Cacique Caribe | 28 Jul 2014 10:36 a.m. PST |
I bought a "Value Pack" with a dozen of these at Hobby Lobby, for around $1.99 USD:
link link So, what uses can you envision for them? They extend from 2 1/2" to 5". I'll start: 1) Smoke stacks; 2) Bridge support columns What else? Pick it up from there. Dan |
TK 421 | 28 Jul 2014 10:42 a.m. PST |
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jpattern2 | 28 Jul 2014 10:56 a.m. PST |
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Bashytubits | 28 Jul 2014 11:04 a.m. PST |
A telescope for a pulp mad scientist laboratory. Should look impressively sized for 28mm or 15mm. |
BlackWidowPilot | 28 Jul 2014 11:17 a.m. PST |
Cannons. Really BIG cannons. No evil genius can have enough really BIG cannons, Dan…. Mwahahaahaaaaa!!!! Leland R. Erickson Metal Express metal-express.net |
Cacique Caribe | 28 Jul 2014 11:32 a.m. PST |
That's SEVEN excellent suggestions, so far! Who will suggest an eight? Dan |
Carpet General | 28 Jul 2014 11:33 a.m. PST |
Pistons for a giant steampunk engine? |
Elenderil | 28 Jul 2014 11:33 a.m. PST |
Looking down the wrong end for a scale view point |
FABET01 | 28 Jul 2014 11:43 a.m. PST |
Architecture: Alien ruins, Sewer pipe reduction/transition pieces Use them as the core to build tree trunks Use the ends as portholes |
nnascati | 28 Jul 2014 12:03 p.m. PST |
Funnels for all sorts of ships. |
ming31 | 28 Jul 2014 12:21 p.m. PST |
leg sections of a spaceship |
Bunkermeister | 28 Jul 2014 12:28 p.m. PST |
My first thought was observatory. You have to spot the Martian cylinders being fired at Earth so your forces can respond. Mike Bunkermeister Creek Bunker Talk blog |
Stryderg | 28 Jul 2014 12:28 p.m. PST |
Terrain piece, huge columns flanking a door/cave in the side of a mountain. |
Cyclopeus | 28 Jul 2014 12:58 p.m. PST |
Adjustable flight stands. |
Cyclopeus | 28 Jul 2014 1:05 p.m. PST |
How about concrete support columns for an access ramp to a raised highway. Adjust their height up to the bottom of the ramp and glue in place. Hydraulic pistons under an elevator platform. |
dampfpanzerwagon | 28 Jul 2014 1:08 p.m. PST |
Sci-Fi cargo containers – think space – age milk urns, and different sizes/scales. The bodies of Flash Gordon Tin-Can Robots. Pistons for some Mad Scientist crushing machine. Cut the tubes into rings and used the coloured rings as Rout counters, place the rings over the figures that have routed or saved or died. Tony |
Servo3000 | 28 Jul 2014 1:08 p.m. PST |
No wonder our wives sigh in bleak despair looking over the spare parts bins in the hobby room. "What's this crap?" "Could be almost anything, love. Pistons, funnels, landing gear…." "But you can't put that new shower head on. Tchah." |
Redmenace | 28 Jul 2014 1:16 p.m. PST |
Maybe short pillars with flaming braziers on top or turn the things around and use them as pulp science shrinking ray. |
Boondock Saint | 28 Jul 2014 1:44 p.m. PST |
Servo3000 – I laughed out loud at your comment. I had to show my wife, because not 5 minutes before she had been having a whinge and asking me "What are you keeping that crap for?" The fact that she is not alone doesn't seem to help much, though. |
etotheipi | 28 Jul 2014 1:44 p.m. PST |
The pipes for Doctor Phalanges' Fantabulous Mesmeric Calliopetron! |
etotheipi | 28 Jul 2014 1:45 p.m. PST |
"What are you keeping that crap for?" My wife asks me "Do you want to keep this crap?" … :) |
Boondock Saint | 28 Jul 2014 1:49 p.m. PST |
Oh, and sorry Cacique Caribe, to answer your question, I immediately also thought of smokestacks: I am working through a pile of Blue Moon Victorians for an 18mm Empire of the Dead Jack the Ripper game, so am planning a modular Victorian London board. Thanks for the idea, will have to go poke around the local junk shop (probably best to smuggle it into the house though, so the wife doesn't see) |
ordinarybass | 28 Jul 2014 2:53 p.m. PST |
Looks like a great way to get alot of equally sized supports for the various levels of a necromunda layout. Very cool. |
War Monkey | 28 Jul 2014 3:12 p.m. PST |
Cannon, a very big cannon |
BlackWidowPilot | 28 Jul 2014 3:12 p.m. PST |
My first thought was observatory. You have to spot the Martian cylinders being fired at Earth so your forces can respond. Speaking of which:
Leland R. Erickson Metal Express metal-express.net |
Dave L | 30 Jul 2014 7:27 a.m. PST |
Miniature Lord Stanley's Cup? Or, in 15mm, a very large one. Just paint it silver with a black base and then etch a few thousand names around it. |
TheBeast | 30 Jul 2014 8:07 a.m. PST |
Just when I'd sworn off Hobby Lobby… Okay, how about legs, but for tripods. I'd think a bit of greeble would not go amiss; maybe some swivels where the leg meets the hull. Doug |
etotheipi | 30 Jul 2014 8:12 a.m. PST |
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TheBeast | 30 Jul 2014 8:53 a.m. PST |
Spheres of some kind; maybe ping pong balls? Doug |
drummer | 30 Jul 2014 11:15 a.m. PST |
Bells. Long brass bells used as a call or warning or perhaps they are even tuned so that they can chime music. Maybe the music can serve as a public address system of some kind? |
dapeters | 31 Jul 2014 8:20 a.m. PST |
Take the eye piece off and use them for sci-fi gun-cannon barrels (some sort of special recoiling mechanism.) |
Fabe Mrk 2 | 31 Jul 2014 10:01 p.m. PST |
Not really tabletop wargaming but I'm slowly working on a "Men in black" costume and I've been think of using a cheep toy telescope as a scope on whatever I come up with for a big ass MiB style gun. |
TheBeast | 04 Aug 2014 11:29 a.m. PST |
Just hit me: could be used for the barrel of a DIY neuralizer. Half a ping pong on the large half, bit of paint,… Doug |