"Oreos: Plastic Packaging As SF Corridors For 15mm?" Topic

Anyone used them for that purpose?

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If so, I would love pics of the progress and end results!

Thanks,

Dan
PS. I wish I could get a better pic of the packaging itself, so you guys can see the potential of what I'm talking about.

Only thing is the bottom of the packaging is rounded. Other than that… Interesting idea CC.

Possible solution to fix the bottom being rounded: pour resin to make a flat floor?

Interesting.

I guess that some are rounded at the bottom:

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The ones I get seem to be flat at the bottom but ridged on the sides.

Dan

It's really hard to work with that thin, brittle plastic.

I have had some success working with packaging from Girl Scout cookies and such. Cutting it can be a pain in the ass.

-Eli

Here is the one with the flattish bottom:

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QUESTION:

Would stacking and gluing a couple of the packages together increase the strength, before you start cutting into them?

If so, I think I need to get more Oreos . . .

Dan

I could see pouring a floor into each row. Durham's Water Putty or similar. Once that sets each row will be stable enough to separate them.

Get enough corridor and build intersections and doors. Chop a floored section lengthwise and put a spacer downt he middle to create rooms.

Here it is again, but DCP used it upside down as a greenhouse:

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Dan

Damn excellent. What lights did you use?

Not sure what DCP used for lights:

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I dunno,but I'd like to help getting the packages emptied,I love Oreos.

Greenhouse is superb.

Is it just me or do the ribbed plastic holders look like some sort of fantasy pillar/column? I mean if you cut them out and turned them vertical. Hmm.

Maybe I don't have to go to Toshi Station for those power converters after all…

By the way, pass me a cookie and milk.

Plastic packaging is really useful. I use plastic meat trays, one complete on top – underneath cut for shell damage or just internal detail.

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Second one isn't too clear, foam walls and Khurasan setee being used as cover. This is inside the white bunker in the first photo.

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Patent this immediately.

Come on Dan your just looking for an excuse to buy more oreo's ;)

If you could stack them inside each other that might make then a bit stronger with the double layer of plastic.

I must admit I do the same each time I get some interesting packaging oh that could be…. etc

That greenhouse is stunning, but even stacking multiple trays together isn't going to improve the strength of the build that much. That's enough to keep me from building with it, but if you have confidence in the hands at your game table, go for it; you could make some neat stuff.

Speaking of cookie packages, there are some that separate the cookies, so plastic, flipped over, look like Star Wars Hoth generators.

Damn thin plastic, though…

Never thought about the flat type as corridors, but makes sense as the rounded sides have character, and allow us with pudgy fingers to play, as well.

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Edit: I suppose the generators would be more 6mm-ish…

The Oreos themselves could make a pretty good 6mm Hoth-style generator. Not sure how they take spray paint…

This looks really good. I thought it was a April Fool's Joke at first. Then I saw the picture of the Oreo Greenhouse. My two cents would be to experiment with stuff and see how it goes. Oreo containers cannot be that hard to come by.

Those containers should take spray paint fairly easily. I want to say I have spray painted that sort of plastic in the past. The exact memory escapes me.

Well, I finished one package of Oreos … going to dive into the next one.

It's all for a good cause, believe me. I feel compelled to prove or disprove my hypothesis.

Dan

I've looked at similar packaging with a more rounded bottom and wondered what they'd look like as sci-fi barracks or something…Just have to base it on something stable like MDF…

And if cutting them is an issue, I'm fairly certain a lot of similar cookies come in a single sleeve package…

Bart

Guys,

Check out these comparison pictures I took a few minutes ago:

Oreo tray on left, Fig Newtons on right

Oreo tray

Newtons tray

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So, what do you guys think?

Thanks,

Dan

Both look good to me.

I prefer the Oreo one though.

I've got some similar plastic trays that I was planning to use for greenhouses, on the moon, or on a similar, no air, or unbreathable atmosphere planet.

Love the lighting effects in the greenhouse shown.

The uses for the bins is looking to be great.

Hit the top and bottom with paint…that way you could flip it over and make a building

Or open edge up for the corridor as shown.

Fun times :)

The Oreo one might actually work for 28mm as well. Might also work to stack a few and cut one out with "exterior" walls added to support it and cast it for dental plaster

I'm really starting to like the idea for making reinforced "corridors" inside an asteroid mine:

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Dan

They also kind of look similar to the ones in other scifi for underground complexes.

Something else that might be workable is to take the round bottomed oreo one and pair it up with a flat one nested inside another round one to create an airlock tube.

Take wire to fill the areas that go inwards and paint the flat section as an extending walkway for what would look like an extending/contracting walkway for docking.