would be the way to go, costwise. Perhaps we need to lobby Plastruct, or Evergreen for more options.

I'd started on a similar project using school math tiles (also called "manipulatives"), but then I bought a bunch of Litko's space corridor stuff, so I tabled the math tile concept.

The tiles are 1" square and about 1/4" thick, of nice solid plastic:

That site has a bucket of 400 for $15 USD or 2,000 for $60 USD, so you could use them for both floors and walls, if you chose.

Wow!!!

What's the site?

Does anyone know if they're made of a plastic that will take Super Glue, like the styrene strips? And do the tiles have any cool grooves or patterns on them?

Thanks,

Dan

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Math tiles.

Those math tiles are exactly what i have been searching for, just my luck the store is over in the States. Edited 15 mins later found the same set for sale over here in the UK priced at £12.95 GBP a bucket.

That stuff looks incredible in those pictures.

Dan

Dan, if you PM me your snail-mail address, I'll toss a couple in an envelope for you to see in the flesh (so to speak). If I still have them, that is. I'm pretty sure I do, but so much stuff got packed up quickly during the divorce, I can't say for certain.

PM sent. Thanks so much.

Dan

Javelin98,

Got the 1" manipulative bits last week. Very nice. I think they could also work as concrete barriers.

I have a feeling I will be placing an order for them soon.

Thanks so much!

Dan